This is a big topic with lots of possible approaches depending on your school's context and needs – choose the strategies that work best for your school. Even 1 or 2 new strategies can help you improve home-school relationships with parents/carers who use English as an additional language (EAL).
Communicate regularly with parents and carers
Use your school website, social media pages and newsletters to parents and carers to let families know about school resources, news and events.
Use translation tools to overcome language barriers
Include links to translation software on your websites to make them more accessible, such as:
- Google Translate
- Microsoft Immersive Reader (find instructions on using this by scrolling down to ‘translate webpages in immersive reader’ in ‘tips and tricks’ at the bottom.) Find out which Microsoft products and languages are compatible
Let parents and carers know who they
