Nine different postcards – nine different languages

Our language postcards are now available in nine different languages – Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Bulgarian, Mandarin, Arabic and Romanian.  We’ve been using these in schools to teach children just a few basic phrases to welcome newcomers. Click here to read more.

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Language workshops available – feedback from Falmouth

Lovely feedback from Falmouth Primary School where we spent two days in early November teaching a few basic phrases of Arabic with Rawda Alater. “I have had a lot of positive feedback from across the school and lots of the children have been practising the Arabic phrases in the playground,” wrote one of the teachers. […]

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Learning about Syria – and Arabic – in Falmouth

A valuable morning at Falmouth Primary School in west Cornwall this morning (10 November 2022) with the wonderful Rawda Alater, who spoke about her life in Syria and her subsequent experience living in the UK in Truro. She answered children’s questions – and even taught a bit of Arabic. In at least two classes there […]

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Family researchers uncover long lost history

Nearly 106 years after her death,  a photo has been discovered of Maybelle Stoneman – one of the two young women who were killed in a factory in the National Explosives Factory, Hayle, on 20 December 1916. The factory at the time was producing munitions for the Front and was one of the largest in […]

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