Lots of news today. First of all Foxy Phonics has now sold out. The team are working on a new version that should be out soon, so sign up for the newsletter (or the email version of the blog above) to find out the latest info.

The other news of the day is the announcement that the UK has decided to invest quite a sizeable chunk of money into primary school languages. The official press release is here: CASH BOOST FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING IN SCHOOLS. And the BBC have more about it here, Schools to get ￡340 for languages (which doesn’t sound quite so impressive!)

A couple of interesting points are

The National Association of Head Teachers… general secretary Mick Brookes said … it was essential that language lessons were made fun for children, so they looked forward to them, that they were relevant and that primaries and secondaries liaised on which languages were taught so that early learning could be built on.

Which sounds good. And also that the government would spend…

￡3 million for the first year of a three year development programme to create an innovative online language resource for secondary pupils (the Open School for languages);

Blimey, three million pounds for a website???