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
Placement Puts Students At The Top of the Class
The Applied Linguistics Department offers several employability opportunities. One such placement is working with local schools as teaching assistants, with a focus on language and literacy at an after- school group. The eight-week placement allows students the chance to design and deliver activities, see real-world teaching and learning in action, work with a range of…Continue Reading Placement Puts Students At The Top of the Class
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