Homeschool Nations - New Zealand

Oct. 8, 2008

Homeschooling NZ - Help with MoE Exemptions and ERO Reviews

Posted in Help with MoE Exemptions and ERO Reviews

Homeschooling NZ - Help with MoE Exemptions and ERO Reviews

To email the person below please remove [at] and put in @ with no gaps. [at] has been used to avoid spam.

NATIONWIDE:

Craig and Barbara Smith, 06 357-4399, hedf@xtra.co.nz or barbara@hef.org.nz

SPECIAL NEEDS:

Jill Hanna, hanna [at] xtra.co.nz

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NEW ZEALAND AREAS:

AUCKLAND

Erena Fussell, erena [at] learnex.co.nz, Auckland (09) 269 3532

HUNTLEY (WAIKATO):

Mari Swindley, Phone (07) 828-9825, email mari.swindley [at] gmail.com

HAWKES BAY:

admin [at] twincityhomeeducators.com

Erena Fussell, erena [at] learnex.co.nz, Hawke’s Bay (06) 870 7275

MARTON:

Stephanie Shaw, surething [at] paradise.net.nz

PALMERSTON NORTH and NATIONWIDE:

Craig and Barbara Smith, 06 357-4399, hedf@xtra.co.nz or barbara@hef.org.nz

CHRISTCHURCH and SPECIAL NEEDS:

Jill Hanna, hanna [at] xtra.co.nz

CHRISTCHURCH:

Lennie Harrison jandl [at] e3.net.nz (for a donation)

TRADEME MESSAGE BOARD:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Post.aspx?id=29810245&topic=0&parent_topic=23

EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS:

Check the left hand side bar on http://www.hef.org.nz

or the right hand side bar of this link under "Sites to Visit" near the bottom of the page

If you are available to help others with their exemptions and ERO Reviews please email me barbara@hef.org.nz and I will add you to this list. Thanks

ï¿½ Comments (0) ï¿½ Post A Comment! ï¿½ Permanent Link

Aug. 20, 2008

Nationwide contact for home education enquiries

Posted in Help with MoE Exemptions and ERO Reviews

Nationwide contact for home education enquiries

Greetings all,

There have been a couple of requests lately for people willing to give exemption advice and encouragement.

Just a reminder that this is precisely what we at the Home Education Foundation are here for!

We help with preparing for exemptions and ERO reviews, how to understand and answer the exemption questions, we sit in on ERO Reviews with people, and I’ve even been a witness at a court case involving home educaiton and socialisation. We have tons of material on socialisation, research results in both academic and social areas, ideas on curriculum development and getting into university and links to other information that we send out for free. We have 22 years of experience in teaching our own 8 children aged 28 down to 3 (yes, we’re still at it) and running conferences and speaking in nearly every corner of the country. Barbara just talked a mum who was full of panic through her ERO review preparation, and the mum passed with flying colours! I just wrote a letter to the Hamilton office of the MoE about what I thought was unfair treatment in an exemption application…the mum emailed today to say the exemption just came through!

Being a charitable trust, we do not charge for anything we send out or for our advice, even though most phone calls last between a half hour to a full hour or more. We trust the Lord to move people to make donations as they see fit and to subscribe to Keystone http://hef.org.nz/category/keystone-magazine/ and TEACH Bulletin http://hef.org.nz/category/teach-bulletin/. Although we personally are committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Home Education Foundation is committed to rescuing ANY children out of state schooling institutions and to giving as much help and encouragement as we can to any and all parents and grandparents wanting to have a go at home education.

So don’t hesitate to get people to ring us or send an email. We don’t have an 0800 number but if people ring us on a landline, we can ring them back so we pay for the call since it costs us next to nothing. And we both just signed up with Skype:

craig.s.smith1

and

barbara.e.smith1

Regards,

Craig & Barbara Smith
National Directors
Home Education Foundation
PO Box 9064
Palmerston North 4441
New Zealand
Ph. +64 6 357-4399
Fax +64 6 357-4389
craig@hef.org.nz
http://www.hef.org.nz

Serving, promoting, defending and publishing for Christian and secular home educators in NZ and overseas since 1986.

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/NewZealand/
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/KiwiSmithFamily/
http://www.familyintegrity.org.nz
http://www.issacharian.com/
http://www.photoblog.com/charmagne
http://www.cbworldview.cesbooks.co.nz
Home Education Foundation products of Trademe:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=2366144
Smith personal trademe:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=232813

ï¿½ Comments (0) ï¿½ Post A Comment! ï¿½ Permanent Link

About Me

| Promote Your Page Too

Recent Posts

ï¿½ Homeschool 2nd Hand Fair! Wednesday 25th November 2009
ï¿½ A note from Johanna about Rainbow’s End: Monday, 23 November
ï¿½ Rainbow’s End Update
ï¿½ Rainbow’s End
ï¿½ Last Chance to register for homeschool camp!
ï¿½ Should politicians have to listen to you?
ï¿½ BOOSTING OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
ï¿½ Allforlife – Prolife training workshop: Saturday 28 November 2009
ï¿½ COMING EVENTS
ï¿½ Refresh Conference – Nelson – 31 October 2009

