The Home Language
Accreditation Project (HoLA)
The
Home Language Accreditation Project (HoLA) has being developed to increase opportunities for learners to gain accreditation
in studying their home languages, specifically by OCR Asset accreditation. It is led by a Consortium of members including
representatives from Languages Sheffield, King Edward VII School, the City Council’s Learning and Achievement Service
and EMTAS.
The Pilot project took place from July 2010 until September 2011 with the aim to record participation
of young learners who attend community language schools in Sheffield. The initial project involved five community language
schools which would enable us to build the capacity to support and provide formal accreditation for learners.
The HoLa project enables children to be recognised for their attendance at community language schools which is often
not recognised by their mainstream school. The project seeks to bridge the two sectors of community language schools
and mainstream schools.
The pilot project was successful and is now set to run for another three years thanks
to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The launch event for the HoLa project was on 19th January 2012 at Sheffield
town hall with 70 delegates.
More information on the HoLa Project can be found on their website www.holaproject.org
For any enquiries please
contact Xiaohua on info@languages-sheffield.org.
Caroline Norman on caroline@languages-sheffield.org or Terry Scully at terry@languages-sheffield.org
The Project manager is Clare Allison based at King Edward VII school callison@kes.sch.uk
