RECLAMA at the North East Festival of Languages (UK)

The RECLAMA project is excited to be part of the Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages 2026!

The Festival of Languages aims to foster a love of language learning through the provision of high quality teaching resources, online and in-person activities. The Festival therefore provides a fantastic opportunity to share some of the learning from RECLAMA with young people across North-East England and beyond. Building on the educational toolkit designed for use with schoolchildren in Ecuador, we have developed a suite of bespoke activities and resources aimed at UK schools, for children across key stages 2-4. 

The resources produced for the Festival are aimed at young people learning Spanish, and include short videos of the Afro-Ecuadorian fairytales from RECLAMA, in-class activities and teacher notes. We are also running a recipe competition, where children are encouraged to engage with the RECLAMA resources on food sovereignty and to share a recipe that is important to them – written in a language that is not English, either their own language or a language they are learning. So far, we’ve received competition entries in languages including Malayalam, Ambaric, German, French, Spanish and Italian!  A selection of competition entries will be featured in an online World Recipe Book, celebrating the gastronomic diversity of the North East. 

During February and March, as part of the Festival activities, members of the RECLAMA team will also be running in-person sessions for schools at the Multilingual Library in Gateshead, a brilliant local library and community resource that celebrates the cultural and linguistic diversity of the North East. 

For more information on how to receive the RECLAMA resources for use in school, or to book onto an in-person activity, please visit:  

https://expressyourselfne.com/ 

https://expressyourselfne.com/?s=reclama