The Archbishop Lanfranc School

Rationale

The Archbishop Lanfranc School has a vast cultural and linguistic diversity among both staff and pupils which it uses to promote understating, tolerance and respect for all the different communities within the school and society.

At The Archbishop Lanfranc School we believe that every child, regardless of ethnicity, has the right to a broad and balanced curriculum and equal access to assessment procedures.

We believe that pupils learning English as an additional language are entitled to the full National Curriculum programmes of study and that all teachers have responsibility for teaching English as well as subject content.

Our department aims to:

• Encourage minority ethnic pupils to reach their full potential and develop a positive attitude towards learning and academic success.
  Work with teachers to promote strategies to improve teaching and learning in order to enhance achievement
• Promote minority cultures through the teaching of community languages and develop cultural, religious and personal identities of all learners.of all minority ethnic pupils.
  Use data to monitor the achievement of these pupils in order to highlight and tackle under performance.
• Provide support for EAL pupils to ensure full access to the curriculum by:
  • Providing a welcoming ethos in school and classrooms.
  • Supporting pupils who have recently arrived to the UK – academically, emotionally and socially.
  • Valuing their first language by providing a range of notices, posters, labels and dual language texts in first languages
  • Providing appropriate cultural resources where possible.
  • Ensuring that tasks are differentiated where appropriate and well supported by concrete and visual materials, especially for pupils in the earlier stages of English acquisition.
  • Making staff aware that although children become conversationally fluent in two years it will take a further 3-5 years at least for them to gain enough vocabulary and knowledge of English to function efficiently in all subject areas
  • Making staff aware that EAL children learn most efficiently working in collaborative groups with able and fluent English speakers