Home Language Enrichment - ACS Hillingdon

Home Language Enrichment

Programme Overview

The free Home Language Enrichment (HLE) Programme at ACS Hillingdon is dedicated to helping organise language classes for students’ home language.

This programme is designed to help students in Grades 1 to 10 whose first language isn’t English, to maintain their home language and culture.

We recognise the importance of multilingualism and how children who maintain their mother tongue, preserve their indigenous culture through language.

The lessons are offered once a week for forty minutes after school. Students will engage in language and cultural activities designed to enrich their appreciation and use of their respective languages.

Students will read, write, and converse in the target language, and wherever possible, high-interest materials (books, magazines, websites) from their home country will be used.

The classes are an excellent opportunity for multilingual children to unite with others from their language backgrounds. In recent years, we have offered classes in Italian, Russian, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, Norwegian, German, and Japanese.

To speak another language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.