Hippo, you seem to make a lot of assumptions. Firstly, in your earlier post, you say - "perhaps it might have been more constructive to have discussed these issues with her personally and directly, rather than posting them on this website". How do you know that I have not already done so? Infact I have spoken to her.
Secondly, nobody at the school has mentioned to me that you have an English As An Additonal Language (EAL) specialist. Can you give me their names please? I have many friends (parents) at the school that share my concern re the usage/learning of English language. I actually am a teacher too holding a B.Ed(Hons)Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from the UK, so I know the various teaching methods that can be adopted. However, I feel it may still prove difficult due to the number of students per class and also the ratio of non English speaking to English speaking students.
I have seen how various countries cater for non-English speaking children as I attended schools in England, America, New Zealand, etc as an expat child. In the developed countries they have English Language labs to take children out maybe for an hour a day for more intensive one-on-one English lessons, also there are English specialists assigned to students in the class (like a Special Needs teacher)to help them keep up with the learining/teaching pace in the class. I would be interested to know what exactly Newton Intl is doing or planning.
Finally, I had not mentioned anything about private education in the UK or costs, that was never up for discussion. Fyi, I atended mainstream government schools in all the countries above and they took neccessary steps to ensure the non English speaking students received the extra help/attention in order to learn English satisfactorily.
Hippo, you seem to make a lot of assumptions. Firstly, in your earlier post, you say - "perhaps it might have been more constructive to have discussed these issues with her personally and directly, rather than posting them on this website". How do you know that I have not already done so? Infact I have spoken to her.
Secondly, nobody at the school has mentioned to me that you have an English As An Additonal Language (EAL) specialist. Can you give me their names please? I have many friends (parents) at the school that share my concern re the usage/learning of English language. I actually am a teacher too holding a B.Ed(Hons)Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from the UK, so I know the various teaching methods that can be adopted. However, I feel it may still prove difficult due to the number of students per class and also the ratio of non English speaking to English speaking students.
I have seen how various countries cater for non-English speaking children as I attended schools in England, America, New Zealand, etc as an expat child. In the developed countries they have English Language labs to take children out maybe for an hour a day for more intensive one-on-one English lessons, also there are English specialists assigned to students in the class (like a Special Needs teacher)to help them keep up with the learining/teaching pace in the class. I would be interested to know what exactly Newton Intl is doing or planning.
Finally, I had not mentioned anything about private education in the UK or costs, that was never up for discussion. Fyi, I atended mainstream government schools in all the countries above and they took neccessary steps to ensure the non English speaking students received the extra help/attention in order to learn English satisfactorily.