The Halberg Foundation held their Halberg Games South 2022 on October 1st in Ōtautahi. This regional Halberg Games festival saw young people aged 8-21 years with a physical or visual impairment take part in a variety of sports on offer from those giving it a go, to...
Earlier this year, Alice, our Head of Discovery Programmes and resident ‘bird nerd’ at BLAKE got the opportunity to visit Whenua Hou Codfish Island and assist in the Kākāpō Recovery programme. Kākāpō (Māori for ‘night parrot’) are nocturnal, flightless, and perhaps...
In August this year, the NZ-VR team presented their programme at Clevedon School, in Tāmaki Makaurau. Our lesson inspired their students to develop some lyrics and present it to the VR team during lunch break. Below is a copy of the lyrics and follow this link to a...
“Place based education; begin where your feet are, where you are standing. Get to know this place first and then spread out into the world.”- Professor Wally Penetito Deirdre van der Linden, a teacher at Weymouth Primary School, is using the above quote as...
Shortly before Sir Peter Blake’s tragic death, he wrote in his journal “We want to restart people caring about the environment … through adventure, through participation, through education and through enjoyment.” – Sir Peter Blake BLAKE’s virtual reality programme...
