Pacific Cooperation Foundation
Make connections through Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) programmes that aim to benefit Pasific Island and New Zealand people by increasing cooperation and understanding among them. http://www.pcf.org.nz/home
sPACIFICally PACIFIC
Check out this website to find out upcoming events across the country. It aims to promote inter-agency collaboration and create effective links between schools, families, and the wider community. It includes a video gallery of stories shared by participants on their experiences at the sPACIFICally PACIFIC events, and the rewards they gained by taking part in them.
WickED
Wicked is a fun learning site for children from the ages of 7 to 12 years old. It has two topics based on Pasifika themes. The first Mana Pasifika has activities that take students all around the Pacific. The second, Pasifika The Arts has lots of fun, creative online activities.
Drama Posters Teachers' Notes
These online teachers' notes, support the recently published Drama Posters for years 1-13. The notes provide starter questions and activities for classroom use, as well as links to the curriculum and to other drama resources and can be downloaded as Word documents or PDFs.
Pasifika Digital Legends
Read, watch, and listen to traditional Pacific stories re-told by New Zealand secondary school students. Find out how these digital legends were created, and use the unit plans and helpsheets with your students so they can create their own mini-movies.
Pasifika Numeracy and Literacy Strategy
Here are summaries of the Ministry-funded initiatives that address the particular needs of schools and communities where there are significant numbers of Pasifika students.
Hot Topics
Two hot topics feature Pasifika content. One is a collection of websites relevant to the Pacific Nations and the other focuses on the topic of waka.
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA)
This Te Kete Ipurangi web page provides up-to-date information and resources relevant to NCEA. It has links to quality-assured materials, and includes up-to-date news. Click here for NCEA resources with a Pasifika content.
EdCentre Pasifika Community
information about Pasifika education in New Zealand. It also includes information around the Early Childhood discretionary funding grants and provides information for Pacific Island Early childhood playgroups.
Living Heritage
This is an online, free publishing resource offered to New Zealand schools to share heritage treasures within their community. Pasifika resources include entries by:
Pasifika Education Plan
The Pasifika Education Plan 2006-2010 was launched on 7 June 2006 and builds on the progress made so far to raise participation and achievement more sharply. The Pasifika Education Plan 2006-2010 four areas are: Early Childhood, Compulsory education, Teritary education , and education sector wide focus.
Talanoa Ako: Pacific Education Talk
Read a PDF version of Talanoa Ako: Pacific Education Talk, which aims to let Pasifika people know about what is happening in Pasifika education and report on new programmes and initiatives.
Mission-On - Healthy, Confident Kids
Read Pacific language versions of the Ministry of Education's Mission-On initiative. The aim is to help schools and early childhood centres to promote healthy foods and active lifestyles in. Parts of the toolkit are available in Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean and Cook Island Maori, as Word documents.
Team Up-Pasifika!
Team-Up aims to provide more and better information to parents, caregivers and families so they can support and encourage their children's learning. From this page you will be able to access information and resources for parents and information on individual Team-Up programmes.
TeachNZ - Pasifika:
Go to the Pasifika page for information about becoming a teacher on becoming teacher from early childhood to Secondary school. The page includes information scholarships and financial support and contact personnel.
Charting the Pacific
Explore this site to find voices, stories, lives, and facts about the Pacific. You can listen and watch stories about ordinary and extraordinary lives, explore maps, statistics and facts from the Pacific. The places section includes an interactive map with country profiles and information on the challenges facing this region. http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacific/default.htm 07-08-2006
Pacific Arts Online
Check out recent additions to Pacific Arts Online. Take a look at a concert by Te Vaka – the story includes audio and video files. Listen to Madeleine Sami talking about the film No. 2, the characters and the story behind its worldwide success. http://arts.abc.net.au/artok/ 27-07-2006
