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Past EventsThis is to give you a flavour of what we do in MLCF; would you like to join us and/or help us?
For more recent activities
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Saturday 24 March 2007 9am-12.30
EVERY CHILD'S LANGUAGE MATTERS
"Enjoying and achieving through languages in the early years"
Salvation Army Building, Psalter Lane, Sheffield
An event for early years practitioners, KS1 teachers, volunteer tutors, parents. grandparents - and interested adults
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Our latest newsletter: winter 2006: Newsletter 7
or see the newsletter for summer 2006: Newsletter 6
or for winter 2005: Newsletter 5
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Language Exchange evenings organised by Hallam Volunteering (with MLCF) 2005-6
These take place to enable people (over 18) to share their languages and practise a language they are learning. Here is a photo of the Persian table on one of the evenings with an Iranian volunteer student teaching some Farsi .
2005 events
Members’ meeting: 12 July 2005
Discussion of proposed new question in Census about household language use
Discussion of status of Panjabi and Urdu and other community languages and size of language communities; description of the work of the Burngreave Language Support Agency, Carl Duisberg Centre and Sheffield International Linking Committee
Members’ social: 9 June 2005
Celebration of installation in the MLCF office: visit to the office, and pub quiz in the Three Cranes (opposite the MLCF office), Queen St
Europe Week 2005
Early years learners: 25 February
Performances by children from 5 Sheffield schools and nurseries (aged 3-8)
Language communities: 5 March
Performances by children from the Czech, Polish, Greek, French and Portuguese communities
Fiesta chilena (Chilean evening): 20 January 2005
Displays showing the history of the Chilean community with ‘arpilleras’ (tapestries). Also, Chilean music and poetry and food
2004 events
Come into the office and look at our newsletters or contact us for what we did in 2004!
2003 events and before
For conference reports, events, and activities in and before 2003, contact our office
