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ESB News
Winter 2018
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Contents
Message from our Chief Executive 3
2017 Young Speakers of the Year Showcase 4
Meet our International Partners 8
‘My ESB Experience’ 10
Making an Entrance! 12
In the Spotlight: Mary Ward Centre 16
Q&A with an Expert 18
Could your Pupil be a 2018 ‘Spirit of ESB’ Winner? 21
You spoke. We listened 23
COVER PHOTO 2017 Young Speakers of the Year Showcase
© 2018 English Speaking Board (International) Ltd.
Designed and edited by Debbie Bassett.
communications@esbuk.org
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Message from our
CEO
Chief Executive
ESB's Chief Executive, Tina Renshaw,
welcomes you to our Winter Edition of
ESB News.
TINA RENSHAW
Chief Executive
It is a great pleasure to welcome you
with a fresh perspective in 2018 to our all- Our annual Young Speakers of the Year
new edition of ESB News, keeping you
Showcase in November was a triumphant
connected with the work we’re doing to success. It was an honour and a privilege
ensure you continue to receive the highest to host the ceremony, and to see first-
standard of assessments, service and hand our talented learners perform in
support. front of family and friends, and be
In this Winter Edition, we introduce you to recognised for their achievements. In this
our two key international language year’s ceremony we introduced new
partners, Europalso in Greece and British categories to celebrate success across a
Institutes in Italy, whose work continues to wider breadth of our learners, fulfilling
blossom, expanding our presence in the ESB’s ethos to encourage the potential of
international language market. all. We are already taking in nominations
for this year’s Speech awards, so please
We are always looking for ways to help read on for details of how to submit a
you to incorporate ESB into your teaching, nomination.
providing resources, training and
workshops to centres who need that We are always open to feedback, and
additional support. Our conference in would love to hear your opinion on what
Stoke-on-Trent last year was a fantastic you would like to see in ESB News, so
example, when we were able to give please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
teachers useful tips, tricks and activities to
use in the classroom to help their pupils Best wishes,
get the most out of ESB assessments. Tina
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Celebrating Success!
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2017 Young Speakers
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ESB held its annual Young Speakers of the around the country to Liverpool to attend
Year Showcase on Saturday, 11th the celebration and receive their awards.
November. Winners travelled from
Out of 15,000 students who took ESB
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Speech exams across 2016/17, nine listening to, and delivering
students were selected as winners in a good story. I thoroughly
Events
recognition of their outstanding spoken enjoyed the opportunity
language skills. Each student performed to read aloud my favourite
to an audience of family, friends and passage from Charles Dickens’ Great
teachers, impressing everyone with their Expectations.”
skills and abilities, and their charisma
and confidence. Another worthy winner, Mia Pitts from St
Francis School said, “I am thrilled to
ESB’s Chief Executive, Tina Renshaw, says: receive this award, and to speak about
“ESB’s mission is to extend my prized instrument, the piano
communication skills, to offer accordion. Going to the ESB award
opportunities to stretch the most able, ceremony was a really great experience
and to support the least confident. We that I will never forget.”
do this in a learner-focused way with our
students choosing their own topics, Please go to p.19 to read more about
poems and books. It is wonderful to our winners.
reward their achievements and then
share their passions at our annual
Showcase.” To see a highlights video of the
Showcase, please click the ‘play’ symbol
One of the winners, Sacha from below.
Broomfield House School said after the
ceremony, “I love performing and ESB The video running time is 03.32 minutes.
has reinforced my enthusiasm for
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…and it’s not just
about the pupils!
