KONSEL KERNOW DERIVAS ‘GO CORNISH’ MIS EBREL 2020: DIWEDH BLEDHEN PESWAR

CORNWALL COUNCIL ‘GO CORNISH’ REPORT APRIL 2020: END OF YEAR FOUR

Young people taking part in the ‘Para Pennsans’ trail

CONTENTS:

1. Keyndir / Background 2. Berrskrif / Summary 3. Bonniow: Skolyow ha Teyluyow / Clusters: Schools and Families a. ‘Blas an Taves’ (A Taste of Cornish ) b. ‘Nadelik Lyskerrys’ ( Cornish Christmas) c. ‘Para Kernewek Pennsans’ ( Cornish Crew) 4. E-Dhyski / E-Learning a. Memrise b. Magi Ann 5. Gwiasva / Website 6. Media Socyal/ Social Media 7. Ragdresow Keworransel / Additional Projects a. ‘Expansion of Go Cornish including 4th cluster b. New App for Pre-School Children c. Online Resources to Support WJEC d. Intensive Immersive Course for Beginners e. Screen

1. KEYNDIR / BACKGROUND:

An dowlen GoCornish re wrug tevi meur yn 2019-20. Ni re besyas oberi gans skolyow, negysyow ha’n gemeneth teythyek yn Lyskerrys ha Pennsans, yn unn ynkressya ober y’gan ‘bonniow’, hag ynwedh ow telivra yn Kammbronn rag an kynsa prys.

Kammneves a asnodhow re beu gorrys yn gwiasva Go Cornish, dyworth Lyvrow Lavar [Phrasebooks] dhe erthyglow ow tiskwedha devnydhyans awenek a’n yeth kernewek. An re ma re wrug drehedhes goslowysi bras lowr, skoodhys gans avisyans der ganolyow media sosyel. Yma kors nowydh Memrise displegys dhe skoodhya studhyans rag Kesva 1sa gradh hag an app Magi Ann yw hwath meur gerys rag fleghes yowynkka.

Dre arghasans aral, y hwrussyn ni ri soodh dhe Dhyghtyer Towlen, dalleth pareusi rag delivra bonni yn Bosvena yn 2020 ha gwruthyl lies moy asnodhow dyski, y’ga mysk kevres yn arbennek rag studhoryon yn skol nessa, kors gluw, unn jydh y hirder, hag app nessa Magi Ann.

2019-20 has seen the Go Cornish programme grow and develop significantly. We have continued to engage with schools, businesses and the local community in Liskeard and Penzance, increasing participation in our ‘clusters’, as well as delivering in Camborne for the first time.

A plethora of resources have been added to the Go Cornish website, ranging from Phrasebooks to articles showcasing inspirational use of the Cornish Language. These have reached a sizeable audience, supported by promotion on social media channels. A new Memrise course has been developed to support study for the Kesva Grade 1 and the Magi Ann app remains extremely popular resource for younger children.

Through additional funding, we have also employed a Programme Manager, laid the groundwork to deliver a cluster in in 2020 and created a range of new teaching resources, including a series of lessons tailored to secondary school students, a day long intensive course, and a 2nd Magi Ann App.

