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Karen Faulds

@karen-scilt.bsky.social
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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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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 15h
Join me @karen-scilt.bsky.social and our invited guest Lisa on 27/10. We’ll try out some activities together & share interesting current practice combining languages & SDGs 🔗🆓 Registration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainabl...
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Sustainable Development Goals and languages in primary
The second in SCILT's series of open access workshops for primary teachers and primary education students in Scotland
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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📢 Primary teachers! Boost your professional network and share what works in your classroom. 🌟 SALT & SCILT are looking for presenters for our 'Six in Sixty' online learning event! Register your interest now: ➡️https://loom.ly/OaM4TJ8
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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our exhibition at City Chambers! 😍 @laviniahirsu.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @karen-scilt.bsky.social @janecatlin.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social @scilt.bsky.social
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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?
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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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Karen Faulds @karen-scilt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Check out this new resource! Huge thanks and credit to Lynne for creating it!
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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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...
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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Karen Faulds @karen-scilt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Fancy learning BSL online with West Scotland BSL? Find out more here! 👇 Please share!
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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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!
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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
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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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...
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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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!
Photo of ScotRail InterCity 7 poster, a map of Scotland featuring 7 cities in Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen & Inverness.
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
📣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
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📣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
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
✅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⬇️
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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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
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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...
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Dobrochna Futro @dobrochnafutro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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
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Karen Faulds @karen-scilt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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SheenaSCILT @sheenascilt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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! ⤵️
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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
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a clock that says the time has come
ALT: a clock that says the time has come
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Scottish Association for Language Teaching @saltlangs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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...
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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.
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Scottish Association for Language Teaching @saltlangs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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...
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SALT presents: Katherine Miller
Stories to support the nursery and primary French curriculum.
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Miss F @missfedrizzi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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
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SALT presents: Katherine Miller
Stories to support the nursery and primary French curriculum.
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The Multilingual Library @multilinglibrary.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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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
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So....if you are involved in World Book Day this year, you might see a familiar name 😉. WBD are using my Rivers of Multilingual Reading research to build linguistic diversity into their provision, and that's pretty cool, since these resources go to every school and library in the country 🥰 #langsky
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Anyone tried this? It's free. www.golingo.co.uk
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We are golingo - golingo
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New issue of the Languages, Society and Policy journal launched, with a special guest-edited collection on Languages in UK Education. First papers available now, with an introduction by Wendy Bennett and Charles Forsdick. Keep your eyes open for more! x.com/LSPjournal/s... @ilcs.bsky.social
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
www.wales247.co.uk/wales-at-ris...
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Wales at risk of lost generation with no International language skills
The latest Language Trends Wales report from British Council Wales reveals that entries for French and German GCSEs have more than halved over the past decade, highlighting that interventions are need...
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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"Gaza had a functioning education system. Prior to October 7th 2023, children in Gaza were attending school." Palestinian children have been without school for more than a year, and the impact is enormous. Exclusive for @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472337...
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Clare Seccombe @clareseccombe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Primary languages people: the next deadline for Write Away! magazine is 5th December. www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/writeaway.htm Secondary people - have a look at what primary children do in their language lessons.
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Write Away!
Hundreds of resources for teachers of French.
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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Languages Week Scotland 2025 will take place from 3 - 7 February and will be a week of activity across the country. The theme for 2025 is “Our multilingual futures”. Follow #ScotlandLovesLanguages to keep up to date! Find out more: loom.ly/hiOP0Cc
Announcement! Languages Week Scotland will be held from 3-7 Feb 2025. The theme is "Our multilingual futures".
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Karen Faulds @karen-scilt.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Thanks for sharing Lynne!
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