For our 2017 guest speakers, we Alongside our new ‘Spirit of ESB’
asked the people who know ESB Award category, which recognises
best, our dedicated teachers. and encourages the potential of all
our learners, our 2017 Showcase
Our first guest was Executive Head also introduced the ‘Burniston Bell’
Teacher, Anthony David, who came Award. This prestigious award is
to the ceremony to speak about named in honour of two of the two
how ESB assessments has helped of the key players in ESB’s early
raise attainment in his two schools, success: Christabel Burniston
Millbrook Park C of E Primary (founder) and Jocelyn Bell. The
School and St Paul’s CE Primary award recognises teachers who
School , both of which achieved have shown exceptional
Ofsted ‘Outstanding’. A keen commitment to ESB.
supporter of ESB, Anthony’s speech
outlined the importance of Our 2017 Burniston Bell Award
encouraging confidence in pupils winner, who was nominated by two
by allowing them to speak about different assessors, was Sue Turford,
their passion. who was a former Speech and
Drama teacher at Concord College
Our second guest speaker was Mary in Shropshire. She was nominated
Worsley, who teaches English at on account of her lifetime of
Bolton School Girls’ Division, who dedication to teaching ESB, helping
spoke about how she uses ESB learners reach their full potential in
assessments as an enrichment assessments. Sue joined us with her
activity. Mary is passionate about husband at the ceremony to receive
how ESB assessments motivate her award, and gave a gracious
young people, as it offers them a acceptance speech, outlining her
platform to express themselves and personal highlights teaching ESB.
find a voice.
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Meet our International Internati
onal
Educational Providers
ESB in Italy and Europalso
ESB’s international reach is going from winter and summer periods. Europalso’s
strength to strength. Working with our President, George Zikopolous works
two key partners, ESB’s ESOL tirelessly to promote language
International assessments have been qualifications across the country.
sat by thousands of students across
In Italy, English Speaking Board
Greece and Italy over the past year.
operates ESOL International
Founded in 1956, Europalso is currently assessments rather differently. ESB
the largest certified organisation of offer them a unique on-demand
foreign language centres in Greece. service, with the option of Fast Track
Every year, over 17,000 students in marking, to ensure examination results
language schools across Greece sit our are returned within a set timeframe.
ESOL International assessments over The organisation operates
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My ESB Experience
Former ESB pupil Jenny Hazan shares her
ESB story, and how it has influenced her life.
Throughout my senior school life I of achievement. Having built great
participated in ESB exams, confidence in my speaking and
culminating in my achievement of a presentation abilities from the very
Distinction in the Advanced first ESB examination, I also became
Certificate in Spoken English (ACSE) able to present more persuasively
in my penultimate year. Before each and coherently as I continued to
examination I would always spend participate in each grade.
time planning and preparing the
relevant presentations, discussions
and spoken pieces. Throughout all of the stages in my
life so far, I have been required to
present and articulate myself well,
From a presentation on helicopters, and I have to say, that without the
obesity in the UK, to a very experience and confidence that ESB
precarious presentation performed gave me at a young age perhaps I
from a kayak in the school would not be where I am today.
swimming pool, each examination
gave me the opportunity to
research and develop topics that Whilst studying European Politics at
interested me. Before each the University of Leeds, I was
examination I would be a bundle of required to make frequent
nerves and I would question why I presentations and engage in debate
was taking part, yet every time the for most, if not all, of my classes.
ESB examiner would be supportive Where the majority of my peers
and encouraging, as would my were almost paralysed through fear
fellow examinees, and I always left at the thought of presenting their
feeling on a high with a real sense
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research in front of a room full of
people, thankfully I was able to When the media comments on the
confidently and calmly perform in lack of communication and
these situations due to the skills I presentation skills held by the
had acquired through ESB. young people of today, I can only
be disappointed that ESB grades
After University, like many have not been made part of the
graduates, I really had to fight for a national curriculum. Preparing for
position in the job market, ESB not only builds your
attending interviews and presentation, speaking and
assessment days that all required researching skills, it also improves
me to have confidence in my self- confidence and really is a fantastic
presentation abilities and to be way to introduce young people to
persuasive and calm under the communication skills that will
pressure. I have now entered the undoubtedly be required by them
communications profession and my throughout the rest of their lives.
job requires me to present briefs to
my superiors, convey information
clearly and coherently to
employees from all levels and act
as an ambassador for the whole
company. Although I have
continually built on my
communication skills, I would not
be as an effective communicator as
I am today without the basics that I
gained in each ESB grade. In
particular, I have found that, as well
as the communication skills gained,
the reporting, analytical, evaluative
and summarising skills that I
developed during my preparation
for the ACSE examination have
been vital.
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Making an Entrance!
