Lynne_SCILT
@lynnescilt.bsky.social
Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages https://scilt.org.uk. Primary languages. Professional learning. Leadership Development. she/her/hers. Joined Aug2024. Reposts ≠ endorsements
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@lynnescilt.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Anti-racist languages education in primary
A collection of resources and examples of practice at the intersections of anti-racist practice
padlet.com
🎉A share for teachers of languages
🔗Anti-racist languages education in primary padlet.com/lynne_jones2...
🙏A collection of resources, guidance & examples of practice. With heartfelt thanks to the international community of educators & activists whose work features
🔗Anti-racist languages education in primary padlet.com/lynne_jones2...
🙏A collection of resources, guidance & examples of practice. With heartfelt thanks to the international community of educators & activists whose work features
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'Brexit has only cemented a dangerously misguided sense that international engagement is not essential to the UK’s future'
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'Brexit has only cemented a dangerously misguided sense that international engagement is not essential to the UK’s future'
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🎨✨ Did you know? This year’s NYT / NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books include five translated titles! @nytimes.com 📕 A beautiful reminder that picture-book art truly has no borders. #WorldKidLit #kidlit #picturebooks
worldkidlit.org/2025/11/24/n...
worldkidlit.org/2025/11/24/n...
New York Times/NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award Honors 5 Books in Translation
By Gelsey Phaneuf On November 7th, The New York Times and New York Public Library released their list of the ten best illustrated children’s books of 2025. World Kid Lit connoisseurs will immediate…
worldkidlit.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🎨✨ Did you know? This year’s NYT / NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books include five translated titles! @nytimes.com 📕 A beautiful reminder that picture-book art truly has no borders. #WorldKidLit #kidlit #picturebooks
worldkidlit.org/2025/11/24/n...
worldkidlit.org/2025/11/24/n...
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Discover maps, private letters, music and more from the Qatar Digital Library. With over two million digitised pages devoted to Middle Eastern history and culture, this free resource is available for anyone anywhere. What will inspire you from our collection? www.qdl.qa/en
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Discover maps, private letters, music and more from the Qatar Digital Library. With over two million digitised pages devoted to Middle Eastern history and culture, this free resource is available for anyone anywhere. What will inspire you from our collection? www.qdl.qa/en
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This workshop is for practitioners interested in taking part in MTOT with their learners this year.
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This workshop is for practitioners interested in taking part in MTOT with their learners this year.
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
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Our ECT Signpost Sessions are for recently qualified and student primary teachers who are looking for advice on how to support multilingual pupils, strategies for teaching additional languages and networking opportunities.
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our ECT Signpost Sessions are for recently qualified and student primary teachers who are looking for advice on how to support multilingual pupils, strategies for teaching additional languages and networking opportunities.
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
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Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...
Shared Reading Day 2025
Editor’s note: Shared reading – the practice where adults read to children – has many benefits: it improves children’s language and literacy development, as well as their in…
www.languageonthemove.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Germany has a "Shared Reading Day" 😍 - Vorlesetag!
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...
Great opportunity to join the fun and read to a child in your life!
This year's Vorlesetag is even dedicate to multilingual reading!
www.languageonthemove.com/shared_readi...
Student, newly and recently qualified primary teachers working in Scotland are welcome to join me and @karen-scilt.bsky.social on Wed 26/11/25 online. We'll answer your questions and signpost you to everything you need for your 1️⃣st steps in teaching primary languages 👣
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Our ECT Signpost Sessions are for recently qualified and student primary teachers who are looking for advice on how to support multilingual pupils, strategies for teaching additional languages and networking opportunities.
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
The next session takes place 26 Nov.
Sign up now: https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Student, newly and recently qualified primary teachers working in Scotland are welcome to join me and @karen-scilt.bsky.social on Wed 26/11/25 online. We'll answer your questions and signpost you to everything you need for your 1️⃣st steps in teaching primary languages 👣
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New blogpost: Suno songs changing-phase.blogspot.com/2025/11/suno...
