Welcome to Primary Languages Network

Created by teachers for teachers. Primary Languages Network is the award-winning digital platform for primary French, Spanish, and German, hosting our Video2Teach schemes for all class teachers, and Click2Teach schemes for specialist primary languages teachers. Our PLN team provides online and in-person training, consultancy and CPD to support every school to deliver quality primary foreign languages teaching and learning.

Meet the Team

  • Janet Lloyd

    Founder

  • William Lloyd

    Director

  • Emilie Woodfroffe

    Teacher Services Director

  • Irene Hernandez

    Multi-Media Lead

  • Catherine Simms

    Network Coordinator

  • Kate Percival

    Primary Languages Consultant

  • Sylvia Brown

    Customer and Operations Manager

  • Joanne Eccleshare

    ITT Trainer

  • Tess Collings

    Digital Media Lead

  • Peter Lloyd

    Business Director

Learn more about us!

Primary Languages Network has come a long way since 2011. It was just Janet and a small team of four language teachers, teaching weekly in 12 schools, and supporting 49 network schools. Resources were shared on paper, CDs and a limited website. Our network is now over 1,000 schools strong, using Video2Teach to deliver primary French and Spanish with our virtual native speaker language teachers. The network continues to grow each month. Our PPA teaching team continues to work in 50 plus schools using our Click2Teach scheme, in the North West and now further afield.

In 2011, Janet Lloyd founded Primary Languages Network. 30 years of state education languages’ teaching, training, resource development and her passion became PLN, an educational service. Janet wanted to share more widely the creative and dynamic approaches she had developed first as a teacher, then as an AST, LA Consultant and national trainer.

Primary Languages Network’s mission remains to empower all teachers and schools to be able to establish effective “primary” focused foreign language teaching. 

We make the teaching and learning of primary foreign languages effective and accessible for all teachers and ensure that the learning is creative, purposeful and memorable for all learners.