Notices

Road Safety Week 4–10 May

Listed by: Brake, The Road Safety Charity

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Road Safety Week is an annual activity that engages hundreds of communities across the country in raising awareness of road safety. 

The week is a great opportunity to kick-start road safety activities at your organisation, or to link existing activities to a national week. There are also lots of ways to meet curriculum goals whilst also learning about road safety. 

It's free to register and thanks to QBE Insurance and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency you'll receive an electronic action pack with posters, worksheets, interactive resources and more.

For more information and to register for an action pack visit www.roadsafetyweek.org.nz. 

New Zealand (nationwide)

04 May 2020 – 10 May 2020

River Restoration: From Mountains to Sea

Listed by: CORE Education

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On this field trip to the Waikanae River in the Wellington region, you will join the programme to restore our rivers.

Kick-started by a government grant, iwi and communities are getting together with government agencies to begin new long term projects to make them healthy again.

This trip is a river journey from the mountains to the sea exploring how rivers work, what makes them dirty and what we can do to make them right.

More info at: www.learnz.org.nz/fieldtrips.

New Zealand (nationwide)

31 March 2020 – 02 April 2020

National Beep Beep! Day Wednesday 6 May

Listed by: Brake, The Road Safety Charity

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Beep Beep! Days are fun road safety days for 2–7-year-olds, teaching them some key road safety messages such as holding hands, sitting in a car seat, and wearing a helmet on a bike or scooter.

Everyone who registers receives a free e-action pack of resources including posters, activity sheets, certificates and more.

Brake has partnered with Aardman Animations to run our national day with Timmy Time, using Timmy and his friends in our resources.

If the national date doesn't work, you can run your day at another time.

Find out more and register at www.brake.org.nz/beepbeepday.

New Zealand (nationwide)

06 May 2020 – 06 May 2020

New Zealand Youth Tobacco Monitor 2020

Listed by: Health Promotion Agency/Te Hiringa Hauora

Action for Smokefree 2025 (ASH) and the Health Promotion Agency/Te Hiringa Hauora (HPA) will invite schools to participate in the New Zealand Youth Tobacco Monitor (NZYTM) involving the ASH Y10 Snapshot Survey. This will be conducted in term 2.

Your school’s participation is important for ensuring we have an accurate reflection of youth smoking and vaping related behaviours across New Zealand. The results are provided to participating schools, with national results (for comparison). The results will help schools monitor trends and develop relevant policies and initiatives.

For more information, visit www.hpa.org.nz/what-we-do/nzytm, or contact ASH researcher Sally Wong on swong@ash.org.nz.

We Bring the Zoo to You – Live Learning at Your School!

Listed by: ZooVentures

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ZooVentures brings interactive workshops to your Auckland school with an amazing range of exotic creatures and pets, covering many of the 'living world' curriculum topics, as well as providing inspiration for art and creative writing plus animal careers workshops for seniors.

We deliver structured learning with high educational value.

Workshops are facilitated by a zoology graduate with a passion for inspiring children about animals and the environment.

One teacher describes it as 'like a zoo trip, but more hands-on and no travel to organise'.

From amazing reptiles to performing pups, ZooVentures brings learning to life!

For more information visit: www.zooventures.co.nz.

ZooVentures Animal Adventures – We Bring the Zoo to Your Kindy!

Listed by: ZooVentures

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Explore the animal kingdom with us!

We bring the zoo to you for a magical and fun learning experience with the ZooVentures animals – at your kindy!

'The range of animals was great, and the experience very interactive – the children were fascinated!'

Watch the bearded dragons munch their wriggly lunch; blue tongue lizards and super-cute tortoises on laps; exotic breed guinea pigs to groom and feed; create a mini zoo park for the mice; weird and wonderful turtles, and even performing pups with a dog safety message!

For further information: www.zooventures.co.nz.

Student Job Seeking and Interview Skills Workshops at Your Auckland School!

