Resources
Dictionaries and EAL support
Words for School Use
£2.40 Published by the Refugee Council
A series of illustrated classroom wordlists in the languages spoken by refugee children, Albanian, Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Somali, Serbo-Croat and Bosnian.
Accompanying workbooks available for new arrivals @ £2.50 each
Science words for school use - pack of all languages - £12.50
Maths words for schools use - pack of all languages - £12.50
Individual books cost £4.00 each: Packs of one of each book in one language: £9.00
All About Me: My Picture and Word Book
£15.00 Available from Lewisham PDC, Kilmorie Road, London SE23 2SP
A useful pack of photocopiable materials aimed at newly arrived pupils with little knowledge of English. The Picture and Word book can be made into the pupil's own dual language picture dictionary, divided into topics such as home, school, food, calendar etc.
When an EAL learner joins your class: advice and guidance from Bromley EAL Support Service
£3 from Pupil Support Service, The Widmore Centre, Nightingale Lane, Bromley,BR1 2SQ
Very clearly presented outline of how to support beginner bilingual pupils for teachers who are new to the task.
EAL Beginners Activity Sheets
http://www.ealinhounslow.org.uk/
Available from Hounslow Language Service, Hounslow Education Centre, Martindale Road, Hounslow, TW4 7HE (Tel: 020 8570 4166) The service produces many other very useful resources, all reasonably priced, including Multi Lingual Letters for Parents.
Collaborative Learning Project
This is a network of teaching professionals supporting inclusive education and developing and disseminating accessible teaching materials in all subject areas and for all ages.
Enchanted Learning
Provides a huge array of free resources to download which can be used to support bilingual learners in the classroom. Includes bilingual picture dictionaries.
Welcome Booklet CD Rom
£35 +vat published by Mantra Lingua, 5 Alexandra Grove, London N112 8NU
This software will print out in various languages vital information and photographs of your school – the key staff, opening hours, holidays, rules etc. Languages include: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Russian, Somali, Tamil, and Turkish.
LEA sites
Managing Pupil Mobility
http://www.islingtonschools.net/Services/emas/mobility/
Website guidance to assist schools' management of pupil mobility. It provides schools with ideas for good practice, case studies of good practice in Islington schools and up-to-date links to other useful guidance and resources.
Portsmouth EMA Team
www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk/asylum
Very helpful and user friendly website.
Newcastle EMTRAS
http://emtras.newcastlelea.org
As above. Contains welcome booklets in a variety of languages which can be downloaded.
Hounslow Language Service
http://www.ealinhounslow.org.uk/
Hounslow Language Service site with downloadable beginners programmes, multilingual stories, multilingual parents guides to bilingualism, multilingual maths key vocabularies, policies and information. Further resources available to purchase from the site
Issues
NUT Relearning to Learn:
http://www.teachers.org.uk/resources/word/relearning.doc
Advice for teachers who are new to teaching children from refugee and asylum seeking families.
The Guardian
www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain
Has useful updates and digests.
Asylum Newsround
Useful digest of recent news topics, provided by London Asylum Seekers Consortium (LASC).
Information for Asylum Seekers
www.londonmet.ac.uk/ragu/asset
Provides information on education, preparation for employment, volunteering and getting recognition for qualifications and experience. It includes a useful section on understanding the UK education system. The website includes translated summaries of information in 8 refugee languages, details of local provision and a chance to ask a question. The website was developed by RAGU (Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit).
Save the Children: Site for young refugees
www.savethechildren.org.uk/caris
Site set up for young refugees, their parents and their legal practitioners.
Children's Legal Centre (refugee and asylum seekers)
Easily accessible advice relating the rights of refugee children
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC)
http://ncadc.org.uk/campaigns/guide.htm
Has produced a campaigning guide good advice on how run a campaign against deportations. Available on CDROM (price £5), or can be downloaded free from NCADC website
Schools Against Deportation
Recently set up by the Institute of Race Relations to provide readily available campaigning resources, guidelines, and information for schools facing similar problems.
EAL
QCA: A Language in Common
Government guidelines on assessing English as an Additional Language
Naldic: Working for pupils with EAL
Provides news, advice and resources for teachers of EAL.