The Teacher's Trail
The Teacher’s Trail is the Institut français du Royaume-Uni’s continuing professional development programme for teachers of French in the United-Kingdom. This programme aims at supporting future teachers, newly qualified and qualified teachers of French throughout their teaching career.
Every year, training opportunities are offered online and face to face all over the country.
Primary French Teachers – Getting started with the Primary French Project
- Registration deadline: Wednesday 11 June 2025
- Date: Saturday 14 June 2025 – 9.00 – 13.00
- Location: Institut français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT, London
- Trainer: Catherine Cheater
- Language used during the workshop: English and French
- Workshop description: This session will be useful to experienced teachers of French, as well as those who are new to teaching the subject. The Primary French Project provides all the resources you need to teach the language throughout Key Stage 2.
This introductory workshop will demonstrate how to:
· teach the language, and develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
· develop pronunciation
· record progress
· make links with English literacy
· develop an understanding of culture
The workshop will be useful to language coordinators as well as class teachers.
- Fees: Training fees are covered by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Summer School in France for Primary School Teachers of French
- Registration deadline: Saturday 31 May 2025
- Location: Alliance Française de Normandie, Rouen, France
- Date: Sunday 3 August 2025 to Sunday 10 August 2025
- Eligibility: Primary School Teachers teaching French
- Content: General French language group courses will be offered (20h) as well as 2 workshops focused on French phonics. This summer school is intended to help teachers upskill their proficiency in the language in order to feel more confident in the classroom. Please note that the course will not cover the pedagogy of teaching French and will not provide any teaching materials or techniques.
- Fees: Training fees, breakfast, dinner and accommodation in a French host-family are covered by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Travel expenses will be incurred by the participant.
- Registration: Fill the application form and send it to projects-education@institut-francais.org.uk by Saturday 31 May 2025. Selected participants will be contacted by mid-June.
Secondary French Teachers – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Sustainable MFL teaching with Creative Play
- Registration deadline: Wednesday 25 June 2025
- Date: Saturday 28 June 2025 – 10.00 – 13.00
- Location: Institut français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT, London
- Trainer: Michaël Vidon
- Language used during the workshop: Mainly French
- Content:
During this workshop, Michaël Vidon will show strategies he has used over the years as French teacher and a as a freelance Spoken Word artist interested in multilingualism and translation.
It will be a hands-on workshop where participants are invited to collaborate to trial new strategies, reflect on their usefulness in the classroom and adapt them to their current setting. Strategies to be discussed aim to enrich curricula at KS3, 4 and 5. They can be used as starters /plenaries, one-off lessons or built-in your SOWs to offer progression across the different stages.
Michaël Vidon’s three Rs of sustainable MFL teaching with creative play:
– “reduce” with simple prompts and constraints to express ourselves without fear.
– “reuse” French language in culturally situated authentic texts in translations and found poems.
– “recycle” our experiences, cultures and languages in individual and collaborative poems.The session is hands-on, so be prepared to play, write and share with each other.
Participants will need to bring a poem or song in French and a phone/tablet connected to internet.
Teaching Resources
Arte
The European cultural and educational TV channel, including pedagogical resources.
Canopé
The French Ministry of Education platform for pedagogical materials.
CLE International
CLE International
Publishing house specialised in French as a Foreign Language.
Culturethèque
The “Learn” section on Culturethèque provides a wide range of free educational resources for teachers and students of French at all levels. The “Primary French Project” is a part of this section and offers sound-embedded powerpoints. Secondary school resources include subtitles documentaries and accompanying worksheets, in partnership with the INA. Detailed reading notes, grammar and language e-books are also available.
Didier
Didier Editions specialise in textbook publication and sell pedagogical resources in French (French as a Foreign Language books, books for math, biology, physics, and chemistry).
Hachette FLE
Publishing house which specialises in foreign language teaching.
IFcinéma
An online French film database of over 500 movies exclusively for French educators.
IFprofs
IFprofs UK officially launched during the Language Show London in mid-October and is now open to all teachers of French across the country. Connect with others, share resources, events, and professional development, all for free! Discover and make the most of this great collaborative platform by joining us.
Maison des Langues
Publishing house which specialises in foreign language teaching.
Presse universitaire de Grenoble
Branch of the University of Grenoble publishing house which specialises in textbooks for French as a Foreign Language.
RFI
International French radio RFI provides pedagogical materials on current topics, for advanced students (Level B1-C2). An entertaining and challenging way to keep abreast of international and French events.
Samir
Specialised in French as a native, a second and a foreign language, Samir Éditeur is a literary and educational publishing house for children, teenagers and young adults.
The French Box
Give your pupils the opportunity to discover more of the French language and culture. With the French Box, you will have the resources at hand to work on various subjects, with authentic and popular French books.
The Language Magician
The fruit of an Erasmus + funded project involving 10 international partners, The Language Magician is an innovative serious game dedicated to encouraging the learning of languages for children aged 6-9, and providing a fun way of assessing their progression in the language.
The Primary French Project
The Primary French Project provides free teaching materials that aim to train all who teach French at KS2. Suitable for all practitioners, including those who have no prior knowledge of the language, and also specialist linguists who are new to teaching children in KS2, the materials aim to train the teacher by providing the subject knowledge and classroom methodology that are needed in order to meet the requirements of the Programme of Study for Languages in KS2, as well as transition into KS3.
TV5Monde
International French-language television channel TV5Monde offers interactive exercises based on a wide range of videos. Ready-made worksheets and cultural guidance are also available. The identified levels refer to the CEFR.