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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)

An unaccompanied child looked after by a local authority is entitled to the same local authority support as any other looked after child: to have a safe and stable placement; to receive the care that they need to thrive; and the support they need to fulfil their educational and other outcomes.

All statutory guidance with regards PEPs, school admissions, securing good attendance in OFSTED rated Good/Outstanding schools is adhered to. Some unaccompanied children who have recently arrived in the country may never have had access to education before.

Gloucestershire Virtual School works alongside social workers and other professionals to ensure that appropriate education provision for each child is arranged after an age assessment has taken place. This multi-disciplinary approach involves social care, carers, Gloucestershire Action for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Gloucestershire Strategic ESOL Forum.

For more information, contact:

Below is a description of the work undertaken by Gloucestershire Virtual School Learning Mentor for UASC. This key role enables the voice of young people to be heard, which informs the work of GCC at a strategic, operational and individual level.

Learning Mentor for our Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)

The role of Learning Mentor is to be a human contact for the growing number of Gloucestershire Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children now living in and being supported in and outside of Gloucestershire, to gain access to education and build confidence within the context of the community in which they reside.

The Learning Mentor's role is to be a meeting point for newly arrived UASC learners and steer them towards education. Before the young person has started their education, there will be a PEP meeting to establish the best educational pathway for the young person as well as starting a practical working relationship with them and the various professionals working alongside them. It is vital that the advocacy of the young person is central in all these discussions.

It is generally the case that many USACs have limited access to much needed learning and socialising. This role has been able to facilitate these opportunities as well as running or planning to run several successful projects. Examples of the work we have been doing or are planning for are as follows:

Drop-in sessions, alongside social care teams, to support engagement in learning prior to being enrolled full time.

The Virtual School working with and strengthening relationships with local charitable and social organisations.

In Stroud, The Virtual School has worked with Access Bikes, supporting the YP with bikes which they have learnt to build and repair as well as supporting them with using public transport and accessing the countryside. This also supports social benefits of working closely together and meeting other YP with shared backgrounds. This was made possible with the support of GARAS, who supported these activities with extra English teaching, advice, counselling, and support.

There are regular football training sessions run by the Kingfisher Church with plans for cricket training sessions being planned, working alongside the Lord Taverners charity and Gloucester Cricket Club.

Other initiatives in the pipeline are to support USAC learners to access creative music and art workshops and classes.

There is a plan to develop cookery resources with Leith Academy Kitchen, that specifically celebrates the cultural richness of UASC learners and teaches cooking and co-operative living skills to young people who speak English as a second language.

We are also communicating with a local charity, Clean Slate. This charity supports financial planning to marginalised people and groups and are working to develop some resources for UASC young people to open bank accounts and manage their money.

Another next step is to create a drop-in tutorial space for young people to meet up on a regular basis. This is planned to happen in partnership with Gloucester Cathedral, who are keen to offer both sanctuary and an education offer, to allow the young people a place to be able to ask for help in a safe space, build supportive peer groups, access resources and practice what they are learning at college to prepare for adult life.

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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)

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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) An unaccompanied child looked after by a local authority is entitled to the same local authority support as any other looked after child: to have a safe and stable placement; to receive the care that they need to thrive; and the support they need to fulfil their educational and other outcomes.

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Many of our young people are unaccompanied asylum seekers or separated children.

Here you will find some useful links including a series of videos and booklets about the Post 16 British Education System for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children arriving in the UK. The information is provided in eight languages: English, Arabic, Dari, Kurdish, Pashto, Albanian, Amharic, and Ukrainian.

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Note: These video have been created for those unable to access the booklet which provides the same information. Therefore no subtitles are included with the videos.

Barnet Virtual School also facilitate and run a UASC Working Group with various professionals from across the UK in order to keep developing and sharing best practice when supporting UASC.

If you'd like to get involved please don't hesitate to get in touch using the contact details below.

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For further information or support, please contact the Virtual School by calling 0208 359 4534 or emailing barnet.virtualschool@barnet.gov.uk

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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) | Barnet Virtual School | London Borough of Barnet

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Many of our young people are unaccompanied asylum seekers or separated children. Here you will find some useful links including a series of videos and booklets about the Post 16 British Education System for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children arriving in the UK. The information is provided in eight languages: English, Arabic, Dari, Kurdish, Pashto, Albanian, Amharic, and Ukrainian.

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BBC has resources for adults learning English and Maths

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A collection of free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve reading, writing and numeracy skills.

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English as an additional language - 1st level English and Literacy - BBC Bitesize

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1st level English and Literacy English as an additional language learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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Open University Free courses for Refugee learners of English

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Open University Free courses for Refugee learners of English

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This free course, Everyday English 1, will develop and improve your essential speaking and listening, reading and writing skills for work, study and everyday life.

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Open University Free courses for Refugee learners of English

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Open University Free courses for Refugee learners of English

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This free course, Everyday English 2, will inspire you to improve your current English skills and help you to communicate more effectively in everyday work and life.

