Step up English - Is this helpful for EAL pupils

[Tanya Ingram]

Hi everyone

 

Is anyone in Secondary familiar with the ‘ Step up English’ course run by AQA and if is helpful for EAL pupils.

 

Thanks a lot

 

Kind regards,

 

Tanya Ingram, Manager of EAL/EDC Advisory Service – English as an Additional Language / Ethnically Diverse Communities

Norfolk Virtual School for Children in Care and Previously in Care

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[India Jones]

Hi 

Did anyone have any experience with this?

We have a new starter joining us in Y11 at B level proficiency and wondered if this was any good?

Thanks

India Jones

[Christine Heaton]

HI India

I sent this reply to Tanya...

We have used Step-Up to English with some of our newly arrived Y11 students who are struggling to access the GCSE exam and curriculum. It has not been designed for EAL students and I find it very eurocentric. However, it can provide a more achievable option for those students with less English- the bronze and silver is very much about functional English and the Gold moves more closely to the skills required for the GCSE paper. So, it can offer a graded alternative to sitting the GCSE. We only offer it at my school to those students who are not able to achieve a Grade 1 or above in the GCSE. I think the topics need to be chosen mindfully- as there are papers on 'family' etc. 

We have had students working at B successfully complete the Silver. 

Best Wishes

Christine Heaton

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EAL Coordinator

Blatchington Mill School

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