Winners of the LAFTAs! World of Languages Category - BACON BUTTY

Date: 7th July 2010

We are pleased to announce that the North West entry "Bacon Butty" won the LAFTA Award for the category of World of Languages. The video clip was produced by students from Cumbria University and was praised for its quality of shooting, and its strong message that it is not cool to be monolingual.

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Summer Language Enrichment Events

Date: 29th June 2010

Congratulations to Jake McLaughlin from Irlam and Cadishead High School for his excellent account about the Language Enrichment Day held at the University of Manchester! His school awarded him with a £10 gift voucher, as well as presenting him with a certificate and medal for his achievement.

Please click here to see a copy of Jake's written account.

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Teachers of Urdu in the North West Region

Date: 15th June 2010

Links into Languages North West invites you to attend a development meeting on Tuesday 15th June from 1.30-3.30pm. This will be taking place at Sackville Street Campus, the University of Manchester.

This is a meeting jointly organised by Routes into Languages and Links into Languages to discuss ways forward in the teaching of Urdu in all settingss across the North West. If you are teaching in secondary or supplementary schools then this meeting is for you! Heads of Department from school where Urdu is taught are also welcome to attend this meeting.

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Winners of the European Award for Languages!

Date: 14th June 2010

We are pleased to announce that the Teacher Training strand of the COLT project has been awarded the European Award for Languages this year. The Award is a Europe-wide initiative supported by the European Commission.

We are delighted to have received this award which provides external ratification of the excellent work done by the COLT team and, in particular, the teacher training component of the project.

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National Award for Heritage Languages: Winner - Abrar Aqil from Al Hijra Supplementary School

Date: 14th June 2010

We are pleased to announce that Abrar Aqil, a pupil from Al Hijra Supplementary School, won the joint silver award in the Community Languages category. Her award will be presented at the ‘Language Stars’ award ceremony, which takes place on 6th July 2010.

Al Hijra Supplementary School is one of our partner schools, so we are very pleased for this pupil. This award is further evidence of the COLT Project's success in raising the profile of world languages and building bridges with complementary
schools!

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