Meeting with parents

• We ask parents to bring in any reports, school texts and exercise books from the pupil’s previous school.
• We advise parents that the pupil may bring reading books in the first language to school.
• We invite all new parents to view the school
• We ask parents to give details of the child’s home language
• We ask parents if they can act as translators for other parents.
• On the pupils first day, we pair them up with one of our Language Ambassadors, who can help translate.

Resources for the pupil

• If needed, provide pupils with a bilingual dictionary and dual language story books.
• Provide pupils with an indexed ‘word book’ for noting down key words and definitions (or translations if the child knows the word in their first language). (Definitions could be written in English or in the first language, or the child could draw a picture to remind them of the meaning of the word).

Assessing the pupil's language acquisition

• We use the NASSEA toolkit for assessing pupil's current EAL phase of learning - to support teachers in class as well as measuring progress pupils are making.
• Our EAL TA spends time observing in class, supporting pupils in small groups and withdrawal intervention to provide additional support.

Children can be enrolled onto our Learning Village programme