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December Newsletter
Monthly Tutor Meeting
We are kicking off the New Year with the first of our Monthly Tutor meetings which will be an opportunity to develop a stronger tutor community, to feed back to staff what you want and each month will have a focus such as resources, professional development etc.
This first meeting will be a chance to hear what tutors would like in the monthly meetings, finalise times that suit and get to know your tutor community.
It will be held at the Mondo Cafe in Ellerslie – a very central location! We hope to see you there.
Time: 6.30pm
Date: Weds 18th January
Location: Mondo Cafe
101 Main Highway, Ellerslie
Cert day & Xmas BBQ
The Cert Day and Xmas BBQ was a resounding success with 70+ students and tutors joining us at the Glen Innes office to celebrate their successes over the past year.
There are so many people to thank! Firstly thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to the great vibe. Thanks to those who brought the delicious food, Emile for leading the team on the BBQ, all the students who contributed to the student writing book and who spoke and sang on the day; thanks also to Nicola and Clare for putting together the certificates and student writing book.
Congratulations to Claudine Hamilton-deCleene who received the Exceptional Adult Educator Award; to Kieran on being awarded his NCALE and to Chrissie Trenkner and Neil Ferguson who received the Outstanding Adult Learner Awards.
Movie Fundraiser
The movie fundraiser was a great evening and everybody loved the movie. We raised over id=mce_marker,000 towards a Creative Writing Class.
Again, thank you to all those who helped make this evening such a success, to the tutors and students who attended; to Mel Shaw and Emile Cowan who organised the event and to Heather Lees who sold 20 tickets.
Thank you to those who provided food and to our two young helpers, Ben and Lulu who were fabulous waiters.
Governance Committee.
We are delighted to welcome a new member Claudine Hamilton-deCleene onto the ALTA Governance Committee.
The Committee spent the weekend of the 10-11th December in Pauanui putting together our strategic plan for 2012. We came back full of energy and ideas for the New Year and have already started ramping up promotion of our services in the community to bring in more students.
December Reports and Payment
Due to the Christmas break reports and payments will be processed in February for both December and January Tutoring.
ALTA office closed
Our offices are closed from Wednesday 21st December to Friday 13th January inclusive. Tutors are welcome to continue using the premises – but you’ll have to bring in your own milk!
Thank you to all our tutors who have contributed so wonderfully of their time and energy this year to assist our learners in making such tremendous progress.
And thank you to all our learners who have been such an inspiring group of people to work with.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Joyful New Year from the staff at ALTA.
