Eleven committed teachers of language in the Milton Keynes’ supplementary education sector continuing their professional development.
Between them the teacher-students teach Arabic, Polish, Urdu, Mandarin, Greek and Farsi.
Think about your own supplementary school and its community. Reflect on the differences between your school and the local primary/secondary schools. What is the history of your supplementary school? What is your vision for the future of teaching languages (not English) in your supplementary school? How might the situation change by 2025?
Students wondering what languages are peoples’ first language in England and Wales: here’s the answer according to the 2011 Census. English (English or Welsh if in Wales) 49,808,000 or 92.3% of the population, Polish 546,000 or 1%, Punjabi 273,000 or 0.5%, Urdu 269,000 or 0.5%, Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya) 221,000 or 0.4%, Gujarati 213,000 or 0.4%, Arabic 159,000 or 0.3%, French 147,000 or 0.3%, All other Chinese (excludes Mandarin and Cantonese) 141,000 or 0.3%, Portuguese 133,000 or 0.2%, Spanish 120,000 or 0.2%, Tamil 101,000 or 0.2%, Turkish 99,000 or 0.2%, Italian 92,000 or 0.2%, Somali 86,000 or 0.2%, Lithuanian 85,000 or 0.2%, German 77,000 or 0.1%, Persian/Farsi 76,000 or 0.1%
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