ESB News Winter Edition 2022

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ESB’s Chief Executive, Tina Renshaw welcomes you to our Winter edition of ESB News

Welcome to this Winter edition of ESB News. We wanted to get back in touch to tell you about the exciting initiatives that we’ve been working on to ensure ESB assessments remain accessible and beneficial for all learners. You can also read all about our plans for the coming months which aim to reach more learners facing disadvantage. Firstly, we are excited to remind you about our 70/70 Campaign and our unwavering aim to support learners facing disadvantage due to socio-economic factors, special educational needs and disabilities and migration status through this initiative. You can find out more about how our campaign has already supported and positively impacted numerous groups of learners from our Centres in Cornwall, Staffordshire and Cambridge. There is also news regarding the work we are doing for our learners with special educational needs and disabilities to ensure that our speech portfolio really allows these disadvantaged learners to achieve their potential. Secondly, we are committed to supporting teachers, helping them to fulfil the potential of learners, so, after listening to feedback from our ESOL Skills for Life centres, we will now provide digital sound files for those teachers that prefer it.

Thirdly, you can read about the work that ESB’s Chief Assessor, Ben Jackson has been involved in and the challenges he faced when he joined us in the English National Lockdown over 15 months ago. There is also exciting news about three new Assessors who have joined ESB to encourage and support your learners to ensure they can reap the rewards of learning from our programme and develop skills that will last them a lifetime. We do hope that you will enjoy reading this ESB News and feel that it keeps you up to date with what’s happening. We would love to hear from you about anything you would like to see, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Our work to improve ESB helps to ensure we are providing the best possible products and services to both our centres and assessors. Together, we can continue to raise the achievement of our learners.

Best wishes, Tina

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