Radio Lingua Schools | Creative language-learning materials and workshops

Winter Olympics language lessons

Radio Lingua Schools has been working with Gavinburn Primary in West Dunbartonshire, supporting their innovative Winter Olympics project. Pupils in primary 3 and 4 are working on a project based around the theme of the Winter Olympics and each class has taken on the role of one of the participating countries. The pupils have been [...]

Newshounds – St John’s Primary News Project

Over the past few weeks, a pilot group of primary 6 pupils from St John’s have been developing their journalism skills, reporting on what has been happening in the school in the past month. This is part of a larger project in the school which will see all of the primary 6 pupils involved in [...]

Practising Primary Spanish with Garageband

In the early stages of learning a language, learners have a limited range of vocabulary and it’s often difficult to find interesting and motivating ways to practise the few words and phrases they have learned. This was exactly the experience of teachers in St Mark’s, Irvine, and Radio Lingua Schools designed a workshop around providing [...]

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Tutorial: Accessing authentic listening materials

As a languages teacher it’s often difficult to keep up your speaking and listening skills when the vocabulary you use on a daily basis tends to be what you’re working on with your students. This tutorial will show you how to access thousands of hours of audio and video content at no cost through iTunes.
It [...]

Mandarin Chinese through podcasts and animation

A primary five class from St John’s Primary in Ayr recently took on something of a challenge: the children and their teacher set out to learn a new language in just four weeks. Using Radio Lingua podcasts, the children learned a few phrases each day, then put their new language skills to the test by [...]

Sharing school life with the wider community

Staff at St Mark’s Primary in Irvine (North Ayrshire) wanted to build stronger links with parents and the wider community and create an on-going media record of the activities in the school. Working with Radio Lingua Schools, they undertook a pilot project in which a group of primary 6 pupils planned and recorded a news [...]

Liveblogging from the European Parliament

Radio Lingua Schools regularly supports foreign visits involving young people from Scottish schools. We are uniquely placed to provide technical expertise, enhancing visits with social media and interactive elements, and to design engaging activities for the learners involved.
Most recently 32 young people selected from across the country by Rotary International travelled to Strasbourg. There they [...]

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Radio Lingua Schools provides award-winning language materials for primary, secondary and staff development, and pupil workshops combining language learning with creative digital technologies, helping participants to use their language skills with confidence.

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