School Matters – answers
1 That the Polish community has grown and grown and seems to be growing.
2 Coming back and finding that in the space of 7 or 8 weeks the Polish members of the community had increased from 5 or 6 members of the community up to a number in the sixties.
3 gone from
4 (It has posed) Both benefits and challenges.
5 It has become more polarised.
6 ‘Much is made of’ …(….its negative impact…).
7 As the most ethnically diverse place (presumably in the UK) outside London.
8 1 in 4, 25 per cent, 25%.
9 As an inclusion unit at Beechwood secondary school / Beechwood Secondary School.
10 For excluded pupils and newly arrived students.
11 That on paper it shouldn’t work – but it does.
12 That there are more Poles than any other nationality.
13 It ranges from those who are highly academic with high aspirations to succeed, to others who have been excluded from school (usually for unreasonable behaviour) or are uninterested in education.
14 "The mix works."
15 That she is ‘learning on the job’, so she is a qualified teacher, but not necessarily in this area.
16 "We’re very much into personalised learning here’.
17 A battery
18 By enabling him to pick the words out so that they mean something to him.
It means he’ll be able to pick the words out so that they mean something to him.
To mean something = to be meaningful for him, not meaningless.
19 For 4 weeks – be careful – he uses the present tense, but needs the present perfect – he has been there for 4 weeks.
20 That it was hard at first to begin with – it was ‘too much’ but now his / their English is much better.
21 Only ‘as and when’ the teachers think they are ready and confident they are able to cope with that lesson.
22 Because mainstream English classes would be virtually impossible for them.
23 They need to be up to speed (in their mastery of English / language skills).
24 1) All new pupils are assessed by the LEA (= local education authority) and 2) all pupils placed at Beechwood can be monitored continually.
25 It was difficult, without any previous record of academic ability, to know where each pupil would be best placed.
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