Suno songs
A couple of weekends ago I attended the Association for Language Learning Online Conference and was reminded of Suno , the AI app which w...
changing-phase.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New blogpost: Suno songs changing-phase.blogspot.com/2025/11/suno...
This workshop is for practitioners interested in taking part in MTOT with their learners this year.
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
Participants will get an insight into the competition and hear from creative writing experts who will share their expertise and signpost useful resources.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/fXzDpL4
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Our series on Writers of Empire continues with a look at colonial cartoons. How should we feel about racist depictions in our most beloved children’s books? @anitaanand.bsky.social & I wrestle with the conundrum of the colonial undercurrents in comics.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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⏰Deadline approaching! Submit your applications for a Scottish Languages Employability Award - including the Local, Green and Multilingual awards - by Friday 21 November. Find out more, and read about recent winners, our website: https://loom.ly/Hlr29as
#languages #employability #dyw
#languages #employability #dyw
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
⏰Deadline approaching! Submit your applications for a Scottish Languages Employability Award - including the Local, Green and Multilingual awards - by Friday 21 November. Find out more, and read about recent winners, our website: https://loom.ly/Hlr29as
#languages #employability #dyw
#languages #employability #dyw
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For Scottish Careers Week 2025, SCILT launched a new resource for primary classrooms. "Careers education with a languages twist" is a collection of activities that focus on language and employability skills: https://loom.ly/2fm7iqE
#ScotCareersWeek25 #ShapeTheFuture
#ScotCareersWeek25 #ShapeTheFuture
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For Scottish Careers Week 2025, SCILT launched a new resource for primary classrooms. "Careers education with a languages twist" is a collection of activities that focus on language and employability skills: https://loom.ly/2fm7iqE
#ScotCareersWeek25 #ShapeTheFuture
#ScotCareersWeek25 #ShapeTheFuture
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New Post: Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New Post: Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
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Brand new materials for translating poetry and fiction in the classroom have been added to our Anthea Bell Prize Resources page. Teachers can still register to access over 100 resource packs, including PowerPoints, student worksheets, and teaching notes! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
Anthea Bell Prize Registration - The Queen's College, Oxford
Please complete the below form to register your interest in the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. After registering, you will be able to access creative translation teaching resources in six la...
www.queens.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Brand new materials for translating poetry and fiction in the classroom have been added to our Anthea Bell Prize Resources page. Teachers can still register to access over 100 resource packs, including PowerPoints, student worksheets, and teaching notes! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
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As part of our advocacy work, we have developed a public resource that tracks how languages and languages reform are reported in the media. Follow this link for relevant articles on our ‘Languages News’ page: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
Languages News - The Queen's College, Oxford
As part of our advocacy work at the Queen’s College Translation Exchange, we keep a close eye on how languages and languages reform are reported in the media. See below for our list of relevant articl...
www.queens.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As part of our advocacy work, we have developed a public resource that tracks how languages and languages reform are reported in the media. Follow this link for relevant articles on our ‘Languages News’ page: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
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‼️CALLING PRIMARY TEACHERS‼️
We invite primary staff to take part in a survey to gather information on how multilingualism and Learning for Sustainability are currently supported in Scottish primary schools. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete and closes on 31 January 2026: https://loom.ly/TRoI3mI
We invite primary staff to take part in a survey to gather information on how multilingualism and Learning for Sustainability are currently supported in Scottish primary schools. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete and closes on 31 January 2026: https://loom.ly/TRoI3mI
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‼️CALLING PRIMARY TEACHERS‼️
We invite primary staff to take part in a survey to gather information on how multilingualism and Learning for Sustainability are currently supported in Scottish primary schools. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete and closes on 31 January 2026: https://loom.ly/TRoI3mI
We invite primary staff to take part in a survey to gather information on how multilingualism and Learning for Sustainability are currently supported in Scottish primary schools. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete and closes on 31 January 2026: https://loom.ly/TRoI3mI
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💥NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY💥
What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
💥NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY💥
What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
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Thank you to all involved in this two-part IPDA Podcast aimed at emerging researchers. Louise speaks with colleagues about engaging in academic conferences with, lots of great information from abstracts to networking. Listen on our 2026 conference page:
ipda.org.uk/ipda-interna...
ipda.org.uk/ipda-interna...
