At St. Joseph’s we are committed to ensuring that every child succeeds and reaches their full potential. We are dedicated to raising the achievement and attainment of pupils with EAL enabling them to do the best they can within a positive, supportive, secure and safe learning environment.

Through quality first teaching based on experiences and talk, we aim to meet the language needs of our learners.

As a school we aim to:

• Provide a welcoming environment in which pupils will learn most effectively.

• Provide support to pupils with EAL needs.

• Plan and teach lessons using learning styles most appropriate to EAL learners.

• Provide an inclusive curriculum.

• Promote home languages across school and encourage and support discussion of learning (in home language) at home.

• Monitor pupils progress regularly against the step levels.

• Assess pupils in class and set targets based on these assessments.

• Ensure pupils are making progress and are able to access the school curriculum.

• Support pupils who are at risk of under achieving.

• Celebrate pupil’s achievements in school as well as in extra-curricular activities.