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 Languages.
She is now using her background in infant
education and primary mfl to inform work with EAL, TESOL and TEFL and was at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate in April
from the 7th to the 11th exhibiting
www.englishfromengland.co.ukShe is on the Links into Languages South East steering group based at the university of Southampton.
Recent work
ITT sessions at Christchurch University College Canterbury. Ongoing. Most recently June 2010.
Visit to teachers in Madrid 26th to 29th January 2010
February 2010 Speaker at BLEN conference, London
March spoke to British Council London course delegates
March 2010 Shropshire RSG in Shrewsbury
"We
had 100% positive feedback...."very succesful"and "very enjoyable" were the comments on every form"
Jenny Dart organiser. Grove School.
13 March 2010 ALL (Kent) conference and AGM
16 March Milton Keynes
EAL workshop
26 March Speaker at Language World York
07-11 April IATEFL conference. Harrogate
14 April Little Voices Children's Centre Faversham
25 -26 June Linguascope conference workshops Brighton
July 2010 Christchurch TEFL conference session on creativity
She is currently working
with Dr Patricia Driscoll and Anthony Clarke at Christchurch College Canterbury and was most recently working with Year
1 undergraduates, PGCEs, GTPs and HLTAs during the academic year 2009-2010.
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
exchange programmes.
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 a number of reviews have been published 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 to the school 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.
Archive
BETT 2008/ 2009/ 2010
London Language Show November 2009
Reviews for TTRB website Spring/Summer 2009/Autumn
2009/ Spring 2010
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.
