European Day of Languages 2020: EDL

  Do visit the official European Day of Languages website and social media pages from our friends at the European Centre for Modern Languages; packed full of ideas and competitions as well as fun and games to celebrate linguistic diversity, intercultural understanding...

Strictly in Isolation

Poetry in other languages celebration – pilot 2020 This is a spin-off from the competition (Strictly Speaking) which ALLNE had planned to pilot this year in the region and which was not possible in the circumstances. It targets Year 8 students in the hope of...

Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Competition

This year’s Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn’t English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their...

The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry

Those of us who were at Language World earlier this year will remember the inspiring keynote talk by Charlotte Ryland, from the Translation Exchange and the Stephen Spender Trust. She really enthused the audience with the creative teaching possibilities of poetry...

Teacher Briefing 21: 2020 School Exams cancellation arrangements

This year’s summer exam series in UK, including A levels, GCSEs and other qualifications, and all primary assessments have been cancelled to fight the spread of coronavirus. On 20 March 2020 the DfE announced that the exam regulator, Ofqual, and exam boards would work...