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SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES for the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel, Gisborne and Taupo regions -
Ratonga Tautoko, for Education Advice

KIA ORA KOUTOU!

Welcome back to school. We hope the year goes
well for you and that you are settling in after the
holidays.
Our work was heartening last year, working with
schools, and seeing just what keen and enthusiastic
teachers are doing. It was exciting to see the variety
of ways in which secondary teachers and schools are
incorporating Environmental Education (EE) and
aspects of Education for Sustainability (EFS) into
their programmes.
WHO ARE WE?
Lynette Brown
lynettebrown@xtra.co.nz
ph: 027 252 7165
We welcome back Lynette Brown into our team.
Lynette was an EE advisor from 2003-2004. She
has been teaching at Taupo-nui-a-Tia College since
then and brings back her fantastic skills, experience
and enthusiasm back with her. She will be working
mainly in the southern part of our region. Tania
Mills, lately of Raglan Area School will also be doing
some EFS advisory work, mainly through Social
Studies.
We bid farewell to Hone Green from our team during
last year. He was doing valuable work in EFS,
mainstream Maori language
and Kura Kaupapa Maori
schools.
We miss him in the team but we
are sure Opotiki College know
how lucky they are to have him.

WHAT DO WE DO?
• provide support for you when incorporating EFS
Lyn Rogers
or EE ideas or contexts into curriculum,
lynr@waikato.ac.nz co-curricular activities or projects
ph: 027 278 1124 • put you in touch with others
• hunt out resources for you
• help with planning for learning

We are looking forward to continuing this work in

Tania Mills 2007

taniam@waikato.ac.nz
027 252 7162

Check out the next page for news,

resources, websites and the
envirocalendar

Lyn Rogers and Lynette Brown, Education for Sustainability Advisers (Secondary)
School Support Service, The University of Waikato
lynr@waikato.ac.nz and lynette.brown@clear.net.nz
Environmental education got a huge
boost in 2006
A big increase in environmental education spending is
happening over the next four years. This funding
comes as a result of the agreement negotiated after
the 2005 election between the Green Party and the
Labour Party. It is being used to support
Enviroschools, a new advisory team for Kura:
“Matauranga Taiao”, to fund more advisors to
schools and to provide some teacher release funding
for professional development in EFS.
We welcome back Lynette Brown
NZ Curriculum Marautanga Project
Our national team has been exploring the important
aspects of learning in EFS and they match very well
with the Key Competencies, Values and Principles
underpinning the new curriculum. This is still in draft
form, with the revised version due in schools later this
year. EFS can provide meaningful contexts for
satisfying new curriculum requirements.
For more information and updates on the draft
curriculum visit: www.tki.org.nz/r/nzcurriculum/index
or www.marautangaaotearoa.ac.nz
SOME USEFUL WEBSITES
ƒ www.esf.co.nz is a BLOG site for educators
which is being used for all sorts of information
sharing, comment and as a source of resources
ƒ Regional council websites
o www.ew.govt
o www.envbop.govt.nz
o www.arc.govt.nz
ƒ www.unesco.org.nz
ƒ www.waikatobiodiversity.org.nz
ƒ www.opendemocracy.net/climate_change/
ƒ www.britishcouncil.org/zerocarbonicity.htm
ƒ www.earthyouth.net
ƒ www.enviroschools.org.nz
ƒ www.emap.rsnz.org
ƒ www.nzaee.org.nz
www.worldvision.org.nz/catalogue
LEOTC
• Education, restoration project, camps with
educators available at Te Kauri Park.
www.tekauri.org.nz
• Virtual field trips every term offered on
www.learnz.org.nz
Lyn Rogers and Lynette Brown, Education for Sustainability Advisers (Secondary)
School Support Service, The University of Waikato
lynr@waikato.ac.nz and lynette.brown@clear.net.nz
What Are Schools Doing In EfS?
Some of the most common themes teachers are
using in their planning for EFS are:
Water;
Coasts;
Biodiversity;
Ecology;
Climate Change;
Resources (eg. Mining; Land Conservation);
Waste or Recycling;
Sustainable Agriculture;
Energy;
Tourism;
Marketing;
Sustainable Business.
Teachers are incorporating EFS in a variety of ways
such as individual units; whole courses (ranging from
Year 9 to Year 12, including NCEA); modules; option
bands; cross-curricular or thematic units
We have resources to support teaching and learning
in all these areas, and have helped teachers plan and
implement programmes, units or courses that map
desired EFS outcomes both for their students and the
environment.
Some of the desired learning outcomes are very
closely aligned with the new curriculum, and involve
aspects such as values exploration; decision making,
critical thinking, problem solving etc. all within an EFS
context.
We also work directly with Envirogroups, and with
community groups interacting with students.
SOME NEW RESOURCES
ƒ “Exploring our Built Environment” activity pack
available at www.ybe.org.nz (Aimed at year 7-8)
ƒ “Water for Life” poster from
www.morphological.co.nz
ƒ Stream study resources and ideas including NCEA
units, assessment tasks and year 9/10 units from
www.emap.rsnz.org
ƒ NCEA resource package from the Tongariro
National Trout Centre www.taupofortomorrow.co.nz