Demonstrating that #supplementaryschools teaching mother tongue have +impact on SATs results, research strengthens the argument that communities are vital to children's academic attainment.

Excellent report by Teresa Tinsley on the importance of languages for Britain's future Languages for the Future | British Councilwww.britishcouncil.orgThe Languages for the Future report identifies Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese as the languages most vital to the UK over the next 20 years.

One last photo of all the winners of the 2013 BASLA – innovation in language teaching. If you want to stand on that splendid staircase with a £4,000 cheque for your school…. enter this year.

Watch Arsene Wenger accepting GB Public Language Champion Award. 'being voted GB's first ever public language champion is an incredible honour… I hope that this award and Arsenal's double club can show that learning a new language does not always have to be a challenge and sports can make language learning enjoyable' British Academy Schools […]