English as an Additional Language
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We currently have 27 different languages spoken in our school. We are proud that we celebrate the diversity of our children and their families.
We aim to:
- celebrate and promote children’s home language
- enable all children succeed in accessing the curriculum, overcoming any language barriers
- enable all children to develop a rich, varied vocabulary in English
- ensure any additional support is linked to classroom learning and has a real context for children
Children who have English as an additional language (EAL) are supported in a variety of ways:
- the use of visuals to support written and spoken language
- supporting children with planning their writing
- supporting children editing and improving writing
- pre- teaching concepts e.g. grammatical structures that they then will be applying in class
- pre- reading texts with children so they can access them more easily in class
- pre- teaching mathematical concepts- especially vocabulary and reasoning skills
- pre-teaching science and wider curriculum vocabulary at the beginning of a unit of learning – we send words home to practise and discuss with families
- specific/ bespoke need or focus e.g. tenses, pronouns but in the context of class work
Those children who have a more limited use and understanding of English will have short 1:1 sessions to aid their English language acquisition.