Webinar
Understanding language policies in multilingual schools (Webinar)
- Date
- 23 September 2026
- Time
- 4:00pm
- Price
- Free
- Type
- Run by The Bell Foundation, Webinar
- Location
- Online
National Year of Reading: what does it mean for multilingual learners in your school? (Webinar)
We’re very excited to be supporting and participating in the National Year of Reading 2026. Join us to explore reading with multilingual learners.
This webinar is the launch of The Bell Foundation’s programme for multilingual learners and the National Year of Reading. Throughout 2026 we will share resources, provide guidance and a training focus, and participate in ‘Go All In’ national reading celebrations, to boost reading for learning and pleasure, as part of EAL provision.
This webinar is an opportunity for schools to gather perspectives, information, and inspiration for their literacy work in multilingual classrooms.
During the webinar we will hear from The National Literacy Trust about the campaign, and from specialists in the field about their work with multilingual children and young people. Speakers will share how schools can celebrate and strengthen multilingual learners’ reading in all the languages they use, to build engaged, confident, lifelong readers.
Panel:
- Glynis Lloyd – Trainer, The Bell Foundation;
- Martin Galway – Head of Professional Learning and Partnerships, National Literacy Trust;
- Sarah Brownsword - Associate Professor in Education, University of East Anglia;
- Caroline O’Dwyer and Pauline Cahillane - St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, Harrow.
Who should register for the webinar:
- Staff with responsibility for EAL in secondary schools;
- EAL coordinators;
- Literacy leads – primary and secondary;
- Primary classroom teachers.
Why you should register for this webinar:
- One-hour intensive session with Q&A
- Access to session recording;
- First to hear about future webinars and how to sign up.
If you have any questions that specifically relate to the webinar topic, which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to: webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk.
If the webinar is full, please complete the wait list form and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. Everyone on the wait list will be sent a copy of the webinar recording.
Ticket sales close on Wednesday 28 January at 12:00 (UK time).
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Event details
Price
Free
- Date
- Time
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Type
Run by The Bell Foundation, Webinar
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Location
Online