AQA A-Level French: Preparing Students for Exam Success in 2025 and Beyond

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new course for all teachers of AQA A-Level French will explore how you can turn the mistakes made in previous exam series into an opportunity for positive change moving forward, fully preparing your students for success in the year ahead and beyond. This interactive course will support and challenge teachers in equal measures. You will leave with a thorough overview of the main lessons to be learnt from previous examinations and a wide range of ideas, methods and approaches to prepare students to maximise their potential in the 2025 exams. Emphasis will be made on the demands of the exams that are not met as well as they could be, and the implications this has for your A-Level teaching and learning.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Understand the main lessons to be learnt from the most recent examinations
• Gain an informed overview of key areas of concern
• Learn new and innovative ways to deliver areas that target the areas of concern
• Experience and try out novel pedagogy
• Produce a strategic approach to maximise student success in 2025

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PROGRAMME

The Exam - Reflections and Approaches

10.00am

• Key messages to be learned from the most recent examinations
• Matching messages to actual examination questions and student responses
• Discussing the reasons that can be attributed to problematic areas
• Reflecting on what may have been delivered more effectively

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Starting to Appreciate What Is Needed For Paper 1

10.30am

• The main factors that affect examination success in translation. Why paraphrasing is such an issue
• Deep-diving the problem questions from Paper 1 in terms of the receptive skills of listening and reading
• Reflecting on the problems with the synonym task and which aspects of the task are more problematic
• Making a plan of action - What should we do? How should we do it?

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Break

11.30am

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A Focus On Paper 2

11.45am

• How students answer compared to what the exam board want
• Strategies to meet the demands of content and accuracy
• Managing difficult titles and knowing the difference between the film and literature questions
• Analytical clinic. How can students evaluate accurately?

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Lunch

12.30pm

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Speaking Test Headaches

1.30pm

• Dealing with the cards. AO4- selecting information to support arguments
• The Individual research project - What makes a good title?
• Making best use of the Candidate Record form
• Maximising marks in AO1 and AO3

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Break

2.15pm

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Moving Forward And Maximising Success in 2025 and Beyond

2.30pm

• Producing a plan of action to maximise student success
• Specific lessons to be learnt and how to prevent them from happening again
• Ensuring whole department success - Managing staff and developing a progressive teaching culture that organically learns and improves

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Depart

3.30pm