In every classroom
Make subject learning accessible through clear language, purposeful scaffolds and participation in the same meaningful goals.
Shared responsibility · everyday inclusion
Whole School
Make inclusion something multilingual learners experience in lessons, policies and school life. Bring subject teaching, language planning, family partnership and students’ languages into a coherent approach that staff can put into practice.
BelongingLanguage across learningShared practice
The whole-school view
Inclusion is built into everyday school life
Effective EAL provision connects what happens in classrooms with the systems, relationships and decisions that shape a learner’s experience across the school.
Across school systems
Align policies, routines, transitions and staff guidance so multilingual learners meet consistent support.
With students and families
Listen to learner voice, communicate accessibly and invite family knowledge into school life.
Start by role: Leading inclusion across the school? Follow the inclusion-leader pathway. Open the guided route →
Student voice · language · culture
Make multilingual school life meaningful
Invite EAL students to shape how languages and cultures are represented across school life. Build regular ways for learners to contribute, choose what they want to share and see how their ideas influence what happens next.
Listen to students
Use multilingual surveys, small-group conversations, student council roles and optional creative submissions. Ask what helps them belong, which languages they want recognised and what they would like adults to understand. Share back what the school heard and what it will change.
Make assemblies accessible
Offer translated invitations and key messages, dual-language slides, short recorded greetings or student-approved contributions. Explain unfamiliar references and make the main message clear to everyone. Arrange adult translation or interpretation for sensitive and high-stakes communication.
Represent culture with depth
Co-design fairs, festivals and learning displays around students’ interests, stories, literature, music, art, histories, community knowledge and everyday language. Include contemporary life and multiple perspectives; let students decide what is personal, public or private.
Keep it going through the year
Make room for multilingual books, signs, performances, family knowledge and language choices in ordinary lessons and school routines. Rotate opportunities, compensate contribution where possible and avoid expecting any learner to represent an entire language or culture.