WLA Noteworthy: No 3, 2019
What a great year for Literacy in the Waikato!
NZLA News
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Waikato
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Waikato
WLA Noteworthy: No 2, 2019
See what's been happening in the Waikato...
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Waikato
WLA Noteworthy: No 1, 2019
See how we've been promoting literacy in the Waikato
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Waikato
Power of the Book- A Rob Southam Event
A first person account from a student teacher who attended the Power of the Book event at Waikato University for Rob Southam
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Waikato
Young Authors and Illustrators Conference 2019
On Saturday 7th of September around 140 enthusiastic and aspiring young writers and illustrators, aged between 9 and 13, arrived at Berkley Intermediate, in Hamilton, to take advantage of the 2019 Young Authors Conference. This biennial event had a fabulous cast of 12 talented authors, illustrators (and entertainers) from near…
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Waikato
Books for Babes 2019
The Books for Babes initiative marks International Literacy Day, celebrated annually on 8 September. A day set by UNESCO to celebrate and highlight the importance of literacy. This year focused on ‘Literacy and Multilingualism’. However, Waikato Literacy Association mobilized a bilingual approach guided by the following whakataukī: He aha te…
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Waikato
President’s Report
The latest news from the WLA President...
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National
NZLA Annual Meeting Images 2019
The NZLA Annual Meeting brings all the Councils together to report back on progress in 2018. This meeting is made up of both reports and interactive sessions looking at bettering our practice.
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National
IT Coordinator’s Report 2018
Scotty Delemare presents his report to the NZLA Annual Meeting
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National
International Development in Oceania Committee Report
The Report to the Annual Meeting of IDOC 2018
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National
NZLA Presidents Report 2018-2019
Joy Hawke presents her NZLA Presidents Report at Annual Meeting.
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Manawatu
Palmy PNINS Team win Kids’ Lit Quiz NZ Title!!!!
We are thrilled to announce that one of our very own Palmerston North teams, have won the NZ Title at the National Kids' Lit Quiz Champs. They are now off to compete in the Worlds in Singapore next month.
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Tai Tokerau
TTLA Annual Seminar Day – Languages of Literacy
The Tai Tokerau Literacy Association held its 17th Annual Seminar Day on Saturday 18th May. The day was attended by 63 delegates from Ahipara to Papakura. The theme for this year was around the Languages of Literacy.
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Tai Tokerau
Donovan Bixley visits Tai Tokerau
Donovan Bixley is a picture book creator, who has worked on more than 90 books in a broad range of genres, from his best-selling preschool books The Wheels on the Bus (Hodder Moa, 2010) and Old MacDonald’s Farm (Hodder Moa, 2011) to his international illustrated biographies Faithfully Mozart (PQ Blackwell/Hodder,…
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Waikato
LIBRARIES ALIVE
FULL STEAM AHEAD! 2019 Another great WLA 'Libraries Alive' event hosted by Southwell School library.A number of our regions more 'far flung' schools joined us to learn more about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics)
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Manawatu
Why Join the Manawatu Literacy Association?
Why join MLA? Head to our 'Newsletters' section and read further to find out!
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Auckland
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Auckland
National Simultaneous Storytime
ALA presents Alpacas with Maracas (Available through Scholastic). Register at www.ala.org.au/nss
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National
Research Project – Exploring literacy: How six schools lifted achievement – Eliza de Waal and Jan Eyre
Given the importance of early success in reading and writing, the question of how schools can support children to make progress in these areas is of great interest. This project set out to explore this question by identifying schools that appear to be successful in achieving progress in literacy and…
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Waikato
Boy oh Boy
Dr Irwin challenged us to look at the way we engage with our boys and think about how our class environment and programmes could be adapted to be more ‘boy friendly.’ He acknowledged that some boys take up a large ‘space’ in the classroom with their noise, movement and energy.…
