This year the DOM team have worked in collaboration with Massey to offer the Living Skills course in Palmerston North and Dunedin. These courses were facilitated by Shiree Arrian and… Read more
Expanded Core Curriculum
Taranaki Inquiry goal and Strategic goal for 2023
This year our Taranaki Inquiry focus was to improve our knowledge and skills in formal and informal assessment with our Complex needs ākonga and use this knowledge to support whanau… Read more
Busy Bees Curriculum Day
Busy Bees Curriculum Day creates opportunities to foster lifelong friendships as well as work on both Expanded Core and NZ Curriculum Goals. Identifying and using money: BLENNZ DOM instructor Jayne… Read more
Immersion course for ākonga (ORS VO VH) in Years 4 – 6
This Immersion course was for ākonga (ORS VO VH) in Years 4 – 6. They headed off-campus for a bush adventure with Harry from Barefooted NZ. Ākonga learned about NZ… Read more
Making social skills learning explicit
Ākonga without vision loss learn nearly all social skills through observation of their environment and people. For ākonga with vision loss this very important aspect of learning and development needs… Read more
A Haerenga me Auckland South VRC
2023 started as another eventful year, with a cyclone in week 3, putting a damper to the start of the year. At the end of term 1 we hosted the… Read more
BEL’s Tamariki course
The BELS team organised an immersion course for tamariki with low vision from three to five years. A cooking activity was offered using the process method. This is an interactive… Read more
Tim Bray Production Supporting inclusivity in the Arts
Each term BLENNZ Auckland North/West are given a number of free seats for the Tim Bray show at The Pumphouse in Takapuna. The theatre company allows our blind and low… Read more
Expanded Core Curriculum group Te Roopu Auaha – The Creative Group
Pukekohe VRC established a new Expanded Core Curriculum group this year called Te Roopu Auaha – The Creative Group. Twelve akonga from eleven primary schools came together once per term… Read more
Auckland South’s 2022 Journey
2022 started with restricted service delivery and then ASVRC had a minor fire, so it was back to working from home. Things started to feel more normal from the start… Read more