by cristahazell | Jan 28, 2021 | News, Primary Reviews, Secondary Reviews, What's New
The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book Alex Bellos Guardian Faber, 2020, 416pp, £14.99 978-1-783-35218-0 When ALL was asked to review this book, my interest was immediately sparked. Having always been interested in the development of languages and an avid puzzle solver, I...
by cristahazell | Jan 25, 2021 | Language News, News
This weekend, the Guardian reported that since Duolingo launched Welsh on it’s language learning app it is helping the Welsh Government towards reaching it’s goal of achieving 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050. To read more on how the National Centre for...
by cristahazell | Jan 21, 2021 | News
SchoolsWeek have reported that Ofsted received fifty times more reports from parents praising schools’ remote education offer than those complaining about it after Gavin Williamson urged parents to flag concerns to the watchdog. This is great news…for school and...
by charlottelr | Jan 20, 2021 | ALL Event, ALL News, Celebration, Competitions, Corporate Member News, French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, What's New
We all know that Speaking a language confidently and coherently is an important thing, and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages. One of the impacts of COVID-19 has meant that many pupils have had fewer...
by cristahazell | Jan 18, 2021 | ALL News, News, Secondary, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings
Theme: OFQUAL / DfE Consultation on how GCSE, AS and A-level grades should be awarded in Summer 2021 Background: The remit for this consultation emerged from letters on 13th January between the Secretary of State and OFQUAL. Consultation is open until Friday 29...
by cristahazell | Jan 13, 2021 | News
The Welsh Government digital learning team have released a document listing instructions of how families can use games consoles, X-box and Playstation to complete online remote learning. This pdf is freely available to download here and helps Welsh learners to...
