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Links into Languages news
Recent information on the project and its partners
Post date: Tuesday 30th March 2010
Region: Yorkshire
Film and modern languages make an explosive combination and this has a vital role to play in bringing MFL learning alive to young people.
Highlighting the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, “Die Fälscher...
Post date: Thursday 25th March 2010
Region: North East
National Director for Languages, Lid King, held a briefing at Newcastle University on March 4th for Local Authority advisers and representatives from the region's universities, to give more detailed information on the new Primary Upskilling...
Post date: Thursday 25th March 2010
Region: North East
In a collaborative project for the Narrowing the Gap initiative, Links NE and Middlesbrough Council have placed twelve ads, promoting language learning, on the backs of a number of local buses. The buses will carry the ads for three months...
Post date: Wednesday 24th March 2010
Region: West Midlands
Going to the Languages World on 26 March?
Come and see the Links into Languages session on engaging with CPD at 10.30am on Friday. Kate Green, Deputy Director of Links into Languages, and Fi Cotton, independent consultant and Links trainer, are...
Post date: Thursday 18th March 2010
Region: East Midlands
Links into Languages will be at this year’s Language World 2010 in York, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th March. Links will be hosting refreshments for Newly Qualified Teachers and PGCE students on the Friday at 11.15-11.45 and on the Saturday at...
Post date: Thursday 18th March 2010
Region: East Midlands
Continuing professional development is hard to access
85% of the Head Teachers and Heads of Language Departments responding to a national survey by the government-funded Links into Languages programme reported that funding, time, cover and location...
Post date: Wednesday 17th March 2010
Region: National
Links into Languages will be at this year’s Language World 2010 in York, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th March. Links will be hosting refreshments for Newly Qualified Teachers and PGCE students on the Friday at 11.15-11.45 and on the Saturday at...
Post date: Thursday 11th March 2010
Region: National
85% of the Head Teachers and Heads of Language Departments responding to a survey by the government-funded Links into Languages programme reported that funding, time, cover and location contributed to difficulties in providing continuing...
Post date: Thursday 11th March 2010
Region: South West
Working with Wiltshire Council since September 2009, Links into Languages have developed a series of language upskilling sessions for primary teachers. Language professionals from across the county have been trained to help teachers with their...
Post date: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Region: National
SCHOOLS in the South West have launched a scheme to allow their pupils to teach languages to primary school children in Plymouth.
The partnership of schools successfully bid for a £10,000 grant to run the LinkedUp scheme, which will see...
Post date: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Region: South West
SCHOOLS in the South West have launched a scheme to allow their pupils to teach languages to primary school children in Plymouth.
The partnership of schools successfully bid for a £10,000 grant to run the LinkedUp scheme, which will see...
Post date: Friday 5th March 2010
Region: West Midlands
Goethe-Institut, the cultural institute of the federal republic of Germany, has a wealth of resources available for all levels.
Meet the Germans wants to explore what is typically of Germany and German society. Text and the city offers an insight...
Post date: Friday 5th March 2010
Region: West Midlands
Three schools with 40 students got together at Aston university to learn about all things Germanic. Participants got the chance to learn about the life and customs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and try out some local dialects. All three groups...
Post date: Friday 5th March 2010
Region: South West
Links into Languages South West held its first Regional Advisory Board at its Regional Centre on 3rd March 2010
Post date: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Region: East Midlands
The new Primary Teachers’ Project involves spending two consecutive weeks in France, Germany or Spain. The first week of the project is devoted to intensive language and methodology training, while the second is spent work shadowing in a...
Post date: Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Region: West Midlands
A group of H.E. experts, training providers, local authority advisers and teachers came together to discuss the upskilling of the primary workforce in a meeting organised by Links into Languages and the Languages Company. Dr Lid King and Carmel O'...
Post date: Monday 1st March 2010
Region: National
At this year’s Education Show (4th-6th March), teachers of modern foreign languages will have the opportunity to see a demonstration of MYLO, an exciting new language learning resource due to launch on a closed trial basis at the end of the...
Post date: Monday 1st March 2010
Region: East Midlands
This course is designed for schools that are interested in starting Japanese as well as schools that have recently started Japanese and would like more advice and guidance.
Date: Wednesday 17th March, 10am-4pm.
Venue: Japan Foundation London...
Post date: Monday 1st March 2010
Region: East Midlands
The British Council warmly invite you to a conference on ‘Arabic Language and Culture in Schools’ on Thursday 11th March 2010 at the British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN. This event is aimed at practitioners from all...
