English Language Partners Palmerston · PDF fileTraditional Chinese costumes Indonesian Kebaya . ... Classes are held during term time at English Language Partners Palmerston North

Kia Ora, Hello, Ni hao,

English Language Partners Palmerston North kicked off the Year of the Sheep/Ram/

Goat with two great events. We celebrated Waitangi Day by joining the Waitangi

Day celebration at Te Manawa. We celebrated our cultures on International Mother

Language Day and Chinese New Year on the 21st February with style.

We are gearing up for another successful year! We started our first tutor training in

January and a tutor workshop in February.

We need your help with filling our ESOL Literacy classes and also an English for

Employees class which is 45 hours in total. Please help by spreading the word to

your learners, or families of learners, and let them know that these free classes are

an amazing opportunity for them.

We welcome a new staff member Shelley to the team as a coordinator . Shelley

brings in a wealth of teaching knowledge to the organisation.

May we wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Jess, Shelley and Xing

About us

We work with people from many

different countries, including China,

Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia and

Myanmar. Last year 315 people

studied English with us. Do you

want to learn English? Do you want

to volunteer to teach English?

Please contact us to find out how

we can work together.

Contact us

Our office:

162 The Square

Palmerston North

Hours:

Monday to Friday

9 am to 5.00pm

Phone:

06 359 2332

Postal Address:

PO Box 12073

Palmerston North 4444

Website:

www.englishlanguage.org.nz

Pencil in your diary…..

MANATESOL Lantern Festival Pot Luck

Date: Friday, 20 March

Time: 6pm onwards

Venue : ELP Centre 162 The Square

Festival of Culture

Date: Saturday, 21 March

Time : from 10 pm to 4 pm

Venue: The Square

We need help on the day of the Festival of Culture. If

you have an hour or two spare time and would like to

help out please contact Shelley Zhang at

[email protected]

English Language Partners Palmerston North March 2015

Newsletter

On Saturday 14 February, Valentine’s Day

we had our first tutor workshop of the year

with the theme Kitchen Tea. We celebrated

our new coordinator Shelley’s up coming pre

nuptial wedding.

A huge thanks go to Gwenna and Rachel

Finikin who facilitated the workshop bril-

liantly. Thank you for the great sense of

humour and the introduction of the real Kiwi

traditional afternoon tea.

Tutors and learners were invited to bring

their wedding photos . Participants were

asked to guess the year the photos were

taken and to place the photos according to

the oldest to the most recent wedding. We

had fun dressing up the participants accord-

ing to the wedding gowns in the pictures with

rolls of toilet paper.

In another activity, we were asked to search

in our handbags on the number of items we

could find. Linda won as the highest points

scorer in this game. Among the things in her

handbag were an ipad, pens, USB sticks,

note books, tissue papers, cell phone and

keys.

Messages were read and sound advice was

given to Shelley on “What makes a great

marriage”!

Joan a tutor who had 50 years of marriage

shared a BIG piece of advice :

COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO A

HAPPY MARRIAGE!

Wishing you and Darren a lifetime

of everlasting love and happiness.

Congratulations on your Wedding!

Kitchen Tea Tutor Workshop 14 Feb 2015

Page 2 English Language Partners

Kitchen Tea Tutor Workshop 14 Feb 2015


Wilda’s Story

Valentine’s Day Kitchen Tea

Who says Valentine’s Day is only to be celebrated with your partners? On Saturday, Feb 14 I had the chance to partake in a kitchen tea party, which is basically a pre-wedding party for a soon-to-be-bride, at the English Language Partners (ELP). In our case, the soon-to-be-bride was Shelley. What was involved in the kitchen tea party? Tea of course was a crucial element as the name suggests. Let’s not forget all the sweets and savouries which were really important! Of course there were also games. About eight or nine ladies brought their wedding photos, which we had to put in time order based on their dress styles and when this was finished, the most fun game started! We went into groups and were given a lot of toilet paper, some tape and scissors. Our task was simple, dressing up our bride to look like one of the photos that we had to previously put in time order. The result? The photo below. We did not really succeed in making the bride look like the photo, but we did get the prize for the dress that Shelley liked the most!

