Secondary EAL

Welcoming new arrivals

Information on welcoming new arrivals, initial meetings with parents and classroom preparations can be found on our new arrivals page.

English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils may exhibit a ‘silent period’ – a natural stage when learning a language. See our advice on working with newly arrived pupils and strategies for tackling the silent period.  Once settled it might be appropriate to enter them for a Home language GCSE.

Resources

Links to National Strategy: Ensuring the Attainment of More Advanced Learners

• An introduction to the cpd modules
• 1: Senior Leader Briefing – leading change for more advanced EAL learners
• 2: Analysing Writing – assessing the needs of more advanced learners
• 3: Making Sense of Literacy Targets – learning objectives and activities
• 4: Talk as a Tool for Thinking – exploratory talk
• 5: Bridging Talk and Test – formal talk
• 6: Reading as a Writer: exploring challenging texts
• 7: Reading as a Writer: understanding the writer’s purpose
• 8: Thinking and Writing as a Writer: the sequence for teaching writing
• 9: EMA Coordinators: developing a strategic approach
• 10: Parents and Community: supporting pupils’ learning

Links to KS3 National Strategy Guidance Booklets (2002)

• Science
• Geography
• English
• History
• Design and Technology
• ICT
• Physical Education
• RE
• Music
• MFL
• Mathematics

Maths

This language of maths, the strategies used to teach and learn maths and the symbols we use to describe functions vary from country to country. This section will be all about supporting EAL children to learn the language they need for maths and providing good visual scaffolds to support EAL learners.

• EAL Funny Maths boardgame
• EAL Funny Maths cards
• EAL Maths – Word problems
• EAL Maths – Fractions: a Quarter 
• EAL Maths – Fractions and Ordinal Numbers 
• Secondary maths resources