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Weaving Words of Welcome

Categories: Activities. Tags: literacy, migration, mother language day, multilingualism and refugee week.

This activity is tied to a simple story “hook”, encouraging children to show empathy and use their languages at the same time.

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Empathy Day

Categories: Activities. Tags: display, emotions, empathy, feelings, multilingualism and poetry. Topics: English and Literacy.

It’s Empathy Day on 6th June – a great opportunity to use multilingualism in the classroom as a way to encourage interest in, and engagement with, each others’ languages. Here are four simple ideas.

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Year 1 children and their owl rap

Feature School: Sacred Heart School, Leeds

Categories: Blog. Tags: multilingualism, Music, rap, rhythm and Year 1.

When the wonderful Miss Morrisroe shared with us that her Year 1 class was planning on using our Minibeast Speech Song activity and adapt it to an “Owl Rap”, we asked whether we could come and film them, and were very grateful when this was possible. Ryan Bramley, a lecturer in the School of Education […]

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Multilingual storytelling or shared reading

Categories: Activities. Tags: fairytales, literacy, multilingualism, reading, stories and storytelling. Topics: English, Geography, Literacy and MFL.

Every time we share a story with children, we have a fantastic opportunity to enable children to build on their language awareness, learn from each other, and enhance their linguistic repertoire. Check out this activity to gain some confidence in enhancing children’s linguistic repertoire through storytelling.

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Multilingual Me

Categories: Activities. Tags: multilingualism. Topics: Literacy and MFL.

This activity is designed to celebrate a child’s achievements in language learning and allows pupils to explore different aspects of their language abilities.  It is a way to record a pupil’s language competencies in speaking, writing and reading other languages as well as their aspirations for learning other languages.  It would work well as part […]

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Teachers’ strategies for teaching multilingual pupils – Andrea Morrisroe

Categories: Blog. Tags: dissertation, EAL, multilingualism, research and strategies. Topics: English, Literacy and MFL.

This summer I undertook a dissertation as part of a Master’s in Education, specialising in Early Childhood Education. As an Early Years class teacher in primary education for many years, I have always had an interest in language acquisition. This interest developed further as increasing numbers of children were starting school with little or no English. Over time my school developed a policy towards EAL which ensured that effective strategies for supporting pupils with EAL were embedded and the use of home language was encouraged and celebrated.

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Sellincourt Primary “Feature School”

Categories: Blog. Tags: feature school, language day, minibeasts, multilingualism and picture poem. Topics: Art & Design, English, Literacy, MFL, Music and Science.

Sellincourt Primary School is located in London and its student population reflects the incredible diversity without our capital city. We know that acknowledging and incorporating pupils’ home languages into their formal learning has positive effects not just on language development and learning in general, but also on important aspects of well-being such as integration and belonging. We were delighted to see how Sellincourt Primary utilised Lost Wor(l)ds activities to celebrate the diversity amongst their pupils. The X form entry school dedicated an entire day in June, to celebrating the connection between language, cultural identity and nature with ‘International Languages Day’. 

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‘Go Green’ on Earth Day 2021

Categories: Blog. Tags: multilingualism, recycling and sustainability.

Today we are celebrating Earth Day and joining the 2021 global call to take action on climate change and protect our planet. Environmentalism, sustainability and protecting nature are at the heart of the ‘Lost Wor(l)ds’ project. We would like to share how our activities can help your school or class celebrate Earth Day and contribute […]

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‘Schools of Sanctuary’

Categories: Blog. Tags: multilingualism, refugees and asylum seekrs and Schools of Sanctuary.

So what is a ‘School of Sanctuary’ and how does a school receive this recognition? ‘Schools of Sanctuary’ welcome and actively support refugees and asylum seekers within their local community, including families with children registered as pupils. You might question why this needed, when primary schools already provide a safe and caring environment, in which […]

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Happy International Mother Language Day

Categories: Blog. Tags: family, International Mother Language Day, multilingualism and school.

This International Mother Day, we asked on social media what it meant for parents to pass their language on to their children, and for children to be multilingual.

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