Mother Tongue

Mother-tongue is a child's first or native language and Dwight School London aims to inform parents in the maintenance and development of both mother-tongue language and literacy skills.
Such support includes:

• The provision of mother-tongue classes within the curriculum (including the School
• Activities Programme)
• Providing parents with information regarding the different mother-tongue programmes
• available
• Recognising and celebrating the various mother-tongue languages within the school
• Extending mother-tongue recources in the library
• Providing bilingual dictionaries in the EAL department for those students whose mother-tongue is not English.

The provision of mother-tongue language support may incur an additional fee.