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Briefing for SIPs: City Challenge

Overview of the 2003 London Challenge Strategy to transform secondary schools in London, which is part of a three-region City Challenge programme with the Black Country and Greater Manchester. The strategy involves a range of work and is a combination of targeted interventions.

Briefing for SIPs: Aimhigher

Overview of the Aimhigher initiative, which aims to raise the aspirations and attainment levels of young people and improve progression for those entering higher education (HE) via vocational routes.

Raising Black children’s achievement e-learning modules

Helping all school staff evaluate key leadership and management tasks, school provision and identify areas for development associated with raising the achievement of Black children.

Module 1: Introduction

Introductory module about using this course, part of Excellence and Enjoyment: learning and teaching for Black children in the primary years, evaluating its use and impact, legal context and requirements, using data and defining ethnicity.
Module 2: Where are we now?

E-learning activities and resources to enable schools to conduct a targeted self-evaluation of the school's position on Black children's achievement.
Module 3: Where do we need to be?

E-learning module providing guidance on analysing the results of your audit and creating a plan to address areas for further development to improve Black children's achievement.
Module 4: How do we get there?

E-learning module addressing school culture, partnerships, transfer and transition, barriers to successful teaching and learning, and literacy and mathematics strategies to raise Black children's achievement.
Module 5: Resources

E-learning module signposting course and other resources for leadership, audit, culture and curriculum, transition and transfer, partnerships, literacy and mathematics.

Briefing for SIPs: Aiming High strategy

Introduction to the Aiming High: Raising the achievement of minority ethnic pupils national strategy. The strategy includes: mainstreaming initiatives and targeted support focusing on developing strong leadership in schools; high-quality teaching and learning; high expectations to succeed in pupils and teachers; Intolerance of racism; and working with parents and the wider community.

Aiming high: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language

Materials to support schools who may be working with newly arrived isolated learners of English as an additional language in settings which may have little or no access to expert Ethnic Minority Achievement support.

Providing a welcoming environment

Guidance on meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language. Document looks at: The information parents and carers should be provided with; The need for translation and interpretation; Obtaining information about new arrivals; Factual information.
Supporting children learning EAL

Guidance for teachers working in collaboration with English as an additional language (EAL) teachers and bilingual teaching assistants. Includes: Teaching methods; Guidance for teachers in settings with little or no access to expert support ; Strategies to help the beginner in the classroom; Resources and assessment.
Establishing and maintaining an inclusive and welcoming ethos and curriculum across the whole school

Information on the resources available for establishing and maintaining an inclusive and welcoming ethos and curriculum across the whole school.
Establishing and maintaining strong links with parents and carers and communities

Guidance to strategies available to foster a high level of parental participation in meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language.
Further resources for teachers

List of resources available to meet the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language.

Ensuring the attainment of mobile pupils

The purpose of these materials is to help schools analyse and discuss the curricular needs of their mobile pupils and to decide how best to respond. Ref: 1037-2004 G Publication date: November 2004

Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years – Teaching units to support guided sessions for writing in English as an additional language

These pilot materials provide guided teaching sessions that aim to address the specific needs of advanced bilingual learners in developing writing. They are designed to be used by trained adults working with small groups of children in Years 2–6 as part of day-to-day ‘Quality First teaching’. Ref: 00068-2007KIT Publication date: March 2007

Access and engagement at Key Stage 3: Teaching EAL learners

A pack of handbooks giving guidance on how to teach 11 subjects to pupils for whom English is an additional language. Ref: 0654-2002 Publication date: December 2002

Overview of learning: Year 3

Introduction to a profile of the learner at Year 3, giving an overview of learning in speaking and listening, literacy, mathematics, and key aspects of learning and inclusion, designed to assist teachers to plan how to address any gaps in learning. More information about the Primary Framework can be accessed by following the links from the Framework introduction page.

Inclusion

Guidance on inclusion at Year 3, covering special educational needs (SEN), learning difficulties or disabilities, gifted and talented (G+T) and English as an additional language (EAL).

Overview of learning: Year 2

Introduction to a profile of the learner at Year 2, covering the learner, speaking and listening, literacy, mathematics, key aspects and inclusion, designed to assist teachers to plan how to address any gaps in learning. More information about the Primary Framework can be accessed by following the links from the Framework introduction page.

Inclusion

Guidance on inclusion at Year 2, covering special educational needs (SEN), learning difficulties or disabilities, gifted and talented (G+T) and English as an additional language (EAL).

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

Briefing for SIPs: City Challenge

Briefing for SIPs: Aimhigher

Raising Black children’s achievement e-learning modules

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Where are we now?

Module 3: Where do we need to be?

Module 4: How do we get there?

Module 5: Resources

Briefing for SIPs: Aiming High strategy

Aiming high: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language

Providing a welcoming environment

Supporting children learning EAL

Establishing and maintaining an inclusive and welcoming ethos and curriculum across the whole school

Establishing and maintaining strong links with parents and carers and communities

Further resources for teachers