Spanish language lessons are still creeping up on French and German as the most wanted amongst UK language learners. A fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Miryam, who teaches Catalan and Spanish to many of our amazing students. She recently …
Anglia Ruskin University has confirmed that learning a language in childhood will equip you with better multitasking skills than if you aren’t bilingual. Learning a language as a little one increases a child’s attentiveness and ability to juggle multiple thoughts …
Foreign languages are a compulsory subject in Primary Schools at KS2 (Year 3 to Year 6). Schools can teach any modern foreign language (MFL), and the learning should “lay the foundations” for foreign language learning at secondary school. It does …
We offer primary schools Multicultural Days in a number of languages, and have recently had a few Spanish Days. The photo shows a group of Primary School children enjoying a day of Spanish, in which they learn about life in …
la Academia’s teachers teach all aspects of the French or Spanish language from Reception to Year 6. They teach written and spoken languages in fun sessions using songs, stories and rhymes . This makes the classes enjoyable, and the children …
Recently we asked some of our primary school Spanish students to feed back to us about their experience with la Academia. We’re really pleased with the high ratings they gave la Academia and the teachers involved. It was really interesting …
With schools competing to get ever-better results, and modern foreign languages (MFL) seen as a “hard” subject, the learning of foreign languages in schools is under pressure at the moment. To make matters worse there has been criticism of marking …
Over the past 12 years and more, la Academia has watched with interest and increasing exasperation as successive governments have changed, strengthened, diluted and messed with language learning in UK schools. Everyone seems to agree that languages are an essential …
Welcome back, Primary School students and teachers! One aspect of your lives that may be about to change is that learning a language is now compulsory at KS2. This may fill teachers with dread – one more subject that someone …
Children from Manchester Primary Schools are getting the chance to win a Language Experience Day from la Academia, by drawing a picture that shows why they would like to learn a foreign language. The winning picture will entitle the child’s …