JERSEY students could take a GCSE in Jèrriais next year.
L’Office du Jèrriais hope to have an agreed syllabus, examination paper and coursework by September 2009. And the English-Jèrriais dictionary launched earlier this month by the Société Jersiaise will help children get the top grades.
Jèrriais lessons started in the 1960s with adult evening classes. But it was not until 1999 that the subject was brought into schools.
Language teaching co-ordinator Tony Scott Warren teaches Jèrriais to hundreds of pupils every week and it was the feedback he received from secondary school pupils that encouraged him to pioneer for a GCSE in Jèrriais.
*Picture: Mr Scott-Warren with former Senator Jean Le Maistre whose father, the late Frank Le Maistre, compiled the first comprehensive Jèrriais to French dictionary in 1966, and who is now president of Le Don Balleine, a legacy for the promotion of Jèrriais
