Arrival of Ukrainian Learners

Over the past month, we have been delighted to be involved in welcoming young people from Ukrainian into Primaries and Secondaries across Renfrewshire.  While numbers so far are relatively small, it is steady increasing. Like many of our EAL learners who have come to Renfrewshire over the years from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, for instance, …

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Post-Eid Celebration

eid celebration

It may have come just over a week from Eid, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of our Muslim EAL learners and their friends in Paisley Grammar School when we gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan and the arrival of Eid together.   The EAL Room has never been as vibrant – or smelled so …

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End of Term Round up

It hardly seems days since we returned to schools and nurseries in January and yet here we are in April at the end of second term! From the day-to-day learning activities we’ve engage together in, Practice exams and coursework completion,  to the successful writing entries in the national Mother Tongue, Other Tongue competition, once again …

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Poetry Success Makes the News!

The hard work pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) across Renfrewshire put into their entries for the national Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition run by the Scotland’s National Centre for Languages (SCILT) has not gone unnoticed, especially a successful group of pupils at West Primary whose entries were selected for the finals. The Mother …

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