Katherine
Thats great -
on subheadings it would be useful to have a section on partner schools in
China to share experiences on setting up and how we develop the
relationship.
I would also like to have a section on accreditation, GCSE, ABC -could also
contain news on the new languages ladder. We hope to pilot this at Ashcombe
School.
Regards
Anne Martin
The Ashcombe School
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From: "Katharine Carruthers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: Chinese Network
> Dear All
>
> I am writing to tell you about the project to develop a Chinese set of
> webpages on the Specialist Schools Trust website. These pages will be
> called The Chinese Network. There will be news from schools teaching
> Chinese, news of events, sharing and exchange of teaching resources (an
> opportunity for teachers to upload and download lesson plans and
> resources), weblinks, pupils' pages etc.
>
> The Network will complement the ALL e-mail forum, which I would say has
> been well used over the last few weeks for discussion. The Network's
> main focus will be on the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in
> secondary schools, but it will aim to be as inclusive as possible and so
> will also cover community schools, FE, AE, HE and primary education.
>
> I am working on behalf of the Trust to develop these pages (not, I
> hasten to add, the technical side, but the content!). I hope they will
> be lively, useful and a valuable resource for all those involved in the
> teaching of Chinese. However, I will need lots of ideas and input from
> everyone.
>
> In the first instance, I have the following requests:
>
> 1. The name for the webpages in English will be Chinese Network. I
> thought that the Chinese name could be zhong1wen2wang3. However, I would
> welcome feedback on this. If anyone has any different ideas or
> suggestions or agrees with my proposal, then all feedback is very
> welcome. Finding the best name at the outset is very important!
>
> 2. As far as I understand at the moment, the header of each webpage will
> have a photograph and there will be a couple of smaller photographs down
> the side of each page (these photos will be the same on each page; there
> won't be different photos on each page). I think the smaller photographs
> will be a semi-permanent feature of each page and that the header
> photograph will be changed regularly.
>
> Do any of you have any suitable photographs? It would be good to have
> pictures of learners involved in some exciting activity in the classroom
> or putting their learning into action in China. Any digital pictures
> any of you could send me would be great. The Trust has an official
> permission slip which I would need to ask you to get the parents of any
> children on photographs selected for use on the site to sign.
>
> 3. I will be starting to collect material for the pages very soon, but
> in the first instance, it would be very useful if you could come back to
> me with any ideas of what you would like to see on the site over and
> above the sub-headings I mentioned above.
>
> We are lucky to have a good communications network set up already, so I
> intend to use it to ensure that the Chinese Network pages are as useful
> for everyone as possible!
>
> I look forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Best wishes
> Katharine Carruthers
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>
> Katharine Carruthers
> Brooke House
> Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
> Essex, CB10 2AA
>
>
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