Listed by: CareerStart

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CareerStart offers in-school workshops around finding, applying, and interviewing for holiday and part-time work in addition to interview skills in general.

We believe the benefits of part-time work for students are significant, in terms of gaining valuable life skills, plus offering insight and advantages around future employment and 'employability'. 

Topics include:

Why and how do we get a part-time or holiday job.

What are employers looking for?

Be familiar with your own skills and achievements

Create a one page CV

What are interviews - their purpose, the process, and how to prepare

Practice interviews.


For information visit: www.careerstart.co.nz.

Future Problem Solving, New Zealand

Listed by: Future Problem Solving New Zealand

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NZ's future-focused, challenging problem-solving programme.

Give your students the skills to step into the future by implementing NZ’s successful world-class, authentic problem-solving programme in your school.

In FPS, students look to the future by exploring such significant future-focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise and globalisation. (NZC Future Focus Principle)

Global Issues Problem Solving fosters higher level thinking and research skills; develops teamwork; enhances futuristic, creative, ethical and critical thinking; strengthens oral and written communication skills and provides an effective problem solving process effective in real life.

For more information: www.fpsnz.co.nz/programme-information.

Register now for 2020: booklet.fpsnz.co.nz/schoolregister.

APO Partnership Schools Programme

Listed by: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - APO Connecting

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Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Partnership Schools (APOPS) brings the orchestra into the classroom through educational programmes that stimulate and engage students in more than 60 schools across Auckland.

Our APOPS preludes membership ($600) provides a visit from an ensemble (genres include classical, jazz, percussion and more) & 50 tickets and bus transport to our Kiwi Kapers concert in October.

We would love to have your school on board to share our passion for music. You can find out more about APOPS at www.apo.co.nz/community-education/schools/apops or contact Miriam McCombe at miriamm@apo.co.nz.

FREE Educational Documentary Screenings for Schools

Listed by: Doc Edge Schools

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Save the dates for your FREE educational documentary screenings for school students in Auckland and Wellington, followed by question and answer sessions with film makers and experts.
We'll also provide free educational resources to support your lesson plans in the classroom.

Auckland:  28 May–5 June
Wellington: 11–19 June
Māngere: 19 and 20 August  (limited season)

Email matthew@docedge.nz for more information

We hope to see you at the movies!

Auckland

28 May 2020 – 05 June 2020

Wellington

11 June 2020 – 19 June 2020

Good Clean Sport – Youth, Presented by Drug Free Sport NZ

Listed by: Drug Free Sport New Zealand

Introducing clean sport to NZ schools

• FREE interactive workshops - values based education, identification of risks, supplement use, influences and more

• Group learning, games and FUN

• Athlete educators

•Available nationwide.

Workshop duration: 45 minutes – 1 hour (can be modified to suit).

Workshop options:

General – across all students. Content tailored to year levels.

Focussed – academy sports students/high performing sports students and teams.

Parent and support personnel – tailored education for parents, coaches and support personnel in a dedicated workshop.

Book a Good Clean Sport – Youth Workshop Today

Visit https://drugfreesport.org.nz/what-we-do/education/good-clean-sport-youth or call (0800) DRUG FREE.

A Teacher's Survival Guide to Phonics and Spelling

Listed by: The Bridge

Simply Phonics is a fully planned phonics programme integrating oral language, spelling patterns, phonics, writing and reading.

The Simply Phonics Model highlights the fact that there is an incremental sequence for teaching phonics. Phonics only adds value to children's spelling when their teachers are super confident and knowledgeable in all areas of phonics. 

By the end of the 2 days all teachers will leave with a significant boost in their knowledge, passion and skills in teaching phonics. 

As an added bonus:

This will be the most inspirational, fun and multi-sensory workshop of the year!

For further details email: frances@thebridge.org.nz.

Waikato

02 May 2020 – 03 May 2020