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Statement of Aims

In Lawn Primary and Nursery School, we value children as individuals and strive to encourage the highest possible attainment in their learning, social development, personal achievements, and well-being. We do this through taking account of each child’s life, experiences and needs.

 

For those children for whom English is an additional language and for raising the achievement of minority ethnic pupils, the school will identify individual pupil’s needs, recognise the skills they bring to school and ensure equality of access to the curriculum.

We aim to ensure that all EAL pupils are able to:

  • Use English confidently and competently
  • Use English as a means of learning across the curriculum
  • Where appropriate, make use of their knowledge of other languages.

 

We recognise that children who are learning English as an additional language have skills and knowledge about language similar to monolingual English speaking children and acknowledge their ability to participate in the full curriculum may be in advance of their communication skills in English.

School Context

Lawn Primary and Nursery has approximately 490 pupils and can be considered a large school. The vast majority of our pupils come from White British backgrounds. The backgrounds of pupils from minority ethnic groups are varied, but each group is small. 

 

The school uses the following key principles for additional language acquisition:

  1. Language develops best when used in purposeful contexts across the curriculum.
  2. Effective use of language is crucial to the teaching and learning of every subject.
  3. The language demands of learning tasks need to be identified and planned for, with attention both to initial access and to extension.
  4. Access to learning requires attention to words and meanings embodied in each curriculum area. Meanings and understandings cannot always be assumed but need to be explored.
  5. Teachers have a crucial role in modelling uses of language.
  6. The focus and use of additional support time are best seen as an integral part of curriculum and lesson planning.
  7. All pupils have entitlement to the National Curriculum.
  8. A distinction is made between EAL and Special Educational Needs.
  9. Language is central to our identity. Therefore, teachers need to be aware of the importance of pupils’ home languages and to build on their existing knowledge and skills.
  10. Many concepts and skills depend on and benefit from a well-developed home language and literacy in home language, enhances subsequent acquisition of EAL.
  11. All languages, dialects, accents and cultures are equally valued.

 

Teaching and Learning 

We aim to provide the majority of support in the classroom so that the children feel engaged as a member of the class and receive teacher-modelled language. In class we use visual aids, bi-lingual dictionaries and translation devices, at a level they can access, to support the children’s learning. Additional intervention support is designed to facilitate pre-teaching, closing of gaps and confidence building for our EAL pupils. We use a variety of resources to support our pupils, including home language and bilingual books, an online EAL programme and a read aloud pen reading and comprehension scheme.

 

The EAL Lead at Lawn Primary & Nursery School is Mr C Berry. Please email him if you would like any more information on EAL provision at Lawn: cberry@lawn-pri.swindon.sch.uk

 

 

 

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