About Us - VLVC Project Partners
VLVC is a consortium of Pacific language organisations, school-based Pasifika Bilingual units, Early Learning Centres, churches and communities that work together to support, develop and enhance the knowledge of bilingual education to:
Build closer sustainable links between Pasifika language ECE’s and their Bilingual Primary School units
Create links between Pasifika families and Bilingual programmes so more children enter bilingual /immersion classes in schools
Develop Bilingual/Immersion programmes to reach the 50% minimum requirement of teacher use as the medium of curriculum instruction
Explore and report on what needs to happen to support bilingual teaching and programmes in schools
VLVC is firmly embedded in Pasifika communities, with input and expertise from across the Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island, Niuean, Tokelauan, educators and communities; from key local and international experts on Pasifika Bilingual Immersion Education; and from the participating schools and Early Learning Centres.
Our professional development is informed by the latest New Zealand and international research and by long and deep connections with schools and Early Learning Centres implementing Pasifika Bilingual Immersion Education in their own settings. This comes from the expertise and qualifications of the Project Directors and from access to the expertise of the Komiti Advisory group.