Papakura Centre Details
About Us
The Papakura Centre was established by Lesley Sharp over ten years ago. More recently Joanna has joined the team as Director. The Centre is located at Shop 3, 299 Great South Road. The centre provides tuition for children in the wider Papakura area.
Joanna and her committed team enjoy helping students with difficulties and seeing them improve in their confidence and self esteem. The team also caters for those who are aiming to add an extra edge to their already capable skills.
Joanna enhances the team with her local and overseas teaching experiences. She also has expertise in the area of children’s emotional well being and factors that affect their ability to learn. Her master’s thesis in education counselling and speaking/teaching positions add to her areas of expertise. She has also worked with government agencies in assisting children in this area.
Our centre’s tutors are enthusiastic, qualified and positive when working alongside the children and young people. The team draws from a wealth of experience such as ESOL, reading recovery and extension programmes, behavourial and child counselling backgrounds. We continue to be thrilled with the feedback we have from our students and parents who attend our centre.
Our Teaching Philosophy
We provide a positive and supportive learning environment. The team’s goal is to help the children learn how to set goals, see progress and rewards for their own efforts. We support the children and bathe them in positivity to encourage them to reach their full learning potential. We help children to catch up – keep up – get ahead and stay ahead.
What We Do
We Provide:
- Opportunities for educational goal setting
- Assistance to reach goals
- On going monitoring of progress
- We set your child on the road to success
- Provision of a positive encouraging learning environment
- Wealth of experience at all educational levels
- We provide a free educational assessment for all new students
- Individual educational programmes
- Eighty minute lessons (Sixty minutes for year eleven upwards) in a fun and positive environment
- Homework to put new knowledge into practice – marked and discussed with students.
- We offer reasonable fees which cover tuition and materials, re assessment and parental feedback
- Qualified and caring Tutors
- A multi media system which incorporates tailor made textbooks and structured worksheets along with computer and audio activities all of which help motivate children to succeed
- Irlen Syndrome screen tests which test for sight perception difficulties often confused with Dyslexia.
PROGRAMMES PROVIDED:
PRIMARY SCHOOL/ INTERMEDIATE
- Maths tutoring
- Reading, spelling and comprehension tuition
- English as a second language
- Essay writing and study skills
SECONDARY SCHOOL:
- Maths science and physics – based on NCEA or Cambridge curriculum.
- English – study skills, essay writing, unit standards and NCEA assistance.
- English as a second language
- Other subjects may be arranged as needed
ADULT STUDENTS:
- Assistance with diploma and apprenticeship courses.
- Upskilling police/army recruits academic levels
- Adult Literacy
What our children and Parents say:
“I have learned that there is no such thing as can’t – I just haven’t learnt how yet” Fraser
“Mark loves coming to Kip McGrath, it has helped him achieve his goals for his chosen career path”.
One young person returned to tell us about her exam results, her comments were “Thanks so much for your help over the years because now I am into the vet course I really wanted to get into”
“We are so pleased with the changes we have seen in Sarah. She is enjoying school and is so much more confident with her Maths”
“Wow! Now I can read – the words have stopped moving” Tania
Contact Details
| Centre Owner/s |
Joanna Sharp |
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| Address |
Shop 3, 299 Great South Road, Papakura, NEW ZEALAND |
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| Phone |
+64 9 298 5791 or +64 21 244 4680 |
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| Fax |
+64 9 298 5791 |
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| Email |
papakura@kipmcgrath.co.nz |
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| Map |
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