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New Arrivals Excellence Programme: Primary and Secondary National Strategies
This focused area brings together a range of websites and resources aimed at supporting schools in meeting the needs of newly arrived learners with English as an additional language (EAL).
The websites and resources have been sourced from a range of agencies and organisations with different perspectives and experience. They do not form a definitive list, nor a recommended list, but they have been selected because they offer a range of advice and guidance that schools may wish to consider as they develop their own policy and practice on meeting the needs of newly arrived learners.
Schools need to consider the advice and guidance given in these materials carefully and measure them against key principles of inclusion, attainment, access and entitlement as well as statutory instruments such as the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000), and frameworks such as the new Community Cohesion Standards.
The Department for Education and Skills wishes to make clear that the Department and its agents accept no responsibility for the actual content of any materials suggested as information sources in these materials, whether these are in the form of printed publications or on a website.
In these materials, icons, logos, software products and websites are used for contextual and practical reasons. Their use should not be interpreted as an endorsement of particular companies or their products.
The websites referred to in these materials existed at the time of going to print. Readers should check all website references carefully to see if they have changes and substitute other references where appropriate.
Using the websites and resources
Not all websites and resources in the list will be relevant, or applicable, in your individual context. Download a list of prompts which will help you assess the quality of the advice and guidance given on these websites and other resource materials. The prompts will help you in making decisions about securing the very best possible provision for newly arrived learners with EAL in your care. The headings are taken from Aiming High: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of EAL (DfES 1381-2005). More detailed advice and guidance on these aspects can be found in this publication, which is available on www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/inclusion/newarrivals/
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