Celebrating Adult Learners Week with STEPS: Empowering Lifelong Education
Adult Learners Week is an annual event dedicated to celebrating and promoting adult education and lifelong learning. Established with the aim of empowering adults to continue their educational journeys, this initiative holds special significance at STEPS, where a diverse range of vocational programs and courses focus on equipping adults with skill sets needed for professional […]
It’s in the bag: community collaboration set to make a big splash
Next month over forty children with asthma will dive back into their swim program and will leave the lesson with a carefully crafted bag that they can safely store their puffer and spacer in. Twelve women from the sewing group at STEPS Education and Training Palmerston volunteered their time and sewing skills to make 300 […]
Netpreya finds community at STEPS
Relocating to another country is a brave move; moving overseas can often mean negotiating new language, cultural, and social barriers. International Migrants Day is on 18th December and is an opportunity to celebrate, recognise and raise awareness of migrants all around the world. Netpreya moved from Thailand to Australia in 2016. She enrolled in the […]
STEPS student success: Gao gains new job, new skills and new friends
One of our much loved students 20 year old Gao Vang is a Hmong lady from Laos. After losing her father during the Secret War, she and her younger sister were adopted by an aunt and brought to Australia as refugees. Gao came to STEPS to improve her language, literacy and numeracy skills and has […]
Window on the Wetlands visit supports student learning at STEPS
Earlier this year our Casuarina and Palmerston literacy and numeracy students enjoyed an excursion to Window on the Wetlands at Beatrice Hill (or Ludawei) followed by a picnic lunch at nearby Fogg Dam. Our Casuarina trainer Ranald Anderson put together worksheets and questions for the students to complete during the excursion and even purchased a […]
