Languages - Subject knowledge enhancement courses

12 week SKE courses in French and in Spanish will run from 3 June to 23 August 2019, having been awarded funding for another year by the Department for Education. The programme is unique in that it is:

Fully face-to-face, as opposed to fully or partly through distance learning;
Includes two full immersion weeks in France or Spain with the participants getting tuition at the Centre International d’Etudes de Languages, near Brest, or the Soleã School of Languages, in Valencia, as well as staying with families;
Participants will be taught and examined, at both GCSE and A level, using the new (2016) specifications, examinations and resources, in combination with our own materials and approaches.

Our SKE courses are fully funded. You should not need to pay tuition fees and participants will get a net bursary of £200 per week. These courses are open to anyone who has secured a place on an MFL Teacher Training Course for the academic year 2019–20, at Plymouth Marjon University, or elsewhere.

The course is taught over June, July and August, allowing you to have a 2 week break before the very demanding PGCE year. It involves intensive study which will:

take you to GCSE standard, in the first 5 weeks (CEFR A2)
take you to AS level in the next 2 weeks of the course, in Brest or Valencia (CEFR B1.1 -B1.2)
take you to A2 level in the final 5 weeks of the course (CEFR B1.2 - B1.3 - B2)

The Department for Education funds SKE programmes in biology, chemistry, computing, design and technology, English, geography, languages, mathematics and physics. Language teachers usually teach two languages in their school and a SKE course equips you with the subject knowledge to teach an additional language, which will increase your employment prospects.

For further details about SKE programs and the funding available go to the Get into Teaching website.For further information on our SKE courses in French and in Spanish please contact Marie Forster at mforster@marjon.ac.uk

French Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course 2018 (adobe .pdf, 1,071 kbs)

Spanish Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course 2018 (adobe .pdf, 1,998 kbs)

Phone us Marie Forster
01752 636700 (ext. 3919)
Email us Marie Forster
mforster@marjon.ac.uk