This is the ‘Home Page’ for our ALL London June Event 2026. It will contain full details of the sessions, speakers and exhibitors prior to the event and give links to photos and presentations following the event.
Registration
via Ticket Tailor here.
Date, venue + travel
Date: Saturday June 13th 2026 09:30 –13:45
Venue: The Grey Coat Hospital C of E Comprehensive School for Girls, St. Andrew’s building, Greycoat Place, London, SW1P 2DY [NB: not St Michael’s Regency Street]
Rail: (Victoria, St James’s Park – approx. 6 minute walk)
Buses: Bus services 3, 11, 24, 26, 36, 44, 148, 170, 185, 211, C10, 2, 6, 13,stop near the school.
Please check ahead for any planned engineering works which may affect travel; https://tfl.gov.uk/status-updates/planned-track-closures
Programme Overview
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME As at 01/05/26
9.30: Registration & Exhibition. Tea/coffee and biscuits – the committee and exhibitors will be here to welcome you!
10.00: Welcome from The All Committee. Updates from ALL London including the London: City of Languages Festival!
10.30: Erasmus+: What’s New and What’s Possible Vicky Gough (British Council) gives an overview of the opportunities Erasmus+ offers for schools, colleges and wider education settings, including updates to the current programme and how to prepare for the next funding window in November 2026.
SESSION 1
10.45: Celebrations, Competitions and Quizzes – Nathalie Blondeau leads a collective ‘Show and Tell’ for all sectors showcasing multilingualism and creativity. Activities will support preparations for the European Day of Languages (26 September) and International Mother Tongue Day (21 February)
11.30 EXHIBITION Comfort break / top-up of coffee / chance to ‘network’ / view info sent from corporate members, ALL & Language Institutes. Raffle prizes to be won!
SESSION 2
12.00: EITHER: 2.1 Planning a promotional campaign for languages Catherine Ames and Kate Melhorn share their experiences, incl. an amazing ‘Careers’ Fair’. David Blow on Progress 8 consultation and its implications for ML
OR: 2.2 Good practice and ideas for Primary and KS3 transition: Nadine Chadier, Miriam Paridjanian, Rachel Heer and Lena Marg share an exciting MFL mentoring project in Wales, running an after-school club in world languages and implementing a Y6 project to lead into Y7
OR 2.3 Communities of Practice – Fatima Khaled considers how we can work more collaboratively with different stakeholders to support heritage learners.
SESSION 3
12.45 – 1.10 + 1.15 – 1.40 : Choice of 2 from a Carousel of ‘Language Tasters’ focusing on less‑taught / HHCL languages. To include: Arabic (Fatima Khaled), Czech (Adam Lamb), Portuguese (Faris Sanhaji), Punjabi (Rachel Heer) and Japanese (Miriam Starling).
& later? From such a central venue, you are spoilt for choice: Westminster Abbey (have you seen the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries?) – National Gallery – Banqueting House (newly renovated)
Cost
• £1 [Pay £11 and get a £10 refund if you attend]– Students, and ‘first-timer’ Primary teachers and Community languages teachers [We will refund your registration fee if you attend – you only pay the admin fee]
• £10 ALL individual members (incl. retired) or people who join on the day. £20 – group members,
• £35 – non-members.
If your organisation needs to make a direct transfer to BACS, please contact us [info@all-london.org.uk] for details. Thank you.
Follow this link to join ALL and benefit from discounts on this event:
https://www.all-languages.org.uk/join/become-a-member/
Our Exhibitors
We are very grateful to our Corporate Members who provide a useful and informative exhibition at our events, and welcome the chance to speak with us. Thank you to Angela Murphy who organises this. Please contact us via info@all-london.org.uk if you are a corporate member of ALL and would like a stand.
Maps and photos
| The Grey Coat Hospital C of E Comprehensive School for GirlsSt. Andrew’s Building, Greycoat Place, London, SW1P 2DY Victoria / St James’s Park: 6 mins walkWestminster: 15 mins walk |
| Entrance |
Sessions – full descriptions (work in progress!)
Session 2.2: Good practice and ideas for Primary and KS3 transition
Join us to share good practice and ideas for Primary and KS3 transition.
Nadine Chadier and Miriam Paridjanian will talk about an exciting MFL mentoring project in Wales which has raised engagement and confidence with free accessible resources for all to use (perfect as a KS2-KS3 transition activity). Lena Marg will also share her experience of running an after-school club in world languages and linguistics for KS1 and KS2 in South London: bringing in heritage and home languages, dead, alive and hip languages, from stories and poetry to scripts, puzzles, improv, having-a go, music, sharing, crafts and games. Rachel Heer will share a Y6 project to lead into Y7 which she has prepared for her setting.
Session 2.3: Communities of Practice
Fatima will focus on the idea of communities of practice (Communities of Practice), drawing on Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, and linking this to how we can work more collaboratively with different stakeholders to support heritage learners. In particular, building their confidence, sense of identity, and role as active citizens.
This also connects well with Jim Cummins’ work on identity and empowerment, and Ofelia García on inclusive and translanguaging approaches — and how this benefits not only heritage learners but also foreign language learners.
Session 3: Language Tasters
The leader of each session can decide what to cover, but the focus could be:
COMMUNICATION
(a) simple greetings / leave‑taking
(b) asking how people are / answering the question
(c) saying that they like / love London + why (friendly, exciting, interesting)
… and anything else you might suggest!
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE & CULTURE
(d) learning the basics of any non‑Roman script that applies to the language
(e) noticing basic grammatical differences (e.g., omission of articles, verb at the end of the sentence)
(f) knowing where the language is spoken
(g) knowing how to be polite (and how not to offend!)
Details of individual sessions.
Brazilian Portuguese: The taster session in Brazilian Portuguese shall allow you to gain confidence in simple greetings and give your opinion about London. It should be fun, communicative and we hope that it will inspire you to learn even more Portuguese!
Speakers
Faris Sanhaji
Faris is a languages teacher and a Lecturer in Education. He teaches on the PGCE Secondary Modern Languages Programme and is also involved with the PGCE Primary as well as Masters in Education programmes. Faris has been teaching French and Spanish in several inner London schools, before becoming Head of Spanish from KS2 to KS5 in an East London school. He has a great interest in language pedagogy, research on second language acquisition and heritage languages.