Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Lord Provost Councillor Sadie Docherty

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Welcome Bienvenue Hakim Din Christian Melka HMI Délégué Académique aux Education Relations Européennes, Scotland Internationales et à la Coopération, Académie d’Aix- Marseille

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Maureen McKenna Michelle Reynaud Executive Director Directrice des Relations of Education Internationales et Glasgow City Council Europeennes de la Ville de Marseille

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Lesley Atkins Marena Turin Development Officer Inspéctrice pedagogique International office régionale d’anglais Glasgow City Council correspondante académique pour l’Education prioritaire Académie d’Aix Marseille

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Comenius Regio Glasgow City Council /Ville de Marseille ‘Education for All’ Enhanced transition support for newly arrived bilingual young people from p7 to S1

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership an opportunity for local authority linking within Europe Link up with another European region with the aim of improving your educational offer to young people Motivate local authority staff and teachers by exchanging best practice and promoting cooperation Include schools and other players linked to education (e.g. teacher training, youth groups, vocational educators, community organisations and employers) Funding of up to €45,000 available per region for meetings, work shadowing and other activities over a two-year partnership

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Regio Partnerships promote joint cooperation activities between local and regional education authorities. The partnerships give educational authorities, in cooperation with schools and other actors in education, the opportunity to work together on topics of mutual interest. They help the participating regions to develop and exchange best practice, to develop sustainable cooperation across borders, to strengthen the European dimension in school education and to offer European learning experiences to teachers and pupils and administrators

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Glasgow/Marseille Aims and Objectives to enhance policy and practice, teacher education and create a transferable model for the support of migrant, newly arrived young people in transition through exchange of expertise within both Local Authorities. to devise a new post graduate Teacher Education component at the University of Glasgow in conjunction with the University of Aix en Provence on ‘Education for Diversity’. to build upon the best practice findings from the recent British Council ‘Inclusion and Diversity in Education’: INDIE to form a holistic framework for the support of migrant, bilingual pupils within diverse European following school inspectorate action points and EU direction for the improvement of cultural inclusion within education. to provide a supportive framework for young newly arrived pupils in their transition from primary to secondary school. to further enhance the formal twinning of Glasgow and Marseille through an EU International Education partnership

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership The Partnership Team Glasgow Glasgow City Council Cuthbertson Primary Shawlands Academy HMI Education Scotland Glasgow University- School of Education Marseilles Ville de Marseille Academie d’Aix Marseille : Education Prioritaire Ecole Louis Gare College Jules Ferry University Aix en Provence

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership The Rationale Year 2000: migrant young people in Glasgow Year 2011: Sustaining the legacy of British Council ‘Inclusion and Diversity in Education’

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Cuthbertson primary school, Glasgow Multilingual multiracial inner city school 12 Classes plus nursery and nurture classes L1 Profile: 50% Urdu, 15% English, 20% Roma, 15% Other

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Shawlands Academy, Glasgow Multilingual, multiracial, inner city school Bilingual pupils Recent arrivals Recent Arrivals: S1 - 10%S2 - 20%S3 - 15% S4 - 5% S5 -12%S6 - 17%

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership College Jules Ferry La délégation écossaise et les partenaires du projet Comenius Regio lors de leur visite dans l’établissement le jeudi 11 octobre Les échanges ont été riches d’enseignements

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership College Jules Ferry, Marseille The context: 470 pupils 50 teachers Area of social and economic deprivation;90% migrant learners- North Africa, Indian Ocean 6% new arrival learners – mainly North Africa, Eastern Europe, former Portuguese Colonies

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Positive Actions: Secondary and Primary support network( Education Prioritaire) Enhanced support for new arrivals and bilingual learners Each school has an inspector assigned to the school in this area of ‘priority’