About this Blog

ï¿½ Home
ï¿½ View my profile
ï¿½ Archives
ï¿½ Email Me
ï¿½ My Blog's RSS

Important TOS Links

ï¿½ The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
ï¿½ Our State Page at TOS
ï¿½ HSB Front Porch
ï¿½ Home Where They Belong Blog
ï¿½ TOS Online Lab
ï¿½ HSB Literary Club
ï¿½ It's a Small World Blog
ï¿½ HomesteadBlogger

FREE e-News!

Our e-Newsletters give you wonderful, informative information about homeschooling, news bits, contests and PRIZES for homeschoolers, articles to encourage you, calls for writers, free unit studies and lesson plans, and just a lot of FUN. Bring the community to your inbox ï¿½ and no worries, we never sell, trade or give your email or any other information out to anyone. Come join the homeschool party! Subscribe to *FREE* newsletters offered by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.

TOS Store

To see a close-up
of the current cover,
click here.

Do you have the whole set of back issues from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine?

Click here to view all back issues and read the themes - you will want to collect the ones you've missed!!

At Bookstores NOW!!

eBooks to Help You!

Join Our
Affiliate Program!
Earn Money
Every Time

TOS Magazine is Sold in
Partnership with You.
more . . .

Sites to Visit-All are NZ Sites

HSN Roll Call

** denotes a state needing a Coordinator - all states are needing several contributors each!

ï¿½ HSN
ï¿½ Military Blog
ï¿½ Alabama
ï¿½ Alaska
ï¿½ Arizona
ï¿½ Arkansas
ï¿½ California
ï¿½ Colorado
ï¿½ Connecticut
ï¿½ Delaware
ï¿½ Florida
ï¿½ Georgia
ï¿½ Hawaii
ï¿½ Idaho
ï¿½ Illinois
ï¿½ Indiana
ï¿½ Iowa
ï¿½ Kansas
ï¿½ Kentucky
ï¿½ Louisiana
ï¿½ Maine
ï¿½ Maryland
ï¿½ Massachusetts
ï¿½ Michigan
ï¿½ Minnesota
ï¿½ Mississippi
ï¿½ Missouri
ï¿½ Montana
ï¿½ Nebraska
ï¿½ Nevada
ï¿½ New Hampshire
ï¿½ New Jersey
ï¿½ New Mexico
ï¿½ New York
ï¿½ North Carolina
ï¿½ North Dakota
ï¿½ Ohio
ï¿½ Oklahoma
ï¿½ Oregon
ï¿½ Pennsylvania
ï¿½ Rhode Island
ï¿½ South Carolina
ï¿½ South Dakota
ï¿½ Tennessee
ï¿½ Texas
ï¿½ Utah
ï¿½ Vermont
ï¿½ Virginia
ï¿½ Washington
ï¿½ West Virginia
ï¿½ Wisconsin
ï¿½ Wyoming
ï¿½ Washington DC
ï¿½ Guam
ï¿½ Puerto Rico

ï¿½ Alberta, Canada
ï¿½ British Columbia, Canada
ï¿½ Manitoba, Canada
ï¿½ New Brunswick, Canada
ï¿½ Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
ï¿½ NW Territories, Canada
ï¿½ Nova Scotia, Canada
ï¿½ Nunavut, Canada
ï¿½ Ontario, Canada
ï¿½ Prince Edward Island, Canada
ï¿½ Quebec, Canada
ï¿½ Saskatchewan, Canada
ï¿½ Yukon Territory, Canada

ï¿½ Australia
ï¿½ New Zealand
ï¿½ PuertoRico /a>
ï¿½ Spain
ï¿½ UK

Friends

ï¿½ TOSPUBLISHER
ï¿½ HSN
ï¿½ HSBCompanyBlog
ï¿½ kiwimumoffive
ï¿½ happyathome
ï¿½ homeschoolmama
ï¿½ mum2two
ï¿½ CynthiaH
ï¿½ AngtheFLYingKiwi
ï¿½ Sean
ï¿½ cameron
ï¿½ KiwiSmithFamily
ï¿½ OurSchoolingJourney
ï¿½ Sherena
ï¿½ rreitsma
ï¿½ Altariel
ï¿½ 07lavenderandroses
ï¿½ wildchild222
ï¿½ breitsma
ï¿½ Scaryman
ï¿½ fireflower
ï¿½
ï¿½ Paladin
ï¿½
ï¿½ Jed
ï¿½ joyfulmarmee28

Education and Training Blogs - BlogCatalog Blog Directory

Page 1 of 1
Last Page | Next Page