Southern+Workshops+and+Clusters

**These PLD opportunities are available to all HODs and TICs of Learning Languages. This also includes teachers who have sole responsibility for programme planning and assessment design and implementation in their schools. ** ||      || **February** || **March** || **April**  || Welcome to **New Zealand Sign Language Week **! This **week ** is being held between Monday 9th to Sunday 15th May **2016 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. Deaf Aotearoa has produced a webseries of seven, one-minute videos to celebrate NZSL **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Week 2016 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. The series, “My Life in **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sign **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">”, features ' **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sign **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Boy', played by Destyn, the face of NZSL **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Week **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2016 **
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<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px; text-align: center;">**Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Tālofa lava! Afio mai!** Samoa language week / Vaiaso o le gagana Sāmoa takes place this year between 29 May and 4 June. The theme for 2016 is E felelei manu, ae ma’au i o latou ofaga – Birds migrate to environments where they survive and thrive. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">

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|| <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**July** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;"> Te Wiki o te Reo Māori July 4 - 10 2016 <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">[] [] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**August**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">NZALT Conference ** 10 - 15 July  <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">@http://www.nzalt.org.nz/conference/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**International Languages Week** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;">15 - 19 August 2016 <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;">[|http://www.nzalt.org.nz/events/ilw.shtm][|l] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**October** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**November** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**December** ||
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