MATs — Primary Languages Network
For MAT Curriculum Leads

Languages provision your whole trust can rely on.

For MAT leads frustrated by inconsistent delivery, under-confident teachers, and no clear picture of what's actually happening across their schools.

Primary languages lesson in action
Free MAT Audit 20 min · instant results
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Co-op Academies Trust Astrea Academy Trust Cambrian Learning Trust The Learning Partnership + many more
The MAT challenge

Languages is the subject nobody can get a grip on.

It's not for lack of trying. It's because primary languages at MAT scale has a set of structural problems that individual school effort can't solve.

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No oversight of what's being taught

You can't walk into any school and know what languages lesson is happening, which topics each year group is covering, or whether progression maps are being followed.

When the CEO asks how languages is going across the trust — you have to hedge.
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Teachers dreading the lesson

Most primary teachers have zero languages training. They're handed a scheme and told to get on with it. "I don't speak French." "The kids are bored." "I don't know if I'm doing it right."

The subject is alive on paper — but dying in classrooms across the trust.
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No data you can stand behind

No shared assessment framework. No moderated work samples. No way to compare School A with School M. When trustees ask for languages outcomes — there's nothing credible to show.

Every Ofsted or internal review exposes the gap. And you're accountable.
What's included

Everything teachers need.
Everything trusts need to see it working.

A complete system — not a collection of resources. Every component works together across your trust, from Year 1 to Year 6.

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Complete Curriculum

Ready-to-teach schemes of work with clear progression from Year 1 to Year 6. No planning from scratch. No gaps.

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Video2Teach Lessons

Native-speaker led video lessons that give every non-specialist the confidence to teach languages well — first time, every time.

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Physical Workbooks

Printed pupil workbooks that give structure, support writing by hand, and give children something to be proud of.

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Language Boosters

Optional digital games that give pupils extra time with the language — always in addition to lesson time, never instead.

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CPD & Training

Trust-wide CPD, online training, and coordinator support that builds lasting confidence — not dependency on any one person.

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MAT Audit Tool

A 20-minute trust-wide diagnostic that identifies gaps, benchmarks schools, and generates reports ready for SLT.

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Dedicated MAT Lead

Kate Percival works directly with your trust — one contact who understands your schools, your priorities, and your context.

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Languages Award Pathway

Support your strongest schools toward the Primary Languages Development Award — recognition of trust-wide excellence.

Kate Percival — PLN MAT Lead
PLN MAT Lead
Kate Percival
Your dedicated MAT specialist

Languages provision your
trust can stand behind.

"I work directly with MAT curriculum leads to build languages provision that holds up trust-wide — consistent across every school, delivered confidently by non-specialist teachers, and backed by data you can take to your CEO."

With 15+ years in primary MFL — as a classroom teacher, NASBTT consultant, and now as PLN's dedicated MAT lead — Kate understands the structural challenges that make languages so hard to get right at scale.

She works directly with curriculum directors, subject leaders and lead practitioners to build provision that doesn't depend on any one person to keep it running.

15+ years primary MFL NASBTT consultant University of Warwick Chartered College of Teaching
Talk to Kate →
Free MAT Audit

Find out where your trust actually stands.

Most MAT leads don't have a clear picture of languages quality across their schools — not because they don't care, but because nobody's built a tool that makes it visible.

Until now.

  • Identifies consistency gaps across every school
  • Surfaces where specialist support is most needed
  • Generates scores and charts ready for SLT reporting
  • Benchmarks against what excellent looks like
  • No cost. No obligation. Just clarity.

Sample audit output

Curriculum consistency
78%
Teacher confidence
52%
Assessment & evidence
38%
Progression framework
65%
Leadership & coordination
84%

Priority recommendation

Assessment and evidence is your biggest gap. This is what's making languages invisible to your board and vulnerable at Ofsted.

"This is the first languages approach that's worked consistently across our primary schools. The system gives every school what they need without forcing them to be identical — and our coordinators finally feel supported rather than isolated."

Co-op Academies Trust

Ready to make languages
work trust-wide?

Start with the free MAT Audit — 20 minutes, no cost, and a clear picture of where to focus first.