Education Noticeboard

Please find below our community noticeboard, containing education surveys or information that may be of interest to you and your school. 

Please note the bulletins below are not associated with SPANZ and if you have any queries regarding these please contact the person in the listing.

If you would like to include your educational survey/notice* on our Noticeboard please contact us via: office@spanz.school.nz

*Please note, SPANZ reserves the right to remove any notice or decline at our discretion

Everyone Likes Passive Income - now is your opportunity

Attainable Trust is a Charitable Trust looking after people with disabilities mainly intellectual and learning. They provide work for people who would not necessarily get employment in mainstream.

A number of our customers, along with other well-known brands, have provided us with high quality products, which we are marketing under the Mighty Kind website. Mighty Kind is marketing direct to schools, clubs and other not for profit organisations.

Basically, your school will receive passive income on all purchases made through the website and where your school is selected as a recipient. Apart from the initial sell in, where your input is minimal, NO ADDITIONAL WORK IS REQUIRED BY YOUR ADMIN STAFF, BUT PASSIVE INCOME WILL FLOW YOUR WAY.

What better way to generate income for your school and at the same time provide employment opportunities for these less fortunate individuals employed by Attainable Trust.

For further information look at the attached flyer.

FujiFILM Business Innovation - Programme Printing

You rely on teachers and support staff for a huge range of duties, so requesting and choosing quotes for print services shouldn’t be one of them! FUJIFILM Business Innovation NZ already work with an array of New Zealand schools, so have an intimate knowledge of the requirements and considerations of the education sector.

They will look at a range of quotes and choose the most cost effective solution for each project, whether it’s yearbooks, prospectuses or other marketing collateral, exams, course books, sporting and cultural materials, signage, and display boards. FBNZ have a network of production partners around the country as well as their own print facilities so can access the most cost-effective print solution tailored to your school’s budget.

Let FBNZ help your school focus on its core work; call Michelle Timmermans on 021 243 6938 or email michelle.timmermans.zc@fujifilm.com

Papa Taiao Earthcare

In terms 2 & 3, Papa Taiao Earthcare are offering short courses to year 11-13 ākonga all over Aotearoa in Predator Control and Fencing & Wai Restoration. 

In these two day courses, with NCEA credits available, ākonga discover the extraordinary endemic biodiversity of Aotearoa and the significance of protecting our species and awa through predator control and fencing. The courses offer hands-on, real life skills, as well as getting our rangatahi outdoors, into nature, and in connection with ecology & regeneration. The courses are a fantastic taster of careers in restoration that they may not otherwise know about or consider.

The Predator Control courses include an overnight stay, and both courses can be arranged throughout Aotearoa (you can even combine a course with other schools in your area to meet the minimum number of ākonga required - 15). Schools can utilise STAR and Gateway funding for these courses. Transport needs to be organised by the school. This link will take you to our short courses page.

Make way programme for students - Ellie Bambury (year’s 11-13)

The Make Way Programs are designed to help students connect with their personal story and inner voice, in an exciting, non-threatening way, that will empower them to make more authentic and purposeful decisions in their lives - particularly as they navigate the end of their school journey and future. For more information please check out Ellie Bambury at the Big Sister Project.

Billy Guard

Do you know someone being cyber bullied? Go to - billyguard.com and click the “Red Button” Anonymous, Free, Gets Results, Stops Cyberbullies in their tracks!!!

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor” Desmond Tutu

Crisis Management in High Schools

We were contacted by Daniel Laufer, PhD MBA who is the Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wellington School of Business and Government. He gave a presentation to commerce teachers in Auckland about teaching Crisis Management in high schools which we believe will be of interest to our members. He writes a column in the New Zealand Herald on the topic of Crisis Management (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12208055), and the column can be a valuable resource for commerce teachers to teach the topic. Below is a link to my PowerPoint presentation:

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/engage/commerce-teacher-resources