Focus on Home, Heritage and Community Languages

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The National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) recognises the value and importance of all languages and the rich cultural heritage of all our learners, of their parents/carers and of the wider community. NCLE aims to promote and support greater access to accreditation through GCSE and other suitable qualifications for Home, Heritage and Community Languages (HHCL).

We aim to provide pedagogic advice for teachers on how to support pupils who speak additional languages to English at home to access GCSE in available languages and thereby strengthen overall uptake of languages at EBacc.

To deliver this requirement, the NCLE will work with stakeholders to build on established, successful school-led practices in recruiting and training assessors in a wider range of languages and set up a national network of assessment centres where pupils can enter GCSE in a range of home languages. Lead and partner schools will network systematically with supplementary schools in their communities, and act as or provide ready access to an examination centre for HHCL. 

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