GEMS - Gwent Education Multi-Ethnic Service
GEMS: Gwent Education Multi-Ethnic Service
Tel# (01633) 255473
GEMS provides support to those pupils in nursery, primary and secondary education in Gwent for whom neither English nor Welsh is their first language, by working closely with schools, parents and Governors to help pupils to improve their English language skills.
In addition to supporting pupils, GEMS provides:
Advice, support, guidance on race equality for schools and governing bodies;
Bilingual assessments to establish language support requirements;
Home visits to ensure that good communications between minority ethnic parents and the school are established.
Essential school information is passed to the parents in their home language and their concerns and questions are passed back to the school.
GEMS also helps with the provision of interpretation and translation in the main community languages of Gwent.
For further information contact GEMS on (01633) 255473 or email gemss@newport.gov.uk