Our Senior Examiner, Lulu Dale visited Sir
William Burrough Primary School in Tower
Hamlets, London, to give pupils a workshop on
how to deliver a great introduction to a talk.
The pupils were given valuable tips and asked the group to identify the sound,
tricks for making an attention-grabbing which led into her talk on a recent
start to their talks. Lulu gave examples of holiday to Morocco. She also suggested
several different ways to introduce a talk. to open the talk with a joke, or with a
She played the sound of cicadas, and question, to immediately hook the
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audience. In pairs, pupils were then asked happy to do my presentation now, and
to think of ways to start their own talks, ready to talk about my favourite topic’.
and practiced them in front of the group.
If you would like to find out more about
Avril Newman, Head Teacher at Sir William the training and resources we offer, please
Burrough Primary School said, ‘Lulu’s speak to Alison Coates on
workshop has been really Alison.coates@esbuk.org.
transformational. In just one morning, it
has given [the pupils] years’ worth of Please flip the page to see a highlights
insight and energy which they will carry video from the day.
with them throughout life.’
The workshops were a great success, as
pupils left feeling confident about their
talks, and how to hook their audience into
their chosen topic.
One pupil said, ‘I’ll be really confident and
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The video running time is 6.45 minutes.
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In the Spotlight: Mary
Ward Centre
We check in with one of our leading centres for
ESOL Skills for Life, to get their take on our
qualifications.
Located in central London, and The centre’s Curriculum
running over 1000 classes, Mary Coordinator, Kirsty Barlow is a
Ward Adult Education Centre has longstanding advocate of ESB, and
been using ESB for its ESOL Skills favours our supportive approach to
for Life assessments for three years. assessments.
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Mary Ward’s ESOL Curriculum
Coordinator Kirsty Barlow shares her Language
experience with ESB.
“This is the second organisation The assessments really test our
that I have worked for that uses ESB students’ abilities in a number of
for their ESOL Skills for Life exams. different ways, and groups I have
worked with have enjoyed
preparing their presentations to
Right from the start, I found the really show off what they can do.
support offered second-to-none.
The whole team in the office are so
professional, helpful and friendly, The results turnaround is simply
nothing is too much trouble for outstanding. Students are always
them. From the initial visits with delighted to know that they don’t
Jackie Johnson (ESB Business have to wait long to know their
Development Adviser) to set up as a results, and it means I can maximise
centre, the training that was success rates with quick resits if
provided for teaching staff, and the required.
ongoing support from the
Customer Experience Team, they
have maintained a personal touch The support and guidance we
which I really appreciate. Despite receive throughout the assessment
the recent growth and successes of experience means that I can’t
ESB, they continue to make me and recommend ESB enough.”
my centre feel valued.
Kirsty Barlow
The assessments themselves are Curriculum Coordinator, Mary Ward
great, as we like to know that Centre
students have achieved their
qualifications and been assessed by
an external examiner. Speaking and
Listening assessors have been very
professional and caring towards our
students, particularly those who
need a little more support because
of personal or health difficulties.
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Q&A with an
Speech
ESB expert
Our Business Development Adviser,
Alison Coates, explains how ESB benefits
both teachers and learners.
How does ESB benefit my learners? Our graded assessments are
AC ESB assessments are designed flexible, making it easier to support
to develop learners’ communication learners with a variety of different
skills, encouraging them to learning abilities. Additionally, ESB
communicate clearly and with provides separate qualifications that
confidence. At ESB, we believe oracy are specifically designed for pupils
to be at the heart of the learning with learning difficulties, and for
experience, giving a positive impact EAL learners. ESB’s qualifications can
across the curriculum. be seamlessly ‘mixed and matched’,
Communicating confidently helps to providing differentiation without
build key social skills, as well as drawing attention to the different
helping to close the attainment gap abilities of your learners.
in schools by supporting learners
who may be underachieving.
How can ESB boost employability
Teachers are amazed by the
difference ESB assessments can skills?
make to their pupils’ self-esteem, Employability skills are becoming
which is fundamental to their more important than ever to young
educational development. people. In the current job market,
employers are seeking out
candidates who have the
How can ESB assessments support
communication skills necessary to
learners of different abilities? allow them to succeed. As well as
ESB is committed to equality and boosting learner performance
diversity in education, and this is across the curriculum, ESB is
present in our qualifications, too.
