Assessment Manager and SIMS can be used to help you record the details of your EAL pupils. Not only does it allow schools to record their targets and progress, it also allows their progress to be correlated with other information (admission date, FSM, SEN status etc). Give the Schools ICT Unit Helpline a ring (ext 2034) if you need help, but if you want to try it yourself here are some ideas and tips:

1) SIMS pupil data screens already contain a field that allows schools to record pupils with EAL. Go to Focus Pupil Pupil Details and find a pupil, then scoll down to section 7 (Ethnic/Cultural). The field for EAL is in the second column.

2) You can easily create a report that lists all the pupils classified as EAL by using the SIMS Report module as follows:

a) Go to Report Design Report

b) Click ”Create a new report”

c) Choose ”People - Student” for the focus of the report, the click ”next”.

d) Choose to display just the pupils on roll and click ”next”.

e) Select to display ”pupil name and reg” and pressing the green arrow

f) Scroll down to the Ethnic/Cultural section and exand the list by pressing the + sign.

g) Select ”English as Additional Language” and press the green arrow. Click next.

h) Create a new filter and select ”English as Additional Language”. Tick the ”yes” box and choose the ”is one of” option

i) Run the report to generate Word document that you can print off as required.

A copy of this report is available from the Schools ICT Unit - we can install it for you - contact the Helpdesk and log a call.

3) A template has been created by the Schools ICT Unit to help schools to record EAL scales. It looks like this:

Please click on the image above to view a larger, easier to read version.

For help installing and using the marksheet contact the Schools ICT Unit helpdesk (ext 2034)

4) More advanced schools might want to include new EAL aspects within their existing templates. You can create the aspects and gradesets used in the example above and use them in your existing marksheets. Create them as follows:

Gradeset: EAL TA

Then create four grade aspects using the gradeset above:

• EAL TA: Reading
• EAL TA: Writing
• EAL TA: Listening
• EAL TA: Speaking

Results Sets

Note that you are only required to assess pupils against this scale on admission to school. Schools who use results sets might choose to create a results set called ”Baseline” to record this value.

David Pott (email david.pott@sict.bolton.gov.uk, ext 2034)