Hola a todos!

We hope you are all fresh and ready to start back this year!

It has been a different holiday for me and my family as Rosario has arrived on 24 Dec! Gracias for all your likes and messages on our Facebook page! We are well and very happy!! This is a photo of my two girls… Catalina (5) and Rosario (almost 3 weeks)…

Conversation classes starting this Wednesday

We are still receiving enrolments for these 3 classes starting on this coming Wed. We have 2 groups: Conversation for Beginners and Conversation for Intermediate. Please contact Laura if you are not sure the levels are suitable for you; we carefully take students according to their levels and abilities so please enquire.

Conversation for Beginners is a guided class. You will be practicing content seen in Beginners courses. That means conversation will be restricted to be used in real life situations: introducing yourself in a pub to a new friend; inviting someone to do something; buying at a shop; exchanging money; solving possible problems during your holidays at a hotel, camping ground; booking an excursion; etc. The grammar and vocabulary used is recycled from our Beginners courses.

Conversation for Intermediate is for some Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate students. The focus will be discussing interesting topics which will help you mainly to reinforce past tenses.

We do encourage you to enrol to these classes as they will help you with your speaking ability and also to revise what you have seen before. Students who have attended these classes have told us they found them really useful… come and try them for yourself!

Immersion Holiday Program starting on 18th Jan

We offer the Immersion Holiday Program on Mondays and Thursdays 9 to 3pm before school starts again (ratio 6 students per teacher). These are the activities this Jan…

9.00 – 10.00 am. Program opens – Welcome routine & board games

10 – 11.00 am. Lead up class to excursion – Vocabulary & phrases to be use during excursion or activity, arts & crafts. Morning tea**

11.00 – 1.00 pm. Daily excursion or primary activity

• Monday 18 Jan – 9 to 3pm – Cooking typical Hispanic food
• Thursday 21 Jan – 9 to 3pm – Circus orientated introduction & Buskers Festival
• Monday 25 Jan – 9 to 3pm – Native NZ nature introduction & Riccarton Bush
• Monday 28 Jan – 9 to 3pm – NZ & Hispanic history & Museum visit

1.00 – 2.00 pm. Return to the Institute & Picnic lunch**

2.00 – 3.00 pm. Action & ball games Farewell routine – tidy up

Please check our website for fees and more detailed information. Children (ages 5 and above) who have done courses in Term 4, 15 are able to book a free trial on Monday 18th Jan, please hurry and enrol online as spaces are limited.

Term 1 starts 1 Feb

We appreciate you enrol  and pay asap as this allows us to organise ourselves, especially for those courses in which we have a small number of students. Remember we ask students to pay in full before the courses start in Feb.

Private classes

We are offering private classes for one student, 2 or 3 students and families at our institute and on-site from today. You can find more information  and fees following the link.

Esperamos tener noticias de ustedes pronto! – We look forward to hearing news from you soon,