@lynnescilt.bsky.social
Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages https://scilt.org.uk. Primary languages. Professional learning. Leadership Development. she/her/hers. Joined Aug2024. Reposts ≠ endorsements
The Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning Logo Exhibition is currently on display at the University of Glasgow, and will move to Glasgow City Chambers on 9 March. The exhibition features all 100 artworks submitted as part of a competition to pick a winning logo: https://loom.ly/wBRZliA
Nice little captioned video for Y8/9 French. I uploaded a worksheet on a very similar video from the same source. www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwa...
02.03.2026 12:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1 month left to enter the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators!
Register here: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
#AntheaBellPrize #CreativeTranslation #edusky
Looking for a meaningful #WorldBookDay idea? 📖✨
Try a “Read a Book in a Day” — with short novels from South Africa, Mexico, Japan, Palestine & beyond. Global stories, shared together. 🌎
worldkidlit.org/2026/03/02/p...
#worldkidlit
Upcoming Events with the Queen's Translation Exchange Anthea Bell Prize: Competition Forum for Teachers Tuesday 3 March 2026 16:30 on Zoom Translating Poetry, Playing Wolf: A Conversation with Zuzana Říhová Wednesday 4 March 2026 17:00 @ The Queen’s College Translation Exchanges: Masterclass with Polly Barton Thursday 12 March 2026 16:30 @ The Queen’s College
We are running an exciting programme of events this week and next, including an #AntheaBellPrize webinar for MFL teachers across the UK and in-person events at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social with Zuzana Říhová and Polly Barton, both acclaimed writers and translators. Register for free below! 📚
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Meet #TapiocaStories translator Tal Goldfajn as presented by @worldkidlit.bsky.social worldkidlit.org/2026/02/09/m...
24.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A safe space to explore understandings of #antiracist practice in the context of languages education 🏴. Led by @suzannescilt.bsky.social, currently on @educationscotland.bsky.social’s trailblazing 🔥 BuildingRacialLiteracy programme #BRL
Join us online, register🆓 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
It has been a delight to help with the shortlisting of Mother Tongue, Other Tongue entries this week. Wonderful #creativity #identity #multiliteracy #belonging #affinity #poetry expressed by young multilingual poets ❤️ #MTOT
27.02.2026 08:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🤩 Thanks a million to Hollie & Alexandra ealglasgow.bsky.social who led a fab workshop ‘Accelerating EAL progress through translanguaging’ at The Ramshorn (SCILT HQ) today.
✅ thought-provoking
✅ practical
Super blog about multilingualism.
This message from Denise Amankwah should underpin all the work we do as educators.
'we cannot assume we already know what meaningful inclusion looks like from a young person’s perspective.
We need to ask them.'
📝We are now taking submissions for our next newsletter! Published twice a year, the SCILT newsletter aims to share positive stories from the languages community. If you have something to share, email scilt@strath.ac.uk with an article of 300 words and some colourful photos: https://loom.ly/Hqrq-4c
25.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Primary schools are invited to join us for year 2 of our Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning project. The project promotes creative and multilingual approaches to Learning for Sustainability. Successful schools will receive £5,000 to support their participation.
https://loom.ly/Dsb3xas
🐶 Cù Giobach Competition 🐶
To celebrate World Gaelic Week and the launch of Cù Giobach, we’re running a fun competition for children.
Win a signed copy of the book + a £25 National Book Token.
With thanks to @leughleabhar.bsky.social.
#WorldGaelicWeek #SeachdainNaGàidhlig #GaelicBooks
It's #WorldGaelicWeek! We asked practitioners why they wanted to be involved in the Curriculum Improvement Cycle for #Gaelic.👇
Teachers – have you visited the National Gaelic Education Professional Learning Community in Glow? Explore it now 👉https://ow.ly/sxPv50YiHuW
🎉 #InternationalMotherLanguageDay
21.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional flyer from Pedagoo. A sharing space for educators. Text reads: come along to a free & friendly professional learning event. Expect thought-provoking workshops, engaging discussions, and the opportunity to meet with like-minded educators. By teachers, for teachers. Follow Pedagoo on Eventbrite for future events. Centre left, a calendar shows date: May 16, 10am to 1pm. Pedagoo Ghlaschu. Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu/Glasgow Gaelic School. Centre right, a QR code links to Eventbrite registration for free tickets to attend.
@senoract.bsky.social & friends would love to see you at #PedagooGhlaschu2026 on 16/05/26. Professional learning by teachers, for teachers. Meet like-minded educators for connection & conversation.
✅Sign up to lead a session forms.gle/tW86XZiypr6P...
🆓🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pedagoo-gh...
