EAL
English as as Additional Language King's Bruton combines a 500 year-long tradition of British history and culture with a narrative of modernity, creativity and innovation in education. The small country town of Bruton affords a healthy, safe and serene location, yet King's is within easy reach by road and rail of London and the vibrant university cities of Bath, Bristol and Exeter. Our education policy is to ensure international pupils are engaged in every area of school life with an aim to encourage individuality, dynamism and confidence and the ability to collaborate and build mutually beneficial relationships. While ensuring that contemporary teaching expertise and technological developments underpin the learning at King's, our school ethos is to promote a respect for history and tradition - our proudest example of which was being granted a visit from Her Majesty The Queen on the occasion of the opening of our new Music School to celebrate our 500th anniversary. The state-of-the-art Queen Elizabeth Music School boasts a recital hall, classrooms and individual teaching rooms, a professional recording studio and a purposebuilt percussion centre. A grounding in Literature and the Arts is key for a rounded education and to stimulate creativity. All pupils are given access to a wide and stimulating variety of literature, including modern poets (Heaney, Duffy, Angelou), established playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Shaw) and innovative novelists (Yoon, Stevenson, Crace). The tradition of Music and the Visual and Performing Arts is exemplary at King's. Many of our actors have been accepted into the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre, whilst others have joined the profession onstage and backstage. Our choirs sing in cathedrals around the country and King's pupils have gone on to study music at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Scientific subjects, Design, and Hospitality are taught in professional laboratory and workshop environments where hands-on learning promotes confidence, adaptability, and all-important problem-solving skills. Classroom learning is integrated with field trips, cultural trips to galleries, inter-school science and mathematics challenges at a range of venues from Stratford to Oxford to London. International pupils visit the Houses of Parliament in London where they receive a bespoke tour and attend a workshop.
The location of the School and the extensive grounds enable pupils to benefit from first class sporting opportunities as well as outward bound adventure and personality-building experiences such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Intercultural communication and social skills are promoted. Pupils engage in social events where situations of easy social exchange are enjoyed. Pupils are encouraged to be independent and enjoy freedoms in the boarding house and when going into the town of Bruton. They can shop and cook dishes from their home cuisine in the Hospitality Department in recognition of international festivities. Above all, we value the cultural contribution of our international pupils and our aim is to promote their happiness and success inside our school and beyond, to develop confident, adaptable and dynamic young men and women who will move with ease into the future. The English as an Additional Language Department EAL is offered as an additional extra subject to all pupils whose first language is not English. The purpose of lessons in EAL is to raise the level of English for non-first-language pupils so that they are able to access both academic and social life with total effectiveness. International pupils will aim to sit IGCSE English as a Second Language examination in Year 11 (5th Form) and to take the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) examination or the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) in Year 12 (L6th Form) as required for UK or American university entry. Pupils follow an ongoing programme of academic English development, based on the Cambridge ESOL learning criteria and syllabi, which enables them to learn English in greater depth whilst reflecting upon, and so developing, how their first language is used. Pupils take EAL lessons in their free periods, instead of Modern Foreign Language lessons or general Physical Education. Pupils also have the opportunity to sit GCSE and A-Level language examinations for their first language. There is an additional cost for EAL lessons.
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