NHS Inform has lots of different health information (including about Covid 19) in different languages and in an Easy Read version.
Resources for Supporting Speakers of Mandarin
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
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