Refugees and asylum seekers in Islington Schools

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Refugees and asylum seekers in Islington Schools
Graham Smith, School Improvement Officer for
Achievement Diversity June 2006 www.islingtonsc
hools.net/Services/emas
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The plan

• Ethnicity data
• Language data and trends
• Estimating refugee and asylum seekers numbers
• Performance data
• Strategies

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Pupils in Islington schools, January 2006
1 is approximately 230 pupils
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Black pupils in Islington schools
1 is approximately 70 pupils
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Which languages?
1 is approximately 100 pupils
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Language change 2001-2006
Languages with more than 100 speakers in 2006
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Main languages by year group
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Refugee and asylum seeker estimates

• Many schools dont ask
• What would the answer mean?
• So estimate using
• Extended ethnicity codes
• Language
• Knowledge of current asylum seeker patterns
• For example
• Lingala 100
• Spanish 60

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Pupils in Islington schools
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KS2 three year rolling average English L4
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GCSE three year rolling average
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Strategies

• Listening to communities
• Meeting the needs of pupils from refugee and
  asylum seeking backgrounds in a holistic way
• Inclusive curriculum
• Outreach work to parents and communities
• School meetings in target languages
• Major conferences
• Parents and professionals
• Community fora
• Somali, Turkish/Kurdish, Congolese and Community
  Lunch
• Overarching CEA_at_Islington strategy feeding into
  the Islington Refugee Integration Strategy