Notices

Vanuatu Sponsored Teachers Famil 2020

Listed by: Edventuretours Travel

Come and visit Vanuatu in 2020!

We sponsor escorted teachers tours for those looking to extend their classrooms to the Pacific . We will provide hands on experience and skills to help plan a tour to return with a school group. While on ‘Famil’ with us you will participate in masses of activities and look at ways of giving back to the local community, with accommodation inspections and relationships with local providers established to give you the confidence to organise your own school trip and opportunity to assess risk management first-hand.

Contact Edventuretours; ph (07) 855 9499; email: robynh@edventuretours.co.nz

Samoa Sponsored Teachers Famil 2020

Listed by: Edventuretours Travel

Talofa – Come and visit Samoa in 2020!

We sponsor escorted teachers tours for those looking to extend their classrooms to the Pacific. We will provide hands on experience and skills to help plan a tour to return with a school group. While on ‘Famil’ with us you will participate in masses of activities and look at ways of giving back to the local community, with accommodation inspections and relationships with local providers established to give you the confidence to organise your own school trip and opportunity to assess risk management first-hand.

Contact Edventuretours; ph (07) 855 9499; email: robynh@edventuretours.co.nz

Tonga Sponsored Teachers Famil 2020

Listed by: Edventuretours Travel

We sponsor escorted teachers tours for those looking to extend their classrooms to the Pacific – Tonga and perhaps Vavau. We will provide hands on experience and skills to help plan a tour to return with a school group. While on ‘Famil’ with us you will participate in masses of activities and look at ways of giving back to the local community, with accommodation inspections and relationships with local providers established to give you the confidence to organise your own school trip and opportunity to assess risk management first-hand.

Contact Edventuretours; ph (07) 855 9499; email: robynh@edventuretours.co.nz

Teacher Education Refresh Programme, Kohia Centre, University of Auckland

Listed by: Kohia Centre, University of Auckland

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The Teacher Education Refresh (TER) programme is currently funded by the Ministry of Education.

The Kohia Centre programme can be completed in 2–3 months. It is delivered through a combination of 4 face-to-face workshops, online modules/tasks and a 4 week practicum in a school. (Teachers already employed in long term teaching positions can use their current position to demonstrate effective teaching practice).

The TER programme covers a wide range of topics including planning and assessment in the New Zealand Curriculum, teaching as inquiry, working with priority learners, and cultural competencies.

Find out more at: tinyurl.com/y4gjvmsp or email kohia@auckland.ac.nz.

Auckland

21 January 2020 – 03 April 2020

St Mark's School Christchurch School Centenary Celebrations

Listed by: St Mark's School, Christchurch

We would like to invite all past and present students, staff, board members, PA families and community members to join us for our centenary celebrations which will be held on 9–11 April 2021.

For further information, please contact the school office and connect with others on the Centenary Facebook page where further details will be posted.

Canterbury

09 April 2021 – 11 April 2021

Avondale College 75th Jubilee

Listed by: Avondale College

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Avondale College invites all former students, staff and BOT members to join the 75th Jubilee celebrations from 8–10 May 2020.

Programme details will be posted on our website (www.avcol.school.nz) as they are confirmed, but in the meantime, please spread the word to all former students and staff.

We would love to see you there.

Auckland

08 May 2020 – 10 May 2020

Innovative Young Minds-STEM Programme for Y11–12 Female Students

Listed by: Innovative Young Minds

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Innovative Young Minds (IYM) is 2, week-long STEM programmes for female students in Y11–12. There are 40 places available in each week.

Held in Wellington in the first and second week of the July school holidays, students from all around New Zealand can apply to attend.

The programme introduces young women to the wide variety of STEM opportunities through visits to businesses, tertiary institutes and Crown Research Institutes. They hear from women in the STEM sector, learn to network, visit Parliament and complete an innovation challenge.

For more information and to apply, visit www.iym.org.nz.

New Zealand (nationwide)

05 July 2020 – 10 July 2020

New Zealand (nationwide)

12 July 2020 – 17 July 2020

Expressions of Interest to Join Review of Achievement Standards Expert Groups

Listed by: Review of Achievement Standards

The Ministry of Education is about to begin the review of all achievement standards and assessment resources. 

We need people to join subject expert groups for all existing New Zealand Curriculum subjects, and are seeking expressions of interest. These groups will first work with the Ministry to consider how the subject fits within NCEA Level 1, and then how the subject might be assessed through achievement standards for Levels 1–3. 

Go to: conversation.education.govt.nz/conversations/ncea-review/review-of-achievement-standards for details and how to apply.