Language
Lab Lives - St. Helens School, Northwood, London
At St. Helen's Northwood
where Sony Virtuoso has been established for just
a year, head Mary Morris is equally enthusiastic
about the two Virtuoso labs now being used by
her pupils. 'We can see how much more engaged
and focused our girls are in learning languages.
As an IB school we need to constantly look out
beyond the UK to equip pupils with communication
skills in other languages. Language teaching has
been seen as a difficult option for many years
and recent figures from government only highlight
this problem. We have found that the reverse is
now true.
Numbers of pupils wishing to take up language
learning has significantly increased to the point
where we have now equipped a second multi media
suite and are working to create a multi media
teaching environment across the whole school.
We have also found that the use of multi media
teaching is having a profound effect on the engagement
of pupils in other core curriculum subjects: History,
English and Classics are just three areas our
Sony Virtuoso and Soloist software is finding
new and vibrant applications.'
