| What's new - May 2008 SEAL materials now available in community languages The Gold Set of family activities are now available to download in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujerati, Punjabi, Somali, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. They can be downloaded from: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/banda/seal/ Crick Software: New to English Three CD Roms: In the House, In the Street, At School which would be helpful for children in the early stages of learning English. www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/clicker/newtoenglish Latest National Strategies Ethnic Minority Achievement Programme Newsletter Issue No.2 Spring 2008 18th March 2008: Website with good suggestions and links for new arrivals, asylum seekers and refugees: http://www.sharedfutures.org.uk/ Website recommended by teachers at St James' C of E Primary Rusholme: www.communication4all.co.uk Resources designed to support children with special educational needs, but many suitable to support learners with EAL. Multilingual classroom signs and labels: www.schoolslinks.co.uk (Thanks to Birchfields Primary School) PNS Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years Teaching units to support guided sessions for writing in English as an additional language (pilot material) Ref: 00068-2007FLR-EN From prolog on 0845 60 222 60 These units are to be used in class, not as an intervention. They are in the process of being revised, but are still useful to support the teaching of explicit aspects of grammar that children with EAL may find difficult. Primary and Secondary National Strategies New Arrivals Excellence Programme Guidance (booklet) Ref: 00650-2007BKT-EN DVD (featuring a case study from Cheetham Community School) Ref: 00426-2007DVD-EN Also from prolog 0845 60 222 60 PNS Supporting children learning English as an additional language - Guidance for practitioners in the Early Years Foundation Stage Ref: 00683-2007BKT-EN National Assessment Agency - Foundation Stage Guidance notes: assessing Children who are learning English as an additional language Primary and Secondary National Strategies Ethnic Minority Achievement Programme Newsletter Issue 1, Autumn 2007 Read about Guided Talk in Maths at Crowcroft Park Primary National Strategy Excellence and Enjoyment: learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years Professional development materials EAL Programme materials. You can order one copy per school from Prolog on 0845 60 222 60. The reference code is: 0013-2006 PCK-EN The materials comprise the following: Five booklets entitled: Introductory guide: supporting school improvement Unit 1 Planning and assessment for language and learning Unit 2 Creating the learning culture: making it work in the classroom Unit 3 Creating an inclusive learning culture Unit 4 Speaking, listening, learning: working with chidlren learning English as an additional language A set of fliers which provide: A DVD with clips with examples of good EAL practice A CD Rom with further resources to support the implementation of the EAL Programme PDM 1 - Establishing layered curriculum targets as a context for language development PDM 2 - EAL principles, pedagogy and practice: first language as a tool for learning PDM 3 - Integrated planning for language development and curriculum content PDM 4 - Supportive contexts: scaffolding langauge and learning PDM 5 - Speaking and listning: guided sessions for langauge development PDM 6 - Day-to-day assessment PDM 7 - Culture and identity: ethos, environment and currciulum PDM 8 - Developing learning partnerships with parents, carers, families and communities | 