The executive committee 2009-2010 consists of:
Penny Bilton (co-ordinator)
Maddy Maxwell (minutes secretary)
Maddy Maxwell is currently home educating their 6 year old son and their elder girls have been out in the workforce, or at college, since 2005. She tends to a fairly eclectic/unschooling sort of education with occasional forays into interesting curriculum.
She has always placed importance on local networks, home school newsletters and organising events for the children. Field trips have also been an important part of their lives.
She lives in Oamaru with husband Brent and three of their four children.
Dawn Jones (membership secretary)
Michelle Campbell (treasurer)
Marjon Greenwood
Marjon Greenwood lives in Central Hawke’s Bay with her husband Aidan, and has two children (aged 9 and 11) who pursue an interest-led education. “I strongly support the objectives of NCHENZ: to provide unity, strength and a voice for home educators. To be a home educating family can be a vulnerable position at times, and it is important that we help and support each other in providing the best education we can for our children.”
Tarnya Burge
Tarnya Burge is a homeschool mother of eight (16 years to 2 year). She takes a self-teaching approach in her home education. “I’m committed to seeing home education as a viable option for more people. While it might be ideal to have one parent wholly committed to home education it is possible to make it work in other circumstances. Home Education can be the best education available to your child even without a full-time available parent.” Tarnya was widowed in July 2010 and continues to home educate some of her children while working part-time in her home business. She has recently started a website for single parents home educating .
Stacey Wilson
Stacey has three children aged 1, 3 and 6 years old. She appreciates that home educating allows her to be present during all of the kids’ milestones, both major and minor, and would love more people to be aware of home education as one of the many schooling options available in New Zealand. At present she is exploring different learning approaches to see what is a good fit for her family. So far that seems to be a broadly Classical approach, with generous doses of free time for natural learning and just generally being kids. Stacey, her husband Mark, and their children live in Dunedin.
Marianne Wilson ( advisor)
Graham Clark (auditor)
