This year, our Residential ākonga have engaged in Box Fit sessions facilitated by local trainers Lesley and Willie Maipi from Ponoboxfit. Willie, a health coach in the community, and Lesley… Read more
Participating and contributing
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
Immersion course for ākonga (ORS VO VH) in Years 4 – 6
This Immersion course was for ākonga (ORS VO VH) in Years 4 – 6. They headed off-campus for a bush adventure with Harry from Barefooted NZ. Ākonga learned about NZ… Read more
Akonga explore their understanding of their visual impairment
Recently four ākonga and their RTV’s met at the Tauranga VRC to explore their understanding of their visual impairments. They watched a video about the parts of the eye and… Read more
Full Inclusion in School Athletics Day
Laura was able to participate fully and be included in all the activities on the whole school athletics day. In order to achieve this her RTV initiated a strengthening and… Read more
Hamilton VRC – Blind Sport equipment kits
Many of our ākonga have been enjoying the new sports kits set up by Blind Sport. Their teachers are able to borrow these kits to use with their whole class,… Read more
Covid lockdown at Auckland South
2021 was a dynamic year, starting with three weeks of lockdown in term 1. Then Auckland went into a second lockdown in the middle of August, totaling 20 weeks of… Read more
Learning sessions for ākonga
In Term Two we were excited to offer Pārekareka Rāpare (formerly Fun Friday) again. We had a theme of ‘rolling’. The session includes physical indoor and outdoor activities, assembling and cutting of sushi, social skills… Read more
Ākonga developing swim safety and confidence skills
This year the BLENNZ Tūranganui a Kiwa/Gisborne and Napier teams collaborated with our Blind Low Vision NZ colleague, Erin Leonard to organise a very successful Curriculum Day at the Wairoa Community Centre Pool which focused on our ākonga developing Swim Safety and confidence skills. Five AUSTSwim instructors (two provisional) led by Denice Gasson were in the… Read more
BLENNZ Christchurch ākonga learn to play the ukulele and marimba
This year a third music class was started, catering to ORS Vision Only students. The main drive behind this group was to learn the marimba and ukulele repertoire so to… Read more
