16 schools chosen for ‘Pioneer School’ programme

By grespa on July 16, 2014

(Last Updated On: July 16, 2014)

From 45 that applied, 16 schools have been chosen by N4l for the ‘Pioneer School’ programme.

They have been selected for their “diversity in roll size, age group, geographic location, socio-demographic and the variety of technologically confident staff they have on board”, according to the company. The schools are:

Upper Harbour Primary School
Elm Park School
St Paul’s College (Ponsonby)
Waitakere College
Kuranui College
Otaki College
Solway School
Tawa Intermediate
Marlborough Boys’ College
Governors Bay School
Burnside Primary School
Cheviot Area School
Papanui High School
Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Kura Kokiri
Waikite Valley School
St Mary’s Catholic School Rotorua

“These schools will work closely with N4L to provide a whole school perspective on how Pond can influence and affect planning, resourcing and teaching before we roll Pond out for general access later in the year,” said N4L’s Kris Ganly. “They will also work with N4L to develop and refine a PD programme which may be used later for the Pioneer Schools programme when it is rolled out to a general audience.

“Those schools who applied and missed out on the guided programme, have been offered the opportunity to access Pond as a whole school and run a professional development programme themselves with all of their staff should they choose to.”

Source: N4L Blog