Meeting EAL Specialist Meeting

Minutes
Date 9 February 2023

Time 11:15 am

Location Chinese Room

Attendees Brooke Henderson, Ben Liu,

Points of 1. Week 3 – Ben and Brooke to visit the classes during the EAL timetabled times and
discussion check in with the teachers and assist in the rooms. We will not be removing
students from the rooms until we have student referrals and parents have been
contacted. Ben has been given some students to focus on and assist with work
and any translations (vocabulary)
Ben will go to
Year 4 – Monday P5
Year 5 – Monday P2
Year 6 – Monday P6 and Tuesday P3

Follow up– Brooke to check in with class teachers about new students and
commence PROBE Testing with them in Week 3.

2. Student lists – We went through the Year 4-6 students and came up with a list of
possible students for our program.
Year 4LB- Jack (starting Monday)
Year 4GB – Cici (definite), Harry and Lucas TBC
Year 5R – Julie Zhu, Frank Yu, Alex Liu (new) TBC
Year 5D – Jayden Wu (new) TBC
Year 6TW – Tim, Ross, Forest, Shawn, Claire, Gary – discussed independent
needs and possible structure of our program.
Year 6BW – Alice Xue
Query about students to be part of the program – Brooke to speak with classroom
teachers and check in on new students to see how they are going.
Brooke to then plan groups according to our scheduled times.

3. Ben’s timetable – we reviewed the timetable and number of sessions with each
level. Possibility to move one of the Year 5 EAL sessions from D9 (P4) and have a
Year 6 session on Day 7 (P3) due to numbers. Would use this additional time to
split group and focus on different areas.

4. Referrals – Brooke to chase these up with classroom teachers.

5. Week 4 – hopeful to commence removal of students from Week 4. Will depend on

referrals and feedback from teachers. Will meet again before the beginning of
Week 4 to plan our sessions.

6. Rescheduling – Ben has been told to attend all sessions and if the studnets are
unavailable due to excursion, incursion, testing etc and can not go with him, he is
to document it for future reference. There is to be no changing or swapping of
times due to structure of timetable. He had a request for a swap due to Leadership
Excursion which he said no to. QF234

Meeting concluded at 12:00 pm.

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