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Prestigious Awards

President - Kim Blackwood —

Study Awards

Year

Recipient

School

Study Topic

Scholarships

1997

Owen Arnst

Wakari

School wide self-esteem building.

1998

Dave McWhinnie

Anderson's Bay

Promoting Your School in a Positive Way.

2000

Nigel Wilson

Kaikorai

Integration of computer education through the curriculum.

2001

Sally Direen
Paddy Ford
Tony Hunter
Bruce Robertson

Balaclava
Halfway Bush
Wakari
Arthur Street

Homework centres and shadowing as a professional development technique.

2002

Patsy Inder

Noel Matthews

Caversham

Calton Hill

Welfare and learning programmes which promote high
achievement for Maori and boys.
Homework Centres.

2003

Steve Brown
Danny Knudson

Brockville
George Street Normal

Achievement of Boys.
Gifted Children.

2004

No Award.

Prestigious Awards

2005

Paddy Ford

Halfway Bush

Self-management and autonomy in schools.

2006

Bruce Roberston

Arthur Street

I.C.T. application and use in schools in New Zealand and beyond.

2007

Garry Anderson

The Terrace

Physical Education.

2008

Whetu Cormick

Macandrew Intermediate

The Arts.

2009

Gary Tenbeth

College Street

To explore the concept of “thinking” and to make a linkage to our curriculum’s key competencies.

2010

Wendy Brookes

Cromwell

Restorative Justice.

2011

Tony Hunter

Tahuna Normal Intermediate

Behaviour Modification.

2012

Chris Smith

Millers Flat

Studying the Scottish Ministry of Education's Glow Programme.

2013

Richard Newton

St Clair School

Investigate the impact of flexible teacher student staffing models.

2014

Jenny Clark

Opoho School

Jenny will be attending the ICP in Finland and visiting schools to further understand equitable education systems.  A particular focus will be on strategies implemented in schools to establish equitable learning opportunities and the processes for facilitating collaboration between teachers, school leaders and schools

2015

Brent Caldwell

Mornington School

Brent will examine current best practices used to support the learningof priority learners (dyslexic children) within the modern learning context at Fairly House School in London, an independent day school for hcildren with Special Learning Disabilities.  Fairly House School doubles as a research centre to advance teaching and learning programmes for dyslexic children.

2016

Tania McNamara

Milton School

Tania will address the lack of oral language skills in chidlren starting school, reflecting on current practices and inquiring into research surrounding new and innovative ways to enable our children to be come successful learners of literacy, by developing oral language skill sin the first three years of school.  Her research will include vsiting prominent London schools working with Talk4Writing and attendance at the Talk4Writing conference in London.

2017

Heidi Hayward

Dunedin North Intermediate School

Alternative Education for Troubled and Traumatised Children

2018

Stephanie Madden

Abbotsford School

Stephanie is investigating how schools can support students to develop resilience, independence, persistence and intellectual risk taking through applying the 'Challenging Learning' philosophy.

2019

Gareth Swete

Sawyers Bay School

Student Wellbeing in a future focused Education system and finding out what the Singaporean Education system can teach us.

2020

Jen Rodgers

St Clair School

To understand how to enable more play in a Y5-6 child's day while ensuring they have a rich curriculum to prepare for future learning. Also enabling learners to be fully agentic in their learning through play. Developing children's metacognitive understanding of their play would
be an outcome of my research.

2021

No Scholarships awarded due to COVID

2022

Greg Hurley

Silverstream School

How the new Irish Wellbeing Curriculum aims to enhance the physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing of students.

2023

Matt Tofia

Sara Cohen

How provisions for specialist education programmes in North America could support the best outcomes for ākonga here in New Zealand.

2024

Chris McKinlay

Elmgrove School

How educational leadership impacts and influences consistency in mathematics education across the school.

2025