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St Edward's School Cheltenham

st edward's school cheltenham

About St Edward’s, Cheltenham A wealth of opportunity exists for your child at St Edward’s, Cheltenham. We teach that there is no ceiling to potential, focussing on the individual needs of each and every pupil, and valuing their unique gifts and talents. Situated on two sites, both located in the heart of Cheltenham and approximately five minutes from each other, St Edward’s is the only Independent Day School in Cheltenham providing education for pupils aged 1 to 18. This means that we can offer a unique learning experience, where every day is different. Set in over 40 acres of grounds, with a range of creative and sporting facilities to enrich our academic provision, together our two Schools offer a strong and vibrant school community, based on Christian values, in which all children can thrive. We have high expectations of all members of our School community from Kindergarten, to Pre-Prep, Prep, Senior School and Sixth Form. Excellent teaching and pastoral care in our nurturing and encouraging environment allows our pupils to flourish. Our small class sizes mean that our teachers really know pupils as individuals and can provide tailored support to maximise achievement. Our School motto means to strive for the best and that is exactly what we want for all our students. We encourage our pupils to become fully involved in all aspects of school life, offering an extensive range of extra-curricular clubs, sporting and cultural activities. It is important to us that our pupils are challenged to step outside of their ‘comfort zone’ and realise that they can achieve beyond their perceived potential. Most importantly, our aim is to provide an education that will last a lifetime and enable our pupils to develop into happy, confident, resilient, compassionate, and aspirational individuals who are ready to become positive and life-long contributors to society. We invite you to visit us to find out more.

Bee Lingual

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London

Carrie has over 30 years’ experience in education - now Director of Curriculum for the Brooke Weston Trust and a visiting fellow for Ambition Institute delivering NPQ training, Carrie was at that time the Principal of Peckover Primary School in Wisbech; a school with 54% of pupils, originating from many parts of Europe, having English as an additional language. This was a challenge that she tackled with great enthusiasm and creativity! Our first step was to re-write the curriculum completely, ensuring children were exposed to high quality texts and a wide range of vocabulary. Our classroom environments immersed children in their learning and our mantra was ‘talk, talk and more talk’. We planned structured oral opportunities into all our lessons, using the excellent ‘Tower Hamlets, ‘progression in Language structures; we had continuous provision from Nursery through to year 2 centred on language rich environments and opportunities. However, we discovered that once our pupils had acquired enough English to let them read, write and converse fluently, the progress of some began to plateau. These could be pupils who weren’t speaking their first language much at home, or reading books in it. In some cases, pupils were starting to lose their first language altogether, making it harder to build and develop their English. We sent a set of BeeLingual UK dual-language books home with every EAL child, so they could read stories in their first language and in English with their parents We used our bilingual Teaching Assistants to lead daily first language discussion groups to develop a rich and challenging vocabulary We used colourful discussion mats to pre-teach pupils in first language and English, deploying them alongside stems based on Progression in Language Structures Our pastoral team used first language emotion cards to help pupils describe and explain their feelings We introduced a ‘no hands up’ policy to promote lively class discussion We taught the whole schools songs in first languages and English Using the resources we were developing at BeeLingual UK, we introduced a whole raft of strategies to cultivate a rich vocabulary in first language and subsequently in English.