Schools who are new to the VLN Primary can now have their membership fee waived when they enrol in a 5 week taster class. Jump right in and try it out!

Parents in one VLN Primary school were skeptical that Kapa haka taught online would be any good, but these same parents gave their tamariki a standing ovation for their performance at end of year assembly! Read about the benefits of Kapa haka from our awesome kaiako Koka Jules.

We LOVE that through our schools sharing their expertise, we are now able to offer New Zealand Sign Language classes online. Thanks to Jo at Waitoriki School our children will have this opportunity to learn NZSL!

Connect with learners in the Pacific to learn te reo Māori Kuki Airani (Cook Islands Māori)

Join our free* Korean online classes supported by the Korean Education Centre (KEC). Find out how your students can participate & take advantage of this offer.

How does Mrs Gren work? What makes a cats and dogs so different? Why can some birds not fly?

Why is a diamond so strong and clear while lead is so brittle and dark?

We offer classes that extend learners in Maths, Life Skills, Web Design and Visual Art. We welcome your ideas for other programmes we can run.

Could you be a logo designer? A successful logo designer needs to be able to see further than what ‘looks pretty’. They explore how to give meaning to logo designs so they project what a company is about to their potential customers.

Risk versus Reward!

We offer the following language and culture classes, aligned to NZC: Afrikaans, French, German, and Spanish.

Whether you want your learners to get a taste for Asian Culture, or want your whole class or year group to study for the year, we offer a range of online Asian language classes to suit their needs.

Having been asked often, “How do you establish and maintain your global connections?” Geoff Wood details the nuts, bolts and issues relating to this.

Learning online with the VLN Primary is a partnership with participating schools; between school principals, classroom teachers, online teachers, school learning support people and whānau. We all have a part to play to ensure our learners are well supported. Here’s our top ten tips for supporting our learners:

New to us or just looking for a refresher? Here you will find all the essential information you need about how we work.

This year some of our eTeachers have been using Google Classrooms to share activities and resources with students and as a tool to collate and evaluate student work. eTeacher, Sofie Jacobs, shares her experiences so far.