[eal-bilingual] EAL/EMAG student trip

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:09:40 +0000

HI
I agree with Sara on this.
An alternative approach and one that we have in Edinburgh been frequently involved in, with lots of success over many years is by facilitating the fuller involvement of EAL pupils in school camps/outdoor ed trips etc. This can mean an EAL teacher accompanies school staff and pupils for the entirety or part of or a school residential trip or takes a group of pupils, bilingual and monolingual who cannot stay away from home overnight but will be given permission from their parents to go for a full day. Either way it involves working closely with school staff and parents to identify the options and then make it happen. It gives pupils the chance to participate with support in the activities that the rest of their peers are doing and can facilitate the start and building of friendships between bilingual and monolingual pupils. It also encourages the school to consider what the barriers are to full participation in such events and hopefully develop approaches to overcome/address them.

Luan

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> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:09:40 +0000
> From: Sara.Green at rbkc.gov.uk
> To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] EAL/EMAG student trip
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> I am not sure whether this is a model you use for other pupils, but would query whether this is appropriate for EAL learners to be taken out specifically on their own with an external agency and no school staff present. Am sure their parents will have a view anyway and there will be issues of H and
> S. It is not something I have done, but anyone working with such a group needs to know about their backgrounds and EAL. Also isn't a key aim of any such visit to build relationships between this group of pupils and staff in the school ? And this cannot be realised if the pupils are taken out by an
> external body. There is also the issue of feedback/follow-up and so ideally the group should have someone familiar with them.  
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> Sara
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> From: eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of antoinette malone
> Sent: 01 March 2008 08:08
> To: For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic and linguisticminorities
> Subject: [eal-bilingual] EAL/EMAG student trip
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> Good morning,
>  
> I was wondering if any EAL/EMAG departments had ever used an external school trip organiser to take a group of EAL students on a trip within the UK - and if so if there are any particular organisations/trips that they would recommend.
>  
> I would very much like to take some students away - I imagine Stratford would be interesting, or York - but it may be something we would have to outsource in terms of organisation.
>  
> Has anyone ever done anything like this?
>  
> Many thanks for any adviceToni Malone
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