Initiative Launches to Recognise Teachers
Kiwi kids can show their appreciation for their teachers hard work thanks to the New Zealand’s Most Inspiring Teachers campaign, which launches this month.
Education
Education Press Releases, New Zealand
Kids Teach Their Parents About Dodecahedrons and Googols
Two new books hit the shelves this month and they could very well be the most challenging children’s books ever released. Nerdy Numbers and Sci-fi Shapes, the result of a successful 2013 Kickstarter campaign, set out to teach kids about numbers and shapes in an unashamedly geeky way.
Soup for South Auckland Kids
This project provides all children at these schools with freshly made soup and bread for lunch over eight days during term 3, totaling almost 10,000 lunches. It’s Feed the Need’s first step in finding a way to provide all children in a school with warming, nutritious lunch during the colder months.
Rangiora High School – Common Sense Must Prevail
With the escalation of public interest around the relocation of the Rangiora High School Nursery School some explanation regarding the Board of Trustees’ intentions is important at this time. The Board acts in the best interests of 1800 secondary school students in this matter and has made the decision to develop a Board owned facility for school use because it has a significant, genuine and justified need to do so. The two recent claims in the media that it is the Board’s intention to take possession of the Nursery School’s Wales Street site and that the Board has failed in their duty of care of the school’s substantial land and buildings need clarification.
Rangiora High School Nursery School Not Threatened
There needs to be some clarification around the current process the Rangiora High School Board of Trustees is following around the appropriation of the Rangiora High School Nursery School site. The Rangiora High School Board of Trustees is not closing the Nursery School. The Board have no wish or intention to stop the Nursery School from trading as the Rangiora High School Nursery School. The Rangiora High School Board of Trustees is as committed today as it was 74 years ago to ensuring that there is a place for the Nursery School in Rangiora, and will support the Nursery School during this time of transition to new premises.
New Era in Retailer Education
Wellingtonians are soon to have the opportunity to undertake New Zealand’s most comprehensive Applied Retail Management qualification. The advanced level 7 qualification was developed by the New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute in response to approaches by New Zealand retailers.
We Owe our Lives to Fascinating Plants
18 May is the first global Fascination of Plants Day and we should all take time to stop and consider how fascinating they really are. Dee Pignéguy’s books, Sonja’s Kitchen and Gardening for Planet Earth, demonstrate how central plants are to your life and well-being and how you can grow fascinating and edible plants in your backyard.
Map Pioneering Sustainable Education
New Zealand company is creating a curriculum for teaching social and environmental sustainability in primary and intermediate schools.
Privatising the Wakatipu?
Recent public meeting held to discuss private options for schooling in the Wakatipu region. major capacity issues highlighted for Queenstown schools. Education options non existent for secondary school students.
Summer Camp start of School’s Hockey
St John’s College Hockey 2012 itinerary for the year starts with a summer boot camp at Pheasant Tail Lodge in the Bay of Plenty, and ends with a trip to Melbourne to the Champions Trophy.
Inspiring Teens Awarded GABA Charitable Trust Scholarships
Three inspiring teenagers will have their first year of tertiary study partially funded after being awarded scholarships through the GABA Charitable Trust and the Cartier BereavementTrust.
Kawerau Intermediate Closure
The Kawerau Community is hugely disappointed at the Minister of Education and her decision to proceed with the closure of Kawerau Intermediate against the wishes of the parents/caregivers and wider community.
Presenting 'Kat and Jack: Disaster Strikes!'
The Westlake Girls’ High School Young Enterprise Scheme company K.E.E.P. (Kids’ Emergency Evacuation Plan) has just produced a picture book targeted at 5-7 year olds, teaching them what to do in the case of an earthquake or tsunami.
ITC Nominated for Further Business Award
The International Travel College (ITC) were delighted to be announced as a finalist at the inaugural Westpac Central Business Awards, at Oram’s Marina.
High-Tech heroes unleash creative talent at National Digital Teen Summit
Today youth “ambassadors” from Computer Clubhouses across New Zealand will converge on the national flagship Clubhouse in Manukau for one week to develop high-tech projects around the summit’s theme “We are One – We are Many – We are Change” by creating computer-generated animations, art, music, radio and video documentaries, robots, and 3-D modeling.
St John’s College Hockey boosted by Hamilton Homeschoolers
Hamilton, 3 July 2011. St John’s College Hockey is learning that home is where the heart is when it comes to their school hockey development. Up until 2010, the school had struggled to field a hockey team to compete competitively in the Waikato secondary schools’ competition, and the solution came from a surprise quarter.
Budget Changes to Student Loans Scheme
Budget 2011 changes to the Student Loans Scheme will encourage personal responsibility and get better value for taxpayers.
Skills for Canterbury in Budget 2011
Budget 2011 will provide up to $42 million for trades training for the Canterbury region, Tertiary education Minister Steven Joyce says. Funding is being set aside for up to 1500 additional training places as part of a comprehensive cross-agency response to meet additional demand for labour for the reconstruction programme called “Skills for Canterbury”.
Budget 2011 Statement from John Key
John Key has stated that Budget 2011 will include changes to KiwiSaver, Working for Families, and student loans to ensure they remain affordable in the future. Budget 2011 will ensure growth is built on the foundation of savings, exports and productive investment.
Cliftons Art Prize 2011
Training and event facilities provider Cliftons has launched its Art Prize, and is seeking entries from emerging artists from across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore by 27 April 2011.