About us
Languages CPD Hub is powered by the renowned teaching and learning team behind Language Angels.
With decades of experience, they know the reality of the primary classroom and the barriers to foreign language teaching and learning that exist.
Delivering brilliant primary foreign language lessons with amazing pupil outcomes can be done. Language Angels continue to prove it!
Meet the Team
All Languages CPD Hub team members are qualified teachers with a wealth of experience and many years of classroom experience.
Francesca
Director of Teaching & Learning
Graduating in 1994 with a BA (Hons) in French and Italian and then completing a PGCE, I have been fortunate to have had a very varied teaching career. In only my second year of teaching French and Italian in a very demanding inner city London secondary school I was promoted to head of department. I then established a very successful private business teaching languages in the local nurseries and primary schools. This eventually led me back into the classroom of a very high achieving grammar school with Language College status where I held a number of teaching roles over the 15 years I was there, including; Primary Languages Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Mentor, CILT regional trainer and finally AST for the London Borough of Barnet.
My vast teaching experience across the key stages and in very different settings has allowed me to experience the language learning journey of a wide variety fo learners from nursery aged children learning two languages simultaneously as bilingual learners to adults learning a second language (with various levels of difficulty!) for the first time and everything in between.
As one of the directors of Language Angels this has been my most important and impactful work to date. I have worked with many thousands of teachers using the Language Angels platform over the years, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge they require to successfully teach their classes a foreign language.Training the adults in the class is just as important as teaching the children.
We can make change happen.
Gabriella
Teaching & Learning Lead - Italian
Graduating in 1986 with a BA(Hons) in French & Italian, followed by a PGCE and TEFL, I have had many years of real classroom teaching experience. After one year in France teaching English, I then spent 12 years teaching in schools in the London Borough of Enfield holding a variety of positions. As a teacher of French and Italian, Teacher in charge of Italian, Second in MFL department and Head of Sixth Form before taking time to raise my family. My final position was as a Teacher of Italian at a grammar school for girls in North London.
I am thrilled to now be part of the team at Language Angels as Teaching & Learning Lead for Italian and feel I have a wealth of experience to share with you all.
Marta
Teaching & Learning Lead - Spanish
I graduated in 2009 having trained as a Primary Teacher in Spain where I taught English to Primary school children for two years. I then came to London and worked as a Spanish Language Assistant for two years in order to gain experience in Secondary teaching.
For the past 8 years I have worked as a full-time Spanish teacher in a North London Grammar School and Sixth-Form College. In 2023 I was awarded a National Professional Qualification (NPQ) in Leading Teaching.
I now combine my teaching position with my role as a Spanish Teaching and Learning Lead at Language Angels.
Virginie
Teaching & Learning Lead - French
I have been working for Language Angels for the past 3 years as their teaching and learning lead but I have been teaching French, Spanish and English as a foreign language form babies, all the way to adults, for the last 20 years.
My experience has taken me from teaching in secondary schools to coordinating language classes across a range of primary schools in England and in Abu Dhabi where I also had a business teaching languages to EYFS and KS1 pupils.
I have many years of real classroom experience and knowledge of teaching foreign languages to pupils at primary phase.