“The people who teach you the most are the children.” Heather Greenhill has enjoyed an incredible career in education spanning five decades and crossing three sectors: early learning, primary and secondary. Our conversation was recorded just a few days prior to her retirement at the end of 2020. Heather’s parents emigrated from England in … Continue reading Inside the Teacher’s Classroom – Episode 11
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Inside the Career – Episode Nine: Environmental Science and Water Quality Management (Jess Brooks)
“I feel like I make a positive difference. You know there might be a water quality issue there and myself and my team work to resolve that issue; so, we actually do impact everyone who uses the beach." Jess Brooks is a Healthy Water Specialist in the Storm Water Department at Auckland Council, working to … Continue reading Inside the Career – Episode Nine: Environmental Science and Water Quality Management (Jess Brooks)
Inside the Career – Episode Eight: Banking (Laura Davie)
I absolutely love the variety, that I can have random things thrown at me [on] any given day and I [can] change the course of what I’m doing depending on the priority. And I love being able to problem solve with other people. So, here’s an idea and [then] going to talk to different … Continue reading Inside the Career – Episode Eight: Banking (Laura Davie)
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Inside the Career – Episode Seven: Acting (Max Crean)
“I love being able to see words written on a piece of paper and being able to be like, cool, we need to make this alive, we need to bring flavour to this, we need to add action to it. And just the process of that, seconds before they are going to start filming it, … Continue reading Inside the Career – Episode Seven: Acting (Max Crean)
Inside the Career – Episode Six – Radio Broadcasting (Jayden King)
“It’s a good platform to talk about things like mental health and bullying and Te Reo Māori, which are things that I’m a strong advocate for. So, I’m glad that I’ve now got that platform where I can say bullying sucks, stop it, mental health is important, its real, don’t be afraid to talk about … Continue reading Inside the Career – Episode Six – Radio Broadcasting (Jayden King)
Inside the Career – Episode Five: Engineering – student perspective (Kyle Shears and Andrew Wickens)
“With mechanical engineering, everything is very practical. A lot of what you learn can be very easily applied. Often lecturers will come up with a somewhat abstract theoretical idea and then they will bring in [an example of] where you may use that in the real world, whether that’s airplane wings or how internal combustion … Continue reading Inside the Career – Episode Five: Engineering – student perspective (Kyle Shears and Andrew Wickens)
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Youth Peace Week 2020
Youth Peace Week was from August 3rd to 9th 2020. Milford School students created beautiful posters for Peace Week 2020 under the theme "Celebrating Diversity". A large number of our children took part in the competition, along with many other activities that were held throughout the week, to celebrate the diversity in our school. Celebrating … Continue reading Youth Peace Week 2020
Inside the Teacher’s Classroom – episode 10
“Even though we think that people understand when we are talking to them and that they are on the same page as we are, that is not necessarily so, and sometimes the stress of the situation can cause them to do all sorts of strange things, so perhaps we should make much more allowance, especially … Continue reading Inside the Teacher’s Classroom – episode 10
