During Term 4 a talented group of BLENNZ ākonga came together for our Songwriters Rock Immersion course. While together our talented young people composed and recorded a song together called… Read more
Learner stories
Full Inclusion in School Athletics Day
Laura was able to participate fully and be included in all the activities on the whole school athletics day. In order to achieve this her RTV initiated a strengthening and… Read more
Lego Braille Bricks
Integrating Lego Braille Bricks with writing and reading has been highly successful with my 5 year old braille learner, Lily. They have been used incidentally initially, when Lily’s class were… Read more
City adventure for 2 cane users
Over this new disrupted time we continued to be supported by the National team at BLENNZ. Our DOM programme continued with Kay Daly who zoomed with us, mentored us and… Read more
LEGO Braille Bricks
Gifted by The LEGO Foundation, young Auckland North students who access the curriculum through braille have an additional resource to add to their Braille toolbox – a set of LEGO Braille Bricks. Although the same as regular lego, the bricks have studs that correspond to numbers and… Read more
Napier VRC flooded and upskilling RTV’s from the DOM team
On the 9th of November last year Henry Hill School was impacted by local flooding and, once again, we found ourselves working from home. Despite this, provision of services and resources continued. We became fully operational… Read more
Curriculum Day for primary aged braille ākonga
On the 26th May, Tauranga VRC ran a Curriculum Day for our primary aged braille ākonga. The aim of the day was to explore measurement of time and space. Developmental Orientation and Mobility… Read more
Immersion course modified during lockdown
Auckland going into lockdown became the catalyst for us examining what we could offer locally for our ākonga who were due to attend immersion. We were fortunate to secure the services of specialists in Activities of Daily Living, Music,… Read more
Real and meaningful experiences
When introducing our young learners who are blind to new learning through song, books and play, we need to understand what their real life experiences are. It is through this that concepts and language become meaningful. When Tobi was introduced to… Read more
Identifying Need through the IEP – Literacy
Extra support to ensure literacy progression was identified as a goal for an IEP, therefore the read it-build it-write it strategy was implemented. This involved using simple, enlarged wooden alphabet… Read more
