tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69613126966630986822024-03-08T04:11:16.366-08:00Flying TheatreThe Flying Theatre Company is touring theatre at its most adventurous edge. On tour every month of every year covering thousands of miles and entertaining thousands of people all over europe.Flying Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17256716746039976047noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961312696663098682.post-34526361298657946132013-12-02T01:52:00.000-08:002013-12-02T01:52:53.242-08:00 TOUR DE FRANCE CULTURAL FESTIVAL <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><strong>TOUR DE
FRANCE CULTURAL FESTIVAL <img align="right" height="246" src="https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1450673_760257723999982_1384602564_n.jpg" style="height: 133px; width: 149px;" width="127" /></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Flying Theatre Company have
submitted<br />a bid to The Grand DepartCultural Festival to<br />developa new
performance to celebrate <br />the Tour De France visiting
Yorkshire in July 2014. <br />If the bid is successful ' Vive
Le Tour!'<span class="subhead1"> </span><span class="subhead1"><span style="line-height: 115%;">will
be performed<br />in schools along the tour route during the 100
days<br /> countdown to the Grand Depart. <br />Many schools have already contacted
us in support of the project.</span></span><span class="subhead1"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong> '</strong></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Vive
Le Tour!’ will then tour nationally giving some 30,000 students the opportunity
to benefit from it in 2014/15.</span></span></span> </div>
Flying Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17256716746039976047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961312696663098682.post-69721321980295341172013-09-10T08:09:00.002-07:002013-12-02T01:53:09.920-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Focus on French<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 14pt;">Is
this the start of a new dawn for language learning?</span><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;">We would all like to
think so. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;">With
177,288 GCSE entries in 2013 French remains the most popular language taken by
students. This is an increase in uptake of <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">15.5%.</span></strong><b> </b></span><span style="background: white; color: #10253f; font-size: 12pt;">This increase in
entries is thought to be due to the EBacc performance measure</span><span style="color: #10253f; font-size: 12pt;">. Would it be totally unrealistic to
hope that students , and their families, are finally beginning to see the world
of opportunity that can open up to them with the addition of a modern foreign
language ? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As
ambassadors for the French language we hope the known benefits we extoll are
reaching young people and this increased interest in French can be sustained.
Cultural awareness and interests, the ever- increasing popularity of city
breaks and gap- year travel are all excellent reasons to encourage our
protégées to embrace the French language. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
obvious benefit of hugely enlarged employment opportunities for French speaking
individuals can be seriously underestimated by students. Not only could they
gain employment in one of 33 countries, where French is the official language
but, only today, on one website alone, I have seen an additional 482 jobs in
London and the UK available to fluent French speakers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart
from occasionally passing on such facts to our students and constantly seeking
new and exciting teaching methods and activities, how else can we motivate
their learning?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Approx.
360 French teachers and 30,000 students from 120 schools each year choose to
focus classroom learning by hosting our live French theatre performance in
their school. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Building
on the quote from the National Curriculum‘ learners who enjoy learning progress
‘ Bon Voyage, </span></span><a href="http://www.flyingtheatre.com/bon-voyage-178.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.flyingtheatre.com/bon-voyage-178.html</span></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> the new production
currently touring the UK, is gathering excellent reviews from teachers – I
quote <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;">“Not</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> one pupil was without a smile on their face and the
interaction encouraged the children to take part. The language they learnt was
very topical to their studies and I am sure the memories of the show will stay
with them forever.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And “Fantastic Play and great
acting! The students understood more than they thought and a lot of words are
part of their curriculum in French. I am sure it will inspire a lot of students
in French in the classroom and beyond!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Inspiration - we all need it
!<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For
content, details, dates for your area etc. contact Debbie </span></span><a href="mailto:education@flyingtheatre.com"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">education@flyingtheatre.com</span></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Interesting
links <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flyingtheatre.com/bon-voyage-178.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.flyingtheatre.com/bon-voyage-178.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.all-
languages.org.uk/news/news_list/gcse_results_the_headlines_for_languages</span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #0c3346; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></div>
<a href="http://french.about.com/od/francophonie/ss/whatisfrench_2.htm"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://french.about.com/od/francophonie/ss/whatisfrench_2.htm</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<a href="http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/language/French"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/language/French</span></span></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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Flying Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17256716746039976047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961312696663098682.post-78270953279849644922011-11-22T04:34:00.000-08:002011-11-22T04:34:47.902-08:00Employers need language skills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">76% of employers were “not satisfied with young peoples language skills” -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a survey by the CBI on Business Priorities for Education and Skills identified.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The major European language most in demand by businesses’ of all sizes and sectors across the UK is French - leading by a huge 61%. </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Languages for Jobs” states “without languages, individuals are disadvantaged in their ability to take up opportunities for training or employment abroad”</span><br />
<div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Currently hundreds of Primary School Head Teachers from across the UK are commenting on the importance of primary languages in a report for the government led by CILT ( the National Centre for Languages). They include comments such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“English is not the only lanuage in the world”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to “ Life chances in a global community” . It is hoped the report will encourage the continuation of teaching languages at primary school – many believe it is essentail to start languages as young as possible when children are at their most receptive and before they become self conscious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you need further evidence to support funding for languages in your school / area use links below. </span><br />
<div style="background: white; margin-right: 10.2pt;"><em><span lang="EN" style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.cbi.org.uk/media/1051530/cbi__edi_education___skills_survey_2011.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Building for Growth</span></a></span></em><span lang="EN" style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/news/news5101_en.htm" target="_blank">Languages for Jobs: providing multilingual communication skills for the labour market, European Commission, 2011</a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.flyingtheatre.com/"><span style="color: purple;">www.flyingtheatre.com</span></a></span></div>Flying Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17256716746039976047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961312696663098682.post-72714638368875381372011-04-12T00:28:00.000-07:002011-04-12T00:28:33.933-07:00Hello allHello world. The flying theatre has joined the global community of bloggers. Here we hope to keep everyone up to date with our travels and adventures as we fly from one venue to the next. keep checking in to hear and see news live from the road. Cheers<br />
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