About Our Vision
We’ve built a complete Primary Languages Framework designed to help schools deliver consistent, high-quality language learning, regardless of teacher expertise.
Our goal is simple:
👉 to enable every pupil to make meaningful progress in French, Spanish, or German, and transition confidently into secondary education.
A structured framework, not just resources
At the heart of our approach is a carefully designed system that aligns with national curriculum expectations and international benchmarks, including the CEFR (A1 level).
The framework is built around three core pillars:
1. Curriculum & Progression
Highly Supportive Schemes of Work with inbuilt progression.
Step-by-step lesson sequences
Designed for specialist and non-specialist teachers
Ensures consistent coverage and skill development
2. Teacher Development & Support
Comprehensive teacher support, CPD and Staff Upskilling
Builds teacher confidence and subject knowledge
Empowers staff to deliver high-quality lessons
Supports long-term, sustainable provision
3. Practice, Engagement & Retention
Opportunities for Continued Learning & Retention Beyond the Classroom
Interactive games, songs and reinforcement tools
Opportunities for repetition and recall
Helps knowledge stick over time
One joined-up system
These elements don’t sit in isolation, they work together as a single, cohesive framework, supporting both teachers and pupils at every stage.
The result:
👉 Pupils progress from novice to secure beginner (A1)
👉 Schools deliver languages with confidence and consistency
👉 Teachers feel supported, not overwhelmed
Meet the Team
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Janet Lloyd
Founder
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William Lloyd
Director
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Emilie Woodfroffe
Teacher Services Director
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Irene Hernandez
Multi-Media Lead
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Catherine Simms
Network Coordinator
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Kate Percival
Primary Languages Consultant
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Sylvia Brown
Customer and Operations Manager
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Joanne Eccleshare
ITT Trainer
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Tess Collings
Digital Media Lead
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Peter Lloyd
Business Director
How it all began!
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.
