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Kia ora and welcome to the news page for the health and physical education
community. We value your feedback and ideas, and invite you to contact us
at health@tki.org.nz. |
We update this page regularly with information and materials relevant to health
and physical education. There are links to over 3300 quality-assured materials
in this community. Browse the material using the buttons under the arrow on
the right-hand side of the page.
Note also the two curriculum items immediately below and check these regularly for updates.
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Success for Boys
Create opportunities for all boys at your school to succeed. This site is designed to help school leaders look at teaching-learning relationships with boys in classrooms, create supportive learning environments for boys, and provide a range of approaches and tools to address the diverse learning needs of boys so they can achieve to their full potential.
http://success-for-boys.tki.org.nz/
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Get2Go Challenge 2008
Get2Go is an outdoor team adventure challenge for year 9–10 students and includes rock climbing, mountain biking, orienteering, and kayaking. The challenge runs in 13 regions throughout New Zealand. Registrations are open until two weeks before each regional event. Visit the website for information and registration details. Be quick, places are limited.
http://www.sparc.org.nz/sparc-get2go-challenge
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Drug Education Matrix (PDF 164KB)
This matrix outlines the knowledge, understandings, and skills that students should develop through drug education. The matrix describes learning outcomes for drug education for years 1–13, and is closely aligned to the health and physical education statement in New Zealand Curriculum (2007). For more information, download the matrix.
http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/health/PDF/final-matrix.pdf
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New category of websites: User-contributed content
In response to the changing nature of the Internet, TKI will now link to selected social software (Web 2.0) sites. Social software allows users to contribute content and to collaborate with others using blogs, wikis, and other tools. These sites will have the head and shoulders icon to show that they contain user-contributed content. While all sites are still subject to rigorous quality-assurance processes, teachers are advised to evaluate this category of sites carefully for relevance and accuracy, and to consider any privacy and security issues before using them with students.
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World Environment Day – building a sustainable future
The Ministry of Education is still encouraging every school, wharekura, kura, kōhanga reo, and early childhood centre to visit the World Environment Day website and to share their plans to contribute to a sustainable future. Schools around the world are able to add their own future-focused sustainability pledge to show up on the world Google map.
http://efs.tki.org.nz/wed
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The Lowdown
Visit this interactive site that provides young people with a forum through which to learn more about depression. There is information on what depression is, signs people should look for, and where to go for help. A team of qualified counsellors can be contacted via text or email for guidance and support.
http://www.thelowdown.co.nz/ndi/html/home/index.html
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Healthy Confident Kids
This inspiring collection shares the experiences of schools all over New Zealand taking action to address nutrition, general health and well-being issues within their schools and communities. Included are high level ‘snapshots’, and more indepth case studies of what schools have achieved so far.
http://mission-on.tki.org.nz/
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Asia Knowledge
Engaging with Asia is vital to New Zealand’s future. The new Asia Knowledge kete on TKI is aligned to the new curriculum and provides information and teaching resources for becoming Asia Aware. It includes an integrated teaching and learning resource on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
http://asia-knowledge.tki.org.nz
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Change in ordering process for MOE resources and publications
The process for schools to order Ministry of Education resources and publications has changed. From 1 March 2008, Wickliffe Ltd is responsible for customer services and warehousing of the Ministry’s publications and resources – to order, phone 0800 660 662 or fax 0800 660 663. A new catalogue will soon be available for ordering online or by email.
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Community Facilitator's choice
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Professional Learning
Check out the revamped Professional Learning area on TKI and access professional learning resources and tools with a distinctly New Zealand flavour. Discover study opportunities, current research, how other schools manage their learning community, and much more.
http://professional-learning.tki.org.nz
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Sir Edmund Hillary Remembered
We dedicate this hot topic to New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary who died in Auckland on Friday 11 January 2008 aged 88. He is famous not only for his international climbing and exploring feats but for his generosity, humility, and his lifetime dedication to humanitarian work. Here is a collection of resources capturing his extraordinary life and achievements.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/hot_topics/siredmundhillary_e.php
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wickED
Visit the newly updated wickED website. wickED is the Ministry of Education's student-focused site for 7–12 year-olds, and contains curriculum-based fun learning activities that you can use to support your classroom programme. The latest topic, The Human Body, has fun activities and interactives about the skeletal, digestive, muscular, nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems. For more details about the site and how to use it, read the Teacher Information section.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/index.php
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TravelWise – Thinking Transport
TravelWise is a programme run by the Auckland Regional Transport Authority in partnership with Auckland Regional Council, Land Transport New Zealand, Ministry of Health, Roadsafe Auckland, and other Auckland city councils. TravelWise works with schools and communities to improve travel choices and make it safer and easier to consider travel options. The programme includes information on road safety, walking school buses, walking and cycling, and guidelines for schools and work places to implement safety programmes.
http://www.travelwise.org.nz/home.cfm
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom (LEOTC)
Visit the recently updated LEOTC website. LEOTC is a Ministry of Education-funded project of educational programmes run by a range of organisations providing hands-on experiences for students on school visits, complementing and enriching classroom programmes. This website contains schools' learning stories (video and text) and case studies, as well as information about LEOTC for providers, teachers, parents, and boards of trustees.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/leotc/
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Mission-On: The food and nutrition guidelines and toolkit
Check out the Ministries of Education and Health food and nutrition guidelines and toolkit for early childhood education services, managers, boards of trustees, principals, and teachers. The toolkit includes practical tips, resources, and suggestions for teachers, parents, and whānau. The toolkit is available in te reo Māori, and the Samoan, Cook Island Māori, Tokelauan and Niuean languages.
http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=12060&data=l |
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wickED
Explore the new navigation titles on wickED, the Ministry of Education’s student focused website for 7 –12 year-old students. Check out 'Homework Help' and 'Homework Talk', where students can play learning games or ask a teacher for help with homework. 'Kokona Māori' is a new direct link to access Māori content. Every term there is a new 'Topic' with independent learning activities that correspond to the New Zealand curriculum, and every month there is a new 'Cool Kiwi'.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/index.php |
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TKI Kete
Have you ever used "Favourites" or "Bookmarks" to store
your favourite websites so you can find them again later? TKI Kete on Te
Kete Ipurangi functions in the same way only better! And it's absolutely
free! Using the TKI kete function, you can save different types of resources,
including websites, in your own space on TKI. This way you can access your
favourites from any computer with Internet access. To find out more, click
on the link above. |
SPARC
publications online
Download Sport and Recreation New Zealand publications, including Fundamental
Skills, KiwiDex, and Sport Leader, in PDF format. |
Events are now listed on the TKI Health and Physical Education calendar, see right-hand navigation bar.
 Telephone Tutorial
The TKI team would be happy to provide a tour of the site, via the telephone,
at your school staff meetings or planning sessions. Contact us at tutorials@tki.org.nz if you would like to explore this option.
We encourage you to make contact with others involved in health education,
physical education, or home economics education. For example, you may wish to
undertake a collaborative project with another school, ask if anyone has taught
a particular unit of work, or share some information about teaching and learning
in these areas. To place a message for visitors to this community, you guessed
it, email us!
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