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Wednesday 31 October 2012

Message from our Director



Hello Readers,
 I am new to blogging so forgive me if this is not the kind of thing you are used to, but here goes….
I think I am going to approach this as a stream of consciousness thing where I can let you know how life splits itself into different levels depending on where you are and who you are talking to. 


It is Halloween and I forgot!  Both kids are away with Grandma and Grandad and so there is no Halloween evidence anywhere in the house – just another ordinary day until I got to A Plus Centres.  Here was a witch, a devil and a pirate complete with eye patch, skull and cross bones hat , penny whistle and stuffed parrot .  Well done A Plus teachers and admin staff!


At the time of writing this I have already had a meeting about our current General English classes, future English classes, Online English classes and the Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  I have written a long list of ‘things to do’.  This is particularly it seems, for our CertTESOL courses.  We have a part time course running at the moment which started in October 2012 and we have a full time course starting on Monday 5th November 2012.  Really looking forward to meeting all our students coming in for that, I so much enjoy watching them come in as trainees and leave as teachers.  It’s a privilege to be part of that process.

A+ go to Bakewell

Hi, I'm Tom Hazelden, the online coordinator for A+ Centres. I joined the school quite recently to develop the new online English courses that we offer. I also organise school trips and welcome new starters into the school on their first day.




We had a school trip to Bakewell recently. Bakewell is a small town in the heart of the Peak District, a national park that is very near the school. Some of our students, Neil (the director of studies) and I all had lots of fun feeding the ducks, walking around the town, visiting the church and seeing the famous Bakewell pudding


Tuesday 30 October 2012

Welcome!

Welcome to the A+ Centres blog!
We're very excited to have launched this today and look forward to telling you all about life at A+. Here you will find posts about the staff at A+, details about school trips we've been on and updates on how our trainee teachers are progressing. Join us on our English language journey!