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ASCL Conference for Strategic Leadership of Languages

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Key Details

• Event: ASCL Conference for Strategic Leadership of Languages

• Date: 16 June, 08:45 - 15:15

• Where: The Studio, Birmingham

• Conference Focus:

Developed by ASCL and the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE), this timely and thought-provoking conference invites school and system leaders to explore how to lead languages strategically, ensuring they thrive within inclusive, sustainable, and globally-minded curricula.

Through expert keynotes, policy insight and real-world leadership discussions, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to embed languages at the heart of your school or trust strategy - driving equity, oracy and global citizenship for every learner.

Join us to discover how language learning can be a powerful driver of equity, diversity, and student belonging.

During the conference, you'll have the chance to explore these crucial questions:

1. How should school leaders respond to the end of the Ebacc and changes to Progress 8?

2. How does this interact with the new Ofsted framework and the new GCSE in French, Spanish and German?

3. And what does the Schools White Paper tell us about the role of languages in an ambitious curriculum that supports progress and closes the ‘disadvantage gap’, including SEND?

• Why attend: 

  • Enhance the profile of MFL within ASCL and more widely at this crucial time

  • Join with ASCL to make the case with Ofqual, DfE and other government agencies

  • Strengthen SLNs' role as key 'nexus' between national strategy/policy and our networks of schools on the ground

• Key People:

  • ASCL President: Jo Rowley

  • ASCL Deputy Director of Policy: Tom Middlehurst

  • ASCL MFL Consultant: Suzanne O'Farrell

  • NCLE Director: Bernardette Holmes

  • Ofqual Chief Regulator: Sir Ian Bauckham

  • And of course, you!
    
    

• Target Audiences:

  • Language teachers and leads

  • Heads of Department

  • Assistant Heads,

  • Deputy Heads

  • Secondary

  • Primary

  • Trusts

Language Educators Online

NCLE

Webinar: Languages for All: 

A Social Justice Issue

21st January 2026

Webinar: Supporting HHCL Learners at GCSE and Beyond

14th January 2026

Please find below resources mentioned on the webinar that will hopefully save you time, for encouraging uptake of HHCL GCSE exams.

TeachMeet: Spotlight on Speaking

3rd December 2025

Shared Ideas & Links

Following discussions during the TeachMeet, these links might be of use:

• Tiering and Grade Boundaries Webinar (ALL) Sign Up

• Multilingual Profiler Tool Check if your text matches the new specification

• Mizou - an AI tool for speaking practice. Joe Dale's video intro here See below for further AI resources.

• AQA student planning sheet is here

Embedding Phonics into your Curriculum

13th November 2025

Webinar: Practical Ideas for European Day of Languages

8th September 2025

Resources

Following discussions during the webinar, these links might be of use.

Language Leaders: https://ttlh.org.uk/2024/11/11/establishing-a-languages-ambassador-programme-at-your-school/ 

Routes into Languages: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/outreach/routes/ 

British Council video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz4M0pE5tro&t=5s 

Town activity for primary: rlow@blessededward.co.uk 

European Day of Languages main site: https://edl.ecml.at/en/ 

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