Newcastle City Learning works with Newcastle Library to raise awareness about community resources.

ESOL learners from Newcastle City Learning attended either a morning or afternoon session at Newcastle Library in their class groups accompanied by their class tutor. To promote their engagement the learners were given a quiz to complete which included a feedback section.

Learners enjoyed the visit and found something that could help them now or something that would be of use in the future. They also commented on how friendly and helpful the staff and other library users were.

After the visit, students reported that they would use the library to “use the computers and read the books, [to] meet a friend and [to] speak with staff” also for “printing, photocopy, borrowing books and bringing children to borrow books”.

Tutors found that this was an extremely worthwhile visit and one which should be repeated in the future.