I am going to hold off posting a full response while I find my feet at the beginning of this new term - but suffice to say I left the meeting much more heartened than I arrived. Having listened to my colleagues (an opportunity not really afforded me during the "You and Yours" programme on Radio 4 which sparked the meeting), I cam away with a sense that, IF we can get our voices HEARD in the fora that matter, we can effect real, purposeful change to the system in such a way that, in 5 or 10 years time, pupils will be clamouring to study foreign languages!
Onwards and upwards. As I recently posted on my Facebook page (the day after the GCSE results came out...);