During the tea party and the games that followed, I had the opportunity to chat with a few people, and learned a thing or two about the work that ELP does in general. I also found out about the volunteering opportu-nity to work with refugees and migrants and help them settle in. While I missed out on the volunteer training ses-sion that was run in January this year, ELP is running another session in June, which I plan to join. If you find yourself interested, come along and talk to someone from ELP. It was definitely a worthwhile way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, meet new people and get involved with the work that ELP does. Wilda Ribka

Thanks Wilda for the wonderful reflection on the

day. We look forward to you joining the Tutor

Training Course in June.

Picture from left to right

Wilda, Yuxi,Shelley and Huabing

International Mother Language Day


We kicked off 2015 in style with a

public event Celebrating our cul-

tures on International Mother Lan-

guage day. We co-hosted the

event with Palmerston North Cen-

tral Library with the support of

various community language

groups. An estimated 150 people

joined us on the day. Participants

were asked to dress in their na-

tional costumes for the event.

There was an opportunity for peo-

ple to write in their mother lan-

guage on a language tree “I love

My language “ . There was a competi-

tion to pick up nuts with chopsticks and

some learners in the Bhutanese com-

munity sang a Nepalese song.

We also celebrated Chinese New Year

on the day. Participants were asked to

write Happy New Year in different lan-

guages.

It was an occasion that fostered cul-

tural, linguistic, artistic and friendly ex-

changes among learners, tutors and the

wilder local community.

Thanks to all for making it a Fun day!

Beautiful smile from Krishna in her Sari I love my language—Language Tree

Traditional Chinese costumes Indonesian Kebaya

International Mother Language Day cont...

English Language Partners Page 5

Costumes from Afghanistan, Nepal,

Thailand, Japan, China and Indonesia.

We celebrated the event with won-

derful food from different countries.

International Mother Language Day cont...


Beda Ghimire, a learner from the ESOL Literacy class wrote an account on the celebration:

ELP Chinese New Year and Mother Language Day Celebration

Last Saturday 21st February English Language Partners celebrated International Mother Language Day and Chi-

nese New Year. The children got given a red packet with some money in it. Children got Chinese money, New

Zealand money and US money. The children were very happy. There was Chinese dumplings, watermelon, ap-

ples, oranges, pineapple, different types of bread and juice, biscuits and tea and coffee. Yani Maya and Nar

Maya Subba from Feilding ESOL Literacy class sung a traditional Nepalese song. Rohit Chhetri danced to the

song. Olak Bista sung a song he had written about leaving Bhutan.

It was a very nice day.

Thank you very much for writing on the event , Beda!

Tutor Training Course


Tutor Training Course 1—21, 22 and 23 January 2015

Harry Wong, Kate Millar, Remuuna Tar May, Sarah Dejando, Lize Haarhoff, Ansie

Jansen Van Vuuren, Jacinta Rademaker, Paola Villegas Flores, Yuxi Luo, Robyn Walker,

Thoria Qamar, Huabing Lu and Rebecca Wildbore.

We hope you will enjoy a long and happy association with us.

Tutor Training Course 2

Dates: 13, 20 and 27 June, 3 Saturdays from 9 am to 4 pm

Tutor Training Course 3

Dates: 10, 11 and 18 September Thursday, Friday, Friday from 9 am to 4 pm

Classes 2015

Do you have friends, neighbours, or workmates who need help in improving their English? We can arrange free one-to-one home tutoring for them if they are NZ citizens or permanent residents. Alternatively, they can join one of the following English Language Groups. Classes are held during term time at English Language Partners Palmerston North Centre, 162 The Square, unless otherwise specified. Nominal fees may apply.

Literacy Course (10 hours/week) free for Migrants and Refugees with 0-6 Years of Education

We have 4 classes in Palmerston North on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. All 4 classes are held in CLC Building 118 Kings Street Palmerston North. The other class is on Mondays, Thursdays and Fri-days afternoons at The Salvation Army 124 Manchester St Feilding.

