Wall Education
EAL software for schools
Wall Education takes a new arrival from a name on a list to a full profile in twelve admission steps, then tracks their English every six weeks in the framework your school already uses.
Built by teachers, for teachers.
A new EAL pupil arrives with a name, a year group and a start date. Everything else is a guess, and most guesses are kind.
Plenty are wrong. They decide a set, a seat and a timetable before anyone has heard the child read in English, or in any other language.
The journey here
Amira's journey to Birmingham crossed four cities, three countries and three languages. Wall records it at admission, so every teacher who meets her knows it too.
2013 to 2022
Born here. Arabic at home, and the language she first learned to read and write in.
2022 to 2025 · three years
Three years of continuous schooling, taught in French. Reads and writes in two languages by the time she leaves.
2025 to 2026 · ten months
Ten months with her aunt while the family's visas come through. More French at school, and her first football club.
August 2026
English is new. She starts Year 8 on 8 September, and her admission starts with this journey.
Amira is a sample pupil; her journey is illustrative.
Languages first. Arabic at home, French at school in Beirut and Lyon, English since August.
Then where she has been, and how she reads, writes, listens and speaks today.
Then what she can reach in each lesson this week, and where she sits.
Twelve steps, and she's no longer a guess.
Year 8 · started 8 September · sample pupil
Sample audio. Amira is a sample pupil.
Set 2 maths. Mainstream art and PE. EAL group twice a week.
Report shared with her tutor on 3 October.
Twelve steps, and she's no longer a guess.
Everything an EAL coordinator needs to know about a pupil, from the first conversation to the latest assessment, kept together and readable by every teacher who works with them.
Staff are walked through each step of the admission, so nothing important is left to memory: the family, the languages, the journey here, and a first look at reading and writing.
Home languages, literacy in each one, interests and the people they already know in school, all on one profile.
Ask her about Liverpool.
Teachers mark the descriptors a pupil can now do across reading, writing, listening and speaking. The reading moves when the pupil does.
Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull or CEFR. All four are approximately aligned on the EAL Wall Score, so changing framework never means assessing a pupil again.
Amira, listeningEAL Wall Score 30 of 65
Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull or CEFR. Your school picks. Wall maps all four onto the EAL Wall Score, a 65-point scale, skill by skill, so a reading in one can be read in all of them.
EAL Assessment Framework, Bands A to E
EAL Assessment Framework, Steps 1 to 7
EAL Services, Steps 1 to 8
Common European Framework, Pre-A1 to B2
One line, four names for it.
Use the switch at the bottom of the screen and every reading on this page changes with it.
EAL assessment cycle
Each cycle, teachers mark what an EAL learner can now do. Wall places the pupil on the EAL Wall Score and reads it in your framework, so the reading moves when the pupil does, not when the calendar says so.
Amira Khalil · Listening Sample pupil
Cycle 1 of 6 · 8 September
Bell Foundation descriptor, now secure
Can ask a speaker to repeat or explain words in order to understand more of the message.
EAL in schools
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For EAL coordinators, SENCos, heads of year and school leaders. These are the problems that come up again and again in research and guidance on EAL in England, the question each one turns into, and how Wall Education answers it.
The year proficiency in English was removed from the school census. Schools now hold that picture themselves, or nobody does.
The Bell FoundationSchools in England with at least 5% of pupils using EAL on roll. Supporting EAL learners is now ordinary school business.
The Bell Foundation, 2025Pupils assessed competent or fluent in English after five or more years in an English school, against one to four years (DfE figures). Proficiency takes time, so it needs tracking.
The Bell FoundationThe problemA new arrival starts mid-year and the school knows a name, a year group and a start date.
Gather what you can learn from the family before you test anything. Wall Education walks staff through twelve admission steps: the pupil's profile, siblings, languages, origin, migrant history, hobbies and interests, then language proficiency, a literacy skill assessment, curriculum access, placement, a student report and audio recordings. Guidance from The Bell Foundation is to assess informally, through tasks, once the pupil has settled, and to make a best-fit judgement against a recognised framework.
The problemA quiet EAL pupil ends up in lower sets, or on the SEND register, because of their English.