2. BERRSKRIF / SUMMARY:

Work Strand Objective Description 19/20 Target Achieved? 1. CLUSTERS Create Recruit third 3 active Yes. Camborne (BAT), and 1a. Blas an community Cornish Cornish Liskeard (NL) delivered. Taves ’19, 1b. based language Language Penzance (PPZ) delivered in Nad’k clusters of learning cluster Clusters. part due to Covid-19 Lyskerrys ‘19 Cornish restrictions. 1c. Para PZ ‘20 language Learning 500 learning Yes. 1d. 4th Cluster learning opportunities for opportunities Camborne Drop-Ins: 62 R&D children and Camborne Schools: 155 adults Liskeard Drop-Ins: 63 Liskeard Schools: 329 Penzance Drop-Ins: 15 Penzance Schools: 456 = 1080 learning opportunities Increase Engage local Engage 6 Yes. Camborne – 5, Liskeard – public businesses in businesses in 7, Penzance – 8. awareness of Cornish each cluster Cornish Language = 20 businesses engaged. Language Clusters Participatory 3 community No. Camborne & Liskeard public events based events Singing Expeditions. Penzance for cancelled due to Covid-19 “breakthrough” restrictions. level learners Increase profile 1,500 Yes. of Cornish audience Camborne Singing Expedition – Language events members for 100 in communities Cornish Lowender Peran Performance Language – 150 events Liskeard Singing Expedition – 140 Liskeard Christmas Party Performance – 250 Nadelik Lyskerrys Lights – 1000 =1,640 audience members 2. SCHOOLS Engage Deliver Tales 18 engaged BAT: 7 & FAMILIES schools in from Porth to schools NL: 11 Cornish schools PPZ: 7 language = 25 engaged schools learning Deliver advanced 1 school 1 secondary school delivering programme learning delivering Club Kernow – 6 week WJEC opportunities to ‘More Tales Level 1 course. already engaged from Porth’ schools. Train Tales from Porth 18 teachers/ BAT: 12 teachers to CPD schools staff NL: 20 deliver PPZ: 16 Cornish = 48 teachers trained language resources Offer family Cornish 450 learning Camborne Trail: 40 learning Language family opportunities Tro Tren: 186 opportunities trails Liskeard Trail: 135 Penzance Trail: 201 = 562 learning opportunities 3. E- Mobile/ Develop 600 Go Cornish 1 launched in LEARNING smart device ‘Memrise’ Go registered Speak Cornish week. 3a. Memrise learning Cornish 1 users 479 downloads. 3b. Magi Ann Smart/tablet Develop 3 ‘Magi 300 1502 downloads across Apple learning apps Ann’ apps in downloads and Android. Cornish 4. SOCIAL Regular Facebook and SM reach of 518,631 reach across all digital MEDIA & Cornish Twitter, regular 500,000 channels including Facebook, COMMS language scheduled posts (views) Twitter, Vimeo, Newsletter and 4a. Bus posting to in Cornish Website. Kernow social media 10,500 post 17,209 across Facebook and 4b. Social engagements Twitter Media 4c. Other Comms 5. WEBSITE Creation of Online resource ‘Learn Cornish’ Go Cornish website went live website to enable users web portal live December 2018. to access Ongoing 24,043 visitors to Go Cornish information monitoring of website. about the frequency of Specific goals established Cornish use 07/11: language 6547 visits to resource pages 156 class list downloads

6. INTERNAL Implement Delivery Cornish 30 lessons Yes. 4 team members working POLICY Golden Tree language lessons delivered towards KESVA examinations. Cornish to core staff Weekly Grade 1 level class and Language Grade 4 level class. Policy within company Cornish 6 Cornish No. Golden Tree has released 4 language first in language local PRs using Cornish all press releases press releases Language this year. The Western Morning News printed a Cornish Language quote in February 2020.

3. BONNIOW / CLUSTERS:

A. ‘BLAS AN TAVES’ (A TASTE OF CORNISH)

2020 was the first year running ‘Blas an Taves’ in Camborne, which was selected due to its compelling tender submission in 2017. There was initially very positive engagement from Camborne Town Council, however part way through the programme the main contact went on Maternity Leave and an addition point of contact was not identified. Overall, engagement was lower than hoped and moving forwards to 2020 we will review our approach.

A1. SCHOOLS

Delivery to schools was based closely on our tried and tested model, piloted and delivered in Penzance and Liskeard for the past three years. Over a six-week period, participating schools were invited to attend a weekly training seminar where teachers and support staff were introduced to the Tales from Porth learning resources. Additionally, each school was offered a visit from the Golden Tree team in order to introduce and launch the project to pupils.

