During New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, ELPNZ’s centres continued teaching all students by changing our mode of teaching within the first week of locking down. Jacqs Wilton, Porirua centre’s manager, says the majority of our Porirua centre’s classes went …
Our Hutt centre’s ESOL literacy classes visit to Matiu-Sommes Island was a great opportunity to take learning outside the classroom. About 40 teachers, volunteers and learners all had a great trip out in Wellington Harbour, as did the children who …
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 …
Getting to grips with a new area of Kiwi English can be a slightly creepy experience – when the area involves learning about New Zealand’s native bugs and insects. Palmerston North’s learners were inspired by the ‘Bugs are amazing’ message …
Te Kawau stream runs through a large part of the north and western suburbs of Palmerston North City. It was an important source of food for the local Rangitane, but has been neglected over the years and become polluted with …
When you’re grappling with new technology while adjusting to lockdown life, it can take a little longer for some learners to arrive in our online classrooms. But An Kim and Folo Solofa, both very isolated learners, have finally got there! …
Learning English for shopping! English Language Partners “ESOL Literacy” classes teach context-based, relevant English language to adults of refugee and migrant background, who have minimal literacy and numeracy in their mother language. The aim is to start the learners English …
Daffodils growing in Claudelands Park sparked an interest in collecting for Daffodil Day from one of the Waikato centre’s ESOL Literacy classes; former refugees who have never had the opportunity to attend formal education before coming to New Zealand. There …
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