Inner-city children are learning Latin through postcards, which they write ’to’ children living in ancient Rome.
Class organiser Lorna Robinson has even devised special words - such as ‘pedifolle’ for football and ‘campus lusorius’ for playground - for nine- and 10-year-olds at Benthal Primary School to use.
Read the full article on the BBC website.

From Ewan Mcintosh’s edu.blogs this morning comes this post following his presentation in Slovenia:
I was presenting a keynote this morning in a Slovenian school to about 100 eTwinning teachers, ambassadors and European Commission-y people, a Slovenian school where Skype is on and available, where the connection speed is rapid and the welcome one of the warmest you […]

A PC from Norfolk constabulary has been voted Lithuania’s personality of the year for his work with immigrants.
This Education Guardian article describes how PC Pettengell has become an icon overseas for work which has been honoured only locally in Britain.
Anyone thinking of doing the same may find these ‘Baltic Bobby’ phrases useful:

Hello, hello, hello - Labas, labas, labas

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The Times reports that name-calling, ostracism and bigotry are making lives miserable in thousands of schools. But this time, it’s not the pupils who are complaining. It’s the teachers. Members of the NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers) teaching union have long debated the best ways of eradicating bullying from the […]

A correspondent to the Scotsman writes:
‘For most of us, speaking a second language is neither a hobby nor a passion. We speak more than one language only if we have to. There are a variety of reasons for having to speak more than one language.
‘We need a second language if: we live in communities […]

Pupils at a school in East Lothian are set to start a link-up with a school in Rwanda.
Knox Academy in Haddington is looking at establishing a link with the Ruhanaga school in the poverty stricken African nation, which may see youngsters from the Scottish school travel over to visit the country.
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We’re a bit late with some of the blogging about Communicate.07, the MFLE’s ICT Conference earlier in March. Adam Sutcliffe sums up the plenary from Anderson High with some great information for those unable to attend themselves. Joe Dale, from the Isle of Wight, has done the heavy-lifting and summarised the whole event from the […]