Following feedback from schools in Liskeard and Penzance, we elected to engage a single Art Practitioner, who we worked with to ensure the art workshops maintained a strong focus on the Cornish language and were age appropriate. Participating schools took part in an art workshop order to produce Tales from Porth inspired window displays.

These then formed a focal point for a Cornish Language Trail to take place as the culmination of the project. The following schools took part: Weeth School, Treloweth School, Illogan School, Pencoys School, Chacewater School, Camborne Nursery and Camborne Science and International Academy.

A2. FAMILY TRAIL

On Saturday 27th July, children were invited to take part in Lergh Teylu Blasa an Taves: a family Cornish Language Taster Trail. Six businesses took part, each hosting a stop on the trail. Children travelled around Camborne Town centre, answering questions in Cornish to earn 6 stamps and a delicious cakey tea in the town square.

There were 40 participants in total.

“I enjoyed learning new words in Cornish. Meur ras!”

- Participant in the Schools Programme and Family Trail

A3. TUESDAY NIGHTS

Concurrently with the schools programme, we delivered three informal drop-in sessions at Camborne Library. Following our established model, these combined introductory Cornish Conversation with a primer of Cornish language singing, delivered by Hilary Coleman.

The library was a good venue for the sessions, with a positive atmosphere but there was minimal engagement from library staff.

The attendance at the sessions was good, with an average of 20 attendees at each session.

“Meur ras for my first Cornish speaking taster in Cornwall library last night. Great fun I’m looking forward to the next one! Splann!”

- Caroline Wilkinson

A4. SINGING TRAIL

The library language tasters culminated on 27th July as participants congregated on Commercial Square in the centre of Camborne to perform the songs which they had learnt. 22 people came together on the square, including local singers who joined the performance. The songs performed included a Cornish Language rendition of ‘Camborne Hill’ which the audience were able to join in with as the team distributed word sheets.

B. ‘NADELIK LYSKERRYS’ (LISKEARD CORNISH CHRISTMAS)

2019 acted as a successful handover year for ‘Nadelik Lyskerrys’, which we delivered in close partnership with Liskeard Town Council, sharing responsibility for coordinating and running the events. As a result, next year Golden Tree will only be involved in a delivery capacity, with full organizational responsibility sitting with Liskeard Town Council.

B1. SCHOOLS

Following feedback from participants, we elected to adjust our standard school delivery model. Teachers felt that the weekly training seminars were too significant a commitment, so we elected to adapt and adjust our CPD in order to deliver the key elements in a single session. Although this was challenging, feedback from staff indicated that the resulting session still achieved the key goal of enabling teachers to deliver Tales from Porth independently. Practitioners delivered the CPD sessions in several schools, which enabled multiple staff members from the same school to attend each session.

A number of schools took part in Cornish Language workshops to launch the project, including: St Neot, Pensilva, Darite, Trewidland, Upton Cross, Trenode, Menheniot, Liskeard School, Harrow Barrow, St Martins and Hill Fort.

A number of schools also took part in an Art Workshop to create a Christmas themed Cornish language display. These displays were utilized in shops across town, with lots of students very excited to see their work forming part of the Cornish Language Christmas Trail. This year Hillfort Primary, St Nicholas Primary, Trewidland Primary, St Neot Primary and Trenode Primary took part in creating the displays.

B2. FAMILY TRAIL

On Saturday 30th November, children were invited to bring their families for a Christmas Trail around the centre of Liskeard. Seven businesses took part, each hosting a stop on the trail, with volunteers in place to give out holly berry stickers for children utilising Cornish vocabulary. Participants were then invited to a cakey tea hosted at the Town Hall.

Attendance increased again this year, with 135 participants in total.

The children really enjoyed the Cornish workshops and the family trail. We organized for a group of students to attend and they had a fantastic time.”

