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Community Languages National Show 2009
Developing practice for the 21st century
Wednesday 15 July 2009
Chilworth Manor, Southampton
We are no longer taking registrations for this event as it is fully booked.
About | Who should attend? | Key themes | Programme | Exhibition | Registration | Fee | Venue | Accommodation
About the event
This conference celebrates the outcomes of the Our Languages project, a 2 year DCSF-funded project from a consortium of CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the School Development Support Agency. All delegates will receive a free Our Languages toolkit on forging successful partnerships between mainstream and complementary schools and free CDS offering lesson plans, schemes of work and resources across a range of languages.
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Who should attend?
• Teachers of community languages in primary and secondary schools and FE colleges
• Teachers of community languages in supplementary /complementary schools
• Managers in both mainstream and complementary schools
• Local authority Languages and Ethnic Minority Achievement teams
• Initial teacher trainers
• Researchers and policymakers with an interest in the community languages education field
Key themes
• Partnerships between mainstream and complementary schools
• Family learning
• Initial teacher training opportunities
• Accrediting language skills, including within the 14-19 diplomas
• Community cohesion
• The learning continuum from primary to higher education
Speakers and session chairs include:
Yasmin Ali, Springfield Primary School
Dr Jim Anderson, Goldsmiths College
Teresa Birks, CILT
Kathryn Board, CILT
Dr Tessa Carroll, Freelance Researcher
Sarah Cartwright, CILT
Colleagues from the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education
Claire Dugard, CILT
Vicky Grammatikopoulou, Goldsmiths College
Alice Harrison, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
Dr Sarwar Jamil, Community Languages Service
Dr Terry Lamb, University of Sheffield
Siva Pillai, Tamil Academy of Language and Arts
Cathy Pomphrey, London Metropolitan University
Dr Raymonde Sneddon, University of East London
Beth Stevenson, Springfield Primary School
Hugh Baldry, TDA
Beverley Minor, Education Bradford
Claire Robinson, Asset Languages
Catalina Brook, Woking Chinese School and UKFCS
Pascale Vassie, National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education
Carmel O'Hagan, CILT
Gill Beckett, CILT
Keynote speakers include:
Dr Lid King, National Director for Languages, The Languages Company
For a downloadable version of the programme, please click here.
Exhibition
A free exhibition runs alongside the conference, giving delegates the opportunity to browse the latest resources for teaching, promoting and supporting community languages.
The 2009 conference hosts the official launch of the Curriculum Guides in Cantonese, Gujarati, Somali and Yoruba from CILT, the National Centre for Languages and Goldsmiths, University of London. For a list of exhibitors please click here.
Registration
We are no longer taking registrations for this event as it is fully booked.
Please note: Allocated places with an extra subsidy for complementary schools have now all been taken up. Places are still available at the subsidised fee of £75.
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The Community Languages Show will take place at Chilworth Manor in Southampton. How to find the venue The venue is a ten minutes by taxi from Southampton Airport Station. This journey costs approximately £6.00. |
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Accommodation
To enjoy the most of the conference without the hassle of travelling on the same day,
you can book accommodation at Southampton.
A list of nearby hotels and contact details for each hotel is available to download from here.
