Most Móðurmál groups started teaching on Saturday 10 September. For the first time, three groups are using Hólabrekkuskóli in Breiðholt, thanks to the cooperation of Móðurmál with the Reykjavík City School Department (Skóla-og frístundasvið Reykjavíkurborgar).
Móðurmál groups will cooperate on the environmental project “Móðurmál rannsakar náttúru– og tungumálaauðlindir” in which children will work with environmental concepts and issues. The goal is to increase children’s awareness of their environment and put it into the international context through children’s connections with home countries of their parents. Children’s knowledge of languages will help to do research in other countries. This project is supported by Mannréttindaráð Reykjavíkur.
The common project of Móðurmál and SAMFOK (Association of School Children’s Parents in Reykjavík) “Allir með!” will continue in the fall 2016. The project entails several information and training events in different languages for parents of foreign origin.
On 18–19 November, the annual conference of Móðurmál “Successful and Sustainable Heritage Language Programs” for mother-tongue teachers, pedagogues and interested public will take place in Cultural Center Gerðuberg. The key speaker will be Prof. Olenka Bilash from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Móðurmál will continue to take part in regular events, such as the Festival of Nations, the International Mother Language Day, Children’s Festival, Multicultural Day, Big Preschool Day and others.
All Móðurmál members are warmly welcome at the Annual General Meeting, that is taking place on 14 September 2016 at 6–8 PM in Gerðuberg.