The E-bacc performance measure for schools includes all languages where a GCSE is available, ensure you take mother tongue/community language GCSE wherever it exist.
The following GCSEs are included: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, French, Gaeilge, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu.
Encourage all your pupils to take a language GCSE. If they’re focusing on STEM subjects, they can still take mother tongue GCSE. If they’re learning Arabic as part of learning about their faith, they can still take an Arabic GCSE.
Stand together and don’t lose the language GCSEs we have!
why study languages website for interviews with students, tips, resources, motivation
Flame – a new initiative to support CLIL and bilingual learning.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb in a speech delivered at the German Embassy in 2012 on the benefits of learning languages. If you really mean it Nick then support community languages and supplementary schools too!
‘Thank you for that kind introduction Mr Ambassador. Ich freue mich heute hir zu sein.
I feel enormously privileged to be asked to help present today’s awards, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to talk briefly today about the work the Government is doing to promote language learning in schools.
Young people who have a second language are at a huge advantage in life. It opens doors to new friendships, gives them greater facility to learn different tongues and enables them to think both laterally and creatively.
Many of the world’s most important discoveries have been made by the great linguists. The deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, Linear B and old Persian cuneiform by Jean-Francois Champollion, Michael Ventris and Georg Friedrich Grotefend.
On top of this, we know that the German language, in particular, gives us a unique perspective into our own history and society. Some 50 per cent of the most commonly used English words are Anglo-Saxon in origin – brought over by the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes from northern Europe and Germany in the 5th and 6th centuries. […]
The Government is absolutely determined to ensure more pupils have access to these opportunities. […]
Only this year, the CBI conducted a poll of businesses showing nearly three quarters of employers in the UK value linguistic skills in their employees, with 50 per cent rating German as the most useful for building relations with clients, suppliers and customers – ahead of every other language including French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Mandarin.’
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