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thank you to all involved in this two-part IPDA Podcast aimed at emerging researchers. Louise speaks with colleagues about engaging in academic conferences with, lots of great information from abstracts to networking. Listen on our 2026 conference page:
ipda.org.uk/ipda-interna...
ipda.org.uk/ipda-interna...
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Simple, informal language-learning initiatives can evolve into a lasting programme that builds confidence, community and cultural exchange: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/turning-studentled-initiative-languagelearning-community #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Turning a student-led initiative into a language-learning community
Simple steps to foster informal, institution-wide language learning can develop into a sustainable programme that builds confidence, encourages cultural exchange and strengthens student community
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Simple, informal language-learning initiatives can evolve into a lasting programme that builds confidence, community and cultural exchange: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/turning-studentled-initiative-languagelearning-community #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Our next Language Ambassadors session is on 25 November. Join us online where your secondary learners will hear from near-peer role models and be inspired to choose #languages as part of their learning! https://loom.ly/WTS0ups
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Our next Language Ambassadors session is on 25 November. Join us online where your secondary learners will hear from near-peer role models and be inspired to choose #languages as part of their learning! https://loom.ly/WTS0ups
⏰Deadline approaching! Submit your applications for a Scottish Languages Employability Award - including the Local, Green and Multilingual awards - by Friday 21 November. Find out more, and read about recent winners, our website: https://loom.ly/Hlr29as
#languages #employability #dyw
#languages #employability #dyw
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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In partnership with Queen Margaret University this session supports educators who don’t feel confident talking about disability in the classroom. Drs. Sian Jones & Clare Uytman will share research & resources for use in schools & community settings. Nov 26 4-5:30pm (All levels)
shorturl.at/U9Z7N
shorturl.at/U9Z7N
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In partnership with Queen Margaret University this session supports educators who don’t feel confident talking about disability in the classroom. Drs. Sian Jones & Clare Uytman will share research & resources for use in schools & community settings. Nov 26 4-5:30pm (All levels)
shorturl.at/U9Z7N
shorturl.at/U9Z7N
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In our latest podcast episode Stuart Mitchell and Lizana Oberholzer reflect on the upcoming 2026 conference theme. Listen to the full episode on our website or on Spotify. ipda.org.uk/podcast/
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In our latest podcast episode Stuart Mitchell and Lizana Oberholzer reflect on the upcoming 2026 conference theme. Listen to the full episode on our website or on Spotify. ipda.org.uk/podcast/
#ScotsCareersWeek25 Day 2 saw @karen-scilt.bsky.social & I facilitated our 'Give DYW a languages twist' online workshop for primary teachers. Educators from Ireland & Scotland joined us online. See below for the🆕primary teaching resource from @scilt.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
#ScotsCareersWeek25 Day 2 saw @karen-scilt.bsky.social & I facilitated our 'Give DYW a languages twist' online workshop for primary teachers. Educators from Ireland & Scotland joined us online. See below for the🆕primary teaching resource from @scilt.bsky.social
Proposal in preparation! #LangsLeadScot
Please note the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2026 LfPL Symposium has been extended until the 16th November.
Learn more about the symposium’s guiding theme and proposal guidelines at lfplsymposium.org/proposals/.
Learn more about the symposium’s guiding theme and proposal guidelines at lfplsymposium.org/proposals/.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Proposal in preparation! #LangsLeadScot