An English Language Partners’ course is helping migrants on the first step towards getting work driving a truck – getting their Class 2 driving licence. With Palmerston North a major shipping centre for goods around the Central North Island, there’s …
English Language Partners (ELP) joins Race Relations Day events to celebrate our multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s Race Relations Day theme, ‘E haere tahi ana / Walking together,’ shares the belief that although we all belong to different communities …
Did you know Aotearoa’s five most common languages are English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Mandarin and Hindi?* In addition, hundreds of other community languages are spoken daily in our towns, cities and neighbourhoods – all enriching our nation’s cultural diversity. …
A recent summer course at English Language Partners Wellington enjoyed a creative four weeks with a focus on English through the lens of art! Some of the exciting and inspirational activities their teacher Bridget Porter organised can be seen in …
After learning from home in the first part of 2020, Dunedin ELP staff and learners returned to the classroom with a newfound appreciation of being together and of life in Dunedin. Classes marked the end of the year through outings …
“When the lockdown was announced and we were told the lessons were moving to Zoom, I didn’t know what Zoom was.” However, Anne Pentecost not only got to grips with Zoom to complete her English for Employees course during lockdown, …
Meg Melvin is a professional sketch-noter who came to visit English Language Partners Wellington’s Summer holiday course and teach us (teachers and learners) the art of sketch noting. Meg uses sketch noting as a tool for her work with various …
Our centre in Porirua appreciates helping hands for those end-of -year jobs they haven’t had time to get on top of this year. Fortunately, Teresa Moore, Chief Executive of United Way New Zealand, got in touch with manager Jacqs Wilton …
An incredible collaboration between English Language Partners, United Way, ChangeMakers Resettlement Forum and Red Cross saw a mask making workshop set up to create facemasks for our Porirua English language learners, with plenty of learning opportunities along the way. “Teresa …
When Sidra Smaism and her Syrian family arrived in New Zealand from a refugee camp in Lebanon four years ago, none of them spoke more than a few words of English. After a six-week stay at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement …
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