Welcome to our Language College
Alderman White School has been a specialist Language College for over 10 years. In that time it has seen its GCSE results increase dramatically from just over 30% (prior to Language College Status) to highs of over 90%. Although the main languages taught across the Trust are French, German (Alderman White) and Spanish (Bramcote College), students on all sites including Bramcote College Sixth Form have access to GCSEs and A-Levels in a wide range of languages including Arabic, Chinese, Italian and Japanese. Alderman White School is now one of the few surviving Language Colleges in the East Midlands offering a very extensive community programme to adult learners which Ofsted has described as 'outstanding'.
Classes include the following languages at various different levels:
- Arabic
- Chinese/Mandarin.
- French.
- German.
- Italian.
- Japanese.
- Spanish.
- Russian.
- Urdu.
Please see our programme for more detailed information.
Family Language Classes
Another key feature of our community provision is the range of Family Language Classes on Saturday mornings which include Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Adult language classes as well as family classes are all offered at unbeatable prices, most of them on a weekly pay-as-you-learn basis. Courses are FREE to WHP Trust students. For further information on the courses on offer please see below. There are also after school classes for primary pupils on Tuesdays in Chinese, French, Latin, Spanish and Urdu.
Nottingham Chinese School
In addition to all of the above, Alderman White School is the home of the Nottingham Chinese School on Saturday afternoons. 150 pupils are now learning Mandarin Chinese as part of this provision with students taking exams in GCSE, AS and A2 Mandarin.
Benefits to Students
Although the Language College is based on the Alderman White site, all WHP Trust students can benefit from the many international opportunities offered by this exciting and increasingly rare speciality. These include a wide range of international initiatives which make the education of WHP students truly distinctive and develop both their interpersonal and intercultural skills which are essential for success in an increasingly global economy.
Here are just some of the many international activities and events that have taken place in the last few years:-
- Exchange visits to Germany - our famous German Exchange with the Stadtisches Gymnasium in Gütersloh has been running for more than 30 years. A recent German Exchange attracted record number of students.
- An annual trip to Paris incorporating Disneyland Paris for KS3 students.
- An annual trip to Madrid for all KS3/4 students.
- An annual trip to Cologne including Phantasialand for all WHP students.
- Special Language events organised in conjunction with the University of Nottingham.
- International Days.
- Drama performances in foreign languages.
- After school classes in Latin.
For more information please contact Karsten Stephan, Director of Language College:
Tel: 0115 9175944
Email: languages@aldermanwhite.school
Classes and Programme
The Language College programme for 2025/26 is out now, with classes for adult-learners, families and secondary students - all at unbeatable value!
Languages on offer include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Urdu and Spanish. For further details, including days and times, please download the attachments below or email us on languages@aldermanwhite.school. You can also ring us on 0115 9175944 (an answer phone service operates when we are unavailable).
Register Now
If you already know you wish to attend one of our courses, click here to fill in our online registration form to secure your place. (If you have any issues with the online form, please feel free to download the registration form attached below and email it back to us)
We look forward to seeing you on one of our classes. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to contact us on the details above.