New To English>  Advice and Guidance

General principles, strategies and guidelines for activities for parents carers and teachers of bilingual and multilingual pupils.

     Welcome Booklet for Parents/Carers of Newly arrived pupils.
User friendly booklet with visuals and simple language to give essential primary school information.  Can be adapted and personalised for your own school.

  (556 KB) Advice and Guidance on Pupils New to English
(556 KB) Advice and Guidance on Pupils New to English
Advice and guidance for class teachers supporting pupils new to English. It outlines strategies, procedures and activities that enable teachers to feel confident about providing EAL pupils with effective support during the first few weeks after arrival. It also lists resources and National Strategy links.

(141 KB) Action Planning for Early Stage Bilingual Learners
(308KB) Action Planning for Early Stage Bilingual Learners
A Menu of targets and strategies for drawing up individual action plans in relation to Early Stage Bilingual Learners.

(134 KB) EAL Pupil Assessment Pack
(442 KB) EAL Pupil Assessment Pack
This pack enables teachers to assess and action plan early stage bilingual learners. It includes guidance and proforma on interviewing families; discussions with subject and class teachers; the use of Step and National Curriculum Descriptors; speaking and writing sampling; pupil observation; ‘Round Robin’- for use with pupils who have several teachers. The pack is available in MS Word or pdf format by using the links on the left.

  (76 KB) Dudley Language Descriptors
( 414 KB) Dudley Language Descriptors
This document gives Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing descriptors which are parallel to National Curriculum Descriptors and are written from an English as an Additional Language perspective. They can be helpful to monitor the progress of bilingual learners and to set appropriate individual targets. They are available in MS Word or pdf format by using the links on the left.