ESOL Reading Skills - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

PLEASE NOTE: This course runs on Thursdays & Fridays.

This course aims to teach beginner English skills to people who speak English as a second language.

This course is designed for speakers of other languages who want to improve their English and gain an ESOL Entry level 1-3 Reading qualification.

Our experienced staff will help you to improve your reading, writing and speaking and listening. You will gain confidence in these skills and will then focus on developing your reading, comprehension and understating skills further in order to then pass a qualification. 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 -3 . You will be assessed near the end of the course and once you have successfully completed this you will receive a City and Guilds ESOL Reading qualification. Please make sure that you can attend the lessons each week before enrolling on the course.

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.