Teachers:

Marlene Bode, Kerstin Bitter, Yves Cassagnes, Tina Halle, Remo Hauk, Birgit Holtz, Jana Honegger, Karsten Jänner, Annett Jentsch, Christiane Jung, Verena Muravev, Christel Schneider, Anne Steiner, Kerstin Sterz, Marlene Vogel von Frommannshausen, Matthias Schäfer, Karin Guther

Language assistant:

• 2008/09: Tamara Tobler from Canada

Specific aspects:

English is taught as the pupils’ first foreign language from year 5 to year 10. English teaching focuses on learning English using a communicative approach, which means i.e. learning in groups with not more than 10 pupils.

Training objectives:

• English classes contribute to:

• pupils’ personality development
• promotion of the pupils’ linguistic talents
• development of the pupils’ creative, communicative and cognitive abilities

• English classes include:

• knowledge about cultures, values, norms and living conditions of English - speaking peoples
• English reading materials
• Plays
• Films
• E-mail projects
• English web pages

• English project classes contain:

• rehearsing and performing plays in English
• writing newspaper articles
• working out and performing cultural programmes
• participating in various national and international contests

Language trips to improve knowledge and speaking abilities:

• year 5 – language farm (1 week)
• year 7 – South England (3 weeks)

Exams :

• year 8 – FCE/ Cambridge ESOL
• year 10 – CAE/ Cambridge ESOL

Partner school 2008-09:

Waingels College
Denmark Avenue
Woodley
Reading
RG5 4RF Berkshire
www.waingels.wokingham.sch.uk