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Mike Reynolds and Geoff Swinn (Trustees, Languages Sheffield)

Sheffield Languages Strategy 0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013. Mike Reynolds and Geoff Swinn (Trustees, Languages Sheffield). Sheffield Languages Strategy 0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013. Why do we need a Languages Strategy for Sheffield?. A challenge to the city

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Mike Reynolds and Geoff Swinn (Trustees, Languages Sheffield)

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  1. Sheffield Languages Strategy 0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 Mike Reynolds and Geoff Swinn (Trustees, Languages Sheffield) Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  2. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 Why do we need a Languages Strategy for Sheffield? • A challenge to the city • Provides a focus for action • Brings cohesion to action • Importance within the city and more widely • Languages are on the agenda but need keeping there Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  3. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 • A Strategy for the CITY Education; Life-long; all sectors = the biggest piece in the jigsaw Business Communities Health Police Local Authority; (e.g. Housing, Social Services) Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  4. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 Council of Europe Language Education Policy Profile (LEPP) 2008-2009 • Sheffield – first and only European city so far to be profiled by the Council of Europe • “A revised city Languages Strategy should give careful consideration to the relation and interaction between its own and national initiatives” (page 22) The LEPP team, Round Table visit, February 2009 Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  5. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 Contents include • Sheffield’s Community Languages (p. 3) • Teaching and learning of languages at school (pp. 8-10) • Languages and HE (pp.14-16) • Languages and Adult Education (p.17) • Languages and Business (p.18) • ESOL (pp.19 – 20) • Translation and Interpreting Services (p.21) • Languages in the Public Sector: Health, Police (pp.22-24) Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  6. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 The SLS relates to the Speak to the Future campaign (www.speaktothefuture.org) (SLS, p. 7). The campaign objectives are; 1. Every language valued as an asset (Community Languages section) 2. A coherent experience of languages for all children in primary schools (Teaching & Learning Languages at Primary School) 3. A basic working knowledge of at least two languages including English for every child leaving secondary school (Teaching and Learning Languages at Secondary School) 4. Every graduate qualified in a second language (Languages and Higher Education) Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  7. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 • Implementation Board • Representativesfrom business, communities, schools, higher education; serviced by Languages Sheffield • Functions: to monitor implementation; promote the Strategy; raise the profile of Sheffield as a ‘city of languages’; review and develop the Strategy; report to city body taking responsibility for the Strategy; e.g. Sheffield Executive Board; Sheffield City Council • Action Plan: • headlines for implementation, • sector by sector Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

  8. Sheffield Languages Strategy0-19 Partnership, 19 September 2013 • Action Plan: Education • Language Teachers’ Network • Increase the number of teachers of community languages (the HE sector) • KS2-KS3 transition & the 7-14 curriculum • Combination at A level of language + content subject, e.g. Spanish and Biology, German & Business Studies • Festival of languages and language learning Mike Reynolds & Geoff Swinn

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