EAL

(English as an additional language or New to English)
All children need a developed grasp of English to be able to learn and enjoy the life of the school. As part of our commitment to ‘every child as an individual’ we ensure that those children who join our team with no English or gaps in their English are given the tools they need to succeed in their learning.

After all- they have already learnt one language fluently and deserve the chance to be equally successful in learning their second one!

When children arrive in our school, we undertake a Bell Assessment to profile their existing skill with Language and identify the stage of provision needed to quickly get them fluent and confident in English.Children will be assessed against the Bell Foundation Primary Assessment framework to identify which band of fluency they are working within.
Eg:

To see the full document please click on the button below

For further information please see : www.bellfoundation.org.uk/

Once a child’s band of fluency has been identified, we use the ‘Racing to English’ program to support them in moving through the remaining stages to secure confident, fluent spoken, read and written English.

Please click on the buttons below to see the overview documents for stages 1-3 of the Racing to English program

Wherever possible we source an adult to do a first language assessment for children who arrive with English as their second language who are not yet proficient in English.

Within our school we have staff who speak a range of languages eg: