A grant of £500,000 is being handed to Enfield council to run a project that will help schools across Britain improve the teaching of English to children who cannot speak the language.
Ten schools in the London borough have already begun using a new method of teaching it as an additional language in a bid to raise pupils’ attainment.
The scheme will now be rolled out to 100 schools, funded by the award — announced today — from the Education Endowment Fund.
Under the Enfield-managed project, known as Integrating English, primary school teachers will be trained in a method that focuses on the structure of language — breaking grammar and words down into basic components.
The EEF said the training can also help to improve the results of pupils who are native speakers of English.
Its chief executive Sir Kevan Collins said: “Some groups with English as an additional language go on to do well in GCSEs but there are some that don’t and whose outcomes are very poor.
“We need to make sure that all pupils who have English as an additional language go on to gain fluency in it so that they achieve well in school and have good career prospects and a bright future here in the UK.”
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