North West

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.

Events will be held at all five partner institutions and will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language. Lunch is also included.

The events are open to any year 8 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!
 

This is a free course which will train teachers of supplementary schools and support teachers and speakers of Arabic, Chinese and Urdu.

It provides additional practical training and guidance in teaching methodology and thus contributes to their Continuing Professional Development.

This course includes:

A training day at the Institute of Education
An optional visit to a mainstream school to observe MFL teaching in the mainstream sector
A second training day at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
An observation visit by our Teacher Trainers to course participants in their own schools after the second training day

Please note that this course does not constitute a PGCE; course participants who complete all elements of the course will however be awarded a certificate of attendance.

To book onto this event, please email routes@mmu.ac.uk

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.
 

Events will be held at all five partner institutions and will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language. Lunch is also included.
 

The events are open to any year 9 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!
 

These events are free of charge and we expect that they will book up quickly. Places will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Priority will be given to those schools who have not yet been to a LEE in the first two years of the project, so that we can reach as many schools as possible. Due to limitations on space the maximum number of pupils per school is 25.

Further events will be held in Summer 2010 for year 8 pupils. Details of these are available on the website and booking forms will be sent to schools in January 2010.