Primary award recipients 2015
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Adam, Joyce
Miramar North School
To make transitions more effective for Māori and Pasifika students with a view to raising achievement in literacy and numeracy in the Eastern cluster.
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Ahern, Peter
St Joseph's School (Upper Hutt)
To develop understanding of student agency and the implications this has.
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Aitken, Sandra
Pt Chevalier School
To observe and investigate the 'spirals of inquiry for equality and quality' programme operating in schools.
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Appleyard, David
Rata Street School
To identify successful digital strategies that low decile schools are using to engage parents and whānau in student learning.
Download: Full report (PDF 91 kB)
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Atkinson, Debbie
Galatea School
To investigate how restorative practice makes a difference in schools.
Download: Full report (PDF 226 kB)
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Ayson, Ronald
Meadowbank School
To examine how schools use reflection in the teaching process.
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Bainbridge, Wayne
Matipo Road School
Assess the effects of pedagogy, curriculum, time, and resources in teaching maths, comparing NZ's system with Singapore, to bring about higher achievement in own school and others.
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Beamsley, Nicholas
Eketahuna School
To investigate programmes and initiatives to support students who struggle academically.
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Beere, Gavin
Hillpark School
To consider and evaluate educational partnerships, the thinking synergies for ongoing improvement.
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Bernard, Jennifer
St Joseph's School (Grey Lynn)
To strengthen relationships with the community and the impact it has on learning outcomes for priority learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 73 kB)
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Bokser, Lloyd
Fenwick School
To raise the understanding of Pasifika identities, languages, and cultures and raise awareness of these in the development of effective programmes and innovative strategies to lift Pasifika students' achievement.
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Booth, Sharon
Goldfields School (Cromwell)
To develop teachers confidence in Te Reo Māori so that learners can have access to quality Maori language in classrooms.
Download: Full report (PDF 225 kB)
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Broodryk, Jacobus
Whakarongo School
To investigate pedagogies that support successful modern learning environments.
Download: Full report (PDF 125 kB)
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Buckner, Shane
Wairakei School (Christchurch)
To investigate best communication methods with diverse communities.
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Carpenter, Allan
St Joseph's School (Waipukurau)
To investigate how rural schools network with others to design an engaging and motivating innovative learning environment with their priority learners, families and community.
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Clarke, Michael
West End School (New Plymouth)
To identify strategies and pathways that identify and successfully promote the engagement of gifted and talented students with a particular emphasis on Māori students as priority learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 468 kB)
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Conroy, Peter
Papatoetoe North School
To improve engagement, inclusion and achievement of Māori pupils at Papatoetoe North.
Download: Full report (PDF 650 kB)
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Cormick, Ian
Bathgate Park School
To investigate the impact network reviews and school organisation have on students and school leaders.
Download: Full report (PDF 136 kB)
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Daniel, Graeme
Allenvale School
To explore the enablers and barriers that are evidenced through examples of a co-location between a special and regular school.
Download: Full report (PDF 215 kB)
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Davidson, Kathleen
Sir Keith Park School
To investigate modern learning environments in action.
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Davies-Crook, Cheryl
Halsey Drive School
To explore theories and practices that lead to improved learning outcomes for Māori akonga.
Download: Full report (PDF 348 kB)
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Davis, Nigel
Wesley Intermediate
To investigate how schools accelerate student achievement in reading.
Download: Full report (PDF 98 kB)
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Dennison, Susan
Mataura School
To investigate the Reggio Emilia approach and how that might enhance the PB4L and pastoral care systems.
Download: Full report (PDF 104 kB)
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Dickson, Deborah
Remarkables Primary School
How are learners using skills in a transforming world? Are they using the power of transference to connect knowledge and skills with meta social learning (social physics), feedback, and different learning contexts?
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Diver, Brian
Tauranga Intermediate
Investigate what evidence is available to demonstrate that charter/partnership schools are making a difference.
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Dowd, Michael
St Joseph's School (New Plymouth)
To investigate how digital devices can be used in the classroom to track and share achievement progress for priority and other learners.
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Drysdale, Douglas
Bunnythorpe School
Explore how to develop partnerships with the science community to improve student achievement and engagement of reluctant learners.
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Dunlop, Susan
Yendarra School
To research what future-focused, personalised learning looks like, especially using digital resources.
Download: Full report (PDF 352 kB)
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Edwards, Carmen
Patutahi School
To investigate Ka Hikitia.
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Fenn, Dawn
Ridgeview School
To research and plan the integration of sensory tools to improve the literacy levels of students.
Download: Full report (PDF 154 kB)
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Frater, Nigel
Plateau School
To investigate successful processes and planning that schools have used to create modern learning environments in New Zealand and the UK.
