Crewe: Leighton Primary School

Leighton Primary School is situated in Crewe, Cheshire and with over 500 children currently on its roll ranks as one of the larger primary schools in England. In April 2009 it was selected along with five other primary schools for the prestigious TES Primary School of the Year award for the most outstanding primary school in England and Wales.

The school had already been involved in a number of CLIL projects (Content Language Integrated Learning) but through the partnership with the GI Manchester it has been able to intensify and extend these projects. Since the start of the partner school initiative two more primary and two secondary schools in the Crewe area have been motivated to choose German as their foreign language and these schools are also currently engaged in a number of CLIL projects.

Featured below are details of a selection of past and future activities within the framework of this project:

After all this excitement, time and energy devoted to German it did not take long for parents to express their own desire for Germany-related linguistic and cultural events which now take place at regular intervals.