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Speech
continually looking at ways to learners the choice to talk on a
equip learners with the skills poem which has a personal
needed for life beyond school. ESB meaning to them, or a topic they
assessments require learners to find interesting or important
give a presentation to their peers; encourages them to think critically
this use of effective communication about wider philosophical, cultural
gives them a clear advantage in the or political ideas, which can shape
job market. Significantly, ESB builds them as individuals.
confidence in learners, which is key
Recent research confirms that oracy
for both employability and
is crucial to the development of
educational achievement. literacy skills, as it encourages clear
and effective expression and critical
What else can ESB offer? thinking. In terms of what ESB can
offer you, you will have a
As well as raising self-esteem, ESB supportive and dedicated team
has a knock-on effect across the who can assist you throughout your
curriculum, equipping learners with ESB journey, and we have a host of
a broad skill-set to help them resources and materials to help you
progress in a variety of subjects. incorporate ESB into your teaching.
ESB helps to enrich pupils’ spiritual,
moral, social and cultural (SMSC)
development, which is becoming
increasingly central to raising
attainment in schools. Giving
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Could your pupil Speech
be a 2018 ‘Spirit
of ESB’ winner?
Last year, ESB introduced the ‘Spirit of ESB’ understanding and compassion
category, which recognised and awarded x a candidate who has made
learners who showed great promise in exceptional progress as a result of
their assessments. This new award participating in this assessment
recognises and encourages the potential
of all learners, in line with the vision of our And can come from a range of learners:-
founder, Christabel Burniston, who x a candidate who is new to ESB
believed that acquiring interactive assessment
speaking and listening skills inspires x a candidate who has had a
confidence and increases self-esteem in reasonable adjustment applied to
every individual. allow them to access a qualification
Our 2017 winners attended the event in x a candidate entered for any individual
Liverpool, with the support of their speech assessments – ICE, EAL
Graded Exams, Graded examinations
families, and the proud teachers who in speech, interview skills, debating
nominated them for the award. etc.
One of our 2017 ‘Spirit’ winners, Sara Khan
said after the ceremony, ‘ESB has really With our next Young Speakers of the Year
helped me to gain my confidence to speak Showcase taking place this November, we
in public. Today has been a very special are already taking in nominations for our
day for me and my family’. Spirit of ESB category. If you feel there is a
pupil who particularly stands out to you
and meets the above criteria, or if you
In order to be considered for the award, would like to find out more about the
award, please email Debbie Bassett on
your nominated learner must meet at least
Deborah.bassett@esbuk.org.
one of the following criteria:
x a candidate who has overcome
obstacles to give an inspiring and/or
memorable assessment
x a candidate who has raised awareness
of an issue with significant
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Reading & Writing Exams
External Assessment
You will receive your candidates’ Your reading and writing papers
reading and writing results just are marked and moderated
5 working days after the receipt externally by ESB so you are
of assessment papers at ESB. free to teach.
Quick Turnaround
Assessments can be booked up to Dates for the assessments are
2 days before the assessment date chosen by you meaning you can
so you can enter your candidates organise assessment dates around
when they are ready. your timetable.
Online Resources
Sample papers, syllabuses and All ESOL Skills for Life
mark schemes are available on the qualifications are based on
ESB website for practice and the ESOL core curriculum and
mock examinations. are accredited by Ofqual
Contact jackie.johnson@esbuk.org
www.esbuk.org
T. +44 1695 573439 | F. +44 1695 228003 | E. esbesol@esbuk.org | www.esbuk.org
You spoke. We listened.
We received your feedback telling us how we
could improve our database and website, and
we’re currently working on a project to meet
your needs.
After receiving your suggestions on what you would like to see on our
database and website, we are excited to announce that we are working
on a six-month project to launch a new integrated website. As
customers, we value your comments, and ESB are always looking for
ways to make your life easier.
The go-live date for the new website is September this year. If you would
like to be involved with the testing phase, please get in touch by
emailing Debbie Bassett on deborah.bassett@esbuk.org.
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