About this site

I am Director of Language College at Comberton Village College, a comprehensive secondary school in Cambridgeshire, where I have worked since 1999.

This website contains resources, ideas and strategies for promoting, teaching and learning languages. It is hoped that they will support Heads of Languages and teachers of Spanish, German and French.

The motivation for this site is the belief that the best ideas and resources are developed in collaboration, in an ongoing cycle of invention, development, experiment and reflection. Languages teachers are among the very best at learning from and building on each others’ practice and I am indebted to everyone who has ever talked about language teaching with me.

The fantastic languages team in which I work has been very influential and some of their work appears here.

All my resources will appear here on this site. You may also want to visit my blog, www.rachelhawkes.typepad.com

This website is brand new (first created 30 Oct 2010, latest updates 6 Apr 2012). So far I have uploaded Raising the Profile Projects, the Resources pages, Weblinks and Presentations & Training.

Unless otherwise acknowledged, copyright rests with Rachel Hawkes, © 2012.