Regional and Area Groups listed here
National Wide Special Interest Groups
Home Education Foundation – Craig and Barbara Smith’s Christian based home schooling charitable trust. Their email loop: HefNet New Zealand
NZHomeEducators NZ Home Educators – discussion, questions, support
NZUnschoolers
Radical Unschoolers Aotearoa
Home Educators Non-Christian
CMandFriends-ANZ
Christian Home EDucation NETwork for New Zealanders
Classical Christian Home Education Network of New Zealand
Diana Waring History Alive discussion group
New Zealand Homeschooling Christian Textbooks
Taught of the Lord (NZ) – Christian Unschooling
NZ Home Ed Cambridge for NZ Home Educators currently using or planning to teach through the Cambridge Examinations (CIE).
Sale and swap:
- Harvest-Curric-Swap-NZ – swap-group for sale of second hand curriculum materials
- HE Trading Post – Sale and swap of second hand goods for NZ homeschooling families
- Harvest a bit on the side – NZ families cottage businesses
Students:
Internet groups for homeschooled Kiwi kids
Weka for kids 8-13 yrs
Mayhem for teens 13-19 yrs
These groups exist so homeschooled kids can contact each other. They are similar to Facebook except with better privacy and security. The groups cannot be accessed by non-members, who have to apply to join.
Weka also has book and movie reviews, recommended sites, tons of educational resources, blogs, jokes and trivia.
Mayhem has music, book and movie reviews and a wide range of discussion topics including health and lifestyle advice.
The moderator is Marianne Wilson.
To join, first join www.groupbox.com then type Weka or Mayhem into the search box. You will see an apply to join link.
