Taking place during the annual borough-wide Multilingual Month, this initiative brings EAL and MFL teaching together to engage students at the school as well as in local primaries. Pupils in EAL classes become teachers, preparing and delivering lessons in their mother tongue to local primary school children, who enjoy the exposure to new languages and cultures. The sessions include information about the student’s language and culture and introduce greetings, names, numbers and classroom objects.

Language(s): Urdu, Polish, Lithuanian, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Ashanti, Cantonese,
Creole, French, German, Kirundi, Lingala, Mandarin, Panjabi, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish.

Aveling Park School is an eleven to sixteen co-ed school in the East End of London, which over recent years has taken a number of refugee students.