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Dear Friends Following the Prime Minister’s announcement in relation to closing schools we unfortunately, have to postpone all our courses until further notice. If you have already booked and paid for a course, we will be able to hold this as a credit towards a future course. As soon as we have the go ahead, we will post the future course notices on this website and will hope to see you as soon as possible.  Meantime, please look after yourselves and your families, and keep well, With all best wishes, Rehana and the HLS team

Following the very successful Conference in Madrid in February this year, HLS were invited to deliver our 3 day ‘Developing  Academic Literacy across the Curriculum’ Course at Kings College Soto. Delegates came from across Spain including Alicante and Madrid and represented a range of subject teachers and teachers from  across all phases of education. The course programme, delivered by Andy Harvey, aimed at  providing professional support for front line classroom teachers so that they can provide the best teaching and learning for EAL pupils across all subject areas. At the core of this approach is a focus on developing academic…

  Following recent whole school training in Alicante and Murcia, Hounslow Language Service was invited to deliver 2 days of EAL training in Barcelona. Nicola Davies, the Assistant Head of the British School, hosted the course in partnership with a linked International School. The course targeted specific phase groups for some of the sessions which gave opportunities for staff to consider strategies to improve support for EAL in the classrooms. A session for TAs was followed by ‘Developing talk in Early Years’ with a final session on ‘Developing Language and Literacy Across the Curriculum’. The second day included ‘Strategies for…

We really enjoyed our day at the NALDIC conference. The keynote address by Li Wei was about Translanguaging  and Multicompetence  and ways to apply this to practical strategies to support EAL learners was explored. The learn 100 words in 10 mins workshop was fun! We looked at how there are many similarities between different languages and how we can use these connections to promote the development of English and the EAL learners mother tongue. We had a very interesting discussion about what the ‘E’ is in ‘EAL’with Tracey Costley form Essex University.  We talked about which Englishthe 'E' refers to…

We are really looking forward to attending the NALDIC Conference!  Educating Multilingual Learners In The 21st Century: The Next 25 Years Manny Vazquez (HLS)  will be delivering a workshop on: GCSE English language & literature: New challenges and ways forward   The revised GCSEs in English have raised the bar in terms of expectations. The original exemplar materials sent out prior to this summer’s exams suggested that EAL learners might find the exams to be particularly demanding. There is now an even greater need to ensure that in English lessons we are drilling down to the actual language the students need…

  Tuesday 31st January   saw the launch of Phase 2 of our National Project ‘EAL in the Mainstream Classroom’ in partnership with Challenge Partners and Lampton school. This 2 year Project focuses on improving the academic language of EAL pupils and on supporting classroom teachers. The aim is to share practical ideas and resources that benefit not only EAL pupils but also the whole class.  The EAL Project is being funded by the Education Endowment Foundation, the Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy. Although the target curriculum on the course is History and Science, Phase 1 participants reported that the materials…

The first Teachers to take part in the pilot EAL in the Mainstream Classroom project  met in Swindon yesterday. Manny Vazquez and Andy Harvey from Hounslow Language Service delivered  day 1 of the 3 day course. Sarah and Ron who are leading the Delivery Centre for the Swindon Teaching School Alliance were joined by colleagues Carol and Zarah from Ninestiles School in Birmingham and a group of teachers from the local area.  Once the pilot is completed, both Ninestiles and Swindon will be offering the programme more widely to their local schools. For more information contact  Rehana Ahmed at Hounslow…