COMMUNITY

EAL CHAMPION SCHOOL

Horizon Community College has a rapidly-growing, significant and diverse EAL student population, which is a new trend within Barnsley MBC. Our ethos promotes a welcoming, inclusive, safe and stress-free environment within College and the students’ bilingualism (and sometimes multilingualism) is recognised as a positive part of their intellectual development.

We provide additional opportunities for the students to use their home language to support their learning and development of English together with promoting British Values.

If you would like to know more about our EAL offer, or you are a school EAL lead and would like support developing your provision then contact info@horizoncc.co.uk

Principles

  1. We will offer frequent events to support partner schools to develop an inclusive EAL offer.
  2. We will signpost resources so that schools can integrate best practice into their EAL student provision.
  3. We will offer opportunities for consultation, to support sustained implementation of best practice.

Events

Horizon Community College will offer termly events for both families and partner schools, providing guidance in:

  • Induction: ensuring that students and their families understand the English school system, the curriculum offer that EAL students will have access to, and the wider support that can be obtained from both the school and the local community.
  • Inclusion: supporting students and their families to make the most of their school offer, including Personal Development and Enrichment opportunities, identifying how student-specific interventions can take place.
  • Integration: providing students and their families with information for long-term involvement in the local and wider community. This potentially includes involvement with local groups, Post-16 opportunities and understanding the history and heritage of the surrounding area.

Information about these events, including dates and times, will be provided via e-mail to schools in the local area.

Resources

Horizon Community College’s EAL team uses the resources of two organisations to support EAL provision:

The Bell Foundation

We make use of the Bell Foundation’s EAL Assessment Framework to determine a students’ proficiency in English and create bespoke support documentation that informs teachers of the best way to support a particular student in lesson. Alongside this, the Bell Foundation themselves provide subject-specific resources to support English development as students follow their curriculum. More information can be found at www.bell-foundation.org.uk.

Flash Academy

To assess a students’ proficiency in English and provide activities to support the improvement of their proficiency, we use Flash Academy, an online platform that helps students learn English based on their level of understanding. To support access to this, those EAL students who are digitally disadvantaged are provided with a device loan to support their English development outside of the classroom. More information can be found at www.flashacademy.com.

Exemplar resources from both organisations can be found on the EAL Champion School section of the Horizon Community College website.

dents’ proficiency in English and create bespoke support documentation that informs teachers of the best way to support a particular student in lesson. Alongside this, the Bell Foundation themselves provide subject-specific resources to support English development as students follow their curriculum. More information can be found at www.bell-foundation.org.uk.

Lesson Resources

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Lesson 10

Consultation

To arrange support with your school’s EAL offer, an initial discussion will function as a needs analysis so that support is bespoke and therefore more likely have the greatest impact for your school. To aid the structure of the discussion, please complete the form linked below and a member of the team will be in touch.

Initial Contact form

Important Information

Dear Parents/Carers

Please note the College is open today and Year 11 will be expected on site for their Mock Examinations. However, for Years 7 to 10, if you cannot get your child to school safely today, then please ensure that they access remote learning via Teams. For safeguarding purposes, please email in to info@horizoncc.co.uk if your child is not going to be in and will be accessing Teams.

Any child who accesses Teams remotely today will receive a present attendance mark of a B code (educated off-site). If your child does not access Teams then they will be classified as absent Please note that attendance codes will be updated throughout the day.

Mrs Huddart

Principal

College Calendar

  • Tuesday 12th December – 14th December – School Show
  • Tuesday 16th January – Y8 Parents Evening
  • Tuesday 6th February – Y11 Parents Evening 2
  • Tuesday 27th February – Y9 Parents Evening
  • Tuesday 16th April – Y10 Parents Evening
  • Tuesday 30th April – Y7 Parents Evening

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