Tusks… antlers… fangs… gills… how do you say these words in your #homelanguage? Year 2 students at #ISH_EAL learn new #academicvocabulary in English and in their HL because here #alllanguagesmatter!

#Y4 #IPC learned #Conservationists explore possible solutions to protect the environment and living things. To extend learning and to add a #cultural dimension students researched a conservationist's work from their home or former country of residence.#culture matters at #ISH.

Combining #books & #nature, my closest butterfly is this one! Here's to hoping that someday my #Greek will be good enough to be able to read my gorgeous, πεταλούδα-themed book! #langtwt #30DaysWildMultilingual Multilingualism in schools (& beyond) #lovelanguages

Additional topics for Grand Multi-literacy Event 😃 FREE, ONLINE, LIVE event on YouTube @Library4Multilinguals from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th September 2024 #TheGMLevent2 #biliteracy #lovetoread #Dyslexia #multilingualfamily

From letmeknowhowitgoes on IG: “Yesterday, I was talking to teachers about how we might help students to notice when they are distracted and name the distraction as a way to mindfully pivot. I played around with this student-facing chart today.”

Encouraging students to “think about their thinking” 🧠💯

☝️Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning. 👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here:

Visually supported anchor charts makes the building of graphic novels more accessible for our #multilingual students. #WritingWorkshop #StoryStructure #LinkingPictures & #Language

One of our teachers in the #earlyyears1 using #GoogleTranslate in a lesson to support a student new to #English. Her clear and concise instructions explaining a task in #opinionwriting not only benefits the new #ELL, but all the other students in her class. #alllanguagesmatter

Do you want to learn more about effective ways of teaching, classroom management, and practical lesson preparation tips for #TESOL? Join our "Intro to TESOL" online course offered by IELLI - St Andrews University of St Andrews st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online-s…… TESOLgraphics Dr Paula Villegas

The Year 5 team held its closing #BonVoyage IPC exit point by creating travel booths about #sustainable holidays. Persuasive advertisements were presented authentically to parents in the language of the country and English. #AllLanguagesMatteratISH

It’s the nature of #international schools to have a large number of students and staff leave each year. Here at #ISH, the #EAL department keeps a memory of them by creating an art piece which includes their fingerprint and name. They leave their mark on us in many ways!

Yesterday, we welcomed our new students and all of their #languages to ishthehague official. How do you say #culture in your language? #Multilingualism is always celebrated at the #ISH!

NEW STUDY shows, yet again, that schoolchildren who speak more than one languages tend to perform better, including in subjects such as English. Speak all the languages you can to your child(ren). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

👏👏👏 Congratulations on your outstanding achievements.

ECIS MLIE Meet Ups are back! Next week sees the season kick off. Sign up on the ECIS MLIE web page to attend. It's free! Here’s the link!!!! ecis.org/event/mlie-mee…

EAL has moved its posts to LinkedIn. We would love for you to follow our continuing, multilingual developments there. Please click on the link below and join us. Hope to see you there!👋 #MultilingualLearning #ISHPrimary linkedin.com/in/multilingua…

Hello - I wrote a new blog about the teaching of whole class reading, which I haven't in a while. It's over 9000 words so quite a read, but I hope the comprehensive nature of it comes across as helpful, rather than patronising. Anyway - hope it's useful! mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/who…