09-10 Sept: watch the UN International Literacy Day event, hosted in Cameroon, online 👇🏻. Theme: "Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace".  Inc. a global conference, the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes awards & more! #Multilingualism

Our young performers were deep into rehearsals today - two weeks until the performance on 22nd September, 1pm, Spiegeltent, Festival of the Mind Sheffield University Confucius Institute Education@Sheffield festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2024/spiegelte…

Re-sharing for the Monday morning crowd!

This happened! Delighted to be working with LoveReading4Kids LoveReading4Schools to support linguistic diversity in the classroom, and fly the flag for multilingual reading ♥️ Education@Sheffield

Posting here because I had shared the original diagnosis, and I have contact here with people I'm not in contact with elsewhere. I have just had my 1 year post-cancer surgery check-up, and all is well :) Feeling lucky and grateful

Full article: The impact of multilingualism and socio-economic status on academic performance: evidence from the SCAMP and the national pupil databases tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This looks wonderful, and so very important!

Fabulous - what a team!! <3

The first newsletter for those keen to establish a multilingual library in school has gone out, on the topic of "make your intentions known", i.e. garnering support from the community. There's still time to sign up: forms.gle/ajRVGPw56RVSRs…

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Bradley who has been given the title of Docent in Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland Education@Sheffield Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield sheffield.ac.uk/education/news…

Applications are now open to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund!! Grants up to £165,000 support arts organisations and schools to work together to develop arts-based approaches in primary. What's not to love? Do RT! Why not apply now? 👉phf.org.uk/tdf

Eep, wish us luck! A film about the project will follow shortly after!!

To support teachers and children affected by the summer’s unrest and racism, we have partnered with UKLA to offer free resources. Reading recommendations, discussion prompts and family activities. Find them all here: empathylab.uk/don-t-hate---e…

Want to know more about creating a #multilingual #library (of #picturebooks)? 2 weeks until my live, online interview (Fri 27 Sept 2-3pm) for Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori's FREE Grand Multi-literacy Event! Check out the lineup (t.ly/2ekZ_) including Soofia Amin Multilingualism in schools (& beyond)

Okay - where has everybody suddenly come from? Massive flurry of people signing up today, it's amazing to see how this is building momentum!

Great to see that our calls for change are being shared! Find out more about the key actions we need from Government to ensure that #EAL pupils receive effective support 👇

Aw, thank you for sharing xx

Anyone working in the field of children's literature an interested in the history of controversies around how adaptations are made (and their origins) might be interested in this blog: michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-tr… Hello to our MA students past, present and future! MA Children's Literature

That’s a wrap on rehearsals! To see the performance for “Our Stories, Our Voices: Growing up multilingual with Chinese heritage”, come to the Spiegeltent Sunday 22nd Sept, 1pm! We’ll be ready! Festival of the Mind Education@Sheffield Sheffield University Confucius Institute

A bit late, but worth the wait: during today’s “Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told” session, a family chose to re-tell the story of the rabbit in the moon - Happy Mid-Autumn Festival from the Maker{Futures} team and me ♥️ Education@Sheffield heritage languages + makerspaces = 🥰