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 I'm Kathryn Thorne, the Director of Studies here at Alpha Educational Institute, and I am passionate about working alongside people to help them succeed and reach their full potential! This means I have the great pleasure of working with international students from all around the world and teaching them English. I also have the privilege of leading an enthusiastic team of teachers here at Alpha, and heading up teacher training programmes for English language teaching.
I grew up in Papua New Guinea, speaking three languages, and I love working in a multi-cultural environment! I think we have a lot to offer here in New Zealand, and I believe that other cultures have a lot to offer us as well. We can learn so much from each other!
I am very happily married to Wayne and have four adult children. My hobbies are reading, gardening, painting and playing a little bit of guitar! |
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Hi, I am Wayne Thorne, the webmaster and also one of the Directors at Alpha. You won't see me down at the school at Bishopdale very often as I am very much the behind the scenes person. I spend my days working for Telecom New Zealand Limited and some evenings and weekends maintaining the Computer network, keeping the Website up-to-date and also looking after the Alpha accounts.
When the weather is fine during the weekend you may find me in the vegetable garden muttering to the weeds or conversing with the carrots! |
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I'm Russell Pizzey, Manager at Alpha. My main responsibilities are to process all the enquiries, enrolments, general administrative tasks that take place in our language school and occasionally doing some relief teaching. Having been in educational workplaces for more than 17 years I really enjoy interacting with the students, especially those who come to NZ for their study. When I am not at Alpha you will catch me reading, cycling or messing about with model trains. |
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 Vijay Vijayan is my name and teaching is my passion. I have taught Science and English (ESOL) especially to High School students for over 25 years. I am originally from Malaysia but for the last 17 years, Christchurch has been my home. I speak three languages and have taught in Malaysia, the U.K. and now in New Zealand. I have been a teacher at Alpha since 2003. Besides Science and ESOL I also teach High School Mathematics, Social Studies, Geography, Biology (Years 11, 12 & 13), Academic English and a little bit of Economics.
Together with the director, Mrs Kathryn Thorne, I prepare and run the High School Programme at Alpha. I am proud to say that many of my present and former students have done extremely well in their respective high schools. My desire is to see Alpha students get into good schools in Christchurch and achieve excellent results in their NCEA examinations.
Food is my other obsession although I can’t cook. In the weekends you’d probably find me at a Chinese restaurant or helping my wife cook curries. For transport and fitness, I love biking – rain, hail or snow!
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 I'm Jan D'Ath. I began my working life as a high school teacher but later trained to teach English to International students. I have been teaching ESOL for the last 8 - 9 years, mainly part-time.
My home is a busy place with three teenagers and my patient husband. In my free-time I enjoy reading, tennis and walking - or chatting over nice coffee in a cafe! |
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