Rucstall Primary School
A caring, fun loving, learning community
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Creativity
Equality
Honesty
Perseverance
Respectfulness
Young Interpreters
Meet our Young Interpreters
About the scheme
The Young Interpreter Scheme offers training for learners aged 5-16 to develop the skills needed to help new arrivals with English as an Additional Language feel welcome and settled in their new school environment. The scheme also develops the confidence, communication and leadership skills of the Young Interpreters. For schools it’s a way of valuing multilingualism whilst acknowledging and celebrating the skills of their learners.
Who are Young Interpreters
56 children at Rucstall applied for a position as a Young Interpreter, making it clear just how embedded our school values of: Equality, Respectfulness and Co-operation are. Making the scheme available to both bilingual and monolingual learners is very powerful in developing empathy amongst English speakers towards some of the challenges and difficulties that pupils new to English may be facing. Therefore, our Young Interpreters are speakers of English only or speakers of other languages. Together they use a range of inventive ideas modelled during their training to communicate with their new classmates.