School Partnerships Case Studies

1 Dec 2004 – “Why are they teaching me this?” more »

1 Dec 2004 – The Fonterra Stirling site has established a partnership with their local primary school, which covers the junior school, the middle school and the senior school. The partnership is designed to provide the students with the opportunity to learn about environmental issues in the context of industry and further strengthen the relationship between the site and the local community. more »

1 Dec 2004 – The activity brief was to design and carry out a survey of the Stirling cheese factory site neighbours, which assesses the effects of ‘factory air emissions’ on the surrounding area, and to present the information gathered to Fonterra Stirling management in a format which allows them to use the information as part of their resource consent, to local district council. more »

1 Dec 2003 – About 600 Wellington children are benefiting from the acclaimed self-esteem programme, Kiwi Can, because of significant funding from state-owned power generator and retailer Meridian Energy. more »

1 Dec 2001 – Using money previously budgeted for donations and/or sponsorship, Palliser Estate Wines are encouraging the development of IT and computer skills within Martinborough schools (primary and intermediate). more »

1 Dec 2001 – The Auckland University of Technology has established a Community and Business Partnerships programme which involves a four-pronged approach. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Introducing the Young Enterprise Scheme into van Asch Deaf Education Centre was seen as a way for students to develop their enterprising skills. The teams developed an idea (sign language stickers) and worked to produce and market the final product. A mentor for each of the students ensured they could compete with mainstream hearing students throughout New Zealand. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Making massive Easter eggs to hang up in the local The Warehouse was the task assigned to children at Marfell Community School in New Plymouth, facilitated by Partners New Zealand Trust. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Sulieti Tava, a first-year engineering student at the University of Auckland, is the eldest in a family of five sisters from Otahuhu. She takes her responsibility as the eldest seriously. “It is important that I pave the way for the rest of my siblings”. more »

1 Dec 2000 – When Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS) was co-hosting a major health and safety expo in New Plymouth, they called on their vocational partner St John Bosco Primary School to help out. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Timothy Wayper was in seventh form at Glenfield College in 1994 when he was given the opportunity of participating in a pilot work experience programme at 3M New Zealand. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Banking, performing arts, horticulture, publishing and broadcasting are just some of the student run-ventures at schools throughout New Zealand. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Sanford is forming an education enhancement partnership with Kaeo Primary School based on the Kiwi Can programme. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Fifty families in New Zealand have been given a recycled computer, internet access, training and technician support through a scheme supported by the 2020 Communications Trust. more »

1 Dec 2000 – Watercare, Auckland’s bulk provider of water and wastewater services, has developed the Adopt a Stream program.
This educational resource kit provides students in years five to eight with a practical insight into the fundamental relationship between water and all living things, and creates an interest in science as a subject. Adopt a Stream is also designed to fit into and enhance the current science curriculum at levels three and four. more »

1 Dec 2000 – URS New Zealand is an engineering and environmental consultancy that is committed to the adoption of sustainable business practices in New Zealand. One of the Company’s specific objectives is to use its own scientific and engineering staff to actively promote environmental awareness in the community. more »

1 Dec 2000 – This was not a question which occurred to the two executives who saw the TV programme on the plight of South Auckland schools back in 1995. They simply thought: “We should be able to do something to help them!” more »

1 Dec 2000 – Following a 1995 TV Programme about the plight of some South Auckland schools under Tomorrow’s Schools, Fletcher Building approached Tangaroa College to see what they could do. A partnership was then developed which has expanded greatly while remaining true to its founding principles. more »

1 Dec 2000 – NetDay, a grass-roots volunteer effort to network schools’ computers, is organised by the 2020 trust and sponsored by Telecom each year. more »

1 Dec 2000 – It’s 2001 and the new millennium. A group of school students at a popular Wellington school head through the school gate armed with laptops, computers and handheld learning devices. They sit down at school, hook up to the Internet, and digital images stream across their screens, they link up with other schools half a world away for video conferences. Online learning is bringing traditional school subjects alive to these young people, opening gateways to new information, and new ways of learning, understanding and presenting information. It’s not hard to imagine – for these students it’s happening today. more »

1 Dec 2000 – The BP Community Enterprise Project is the culmination of a year’s work in the Enterprise Studies Programme. more »