We were pleased to be able to continue to develop our relationship with The Adviser for Vulnerable Pupils in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. In December, Rehana Ahmed (HLS) in consultation with Martine planned bespoke EAL Beginner sessions for Primary and Secondary schools on Zoom. These webinars enabled a number of teaching staff from different schools to have access
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HLS have worked with international teachers every summer, and this August was no exception. Two Italian schools sent over 20 teachers to Dublin for a long course covering the teaching of CLIL subjects. CLIL stands for ‘content, language, integrated learning’, essentially meaning that teachers are required to teach some of their subject content through the medium of another language; in
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This term has seen the development of our training in Jersey, linking with the EAL Head of Service and the EAL Team in Jersey. The partnership has launched with a series of 10 webinars during this term. The sessions were wide-ranging with topics from TA training on ‘Key Strategies to support EAL Learners’ to ‘Developing Grammatical Accuracy in the Writing
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HLS joins the Global Education Initiative hosted by the Global Education and Training Institute in India.We were pleased to have the opportunity to join colleagues from 50 different countries for the ‘13th Education Leadership international Virtual Conference’ held online from 21 st to 24th January 2021.The Conference for Education leaders and teachers focused on key issues ineducation today and gave
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The new term started with HLS still managing to meet with teachers in school to continue our workshops (as well as our new Webinars).This month, Li Yen French worked with staff at Dairy Meadows school on a session entitled ‘Classroom Strategies to support EAL Pupils from Beginners to Advanced Learners.’Participants thoroughly enjoyed the session and “the range of activities which can easily
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At Rokeby School Kingston, the term started with a school-based HLS training session led by Andy Harvey. In a socially distant safe setting, Andy presented a workshop of practical activities to support pupils from Reception through to Year 2 who are new to English.In a dynamic session, Andy also included classroom activities and interactive resources for Year 3-6 pupils. Additional teaching strategies
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We are so glad that we can continue our EAL training programmed online in the current situation. Our trainers are enjoying meeting you via the new format. We have had a great start to our live webinars with attendees from across the country and abroad joining the first sessions on Beginners and Developing Academic Language and Literacy. We aim to keep the
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We hope you and your families are keeping well and safe during this very difficult time. Due to several requests from schools for online training we are now able to offer 2 of our most popular courses ie Beginners and Advanced Learners in the form of a webinar. If you are interested in booking a 1.5 hour session for your
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Dear Friends Following the Prime Minister’s announcement in relation to closing schools we unfortunately, have to postpone all our courses until further notice. If you have already booked and paid for a course, we will be able to hold this as a credit towards a future course. As soon as we have the go ahead, we will post the future
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Following the very successful Conference in Madrid in February this year, HLS were invited to deliver our 3 day ‘Developing Academic Literacy across the Curriculum’ Course at Kings College Soto. Delegates came from across Spain including Alicante and Madrid and represented a range of subject teachers and teachers from across all phases of education. The course programme, delivered by Andy
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