English as an additional language
Herefordshire's English as an additional language (EAL) pupils are culturally very diverse, speaking a wide range of first languages including Portuguese, French, Russian, Malayalam, Latvian, Cantonese, Tagalog, Chinese, Arabic, Polish, Lithuanian and Hungarian. The main languages spoken are Polish, Lithuanian and Malayalam.
We can provide specialist EAL advisory teachers and teaching assistants who work with school staff to help EAL pupils develop their English and access the curriculum.
We also provide EAL resources for loan.
We help schools to:
- Provide effective learning opportunities for EAL pupils
- Value and celebrate diversity
- Value, maintain and develop the home languages of EAL pupils
- Ensure inclusion and access for EAL pupils
- Review EAL pupil progress, highlighting those pupils at risk of underachievement or in need of further assessment to identify their special educational needs
- Ensure mainstream staff have access to in-service training in relation to linguistic diversity
Support for Ukrainian families arriving in Herefordshire can be found via the Talk Community Directory and in the Support for Ukraine section of the website.
There is also a Hereford Help for Ukraine Facebook group.
Contact details
For further information on the services and support available, please contact: EALservice@herefordshire.gov.uk or phone 01432 383858.
Documents for use in early years settings, schools and colleges
- Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 443kB)
- Lithuanian - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 487kB)
- Romanian - Maintaining first language for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 485kB)
- Portuguese - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 487kB)
- Hungarian - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 488kB)
- Polish - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 490kB)
- Bulgarian - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 487kB)
- Latvian - Maintaining first language guide for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 486kB)
- Russian - Maintaining first language for parents with pre-school children (pdf, 488kB)
English as an additional language documents - schools
- English as an additional language referral form (docx, 40kB)
- Guidance on completing the English as an Additional Language referral form (pdf, 178kB)
- Arabic parent booklet (docx, 36kB)
- Hungarian parent booklet (doc, 76kB)
- English parent booklet (pub, 164kB)
- EAL coordinator's guide for new arrivals at secondary school (docx, 33kB)
- Teacher's guide to new arrivals in secondary classroom (docx, 25kB)
- Latvian parent booklet (docx, 33kB)
- Portuguese parent booklet (doc, 69kB)
- Romanian parent booklet (doc, 89kB)
- Lithuanian parent booklet (doc, 86kB)
- Polish parent booklet (pub, 257kB)
- Hungarian supplementary admission form (docx, 23kB)
- Russian parent booklet (doc, 83kB)
- Arabic supplementary admission form (docx, 32kB)
- Latvian supplementary admission form (docx, 23kB)
- English supplementary admission form (docx, 22kB)
- Romanian supplementary admission form (docx, 22kB)
- Lithuanian supplementary admission form (docx, 26kB)
- Russian supplementary admission form (docx, 25kB)
- Portuguese supplementary admission form (docx, 23kB)
- Polish supplementary admission form (docx, 27kB)
- Polish Traveller education support and advice (pdf, 260kB)
- Romanian Traveller education support and advice (pdf, 285kB)
- English Traveller education support and advice (pdf, 209kB)
- English as an additional language documents - schools (1) (, 0b)
- EAL Referral Form 2025 (pdf, 244kB)