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Freeman, Jeffrey
Knighton Normal School
To look at changes in teacher pedagogy and use of ICT in modern learning environments to improve achievement.
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Funaki, Angela
Dawson School
To investigate issues related to inclusive education in order to increase meaningful participation in reducing exclusion of diverse learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 94 kB)
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Gilmore, Bede
Opiki School
Personalising learning in primary schools.
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Gordon, Anne-Marie
Normandale School
Increase knowledge of specific learning disorders and how they impact on children's learning and emotional well-being, developing resources.
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Graves, Allison
Waingaro School
Explore practical ways of meeting the needs of targeted priority learners and new learners within the school by observation of other schools' practices and internet research, leading to the creation of resources.
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Gray, Mary
St Joseph's School (Kaikoura)
To review how schools implement the transition from ECE to primary education.
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Greening, Simon
Putere School
To investigate what schools are doing to address the needs of children who are not progressing as expected in mathematics.
Download: Full report (PDF 180 kB)
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Horgan, Jennifer
East Taieri School
To investigate how integrating aspects of the Reggio Emilia approach within a new entrant setting could be conducive to a child's transition from pre-school to primary school.
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Hough, Lynette
Tasman Bay Christian School
To study emerging theories, on intelligence, that impact on our understanding of students' potential to achieve.
Download: Full report (PDF 485 kB)
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Hunter, Clifford
Tahuna Normal Intermediate
To explore 21st century future-focused pedagogies in the NZ education environment and how modern learning environments and E-learning/ ICT facilitate these.
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Inder, Richard
Gate Pa School
To increase participation rate and early childhood opportunities for Māori and Pasifika children in an ECE centre based at Gate Pa school.
Download: Full report (PDF 295 kB)
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Jepsen, Bruce
Te Akau ki Papamoa Primary School
Develop school's and own leadership capacity to raise Māori achievement.
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Keats, Wayne
Onekawa School
To investigate ways that family/ school connections can be established and maintained to ensure all students reach their full potential as learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 254 kB)
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Kelly, Conrad
Karori Normal School
To investigate leadership models - how leaders are identified, developed and supported.
Download: Full report (PDF 112 kB)
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Keohane, Lynne
Anchorage Park School
To improve transitioning to Anchorage School for priority learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 794 kB)
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King, Lindsay
Takitimu Primary School
To investigate and begin to implement effective programmes/innovations to accelerate student achievement in writing, with a particular focus on Māori students.
Download: Full report (PDF 92 kB)
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Langton, Marriene
West Spreydon School
Investigate how schools create a restorative culture that enables disadvantaged or dysfunctional children to achieve success as learners and their full potential as human beings.
Download: Full report (PDF 133 kB)
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Lee-Kelleher, Keryl
Makuri School
To investigate whether e-learning or blended learning has the greater positive impact on student engagement and achievement.
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MacFarlane, Nancy
Glenholme School
Investigate effective approaches and use of innovation for accelerating student achievement for Māori learners who have English as a second language.
Download: Full report (PDF 371 kB)
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MacKenzie, Jennifer
St Mary's Catholic School (Putaruru)
Investigate how digital technology can be used to enhance and accelerate the progress of students who are below the standard in literacy and mathematics.
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Martin, Kathleen
Hokitika School
To increase knowledge of the Glasser Quality Schools philosophy, to explore leadership structures, to examine overall effectiveness of quality schools.
Download: Full report (PDF 524 kB)
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McCarthny, Craig
St Heliers School
To build confidence and knowledge of modern learning environments in order to develop a clear vision of modern learning pedagogies and environments.
Download: Full report (PDF 604 kB)
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McDonald, Raewyn
Kimi Ora Community School
To investigate the self-organised learning environment initiative, its implementation and impact on accelerating student achievement.
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McLachlan, Bruce
Swanson School
To determine the extent to which creating a playground environment within a school which is largely adult free and where free play is encouraged creates an environment reducing the prevalence of bullying.
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McLean, Donald
Hampden Street School
To investigate innovative schools that use a broad curriculum to motivate and engage 21st century learners and improve achievement in literacy and numeracy.
Download: Full report (PDF 8 MB)
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McNair, David
Gordonton School
To investigate best practice in math teaching and learning to improve achievement.
Download: Full report (PDF 758 kB)
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Mulcahy, Suzanne
Chelsea School
To investigate the effects of the National Standards on learners who are "at" or "above" National Standards.
Download: Full report (PDF 132 kB)
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Murfitt, Bernadette
St Francis Xavier School (Tawa)
To investigate successful interventions, practices, and strategies that benefit the achievement of Māori and Pasifika learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 151 kB)
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Murphy, Daniel
Winchester School (Palmerston North)
Investigate how the use of 'rich mathematical activities' is being used to lift underachievement in primary school mathematics.