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vocational focussed speaking and listening

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BBC Learning English - Learn English with BBC Learning English - Homepage

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5 sessions on practicing Speaking and Listening

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5 Days of tips and challenges to help you improve your speaking

Welcome to Day 1 - Today's challenges

Here is Tim's question for you today:

Look at the video from Day 3 in the series: 5 days to improve your pronunciation. Can you spot three items that are in Tim's room in that video, that aren't in today's video?
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND THE ANSWER TO TODAY'S QUESTION
Tim's tips

Today Tim talks about what it means to be a good speaker, and he gives an overview of areas that feature in the days to come.

Being a good speaker involves combining different skills: from vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and listening.

It's not easy! So be prepared to work at it, and you shouldn't expect instant results.

You need to have confidence in yourself, and although accuracy is important, don't be too worried about making mistakes.

One of the important areas to think about is pronunciation. Clear pronunciation is essential to being a good speaker and today Tim directs you to some of the BBC Learning English pronunciation resources.

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Don't forget to come back for Day 2 to find out the answer to Tim's question.

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BBC Learning English - 5 days to improve your speaking / Day 1

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Day one of Tim's 5-day guide to better speaking.

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Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation workshop. Here I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Well, here we are in the pronunciation workshop for the final time. Today, let's look back on what we've covered in this series and I'll offer some final tips and words of advice. When we write English, each word is separate; there are spaces between the words. But, that's not how we speak English. If. We. Did. It. Might. Be. Easier. To. Understand. But. We. Would. Sound. Like. Robots. No. When we speak English, although there are some pauses, we mostly bump the words together. And when these words bump into each other certain things can happen that affect the sounds. We've learned that /t/ and /d/ sounds disappear between consonants:

Tim
Consonant sounds can link with vowel sounds:

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Certain vowel sounds can link with certain other vowel sounds by adding sounds:

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Two consonant sounds can join together, or twin.

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Some sounds can change completely:

'Green Park' /griːn pɑːk/ becomes /griːmpɑːk/.

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Unstressed grammar words are often weak:

'I'd have been late' becomes /aɪdəv bɪn leɪt/

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And we've also seen how a little sound, schwa, is important to the rhythm of natural spoken English.

'A piece of cake' /ə piːsə keɪk/

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These are all features of what we call connected speech. Natural speech is full of these features. And for native speakers, these changes happen automatically. The more you can get used to listening to and speaking English, the more naturally they'll come to you too. But my advice is that the most important thing to pay attention to is schwa. Getting schwa in the right place is the first step to getting English pronunciation right. And that, for the last time, is about it from the pronunciation workshop. And always remember that if you want to learn more about pronunciation or other aspects of English, then please visit our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Thank you so much for watching this series and I'll see you soon. Bye bye! Erm, hello? Hello? Erm. I can't get out. What do I do? Help! Help! Oh. Somebody?

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BBC Learning English - Pronunciation / Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Summary

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Topic: Fitness and giving opinions on a Joe Wicks fitness app after watching a video clip.

Uses NCFE spec for task 1 in listening and speaking exam. Teacher created content following NCFE guidance documents. I hope it is accurate and welcome feedback in case this does not represent the criteria.

Created for a student who needs a lot of support around speaking and listening. Can be adapted to much freer discussion with more cognitively able students.
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conversation topics for English

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BBC Learning English - Easy English Conversations

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The Journey by Francesca Sanna (part 1) - The Bell Foundation

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ESOL resources aimed for new to care learners

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Learning resources Archives - The Bell Foundation

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Teaching Resource: The Boy at the Back of the Class

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FREE new EAL resource based on the award-winning novel The boy at the back of the class.

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Pearson Edexcel ESOL Entry 2 information for students and teachers, including the specification, news and support.

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LearnEnglish Teens provides information, tips and resources to help teenagers learn English.

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English Listening Lesson Library Online

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Learn English Naturally! Listen to over 2,500 free lessons featuring speakers from around the world. All lessons comes with audio or video, a quiz and script. ESL teachers and students can choose English lessons from beginner to advanced!

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UASC learners are mostly working at Entry level qualifications

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As Pearson's resource bank continues to grow, it has become necessary to collate these resources together to make accessing them easier. These resources will still be available on the course content page, however this page will be the new hub for all our free resources moving forward.

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Entry - Level 1 classes

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English Language Videos for ESOL students
ESOL Fast Forward (ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages), provides educational English language videos for ESOL students.
I have experience of teaching all levels of ESOL from Entry 1 to Level 2, and lots of ideas to help you practice grammar, work on your study skills and prepare for exams.
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New free ESOL sample assessments for 2023-24

Expired assessment papers are a fantastic tool to use to prepare your learners for their upcoming assessments.

Assist learners in preparing for ESOL assessments by helping them become familiar with the exams.

Scroll down this page and explore our range of sample papers available at Entry Level 1 to Level 2 for Reading, Writing, and Speaking and Listening.

More helpful information:

ESOL qualifications | Living and Working in the UK qualifications | ESOL and digital qualifications

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Specifications and example exam papers

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ESOL Skills for Life - levels and resources

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Make sure you don't miss the latest news from Trinity College London. Sign up for email updates about your subject area.

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Quizzes for practicing English

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English Banana.com - Interactive Quizzes - Elementary Level

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Animated video of Habib's life story arriving ing the UK