at the Ministry of Education Offices

Level 3, Eden 5 Building, 12-18 Normanby Road, Mt Eden
To legally home educate in NZ, a parent/guardian must obtain a “Certificate of Exemption from Enrolment at a Registered School” for each child. This is not available or required before the child’s 6th birthday.
This Forum aims to clarify a process which can cause some anxious moments! Be guided through the application by the staff that deal with them so that you can write yours with confidence or help others to prepare theirs. Support groups may wish to consider sending a representative or two to be up-to-date with the current Ministry approach.
Obviously, staff will be unable to go through individual draft applications but it’s certainly an opportunity to ask questions.

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Bill teaches technology to home educated students. The classes are for students from age 10 up, and cover electronics, woodwork and metalwork, and can be done in conjunction with a TCS course for teens seeking NCEA credits in technology (since Bill is a registered teacher).

See his website for his prices . There are 4 students per class so they get plenty of 1:1 support. His workshop is in Papakura -not far from the motorway offramp.

I would just add that students work with power tools so need to be mature enough to focus and follow direction throughout a 2 hr class -10 is a minimum age.

Monday 27 July 2009

Come and support the hardworking entrants

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Snapshots – People and Places Throughout the Ages

Tuesday 22 September 2009
morning + lunch

Mt Albert War Memorial Hall, Mt Albert, Auckland

Participate! Be inspired! Show your support!

This is a great opportunity for our young people to plan, research, collate
and present a topic of their choosing. There’s always a warm and
appreciative buzz in the hall as they share their findings and passions.
And this year, prizes are up for grabs for stand-out displays.

The closing date is Friday 4 September. However, once the number of paid
entries is reached (limited by venue size), we will be unable to accommodate
you so … REGISTER NOW to secure your place!/s and avoid disappointment!

Full information and registration instructions are in the attachment linked below .

AHE Annual History Fair

They did so well, even appearing  on  TV1 Breakfast programme. They were wonderful ambassadors for home education. You can find many more news media links on their website.

Here is a letter from the captain

Thank you everyone, for your support of our team, Free Range Robotics, in our endeavours at the World Championships in Dallas. This competition had some huge excitement. A couple of highlights were our first two games; Each of these games is played by four teams: two blue teams versus two red teams. We are paired up randomly. In both of the first two games our partners were unable to play, so we played alone against two robots and we won both games. This immediately made our standing with everyone rocket up; it really showed the world what New Zealanders and homeschoolers are made of.

Of course our biggest achievement is the programming. We are the VEX World Champions in Programming. And the second trophy we brought home was the Robot Skills 3rd place. Both of these are achievements of the whole team; the programmers and drivers couldn’t have done it without a great team behind them.

At the competition they also announced the new VEX game. “Clean Sweep”. It looks to be a lot of fun with plenty of things to think about and design for. As well as a new game, we also have a new season of scrimmages being run in New Zealand. I still don’t know all the details but it is going to be good.

If anyone wants to start a robotics team I would be very happy to talk to you about setting up a team for competing in the 2009/2010 competition.

If you want to know more about Free Range Robotics or the competition, cruise over to our website which has lots pictures of the trip and the competition. www.robotics.org.nz Also there is a guest book for you to leave a comment.

To contact me you can email me at patrick at softpro.co.nz

Patrick Walmsley
Team Captain
Free Range Robotics
www.robotics.org.nz

We have made this term’s bulletin available to all (including non-members) this time only. Please take the opportunity to let others know and invite them to join AHE.

If you would like your local support details updated send me an email.