Another page added to the Resources Pages
Darnia and Shannon from the unschoolers yahoo group provided these great blogsites.
Thank you!
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From the Blogsphere
July 18, 2009
Welcome to the new website
July 16, 2009
Welcome to our new Wordpress website. It is still a work in progress.
Our old blog is here
In future we will keep you up to date here.
New Addition to After Home Education
July 13, 2009
Jeffrey writes “My mother, Cally, asked me to write an article about the new beginning I have made this year, in order to show to worried parents that an unschooled child, with no qualifications to speak of, can in every way equal one who has attended school for thirteen years.”
You can read the rest of the article linked on our After Homeschool page.
This article first appeared in the THEN newsletter. Thank you to THEN and Jeffrey for their permission to publish it.
Duffy Entrepreneurs Club allows students to learn from experts in industries such as finance, legal, accounting, IT and education. This is open at no charge to home educators. NCHENZ is coordinating the registration. Contact tarnya to register. There is no charge and you do not need to be a member of NCHENZ.
Science Website by a NZ home educator
June 10, 2009
Nathalie Thomas, a home educating mum in Katikati (Bay of Plenty), with a science and teaching degree has set up a website specifically aimed at home educators in New Zealand to provide information on science. She offers science courses and educational science hire kits. Please have a look at her website
Website address: http://www.science-for-home-educators.co.nz
A website about science courses and educational science kits to hire, specifically for home educators in New Zealand!
We have added the website to our resources pages
THEN (Hamilton) has a new website
June 10, 2009
The Home Educators Network Incorporated ( Hamilton) has a new email address and website. I have updated the link see www.nchenz.org.nz/resources_and_links/organizations/regional_networking_groups.htm
Their email address: thenmail@gmail.com
and the new website: www.thehomeeducatorsnetwork.org.nz
Do have a read, it is a great site. Well done to all those who worked on it!
The Home Educators Network Incorporated has a new email address and website from the one shown on your website. It would be appreciated if you could amend your website accordingly.
email address: thenmail@gmail.com
website: www.thehomeeducatorsnetwork.org.nz
Homeschooling Statistics and Status of Visitors
April 19, 2009
Added a link to the MoE’s Home Education Statistics to our MoE page and also a page with information about the status visitors to New Zealand ; whether they would need to apply for an exemption or not.
Homeschool Robotics competition winners will head to US
March 29, 2009
On Saturday 21 March the home school robotics team, ‘Free Range Robotics’, competed in the New Zealand National Championships of the “Vex Robotics 2009 Competition” against high school teams from various parts of New Zealand.
The competition brief was to design and build a robot to play a game called Elevation, in which the robot collects three-inch cubes and puts them into a variety of ‘goals’. The game is one of strategy as well as designing, driving, building and programming skills.
Free Range Robotics came up from behind to come joint FIRST with Avondale College!!!
Well done !
National has dropped proposed changes to DPB work rules
March 29, 2009
KP alerted NCHENZ that the National Government has cancelled changes to the work rules for the Domestic Purposes Benefit.
from the Herald linked above
“The Government’s plan to tighten the rules around the domestic purposes benefit has been put on hold because of the recession. Under a policy announced in August, women on the DPB would have to work or train for 15 hours a week after their youngest child turned 6 or risk losing the benefit.
The Government made no move after the election to introduce it and yesterday Social Development Minister Paula Bennett confirmed it was on the backburner because people were being made redundant and jobs were in short supply.”
WINZ has changed their website and I can no longer can find the page that explains the exemption for home educating parents on the DPB from work requirements. Can someone help me with this?
