09 Sep 2024
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CALLING ALL SENCOs

Feedback from school SENCOs suggests that the strategies outlined on our HLScourses are all aimed at inclusion and helping class teachers to support all childrenin the mainstream.The focus on developing oracy in our courses supports those SEN pupils whohave Communication and Interaction difficulties. Our courses provide practical activities to extend the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.HLS courses also support SEN pupils with Cognition and Learning difficulties toaccess the curriculum and revisit learning in a variety of ways. These includeadapting activities, using visual scaffolds, games, displays and collaborativelearning.For more information about courses visit our website www.ealhls.org.uk or call Rehana on…
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19 Apr 2024
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EEF Report on ‘EAL in the Mainstream Classroom’ Project

EEF Report on ‘EAL in the Mainstream Classroom’ Project

The ‘EAL in the Mainstream Classroom’ project aimed to build subject teachers’ expertise in supporting EAL pupils and to improve their attainment. It was designed to develop teachers’ understanding of the key features of academic language in their subject, plan lessons accordingly and build resources that benefit not just EAL pupils but the whole class as well. This programme was managed by Challenge Partners with the training being designed and delivered by Hounslow Language Service and Lampton School. In partnership with 12 delivery centres across the country it was rolled out to over 70 schools in the UK.  Specialist subject…
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29 Nov 2023
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EAL Training at Ashford Primary

It was a great start to the new half term working with enthusiastic staff at Ashford Primary on ‘Rapid Progress in Vocabulary Development to Raise  the Attainment of EAL pupils’.  The school has a changing demography and is receiving more EAL children. The head feels strongly that EAL strategies are effective for all pupils including native speakers who come from homes where there isn’t rich language being modelled. These pupils also need to develop the breadth and depth of vocabulary covered in our course.  From the course evaluation, staff felt the course was ‘thought provoking’ and ‘of value to children…
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16 May 2023
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New Partnership with the ALBAN TEACHING SCHOOL HUB

We are pleased to launch our sessions with the AlbanTSH with 2 webinars in June. The first is suitable for all TAs working from KS! To KS3 and will equip participants with a toolkit of tried and tested classroom strategies. These will support EAL learners across all subject areas with Reading and Writing skills. The second webinar focuses on preparing for the new academic year and provides a useful framework, as well as practical teaching ideas for improving EAL provision. These includes resources to support pupils new to English - from admission through to the classroom. We will cover the…
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10 May 2023
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EAL Training News

TA Courses for EAL supportIn March, Teaching Assistants in West Acton School took part in an in-house course on ‘Strategies forworking with EAL Pupils’ delivered by Andy Harvey. Feedback included “Excellent activities showinghow to support EAL children in class.” And “Great ideas on how to improve and increase children’svocabulary.”This term, Manny Vazquez has followed up with another in-house course for the West Acton SchoolTAs, “Developing Grammatical Accuracy. “If you would like similar courses for your TAs, please do get in touch.
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08 Sep 2022
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START OF THE NEW TERM – EAL TRAINING

START OF THE NEW TERM – EAL TRAINING

This academic year launched Hounslow Language Service Training from ournew base at Brentford School for Girls in Hounslow. On the first days of term,our EAL Training programmes began in earnest. Over the last few months,schools have been welcoming new arrivals from a range of countries and EALtraining needs are as important as ever.On the 1 st September, Andy Harvey went to All Saints Primary School inCroydon to provide a half day course for the whole school. The aim of hissession was to develop reading and writing for EAL Beginners in the classroomsetting. As always, Andy gave useful examples of the…
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02 Feb 2022
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WALES – IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HLS EAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES

WALES – IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HLS EAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES

We were pleased to be able to continue to develop our relationship with The Adviser for Vulnerable Pupils in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. In December, Rehana Ahmed (HLS) in consultation with Martine planned bespoke EAL Beginner sessions for Primary and Secondary schools on Zoom. These webinars enabled a number of teaching staff from different schools to have access to top quality training online.  Following these sessions, Manny Vazquez (HLS) visited St Cyres a secondary school in Wales and they booked further training for 2022 via zoom on 4th January. The first whole school session focused on Developing Academic…
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08 Sep 2021
By Rehana Ahmed
HLS IN DUBLIN!

HLS IN DUBLIN!

HLS have worked with international teachers every summer, and this August was no exception. Two Italian schools sent over 20 teachers to Dublin for a long course covering the teaching of CLIL subjects. CLIL stands for 'content, language, integrated learning', essentially meaning that teachers are required to teach some of their subject content through the medium of another language; in this case English. The teachers we worked with represented a range of subjects, including Maths, Physics, History, Computer Science and English.
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23 Mar 2021
By Rehana Ahmed
EAL Webinars for Jersey Schools

EAL Webinars for Jersey Schools

This term has seen the development of our training in Jersey, linking with the EAL Head of Service and the EAL Team in Jersey. The partnership has launched with a series of 10 webinars during this term. The sessions were wide-ranging with topics from TA training on ‘Key Strategies to support EAL Learners’ to ‘Developing Grammatical Accuracy in the Writing of EAL Learners’. Participants on the TA training commented that the webinar was helpful and easy to understand and provided “lots of examples to put into practice straight away.”  The ‘Critical Reading’ and ‘Grammatical Accuracy’ sessions provided “Great activities that…
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