– Dr Cook, Hillfort Primary School

B3. MONDAY NIGHTS

Running in parallel to the schools programme, we delivered a series of informal drop-in sessions at The Liskerret Centre. These comprised of two components: introductory spoken Cornish for social occasions and Cornish language singing.

The workshops were hosted by Joe Lewis and Pol Hodge, centering around fun and informal activities for beginners. Rosie Fierek, who introduced participants to three Cornish language Christmas songs, hosted the singing component. These sessions were well attended, with an average of 15 people coming along each week.

B4. DANDO AND HIS DOGS / ‘AN HELGH GWYLS’ (THE WILD HUNT)

The Monday night sessions culminated in a series of performances of Dando and his Dogs at the Nadelik Lyskerrys on Saturday 30th November. This singing expedition ran concurrently to the Family Trail, on the streets of Liskeard. 15 people participated in the expedition, and the trail participants and local shoppers were treated to a dramatic performance and Cornish language singing.

B5. SINGING ON THE TRAIN

Go Cornish were invited back for a third year of ‘Singing on the Train’, in partnership with Devon and Cornwall Rail. Due to the success of previous years it was run over 2 consecutive evenings, which were both sold out. In total 180 children and families sang carols in Cornish and met ‘Tas Nadelik’ (Father Christmas).

C. ‘PARA KERNEWEK PENNSANS’ (PENZANCE CORNISH CREW)

In January 2020, we returned to Penzance for a fourth year of ‘Para Kernewek Pennsans’ (Penzance Cornish Crew). We elected to run the Family Trail and Singing Sessions concurrently this year, as last year feedback indicated a number of trail participants were motivated to engage with the Singing Sessions.

There was a significant amount of local interest, with a number of people contacting Go Cornish on social media to enquire about when events would be taking place prior to promotion. The re- engagement rate with businesses was also high, with all but one of the businesses who took part last year re-engaging.

Whilst both Penzance Town Council and Penzance Bid were supportive of the events, there was no significant involvement or engagement. As part of our future strategy, we will review whether the existing local and business engagement can be leveraged in future activity.

C1. SCHOOLS

To encourage whole school engagement with Para Pennsans, we adapted the school delivery model, using approaches we had evolved at Nadelik Lyskerrys. At each school we delivered a whole school assembly, up to 3 Cornish workshops and an after-school CPD session for members of staff. In total 7 schools engaged with the programme, including: Pensans Primary, St Just Primary, Ludgvan Primary, Nancledra Primary, St Mary’s RC Primary and St Maddern Primary. also engaged with our new Club Kernow offer, with 11 KS3 students attending an extra-curricular Cornish Language club.

“It really was a brilliant session and the children were so inspired! They're using the Cornish phrases we learnt with them and would like to learn more, which is great.”

– Miss Ferguson, St Levan School

C2: ‘LERGH TEYLU TROVYANS TRESOR’ (FAMILY TREASURE TRAIL)

Over 200 children and their families participated in this year’s Family Treasure Trail. 8 businesses participated in total, with 14 volunteers from the Cornish Speaking community. Cornish Language displays created by local schools were paired closely with the Trail questions, and situated inside the shop so that volunteers and participants could interact with them. This year, the celebratory ‘Cakey Tea’ was sponsored by Warren’s Bakery.

‘A really engaging experience- Thank you – It was a great way of getting the family to speak some Cornish and also involving local businesses was inspired. Especially liked the Cakey Tea. I thought the sticker survey was a brilliant way to collect data.’

– Participant in the Family Treasure Trail

C3. TUESDAY NIGHTS & SINGING EXPEDITION

We had 4 weeks of ‘Keskows Diwotti’ (Pub Chat) and ‘Kana Diwotti’ (Pub Singing) planned in partnership with Hilary Coleman. These were advertised as an informal opportunity for beginners to learn some Cornish in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Due to concern about Covid-19, the sessions and Signing Expedition were cancelled – we hope to potentially run them later in 2020.

