The winner of the 2010 Mary Glasgow Award was a project appropriately entitled ‘Recipes for MFL success’.

Year 7 students at Langley Park School for Girls, Beckenham, follow a ten-week ‘Licence to Cook’ programme, leading to a qualification. The programme is taught in French or German, and pupils can opt for their preferred language.

The really exceptional feature is that the course was initiated and is taught by two members of the Food Technology Team, entirely in the target language, and it is quite independent of and additional to the MFL programme. This happy cooperation between the two departments means that new pupils get clear messages about the school’s view of languages, and a major boost to progress in their first term.

Tamsin Day, project leader of ‘Licence to Cook’ and her colleagues from Langley Park Girls’ School receive the Mary Glasgow Award 2010 from Alan Moys of the Mary Glasgow Trust.