Grant enables enriched learning

Grant enables enriched learning

A $15,000 MTLT grant provided seven curriculum extension enrichment and development programmes for Year 9 and 10 Wairarapa students in 2017. The funding enabled the curriculum extension programme to be provided collectively to talented students from across a range of...
Students stand taller after Ngāti Kahungunu exhibition

Students stand taller after Ngāti Kahungunu exhibition

A $10,000 MTLT grant funded a programme for more than 2,500 Wairarapa students at the Aratoi exhibition ‘Te Marae o Rongotaketake: Redressing our Kahungunu History’.  Museum Educator, Diana Cruse, explains how the students connected with the history of...
Developing maths teachers

Developing maths teachers

MTLT-funded collaborative initiatives in the early childhood, primary, intermediate and tertiary sectors provide professional development for teachers.  In 2014, Lead Maths Teachers from Masterton Primary and intermediate schools upskilled in extension activities and...
Environmental education

Environmental education

A number of MTLT grants have supported environmental education programmes for early childhood and school groups at Pukaha Mount Bruce. School groups regularly visit the National Wildlife Centre to get up close and personal with some of New Zealand’s most endangered...
Wairarapa College Auditorium

Wairarapa College Auditorium

Opened in 2010, the hall and performing arts centre at Wairarapa College received two MTLT special grants totalling $80,000.  Able to seat up to 1,200 people the centre includes a new sound system and lighting, an orchestra pit, a large backstage area and air...