With end-of-year festivities fast approaching, our Palmerston North centre has started celebrating already. Learning English goes hand in hand with learning Kiwi culture at English Language Partners, so planning a surprise baby shower party was a fun, Kiwi-focused activity for …
Another great bunch of ELP’s graduates are celebrating their success. Nine people in this ‘Professional Speaking for Migrants’ course in Southland completed their course on 30 October and sat the connected Speech New Zealand exam the following day. The assessment …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Our Wellington centre joined the Namaste Wellington festival – celebrating Diwali 2020 at the Kilbirnie Indian Temple. Holding a promotional table meant people got to find out about our English service, while giving a wonderful view of the dancers and …
Flexibility and adaptability are the key ingredients to ELP’s success, says former CE Nicola Sutton. Ms Sutton has been with English Language Partners for 26 years and spoke with Settlement ACTIONZ just prior to departing the organisation. Her interview and …
Some of New Zealand’s new immigrants will be exercising their vote despite facing significant barriers to information as English learners. (Thanks to the NZ Herald for allowing us to republish this article – link to original article can be found …
This year we combined the celebration of both Adult Learners and Maori Language Weeks, to enable our new Kiwi adult learners to experience some core Tikangaga Maori and Te Reo Maori. To do this we collaborated with Porirua College to …
English Language Partners is proud to assist in the fight against COVID-19, and of course, is displaying the COVID Tracer QR code posters in all our centres around the country. Recently, the staff at ELP Hutt realised that many of …
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