Community languages teaching and learning

 

Project introduction

The National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education, along with CILT (the National Centre for Languages), the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) and the School Development and Support Agency (SDSA) in Leicester are now embarking on a second phase of the 'Our Languages' DCSF-funded project aimed at supporting the teaching and learning of community languages within both supplementary and the mainstream school sector. 

The project began in September 2007 in response to the need to raise the status of community languages in the curriculum as well as the need to recognise the work of the supplementray education sector in England.

Key objectives

• To provide support for community languages teaching
• To model good practice in teaching and learning
• To promote community cohesion
• To value plurilingualism 
• To celebrate pupil achievement

These objectives feed into current government policies centred on the concepts of raising achievement and aspiration, building social capital, community cohesion, Every Child Matters, extended schools, parental engagement, and learner voice.

For more information, visit our new project website www.ourlanguages.org.uk where you will find:

• A searchable database of supplementary and mainstream schools teaching community languages
• Case studies
• A toolkit for partnership
• Assessment and accreditation guidelines
• New research
• Upcoming events

Be part of our on-line database!

If you are a supplementary or a mainstream school teaching community languages and you want your school's details displayed, fill out one of the downloadable forms below and e-mail to maria.topffer@continyou.org.uk, or fax to 020 7700 8128 or post to NRC, 356 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA

Community languages database form for supplementary schools (Word file, 232 KB)

Community languages database form for mainstream schools (Word file, 229 KB)