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Human Rights Workshops for European Day of Languages

To celebrate European Day of Languages on Monday 26th September 2016 we are excited to announce the return of our Universal Declaration of Human Rights workshops. Our trained student ambassadors deliver language workshops based on the work of artist Monica Ross. Monica Ross memorised human rights articles in several languages and performed them. Pupils will recite articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in different languages.

The workshops will be approximately one hour and will be available from around 26th September to 7th October 2016.

For more information and to book a workshop contact routes@soas.ac.uk.

Global Communication Taster Event

Saturday 7 May 2016, 10am-1pm

University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London W1B 2HW

This event is aimed at Year 12 and 13 and at Level 3 students, as well as their teachers.

Are you a good communicator? Are you comfortable in every situation? Have you ever considered that your future career may involve talking with people from all over the word? Would you have the necessary skills to excel in today’s globalised workplace?

Effective communication makes a difference, be it among friends, family, or in the work place. We all need to get better at it.

Come and explore four key features of effective communication on this new course:

1. Global Communication

How can you become a better communicator in today’s internationalised world?

2. Intercultural Communication

How can you communicate effectively with people of different backgrounds with different beliefs?

3. Reading adverts

How do you make sense of all the messages that the media throws at you?

4. Negotiation

How do you arrive at successful outcomes in delicate situations?

We will have a repeat session so that you can choose two of these if you wish.

Please register online at http://globalcommunication2016.eventbrite.co.uk.

If you have any questions about this event, please email Dr Laurence Randall. Her email address is l.l.randall@westminster.ac.uk

Creative Learning Skills for Language Students is a participatory workshop for secondary school pupils that seeks to encourage young people to learn languages by exploring perceived barriers, offering solutions and sharing the positive results, wide appeal and relevance of language acquisition.

We use a questionnaire to identify and promote awareness of varying learning styles and discuss the ways in which we need not only sit behind a desk to learn a language. We encourage students to think about their strengths and to be engaged and in control of their own learning. These notions are put to the test through an interactive and multi-sensory exercise in a non-European language and we conclude with a discussion of how experiences in the session can be taken on board and applied to their own language learning.

For more information or to book a session, please contact us at routes@soas.ac.uk.

Please note that this workshop is aimed at pupils with specific learning difficulties such as Dyslexia or Dyspraxia. 

In the case of no-shows or late cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school for the costs we have incurred.

Targeted at Year 12 students. 

The Languages and Law Summer School will explore various themes, as they are taught at Capital L partner universities (including Kings College London, SOAS and the University of Westminster)

The programme will include lectures on various facets of law, including environmental law, robotic law and Brexit. Participants will also visit the Royal Courts of Justice, in the Strand, where they will take part in a mock trial as lawyers, judge and jury.

A finalised programme will be available next month.

Please see the application form attached. The deadline for submitting the application is Monday 12th June 2017. 

Students are not required to be studying a language at A-Level. 

For more information please contact routes@soas.ac.uk.

The Capital L Summer School gives 30 promising Yr 10 linguists the chance to visit 5 of Capital L’s partner universities and get a feel for what it is like to study languages at each one of them.

Four of our partner universities - King's College London, the School of Oriental and African Study (SOAS), Queen Mary and the University of Westminster - will each host a day of the summer school. The summer school also includes a trip to Paris, where we will visit popular landmarks guided by students from the University of London Institute in Paris. 

The summer school is free of charge. There are 30 places available and priority will be given to students from a widening participation background. 

An information evening for students and their parents will be held on Monday 13th June from 5-7pm at SOAS. Further information will be included with students' confirmation letters, which will be sent in late May/early June. 

Please see the Summer School Cover Letter and Application Form below. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 3rd May 2016.* 

*Deadline extended to Wednesday 18th May 2016 on a first come first serve basis.