English for Employees (E4E)

Free lessons for adults with PR working either part-time, full-time, casually/seasonally or are self‑employed.

English for Migrants We also offer EFM (English for Migrants) to those who have pre-paid tuition. 2015 Term Dates Term 1: 2 Feb– 2 Apr Term 2: 20 Apr - 3 Jul Term 3: 22 Jul - 25 Sep Term 4: 12 Oct– 11 Dec

Level 1 (Beginner)

Mondays 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Level 2 (Elementary)

Tuesdays 9:30 am – 11:30 am Level 3 (Lower Intermediate)

Mondays 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Level 4 (Upper Intermediate)

Thursdays 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Speaking Class Tuesdays 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Mothers Group at Hokowhitu Library Fridays 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Mothers Literacy Group at Roslyn School Thursdays 10:00 am – 12 noon

Bhutanese/Burmese Senior Group at Anglican Community Centre Tuesdays 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Feilding Group at Community House, Manchester Street Tuesdays 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Shelley wrote a letter to the learners in the ESOL Literacy classes introducing herself as the new coordinator.

The learners wrote a letter replying to her and posted it in an envelope to the Centre.

Letter to Shelley


Internet Resources

NZ Red Cross Annual Appeal is having a fundraising event between 9-15 March 2015. There will be a Community BBQ at Bunnings on Satur-day 14 March. Some of our learners are shaking buckets for gold coins donation at the New World Supermarkets collection points during the week.

Settlement Support for Migrants CAB provides support to new migrants on behalf of Immigration NZ. The support includes general support on any issue of concern and sup-port CAB provides to all clients and specific challenges for new mi-grants. Contact details 77 Kings Street, Palmerston North 4410 Phone 06 3570647 Free Phone 0800 367 222 www.cab.org.nz

Women’s Group every first Wednesday of the month 1 to 3 pm Newcomers Pot Luck dinner last Friday of the month from 6 pm. contact MMC at 77 Kings Street Palmerston North Phone 06 358 1572 www.mmcnz.org.nz

What is in the Community?


1. Sequence Stories and supporting resources: ELP website. Supermarket Shopping, Taking a Child to

the Doctor and How to get your NZ Driver Licence can all be located in Teach English/Tutor Resources/

Topic Worksheets. As we get nearer to April don’t forget about the ANZAC Day sequence story that is also on

the website.

2. ELP Facebook is a great source of information and also light hearted language-based thoughts https://www.facebook.com/EnglishLanguagePartnersNewZealand

There are some great articles featuring ELP learners, tutors and centres.

3. Don’t forget about the wonderful Give it a Go DIY worksheets. Some of your newer tutors may not yet have discovered these treasures. The Give it a Go books are available in the resource library and the individ-

ual worksheets are also available on the website. http://englishlanguagepartners.org.nz/topic-worksheets

https://www.facebook.com/EnglishLanguagePartnersNewZealand

http://englishlanguagepartners.org.nz/topic-worksheets

Library Resources


Over the summer holidays, Samantha a

library volunteer had been helping the Cen-

tre cataloguing books.

Sincere thanks to

- International Pacific College (IPC) for the

generous donations of Interactions books on Writing, Listening and

Speaking Skills , Focus on Grammar ( Intermediate) and different level s of

New Headways workbooks.

- Te Wananga for the generous donations of Te Reo books, CDs and dic-

tionaries.

- Mr and Mrs McGee for the English teaching books and dictionaries.

- ELP NZ National Office for the Song Talk teacher’s book s and CDs

Please return all the books and tapes to us as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

A Big Smile from Samantha when finishing catalogu-

ing all the books. Many Thanks Samantha!

Useful information for your learner

As you will know, Settlement Support has been replaced by Immigration NZ’s new service

delivery model to help migrants settle and work in New Zealand.

The main points which could affect your learners and their families are:

The New Zealand Immigration Contact Centre has been set up to help with information

through the free phone number 0800 776 948

Then press 2 for information about living and working in New Zealand

Emails can be sent to [email protected]

The updated website www.newzealandnow.govt.nz has information about living and

working in New Zealand

Citizens Advice Bureau is the face-to-face information provider. They will be able to

refer migrants to the appropriate organisation, and they will run seminars and work-

shops. The contact phone number in Palmerston North is 357 0647. The office is lo-

cated at 77 Kings Street. The website www.cab.org.nz has comprehensive information

on the services that they provide.

