Tu Meke Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Rawhitiroa!!!!

The last graduation for 2010 was held at the beautiful kura of Te Rawhitiroa.  14 families graduated  - 7 in Term 3 and 7 in Term 4, however the group graduation was held 18 November 2010.  Kaiako Jodi Walker went out of her way to provide beautiful graduation kai and all participants could not speak highly enough of her.  Thank you Jodi.  Thank you for the energy and mana you bring to our programme within your school.  We hope to be running another course in 2011, all pending funding and budget allocations.

Thank you also to the families involved who welcomed me into their kura and into their lives.  I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and coming into some of your whare's to connect your internet.  I appreciate the fact that you saw this programme as an opportunity to help your tamariki and I'm sure the benefits will be obvious in times to come.

Graduates of CiH Term 3 & 4

Totara Grove School graduate 8 more families 12/11/2010

Totara Grove School have been fortunate enough to train a little more than their allocation due to another school pulling out.  This worked out just fine for Totara Grove as they always have a waiting list of parents.  Trainer Ngaire Olley commented at Friday's graduation that she's only ever done one panui to families and that was promoting the very first class in 2009.  Word of mouth about the programme and benefits for tamariki has got out and parents without PC's in their homes are clambering to be involved.  I believe this school and it's families has reaped great benefits from our programme.  They are so easy to deal with, believe wholeheartedly in the programme and are a perfect example of a school who believe in moving their families forward with ICT.

A sunny day for full assembly

Graduates with Ngaire Olley & Sue Kini

A wonderful haka after waiata

The Kings of Haka!

11 families upskilled at Motatau!

The beautiful rural setting of Motatau played host to a graduation at the Motatau School on 24 September 2010.  11 families attended training during Term 3 and trainer Cilla Brown had tremendous fun teaching her students.  She commented that the families were buzzing whenever they left a lesson and everyone always wanted to stay longer!  This is awesome as it shows not only Cilla's training style was excellent, but the format of the programme works well for adult learners.  Having no "pass/fail" puts participants at ease to learn in their own time and enjoy their new found skills without stressing about exams at the end.  Well done Motatau.  Co-ordinating the programme for your school was a pleasure and the graduation a wonderful experience.  Thank you for your support of our programme and I'll keep you in the loop for any future learning prospects :)

Te Kura Reo Rua o Motatau

The beautiful graduation kai

Sue Kini left, Cilla Brown right

One of the participating Mums and her tamariki

Whau Valley School graduates 12 families

Whau Valley School are singing the praises of the Computers in Homes programme.  They graduated 12 families at the end of Term 3 with a full school assembly.  In Term 4 I received an email from the trainer informing me that the programme is having the desired effect.  Participating parents are coming into the school asking teachers for more homework for their kids so they can use the computer to look things up.  This is exactly what our programme is trying to achieve - connection between school, pupils, parents and the internet!  Well done to the trainer/technician Mel Millar, the feedback on your training style was outstanding, and we hope to continue another class in Term 1 of 2011.

7 of 12 graduates with trainer Mel Millar

Unfortunately not all graduates could make it to graduation, but the ones who did enjoyed it immensely.