The Big Idea: Student Voice, civic engagement and the arts.   This blog reports on a sustainable development project at the Peace School, a community-based heritage language school in London providing Arabic language and culture education. Supported by Young Brent Foundation the project involved a close collaboration between the Peace School and Start Easy, an […]

The Debate on Developing Speaking in Classrooms Post Covid.   During the Covid pandemic 2020-2022, Speaking in language lessons was discouraged on medical grounds and began to disappear from language teaching and assessing and is only now beginning a resurgence. A group of ITT MFL provider leads were becoming discouraged with the lack of target […]

Language learners have their say  from the NCLE team In the National Consortium for Languages Education the team has put Pupil Voice at the heart of work on revitalising languages teaching. As part of the focus on motivation, many of the lead hubs engaged with pupils to find out more about how they learn and […]