New
Arrivals |
This is 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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view videos? Download Quicktime |
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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. |
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Having a Buddy System. Feeling
safe, having helpful teachers. |
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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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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 |
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DCSF New Arrivals Excellence
Programme Guidance |
| Induction Programme for KS2,
click here to download the file |
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