Meet the Team

  • Janet Lloyd

    Founder and Managing Director

  • Peter Lloyd

    Director

  • William Lloyd

    Director

  • Emilie Woodfroffe

    Associate teacher service director

  • Sylvia Brown

    Head of Adminstration

  • Catherine Simms

    Network Coordinator

  • Kate Percival

    PLN Consultants

  • Irene Hernandez

    Multi-Media Lead

  • Joanne Eccleshare

    ITT Trainer

  • Tess Collings

    Administrative Assistant

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. In Autumn 2019 the network is 460 schools strong and continues to grow each month. 26 teachers in the expanding peripatetic teaching team, work weekly in 50 plus schools, in the North West and now further afield.

The PLN Virtual Learning Environment offers comprehensive KS2 schemes in French, German and Spanish and KS1 including necessary planning and assessment tools schools may require. We support schools to achieve effective teaching and learning of primary foreign languages for all children. Find out more here.

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. Find out more about Janet here.

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

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.