Learner Progress Summary - LPS


Many thanks to all of you for helping us to achieve a wonderful result with our LPS targets for 2014. For our 1 to 1 learners in the home tutoring programme, there was a 96% completion on the first LPS and 63% for the second. Our targets were 90% and 60%, so we are thrilled that so many learners got the opportunity to be assessed and have their progress measured. Adults need to know they are succeeding! Well done , all.

LPS assessment

We will be sending out a LPS form shortly to

those of you who is currently home tutoring a

learner or learners. This will be the first exer-

cise of the two assessments required annually.

The second assessment will be in September.

Watch out for the mail in your mail box. Please

contact the office if you have not received one

by end of March 2015.

New LPS Form

There is a new “Snapshot LPS” form to use this

year. This form has been trialed with pleasing

feedback so it is now on our website under Re-

sources/Programmes/ESOL Home Tutoring/

Assessment for you to use with your learners.

The older, lengthy LPS form is still available for

your use if this is preferred. If you cannot

download the form, please contact the office

and we can email a pdf copy or send out a copy

to you by post.

Have you completed Assignment 4?

How is your home tutoring going? If you have completed your

initial 12 teaching sessions after being matched please contact

Jess on 359 2332 for your certification interview. You will need

to bring your 12 teaching records, the learning goals and the

Learner Progress Summary with you.

___________________________________________________________________________

Change of Address….. Phone Number….. Email….. Immigration Status?

To help us keep our data up to date, please tell us if you or your Learners have moved house, changed phone number,

got a new email address, or gained NZ residency. Thank you.

___________________________________________________________________________

SPEAKING

LISTEN

READ

WRITE

EDUCATE

CREATE

COMMUNICATE

FUN

BRAVE

PRACTICE

TALK

CLASSES

Have a go at finding the

words hidden in the puzzle.

Simply circle the letters or

the whole word from the list

on the right of the puzzle.

Print off copies and have

races with your friends to

see who can find all the

words in the shortest time!

You can create your own

worksheets online @

www.atozteacherstuff.com

Word finder

Tutor Workshop ELP Centre, Tuesday 26 May, 12.00 to 2 pm

Matariki ELP Centre, Thursday 18 June, 6 pm

World Refugee Day/ Volunteer Awareness Week Venue (tba), Tuesday 23 June, 12 pm to 2 pm

Home Tutor ESOL Training ELP Centre 13, 20, 27 June 9.00am-4.00pm

On the horizon Find out more

English Language Partners Palmerston North would like to acknowledge the

support of our funders:

Cogs Eastern and Central Community Trust

Lottery Grants Board McCarthy Trust

New Zealand Post Page Trust

United Way

Tertiary Education Commission


More volunteer home tutors needed

Tutors—if you are thinking of taking on another learner but haven’t yet taken that step…….please take it in the

direction of my office! I have a number of learners waiting to be matched. We are running a new home tutor train-

ing programme in June, however we do have learners out there who need help now. Give me a call or come and

see me if you feel you are in a position to help.

E T A C I N U M M O C U U O R

Z S V T T X P S O K U S D G U

E C I T C A R P X Z G D B N K

U E B E Z T P L C L A S S E S

H T N L E Y A S L D S V I Z O

A I W U I G D L E F P W R M E

M R B G T S Y X K T E E J H Y

L W V Q Q N T S Y J A U Y M N

D A C T Q A D E M D K C X J J

P R R R U I O U N V I R U G W

B R A V E E N U F R N U I D C

L O Z B K A S D G I G P N V E

H E V Z W H T I P T P V G W K

C S N V B X R E R G S G H A Z

Q K G D R F W D L I H U J F O

English Language Partners Palmerston · PDF fileTraditional Chinese costumes Indonesian Kebaya . ... Classes are held during term time at English Language Partners Palmerston North

Documents