ESOL - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

About this course

This course runs Tuesday & Thursday 9.15am - 12.15pm.

This course aims to improve your English skills and your confidence in using these. This course is designed for speakers of other languages who want to improve their English and gain a qualification.

Our experienced staff will help you to improve your reading, writing and speaking and listening whilst working in a group. You will start by doing an initial assessment, in order to decide with your tutor which level you will be working at from Entry level 1 to Entry level 3. You will be assessed near the end of the course on these three elements and once you have completed these you will achieve a City and Guilds ESOL qualification.

This course runs for 37 weeks. Please make sure that you can attend the lessons twice a week before enrolling on the course.

We provide our ESOL courses free of charge for learners who are eligible to study with us. To check your eligibility, we need some information from you, including your age, where you live, how long you have lived in England, and your residency status. If you receive benefits or have a low income, we may also ask for evidence of this. This helps us apply for funding to support your learning.

What you will need to bring to the course:

All resources that you need will be supplied by the tutor, but you may wish to have your own notebook to work in as well.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.