MFL KS2-KS3 Transition Questionnaire, Tracker, Mail Merge and Learner Profile

KS2-3 transition in MFL is a real challenge for a range of structural and capacity reasons, often outside our control. This small collection of resources is one concrete way that secondary schools and MFL departments can support the KS3-4 transition process to better inform Year 7 teachers and their teaching. This resource includes:

1. A questionnaire template on primary MFL learning and home languages for schools to send home to current Year 6 (incoming Year 7) in information packs or other correspondence. This could also be completed by students in Year 7 though obviously the earlier the better with this data.
2. A tracker to help collect and sort questionnaire data. A notional scoring system takes into account years of study, lessons per week and student confidence & enjoyment. This is not robust but can be a useful indicator. (NB this uses dummy data and student names are fictitious)
3. A mail merge document to generate an A4 PMFL profile per student, based upon the tacker. (NB Enter cell reference “A2:AB180” for the example to work)
4. Example PMFL profiles (NB again, this is dummy data)

I, David Shanks, would like to thank colleagues Mathilde Bouquin and James Stagg for their input on these resources.