Around half of the children in the afternoon nursery session do not have English as their first language and are currently learning through their every day experiences in the nursery.

Once a week they are supported by Barbara Szumanska, who is our EAL teacher. This week we decided to have story-time in both English and Polish (the most common second language in the class). Mrs England read the story in English, while Barbara repeated the story in Polish.

The children listened intently and were delighted to share the same story in the two different languages!

We have a variety of dual language books in the nursery in Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and many more.

  What a lovely treat to share a story in our different languages!