Quality Assurance Mentors

Four Manchester City Council officers have completed their training to becoming Quality Assurance Mentors and join the existing three mentors.

Manchester hosts a great many supplementary schools, and has worked with many of them over the years to support safe and effective delivery, improving teaching skills, celebrate and promote the impact supplementary schools are having on the educational achievement of children and young people in the city.

We very much look forward to seeing more Manchester supplementary schools join those with with current NRCSE quality assurance.

For information about the city’s supplementary schools, visit the Multilingual Manchester website.

Manchester  is  characterised  by  a  great  variety  of  cultures  and  ethnicities. It  is  a  city of  over  150  languages,  and  approximately  40%  of  its  youth  are thought  to  be multilingual.  Every  year,  there are  around  1500  newly arrived  children  of  school  age  from  about  70  countries  of  origin.  Some  of  the largest  community  languages  spoken  in  the  city  are  Urdu,  Cantonese, Arabic,  Polish,  Panjabi  and  Bengali  (MLM  2013b:1).

Apart  from  global  languages  like  Spanish  and  Portuguese  or  national languages  like  Farsi  (Persian),  there  is  a  noteworthy  presence  of  speakers of  regional  and  minority  languages   such   as   Yoruba,   Hausa   and   Hakka   Chinese.   For   a   detailed   report   on Manchester’s   language   profile   and  language   provisions,   see  Multilingual Manchester:  A  Digest (MLM  2013b);  the  Multilingual  Manchester  School  Language  Survey (MLM  2013a)  offers information  on  community  language  skills  identified  in  four  primary schools  of  the  city.