Author: Karen Faulds, SCILT
Following on from a successful early years Bitesize and drop-in CLPL session in September, SCILT is continuing to extend its reach in working with colleagues in early years, supporting them with language teaching at Early Level. To enable this, we have joined forces with Tania Czajka, an experienced early years practitioner, author of bilingual book ‘Lapin is hungry’ and Artistic Director of bilingual theatre company Le Petit Monde.
The project is based on Tania’s bilingual book ‘Lapin is hungry’ with the creative puppetry element integrated throughout. Pupils will have the opportunity to create their own puppets based on the characters in the book and develop their French language skills through play. Participating teachers and early years practitioners will be guided and supported throughout the duration of the project, scheduled to take place in spring term 2022.
Tania, having successfully piloted her innovative and creative puppetry approach to language learning in one school, is very much looking forward to developing this approach with more schools stating: “I am delighted to be collaborating with SCILT on this exciting project. I hope Lapin and his little garden friends will bring much joy to the early years learning and teaching of French.”
The initial response from practitioners has been extremely encouraging with an exceptionally high level of teachers and early years practitioners registering their interest. We will be working with colleagues from around ten different schools where they will have the opportunity to develop their practice in implementing this creative approach to language teaching in the early years.
SCILT is very much looking forward to working with colleagues across the country and sharing progress of their endeavours in due course. Watch this space!
