This year the BLENNZ Tūranganui a Kiwa/Gisborne and Napier teams collaborated with our Blind Low Vision NZ colleague, Erin Leonard to organise a very successful Curriculum Day at the Wairoa Community Centre Pool which focused on our ākonga developing Swim Safety and confidence skills. Five AUSTSwim instructors (two provisional) led by Denice Gasson were in the… Read more
Learner stories
BLENNZ Christchurch student groups get together to learn different skills
Fun Friday Workshops “Fun Friday” continues to be popular with our 6 to 10 age group. The students particularly enjoy learning daily living skills while cooking and our “Master Chef”… Read more
Coming together to learn about tactile graphics and early braille skills
At BLENNZ Taranaki this year, a group of RTVs have focused their inquiry topic around tactile graphics and early braille skills. This also included a trip to the Palmerston North… Read more
Braille club Curriculum day based around the Expanded Core Curriculum goals
Each term in 2019 BLENNZ Northland Visual Resource Centre Braille Club Curriculum Day has been held for Zaria and Chevarni who work hard on their Expanded Core Curriculum Goals. These goals focus on Independent Daily Living,… Read more
Interactive Story Boxes
Homai Early Childhood Centre is producing interactive story boxes for ākonga, accommodating varying levels of vision skills. We use cultural, natural and classical early childhood stories currently of interest to ākonga and whānau, adding tactile materials and real objects for ākonga to… Read more
BLENNZ Napier students learning new skills
Kahn is learning to use the iPad Pro 12.9” to enable him to access the curriculum. He particularly enjoys the independence gained through being able to capture information and produce… Read more
Cooking sessions for learners transitioning to Intermediate
Shared cooking sessions are perfect opportunities for learners to acquire a range of Curriculum and independent living skills. Here at the Nelson VRC we have been facilitating cooking experiences for… Read more
Immersion comes to Tauranga for braille users aged 5-8 years
Tauranga VRC were very fortunate to have the Immersion team arrive to complete an immersion course for Braille users aged 5-8 years at our centre on 25th March. Natalie Stewart and Trish Bishop… Read more
Darcy talks about studying automative engineering
Darcy discusses his experiences as a blind learner studying automotive engineering.
Students go white water rafting on “Power Up” Immersion course at Homai
At the end of Term 1, two learners from Otago, attended the “Power Up!” Immersion course at Homai for learners who have experienced a recent vision loss. Over the course of the week, the students learned about… Read more
