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design curriculum that reflects the heritages, languages and cultures of students and other members of the learning community

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Provide and maintain an environment within which students feel safe (physically, culturally, socially, emotionally) to be responsible for their own learning

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By allowing translanguaging, we can build/develop conceptual understadnings within and across subject.

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Every PYP learning community has a unique linguistic and cultural profile that forms the basis for its language policy and curriculum. For this reason, each school develops a school language policy that makes the most of its linguistic and cultural resources to meet its individual needs.

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Language development and play:
Children bring with them to school complex language knowledge, experience and meaning-making strategies from their early years at home. Students use language to:

explore

examine

question

predict

share

investigate

reflect in a sustained and deliberate manner, within a supportive collaborative setting.

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Building an active translanguaging classroom:
Making language visible in the learning environment through class routines, tables, signs, transitions and interactions will encourage and foster these moments.
Teachers may not understand all the languages of the classroom, but by seeing themselves as co-learners they support and build positive attitudes in their learning community.

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Language in the PYP

Language learning includes the development of home and family languages, languages of the school, additional languages and literacy.

Language is a means of affirming and expressing cultural identity and developing international- mindedness.

Multilingualism benefits learns and the learning community in a variety of ways.

Schools provide students with multiple, authentic opportunities to learn language, learn about language and learn through language.

The student language portrait is a tool that captures a learner’s complex language profile.

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Focused on effective teamwork and collaboration

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Focused on effective teamwork and collaboration

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Peers are invited to help a student express their ideas using home languages

Students  are given time to have face-to-face discussions in home languages to process content.

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Students read a text in home language

Complete a graphic organizer in the target language

Share new learning in target language

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Translanguaing is what students are doing when they are using and making connections between their languages by tapping into their bank of language skills and understandings.