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New Arrivals
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This is a resource for teachers and children in Tower Hamlets primary schools. You will find video clips and links to documents that will be useful in helping you provide the best welcome to newcomers.
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| Click on the pictures or the text on the left to hear from new arrivals to Tower Hamlets Primary Schools. Click on the pictures or the text on the right below to hear from adults who work with them. |
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| Can't view videos? Download Quicktime | Listen to how newcomers felt, what helped them, and how they would help others. | |||||
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Feeling safe, settled and valued. The importance of friends, using a "Friendship Bench" |
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| Making friends. Going to After School Club. | ||||||
| Having a Buddy System. Feeling safe, having helpful teachers. | ||||||
| Teachers giving support in English and Maths. | ||||||
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My friend helping me when I was unhappy. |
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Making friends and helping a new child. | |||||
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Making new arrivals feel welcome. | |||||
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Parents supporting and making friends. | |||||
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All new arrivals including refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from overseas have the right to enjoy a welcoming, safe and stress-free environment within school. They need to know that they are valued and that they belong. Their ability to speak another language needs to be seen as a positive resource, to be recognised and valued. They also need opportunities to use their home language to support their learning and development of English. It is important that they are given learning opportunities that are accessible, relevant and purposeful as part of every day lessons as soon as possible in order not to feel marginalised and excluded. New arrivals need to be able to see themselves, their languages, culture and identity reflected not only in the classrooms but also in the wider school and through an inclusive curriculum. |
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Points to consider:
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.Buddies who share the same language.
Breakfast Club and After School Club. |
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Intervention - using a short term induction programme and providing opportunities to use first language
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Welcoming new families, support in the first few days, feeling safe and valued. Setting up support systems.
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Longer term support for learning. Target setting and tracking.
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Deployment of support staff - using a short term induction programme, group support and one-to-one work
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Guidance to help support new arrivals in school
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| Tower Hamlets Guidance | DCSF New Arrivals Excellence Programme Guidance | |||||
| Induction Programme for KS2, click here to download the file | ||||||
