Early Language Learning Regional Support Groups in the North East
Dates for your diary for 2007-08! More details will appear on the NACELL website as they become available.
Durham |
Redcar & Cleveland |
North Tyneside |
14 November |
21 November |
4 October |
27 February |
16 January |
22 November |
26 March |
5 March |
31 January |
4 June |
7 May |
13 March |
9 July |
25 June |
26 March |
Implementing the KS2 languages entitlement
‘Implementing languages entitlement in primary schools: An
evaluation of progress in ten Pathfinder LEAs’ (July 2005)
is a new OfSTED report. Download it via this link www.nacell.org.uk/official/ofsted.htm
The Languages Ladder
The
Languages Ladder defines competence in a range
of linguistic skills for learners of all ages. The exciting new
assessment scheme for the Ladder will be available from September
2005. For more information, visit the website of Asset
Languages.
CILT's National Languages Forum
Sign up for regular news updates from CILT, the National Centre
for Languages by going to www.cilt.org.uk/discussion.htm
E-twinning
E-twinning and establishing links with the schools from
all over the world is at the top of the agenda. The following websites
will get you started:
comenius.eun.org/ww/en/pub/comenius/index.htm
www.globalgateway.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass/
www.britishcouncil.org/learning-etwinning.htm
CILT Language and Cultural Immersion Courses Abroad
CILT runs a number of language and cultural immersion courses abroad
for primary and secondary teachers of French, German, Italian and
Spanish. The full course fee may be recoverable through the European
Union's Socrates-Comenius 2.2 programme. For further information,
click here.
KS2 funding announcement
 £115
million will be spent on the National Languages Strategy in the
next three years, of which considerable sums will be directed towards
realising the KS2 entitlement. The announcement was made by Stephen
Twigg, Minister of State for School Standards, at CILT’s annual
Primary Languages Show in Manchester on March 11. The show's attendance
leapt again, with 420 delegates on the Friday and 350 on the Saturday.
Follow this link to the press
release (pdf 250 KB) on the the DfES website.
The DfES flier, A
Boost for Languages explains the announcement in more detail
and outlines progress in implementing the National Language Strategy.
It also describes the new recognition and assessment scheme, the
Languages
Ladder - Steps to Success which will be introduced over a five-year
period starting from September 2005.
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