English Language Partners’ people are firmly rooted in sharing cultures and growing strong communities. We just do it through English learning and teaching… On a typically windy Wellington day, ELP’s Strathmore class, an ‘English Language Group’, were treated to an …
Visiting a herb farm is a great way to give ‘post-lockdown’ help to a local herb farm, while learning English! 20 learners and 6 volunteers and 1 teacher visited the Herb Farm in Ashurst on 3 November. The visit had …
Our Wellington centre is fortunate to have Xia Zhen as a bilingual volunteer helping their online Chinese Seniors English Language Group, especially as she now lives in Auckland! Xia Zhen shares her story with us … My name is Xia …
A special guest introduces a whole new area of English language and creativity Colleen Crookes is a doll-maker who creates amazing porcelain dolls. She visited our Palmerston North centre’s Roslyn English Language Group to share her skills. Colleen used pictures …
Pania Houkamau-Ngaheu and Clara Richards are two special ‘Kiwiana’ course visitors. They’ve just boosted this class’ understanding of Māori tradition and culture. Pania (Ngāti Porou, Tuhoe) and Clara (Ngāpuhi, Taranaki) shared their stories with our Wellington learners. Both work in …
Members of the Electoral Commission visited our Porirua centre’s classes to prepare learners up for the upcoming national elections and referendums. Many learners moved to Aotearoa New Zealand from countries where voting did not occur, was corrupt or just downright …
Mask making at Porirua English Language Partners – hands-on literacy and numeracy learning as students measure and cut fabric ready for sewing, providing new masks for the community! A few weeks ago, Teresa Moore from United Way New Zealand called …
Ha Hoang recently gained her PhD. She teaches for our Wellington centre who are SO proud of her achievement and currently basking in her reflected glory! Feeling bored with a monotonous and repetitive life, I longed for a change. I, …
Following on from a very popular English Language Group Health and Wellbeing class last year, English Language Partners Wellington delivered another successful Health and Wellbeing course in the July holidays. Everyone was delighted to be back in the ‘real’ classroom …
Courier services were busy when lockdown kicked in. Teachers joined the trend – delivering English work to learners’ homes. While the move to online classes worked well for many of English Language Partners’ learners, not all were able to access …
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