Bespoke CPD 

This CPD supports new and existing subject leaders in confidently leading primary languages. Attendees will explore how to design and implement an ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum that secures clear progression and inclusion for all learners. The session focuses on auditing current curriculum provision, strengthening subject leadership, and evidencing intent, implementation, and impact. Leaders will gain practical strategies to ensure curriculum coherence, develop staff expertise, and articulate how foreign languages contribute to pupils’ wider outcomes and whole-school development.

This CPD supports subject leaders in guiding and empowering colleagues to deliver engaging, high-quality language lessons. It focuses on building staff confidence, promoting consistency, and developing a shared understanding of effective language teaching. Leaders will gain practical strategies for motivating non-specialists, supporting professional growth, and embedding a positive, collaborative culture for language learning across the school.

This CPD helps subject leaders embed languages as a visible, valued, and sustainable part of the whole-school curriculum. It focuses on developing intent that promotes cultural capital and inclusion, and ensuring implementation is consistent across classrooms. The session explores practical ways to engage staff, pupils, and the wider community through displays, assemblies, and cross-curricular opportunities. Leaders will gain strategies to engage senior leadership, secure ongoing support, and demonstrate how languages enhance curriculum breadth and improve pupil outcomes.

This CPD helps subject leaders understand what high-quality planning and documentation look like in primary languages. It focuses on establishing clear curriculum intent, coherent sequencing, and effective evidence of implementation and impact. The session explores how to organise essential documents into a comprehensive subject leader folder. Leaders will gain the confidence to articulate their curriculum rationale, demonstrate impact, and present evidence that reflects strong subject leadership and alignment with Ofsted expectations.

This CPD prepares subject leaders and teachers for Ofsted inspections in primary languages. It focuses on understanding what inspectors look for in curriculum intent, implementation, and impact, and how to evidence these with confidence and clarity. The session explores how to use documentation, planning, and assessment to demonstrate curriculum coherence, sequencing, and progression across the school. Leaders will strengthen their ability to communicate the quality and ambition of their provision, evidencing how language teaching contributes to pupils’ outcomes and the school’s wider curriculum aims.

This CPD supports schools in showcasing and embedding languages through creative, inclusive events such as assemblies, language days, and cultural celebrations. It explores how these activities enrich pupils’ cultural capital, promote multilingualism, and connect languages with the wider curriculum. The session offers practical guidance for planning engaging, well-organised events that inspire enthusiasm, strengthen whole-school participation, and highlight languages as a key contributor to pupils’ personal development and the school’s broad, balanced curriculum.

This CPD ensures smooth progression from KS2 to KS3 by aligning content, expectations, and skills development. It supports schools in establishing consistent communication between phases, so pupils build on prior learning without unnecessary repetition. The session includes practical approaches to tracking progress and evidencing continuity.

This CPD offers a step-by-step introduction to the Language Angels platform, ensuring teachers and subject leaders can use it with confidence. The session walks you through how to navigate the site, find and use resources, and make the most of planning, assessment, and tracking tools. You’ll also discover practical tips to help you deliver engaging, well-sequenced lessons and get the very best out of all the interactive materials available on the platform.

This CPD explores the 3 pillars of language learning — phonics, vocabulary, and grammar — and shows how they work together to build confident, fluent young linguists. It explains what each pillar involves, how they connect to the 4 language skills, and how to teach them systematically across the primary phase. The session shares practical ideas and classroom examples to help you strengthen sequencing, progression, and retention across your language curriculum.

This CPD explores what effective language teaching looks like in the primary classroom. It introduces the principles of successful language learning, helping teachers understand how children acquire, use, and retain a new language. The session covers the key expectations of the national curriculum and how to plan lessons that balance speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It also offers practical guidance on creating engaging, inclusive, and well-sequenced learning experiences that promote curiosity, confidence, and steady progression across the primary phase.

This CPD explores how stories, songs, and games can be used to strengthen memory, engagement, and active learning in primary foreign languages. It explains how multisensory repetition helps pupils retain new vocabulary and build long-term understanding. The session includes practical examples of how to use familiar stories, songs, and interactive games to reinforce key skills and make language learning memorable, inclusive, and fun for all pupils.

This CPD supports subject leaders and teaching staff in understanding what progression looks like in primary foreign languages. It explores how progress can be planned for and observed within a single lesson, across a unit, and throughout the primary phase. The session focuses on setting clear starting points and end goals, building on prior learning, and using practical examples to show how pupils’ skills develop over time. You’ll gain ideas and strategies to help you monitor and demonstrate progress confidently across your language curriculum.

This CPD explores how assessment can be used to support teaching, learning, and progression in primary foreign languages. It looks at how to assess pupils effectively through diagnostic, formative, and summative approaches, and how to use this information to plan next steps. The session shares practical examples of how assessment can guide teaching, celebrate achievement, and evidence the impact of your language provision across the school.

This CPD explores how to make language learning accessible, inclusive, and engaging for all pupils, including those with SEND and EAL. It looks at how to profile learners by their strengths, make reasonable adjustments, and adapt teaching methods to individual needs. The session shares practical strategies for differentiation, visual scaffolding, and multisensory learning, showing how small changes can have a big impact on confidence, participation, and progress in the languages classroom.

This CPD provides practical linguistic upskilling for non-specialist teachers, strengthening their knowledge and confidence in the language they teach. Delivered as a three-module programme (three 1-hour sessions), it builds understanding progressively.

• Module 1 – Understanding how the language works at primary level, with a focus on nouns and determiners, building secure grammatical foundations.
• Module 2 – Developing basic conversational skills, improving pronunciation, and strengthening knowledge of key grammar, with a focus on adjectives.
• Module 3 – Expanding vocabulary, refining pronunciation, and deepening grammatical accuracy, with a focus on verbs.

Across the three modules, teachers develop a clearer understanding of how pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar work together to support accurate and fluent communication, alongside practical strategies to teach with confidence and inspire pupils in the languages classroom.

This CPD explores what makes a primary foreign language lesson successful, engaging, and impactful. Sample lessons are broken down and key features analysed so that teachers fully understand what great foreign language teaching looks like at primary level. The session highlights how clear objectives, effective use of resources, and active pupil participation contribute to high-quality learning. Practical examples and reflection points will help teachers deliver lessons that are well-sequenced, enjoyable, and consistently effective, and enable them to articulate what pupils will know and be able to do by the end of the primary phase.

This CPD explores how to introduce foreign languages effectively in the early years and Key Stage 1. It focuses on age-appropriate teaching methods that nurture curiosity, communication, and confidence through songs, stories, games, and routine. The session highlights how early exposure to language supports auditory processing, memory, and creativity, building the strong foundations children need for language learning at KS2 and beyond. Practical examples will help teachers create engaging, inclusive, and enjoyable language experiences for younger learners.