Animal Care Education for School Teachers

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SPCA's Resources for Schools have been designed for primary and intermediate school teachers looking for innovative resources that provide real life, meaningful contexts for teaching and learning with the New Zealand Curriculum.

If you’d like to connect with like-minded kaiako and educators, get inspiration, gain support from others, and share what your tamariki have created and learnt, why not join our private Facebook group SPCA NZ Education Community.

What's New or Coming Soon!

Term Two Awareness Dates

This calendar highlights key animal welfare and environmental awareness dates across Term Two. Each date is supported with relevant SPCA teaching resources, making it easy to connect awareness days to classroom learning.

Use the links provided to explore lesson plans, unit plans, and kids’ portal resources that support age appropriate discussions, inquiry, and action around animal care, wellbeing, and our shared environment.

This calendar is updated each term to reflect new dates and resources.

Check it out below!!

Registrations Open Now!

Join Christy, one of our awesome educators, for SPCA’s Live Education Webinars - Term 2.

Intended for primary and intermediate students, the four, 30-minute Zoom webinars are an interactive and fun experience for young students to learn all about the role SPCA plays in their community, what animals need to be happy and healthy, and how they can help animals in need.

Each of the four webinars have two session times available, with a new topic each week.

Secure your spot for Term 2.

WEBINARS

Feature in an Education Gazette!

Have you used our Dog Safe, Happy Homes unit with your learners? Would you like to share your experience and be featured in an upcoming Education Gazette article about these new resources?

We’re looking for one or two teachers who are interested in sharing how they’ve used these resources with their ākonga. If you’ve enjoyed the unit and would like to help inspire other educators to teach dog safety and bite prevention, we’d love to hear from you!

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Dog Safe, Happy Homes