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Links into Languages news
Recent information on the project and its partners
Post date: Wednesday 29th September 2010
Region: North East
The Regional Language Network has put together a fun quiz to celebrate this year's European Day of Languages which is now available to download here.
Post date: Monday 27th September 2010
Region: North West
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES
A CELEBRATION OF LANGUAGE HEROES AND HEROINES
Today, on the European Day of Languages we would like to pay tribute at Links into Languages North West to the many language heroes and heroines out there, meeting the...
Post date: Friday 24th September 2010
Region: West Midlands
Italian Language and Methodology Immersion Course for Teachers Bologna 2010
This Comenius/Grundtvig funded course was run by Language Networks for Excellence; University of Wolverhampton and was a truly inspirational experience.
As an adult...
Post date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Region: North West
Our Links bear, Tiny has been out and about in the region in a one-bear bid to raise awareness of the European Day of Languages (September 26th). If you work out where he is (some of the pictures are more obvious than others) then we'd like to hear...
Post date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Region: West Midlands
LANGUAGE WORLD 2011: All together! The Language World 2011 conference and exhibition is at Imperial College, London from Thursday evening 7 July until Saturday 9 July. This year’s theme is All together!
You can contribute to Language...
Post date: Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Region: West Midlands
What is Olympic Dreams School Search?
BBC World Class and the British Council are looking for dozens of primary and secondary schools across the UK to twin with schools all over the world and to take part in a special project in the run-up to the...
Post date: Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Region: West Midlands
Children across the UK could be learning Hindi while cooking Chicken Rogan Josh, or Spanish while preparing a One-Pot Vegetable Chilli from Mexico, as part of the London 2012 education programme ‘Let’s Get Cooking Around the World...
Post date: Friday 17th September 2010
Region: West Midlands
Is diversity a threat or an opportunity?
Tide Global Learning works with various institutions and people to help teachers to address issues that touch young learners today. Izzy Mohammed from the Birmingham archives and heritage Service is...
Post date: Friday 17th September 2010
Region: South East
20-26 September 2010
The Association for Language Learning would like to know about the issues which particularly concern you about the teaching and learning of languages and suggestions of things that should be done to tackle these.
At a time of...
Post date: Thursday 16th September 2010
Region: East Midlands
Post date: Wednesday 15th September 2010
Region: South East
CILT is supporting the first ever national Visit our Schools and Colleges week: October 18-22. Through the week, head teachers are inviting members of their local business communities to come and visit to find out more about modern education and...
Post date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Region: East Midlands
Provide your school with authentic German cultural input
Under this programme, UK schools can host a teacher from Germany for either two or three weeks to give the visitor an insight into daily life in a UK school and to bring an international...
Post date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Region: East Midlands
With PGCE students in mind, ALL has upgraded its Student Associate Membership package for 2010/11. From this September, all student teachers joining ALL will receive:
ALLNet: keep abreast of news, developments and events in the world of...
Post date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Region: North West
Links into Languages Newsletter and Update, September 2010
The new school year sees our calendar already very full and getting busier!
The director and regional manager have been invited to a series of meetings with new PGCE Languages students...
Post date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Region: North West
Our Links bear, Tiny has been out and about in the region in a one-bear bid to raise awareness of the European Day of Languages (September 26th). If you work out where he is (some of the pictures are more obvious than others) then we'd like to...
Post date: Thursday 9th September 2010
Region: West Midlands
The latest update from Global Gateway details some of the ways they can offer support to schools with international projects.
Connecting Classrooms - Small groups of schools from the UK partner schools from two countries within one continent....
Post date: Thursday 9th September 2010
Region: East Midlands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tr1mz/The_Andrew_Marr_Show_05_09_2010/
Post date: Thursday 9th September 2010
Region: East
August 2010
Cutting Bureaucracy or Changing the Agenda: Changes to the 14-19 Landscape Post-2010 Election
Contents
Introduction
Spending Cuts
Ministerial Announcements
Summary of Changes
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Aimhigher...
Post date: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Region: West Midlands
The first issue of the Links into Languages West Midlands Newsletter is out NOW! Please click on the link below to preview a copy.
Post date: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Region: Yorkshire
In recent weeks, a lot has been said about language-learning in British schools. The following links highlight a selection of news stories on the subject:
Are dying languages worth saving? - NEW (Added 16/09/10)
Is it worthwhile...
Post date: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Region: East Midlands
Links into Languages and SSAT would like to understand more about your professional learning and development needs. Your feedback will be used to further develop the national and regional CPD programme provided by Links into Languages, and to ensure...
Post date: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Region: East Midlands
Learning languages still matters
Learning a foreign language: Now you're talking
GCSE results: Why we should mind our languages
Damage to language teaching 'irreparable'
Should British pupils give up studying French?
The language crisis in British...
Post date: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Region: East Midlands
Is it worthwhile learning another language?
Post date: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Region: East Midlands
The Government is considering its plans for the National Curriculum in schools. They believe that the current National Curriculum has moved far away from the concept of core knowledge and from its original purpose – to set out what all...
Post date: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Region: West Midlands
If you are interested in attending the Links into Languages core course - The renewed KS3 framework - find out more about what some of last year's attendants thought of the course.
Post date: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Region: West Midlands
Teachers who attended this one-day Links into Languages course explain how they have addressed the challenge of integrating languages across the primary curriculum in their schools.
Click on the download to read the full report.
Post date: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Region: West Midlands
Teachers who attended the one-day Interactive Creative Technologies course at Aston University share what they learnt and how they'll be implementing it in their language lessons.
Click on the download below for the full report.
Post date: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Region: North West
Links into Languages North West
Secondary Languages Network Support Programme
Networking is one of the most valuable forms of professional development for teachers. Evaluations from courses and meetings have shown that while content and new ideas...
Post date: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Region: Yorkshire
The latest edition of the LinkedUp Newsletter, highlighting successful language projects across the country, is available to download. Please click on the document at the bottom of this page to view
