We have reached the end of another challenging academic year, and we want to thank you for your support throughout.
We have seen such determination and resilience from our students, and have been delighted at the progress they have made. Our teachers and volunteers have worked tirelessly to provide a high standard of learning in a difficult and ever changing environment, and we are extremely grateful for all their hard work.
We hope you will enjoy reading this newsletter, and joining with us as we celebrate the success of our students.
It's always great to receive positive feedback from our students and to hear how much they have improved over the course of their lessons. This has been particularly encouraging in a year when so much of our teaching has been online. Not all of our students were able to engage with our classes in this format, but for those who were able to attend regularly, their teacher saw an increase in their confidence as well as an improvement in their English. The students also benefitted from the social contact of these online classes.
It was wonderful to finally get back into the classroom after so long teaching online. Pictured below is one of our teachers, Lucy, with some of her students proudly displaying their certificates of achievement! A very big well done to them and all our students.
It's amazing to see that in spite of two disrupted academic years we are teaching so many more hours of classes! The more hours we are able to teach the more students we can reach. As we continue to grow we are looking for more teachers to join our team - if you think this could be you please get in touch!
After a successful pilot, we will be launching our Digital Skills classes in Rotherham, Doncaster and at the Snowdrop Project in September!
We are also in the early stages of developing a more intensive course, in partnership with the Refugee Council, tailored to meet the needs of the students. It is planned to be a more immersive, less classroom based, style of learning featuring trips and cultural experiences.
Would you, or someone you know, be interested in becoming a volunteer language buddy, meeting with a student for an hour or two a week to support them with their language learning? Contact Anna to register your interest or to find out more!
Huge thanks to Sheffield Volunteering for donating these beautiful colouring sets to us! We were delighted to be able to use them as end of term gifts for our students.
Support us with your shopping!
Good Taste, The Sheffield Fair Trade Shop currently have us as one of their 'Shop Charities', this means that they will donate 5% of the cost of your purchases to our work every time you shop via their online shop. If you visit their shop in Broomhill, you can also support us by donating your loyalty points to us (£5 for each full loyalty card!) at no extra cost to yourself.
Did you know that you can also support our work through your Amazon purchases, by registering Hope English School as your chosen charity on Amazon Smile. It works exactly the same way as usual but Amazon will donate a small percentage of your purchases to us.
Are you interested in becoming a trustee?
We are looking for more volunteers to join our board of trustees, we especially welcome applications from people with lived experience of the asylum-seeking process, either through frontline work or direct personal experience. If you would like to find out more information about this please get in touch!