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Benefits of an International Comenius Regio Partnership EU Professional Opportunities to visit schools in Glasgow and Marseille Collaboration with colleagues at home and overseas – enhanced cooperation EU Professional Development: Comenius In Service Training Glasgow University School of Education – funded post graduate professional development:' Education for Diversity’ Professional discussion HMIE ‘Count Us In – A Sense of Belonging’ Learning from each other’s good practice – reflective practice

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Sustaining previous EU Education projects Inclusion and Diversity in Education:INDIE ‘Within the school curriculum, students should be given opportunities to learn about cultural diversity’ ‘Schools should provide mentors to help new students, foreign students… to help them learn the majority language and preserve their mother tongue…’

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership What did we learn through the partnership about what makes a successful transition for a new bilingual learner?

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Caring environment P7 Introduction to life in secondary school at an earlier stage Induction support in second language continued Structured support to develop friendships Use of secondary school mentors Continuation of Literacy support in second language Continued support for Mother tongue in secondary Support for parents’ second language learning ‘Nurture’ /pastoral care enhanced Strengthen existing secondary/ primary links

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership The Regio initiative between Glasgow City Council and Marseille was designed to ‘empower’ rather than ‘disable’ new arrival learners in their transition i.e. the question was asked ‘What factors support a young new arrival learner to move from apprehension and uncertainty to confidence and looking forward to secondary education?’

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Lesley Atkins Maria Walker Development Officer Head of service International office EAL Service Glasgow City Council

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership The Transition Model

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership The Young People

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Regio partnership input to transition model

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Reflection on professional learning from partnership meetings in Marseille and Glasgow Study visits to partner schools Collaboration – learning from good practice in both cities Comenius in-service training - MIRACLE Reflection on theory and national publications

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Learning from other EU initiatives- INDIE College Jules Ferry – the Mother’s Reading Group Otto Wells school, Berlin ‘The Reading Trolley’ John Donne Primary, Southwark – the multicultural ethos

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Schools already have well established procedures for primary – secondary transition Glasgow has More than children and young people with EAL More than 120 languages spoken in schools Some of these young people will need enhanced support at transition Transition Model – why is it important?

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Developed in Cuthbertson Primary and Shawlands Academy Focus on a small number of young people who were at risk of not making a successful transition to secondary Additional transition activities which involved Young people Teachers Enhanced Transition Model

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Primary identifies young people at risk of not making a successful transition Secondary school identifies young people to be buddies who have Attended the same primary school Share the same first language Buddies take part in the following activities with the selected P7s Visits to primary school Sharing their experience of secondary Answering questions Meeting P7s on their visit to secondary Ongoing meetings with same group following transition Activities for young people

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership EAL teachers from primary and secondary can be involved in Observing lessons Discussing and reflecting on methodology Secondary EAL teacher attending P7 parents meeting EAL teachers sharing information about young people’s needs and strengths Activities for teachers

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Transition Model – embedding into practice Guidance produced which is Clear and easy to follow Replicable in any school Guidance shared with EAL staff and schools EAL Wiki Glasgow online EAL Area Leaders available to support any school that wants to use the enhanced guidelines.

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Developed through the EAL Service Glasgow’s EAL Service 120 FTE teachers Based in early years, primary & secondary establishments Response Team Specialist Team Area Leaders Transition Model – embedding into practice

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Transition Model – embedding into practice Identify key points of work done in Cuthbertson Pr and Shawlands Academy Use these to write up guidance notes which are Clear and easy to follow Replicable in any school Guidance notes then shared with EAL staff and schools EAL Wiki Glasgow online EAL Area Leaders available to support any school that wants to use the enhanced guidelines.

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Transition Model – summary Provides clear guidance to support young people who are at risk of not making a successful transition to secondary school In addition to existing guidance on supporting transition Allows schools and EAL services to better focus on meeting EAL Learners’ needs

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership Workshops and the rest of the day

Education for Diversity: Supporting Newly Arrived Young People in Glasgow and Marseille A Comenius Regio Partnership