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School Holiday Activities At Whanganui Regional Museum
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:18:22 +1200 | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Winter school holiday programme focuses on Matariki celebrations with fun STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) activities to suit a variety of ages and ability levels.More >>
Breaking The Gender Barrier To Become An Early Childhood Teacher
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:55:23 +1200 | Office of Early Childhood Education
Half of NZ’s population is male but only 3 percent of early childhood education (ECE) teachers are men. More >>
Principal Expects ‘Amazing Results’ Under New Literacy Approach
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:14:22 +1200 | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
Kaiapoi High School has been working with local primary schools to lift literacy and numeracy standards. More >>
Early Childhood Teachers Head To Parliament To Save Pay Parity Scheme
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:02:56 +1200 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Early childhood kaiako and tamariki will go to Parliament tomorrow to present their eleven thousand-strong petition calling on the Government to ensure the current pay parity scheme for qualified early childhood teachers continues in the face of sweeping ...More >>
Advisors Urge Annual Literacy And Numeracy Tests, Cursive Handwriting Lessons For Students
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:58:41 +1200 | RNZ
Proponents say the curriculum updates could case a "step-change" for education, but will fail without good teacher training. More >>
South Auckland Schools Triumph At Wearable Arts Competition
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:22:07 +1200 | The Beautification Trust
Students from primary, intermediate, and secondary schools across Auckland were challenged to design garments around the theme ‘Act Local – Growing with Te Taiao,’ inspired by local conservation and ecosystem restoration.More >>
Local NZ Publisher Exisle Publishing Launches The International Children's Publishing Academy With A Writing Competition
Thu, 6 Jun 2024 10:31:36 +1200 | Exisle Publishing
Exisle Publishing has launched an international Children’s Publishing Academy aimed at supporting budding children’s book authors. The Academy provides a forum where authors can have the opportunity to learn from a leading children’s publishing ...More >>
Beyond A One-size-fits All Approach To High-quality Teacher Education
Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:29:58 +1200 | TEFANZ
The Minister’s announcement on the education budget shows a prioritisation of school-based training whilst the latest press release from the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand is seeking to position teaching as a postgraduate profession.More >>
Budget Funding Delivers An Effective Cut To Early Childhood Education
Thu, 30 May 2024 16:07:50 +1200 | Kindergartens Aotearoa
Although kindergartens welcome any increase to funding, the latest Government budget has increased the funding to early childhood services by only half the rate of inflation, meaning an effective funding cut to services,” says Kindergartens Aotearoa spokesperson ...More >>
Radical System Changes And Investment Required To Prepare Teachers For Classrooms
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:22:31 +1200 | Teaching Council of Aotearoa NZ
The Council believes teachers, both new and experienced, are passionate, dedicated and capable. But for too long they have been let down by a system that doesn’t give them the structure or the resources they need.More >>
Better Pay And Support Needed To Attract People Into Primary Teaching
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:11:27 +1200 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
What is needed is better pay, more support for children with learning challenges and a sharper focus on investing in initial teacher education and ongoing professional learning.More >>
Protecting NZ’s Children From The Impacts Of Some Of World’s Highest Screen Time
Tue, 21 May 2024 11:56:43 +1200 | Auckland University of Technology
The purpose of the recommendations is to ensure New Zealand students maximise the learning benefits that screen-based digital tools can offer, while minimising risks to health and wellbeing as they grow.More >>
Training Of Teachers Needs A Major Overhaul - NZEI Te Riu Roa
Mon, 13 May 2024 05:14:24 +1200 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The union for early childhood and primary teachers, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says an ERO report on the training of teachers shows that the system needs a major overhaul. More >>
Funding For Lunches In Early Childhood Education Welcomed
Wed, 8 May 2024 14:15:20 +1200 | Whanau Manaaki Kindergartens
Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens welcomes the government decision to fund morning tea and lunch for up to 10,000 children in equity-funded not-for-profit early childhood services.More >>
Structured Literacy For The Teaching Profession
Fri, 3 May 2024 12:53:18 +1200 | Teaching Council of Aotearoa NZ
The Teaching Council welcomes the commitment of the government to resourcing professional learning for early years teachers, and the resources to support them to teach young learners to read. We agree that more prescription in some areas of our curricula ...More >>
Mandated Single Approach To Reading Will Not Work
Thu, 2 May 2024 14:49:09 +1200 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Minister of Education, Erica Stanford, has announced that as of Term 1 2025, all teachers in state schools will be required to teach reading using the structured literacy method.More >>
Waiouru School Students Conducts Environmental Audit Of National Army Museum
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:51:59 +1200 | National Army Museum
In March 2024, students from Waiouru School conducted an environmental audit of the National Army Museum, looking at the Museum’s sustainability and day-to-day practices. The school and the museum are both working together to make their community a better ...More >>
Building A Better ECE Future Together
Thu, 4 Apr 2024 05:30:41 +1300 | Early Childhood New Zealand
The sector and government need to design and implement a regulatory framework that enables a high-trust, low-compliance, service provider accountability environment, that safeguards our tamariki.More >>
Families To Receive Up To $75 A Week Help With ECE Fees
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:22:25 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Hardworking families are set to benefit from a new credit to help them meet their early childcare education (ECE) costs, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. From 1 July, parents and caregivers of young children will be supported to manage the ...More >>
New Trustees Appointed To The Education Partnership & Innovation Trust Board
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:29:33 +1300 | Education Partnership and Innovation Trust
We welcome four new Trustees to our board - Debbie Burrows, Luella Linaker, Rob McIntosh, and Tim Gander who join existing Trustees Lorraine Mentz, Hana O’Regan and Liz Gibbs. Co-Chair Lorraine Mentz said “the new appointments to the Education ...More >>
