Wellbeing | Supporting the mental health of EAL pupils and teachers in schools
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Contents
EDITORIAL | Working together to promote wellbeing | Christina Richardson … p 3
POLICY POSITION | Integrating concepts of wellbeing and literacy … p 6
LETTER FROM THE CHAIR | Recognising and harnessing children’s strength, courage and resilience … p 7
NEWS & EVENTS | pp 8-9
WEBINAR: Chartered College of Teaching/NALDIC webinar … p 8
WEBINAR: Refugee Week: Schools as a place of Healing webinar … p 8
SEMINAR: Decolonising the Curriculum | A collaborative multilingual seminar … p 9
SHORTS | Our regular round-up of mini summaries of recent and relevant research … pp 10-11
RIGs & SIGs | News, information and reports from the most recent round of NALDIC’s regional and special interest groups … pp 12-16
Regional Interest Groups (RIGs) Reports … pp 12-15
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Reports … p 16
WORLD NEWS
JERSEY | Leading the way: The new Language Policy for Jersey Education | Eowyn Crisfield reports on the development of an innovative policy … pp 17-19
ARGETINA & THE UNITED STATES | Language learning across the Americas | Laura Rodríguez and Stacey Ward report on a project that connected secondary school students in Argentina and the United States … pp 20-21
COVER FEATURE | Wellbeing – Supporting the mental health of EAL pupils and wider school communities … pp 23-32
In conversation with: Liam Murphy | Liam Murphy, author of ‘Supporting the Wellbeing of Young Children With EAL’ discusses his experiences of supporting early years’ children through social and emotional learning with Rachel Knowles … pp 24-26
Children Caring on the Move | Kathryn Kashyap shares insights from a participatory research project with separated young migrants … pp 27-30
Buddy Box, a language ice-breaker | Mark Hill MBE tells us about the creation of ‘Buddy Box’ … pp 31-32
Teacher Voice
Championing EAL through Covid constraints and beyond | Abigail Blaylock shares her experiences of assuming the role of EAL Lead … pp 34-35
COMMENT
Jonathan Bifield on supporting new arrivals who speak EAL | The wellbeing of new arrivals to school … pp 36-37
Kathryn Kashyap considers ‘well-being’ informed provision | “Warm Welcome?” … pp 38-39
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Wellbeing and Children’s Rights | Fiona Ranson unearths inconsistencies in defining well-being … pp 40-41
EAL ESSENTIALS
Classroom Interaction and Group Work | This new series in the Journal will review relevant terms, models and frameworks for EAL practitioners. In this second edition of EAL Essentials, Jaimy Ottevanger looks at a few models that analyse classroom interaction and group work in relation to language development. … pp 42-44
BACK PAGE COMMENT
Supporting Mental Health: Teacher Wellbeing | Place2Be consultant clinician, Kathleen Forbes talks to EAL Journal Editor, Christina Richardson about the importance of promoting teacher wellbeing … pp 45-47
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | Christina Richardson
DEPUTY EDITORS | Rachel Knowles | Fiona Ranson | Leandro Paladino
CONFERENCE EDITOR | Fazana Farook
ASSOCIATE EDITORS | Kate Anderson | Simeon Bates | Hamish Chalmers | Dianne Excell | Constant Leung | Vicky Macleroy | Frank Monaghan | Paul Nancarrow
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