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STRATEJI AN YETH KERNEWEK

TOWL OBERANSEK 2019/20 –

NOWYDHHEANS KRES AN

VLEDHEN

CORNISH LANGUAGE STRATEGY

OPERATIONAL PLAN 2019/20 –

MID YEAR UPDATE

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. Progress against the Operational Plan for 2019/20 – midyear update

3. Additional Council projects not part of the Operational Plan 2019/20

4. Resources

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1. Introduction

The adoption of the Cornish Language Strategy 2015-25 on 20th March 2015 marked a significant change in the delivery of the Cornish language programme. The new delivery structure was put in place in 2015/16 so that now leads the Cornish language programme and provides official status, but the language remains reliant on the voluntary sector for many areas of delivery, particularly teaching and corpus work.

Each year, Cornwall Council publishes an Operational Plan, setting out priorities and tasks for the year ahead that work towards the longer term achievement of the 2015 Strategy. This is the mid-year update for the second annual Operational Plan for 2019/20.

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2. Progress against the Operational Plan for 2019/20 – midyear update

In order to take forward the Cornish Language Strategy, priorities for 2019/20 will be: • To consolidate teaching of Cornish in schools in the and areas, establish a new cluster in and support use of Cornish in those communities • To develop resources on the GoCornish website, the platform for learning and teaching materials • To publish and develop a new online Cornish dictionary • To develop film and media in Cornish • To further raise the profile of the language through bi-lingual signage, bi-lingual marketing and general promotion.

The following table sets out the key tasks that make up the Operational Plan for 2018/9 and progress against each task.

Task Outputs Who Progress

A - Acquisition

Delivery of a range  New cluster established in Camborne area in of learning  Golden Tree to implement Golden Tree June 2019. opportunities under Year 4 work programme  Liskeard and Penzance clusters to continue the Learning and during winter 2019/20. Communications  Ongoing comms contract  Publication of new Memrise Decks app for beginners Cornish. To promote and  Maximise the impact of the Golden Tree/ CC  Regular articles and postings on the GoCornish maintain the new new GoCornish website by website

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GoCornish website working with businesses  Additional enquiries from the website resulting and the media in translation requests increasing from c50 per month to c.70 per month. Develop online  Complete and publish the Golden Tree / CC  Memrise Decks app covering Grade 1 Cornish learning resources Memrise 2 app to cover the published with over 200 active users. Cornish Language Board  Golden Tree liaising with Memrise with a view syllabus for Grade 1, and to registering the app as a mainstream register the course as a Memrise course. mainstream Memrise  New resources for community educators product gradually being added  Promote Magi Ann as the new online resource for pre-school children.  Develop new resources for primary school children

Facilitate intensive  Develop and trial intensive CC / GT /  Intensive immersion course trialled at North learning learning opportunities community Cornwall Book Festival in October 2019 – to be opportunities groups developed and launched in spring 2020. Develop and deliver  Cornish language sessions Golden Tree  Number of schools not yet available for sustainable Cornish in at least one pre-school 2019/20 language teaching in  Embed Cornish sessions in  Cornish language sessions delivered in schools the curriculum of up to 15 Nancledra pre-school in Feb 2019 schools  Cornish delivered as a course to 16 schools in the two clusters in 2018/19 Maintain and  Ongoing coordination and Ros Dyski / CC /  GT workshops delivered to Ros Dyski teachers promote the present promotion by Ros Dyski. GT in October 2019. provision of Cornish for Adults. Develop a nationally  Train 5 more teachers able CC  Total of 16 teachers trained to deliver WJEC accredited Cornish to deliver WJEC Entry level Entry Level assessments with 10 entering

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language Spoken Cornish students in Spring 2019 – increase of 5 assessment for  Enter at least 20 CC/Ros Dyski  26 students passed at Entry Level schools and adults candidates to WJEC Entry  5 students passed at Level 1 level Spoken Cornish  Level 1 assessment material developed by  Develop assessment CC/Ros volunteer teachers and approved by WJEC, material for Level 1 for Dyski/Golden with first Level 1 entries submitted in Spring delivery in 2019/20 Tree/Kesva 2019 – 5 entries. academic year  Successful moderation and endorsement of assessment centre performance in October 2019.

B - Use of Cornish

Identify and develop  Develop a third cluster in Golden Tree  Third cluster established in Camborne area in three geographical 2019/20 to provide Cornish June 2019 hubs language activity and  Clusters continue at Penzance and Liskeard. teaching in schools and the  Project manager appointed October 2019 to community develop wider community and business involvement in the clusters, and maximise the opportunities of the clusters as community projects. To establish a social  Lowender Peran –  Lowender Peran – November 2019 innovation fund to development of use of support initiatives Cornish at cultural festival Lowender Peran that increase the in in November number, variety and 2019 and outreach work location of settings with sports clubs, young where Cornish can people and community be spoken socially groups to extend the variety of settings where

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Cornish is used

 Kist Kov a Gernewek – Rosweyth  Project officer appointed in October 2019 with archiving and cataloguing project starting in earnest in November 2019 paper resources and ephemera from the 20th century. This archive will create resources for use in schools and community groups and add to the range of resources available to Cornish speakers.