4. E-DHYSKI / E-LEARNING:

4A: MEMRISE

Following the success of the ‘Go Cornish Intro’ course, we consolidated the learning on the intro course into a ‘Go Cornish: Grade 1’ course. This course supports learners through the material needed to pass the Kesva Grade 1 examination. This was launched during Speak Cornish week.

Although the course is only available on the Decks platform, it is still possible to access to course on the Memrise App. Feedback from learners has been really positive, with a lot of requests for a second app to cover Kesva Grade 2 material.

Overall the Memrise Decks platform offers a good pedagogical format; however we are concerned that learners are put off accessing unofficial ‘Decks’ courses, so are currently assessing whether there is an alternative platform available that would attract more users.

4B: MAGI ANN

Following the successful launch of the Magi Ann Kernewek app in January 2019 there have been 1502 downloads of the app across Apple and Android platforms.

The feedback from Nursery settings has also been positive, with practitioners reporting that children enjoy the simple colourful imagery and stories, and find the Cornish easy to follow.

5. GWIASVA / WEBSITE: https://gocornish.org/

The Go Cornish website was launched in December 2018. Since launch it has been visited more than 47,000 times. Over 31,000 people have visited the site, with a significant number of return visitors.

The site is regularly updated with phrasebooks, community educator resources, news articles and inspiration articles. It also houses a range of resources for learning and teaching Cornish, including the Tales from Porth stories and activities.

In November 2019 a range of measures were implemented to track specific user behaviours. Since these were implemented:

- 8113 people have visited a resource page - 193 people have downloaded a class list - 1209 people have accessed a glossary page - 1417 people have accessed an inspiration article

All evidence demonstrates that there is an audience for the content we are creating – both the resources and the range of articles we produce. In 2020 we plan to continue producing high quality content, working in partnership with the Cornish Language community to identify opportunities and requirements.

6. MEDIA SOCYAL/ SOCIAL MEDIA

This is the first full year the Go Cornish brand has been active across social media.

The total reach of posts we have created across Facebook and Twitter is 488k This number represents the number of individual social media profiles have seen a post from Go Cornish on their feeds.

There have been 17k engagements with our posts, which includes clicks, comments, likes and views.

In total there are 1,831 people following the brand across Facebook and Twitter.

Our primary audience on Social Media is non-speakers and learners. We aim to include some Cornish language in a large percentage of our posts.

Here’s a selection of our most popular posts.

7. RAGDRESOW KEWORRANSEL / Additional Projects

7A. EXPANSION OF GO CORNISH INCLUDING 4th CLUSTER

This project is an extension of Golden Tree’s existing Cornish language education contract to offer the same teacher and community support to a new town area.

Upon consideration, we have selected Bodmin as the 4th town area we will deliver the Go Cornish programme in. We have co-ordintated with Bodmin Riding and Into Bodmin to identify a programme of events and workshops which will complement the existing event activities and also supplement National Lottery funded historical workshops taking place in 2020.

As part of the extension of the CLLAC in October 2019 we hired a Programme Manager on a 0.8 contract. The purpose of this role is to bring strategic direction to delivery, ensuring that Go Cornish is taking advantage of all opportunities and budget is being used to maximum effect.

Following the Covid-19 outbreak, Bodmin Riding have elected to cancel the 2020 festival. Following discussion with the Cornish Language Lead, budget set aside against Bodmin Riding delivery will be redirected to the creation of digital resources.

7B. NEW APP FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN – MAGI ANN 2

This project will deliver a second Magi Ann Kernewek app, comprising 2 sets of 6 ‘books’ from the Welsh series. This will enable deeper language learning and enable teaching in pre-schools.

We have worked with Menter Iaith, Sbectol and the Translation Service to adapt a series of scripts which develop and extend the Cornish language utilized in the first app.

All scripts and recordings have been submitted to Sbectol and we anticipate the app being released in April.

