Teachers
Our professional teachers love to learn and pass on their knowledge and experience to children.
Aiste Callaghan
MLM Founder
Hello, my name is Aiste. My current occupations are; - President at the Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce in the UK and Client Director at Pine Consulting Company.
One of my greatest jobs and achievements is being a mum to 4 amazing children.
I moved to the UK 21 years ago, went to a secondary school in North London, achieved Real Estate Development Bachelor’s Degree in Liverpool John Moore’s University and have been living in the UK ever since.
As a child and a teenager, I found, that my interest in Lithuania reduced significantly. I was not interested speaking in Lithuanian nor learning anything else about it. I did not have an opportunity to attend a Lithuanian school and there was no interest for it amongst my peers either. As the years went on, I found myself questioning, where I am from, who am I and what are my origins and what do I want to do with that information?
My family is multilingual, my husband is English, that’s the main language we use at home. The biggest challenge for mixed families is to set the right example for your children, use both cultures, set the right values and give your children an opportunity to speak both languages.
“Matildos Lituanistine Mokykla” school was established by a mum for families. I am a parent like you all, succeeding and sometimes failing, to bring my Lithuanian children in the United Kingdom, with all the challenges that I face.
MLM hopes to help children understand what a huge privilege it is to grow up with two languages and being multilingual.
Izabele
MLM Founder
Everyday Izabele wants to learn more Lithuanian words. She tries to put sentences together to be able to speak to her grandparents. She wants to have more Lithuanian friends whom she can learn with together.
At school she teaches kids how to say certain words and at home she asks her daddy to stroke her back in Lithuanian language. Her daddy had no choice, but learn a few words to understand her, because he found it very important to encourage her to continue speaking Lithuanian.
Izabele is 5 and she is in year one. She can’t wait to meet all the children at MLM school and share this fun and excited journey with them.
Meet
our teachers:
Aiste Callaghan
Teacher
Aiste has experience in teaching university students. In VGTU University she taught English for a year.
She is used to gathering her own material and presenting it to the students. Her aim is to adapt these skills at MLM School.
At home Aiste has four children who have individual needs, whom she educates in their own individual way, depending on their age and ability. Aiste reads a lot of Lithuanian books, teaches them the Lithuanian alphabet and Lithuanian history.
Lithuanian Government supplies all the national curriculum material to our school adapted for linguistic teaching.
Aiste’s goal is to improve children’s Lithuanian speaking, writing and reading skills.
Edita Alksniene
Teacher
Edita has a long-term experience in child minding, mainly from mixed families, who faced all the challenges that come with multilingual families. With all the families that Edita worked with, she helped parents significantly in improving children Lithuanian speaking and understanding skills.
She is also a grandmother and has two granddaughters that live in England. She invests a lot of her time in teaching them Lithuanian.
Every summer Edita travels back to Lithuania and undergoes training for linguistic teaching.
Training is provided by Lithuanian Government by a purposely prepared curriculum.
We guarantee, that Edita alongside our school will create safe and confirmable environment for your children.
