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Pastoral Resources
This article contains advice and resources for parents and whānau.
Mental Wellbeing
- Health Promotion Agency to help New Zealanders recognise and understand depression and anxiety - click here
- CBHS Youth Work Team - click here
Cyber Safety - John PARSONS
As children move more online in the coming weeks it is important that parents and students have access to knowledge that helps them reduce risk when online. (attached pdf files below)
- Children & Online Games - A Nosey parent is a loving parent - click here
- Bedroom, Bathroom, pyjamas - click here
- How to deal with Anti Social Behaviour - click here
- Cybersecurity for Seniors - click here
LGBTC
- Skylight trust - Click here
- Rainbow Youth is a charitable organisation dedicated to helping young queer and gender diverse people
- OUTLineNZ offer a confidential, free, LGBTIQ+ affirming support line, face-to-face counselling and free resources
- InsideOUT works with youth, whānau, schools and communities to make Aotearoa a safer place for all young people of minority genders and sexualities to live and be in.
- Watch the video More Than Four , exploring the identities and experiences of and beyond 'LGBT' identities.
- Gender Minorities Aotearoa is an organisation that helps trans*, intersex and takatāpui people in having choices about their lives, their bodies and in getting the things they need.
- ITANZ (Intersex Awareness New Zealand) provide information, education and training for organisations and professionals who provide services to intersex people and their whānau.
- Intersex Youth Aotearoa is a platform aimed at providing information, connecting and supporting Intersex young people and their whānau.
Keeping busy resources
- BBC podcasts (free to download) - click here
- David Walliams - click here
- Amazon Audible books - click here
- New Zealand Geographic - click here
- Youtube learning - have partnered with Khan Academy and other learning creators to bring parents & families resources and activities to make the coming days as educational and fun as possible - click here
- Scratch - allows you to programme your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Click here
Kaitiaki resources
- Quiz of the day - click here
- Financial Literacy package: Module 1: Get started with your money plan - click here
Reading Resources
- TIME kids - Digital Library free for the rest of the school year click here
- Wheeler's Ebooks and audiobooks - click here
- EPIC database up-to-date, full text international and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, biographies, substantial reference works, images, e-books, multi-media resources, and much more. Contact Ms. Pearson by clicking here so she can provide you with login details.
- Audiobooks RNZ - Not for Children (Young Adult reading) - click here
Free Online Learning
- Learn Coach - a range of resources to support students with NCEA - click here
- Phet - Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and math, from University of Colorado Boulder - click here
- Khan Academy - a nonprofit resource with the mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere - click here
- Rosetta Stone - Language (free for 3 months) - click here
- TEDed - click here
- Coursera - click here
- EdX - click here
- Open Yale Courses - click here
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