📝We are now taking submissions for our next newsletter! Published twice a year, the SCILT newsletter aims to share positive stories from the languages community. If you have something to share, email scilt@strath.ac.uk with an article of 300 words and some colourful photos: https://loom.ly/Hqrq-4c
18.02.2026 05:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to our first #SLLP #ReunionYear. Plans for #LangsLeadScot alums in 2026-27 include: in person get togethers, regular newsletters, subject specific leadership development & prof learning opps incl. collaborative practitioner enquiry. All alums are welcome to reconnect 📧⬇️
18.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So far this year @scilt.bsky.social colleagues have supported #ITE students @morayhouse.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social @uofgdumfries.bsky.social & tomorrow it'll be @stir.ac.uk. We've covered pedagogies for #LfS #DYW #ShortFilms #Planning #Assessment #Phonics #OutdoorLearning #Multilingualism🎯✅
18.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bild des Gedichts „afro-deutsch I“ von May Ayim
Bild mit Text: „Dualla Misipo, geb. 1901 in Kamerun / Theodor Wonja Michael, geb. 1925 in Berlin / May Ayim, geb. 1960 in Hamburg - So unterschiedlich die drei hier exemplarisch vorgestellten Autorinnen, ihre Lebensläufe und ihr Schreiben auch sind, so sehr verbindet sie die Erfahrung von (intersektionaler) Diskriminierung und Rassifizierung, die sie in ihren Texten thematisieren. Auf Leselisten und in Literatur-geschichten kam Schwarze deutsche Literatur bisher kaum vor. Die Forschung zu diesem Thema nimmt gerade an Fahrt auf, etwa mit dem Band „Schwarze deutsche Literatur" (Hg. von Jeannette Oholi, 2025). Ein großer Teil der Arbeit wird von aktivistischen Gruppen geleistet. In Berlin bieten etwa „Desta" Dekoloniale Stadtführungen an, und die Organisation „Each One Teach One" sammelt Literatur sowie Dokumente zu Schwarzer und afrodiasporischer Literatur. Institutionen wie Schulen und Universitäten sind im Rückstand. Dualla Misipo, born in Cameroon in 1901 / Theodor Wonja Michael …“
Bild des Kastens mit afrodeutscher Literatur
Bild des Buchs „Farbe bekennen“ mit Text: „Katharina Oguntoye *1959 May Ayim 1960-1996 Dagmar Schultz *1941; Hg- Farbe bekennen. Afro-deut-sche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte 1986 Das Buch gilt als Gründungsdokument der afrodeutschen Bewegung. Es erzählt Schwarze deutsche Geschichte vom vorkolonialen Afrikabild in Deutschland über die Zeit nach 1945 bis hin zum Rassismus der 1980er. Farbe bekennen basiert auf May Ayims Diplomarbeit, enthält neben wissenschaftlichen Analysen aber auch (Auto-)Biografien, Interviews, Kurzprosa und Gedichte. Sandra Folie Afrika, Arbeit, Feminismus, Geschichte, Interview, Kolonialismus, Prosa, Rassismus, Schwarze deutsche Literatur, Sexismus, Wissenschoft The book is considered the founding…“
„Was lesen? Verdrängte Texte wiederentdecken“: Schöne Würdigung der Literatur von Schwarzen Deutschen in der @stabiberlin.bsky.social
@isdbund.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @michmo.bsky.social @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @rjmauk.bsky.social
My piece re: the 40th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing is officially *out* out, reminding me at a moment when writing is going not great that sometimes I do actually finish things.
18.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1One of the most striking and grim aspects of all the colonial reports on the Great War, its impact and its legacy in French West Africa is how convinced officials were that Africans did not feel individual attachment to, love for or loss of family members or husbands who went away to war.
16.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
Hi fellow #linguists & #educators!
Interested in #multilingualism in #teaching & #learning? I'm giving a free, online talk Wed 18 Feb, 4-5pm UTC
Lessons from a multilingual #library of picturebooks: Implications for teaching and learning
Link here: tiny.cc/fu0z001
@multilinglibrary.bsky.social
SCILT is offering primary and secondary state schools the opportunity to have a Chinese language assistant teacher in their school/cluster free of charge in 2026-27! This could complement or supplement any existing Mandarin provision. Find out more: https://loom.ly/n4y_pgk
10.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣Calling teachers of #French in all education sectors in Scotland! Sign up for the online launch of our Teachers of French in Scotland association, aka TOFIS on 23 Feb at 4.15: https://loom.ly/q3sz-VA
PS - you'll want to save the date for our next Future of French en Écosse forum too!
Keep Scotland Beautiful is celebrating World Gaelic Week 2026 with a schools programme that invites pupils to become Luchd‑aithris Òga (young reporters), exploring and sharing stories about Gaelic within their own communities: www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/gaidhlig-gae...
11.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🌟Join us for our upcoming in-person professional learning session for in-service and pre-service primary teachers. Free to attend, this workshop aims to increase teacher knowledge and understanding of multilingual pedagogies to help support multilingual learners. Register: https://loom.ly/Z-imC7o
11.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
📣We are excited to announce that the very first SLLP Reunion Year will run in academic session 2026-27! If you participated in SLLP (aka 1+2 LLP or TTT) at any time since 2014 and wish to join the SLLP Alums Network please get in touch on scilt@strath.ac.uk https://loom.ly/xihH_YQ #LangsLeadScot
11.02.2026 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And another petition, sadly 😪
You might be aware that the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University is under threat.
More information and to sign the petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
