- Provide an enjoyable and successful learning environment in which students feel secure and confident to develop their language skills.
- Provide a welcoming and supportive environment for students with limited English proficiency especially when they are new to the ISH community.
- Provide support to allow students to progress as rapidly as possible and acquire essential linguistic skills for them to function independently and successfully in mainstream classes.
- Enabling students to acquire the social language that they need to be able to participate fully in all aspects of school life.
- Recognise and respect the cultural and linguistic diversity that EAL students bring to their classes and to the school
- Provide the students with the necessary skills to allow them to move from one EAL level to the next until they are ready to be fully mainstreamed.