7C. ONLINE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT WJEC

This project will deliver a set of resources that will enable secondary school students and adult community education classes to learn Cornish to WJEC Entry Level. It includes a set of 6 short videos with instruction for the session and a set of 6 short videos with a recorded conversation of the task/grammar put into in practice.

We have created a series of 6 engaging sessions which include a range of different activities that enable learners to build the vocabulary and comprehension to complete the WJEC Level 1 assessment. This includes all the resources necessary to deliver the sessions and a programme plan that enables non- speakers to deliver the sessions.

A trial for these resources was run at Mounts Bay Academy with 11 Key Stage 3 students. Although it was not possible to complete the trial due to Covid-19 restrictions, feedback from the first three sessions was positive and we anticipate finishing the programme and running the assessment with these students during 2020.

Scripts for the conversation films have been finalized and there is a contract for delivery with a local creative agency. Filming was unfortunately delayed due to the Covid-19 restrictions, but will take place at the earliest possible opportunity when they are lifted.

7D. INTENSIVE IMMERSIVE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS

The aim of this project is to develop a short intensive course for beginners, based on 2 x 3 hour sessions The first session is focused on activity-based learning and the second session on immersion in activities in the Cornish language. The second session will assume completion of lesson one plus some self-study.

For Session One we have developed a three-hour workshop based around developing beginners’ Cornish language to enable them to play the games Go Fish and Guess Who in Cornish. This involves developing vocabulary around numbers, colours and facial features as well as teaching the key grammatical structures for a number of questions. This workshop was trialed at the North Cornwall Book Festival 2019, to positive feedback. Some of the activities have also been run with An Ros Dyski, who also enjoyed the activities, with a number of teachers wanting to use them with their Cornish classes.

For Session Two we have developed an immersive workshop based on the concept of an Escape Room. Participants need to complete a series of Cornish Language puzzles to break into a chest. The puzzles utilize listening and speaking skills as well as interpreting written Cornish. Participants are able to request a short ‘teaching intervention’ if they become stuck on a problem. This allows them to engage fully in the narrative, utilizing teaching input where necessary and enhancing the immersive experience.

The course was due to be trialled at the 2020 Pennseythen, as their Flamm Nowydh session. This was unfortunately postponed to 2021, so Go Cornish will trial the course at the first available opportunity.

7E. SCREEN CORNWALL

This project was commissioned by Screen Cornwall, with the purpose of creating contemporary, engaging and entertaining content for young audiences in Cornish.

We submitted a tender to develop and expand the Tales from Porth series of books into a series of 5- minute full Cornish animations. We secured funding to create a pilot episode and a series development plan.

We have worked in partnership with Screen Cornwall and Engine House VFX, as well as with a script editor whose credits include Hey Duggie and Shaun the Sheep to create a 5-minute animation of Goolan. As part of the project we have also submitted a development funding application to the BFI cultural fund, in order to further develop the series concept for potential distributors.

8. POLICI PERVEDH / INTERNAL POLICY

8A. CORNISH LANGUAGE LESSONS

A number of members of staff are working towards Kesva examinations: Josie (Programme Manager) and Eve (Admin) are working towards Grade 1. Will (Creative Director) and Joe (Cornish Language Practitioner) are working towards their Grade 4.

This is being supported through internal Cornish Language Lessons. Joe runs a weekly Grade 1 level Cornish Language class for the team. Joe and Will also work weekly with the Cornish Language Lead to support their work towards Grade 4.

8B. CORNISH LANGUAGE IN PRESS RELEASES

Golden Tree has released 4 PRs in 2020. In all of these we have utilised a Cornish language quotation, with the Cornish language presented before the English translation.

The responses to this have varied – Cornwall Live and the Falmouth Packet have both elected to print PRs without utilizing the Cornish language quotation. However, the Western Morning news printed a Cornish language quotation from Will Coleman on the front page in February 2020.

Go Cornish has also worked closely with Matthew Clarke to provide quotations and audio and film content for Radyo an Gernewegva and An Mis throughout the year.