Sentences with phrase «make modern foreign languages»

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: «Languages have long been among the subjects most severely affected by piecemeal changes to the secondary curriculum, especially the mistaken decision to make modern foreign languages optional.

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The announcement was made by Mike Buchanan, chair of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC), who said that the collaboration would «help arrest further decline in modern foreign languages».

Since modern foreign languages were made compulsory for all KS2 pupils across England and Wales, primary schools, who often have no foreign language expertise, have increasingly turned to external providers to deliver their MFL programmes.

The many pupils in London who speak English as an additional language (EAL) or were multi-lingual made learning other languages «normal» in the capital, said Rachel MacArthur, a modern foreign languages consultant for the Harris Federation multi-academy trust.

The «dull» content of modern foreign languages lessons, which one delegate said was «intellectually insulting» to pupils, was being made worse by a decline in exchange trips that would otherwise bring vocabulary to life.

The aim was to make it applicable to all subjects (although six EBacc subjects: English, mathematics, science, geography, history and modern foreign languages are exemplified) and, whilst aimed at Key Stage 3, it can be adapted for use across all key stages.

The review will make recommendations on «the long - term sustainability and vitality of modern foreign languages» and report to government and the Hefce board.

«In government, we made sure more children had the opportunity to study a language - by putting modern and foreign languages on the National Curriculum from the age of seven.»

«Independent schools, with other schools, have felt that the grading issue is making it harder to recruit good students to modern foreign language A-levels.

This is rather a timely change as our recent analysis of teacher recruitment and retention indicated that teacher supply challenges, particularly for science and modern foreign languages teachers, would make it difficult for the Government to achieve its aim in such a short time.

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