School team on big screen - East and Bays Courier

In an article for Fairfax Media's East and Bays Courier, Rose Cawley talks about Tamaki Primary School and the Manaiakalani Film Festival. To read the full article click here or click the image below.

To see videos from the 2014 Manaiakalani Film Festival, click here.

Digital leaps forward for decile one school - Stuff.co.nz

Tamaki College has been written about in an article for Stuff.co.nz by Rose Cawley. The article looks at the progress being made in raising student achievement, and talks about initiatives that are helping to boost outcomes, including Manaiakalani. 

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Manaiakalani mentioned on WhaleOil.co.nz

As part of an opinion piece about school decile ratings, Pete from the WhaleOil blog mentions Manaiakalani, praising the use of digital teaching to empower our learners. He also talks about how impressed he was by the Manaiakalani Film Festival, which was held last week.

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To see all the videos from the Manaiakalani Film Festival click here.

Nathaniel helps raise half a million dollars for NZ Kids

For the second year in a row one of our own Manaiakalani kids has been mixing with some big names in New Zealand to raise money for kids who need a hand up to acquire technology. Tamaki college student Nathaniel Tuia does a stellar job of presenting this funny and engaging film that played at The Warehouse Supplier Awards dinner 2013.The charity recipient was Variety’s Laptops for Learning programme. The film tells us why it’s essential to get technology into the hands of poorer kiwi kids and inspires the audience to give generously.

Link to original article.

Here's the video:

Engagement in Deep Learning

The Manaiakalani Cluster has been part of the Learning and Change networks for the last 18 months ands has hosted a large number of principals and teachers from around the country as they come to learn from our journey.

This week one of these principals published a report which included her reflections on our approach to meeting the learning needs of our young people.

Jenny Jackson is the principal of St Joseph's school in Oamaru.

Telecom's ongoing support

The recent announcement by Telecom that they are continuing the support of the Manaiakalani programme was welcomed by the twelve Manaiakalani schools and their whanau.

The Telecom Foundation announced today significant additional funding to support the rollout of the Manaiakalani digital learning approach to more low income communities.
Today’s announcement confirms an additional $1.2 million contribution over two years to the Manaiakalani Education Trust, to support pilot digital learning programmes in several new school clusters across New Zealand.
The Telecom Foundation is approaching its third year of partnership with the Trust, with an original investment of $1 million over four years. The new funding will more than double this investment to $2.2 million.

A friendship with Spark

The Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers (2014) are pleased to partner with the Telecom Foundation for the launch of their new name, Spark.

You will enjoy hearing about our journey in this engaging short video.