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The Berkshire School Of English Ltd

the berkshire school of english ltd

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Newbury

Learn English Berkshire School of English - Cambridge English Tests, GCSE's, SATs, Life in the UK, English for BusinessThe Berkshire School of English was established in 2015 to provide the residents of Berkshire with a fully integrated English language school. Courses are delivered face-to-face from public buildings such as libraries, schools, town halls and family hubs. Some courses are delivered ‘live’ online. We provide free or affordable English language learning to non-native English speakers living in Berkshire. We inspire, empower and enable people to enrich their lives through English communication. We provide safe learning environments where people feel secure to explore and experiment with the English language to achieve their individual learning goals. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to obtain literacy and communication skills in a common language and to understand and celebrate the social and cultural diversity of the modern world. We provide a ‘One Stop English Shop’ where individuals, their families, schools, and businesses can choose from a variety of ways to improve their English skills. In addition to generic EFL and adult literacy and Maths learning we create and develop bespoke courses, English for specific purposes. We value and respect our learners individual learning goals. We support our learners to achieve their goals by providing excellent teaching with highly qualified, passionate teachers using innovative teaching practices and resources relevant to learners’ lives. Berkshire School of English provides professional language and literacy learning with free or affordable courses for everyone including the hardest to reach and most vulnerable members of society. The best things about our courses are that they are learner centred, designed and delivered by highly qualified teachers using up-to-date resources and technology. They are relevant to specific jobs and learners’ lives.

Fiona Scott

fiona scott

Wiltshire

I was born in the 1960s in Somerset, UK the eldest of two daughters of Heather and Nick Bune. My mum was a housewife and dad a welder after starting an early career as a coal miner. The coal mining industry ran in the blood of my family as both grandfathers and all of my great grandfathers were coal miners. I grew up in a happy, loving home where money was always tight. There were no daytrips, no foreign holidays for me – in fact we didn’t have a telephone until I was a teenager and we didn’t have a car until I’d left home. At school I was one of those children who sits in the middle, grey and unnoticed, yet plodding on. I got seven O levels and a qualification in touch typing –my careers ‘adviser’ told me I should am to be a secretary or a nurse. Not a chance! However, I didn’t do as well in my A levels as expected and ended up going to a more ‘lowly’ college of higher education, now Bath Spa University. I took a degree in English Literature & History and loved it. I did well in my degree, getting a high 2:1 and took a PGCE and trained to be a teacher though quickly realised this was not for me. I always wanted to be a journalist – I used that year to apply for any relevant job. I eventually got a traineeship on a local newspaper in Somerset, then two years later moved on to a daily newspaper in Swindon, where I went on to be crime reporter and then business editor. I was also running as a volunteer a radio programme for Hospital Radio Swindon.