We are very excited here at Lingotot with the news that languages are about to be made compulsory in primary schools.
According to the Telegraph, "Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, will say that subjects such as French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Latin or Greek will be made a compulsory part of the primary school timetable for the first time.
Ministers hope the move will make pupils better-equipped to compete in a global economy while reversing the “damaging collapse” in GCSE language take-up.
Currently about one in ten state primary schools offers no language lessons at all and a further 20 per cent only offer it to some year groups, according to the most recent official figures.
The move to make languages a requirement from age seven will form part of a new primary National Curriculum, taking effect in 2014."
To read more from this article, please click here. You can also read more about it on the BBC website, "New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven' "
According to the Telegraph, "Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, will say that subjects such as French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Latin or Greek will be made a compulsory part of the primary school timetable for the first time.
Ministers hope the move will make pupils better-equipped to compete in a global economy while reversing the “damaging collapse” in GCSE language take-up.
Currently about one in ten state primary schools offers no language lessons at all and a further 20 per cent only offer it to some year groups, according to the most recent official figures.
The move to make languages a requirement from age seven will form part of a new primary National Curriculum, taking effect in 2014."
To read more from this article, please click here. You can also read more about it on the BBC website, "New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven' "
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