Separate the language from the learning. Wall records literacy in the pupil's home language at admission, so a child who reads well in Arabic is not mistaken for a child who cannot read. Six-weekly readings then build a history: guidance on EAL and SEND suggests looking further if a pupil is not progressing at the rate of their peers after six to twelve months, and Wall shows that history at a glance.
The problemThe census no longer asks for proficiency in English, so there is no shared measure of where a pupil is.
Keep it in school, against a recognised framework. Wall records a reading for listening, speaking, reading and writing, on the EAL Wall Score, which is approximately aligned to the Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull and CEFR frameworks, and updates it every six weeks. Research from the University of Oxford found proficiency in English helps predict attainment, and encourages schools to keep assessing it to target support.
The problemSchools in the same trust or area use different EAL frameworks, so their data cannot be compared.
Yes. Wall approximately aligns the four frameworks against the same descriptors, so a reading taken in one can be read in any of the others. Each school keeps the framework it already uses, and switching framework never means assessing a pupil again.
The problemClass teachers have the EAL pupil in front of them but not the information the EAL coordinator holds.
Put it on one profile they can read. Wall's profile shows the pupil's languages, interests, current readings and curriculum access subject by subject, so a science teacher can see what is supported and what is pre-taught this week. The student report step produces a summary to share.
The problemA pupil chats easily in the playground but struggles with the reading and writing in lessons.
Conversational English usually comes long before the academic English needed for the curriculum. Wall tracks the four skills separately, so a strong speaking reading never hides a weaker reading or writing one.
The problemLeaders need to show inspectors how EAL pupils are progressing from their starting points.
A starting point, regular assessment and the work behind it. Wall records the starting point at admission, a reading every six weeks, teacher notes, and evidence such as audio recordings and writing samples on the same record, so progress is visible without building a separate spreadsheet.
The problemInformation about an EAL pupil gets lost when they move year group, tutor or teacher.
Keep it with the pupil, not with the member of staff. The profile, every reading and all the evidence stay on the pupil's record in Wall, so a new tutor or year team starts from what the school already knows.
The problemThe EAL coordinator has too little time for the role, and tracking lives in spreadsheets.
Share the work and keep it in one place. In Wall, teachers mark the descriptors a pupil can now do each cycle, and the reading updates itself. Admission, profile, assessment and evidence sit together instead of across separate documents.
Wall Education is EAL software for UK schools, built by teachers, for teachers. It guides staff through a 12-step admission for new arrivals, keeps one profile for every pupil who uses English as an additional language, and tracks their English every six weeks on the EAL Wall Score, a 65-point scale approximately aligned to the Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull and CEFR frameworks.
Three things. It does not tie a school to one framework: Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull and CEFR are approximately aligned on the EAL Wall Score, so a school keeps the framework it uses and can switch without reassessing pupils. It covers the whole journey, from admission to six-weekly tracking, in one record. And it was built by teachers, for teachers.
EAL tracking software records how a pupil who speaks English as an additional language is progressing in English, and keeps their admission details, languages and evidence in one place. Wall Education does this for schools, from a pupil's first day to every six-weekly review.
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Teachers. Wall Education was built by teachers, for teachers, around the work EAL coordinators and class teachers already do: admitting new arrivals, getting to know them, and checking their English every six weeks.
Wall Education runs on a six-week assessment cycle. Teachers mark the descriptors a pupil can now do in reading, writing, listening and speaking, and the pupil's reading moves when they do.
Four, approximately aligned with each other on the EAL Wall Score, a 65-point scale. A school selects the framework it already uses, and every result is read in it.
| Framework | Scale | Levels |
|---|---|---|
| Bell Foundation EAL Assessment Framework | Bands | A to E |
| NASSEA EAL Assessment Framework | Steps | 1 to 7 |
| Solihull EAL Services | Steps | 1 to 8 |
| CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) | Levels | Pre-A1 to B2 |
* The alignment between these frameworks is approximate. It is Wall Education's own mapping and has not yet been validated by published research.
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Approximate alignment
Wall lines up the Bell Foundation, NASSEA, Solihull and CEFR frameworks on one 65-point scale, the EAL Wall Score. The alignment is approximate: it is Wall Education's own mapping and has not yet been validated by published research.
