The 14-19 PRIZE SCHEME HAS NOW ENDED
The two Mary Glasgow 14-19 Prizes awarded in 2011 are the last. We are sorry to disappoint any potential applicants.
The Trust has awarded eight 14-19 Prizes over a period of 5 years – an investment of £40,000 in supporting and publicising new, exciting and successful modern language teaching projects. Now that our major grant from the Nuffield Foundation for the 14-19 Prize has been spent, the Mary Glasgow Trust has to bring this particular scheme to an end.
We would like to record our very grateful thanks to the Nuffield Foundation for its major share in funding the 14-19 Prizes, as well as to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation which gave us a grant to help us in the early stages of setting up the scheme.
The Mary Glasgow Language Trust looks forward to continuing to support language teaching in other ways in the future.
THE MARY GLASGOW 14-19 PRIZE 2011
The 2011 Mary Glasgow 14-19 Prize for curriculum innovation in languages has been awarded to two outstanding projects. The two prizes, worth £5000 each, were presented in July 2011 by the chairman of the Mary Glasgow Trust, Edwin Glasgow, at the Association for Language Learning’s annual conference, Language World. The winners were:
Gloucestershire College, Forest of Dean, for ‘Cucina’ – a successful collaboration between secondary and FE teachers which means that year 10 students can learn a further foreign language – Italian – in their schools, and then have the exciting experience of putting it into practice at an FE college, while learning to cook Italian food in a professional kitchen under the instruction – in Italian, of course – of Franco Taruschio, the former owner and chef of a Michelin starred restaurant. The students also gained an NVQ language qualification, and subsequently went on a visit to Italy, where they met up with Franco, sampled the food, visited an olive press, and used their Italian.
The International Learning & Research Centre (ILRC), Oldland Common, near Bristol, for ‘Teenagers Telling Tales’ – a development of the ILRC’s Story Making approach to developing ways in which pre-secondary school children can learn to use language effectively by learning stories, retelling them, and eventually to modify the stories and create their own, using their imagination. The application of this narrative approach to learning foreign languages in secondary schools is original and flexible, and older pupils have found it an engaging way of learning a foreign language. Measures of their attitudes, motivation and progress have shown that they have enjoyed and benefited enormously from the approach.
Find out more about ‘Cucina’ and ‘Teenagers Telling Tales’.
Professor Eric Hawkins
With great sadness we learned recently of the death of our beloved friend and fellow trustee Eric Hawkins who joined the Board of the Mary Glasgow Language Trust soon after it was launched in 1978. Eric was already known to many us for his quite unique contribution to the teaching of modern languages in this country and each of us has personal memories of his disarming modesty and kindliness, his wide learning and intellectual energy, his courage and his dogged determination. He brought to our Trust a lifetime’s experience in education and his very special knowledge of and love for the language teaching world.
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The Mary Glasgow Language Trust is an independent registered charity, set up in 1978 by Mary Glasgow CBE, and which continues in memory of her work in promoting the cause of teaching and learning foreign languages in the UK.
The Trust was founded in 1978 by Mary Glasgow CBE. Honoured by both the French and British governments for her outstanding work in the fields of both languages education and the arts, Mary Glasgow was successively a languages teacher, HMI, first Secretary-General of the Arts Council and an educational publisher.
The Trust is currently chaired by her nephew, Edwin Glasgow CBE, QC. Our Trustees have wide experience of modern languages work at a national and international level in all sectors of education, as well as on government-sponsored and independent education bodies.
The Trust’s aim is primarily to support and encourage outstanding curriculum development in the teaching of languages and to bring such excellence to national attention.
Since 2000, the Trust has been collaborating with CILT, the National Centre for Languages, as a partner in the development of the European Awards for Languages. The Trust’s special contribution to this is the annual £2000 Mary Glasgow Award for the EAL winning project which has most impressed the Trust’s judges.
Since 2006 the Trust has developed an annual programme of Mary Glasgow 14-19 Prizes worth £5000. These are awarded for curriculum innovation in languages in the 14-19 sector. This has been made possible by generous £40,000 grants of £39,800 from the Nuffield Foundation, and of £20,000 from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
