Sarah Christie is an EAL specialist working in Manchester and has had recent experience teaching English to Afghan pupils in a large primary school and also supporting asylum-seeking pupils in hotel settings and with their transition to primary and secondary schools.
Behind the daily headlines are the schools and the teachers struggling to settle and teach new asylum-seeking and refugee pupils. And the support that you receive to achieve this is patchy at best and often non-existent. Autumn term will undoubtedly bring more of these pupils into your classrooms – often... View Article
This blog has been written by Sarah Christie. Sarah Christie has worked as an EAL lead and specialist learning support in Primary schools in Manchester. Her involvement in language learning began when working in Italy teaching English at 18 and she is now interested in the science of bilingualism and... View Article
