Term 1

Children's Garden Open for School Visit in Term 2

Classes will be able to visit the Children’s Garden at the Botanic Garden through one of our hands-on education programmes. They include collaborative learning activities to develop students’ understanding of the importance of plants in our lives. Each 90-minute session will include the themes of sustainability, interconnectedness and culture to encourage respect for the natural environment, and will focus on the importance of plants for food, fibre, construction, or medicine. Please contact Anneke Mace, our Botanic Gardens Educator, for bookings.

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SportsFest 2017 Registrations open 1 April

SportsFest 2017 will be held on 15 and 16 August with registrations opening on 1 April. This popular competitive sporting event for Years 4-8 fills up very quickly so get your entries in fast to make sure your students don’t miss out. All registration information can be found on the Primary Sport Wellington website.

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Register Now for Movin' March

Movin' March is a month long celebration encouraging schools across the Wellington region to celebrate all the great things about making an active journey to school. Free goodies and resources will be sent in late February to every participating school. Register your school at www.movinmarch.com

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Get Your Students Engaged with Nature

The website NatureWatch has guides for teachers that can be tailored to your particular school or project. It is a place where you can share what you see in nature, set up citizen science and community-based monitoring projects, meet other nature watchers, and learn about New Zealand's natural history. The Zealandia BioBlitz 2017 on 26 and 27 February is a great introductory activity for students, or you can opt to do a smaller scale activity as St Peters School did.

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Learn to Swim Now Linked to the Curriculum

Learn to Swim at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre (WRAC) is integrating the Swimming New Zealand “Kiwi Swim Safe” and Water Safety New Zealand Sealord “Swim for Life – Water Skills for Life” programmes into their aquatic education lessons from 2017. This comprehensive programme is broken into 8 modules that provide links to the New Zealand Curriculum. Our lessons will use achievable progressions through all stages of learning swimming and survival skills, along with developing safer behaviours and practices towards water safety, through problem solving and critical thinking. For further information about our programme please contact Rachael Thomas – WRAC’s Senior Instructor for Schools

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Free Waste Education Visits and Tours

Free school waste education visits - Our waste educator can visit a class / school to give a talk on any waste topic of interest. We can cover composting, recycling, waste management and worm farms.

Free tours of the Southern Landfill can also be booked. Please contact Wendy Bertholet for further information and bookings.

Top tip

Encourage Safe Speeds Outside Your School

We have speed feedback trailers available that you can have placed outside your school. This provides oncoming drivers with immediate feedback on their speed.
We also have a free flyer with safety information about parking and driving near schools. This is ideal for putting in new enrolment packs or in you school’s first newsletter. The information is also available in pdf form to attach to your website. Please contact Anna Blomquist to book the trailer or for further information on the flyers.

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Club Active Play Fit Kids. This is a 40 - minute class for 6 to 10 - year - olds to develop confidence, stamina and co-ordination all while having fun and playing games. Sundays at 1.30pm starting 7 May. $72 for a 9 - week course.Phone Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre on 04 387 8029 for more information.

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