Kind hands, big hearts
12 March 2020
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An early learning service in Whangarei has become a lifeline for medically fragile and disabled children and their whānau.
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12 March 2020
An early learning service in Whangarei has become a lifeline for medically fragile and disabled children and their whānau.
12 March 2020
A powerful collaborative tool created by kaiako for kaiako.
12 March 2020
A collaborative visual curriculum produced by the Pukekohe Kāhui Ako to support the transition to primary school for tamariki and their whānau
12 March 2020
A whānau-led approach to services and support has made a difference for families with children living with disabilities.
12 March 2020
A Hokianga Playcentre that was closed and had lost its licence has been refurbished and reopened thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Ministry of Education.
12 March 2020
He Māpuna te Tamaiti is a new resource aimed at supporting kaiako in early learning services to develop children’s social and emotional competence
14 February 2020
New research has found that parents reading with young children has a positive impact on their early literacy and language learning.
28 October 2019
The Puna works with children from five Porirua primary schools and individual secondary school students.
27 June 2019
Every day offers the promise of outdoor adventures for children at Aspiring Beginnings Early Learning Centre in Wanaka.
17 June 2019
Trout, mihi and mai mai are all integrated into the learning environment at Oxford Kindergarten in Southland, where connections and links with the wider world a
30 May 2019
Children at an early childhood education centre in Timaru are learning about growing produce and sharing the harvest with their families and the wider community
11 February 2019
Preschoolers and their teachers are learning with each other through a shared interest in the world around them.
25 January 2019
By following their children’s interest in birds and bugs, kaiako at Picton Kindergarten are helping children learn about conservation, whanāungatanga and kaitia
25 January 2019
Research indicated confusion about ‘learning stories’ from parents and teachers, an ELC has changed its practice to meet the needs of its learning community.
21 November 2018
Kaiako talking about learning and thinking is helping children at Papakura West Kindergarten to become confident in their decision making.
12 November 2018
Waverley Kindergarten is focusing on including bicultural perspectives in their practice to better teach tamariki and whānau the taonga of te reo Māori.
25 October 2018
Nestled behind Arohanui and Harinui Early Learning Centres is Ngaherenui, a great forest where children explore, discover and connect with nature.
16 July 2018
A North Island early childhood service explains how Te Whāriki has helped them to reflect on and improve their whānau-focused practice.
16 July 2018
Results of the Transition to school report have now been released.
27 November 2017
A new partnership has resulted in a much-needed ECE and care facility for the remote community in the Tekapo basin.
10 October 2016
A Gisborne puna reo is still buzzing with excitement several months after it won a Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Award.
19 September 2016
Ruatoria student Carlos Paenga was named Supreme Award winner in this year’s ‘The Challenge’
19 September 2016
Hariata Rongo Dalton-Reedy credits her deep love of art, language and culture to her Māori medium education.
20 June 2016
The Teacher-led Innovation Fund supports teams of teachers across the country to work together on their own practice for improving student learning.
9 May 2016
Ngāti Tamaoho knows that the education of their people will contribute to the betterment of their people.