Welcome to SJB Language College
St John the Baptist School was one of the first schools in the country to become a language college in 1997. We have benefited enormously from being a specialist school and our facilities and results have improved dramatically in the past ten years in all subject areas, not only in modern languages. Take a look at some of the activities we do as a language college and please take a moment to read the mission statement below:
Diana Kavanagh
Language College Director
Language colleges mission statement
Language colleges raise standards of achievement and the quality of teaching and learning in modern foreign languages for all pupils using this as a catalyst for whole school improvement.
They are active partners in a learning society with their local family of schools, colleges, higher education institutions, businesses and their community, sharing resources and developing and sharing good practice. They help children to progress from primary language learning through to lifelong learning.
Language colleges play a key role in supporting the national languages strategy, which aims to transform the country's capability in languages, encouraging "languages for life" and "languages for all".
They promote a learning culture which is international, technological, enterprising and vocational, and which values language learning as an activity and regards performance with languages as a key skill for uk citizens of the 21st century.
They value and support the community languages of their pupils, and provide young people with the skills needed to progress into employment, further training or higher education according to their individual needs.
They raise participation rates in modern foreign languages, and enhance language learning opportunities for their pupils and for their local learning community.
As leading practitioners they share their growing expertise with other language colleges and with national and international networks of schools to promote excellence and innovation.