Glynis Rumley taught French and Spanish to GCSE in Kent secondary schools from 1976 until 1990. From 1990 to 2005 she
worked with teachers as the County Advisory Teacher for Primary Modern Foreign Languages.
She is now using her
background in infant education and primary mfl to inform work with EAL and TEFL and will be at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate
in April from the 7th to the 11th.
In December 2009 she was part of the Links into Languages South East steering
group meeting in the university of Southampton.
Up coming
Visit to teachers in Madrid 26th to 29th January
2010
10 March 2010 Shropshire RSG in Shrewsbury
13 March 2010 ALL (Kent) conference and AGM
26 March Speaker at Language World York
25 -26 June Linguascope conference workshops Brighton
She is currently working with Dr Patricia Driscoll at Christchurch College Canterbury and was most recently working
with Year 1 undergraduates during the Autumn term 2009.
She was also working on the Part Time PGCE
M level course and with year 2 students during Summer 2009.
She continues to mentor on the Erasmus exchange programme.
Christchurch used Glynis to approach other educational institutions to recruit MFL graduates for the PGCE primary course
during Spring and Summer 2009.
Glynis has been involved with the TTRB at Christchurch and she has published a number
of reviews in the last few months.
Until recently she was teaching French to a y5 and y6 class on a weekly
basis. The school exchanged letters with pupils in France and that continues this year. She has also been involved in French
teacher and pupil exchange visits during 2008 and 2009.
As County Adviser, Glynis led training sessions not
only in Kent but for teachers all over the UK. She has also worked on related national and international projects.
She continues to be closely involved with developments in this field.
She is the author of the PILOTE Video
series (1993) and then worked with Kent Educational Television to develop this series as CDRoms(2003-06) The teaching manuals
for MOI, MON ECOLE, MA VILLE and FAISONS LES COURSES are now available from KETV.
Articles have been published
in a wide variety of journals and newspapers on all aspects of the training of teachers and developing resources with which
she has been involved.
RECENT NEWS
BETT 2008/ 2009/ 2010
London Language Show November 2009
Reviews
for TTRB website Spring/Summer 2009
Stevenage RSG March 2009
Maidstone RSG March 2009
20th June
2008 Somerset County Council day on Primary Languages.Workshop: Mon école.
20th May 2008 Worcester RSG: Making PL cross curricular
Primary Languages Show, Manchester 29 February and 1st March 2008 supporting Kent Educational TV
Thursday 13th March 2008
Maidstone Grammar
School RSG
Teaching ks2 modern languages using songs and games "It was highly informative and I am sure the participants learnt a great deal, as the feedback was good." Kate
Tomes MGS
In 2006
and 2007 she was involved with the Canterbury and Maidstone Regional Support Groups for KS2 MFL.
During 2007: working with ITT students for Christchurch College, Canterbury at the invitation
of Dr. Patricia Driscoll and King's College London at the invitation of Dr. Jane Jones
In November and December 2007: monitoring the exchange of student teachers from Le Havre with Christchurch College.
During January and February 2008 involved with student teachers from Lyon for Christchurch College. This is continuing
during 2008-09
Consultant on ,and author
of, draft materials for the 2008 Teach First course at Christchurch College
On Friday 1st February 2008 : a session on the use of the Interactive Whiteboard for teaching languages
in primary schools for Ming Tsow at the BLEN conference
She was involved with the DfES Training the
Trainers for KS2 MFL, initiative in 2006 and 2007.
In the Friday 13th January 2006 TES The Teacher supplement, Glynis
wrote on approaches to starting Languages in YOUR primary school
Page 12 Breaking down Language Barriers
See
the Framework page above for the some of the existing courses Glynis can offer. Contact her to discuss any specific
needs to design a bespoke local course.
In May 2004 HMI judged that
the work of Glynis Rumley had been crucial to the development of PMFL in Kent LEA. HMI described Glynis Rumley as "very
experienced and highly respected ...the author of high quality teaching materials..which have made a very significant contribution
in enabling non specialist teachers to begin teaching a new subject"
Teachers
at the Specialist Schools Trust judged Glynis' input to be "very valuable" at the meeting on 9th November 2005 in
Nottingham
In
2006 she worked with teachers in Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Haringey, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes,
Southend and Stoke.
