NHS Inform has lots of different health information (including about Covid 19) in different languages and in an Easy Read version.
Follow the link
Resources for Supporting Speakers of Arabic
My Hero is You – a story for Covid-19
This is a social story to support children during the Covid-19 outbreak translated into different languages.
Talking to children about Covid 19
Talking to children about Covid 19 using talking mates, video and hand washing guidance.
https://www.nhsggc.org.uk/kids/supporting-children-and-young-people-during-covid-19/
Also available in many different languages https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Covid 19 Guidance in 44 different languages
Here is a link to translated information from the NHS from Doctors of the World.
Use this to share with parents and older pupils.
https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/coronavirus-information/
Key Vocabulary Table
A table for secondary EAL st
udents to record key vocabulary in different subjects.
- Key vocabulary can be provided by subject teachers (if new to english) or by the students themselves when they start a new topic.
- The table can be adaped for any language, but here are a few templates.
Blank Vocabulary Table-Chinese
- For: Secondary
- Language: Arabic, Chinese, Polish
- Purpose: Dual Language, Word lists
SEESAW Translation Tools
During the last school closures, many teachers used SEESAW to link up with their pupils. High numbers of EAL pupils/parents did not engage with work that was posted:
This link shows how to use translation tools in SEESAW to ensure that EAL Pupils and their parents can also link in with materials posted through the site.
https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/218102343-How-does-translation-work-
- For: Parents, Primary, SFL
- Language: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Mandarin, Nepalese, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Purpose: Dual Language
Be Bilingual Leaflets
These leaflets are published by Aberdeenshire EAL Service and promote bilingualism and the benefits of maintaining and developing home languages. They are published in a number of different languages and aslo have links for further information.
- Arabic Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Bulgarian Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Chinese (Simplified) Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Czech Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- English Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Hungarian Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Latvian Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Lithuanian Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Polish Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Portuguese Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Punjabi Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Russian Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Spanish Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
- Urdu Be Bilingual – A4 Trifold v5
Booklets for New Pupils from Essex County Council
Essex County Council have produced a number of booklets with useful phrases for new pupils in a variety of languages. Can be used by teachers and pupils to ease communication and by parents to get messages across to schools and vice versa.
Available in the following languages:
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Arabic
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Bulgarian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Hungarian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Italian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Latvian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Lithuanian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Mandarin
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Nepalese
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Polish
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Portuguese
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Romanian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Russian
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Spanish
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Tagalog
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Thai
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Turkish
- Booklet for new EAL pupils_Vietnamese
- For: Parents, Primary, Secondary, SFL
- Language: Arabic, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Nepalese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Purpose: Letters Home, Phrase books
Arabic subject key words
A number of key word lists in Arabic for different subjects
More Arabic Resources for newly arrived pupils
A number of resources in Arabic for newly arrived pupils
- Injury Report Slip (Arabic)
- Names of Body Parts
- Useful School Phrases
- Around the School
- Classroom objects
- Emotions
and some more complex instructions
- For: Primary, Secondary
- Language: Arabic
- Purpose: Dual Language, Letters Home
Leafets about being Excluded from School
Help I’m Being Excluded. This leaflet has been produced by Govan Law Centre and is for children who have been excluded so that they are aware of their rights. It is available in the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Gaelic, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Slovakian, Tagalog and Urdu.
Click on Help I’m Being Excluded to access
- For: Parents, Primary, Secondary, SFL
- Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Slovak, Tagalog, Urdu
- Purpose: Best Practice, Information, Letters Home