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Professional Development Officer @ SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages. Supporting teacher learning and development, promoting languages and cultures.

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Our exhibition at City Chambers! 😍 @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social @janecatlin.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social @scilt.bsky.social

06.03.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Come and visit the exhibition! We’d love to see you!

02.02.2026 11:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last term @karen-scilt.bsky.social & I hosted a series of 💻 online workshops. Next it’s going to be great to meet you in person for workshops @ SCILT HQ. Plus we’ve some ⭐ invited guest speakers sharing their practice including @akiyani.bsky.social @sarahconnolly-1.bsky.social
🔗🆓Join us?

14.01.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Student, newly and recently qualified primary teachers working in Scotland are welcome to join me and @karen-scilt.bsky.social on Wed 26/11/25 online. We'll answer your questions and signpost you to everything you need for your 1️⃣st steps in teaching primary languages 👣
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21.11.2025 14:55 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Check out this new resource! Huge thanks and credit to Lynne for creating it!

11.11.2025 21:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NEW! Multilingual Approaches through Art activity pack We are excited to announce that the new Multilingual Approaches through Art (MtA) activity pack is now published!! Funded by the Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund and created by those involved in the M...

A pleasure to support @ealglasgow.bsky.social’s network day, where @karen-scilt.bsky.social shared the fab Multilingualism through Art resource. The Language Portraits activity generated such interesting conversations!
⬇️Download a🆓 pack of 🔟 multilingual activities
🔗 scilt.org.uk/News/NewsVie...

03.11.2025 20:47 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

And just like that the 1st @scilt.bsky.social online workshop for primary teachers is done! Hosted by @karen-scilt.bsky.social with 🔝 contribution from @akiyani.bsky.social 🔗 Register for the other 🆓 online workshops www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/scilt-scot...

18.09.2025 17:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fancy learning BSL online with West Scotland BSL? Find out more here! 👇 Please share!

26.07.2025 07:55 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Oooh! Interesting!!

25.06.2025 12:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning - Creative Glasgow 'Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning’ is a pioneer project that aims to support the development of new integrated approaches to learning for

We are looking for 3 artists to work with us on our #AHRC Multilingualism and Sustainability project with primary schools in Scotland 🌱 @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social @janecatlin.bsky.social Deadline: 29 June. More details: www.creativeglasgow.co.uk/sdll/ Please share!

13.06.2025 15:25 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

We had a blast! Thank you to everyone who joined us across the different venues. 🙏

04.06.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited & honoured to present this Tue in "Transformative Plurilingual Education through Museums and the Arts" at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia incl. my work w/ @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social @janecatlin.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social
www.unive.it/pag/fileadmi...

25.05.2025 22:16 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Come and join us if you can! We’d love to see you!

19.05.2025 18:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today @karen-scilt.bsky.social will be attending @iicfstrath.bsky.social showcase event to share outcomes resulting from children’s use of the Multilingualism through Art resource pack.
#Multilingualism

15.05.2025 12:50 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Photo of ScotRail InterCity 7 poster, a map of Scotland featuring 7 cities in Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen & Inverness.

Photo of ScotRail InterCity 7 poster, a map of Scotland featuring 7 cities in Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen & Inverness.

SCILT on tour 🚆🚘. Already been in 3️⃣ of these cities today! Spending this morning working with @karen-scilt.bsky.social in Perth, before heading to Grandtully PS in Pitlochry for our workshop later this afternoon. In person, hands on & outdoors - cannae wait!

14.05.2025 08:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Come and join us at the venue that’s closest to you!

08.05.2025 12:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣Primary teachers & primary student teachers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
👋Join @karen-scilt.bsky.social @suzannescilt.bsky.social & me in person & outdoors 🌻💨🍃🌤️at all 3️⃣ in person, interactive workshops
🎯Developing outdoor IDL contexts for language use outdoors from & with each other #targeted #incidental #practising

03.05.2025 13:26 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

📣Primary teachers & primary student teachers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
👋Join @karen-scilt.bsky.social @suzannescilt.bsky.social & me in person & outdoors 🌻💨🍃🌤️at all 3️⃣ in person, interactive workshops
🎯Developing outdoor IDL contexts for targeted, incidental & practising language use outdoors from & with each other

30.04.2025 16:00 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Loved this today!! 🥰

22.03.2025 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's #PancakeDay! 🥞

In some parts of Wales, it was believed that if pancakes were not made and tossed on this day, there would be little prosperity during the ensuing year.

#ShroveTuesday #Wales #History

04.03.2025 08:46 👍 430 🔁 78 💬 15 📌 6

✅Earlier this academic session @karen-scilt.bsky.social & I hosted an online version of our ‘Valuing linguistic diversity’ workshop for primary teachers
🔜13 March we’d love to welcome you to SCILT HQ in Glasgow for the in person version
🔗 Register via link in quoted post⬇️

27.02.2025 18:45 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Research Associate Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the project Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability working with Lavinia Hirsu, D...

Job alert! We are looking for a Research Associate to join our team! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social @janecatlin.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social @scilt.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

24.02.2025 10:09 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Delighted to be part of this project that embraces art and languages as crucial elements in our working towards more just, sustainable future! 🌱 Looking forward to working with @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social@janecatlin.bsky.social

22.02.2025 13:33 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Teachers! Looking for language activities to try out with your learners during #LWS25 ? Check out this resource pack for more ideas. multilingualismthroughart.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
#scotlandloveslanguages #multlingualapproaches

06.02.2025 12:44 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We’re so exited about our latest #SLEA addition- the SLEA Multilingual! A perfect complement to this year’s Languages Week Scotland theme - check it out! ⤵️

05.02.2025 18:59 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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a clock that says the time has come ALT: a clock that says the time has come

1️⃣ Signpost session yesterday
Now 2️⃣ days on tour with @karen-scilt.bsky.social 🚘
5️⃣ workshops - today with primary tchrs in North Lanarkshire, tomorrow with #PGDE students @uofgdumfries.bsky.social
🎉Next Languages Week Scotland #LWS25 #LangsWeekScot 3-7 Feb #ScotlandLovesLanguages

30.01.2025 09:48 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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SALT presents: Jennifer Wozniak-Rush Mastering inclusive and motivational language teaching strategies and how to best support ASN pupils in Modern Languages.

We’re back! Our first TeachMeet of 2025 will be on 23rd January at 4:30. Join Jennifer Wozniak-Rush for tips on supporting learners with ASN (SEND) in the ML classroom. Sign-up and more details below. 👇🏼

www.eventbrite.com/e/salt-prese...

18.01.2025 11:19 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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SALT presents: Katherine Miller Stories to support the nursery and primary French curriculum.

And another TeachMeet for our primary colleagues! Join Katherine Miller to explore learning French in the primary classroom and nursery through stories. Sign-up and all details below 👇🏼

www.eventbrite.com/e/salt-prese...

18.01.2025 11:20 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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SALT presents: Katherine Miller Stories to support the nursery and primary French curriculum.

www.eventbrite.com/e/salt-prese... This is going to be great for primary ML teacher. Do join us. @senorbax.bsky.social @scilt.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social

18.01.2025 10:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Creating a multilingual library of picture books - NALDIC In 2022, we started a research project that asks what impact a school-university partnership can have on multilingual awareness across an

Want to create a #MultilingualLibrary? 💙📚

Read our short blog post on this topic for NALDIC (National Subject Organization for #EAL): t.ly/S5FXW 🗣💬

Key messages:
📚something is better than nothing!
📚developing a #multilingual #library can be relatively simple & affordable

#ESLsky #books #langsky

14.01.2025 10:55 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1