The National Consortium for Language Education (NCLE) is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and is delivered by the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (UCL IOE) in partnership with the British Council and the Goethe-Institut.

Tudor Grange Academy Solihull is proud to be a Language Hub Lead School.

We believe that knowledge of languages and intercultural agility can help to foster universal understanding and contribute to building a peaceful and harmonious world future. We need more and better language skills so that our country can take its place in a globalised economy, adding value to and widening opportunities for our students, our community and our society.

Funded by the Department for Education and led by the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE), a network of Language Hubs is re-energising language learning in state-maintained primary and secondary schools across England.  

The Hubs bring together language teachers to help improve language education in England. Each Hub comprises up to seven partner schools working together to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for all pupils.

Harnessing the expertise within their region, the Hubs will develop training and spread excellent practice that will encourage more pupils to study languages throughout education from primary school onwards.  

Our school will benefit from this focus on language learning through the recognition of the skills of our teachers and the wider sharing of our teaching knowledge.

How it works:

The Languages Hub programme focuses on French, German and Spanish learning as they make up over 90% of GCSE entries.  It also recognises the value of home, heritage, and community languages, signposting to supporting materials and good practice, and working with supplementary schools.

The Language Hubs programme aims to provide:

• high quality language teaching in schools
• increasing languages uptake at GCSE
• levelling up opportunities for disadvantaged pupils
• an emphasis on improving the performance of boys
• and better recognition of and support for the rich diversity of languages spoken in addition to English by one in every five of our pupils.