Primary Languages Policy Summit

Some of the issues to be discussed are detailed below. I will be attending to facilitate reflection the views of community-based supplementary schools addressing the following theme: Diversity and multilingualism – meeting the needs of the multilingual classroom. Please get in touch with comments, suggestions, opinons that you think I should be feeding in.

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To draw together key stakeholders including policy makers, practitioners, academics, and representatives from key organisations, in order to:

• Examine the issues faced by primary providers in delivering an effective primary languages curriculum
• Share and shape priorities for future development
• Produce a White Paper proposing key recommendations to inform a non-statutory implementation strategy for primary languages, to be shared with policy makers and other stakeholders to support current curriculum policy reform

To establish meaningful partnerships involving a range of stakeholders e.g.:

• Formation of RiPL expert adviser/stakeholder partner sub-committee, with representation from each invited/attending partner;
• Intervention studies;
• Public engagement and cooperation e.g. network meetings/road-shows