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Health Promoting Schools new website!
12/7/2013
The HPS website has had a refresh! New look, new architecture, new resources. Please note this site is still being developed and constructed, so please bear with us while we continue working on it.
We'd appreciate your feedback!
Futureintech - New Online Careers Information Resource
11/7/2013
Futureintech has a new online careers resource, Ask an Ambassador. Students can find out what’s really involved in a technology, engineering or science career by asking people who work in those fields.
Futureintech Ambassadors will answer queries about recommended school subjects, study, training, daily work, lifestyle, and future prospects, based on their own experiences.
Answers are published online.
Engaging the community through your school website
11/7/2013
This blog post invites you to reflect on your school's current website and consider the messages that it is sending to students, families, whānau, and communities. Includes links to a range of school websites, and reflective questions.
NZC Online – Future focus principle
5/7/2013
A new section on NZC Online draws together research, ideas, examples, and resources to support the NZC future focus principle.
“The curriculum encourages students to look to the future by exploring such significant future-focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, and globalisation.”
The New Zealand Curriculum
Stories of Resilience and Innovation in Schools and Early Childhood
4/7/2013
Canterbury Earthquakes 2010-2012
This recently published ERO report gives an insight into what Canterbury schools and early childhood services experienced during and after the earthquakes. It tells their stories and gives good advice about emergency planning for others in the education sector.
100 Māori words every New Zealander should know
3/7/2013
Here are 100 words in te reo Māori with sound files, grouped according to functions and associations.
Hear Tairongo Amoamo read the complete list for the marae, concepts, people and their groups, components of place names, greetings, and body parts
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Ngā Ingoa Māori
1/7/2013
The theme for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 1-7 July 2013 is ‘Ngā Ingoa Māori, Māori Names’
This includes place names and personal names and gives us an opportunity to learn about the meanings of our local place names and local history.
You can learn basic Māori pronunciation here, choose a Maori name for a baby here, and click on the place names on this map to hear correct pronunciation.
English Language Intensive Programmes (ELIP) now online
28/6/2013
The years 1-6 and years 7-13 ELIP resources are now live on ESOL Online. These resources, which were previously only available in print and on CD, are now available on ESOL Online for all to access.
These resources are designed to support ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programmes for students in Years 1-6 and 7-13. They are not intended to be whole programmes in themselves, but provide guidelines for teachers of ESOL programmes.
Science Learning Hub: Innovation
25/6/2013
This new area of the Science Learning Hub is a collection of resources to help support young people in developing an ability to recognise how innovation happens, to understand the value it can bring and, in doing so, to develop skills, attitudes, and values that better prepare them for contributing to our fast-changing world.
It’s all about seeing opportunities, solving problems, being creative, thinking outside the square, not giving up, being resourceful.
See the site for stories of innovation, videos, organisation profiles, articles, student activities, and more.
Developing cultural competencies for teachers of Māori students
21/6/2013
A tool to help develop the cultural competence of teachers of Māori students was piloted during 2011–2012. Education Gazette looks at case studies of the schools that participated in Tātaiako.
As well as developing cultural competence, Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners aims to help educators develop better relationships with whānau, hapū, and iwi in their school community, as well as with Māori students.
Additional information about Tātaiako is available here.