Good to discuss the current situation and agree ways forward… a really useful and informative meeting!
Lovely, positive, engaging delivery of useful material. Your passion for EAL really shows and is inspiring.
Very professional and helpful – EMAS continue to offer excellent support.
Excellent service yet again! A really useful visit and Ofsted advice most welcome.
Overview
EAL Portsmouth (the home of Portsmouth's Ethnic Minority Achievement Service) are a team of highly experienced and well-respected Advisers and Bilingual Learning Assistants. We work with schools in Portsmouth and beyond, across all Key Stages (Nursery - KS5), to support pupils who have English as an Additional Language to make outstanding progress.
Our courses and consultancy are constantly reshaped to meet the particular needs of a school, group of schools or local authority. We also provide a range of pupil-support services, including diagnostic and holistic assessments.
Latest news
Advance notice that the next NALDIC Hampshire/Berkshire RIG will be held in Portsmouth on Thursday 20th June 2019, with the theme of Working with Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in school, running from 4-6pm. The event is, like every NALDIC RIG, free to attend.
Nadia Potts, from the British Red Cross, will be looking at the national and local context and thinking about the impact of their journey, the asylum process and ongoing points of crisis on the young people and how this may manifest itself in the classroom. Catherine Paradine and Jessica Blake, from Portsmouth EMAS and our […]
EMAS conference 21st May 2019
The line-up for our annual EMAS conference, which takes place on the afternoon of Tuesday 21st May at the Marriott Hotel, North Harbour, has been announced. This year the theme is ‘My Word! Vocabulary matters’. We are pleased to welcome Hamish Chalmers as our keynote speaker. Hamish is Departmental Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Second […]
“Pamodzi Inspirational Women of Portsmouth 2019” Award
Huge congratulations to the (female) bilingual staff at EMAS for being a winner in the “Pamodzi Inspirational Women of Portsmouth 2019” award in the category Education. This is a fantastic recognition of their ongoing hard work in supporting pupils with EAL in our city schools and nurseries. The award evening was held at Royal Maritime […]
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