3 minute Video
Watch the video from a Year 2 classroom teacher using a PowerPoint template to provide support for Mandarin speaking ELLs in getting to know her class before arriving. Email: hsiny@oteha.school.nz for a copy of the PowerPoint template. Video Link
also available in other language:
Instructions for translation support on Chromebooks:
Written instructions on how to allow webpage translation.
A 2-minute video showing your ELL on how to add webpage translation as an extension - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnf5eHjqYyA
App: Sayhi
This is a Translation App which enables the user to choose the type of voice and speed of delivery meaning the voice sounds more natural. It also comes with text for speakers to read.
COMING SOON:
* A template for a 3-minute video clip about getting to know either a year level or syndicate around the school in other languages.
* A list of common classroom commands in different languages with audio for classroom teachers to learn and use.
ActivAsian is a Harbour Sport regional initiative aimed to engage the growing Asian community in sport and recreation for different age groups and all abilities. ActivAsian provides an array of sports events after school and during the school holidays for our Asian community.
Aotearoa Multicultural Families Society
This is a Auckland based Facebook group. Click and join for updates and events. Contact Cheryl HAN on aucklanddodo@gmail.com for more services she can provide for Chinese families to individual schools.
A fantastic site providing health and wellbeing support for migrant families that uses Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, or Hindi (English included). See website for events and resources.
English Language Partners provide trained ESOL volunteers to home tutor people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. They have a wide variety of resources.
Parents Centre Aotearoa has a Chinese department which organises parenting courses.
You may choose to direct your migrant family to readings which they can use with the website translation tool.
Parenting Place is a family charity offering tools and resources from a New Zealand perspective. As an Educator, you may wish to direct your migrant family to go to the site and use the website translation tool so they can get a better understanding of raising kids in NZ.
Learn about the Bilingual Assessment Service (BAS) and how to obtain its assistance when you are concerned about an ELL not progressing as expected after extra support through ESOL funding.
This is an article about how the Asia NZ Foundation Experience Asia grant helped Albany Junior High School and Albany Primary School hold a day of activities to celebrate Chinese culture. Susanna GUO (our Albany ESOL cluster leader for 2022) was interviewed for this article. You can find more articles by clicking Asia NZ Foundation's Education PRIMARY for more related events
