June 2025 Languages Update
Welcome to the June 2025 Languages update.
Quick links for the June Languages Update
In this update you will find:
Reminder about live assessment materials
At this time of year, awarding organisations receive lots of reports about websites and social media accounts claiming to have 2025 live assessment material available for sale (exam papers, mark schemes). We wanted to take this opportunity to remind our centres that any student found to have accessed or participated in the sharing of 'leaked' examination material will receive sanctions. Help us to protect the integrity of our assessments by reporting these accounts. Contact us via pqsmalpractice@pearson.com
2025 Exam Feedback Surveys
Later this month, we will be sending out our 2025 Exam Feedback Surveys, feedback from these surveys help us to improve the experience of teachers using our qualifications and students sitting our exams. Your feedback is important to us so keep an eye on your inbox for the survey link.
Speaking Exam Crib Sheet for Teacher Examiners
Based on your feedback, we've put together a crib sheet for teacher-examiners conducting the 2024 GCSE French, German, and Spanish speaking exams. We hope this resource helps you get students ready for their speaking exams, supports you during mock assessments, and keeps everything running smoothly during next year's live assessments.
Upcoming training and events
UK Qualifications
This term, we are pleased to offer a variety of training sessions designed to support you with the 2024 GCSE French, German, and Spanish specifications. The sessions available include:
- Conducting the Speaking Exam
- Unpacking the Speaking Exam
- Spotlight on Paper 4: Writing
- Effective Phonics Teaching
- Getting Ready to Teach
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Recordings of these sessions will be made available on our YouTube channel following the events.
International Qualifications
A series of training sessions are scheduled for autumn 2025 to provide support with International languages qualifications. These sessions include topics such as Getting Ready to Teach International GCSE Arabic and Conducting the English as a Second Language speaking exams.
For summer term training, please refer to our pre-recorded training sessions:
International GCSE and A Level Arabic
GCSE (2024) Support
A reminder that you can find all the GCSE 2024 support links you might need in our comprehensive support guide. This guide is updated to make sure the latest resources are at your fingertips. We recommend saving to your favourites rather than downloading so that you are always accessing the most recent version.
Subject advisor
Rebecca Waker
Languages
