HELP PLEASE. ANY FRENCH TEACHERS OUT THERE?

[jaybeeyellow]

I have been out of teaching for 2 yrs now, but I am a fully qualified French teacher, with 15 vyrs experience of working in some pretty tough secondary schools. I have taught French in Primary schools, as my last school had Language College status. I am very interested in teaching primary languages. My question is how do I get my foot in the door? I have tried to speak to some Primary Heads about this, but to no avail, as yet, some are quite unhelpful to be honest.
Also, any tutors of French out there? Have taught up to GCSE,so this is another possibility. How do I "pitch" the level etc. Where do I obtain past papers etc?
Just lacking a bit of confidence, I think. Can anyone help. I live in the Cheshire area.
Many thanks.

I would put together a CV, with references, a colourful portfolio of some of your work and the kinds of service you would propose to offer to a primary school.

Research the names of HTs in the area and send a personalised letter addressed to them.

Take a deep breath and send loads. But don't expect many replies. PMFL is now compulsory, so schools have had to find ways of delivering it already. So most are "sorted" now (even though much of the provision is crap).

past papers for AQA are here

Find out what board your local schools do, then research the curriculum, past papers etc - it's all available online these days.

Put out adverts in your local newspaper. You could create a flier and see if you can get local secondaries to hand it out.

A good way to get your foot in the door, would be to advertise simply to do preparation/practice for the oral exam*. This would be a lower rate - as it's not so demanding as 'tutoring', but might give you a way of building up a positive reputation with the schools, who might then recommend/refer you to struggling students in future.

*In addition once they have planned their answers you could create podcasts for them with their questions/answers for them to download to their ipods and practice at home.

My DD joined an Adult French Conversation class to boost her confidence for A level - and would have loved a younger group to join (although they did make her feel welcome). She also got part of her DofE award by attending.

Have you considered running a local "le Club" or similar for Primary French? The one near here was very popular.

What happened to the OP?

OP has been away for a few days!
Just looked up OP,and am now enlightened.
Many thanks for the advice.