EMTAS Resources

Maintaining and developing the home language is crucial to support the academic attainment of our EAL pupils. It is particularly important for those EAL learners in the Early Years and Key Stage One to develop the mother tongue. 

This message should be given to the parents and carers of our EAL students and is available in:

• English
• Arabic
• Traditional and Simple Chinese  
• Bengali
• Polish  
• Somali

We have produced a number materials to support the Induction of Newly arrived pupils and the multilingual classroom.

• Handy Vocabulary 
• Newcomer Information Sheet
• Language Identification Sheet
• Resources to support newly arrived pupils

 
We have produced a number materials to support EAL pupils and the multilingual classroom.

• Good Practice for admission of EAL pupils
• EAL Initial Assessment Checklist

 
We have also compiled a series of translated letters for you to use in your school.
These cover themes such as welcome to our school, the importance of attendance, school admissions and absence.