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Mangotsfield Secondary

  • Key Dates for Term 4: 26/03 Y11 In-person Parents' Evening, 23-27/03 Culture Week, 02/04 Y7-Y10 Challenge Day

Websites for EAL Learners

Learning Village - independent learning. Your child will be given a username and password and can access the learning at home.  We expect students with an account to use ¾ times a week for 15-20 minutes.  Click on logo above to access the website. 

British council https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-grammar Suitable for beginner learners of English. Practice and improve English grammar with fun videos. Also online exercises and worksheets. 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games Games to improve English vocabulary 

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/apps Learn/improve English with apps - games, podcasts, videos and quizzes to help learn English at home

Reading and stories 

https://www.penguinreaders.co.uk/books/?tab=activities A range of worksheets to go with the  graded readers in the EAL area of the LRC. 

https://elt.oup.com/teachersclub/subjects/gradedreading/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en This site uses Graded Readers, a series of simplified books written for different levels of proficiency in English which include questions to help learners explore language.

https://globalstorybooks.net/  Global Storybooks is free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide.

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ 

Online books  in many languages. The website aims to enable families to have access to the books of their culture and language regardless of where they live.

 https://worldstories.org.uk/

World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children - over 30 languages available.

About the English Education System: Secondary Schools: 

Guidance for parents translated. 

Secondary Guidance   

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