Le 5 février c’est la journée mondiale du Nutella, l’occasion pour What’s Up TV d’aller à la rencontre des lillois pour connaitre leur relation avec la célèbre marque de pâte à tartiner ! Et vous le Nutella vous le préferez comment ?
German Cultural Calendar for February … you asked, we listened!
A handful of German teachers reached out last year to ask if there would be a German Cultural Calendar after I launched my first free French Cultural Calendar in June 2020 in the first lockdown.
A lovely teacher friend on Twitter Fräulein Dreznin @ldreznin got in touch and said that she would love to collaborate.. and so with a bit of help and guidance from Polly Glot Languages, here it is HOT OFF THE PRESS, the February edition of the cultural calendar…hopefully with more to come in the coming months! If you would like to contribute please let myself @suzibewell or @ldreznin know on Twitter ASAP.
Please, as with all these high quality, culturally rich resources, consider buying us a coffee to say thanks for our hard work and commitment:
Enjoy and please leave us feedback www.twitter.com/suzibewell
Best wishes Suzi and Frau Dreznin xx
Spanish Cultural Calendar for February
Many Spanish teachers contacted me to ask if there would be a Spanish Cultural Calendar after I launched my first free French Cultural Calendar in June 2020 in the first lockdown.
Since then I started a part time post as Visiting Lecturer in MFL at Leeds Trinity University…and some of my super talented Spanish speaking trainees (led by the fantastic Fede who shared my vision) have collaborated (with some help from Polly Glot Languages) to produce this Spanish calendar…with more to come in the coming months!
Please, as with all these high quality, culturally rich resources, consider buying these guys a coffee to say thanks for all their hard work and commitment:
Enjoy and please leave us feedback www.twitter.com/suzibewell
Best wishes Suzi and the Spanish LTU trainees xx
Polly Glot Languages February Cultural Calendar
Find below a link to my February 2021 cultural calendar celebrating the richness and diversity of the French speaking world. From January 2021, I have consciously reduced my hours in school so that I can concentrate more on writing high quality, age-appropriate and culturally rich resources like this!
If you would like to buy me a coffee by way of thank you for the time and energy that has gone into making this resource, please visit: www.ko-fi.com/pollyglot
To download the February 2021 Cultural Calendar as a PDF click below:
Merci – stay safe and sane!
Suzi 🙂
Purchase POLLY VA AU MAROC for just £4.50 this weekend only!
If you would like to purchase my book “Polly va au Maroc”, the fifth and latest book from the series “Les aventures de Polly Glot dans le monde francophone”, please contact me direct suzibewell@gmail.com
Payment can be made by bank transfer or paypal
RRP £5 but if you make contact before 7pm on Monday 11th Jan, you can get this latest eBook for just £4.50
Jam packed with fun facts and info about this colourful francophone country, Polly va au Maroc contains native speaker audio, hyperlinks to external videos, documents and websites and 2 low stakes quizzes to assess pupil understanding in a fun and age-appropriate way!
Bonne année and thank you for your continued support!
Suzi Bewell
Le monde francophone en 365 jours – January 2021 Cultural Calendar
Find below a link to my January 2021 cultural calendar celebrating the richness and diversity of the French speaking world. From this month, I have reduced my hours in school so that I can concentrate more on writing high quality, age-appropriate and culturally rich resources like this!
If you would like to buy me a coffee by way of thank you for the time and energy that has gone into making this resource, please visit: www.ko-fi.com/pollyglot
To download the January 2021 Cultural Calendar as a PDF click below:
Bonne année ! Suzi
ALL Primary Languages Conference Online ACAPULCO
Wow what a day it was! So many great sessions and so much interesting debate in the break out rooms.
My session PPT (PDF) is below – feel free to share with colleagues more widely and the recording will be emailed to those who paid to attend on the day.
I will extend my £10 (half price) offer for the Petit Prince 78 page Ks2 / Ks3 resource pack to the end of this month.

Should you be interested in Polly va en France / en Belgique / en Suisse / au Canada or au Maroc, contact me direct for how to purchase these eBooks for just £5 each direct from me: suzibewell@gmail.com
Happy half term when it finally comes and thank you for all your lovely comments,
Suzi 🙂 x
ALL York Primary Hub MFL Show n Tell
Thanks to all who joined us, contributed and who are doing a fantastic job in lockdown!
We salute you!
Anyone keen to start or get involved in a local Primary ALL hub, please contact myself suzibewell@gmail.com or crista.hazell@all-languages.org.uk
Below find the 3 YouTube clips which are recordings of today’s Zoom webinar and a comprehensive list of accompanying links to the main resources and websites we shared (please let me know if I have missed any):
A list of useful links from today’s ALL York Primary Hub MFL Show n Tell:
https://www.all-languages.org.uk/
http://www.all-london.org.uk/site/index.php/webinars/
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17DhjkCvhxiyBB27vJNEcxWJ0ABkquWQ85bQykhDCuUk/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.educandy.com/site/resource.php?activity-code=fd86
https://www.classtools.net/hotspot/202005-d4AVSR
https://www.classtools.net/flingteacher/202005-DansmatrousseinmypencilcaseUSahBj
https://quizlet.com/851515/nudepigs-flash-cards/\
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-h4uOGGY68-8Unzf_w95LkoyBwzngC5/view?usp=sharing
https://www.headstartlanguages.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/user/sue2276
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChpq_pa6O0SXeav1RtDsknQ/videos
https://www.linguascope.com/training/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCelLfBllKbk2ykmNZQ1TOqw/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/mflsunderland/videos
www.twitter.com/joedale – Joe Dale on Twitter for training and CPD
www.twitter.com/mflchat – Mondays 830-9 on Twitter
lizb.alkira@gmail.com – Liz Black email for any German support you might need.
Thanks to Kate Hyland-Collier for sharing her song lyrics, as promised:
Avoir Song- gap fill- filled in
Thanks to Liz Black:
Thanks also to Nieves for her presentation below:
Things I found helpful for home learning
Best wishes – let’s do this again soon 🙂
Big bisous
Suzi 🙂
Top tips for trainee language teachers
Thank you for joining my webinar TOP TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL NQT YEAR.
The recording is just below via my YouTube channel (please subscribe) and the accompanying resources and PPT are just below:
Click on the hyperlink below for a PDF of the presentation:
S Bewell April 2020 Top tips for a successful NQT year
I hope you found it useful. Here is the article I promised:
And here is a link to the free Linguascope / ALL booklet which is jam packed full of ideas:
Top_Tips_for_Trainee_Language_Teachers
Also check out Nick Mair’s webinar recording on job applications here c/o of ALL:
http://www.all-london.org.uk/site/index.php/webinar-with-nick-mair-job-application-clinic/
It has also been brought to my attention that Language Angels are also offering free PRIMARY LANGUAGES WEBINARS – see info below and to register, contact paolo@languageangels.com
Please do stay in touch and if I can be of any further help as you try to navigate the next 18 months, do email me suzibewell@gmail.com
Best wishes with the job hunting and I hope and pray that the rest of your training year goes smoothly, despite the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in.
Much love, Suzi #staysafe
PS If you scroll below past this post, there may be links to other presentations I’ve delivered and articles I’ve authored which could be of interest to you.