The strategy can be downloaded in PDF
format here (329KB). Languages Sheffield is very pleased
to present the City Languages Strategy that was launched in Europe Week in March 2004. Sheffield’s strategy is only
the second of its kind in the UK.
The Strategy
was the result of over a year’s consultations and meetings of a Partnership Group, chaired by Languages Sheffield (then
called Multilingual City Forum), which brought together stakeholders from across all sectors of education, nursery and early
years to higher, from business and from the City Council. The membership of the Partnership Group can be found
on page 2 of the Strategy document. The main author was Geoff Swinn, then Languages Strategy Adviser at Sheffield LEA.
Languages Sheffield would welcome comments on the Strategy and
its implementation (see contact details at the foot of this page) The Strategy and its contents on this website are copyrighted to Sheffield City Council.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY
The latest stage of our promotion of Sheffield's languages
is the completion (in February 2009) of the Profile of Sheffield's Language Policies. A Round Table has taken place
in Sheffield to discuss the Experts' Report produced by the Council of Europe. This report follows a City Report
produced by Dr Mike Reynolds of Languages Sheffield and submitted to the Council of Europe in 2008. For this report (City Report: scroll down for Sheffield) and more information about the language education policy profiles produced by the Council
of Europe go to this page of the COE website . The profile for Sheffield will be published on the first COE page in autumn 2009.
The partnership group which produced the strategy is still
functioning to implement the strategy, involving a cross-section of language interests in the city. Can you help? Please contact us if you can!
The Sheffield strategy and its implementation
is with reference to the National Languages Strategy
National Languages
Strategy
This
was launched on December 19th 2002. It has three ‘overarching aims’:
· to improve teaching and learning of languages. Central here is the delivery by 2010 of an ‘entitlement’ to language
learning to be offered to all pupils at Key Stage 2 (ages 7 - 10+).
·
to introduce, alongside existing
qualifications, a ‘recognition system’ of language skills. A ‘ladder of recognition’ is envisaged to accredit language skills from beginner level
to A level. Community languages will be included in this system, which will be voluntary.
·
to increase the number of people
studying languages in further and higher education, and in work-based training.
For more information or to download
the Strategy go to the National Languages Strategy page of the CILT (National Centre for Languages website.