PVI are holding their annual Parent Conference this year in Wellington from 26th – 28th October. This is the registration form for parents to complete. At present they are over halfway… Read more
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Curriculum, Progression & Achievement
Emerging Ideas Videos The Curriculum, Progress and Achievement Ministerial Advisory Group want an education system where all students and ākonga have the opportunity to learn – to be successful in… Read more
Making friends with people my age at Immersion Courses
A learner’s voice…..an extract from her school speech. I’ve been told that my eyes twitch a lot, but I don’t notice it. This causes headaches and visual fatigue. I sit… Read more
BLENNZ DOM Service Team Sharing and Learning Together
The BLENNZ DOM team continues to grow and learn together throughout 2018. The team meets 4 times a year for professional and service stream development. Recently members of the BLENNZ DOM… Read more
7th Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Today is the 7th Global Accessibility Awareness Day or GAAD for short. This is the day to talk, think and learn about digital access and what this means to people… Read more
International Support Staff Day
Today we celebrate our wonderful support staff around New Zealand who are such a valued part of the team at BLENNZ. To all of our amazing support staff we thank… Read more
A national approach to accessible digital assessments in New Zealand
Together BLENNZ, the Blind Foundation and NZQA are working towards developing accessible online assessments that take into account a range of learner needs and assistive technology packages. It has been… Read more
Homai Early Childhood Centre develop their own darkroom
The development of the darkroom has been a long term project, supported through fundraising and donations from past and present BLENNZ, HECC whānau. This year the addition of coloured LED… Read more
BLENNZ Taranaki welcomes their new manager, Kay Hood
It is always exciting to get groups of BLENNZ learners together to work on BLENNZ Curriculum skills. Groups of learners came into BLENNZ Taranaki for an Art day and a… Read more
2017 – A year of training successes with the DOM team
The beginning of 2017 saw our first 2 Developmental Orientation and Mobility (DOM) trainees complete their training and step up to become DOM Specialists. Ernie Belk and Melanie Harvey completed… Read more
