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Sanako’s most recent newsletter was a superb read sharing details of how a number of schools and institutions are enhancing their MFL provision to have real impact through a variety of projects and there are case studies. From primary, two projects and how Julia Donaldson’s children’s favourite; The Gruffalo is having a huge impact upon […]
Professor Neil Kenny comments on the British Council Report on Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
Professor Neil Kenny, one of our Language World speakers has been commenting on the British Council released from Monday, focusing on the gender gap in modern foreign languages at GCSE. Read more here
Interested in DIPS? (Developing International Projects for Schools)
Seeking to internationalise your curriculum? Want to learn from Best Practice as well as sharing your own project experiences as well as extend your PLN of international educators? Then you might be very interested in this; Our partners at the LFEE Europe are seeking to develop more international projects for schools, if you are interested […]
Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
A new report from the British Council with forewords from Sir Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council and David Laws, Chief Executive of the Education Policy Institute, this new report comes in two parts; Part 1. Schools that are beating the odds. Detailing key findings, recommendations in trends in boys’ language GCSE entry […]
Teacher Briefing 17: Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages
Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages Background: This is an overview of initiatives ALL members are aware of currently; some emerge from the several papers published in March 2019 (as reported in Briefing 7: ‘Live language learning issues’). APPG (All Party Political Group for Languages) Update from an ALL delegate to a Conference: Tonia […]
Learning foreign languages should be compulsory, says report.
A report, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) published a report citing that only 32% of young people in the UK say they are able to read or write in more than one language, compared with 79% of their peers in France and more than 90% in Germany. Read the article in the […]
Schools Project on Poland
Schools Project on Poland is an educational project led by Project Polish Ltd (company number 11666161), a non-profit making company, dedicated to support students and teachers across the country. The project aims to promote the heritage of past generations and the...
Teachers learning and sharing at the Northern Primary Languages Show
I really enjoyed my day at the NPLS, meeting lots of other teachers and exhibitors, and an amazing range of talks. What did I learn? Has the event had an impact on my practice? Most definitely a yes from me! I enjoyed the talk by Rachel Hawkes whose work I use at our...
Why German in the Primary School?
We had a trial Ofsted inspection last year, and languages was picked as a Deep Dive subject. When I was talking to my line manager beforehand, I told him that the first question would be ‘Why German?’ He was sceptical, but I was proved completely right! I think children learn best from teachers who are […]
EDoL competition results 2019
Letters have been sent by email to the schools around the country whose pupils sent in entries to this year's ALLNE EDoL writing competition 'A Magical Trip' along with certificates of commendation for schools who made an exceptional contribution and for individuals...
Southern Primary Languages Show 2019
This year saw ALL’s Primary November with the 4th edition of NPLS (Northern Primary Languages Show) and the first ever SPLS organised by Sue Cave on behalf of ALL, supported in the administration by ALLNE and a host of local teachers as presenters! Here are...
CLIL Mapping Survey
Are you adopting CLIL in your classroom? Then contribute to Learning through Languages UK's short online survey. Learning through Languages UK (a consortium of universities, cultural societies and language lobbyists) aims to increase the uptake in languages and raise...
Austrian Film Festival
The Austrian Cultural Forum London in cooperation with the Austrian Film Institute, the Austrian Film Commission and Raindance presents the first edition of watchAUT, a new film festival featuring the best new and recent films to emerge from Austria. Running 13th –...
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