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Students as scientists – Waiheke Island wetland reserve restored
Waiheke High School sits beside Te Huruhi Bay, on Waiheke Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. Until recent years the school was unaware it owned a patch of land beside the sports grounds – a wetland...
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Digital knowledge – be curious, aim high, keep learning
Students have created and completed projects using digital technologies and computational thinking skills to express their identity, language and culture."In the beginning, we asked them what they...
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Adventurous play and independence help kotahitanga flourish
The early learning centre is blocks away from the foreshore of Lake Wanaka but there are many links to it for the children. Dane loves playing in the rain and puddles.During planning consultation,...
View ArticleEmployment-based Initial Teacher Education – Request for Information
In Budget 19, the Ministry received $11.7m in funding to develop one or more employment-based ITE programmes to attract 240 more teachers into the teaching profession over the next four years.The aim...
View ArticleNo streaming of mathematics students success at Horowhenua College
When head of mathematics Misbah Sadat arrived at the school in 2017, the NCEA Level 1 programme was spread over three types of classes: MATH1 (which includes algebra and graphing) and the lower level...
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Domino effect from Kāhui Ako collaboration
Northcross IntermediateThe seven schools in the Oneroa Kāhui Ako include five primaries, an intermediate and a secondary school. One of their main goals is improving engagement and connection with...
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Tawa students design for the future
Tawa Intermediate student, Elijah, Year 7, working on his design: "There is another table in the viewing area of the playground so you can watch the kids play," he wrote.A cross-curricula project...
View ArticleAppointments to the Performance-Based Research Fund Review Panel
The Ministry of Education is pleased to announce the independent panel that will review the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) has been appointed by Associate Minister of Education Jenny Salesa and...
View ArticleMinistry response to Kindergarten Teachers Ballot Result
Please attribute to Ellen MacGregor-Reid, Deputy Secretary Early Learning and Student AchievementThe Ministry welcomes the vote taken by kindergarten teachers in favour of settling their collective...
View ArticleCollective Agreement Offer for Kindergarten Teachers
NZEI Te Riu Roa members have voted on the settlement offer for Kindergarten Teachers, Head Teachers and Senior Teachers’ Collective Agreement.Our offer summary – around 3,500 kindergarten teachers,...
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Teacher refresh programme rekindles joy of teaching
Joanne Denekamp.Joanne recently completed the free programme through the University of Auckland and will start her new job as a class teacher at Mangawhai Beach School, north of Auckland, in term...
View ArticleDecisions on reforming vocational education
The new system will have a stronger focus on employers, delivering the skills they need, providing more support for their employees, and ensuring greater consistency in vocational education across the...
View ArticleNew action plan and additional resources to strengthen learning support
Minister Martin also announced additional funding of $29.6 million over four years, to respond to population and demand growth for learning support.The Action Plan sets out six priority areas for the...
View ArticleNew Learning Support Coordinators
They will start working in 1,052 schools and kura from January 2020 to strengthen learning support provision for children and young people.This new, fully funded and dedicated role is one of six...
View ArticleSchools closed as a result of recent snowfall
56 schools and 22 early childhood services around Otago and Southland have let us know they have closed as a result of the recent snowfall.The best information will come from schools and early learning...
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Te ‘epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki | Preserving language and culture
Porirua has a very strong Cook Islands community, but there is no continuum for children after leaving Toru Fetū Kindergarten to keep learning Cook Islands language and culture until high school, says...
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Creating rainbow-inclusive schools
Promoting diversity: Alice, Compass and Jaye.With New Zealand’s youth suicide rate amongst the highest in the OECD and rainbow students five times more likely to make a suicide attempt, a nationwide...
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Fostering education in te reo Māori
Teachers learning te reo.Raumati Beach School teacher Jo Fothergill was one of 90 kaimahi from early childhood centres, schools and kura across the Kāpiti/Horowhenua/Porirua region who attended an...
View ArticlePrime Minister’s Vocational Excellence Award recognises top students
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern launched the Prime Minister’s Vocational Excellence Award at Hutt Valley High School near Wellington today/this week. The award aims to raise the status of vocational...
View ArticleCollective Agreement Offer for Primary Principals
The Ministry of Education has presented NZEI with a settlement offer to primary principals on 9 August 2019.The offer would see all primary principals receive pay parity with secondary principals on...
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