Mind the gap: seven ways in which learning a language can diminish the difference for disadvantaged learners

This year’s survey highlights serious social inequality in access to language learning.

Making time for languages: six simple ways to embed language learning in KS2

In May 2016, the then HMCI Michael Wilshaw published his monthly newsletter in which he commented on the lack of curriculum time given to science and...

Five things that language departments can do: the five-year countdown to EBACC

In case you missed it, the much-anticipated government response to the findings of the public consultation on the implementation of the EBacc,...

Language assistants in schools: more important now than ever before?

The Herts for Languages blog is back! Our first post of the year examines the origins and impact of the language assistant programme and looks at how...

How do we promote teacher resilience?

This edition of Herts for Languages blog sees the launch of the first in a series of guest posts by language experts. Our last blog of the academic...

Assessment without Tears? pupil progression in KS2 languages

We were invited to give a talk at the Association of Language Learning’s annual Language World conference in Nottingham at the end of March. The theme...

Resilience and success

Our Primary Languages Quality Mark ™ continues to go from strength to strength; recent awards have been made of Bronze and Silver and one of our past...

La rentrée – Der Schulanfang – La vuelta al cole

Welcome back! We hope you had a relaxing summer and are looking forward to the new school year. We hope your students were crowned with glory like the...

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Welcome to the first in a new series of blogs from the Herts for Languages team. We will provide you with a regular round-up of the latest language...