Lara Townsend Author

Lara Townsend is an experienced MFL specialist who has taught in a variety of schools right across the age range from KS1 to KS5 and was Head of MFL in a Language College for 4 years. She has also worked as a Primary Languages Advisory Teacher for Suffolk LEA. Lara is a SCITT Trainer and an independent MFL Advisor as well as being a Literacy Across the Curriculum Coordinator and Transition Lead in MFL at a secondary school in Essex. Tracy Davies is a practising and experienced MFL specialist who has taught in a variety of schools right across the age range from KS1 to KS5 and was Head of MFL in a middle school for 5 years. She also worked in partnership with the Suffolk advisory team on a creative languages project which has been used to promote imaginative approaches to language learning at local and national level. Lara and Tracy have been working together as Languages in Primaries since 2013, supporting teachers and schools in the provision of quality language teaching and learning. As well as being actively engaged in classroom practice, their work encompasses teacher training, writing Primary Languages documentation and creating KS2 Schemes of Work that can be used in both single and mixed age classes.