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!

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New Maths Task Cards

Explore our new Maths Task Cards, designed to engage students with real-life animal guardianship contexts while strengthening key maths skills. Aligned by curriculum phase and year level, each set includes 20 task cards: 10 blue cards for Number and Algebra, 5 green cards for Statistics and Probability, and 5 red cards for Geometry and Measurement.

Each card features a word problem, with an animal welfare reminder that reinforces responsible animal care. On the reverse side, students and teachers will find step-by-step solution guidance, the correct answer, and extension questions to deepen thinking and support independent, group, or whole-class learning.

Maths Resources

New Reading Resources

Explore our three new reading resources, carefully designed to align with the refreshed English curriculum phases. These engaging, animal-focused texts support literacy development while building empathy and understanding of animal welfare. Students will strengthen key skills such as vocabulary, inference, and critical thinking, while learning about responsible animal care and the role of SPCA in their community.

Each resource includes differentiated response materials, comprehension questions, and follow-up activities tailored to curriculum expectations at each phase.

Check them out here!

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!!

Live Student Webinars

Join Christy, one of our awesome educators, for SPCA’s live education webinars.

Designed for primary and intermediate students, these interactive 30-minute Zoom sessions offer a fun way for students to learn 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 term includes a series of four webinars, each with a different topic, and multiple session times available to suit your class.

Learn more!