Our Devon schools and settings have now welcomed over 900 Ukrainian children. Over the last two years EMTAS has had access to Homes for Ukraine funding and we have been delivering enhanced support:
- Providing thousands of hours of fully funded bilingual support for Ukrainian children
- Supporting over 90 primary and secondary students in our fully funded Maths intervention programme
- Supporting Year 6 children with the Maths SATs through interpretation.
- Running over 25hrs of fully funded training for schools and EYFS on supporting children with EAL
- Supporting parents with admissions and school queries
- Supporting parents in school meetings with interpreters
- Supporting other agencies
- Providing EHE support to all known Ukrainian students who are registered as EHE
- Supporting school who have held ‘coffee mornings’ with their Ukrainian parents
From April we will return to delivering our core offer and this will be the same for all EAL children in Devon:
- Provide advisory support – guidance, intervention and Home language assessments
- Provide bilingual support where a need has been identified through an EAL proficiency assessment
- Provide interpretation for parents meetings
- Provide bilingual resources and guidance on our website
For further details please review our EAL guidance.
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Further support
- One minute guide for parents and guardians on the UK education system – English/ Russian / Ukrainian
- One minute guide on understanding secondary school – for children – English/ Ukrainian
- EAL support and EAL proficiency assessments
- Bilingual support and induction
- Supporting children and families from Ukraine – advice, resource links and support
- SEND support
- Bilingual resources – including reading books
- Ukrainian learning platform
- Helping Ukrainian students in schools and colleges
- Welcome pack and guidance for schools to welcome and support Ukrainian Refugees
- School transport
- Keeping children safe in education 2022 – translated resources
- Refugee assembly (Ukraine) for KS1 – PowerPoint
- Refugee assembly (Ukraine) for KS2 – PowerPoint
Downloadable resources translated into Ukrainian:
- Bilingual Babies (advice for parents about bringing up children bilingually) English / Russian / Ukrainian
- Starting School (transition to school support booklet)
Videos
- Storytelling – watch and listen to the story in Ukrainian Little Red Riding Hood (YouTube) – no closed captions
- Storytelling – watch and listen to the story in Ukrainian Goldilocks and the Three Bears (YouTube) – no closed captions