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The Bell Foundation has released the following statement in regard to the 2020 GCSE results: The GCSE results published today are based on teacher assessment grades.  Guidance issued by Ofqual earlier this year on how to assign pupil grades stated ‘For students with English as an additional language (EAL), schools and colleges should consider the … Continued

The report ‘Language, education and social justice: International strategies for systems change in multilingual schools’¹ presents practical ideas for schools, training providers and the Government, based on studying and visiting international contexts, on how to design a more equitable, inclusive and coherent education system in England with better outcomes for multilingual learners.  This is particularly … Continued

Our most recent webinar comprised a panel of myself and four experts who discussed the impact of school closures on the learning and achievement of pupils who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). Our webinars are proving so popular that the technology can’t cope with the demand!  This meant we decided to record the … Continued

This blog highlights some of the particular challenges that parents of EAL learners may face at this time of school closures and signposts practical steps that schools can take to ensure EAL families know how to support the learning of their child. The child and parents’ home language(s) are a resource that can be used … Continued

A special joint webinar co-hosted by The Bell Foundation and NALDIC, the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum, which took place on April 23, 2020 proved so popular that we had to increase our web hosting capacity to run it. But one common feature of these new and changing times where life has … Continued

The Bell Foundation, together with Unbound Philanthropy and the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, has published research on the educational attainment of children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) undertaken by Professor Steve Strand and Dr Ariel Lindorff. Hot on the heels of the report ‘English as an Additional Language: Proficiency … Continued