Tinline Trail: DOC Conservation Week Event
Our education team spent a day in the Park alongside DOC and other local organisations involved in conservation work: Waimaori, The Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust, iwi - and us, of course! The aim was to get families out into our national park for a day of hands-on fun in nature. Brooke...
Read the full postApplications for the 2017 Student Advisory Board NOW OPEN!
If you're a student (or know someone who is) at one of our 'Adopt a Section' partner schools, applications are now open for our 2017 Board. What qualities should Student Advisory Board members have? Student Board members should be: Enthusiastic ambassadors for the Adopt a Section programme – at school and in...
Read the full postMonitoring Fresh Water Fish @ Anchorage
Brooke and Wendy getting ready to head out from the wardens hut Brooke and Wendy were out at Anchorage this afternoon putting gee minnow traps in for a group of Year 10 Science X students from Motueka High School. The students are going to record what they find in the...
Read the full post34 South Island Robin Moved to Mainland
For the first time in perhaps 30+ years, there are South Island robin on the mainland in the Abel Tasman National Park. You can learn more by watching the video[/janszoon-education/videos/], produced for the Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust, on our YouTube channel.
Read the full postScoping for YELF
Today we went out to Anchorage to prepare for the visitors who will be coming from all around New Zealand. Sir Peter Blake's Youth Environmental Leadership Forum (YELF) is coming to Nelson this year, and they want to spend a day at Motueka High's adopted site, Anchorage, with a side...
Read the full post2016 Student Advisory Board Retreat
It's finally here: The 2016 Student Advisory Board Retreat! Once again, we will be taking the student leadership team from our 'Adopt a Section' schools into the Abel Tasman National Park for a team building, leadership training, mega fun, knowledge gaining retreat! The education team from Project Janszoon and DOC will be...
Read the full postSchool Partners Join the Celebration
Our 'Adopt a Section' school partners, along with representatives from our 2015 Student Advisory Board, joined the holiday celebration with the entire Project Janszoon team. Guests enjoyed music performed by Max from Motueka High School, listened to several short presentations, and watched the premiere of the new video about the...
Read the full postWelcome, Ladies!
Today we welcomed 4 female kaka to the aviary at the Abel Tasman National Park. These new girls came to us from an aviary in Te Anau, near Fjiordlands National Park. To make a trip like that the birds travel in individual, wooden boxes. It probably won't surprise you to hear...
Read the full postWOOT! 2016 Application for Student Leaders NOW AVAILABLE
Application documents and information for students interested in joining our fabulous leadership team just went LIVE! Find them under 'APPLICATION 2016 STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD' in the menu... you know... click on the 3 bars in the top left-hand corner, and out pops the menu. WOOT! WOOT! Yes, we're just a little...
Read the full postCongratulations to our Motueka High Student Leaders!
We were so excited to learn that our Student Advisory Board members from Motueka High School were named "Students of the Week" for the 'Partners for the Park' community event that they ran at Anchorage on the 1st of August. They are even featured on their school's home page[http://www.motuekahigh.school.nz/]. Well...
Read the full postStudent Leader Wins Regional Award
Congratulations to our very own Nari Casley, one of the Student Advisory Board members from Motueka High School, for winning the Nelson Tasman Youth Community Spirit Award. Well done!!! Screen Shot 2015 07 03 at 2.18.02 PM
Read the full post2015 Moturoa Mission
The NCC/TDC Enviroschools teams pulled off another great event this year on Rabbit Island. Teams of students from enviroschools across Nelson and Tasman were invited to compete in a fun, enviroment-themed day of challenges. Local organisations were invited to run activity stations. Project Janszoon Education introduced our new game Guess Which...
Read the full postGetting Ready for 2015!
Yes, we've been steadily working behind the scenes this summer getting ready for an exciting new year of collaboration with our school partners and rolling out some new programmes, too. Keep checking back on this web site for more details as they are announced. One thing we're really looking forward to in...
Read the full postScoping Visit for Senior Biology
We just returned from a day out near Anchorage with senior biology teachers, Mrs Garmey and Mrs Paxton, from Motueka High School. Motueka High is one of our "Adopt a Section" partner schools, and we're quite excited to see them extend the field work at their site to one of the...
Read the full postBattle for the Birds! in Golden Bay
Yesterday we were in Golden Bay for their Conservation Week Round Robin event for schools at Payne’s Ford with members of the DOC and TDC teams. Presenters offered sessions simultaneously to different schools. There was a session on the problem with rats, forest ecology, how to catch pests, suitability of habitats...
Read the full post“Take Your Kids Tramping” for Conservation Week
This Sunday we were at Harwood’s Hole to lead a group of around 30 people, including young children, on a tramp into this majestic area of the Abel Tasman National Park. The weather was perfect (if a bit too sunny), and everyone was full of energy and positivity. Even the...
Read the full postScience is Definitely Worth Celebrating!
The Project Janszoon and DOC education teams were invited to lead an activity at the Cawthron’s “Celebrate Science” events held at Parklands School in Motueka on Tuesday, and at Victory School in Nelson yesterday. We had so much fun working with over 200 budding biologists over the course of 2 days....
Read the full postWhat a Weekend!
We just came back from our first-ever professional development retreat held at the Ngarata Homestead at Totaranui for teachers from our “Adopt a Section” pilot programme schools. This was a great opportunity to begin to build community between the DOC, Project Janszoon and school teams. Teachers also had the chance to...
Read the full postMoturoa Mission 2014
Project Janszoon Education was invited to present an activity as part of the Moturoa Mission, a new event for local Enviroschools sponsored by the Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council. Apparently, the Moturoa Mission was inspired by an annual Enviroschools event held in Auckland, and what a fun day it...
Read the full post"Adopt a Section" Programme Launch Powhiri
Yesterday was a very exciting day for Project Janszoon Education! We launched our new pilot programme "Adopt a Section" with a powhiri at the Te Awhina marae in Motueka. While there has been a lot happening in the background at our partner schools with teachers and principals, this was the first...
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