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The NSW Department of Education has just republished Go Hanyu!, including lots of great new updates. 'Go Hanyu!' is an interactive resource for students learning Chinese in Stage 6 as well as advanced proficiency Stage 5 students. This updated resource features a series of videos with accompanying student activities (digital and print), transcripts, and a teacher guide. Tasks are designed to build language skills while exploring different text types, providing opportunities for student choice and differentiation, while promoting real communication and cultural understanding. Modules include: computer games - authentic text computer games - conversation computer games - discussion travelling - authentic text travelling - interview travelling - conversation. To access the Go Hanyu! resources and teacher guide and bring engaging Chinese learning experiences to your students, go to: 7–10 page 11–12 page.

Are you wondering how to best prepare your students for the CCAFL Continuers oral examination? The NSW Department of Education has just published a new support resource to help you interpret and prepare students for the CCAFL Languages Continuers oral examination. The 'CCAFL Languages Continuers - understanding the oral examination' provides practical guidance to support consistent interpretation of the oral examination across all CCAFL Languages Continuers courses. It clarifies expectations for interaction, justification of ideas and performance standards, aligned with the oral examination specifications and marking guidelines. Access the resource at CCAFL Continuers – oral exam support.

If you teach Stage 6 languages in a NSW public school, please join the Languages and Culture team on the Term 3 School Development Day for 'Effective feedback in preparing for the HSC in Languages'. The session will explore practical feedback strategies that support students preparing for the HSC in Stage 6 Languages courses. 📅 Monday 20 July - School Development Day (Term 3, Week 1) ⌚ 1:00–2:30 pm 📌 Online Register now via MyPL (course code TPL01703).

Are you in your first 5 years of teaching a language at a NSW public school? Or are you studying to be a languages teacher at uni? Enrolments are now open for the Beginning and Preservice Teachers’ Workshop. 📅 Friday 18 September 2026 ⌚ 8:45 am - 3 pm 📌 105 Phillip Street, Parramatta 💻 MyPL code TPL01068 💵 $50 (to cover catering) - schools will be invoiced after the event Registrations close: Friday 4 September (or when places have been filled). The theme is 'Building skills for language teaching success', and presentations include: - Support for language teachers and adapting support to your context - The power of feedback - Classroom management for learning success - Playful strategies for powerful learning. We hope to see you there!

What an amazing day last Friday - 8 venues (including online for Virtual network colleagues), 120 teachers, 6 languages advisers and a full day of PL and collaboration! Thank you to everyone who got involved - we loved working with you all!!

Registrations for the statewide collaboration day close this Friday! Have you enrolled yet? https://www.languagesnsw.com/post/looking-for-a-day-of-planning-with-your-language-teacher-colleagues-join-the-statewide-collaboratio

Registrations now open! Registrations are now open for the 2026 Beginning and Preservice Teachers’ Workshop. The theme is Building skills for language teaching success. At the workshop there will be a number of presentations including: Support for language teachers and adapting support to your context The power of feedback Classroom management for learning success Playful strategies for powerful learning. The workshop is suitable for all preservice languages teachers and all DoE language teachers 7-12 in their first 5 years of teaching. Date: Friday 18 September 2026 Time: 8:45 am - 3 pm Venue: 105 Phillip Street, Parramatta Enrol: MyPL code TPL01068 Cost: $50 (to cover catering) - schools will be invoiced after the event Registrations close: Friday 4 September (or when places have been filled) This PL addresses teaching standards 2.1.2, 4.2.2, 5.2.2 and 6.2.2. If you have any questions, please email coreena.allen@det.nsw.edu.au or shanelle.ingram@det.nsw.edu.au

The Go Nihongo! resource has been completely refreshed and moved to a new, interactive platform. The resource features a series of scaffolded videos with accompanying student activities (digital and print), transcripts, and a teacher guide. Tasks are designed to build challenge across the stages, providing opportunities for student choice and differentiation, while promoting real communication and cultural understanding. Topics include: introductions pet competition hanging out gift shopping Simon's day Saki's day. Access Go Nihongo! Suitable for Stages 3 to 6.

Registrations are bnow open for the Languages Statewide Collaboration Day on Friday 26 June. This is the day when all language teacher networks meet, across NSW, under the theme 'Building engaging classrooms together'. The goal is to support you by providing a day dedicated to language planning to enhance classroom practices with your colleagues, network leaders and the Languages and Culture team. In regional areas, if you have language colleagues from other sectors, they are welcome to join in too! Date: Friday 26 June 2026 Time: 8:45 am - 3 pm Venue: see flyer for venue that suits you best Enrol: MyPL code TPL01070, then select the appropriate session to enrol in Cost: $45 (to cover catering) - schools will be invoiced after the event; no charge - Virtual Network; $90 - regional non-DoE schools Registrations close: Friday 19 June This PL addresses teaching standards 2.1.2, 3.4.2, 6.2.2 and 6.3.2. Looking forward to seeing you at one of the events!

If you missed the Term 2 statewide staff meeting on 'To the textbook and beyond - transforming textbook use to enrich language learning', the recording is now available.

The NSW Department of Education has just released a new resource for Japanese, and we think your students are going to love it!! 妖怪を探せ - A Tanken Centre adventure is an immersive, interactive escape room-style learning experience designed to deepen students’ engagement with Japanese language and culture. Set within the Tanken Centre, students take on the role of a student, Natsuki, to track down hidden yōkai. The aim of the resource is to clear all the yōkai so that tomorrow's visiting student group don't get any unexpected surprises!! It can be incorporated into a variety of units, reinforcing greetings, self-introductions, numbers, hiragana, Japanese houses, food, family and Japan. Students progress through each space in the Tanken Centre (for example, the genkan and the garden), challenging themselves with activities to unlock the hidden yōkai in each space. It comes with a teacher booklet, which unpacks the resource in detail and explores ways it can be embedded in the classroom. Check it out for yourself: Visit A Tanken Centre adventure or scan the QR code. The resource is free and available to all sectors.

We'll be looking at 'To the textbook and beyond – transforming textbook use to enrich language learning', exploring practical ways to move beyond traditional textbook use to create engaging, meaningful and student-centred language learning experiences. This session will explore moving beyond the textbook to: - connect to real world experiences - differentiate for all learners - learn across all outcomes - include student choice - develop intercultural understanding. 📅 Thursday 14 May, 4-5 pm 💻 MyPL, course code: NR29242 🏅 Teaching standards: 1.5.2, 2.1.2, 3.3.2, 6.2.2 We look forward to seeing you there!