We at Adult Literacy Palmerston North (ALPN) are passionate about learning, passionate about teaching too! Because of this, we offer those who can come to visit us individual and/or small group tuition for -
- Literacy - reading and writing English for pleasure or for business.
- Numeracy - basic skills in handling and understanding numbers for
personal or business use.
- "Computeracy" - a word we have invented to refer to basic skills in using
popular personal computer software!
We provide these services at no direct cost to the individual learner.
We also try to ensure that every prospective student receives the tuition which will best satisfy the needs which they discuss at a preliminary interview before enrolment.
If you have found this site on behalf of a friend or colleague, please help them to understand what we can offer that might help them. Remember, if they are not able to read - or read only with difficulty - you can be an ambassador on their behalf when contacting us.
Now that we have introduced ourselves, you might want to explore the remainder of this site - using the buttons above! You could also do worse than browse through the quick introductions below.
- About Us - Contact information, a few stories from
our early days and some of our triumphs - and a few failures too! [After
all we are just human!]
- Can You do it? - A fun section where we invite
you to try out a few simple tests to see if there might be something which
we can do to help you - or your friend/colleague. The tests available will
change from time to time so you don't get bored trying them again and
again!
- Learning with us - This is the section in which we
indicate what we have to offer and how to enrol with us. While much of this
section is likely to remain unchanged for long periods, you may be
surprised from time to time to find something new there which just fits
your needs.
- Tutors & Tutoring - Those of you looking for some
absolutely thrilling part-time volunteer work as tutors need only check out
this section in which we advertise for particular needs for new tutors -
and also provide a link to a private resource section for our tutors - and
others who may want to try things out themselves.
- Sponsors & Donors - this is the section where we
acknowledge with grateful thanks those individuals and organisations who
have provided major funding to enable us to continue to provide our service
to the community.
- Contract Tuition - We are always open to suggestion from
commercial firms or other organisations who wish to improve the skills of
their staff and clients for special courses; whether one-to-one or small
group tuition. While we never charge a student we nevertheless charge
organisations wishing to use our services for producing special courses of
this kind - very reasonable charges we think!
- Other Providers - ALPN is by
no means the only organisation which aims to help adults to improve
themselves. Whether your need is for something which at present we do not
offer - or you live rather too far from Palmerston North to avail yourself
of our services - this is where we list the contact details of those
organisations known to us in New Zealand who might be able to help you.