We are a team of school improvement specialists, consultants and leaders in the fields of academic literacy, English as an additional language and ethnic minority achievement.
EAL Quality Mark Gold Award for New Marston Primary School in Oxford
When New Marston Primary School in Oxford was inspected in 2016 Ofsted said: “Teachers and adults do not cater well enough for pupils who … speak English as an additional...
- Graham Smith
- 14th April 2021
Effective partnership for EAL CPD
The latest issue of International School Leader Magazine includes an article by James Cathcart, Director of the British Section at the Lycée International in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, about our long professional development relationship. “This initiative...
- Graham Smith
- 14th April 2021
What we have learnt about EAL from schools doing The EAL Quality Mark
The best thing about doing the EAL Quality Mark validation visits is learning from the fantastic practice we see. So far 21 schools have been awarded the Gold EAL Quality...
- Graham Smith
- 16th March 2021
EAL Academy Newsletter March 2021
In this newsletter we cover supporting EAL learners in lockdown the latest additions to the free resources section of our website our free webinar series: Changing the conversation updates to...
- Graham Smith
- 2nd March 2021
EAL Academy Newsletter January 2021
In this newsletter we cover how EAL pupils in England fare under teacher assessment EAL in multilingual Britain in 2021 the latest additions to the free resources section of our...
- Graham Smith
- 27th January 2021
Can an online EAL course really make a difference in your classroom? (Take 2)
When I last wrote about this subject at the end of November 2019, we had just one online course. I was celebrating the seventh birthday of our six unit EAL course...
- Graham Smith
- 4th January 2021
Graham Smith at the 2020 NALDIC Conference- Multilingual Britain: Successes, challenges and future directions
There is widespread myth about this country and its people. It is the myth of a monolingual island race with its world conquering language, which over a billion people speak...
- Graham Smith
- 7th December 2020
Congratulations to St Michael’s RC Primary School in Newcastle on its Gold EAL Quality Mark
Google search can be very unfair. St Michael’s RC Primary School is in the part of Newcastle called Elswick. If you type Elswick Newcastle into Google, you are an offered...
- Graham Smith
- 25th November 2020
Kensington Primary School in Newham Awarded a Gold EAL Quality Mark
The strapline on Kensington Primary School’s website is “Inspiring children for exciting futures.” The school does what it says on the tin. It inspires children and it inspired me too....
- Graham Smith
- 10th November 2020