Our team has limited access to emails at the moment, usually outside of office hours, but please do contact us if you have any resources that you need us to find in first language or to translate for you.

EMAS staff are all working remotely at the moment but please continue to contact us should you need any help with interpreting, especially in a safeguarding situation, using the EMAS mobile number 07769 368770.  We are offering phone or face to face support (depending on the individual levels of BLA self-isolation) in the following languages: […]

It’s that time of the year when schools start referring pupils for additional assessments to try and unpick if there is something else at play, other than English acquisition (Mary and I are currently snowed under with SEN assessments!) So, a quick plea… When you complete the referral form, could you please add some details […]

The EMAS Advisory team are leading on the ‘Schools of Sanctuary’ stream of work for the city. Are you interested in gaining recognition for the warm welcome that you give refugee and asylum-seeking pupils and other potentially vulnerable members of the community? The process isn’t onerous, it doesn’t cost a penny and, for many of […]

Karen and Ruth have been busy updating the Community Languages GCSE guidance and we would like to invite secondary colleagues to the EMAS Training Room at the Civic Offices on Tuesday 10th December, from 4-5pm to share this with you. This will be an informal get-together to help smooth out the GCSE work in your […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Advisory team at EAL Portsmouth has been successful in their applications for the role of Inclusion Experts for English as an Additional Language (EAL) for the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). We will be working with the DfE to ensure that Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 national curriculum tests, reception baseline assessments […]

Starting Out – Creating a co-ordinated approach to UASC’s access to education in Portsmouth   In June 2017, EAL Portsmouth began delivering a programme for UASC in Portsmouth, creating a series of eight roll-on, roll-off English language sessions for those young people awaiting permanent school or college placements in the city and beyond. In March 2018, […]