Nandhaka Pieris

Background photographs above and below by Lee Allan, taken at NALDIC's 24th Annual Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 19th November 2016


NALDIC

the UK’s national subject association for EAL


NALDIC Trustee / Director & Secretary

I have been a member of NALDIC since attending their Summer School for EAL Coordinators at Homerton College, Cambridge. It was such a great course, at fantastic value, that I later joined NALDIC, volunteered to support their committees and have attended many events since.

Through volunteering and acting as EAL Project Officer, the consultant for the UK’s national subject association for EAL, I have taken on a variety of endeavours, including:

  • The review, redesign, restructure and launch of the new website

  • Facilitating NALDIC and external groups and networks, both local and nationwide, including the Co-convening of NALDIC's Independent Schools SIG

  • Supporting the planning and running of NALDIC events, including the annual conference

  • Photographing and videoing events

  • Administrative Audit

  • Supporting, updating and producing training and information resources and publications, including:

    • Writing about EAL learners and Second/Additional Language Acquisition for GL Assessment

    • Producing a training video and workbook for Ofsted about EAL

    • Writing for EAL Journal

    • Associate Editor of EAL Journal

At the AGM in 2018, I was elected to the NALDIC Executive as a Trustee and Director of the association. In my second term now, I serve as NALDIC’s Secretary and sit on the Executive Committee and other NALDIC Teams.

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