2024 has brought about change in staffing with at least half the team being new to BLENNZ. During term 2, we hosted the Low Vision Workshop for Educators. This year… Read more
Events
Tech Curriculum days in Christchurch
CVRC are delighted to have started curriculum days again at our centre. Last term we started by inviting a group of ākonga between the ages of 10 – 12 years… Read more
W.H.A.I.O.R.A class Focus on Ability Film Festival 2024 finalist!
Tena koutou katoa, We are W.H.A.I.O.R.A, one of the senior classes at Homai Campus School. We have been working hard on creating a short film to enter into the Focus… Read more
Curriculum Day – Sporting fun
On 13th June, we held an Expanded Core Curriculum Day at the Edgar Centre with a focus on adapted sports. Ākonga from BLENNZ Invercargill joined us for this fun day…. Read more
Victoria University School of Music therapists present a Music Therapy session to our BLENNZ learners
For the past two years BLENNZ Wellington has invited first-year music therapy students from Victoria University School of Music to our VRC to present a Music Therapy session to a… Read more
Wharenui Harikoa at the Waikato Museum
BLENNZ Hamilton had the privilege of taking a group of ākonga and whānau to explore the Wharenui Harikoa at the Waikato Museum. It was very exciting having Lissy and Rudi,… Read more
Training the Teachers
We held an In-Service Day for interested staff on 28th February 2024. Topics covered: BLENNZ services Strategies for working with students Local orthoptist speaking on eye conditions Use of low… Read more
Palmerston North VRC Little Dots whānau group
The focus of the Little Dots group is to provide a place where our ākonga and their whānau can come together to connect with each other and to participate in… Read more
Low Vision Professional Development workshops
During the month of March we held two Low Vision Professional Development workshops. One in Tauranga and one in Rotorua. Following on from the years of ‘distance learning’ for the… Read more
Visit by Japanese Professors, lecturers in deaf blind education
The Auckland North Team were privileged have a visit from Professors Shinichi Okazawa and Hiryuki Sugai from Japan. Both professors have done extensive research in deafblind education and shared their… Read more
