WINCHESTER University has been given a six-figure grant to develop a modern foreign language project with local primary schools.
It has been awarded £202,000 from the Department of Education for use on a training project for teachers at 216 primary schools across Hampshire.
The project will link with the county council and Hiltingbury Junior School in Chandler’s Ford, which has a good record in teaching languages. The project is being coordinated by Louise Pagden and Marnie Seymour, senior lecturers in teacher development at the university.
Ms Pagden said: “We’re excited to be part of this important initiative. Learning a language at primary school engenders a love of languages and an appreciation of intercultural understanding which is so important in this global age.”
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