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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on disadvantaged children who have English as an additional language is potentially devastating.

When young people are left behind with language, they can feel isolated and excluded, hitting their confidence and damaging their ability to perform at school. The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected children with English as an additional language, leaving them socially isolated, with very limited opportunities to practise their English.

During the 2020/21 lockdowns and school closures, these children missed months of school and with minimal access to technology at home, couldn’t access online lessons. In addition, where parents also have limited English language skills, home-schooling just wasn’t possible. These children are now back at school but may be months behind their peers - never has there been a greater need for extra tutoring.

Tutoring is one of the best ways to boost disadvantaged children's learning disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Our dedicated team of Jacari volunteer tutors, most of whom are students at local Universities, are supporting children to improve their language skills and build their confidence through a mixture of face-to-face and online tuition.

We are planning to provide tuition and enriching extra-curricular activities to over 200 refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children with EAL in Oxford and Bristol this academic year but we need your help to get their learning back on track.

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