A little post on vision. senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/y...

Guadalajara

That’s my first year done. It’s been one tough old year in the MFL world: specification changes coming in whilst having to juggle the legacy specification one last time, pressures of having no grade boundaries and the push to report on pupil performance, recruitment is harder than ever…

Still time to apply! If you want the chance to share your insights and experience on a much larger scale, working with schools with wide and varying contexts to help ensure students get an ever-improving deal in language learning - this is the job for you. ce0374li.webitrent.com/ce0374li_web...

2025 provisional Ofqual entry data and languages: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/o...

Want to work with MFL on a national scale? Looking to have impact on a much wider scale? Still plenty of time to apply. Closing date - 29th June www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

⭐️ Looking for a new role where you can champion the languages cause on a national scale? ⭐️ Interested in working with teachers, Heads of Department, Line Managers and Principals with the overarching vision of ensuring the provision of the best quality languages education possible for young people?

The outgoing spec: the positives, the negatives and what the future might hold. senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/t...

Beyond thrilled for Sunderland ❤️🤍

Nothing worse than poor track etiquette making running dangerous for everyone else. One club of 10 people max using lanes 3 upwards; whilst about 30-40 people had to share lanes 1 and 2. Not fair.

Another great series from Eva Longoria following Searching for Mexico: this time it’s Searching for Spain! www.instagram.com/reel/DJebeWo...

Love this with Eva Longoria talking about her son correcting her spanish: www.instagram.com/reel/DJTnQ1c...

An update from the DfE. As a linguist it still really irritates me that we are obsessing so much over a prescribed list of words and grammar (as evidenced in the publication of this document) rather than getting our students to be able to communicate. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67b606...

I have recently spent some time looking at trends and tendencies of the outgoing MFL specifications using the Ofqual Analytics tool. It got me thinking very deeply about considerations when reporting for the new specifications. Here’s a new post on it. senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/t...

Always good to get to track and burn off any worry.

Didn’t make track on Tuesday as I was heading home. My best friend from my original club has the Chicago Marathon this weekend and is tapering so has agreed to coach me! Our first encounter was on a steep hill where she shouted: “Is that all you’ve got?!” at me. Still is my running hero to this day!

And what about the 4/5 that cannot afford it? That’s why I firmly believe we have the duty to fight that little bit harder for those who cannot access private tuition and that have as much of a right do succeed as anyone else. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Time to head north

I’ll admit I’m very behind with the times with AI, though found out you could see your dog visualised as a human so did it with Blue. The result looks kind of like me…

Desperately trying to get Smokey and the team at Homies on Donkeys to put this into Spanish. Of incredible value to A Level students - the traditional v the new style of Mexican cuisine and the arguments between the two.

💡Don’t forget!💡 You can use our End of Year 10 assessments, geared for the new Edexcel GCSE French and Spanish assessments for FREE!

Use our 🇪🇸 and 🇫🇷 Y10 assessments for free! Aligned with Edexcel new spec, you’ll be able to use Smartgrade to receive analytics and add your data to the 55 schools in my trust so we can apply national distribution to create some notional grade boundaries. More info: unitedcurriculum.org.uk/assessment

I know how busy the summer term gets, so I wanted to let you know that we’re sharing our new Year 10 end-of-year assessments completely free this year. There’s no cost or commitment, and you'll save time! What’s included:

My latest blog - based on my presentation for @wendyadeniji.bsky.social on Tuesday - preparing Y11 for the final 400 metres (running pun FULLY intended) senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/p...

Such a great day at Language World today. Had some fantastic ideas and heard some brilliant people speak - all of whom chase one thing - the best languages teaching for young people.

Reading between the lines - some of my learning from looking at mark schemes for the new specification and some classroom ideas: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/r...

Didn’t realise with BA Silver you could get into the Cathay Pacific lounge at Heathrow T3 - they have a chef for noodles and dim sum. Absolutely unreal!

Being home was good; but even better getting to meet this one (got to say, new born babies don’t fit amazingly into the arms of someone 6”4!)

Nothing more I love than being back in the North East with this muppet for company.

My reflections on the new GCSE so far: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/r...

Jetted back north to see my little nephew for the first time!

Very much looking forward to presenting in Manchester alongside amazing speakers. Tickets: www.ttradio.org/teachers-tal...

Let’s see how this plays out… I just hope my friends in Zacatecas stay safe.

A must watch when it comes out for A Level Hispanists: www.eliberico.com/the-spanish-...

Energy levels have been very low this weekend - not sure if I’m coming down with something or just a bit fatigued.

Very much looking forward to presenting at @all4languages.bsky.social Language World! Ill be looking at leadership at all levels and how the get the best out of teams.

My reflections on providing Working At Grades (WAGs) for the new MFL GCSE: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/01/19/a...

Why I’ve moved away from Twitter: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/t...

My tips for observing and giving feedback: senorcordero.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/m...

Really quite an important watch for A Level Module 5: www.instagram.com/reel/DDZ8uiR...

We are looking for a Teacher of MFL for a great school in London: ce0374li.webitrent.com/ce0374li_web...