We are absolutely thrilled and honoured to have been shortlisted for The Batook Pandya Award for Inclusion at the Bristol Social Impact Awards 2024! The awards ceremony, hosted by VOSCUR, took place on the evening of February 29th 2024 at South Bristol Skills Academy in Hengrove. Information about all categories Read more…
Rachel Labdon, former translator and currently a teaching partner specialising in EAL interventions, shares how she engaged parents from Czech Roma backgrounds to transform home-school relationships. In 2019 I was working in a Primary School in Gloucester with a high proportion of EAL children from Czech Roma families. Roma families Read more…
Jacinta Casselden, EAL Lead at St Mary Redcliffe & Temple School, Bristol, is also a Spanish teacher. In this bilingual blog, she explains what the EAL Pupil Profile is and how it is used We created the EAL Pupil Profile to share with staff key information about our newly arrived Read more…
A blog by Eve Kirby – EAL Co-ordinator for two schools in Gloucester: Hatherley Infant School & Nursery and St James Church of England Junior School. We created a survival language fan to support our new to English new arrivals in school, of which we have had a lot this Read more…
Creating a multilingual approach at school has meant rethinking how languages are used and how we interact with them. Firstly as individuals, then as teachers/educators who shape learning on a daily basis for our students. Being part of a school that welcomes change and promotes innovation has certainly helped with Read more…
On 11th January 2023, Better Bilingual colleague Stephen Bray delivered a training session, entitled ‘Ensuring the attainment of EAL learners’, to staff at The Hope Virtual School, Bristol at City Hall, Bristol. The HOPE exists to improve the education of children in care (CiC), often referred to as looked after Read more…
Reflecting on our EAL conversations with you in Autumn 2022, we’ve put together some FAQs with concrete ideas for you to develop different aspects of effective EAL provision in your school or setting – for the benefit of EAL pupils and their families. It’s always great to hear from you; Read more…
A blog by Kate Peacock – Reading Lead and newly appointed EAL Lead at Bannerman Road Community Academy (primary), Bristol – 21.12.22 We created a leaflet to welcome new families to our school as part of our induction process. We wanted to communicate key information in a simple, visual format Read more…
Whole-School Assessment of EAL A blog by Bathsheba Wells Dion – English Teacher and newly appointed EAL Lead Teacher at Bristol Cathedral Choir School (secondary) – 12.09.22 Our school’s multilingual context As a school in the centre of Bristol, we are lucky to have a wide mix Read more…