To commission a  Radyo an Gernewegva – Radyo an  Successful continuation of media and continued development of Gernewegva  Weekly radio programming technology fund that weekly online radio  Monthly news video programming on youtube, increases and programmes and seeking providing engaging content for fluent speakers develops the use of match funding to continue and students entirely in Kernewek, providing Cornish on broadcast and develop online video greater visibility for spoken use of the language and social media content. All programmes and covering news and events of interest to platforms are entirely in Cornish, Cornish speakers with the project developing skills and experience in producing programmes in the Cornish language community.  Screen Cornwall was formed in Spring 2019 to promote for Cornish film making, to secure  FylmK –open competition investment for film making in Cornwall and to in partnership with Falmouth attract location filming in Cornwall (in order to Falmouth University for a University/Screen provide more employment for those in Cornish

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short contemporary film in Cornwall creative industries). Cornish for submission to  FylmK is being run as a Screen Cornwall Celtic Media Festival 2020. project, to ensure the competition has professional management, to reinforce the Cornishness of Screen Cornwall and to highlight the opportunities for working with Kernewek.  This year’s FylmK has been awarded to An Tarow. Location filming was completed in October 2019 with the final version of the film to be complete early in 2020.  Last year’s FylmK commission, Yn Mor, will be shown at Cornwall Film Festival as part of the Regional Shorts programme on Saturday 16 Nov, and a Cornish language film event is to be held early in 2020 to promote the film. Yn Mor has already been selected for film festivals and has been entered to Celtic Media Festival 2020.  Hwedhel Henry Jenner has been selected for the Babel Film Festival in Italy in Dec 2019.

C - Status

To adopt a new 3  Apply CC Brand Guidelines CC  New 3 year Cornish Language Plan adopted by year Cornish to new projects and update Cabinet in May 2019 – unanimously approved Language Plan for guidance on the use of  CC Brand Guidelines – ongoing roll out of Cornwall Council and Cornish language on bilingual entrance signs to sites and use of increase the use of streets, highways and Kernewek in CC stationery.

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Cornish by Cornwall developments.  Training delivered to 15 staff in September Council and its 2019, with the Cornish Language Lead liaising partners  Provide in-house training with staff on follow up sessions in teams. and develop online training resources.

 Develop use of the Cornish language in publications and communications.

 Seek opportunities for interactive use of Cornish as part of digital services

To maintain a  Ongoing CC  Cornish Language Lead attends British Irish lobbying and Council meetings to ensure that concerns of awareness-raising Cornish language speakers are raised at the function in support national level and to learn from the of the wider use of programmes of other British language Cornish within communities. relevant  Cornish Language Lead also attends various partnerships and network events in Cornwall to develop networks awareness of the opportunities for using Cornish, eg Feast festival network, museums and cultural organisations. To arrange external  Host the Celtic Knot CC / University of  Celtic Knot Wikimedia conference held in language planning Wikipedia (Language and Exeter Penryn on 4 and 5 July 2019 attended by 50 expertise for leaders Technology) Conference in representatives of 12 minority languages. and stakeholders in July 2019 at Penryn,  The conference provided an opportunity to find Cornwall (either bringing experts in out how to use open source data, free online through a language language technology for resources and how other minority language

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planning advisory Celtic languages and other communities use online sites for education and group or specific minority languages to awareness. events and visits) Cornwall.  Although thinly attended by Cornish speakers, useful contacts were made with offers of support from Wikimedia. To develop,  Further develop promotion Golden Tree / CC  Regular social media postings by GoCornish, implement and of the language through articles on the website, phrase of the day, etc. maintain a general the GoCornish website and  Positive feedback on the presentation of the marketing plan for work with partners website style and content Cornish.  Regular positive postings  Generally positive media coverage (BBC and on social media. ITV news articles, BBC Spotlight features on  Coverage in and about Kan Rag Kernow winners – Black Eyed Nancy – Cornish language on and GoCornish bus station, filming for ZDF various media Germany).  Extensive positive coverage of Gwenno in national media.  However, generally coverage is about Cornish as a curiosity, rather than real engagement with speakers and features in Cornish. To develop,  Ongoing CC  Increased workload arising from general implement and  Develop the Kalender enquiries from the GoCornish site and more maintain a general Kernewek website with cultural organisations wanting to use more advisory and new content and ensure Cornish has impacted significantly on capacity. information service coverage of language  Regular posting on Twitter – but not Facebook in relation to events through 2019/20.  Kalender Kernewek is maintained but the Cornish. Language Office is sometimes slow to update due to capacity.  There has been no Kevren newsletter since December 2018.

