Osiris Educational

Ensuring access to the EYFS for all EAL pupils

Policy updates regarding EYFS and EAL teaching

Unpicking Ofsted’s criteria for outstanding provision

Update on Jim Rose’s review

Improve home-school links

The 6 biggest challenges: solutions and strategies

• Gaining the trust of a child who does not understand you
• Creating an environment where it is safe to speak and experiment
• Creating a curriculum where speech is modelled
• Overcoming grammar differences
• Using children’s natural skill of language acquisition
• Understanding the cultural differences these children face

Practical activities and new techniques

How to structure children’s learning to accelerate progress

Decoding and up-skilling techniques that can be used before full understanding of English

Practical activities and work programmes for synthetic phonics

Suitable new resources and how to use current resources to best advantage

Planning for high expectations

Assessment and monitoring progress

New assessment methods

New synthetic phonics tools to measure children’s achievements

How to monitor developments in speaking, reading and writing

Free Resource: Translation sheets and ‘Which Phonics’ activity sheets