Dear Anne-Marie Dias Borges Thank you for delivering two exceptional presentations to our primary & secondary students, focusing on the importance of maintaining home languages while acquiring new languages.Students found them to be incredibly inspiring! Prendergast Ladywell Prendergast Primary School

Thanks to #KensingtonPrimarySchool and #SoofiaAmin for welcoming WoLLoW to your school. Your multilingual approach to teaching was inspirational. Thanks for including WoLLoW in your communication curriculum. #multilingualism #translanguaging #NorwichSchool

I was hoping to see more engagement on this post from white male colleagues/leaders. I’ll share a more blokey story in case it strikes a chord. 22 years ago, a friend and I went to a nightclub in North London. In front of us in the queue were a group of guys and a couple of

Don’t miss Supporting Pupils in the Early Stages of Acquiring English on 26 March our online course run in partnership with learningpartnership.uk/courses-events… Learning Partnership.

What impact did COVID have on the progress made by different groups of pupils at GCSE? The 3rd largest and hugely welcome increase in the P8 score between 2019 and 2023 is by Black Caribbean pupils. What does that tell us about schools? Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM

What impact did COVID have on the progress made by different groups of pupils at GCSE? The 3rd largest and hugely welcome increase in the P8 score between 2019 and 2023 is by Black Caribbean pupils. What does that tell us about schools? Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM

I still remember being asked by a senior leader from another primary school, “ Does research really show that using home languages will help a child?” Share this far and wide as many leaders do not understand the value of L1 in the classroom.

Click to explore our programme of support for schools in April : learningpartnership.uk/courses-events… #cpd

Do you want to find out what other EAL leaders think and be tutored by a successful, current primary school EAL co-ordinator? leading-eal-in-primary-schools/ You can hear course tutor Lynsey Irish talking about EAL in her own school at youtube.com/watch?v=dlFtor….

The proportion of pupils from White British backgrounds in English state schools fell between 2016 and 2023 from 69.3% to 62.6%. However, the fall was uneven across the country. The smallest drop of just over 4 percentage points was in London. Dominic Brassington EAL (he/his) Jonathan Bifield EAL

Lovely feedback from Rosemary Ho of Middleton International School, Singapore about theealacademy.co.uk/product/multil… “I really enjoyed this course.” Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM @BetterBilingual PLS EAL Dep. 💐🙋🏻‍♀️💙👩🏻‍🏫 Dominic Brassington EAL (he/his)

Our collaboration with The Learning Partnership continues with The EAL Leader Network on May 16. learningpartnership.uk/courses-events… @BetterBilingual Learning Partnership.

We have just reorganised our six month extended EAL course theealacademy.co.uk/accredited-onl… so that is now possible to start whenever you want rather than at three fixed dates a year and to take it at your own pace rather than having to complete a unit every month. Jonathan Bifield EAL

Karen Kondo, headteacher of West Acton Primary School, talks about some of the key elements of EAL provision in her school in this short video from our most EAL Quality Mark webinar. theealacademy.co.uk/eal-quality-ma… youtube.com/watch?v=9jDZEs…. Jonathan Bifield EAL PLS EAL Dep. 💐🙋🏻‍♀️💙👩🏻‍🏫 Dominic Brassington EAL (he/his)

Are you interested in a course at the cutting-edge of language-based teacher professional development? Then theealacademy.co.uk/teaching-in-en… definitely for you. PLS EAL Dep. 💐🙋🏻‍♀️💙👩🏻‍🏫 Jonathan Bifield EAL Dominic Brassington EAL (he/his)

We believe that playful classroom conversations evolve into purposeful and empowering dialogue: oracy in the curriculum. Our newsletter is updated and we are promoting the next LATE London Teachers 📚✏️ conference on 6th July. Hope to see you there!

John Claughton @BetterBilingual Bridget Phillipson # @EAL_naldic The EAL Academy Norwich School Cheadle Hulme School

4 years on from Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, both the number and % of pupils with EAL continue to rise inexorably. Not only that, but the way in which the data is collected means it could be an underestimate by as much as 10 % points. Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM

4 years on from Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, both the number and % of pupils with EAL continue to rise inexorably. Not only that, but the way in which the data is collected means it could be an underestimate by as much as 10 % points. Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM

Geoff Barton Prof Julia Snell That's why we should teach languages to 9 year olds through the languages they know. ASCL @BetterBilingual @EAL_naldic The EAL Academy ISMLA John Wilson CHS The Languages Gateway