Comenius East Midlands Index

Comenius East Midlands provides support and information for teachers of Languages in the Primary, Seconday and Tertiary sectors, Local Authority Consultants and National Key Stage 2 Languages Trainers, throughout the East Midlands.

We have a collection resources for Languages at our main Quorn Hall site including books, videos and software for evaluation. CD & Video playback, interactive whiteboard and internet access are available.

We run a number of courses here throughout the year for Language teachers and also organise annual Primary Languages and Secondary Language Leaders conferences held at larger venues.

We are pleased to announce our satellite centre which will be located at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln. A small reference collection will be held here and some courses will also be based at this location.

We are also very involved in Early Language Learning and host one of the Regional Support Groups.

Why not use Comenius East Midlands at Quorn Hall as a venue for departmental or family of school meetings? We are also able to offer consultancy work with individual schools, on or off site. Please contact us for further details.

£35 million in 2008/09 to transform language teaching in primary schools, including investment in specialist teachers, training and teaching resources as well as joint working between schools to support transition between primary and secondary level. This represents an increase of £5 million on funding levels for this year.
More than £3 million over three years to support partnership between Higher Education Institutions and schools. Through initiatives such as intensive languages tuition and using university level languages students as ambassadors the project’s aim is to support language uptake at Key Stage 4;
£3 million for the first year of a three year development programme to create an innovative online language resource for secondary pupils (the Open School for languages);
More than £1million for networks of secondary schools to share best teaching and learning practices at Key Stage 3; and
A £2 million communications campaign to promote the benefits of learning languages to pupils, teachers and parents