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The TPL Thursdays! Language Landscape Supporting Materials can be accessed below.

Speaking another language is an incredible skill – and it’s great fun too! Give your students the chance to practise and celebrate their favourite language, whether it’s one they're learning in class or one they speak in their community. Join our festival of language in February.

Thinking of bringing a modern language assistant into your classroom in 2024-25? Find out how it could benefit your students and what’s involved. Applications open 29 February.

Join our webinar on 1 February to learn how to set up climate change and sustainability education in schools.

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon in your classroom with our free teaching resource and explore Chinese language and culture.

We would encourage all language teachers to explore what is available on the site. Searches can be refined to a particular language and to a particular UK region.

Get the most up-to-date information with regards to the promotion of Spanish language and culture from the Consejería on their website:

Tecla: Revista TECLA will be released in September. This new issue of the magazine will include some of the contributions that were presented at the Spanish Workshops held in London on the 25th June 2022: materials and ideas for the Spanish classroom, projects, etc.

Acti/España: The upcoming edition (issue number 26) of the journal of Spanish speaking activities Acti/España will be available at the end of September. It is a compilation of excellent resources created by language assistants which are ready to be used in the classroom for Primary and other levels (A, B1 and B2 levels, according to the CEFRL).

Veo en español: A project that has been set up in agreement between the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the Film Academy and the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) which provides teachers access to the Platino Educa platform, a platform full of audiovisual materials for Spanish classes:

• Films, short films, animations in Spanish;
• Teaching materials and guides for use in the classroom, in bilingual versions;
• Ability to search by age group, type of film, theme; and
• Subtitled versions of many films available.

eLeo: The digital library of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training with more than 3,000 books available for the Spanish classroom: graded readers, comics, novels, research publications, etc.

Registration for both Veo en español and eLeo is free for teachers of Spanish in the UK.

Brochures and posters to promote Spanish: Information for the promotion of Spanish. With updated data according to different reports published recently on the situation of Spanish, the fold-out, aimed at schools, parents and students, summarises the reasons for choosing Spanish as a foreign language from an educational and social point of view.

Best Spanish Student Award: Do you have any outstanding A-level (or equivalent) students? Nominate them toward this award to give them the chance to win a three-day trip to Castilla y León in Spain. This generally opens in April.

School Links: Are you looking to establish a partnership with a school in Spain? Do you wish to organise a student exchange or project? Join our database so that we can put you in touch with a Spanish school!