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D - Corpus planning

To establish Akademi  Establish Akademi Akademi  Application to establish the Akademi as a CIO Kernewek as the Kernewek as a Charitable Kernewek submitted to the Charities Commission in definitive body Incorporated Organisation Spring 2019 – decision due early 2020. responsible for (CIO)  Continued partnership working with the corpus planning for  Develop links with the University of Exeter (Institute of Cornish the Cornish higher education sector. Studies) as a member, and Bangor University language, setting  Agree and implement the providing technical advice and support. standards for the Akademi annual work  New online dictionary published in June 2019 language, programme. Priorities for including new terms from the Terminology developing the 2019/20 will be: panel dictionary and o Dictionary Panel:  New terms published for architecture and carrying out completion of the new insects with rugby due to be published in research. dictionary database with Autumn 2019. Bangor University and  Place names – digital mapping and new development of the new website commissioned, due to be published in online dictionary Dec 2019. Uni of Exeter has provided a o Terminology: publish terms student placement to assist with improving for at least 4 specialist database and providing soundfiles. areas and host 2 technical  Research – ongoing assistance to other panels talks related to the Panel’s on more complex matters, and preparation for work Skians conference in Autumn 2020. o Place names: provide  Main outstanding matters for the Akademi are research for 2 project completion of internal governance (terms of areas, develop new web reference, member obligations, policies, etc) page including a bilingual and focussing panel outputs to be ready for digital map new databases (improve turnaround times). o Research: agree framework for making

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texts searchable and publish papers from previous Skians conferences online Develop new online  Publish and maintain new Akademi  New online dictionary published in June 2019, Cornish language online SWF dictionary Kernewek including new terms from the Akademi dictionary including new terms from Terminology Panel. the AK Terminology Panel. AK  6 month review of performance to take place in  Develop the dictionary Jan 2020 to respond to feedback – mainly database with Bangor AK positive but users have requested fuzzy search. University and review  The new site provides information to the opportunities for new apps Akademi on user searches, so for the first time  Publish new terms on the we can see which words people are looking for. Akademi website

To maintain an  Provide translations to Gonis Treylya  Translation requests have increased from c50 appropriate Cornwall Council and in per month to c.70 per month. translation service response to public  Handling increasingly long translations for for Cornwall Council enquiries cultural organisations. and its external  Provide training for  Translator capacity generally able to cope but partners. existing and new need more flexibility to cover leave and large translators in order to projects. Urgently need to ensure a wider base meet demand for more of advanced Cornish and ability to take on complex, technical proofreading / head translator role. translations and ensure  Translation memory software holding all succession for the head translation requests in digital format for other translator. uses but reaching limitations of existing free software (cumbersome admin and poor storage).

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3. Additional Projects

a) Cornish Public Service Broadcaster Research Project - Phase 1 Scoping Study Report ‘New Frontiers’, is Cornwall Council and its strategic partners’ agenda for devolution and development, and ‘New Frontiers’ includes the ambition for a public service broadcaster for Cornwall. Cornwall Council commissioned a scoping study to explore to research models for regional public service broadcasters in the digital age, the potential economic and cultural benefits to Cornwall, existing capacity in Cornwall and a potential development path. The concept is for a broadcaster with a clear remit to support Cornish language and provide a minimum level of Cornish language programming (ie a set %).

The scoping study was completed in July 2019 and can be downloaded here: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/culture-team/

b) UK Government Funding – MHCLG Although announced by Lord Bourne in July 2019, the Government funding was not signed off by MHCLG until 25 Oct 2019, with the delivery deadline still being 31 March 2020. The funding comprises £150k for Cornish language and £50k for Cornish cultural projects. Projects will be commissioned under this funding from 1 November 2019 and will be reported in the End of Year Report.

c) Erasmus+ Moving Languages Virtual Learning Project to improve an existing language learning app and develop new languages – Cornish, Basque, Galician, Scots, Gaelic and Saami. Fully funded, two-year project with budget to be confirmed in Nov 2019. App to be launched for trial in May 2020. Full evaluation by Ulster University, with access to expertise on language rights, and project final activity in Cornwall in September 2021. http://movinglanguages.eu/

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4. Resources The proposed budget for the Cornish language programme in 2019/20 is as follows:

Cornish language Expenditure Budget programme 2019/20

Cornish Language Staff, on-costs, premises, travel Office and expenses 70,959 CLO project budget Design, publications 5,000 Wikimedia Conference 1,800 Grants Corpus Akademi Kernewek 25,000

Learning and Learning and Communications 50,000 Communications Fund Use of Cornish Social Innovation Fund 10,000

Media and Technology 10,000

Total Gross Expenditure 170,959

Income Cornwall Council 170,959 Wikimedia grant 1,800 Total Income (as at 21.10.19) 172,759

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