International Schools Blog

Accessibility in schools is about making sure that every student gets quality education, no matter what their needs.

The multilingual classroom may pose challenges, but it also offers the opportunity to embrace diversity and develop insights into backgrounds from around the world.

Today, we are announcing our actions related to the situation in Ukraine, which include suspending the sales of our products and services in Russia and Belarus.

This academic year started a whole new chapter for schools but how can we better promote a healthy reading culture? Storyteller and educational trainer, Alec Williams shares his top tips for building your school reading culture to inspire every child to become a reader.

With over 1,000 registrations for our recent Translanguaging webinar (if you missed it, you can watch the recording on demand and download the slide deck), it’s clear that planning for multiple languages in the classroom is an important issue many of you want to know more about.

The term translanguaging has burst upon the applied linguistics and educational sector in the last years.

The benefits of being bi/multilingual are getting a lot of press these days, and parents are increasingly interested in ensuring that their children master more than their home language. In many cases, this means that parents are eager to have their children learn English earlier. This often prompts a choice for an English-only school, with the expectation that this will lead to the best results. How schools approach the task of educating children who do not speak the language varies, with regulations ranging from ‘English-only’ to multilingual classrooms.

What’s it like choosing an international school for your children? We talk to Aimee Fisher, a UK expat based in the UAE about her experience.

If 1,050 registrations for our webinar is anything to go by, then there is a lot of interest in multilingual learners in international schools. And no wonder – according to ISC Research, 80% of students in international schools are local and speak a plethora of languages.

Dyslexia in the classroom can bring up some teaching challenges. We spoke to Martin Bloomfield, trainer at York Associates, who is an expert in the field. His specialist subject is international and intercultural perspectives on special educational needs, and he has many years of experience offering dyslexia awareness workshops to schools and businesses, as well as experience teaching learners with dyslexia.