Two of our students Thea and Victoria recently worked with the Dylan Thomas Community School’s after-school MAT (More Able and Talented) group. This co-curricular placement was in partnership with Swansea University’s Reaching Wider who work with a variety of stakeholder groups, including school pupils and families, to increase participation in HE for people from underrepresented groups in Southwest Wales….Continue Reading Dylan Thomas School Voluntary Literacy Mentoring Placement: A Student Perspective by Thea Baumgartner & Victoria Miller
MFL Mentoring Schemes by Alex Wright
In first term of third year, I received an email from the University sharing an opportunity to be part of an MFL mentoring scheme funded by the Welsh government. I was intrigued by this email, however I had not participated in any active language learning since taking French at A level and German at GCSE….Continue Reading MFL Mentoring Schemes by Alex Wright
Working with the Dylan Thomas Community School: Interview with Taylor-Jade Garland
In partnership with Reaching Wider and SAILS/SEA, the department of Applied Linguistics sent several of our undergraduate students Emily Hitchman, Lauren Davies (both second year) and Taylor Garland (first year), on a literacy placement with Dylan Thomas Community School, in Swansea. The students spent 10 weeks, once a week in an after-school group of year 7, 8…Continue Reading Working with the Dylan Thomas Community School: Interview with Taylor-Jade Garland