Professional Development
The following documents present useful background information for all aspects of Community Cohesion
Guidance on the duty to promote community cohesion
DCSF 2007
This guidance is non-statutory and is offered as formative guidance to support all schools in promoting community cohesion.
Raising the Achievement of Bilingual Learners in Primary Schools
NFER 2004
Pilot Project by Primary National Strategy (PNS) in partnership with the Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit within the DfES, in 21 local authorities (LAs), with the aims of increasing ‘the confidence and expertise of mainstream primary teachers in meeting the needs of advanced bilingual learners’ and of closing the attainment gap between bilingual learners and those whose first language is English.
Primary Review Interim Reports. Research Survey 8/1
Children’s Lives Outside School and Their Educational Impact . Cambridge Primary Review 2009
This briefing draws on Primary Review Research Report 8/1 Children’s Lives Outside School and Their Educational Impact. The report focuses on children’s out-of-school lives before and during the primary school years. It then examines the impact on children’s school activities of their out-of-school lives and learning, and how schools respond to these.
Community Cohesion:A Report of the Independent Review Team Chaired by Ted Cantle
Home Office 2001
The Community Cohesion Review Team (CCRT) was set up to identify good practice, key policy issues and new and innovative thinking in the field of community cohesion.
Aiming High: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language (EAL)
Primary National Strategy DFES 2005
These materials aim to support schools who may be working with newly arrived isolated learners of English as an additional language in settings which may have little or no access to expert EMA (Ethnic Minority Achievement) support.
Aiming High:Raising the Achievement of Minority Ethnic Pupils
DFES 2003