Refugee Week 2020 is a celebration of the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Founded in 1998 and held every year around World Refugee Day on the 20 June.
This website has various ideas to contribute to and take part in celebrations this week. The Children and Young People’s Section has some good ideas for schools, teachers and pupils.
Some support for teachers to translate comments into home languages on SeeSaw. From the Seesaw help centre.
https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/218102343-How-does-translation-work-
This link is to a database of websites shared by teachers which has many useful resources for learning. It has been compiled by Teach First, a social Enterprise dedicated to building a fair education for all. https://www.teachfirst.org.uk/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/149TQzqLlY7C-jxbCRdMYz8oYXxfimhI1k9IiI-PxWe4/edit?usp=sharing
Time Together Booklet
https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/time-together-multilingual-families/
On the National Literacy Trust website you will find some translated leaflets to support multilingual families with their young child’s development at home with some suggestions on chatting together, singing songs and sharing books in their home language.
There are other useful resources can be found on this website too such as Family Zone with ideas from Birth to age 12; Zone in with specific ideas for students aged over 12; Grammar, Spelling and reading support and many other literacy related ideas for pupils parents and teachers.
Please find the link to our team Leaflet with a brief summary of the services we can offer and who we are.
Please contact us if you need any EAL support as young people, parents/guardians or colleagues.
The University of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases department has released talk summaries from the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 workshop, translated into a variety of other languages. This might be of interest for anyone looking into Covid -19 from a scientific point of view. Link below:
PKC have produced some helpful leaflets to offer support and advice on the wellbeing of Parents, Carers and Young People.
Please see attachments below:
Education Scotland’s Laura Mcintosh has collated some sites to support ESOL learners with English. You can access each site from this link or create your own account and save it to access any time.
The site links you to:
BBC Learning English
SQA
Scottish Refugee Council
NATECLA Scotland
Migration Scotland
Learn English Glasgow
and more…
https://uk.mantralingua.com/homereading
Mantra Lingua have released their dual language reading ebooks for free to support Parents and pupils with home learning. 37 languages available and some lovely books suitable for lots of different ages. Just sign up on the website link above.
This link contains lots of websites, apps and links to sites supporting EAL learning at home during school closures. Some support pupils learning at different levels of English and some support for parents/guardians as well as support for teachers with EAL learners in their classes. Lots of resources to help teachers with learning and teaching ideas.
Some of these we have posted already, but there are some excellent resources in here. Have a look!
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