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Murray, Barry
Pukepoto School
To investigate and develop home school partnerships.
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Newall, Graeme
Sandspit Road School
To explore the most effective use of budget on resources for modern learning environment spaces within NZ.
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Nicholson, Glenn
Rosehill School
To develop and provide evidence-based guidelines which promote the best transition, drawing together all stakeholders.
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Norrish, Andrena
Winchester Rural School
To investigate 'participating and contributing' key competency development with a future focus, within the Reggio Emilia inspired approach.
Download: Full report (PDF 866 kB)
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Osborne, Jackie-Lynn
Ahipara School
To investigate how to develop positive home school partnerships that focus on learning thus improve outcomes for our students.
Download: Full report (PDF 138 kB)
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Payne, Karen
St Mary's School (Hokitika)
Participate in professional learning around effective appraisal systems that lead to improved student achievement outcomes.
Download: Full report (PDF 106 kB)
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Pearce, Clyde
Woodleigh School
To explore how schools are effectively using e-learning technologies to enhance teaching pedagogy and raise student achievement.
Download: Full report (PDF 464 kB)
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Penman, Mark
Hamilton West School
To investigate the positive impact of restorative practice in schools with particular focus on priority learners.
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Phillips, Carolynn
St Michael's Catholic School (Remuera)
To investigate how we embed well-being for all members of the school community.
Download: Full report (PDF 244 kB)
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Powell, Murray
Shannon School
To investigate the use of the THRASS programme (Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skills) in Australia and New Zealand.
Download: Full report (PDF 173 kB)
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Price, Craig
Selwyn Ridge School
To investigate modern learning environments and the impact these can have on student learning and achievement.
Download: Full report (PDF 284 kB)
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Rivett, Adam
Waimate Main School
To investigate how schools can better support effective parenting in their communities.
Download: Full report (PDF 326 kB)
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Robertson, Janette
Conifer Grove School
The links between transition and acceleration in the first year at school.
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Robinson, David
Dunsandel School
To research successful school transitions, investigating what this means for children in year 6–8 in the Leeston Community Cluster.
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Robinson, Neil
Blockhouse Bay School
To research evidence that underpins IES policy and investigate the goals of its implementation in New Zealand.
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Senior, Deidre
Oamaru Intermediate School
Investigating the pedagogical approaches required to maximize the use of devices in a BYOD or 1:1 environment.
Download: Full report (PDF 581 kB)
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Shearer, John
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Junior School
Investigate how Big Noise-Sistema centres have evolved, and the challenges and triumphs of such a programme.
Download: Full report (PDF 695 kB)
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Shirley, Gary
Papakaio School
To investigate how we can provide more effective teaching and learning of science for primary students.
Download: Full report (PDF 872 kB)
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Simons, Neil
Longbeach School
To investigate how students with special needs can be effectively included in primary schools.
Download: Full report (PDF 383 kB)
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Simpson, Peter
Belfast School
Investigate if digital learning engages and enhances learning and the implications of this particularly for priority learners.
Download: Full report (PDF 84 kB)
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Smith, Fraser
Oturu School
To research ways to increase student agency within literacy.
Download: Full report (PDF 611 kB)
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Stevens, Kay
Riversdale School
To investigate the provision of specific programmes to enhance student well-being and social skills, with a particular focus on Māori students.
Download: Full report (PDF 176 kB)
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Stewart, Jennifer
Sunnybrae Normal School
Gain understanding of how to successfully transition 5 year olds into Sunnybrae and accelerate the learning of those students that are identified as being at risk of underachieving in literacy.
Download: Full report (PDF 305 kB)
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Straker, Alan
Whitney Street School
To study and critique the resources (people and paper) available for schools to support them in creating an effective inclusive learning environment.
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Stuart, Lynda
May Road School
To research the impact of digital technology on the achievement of learners, especially relating to 1:1 devices.
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Swanepoel, Sherrilee
Oratia School
To learn more about and develop a teacher appraisal process that can contribute to consistently high levels of student outcomes.
Download: Full report (PDF 226 kB)
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Taylor-Smith, John
Miramar Central School
To research successful models of performance management in primary schools in Auckland and Wellington.
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Thompson, Teresa
KingsGate School
To research and read into teaching and learning programmes of the Pacific Islands.
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Toothill, Robyn
Somerset Crescent School
To review pedagogy around modern learning environments and see how these have been implemented with limited physical changes.
Download: Full report (PDF 339 kB)
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Tredray, Johnathon
Northcross Intermediate
To investigate how visible learning is implemented as a collaborative impact programme allowing for alignment between every level of the school system.
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Turner, Alison
Ngatimoti School
To review the current school curriculum and assessment plan and align it more closely with our environmental educational ethos.
Download: Full report (PDF 334 kB)
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Turner, Gay
Prospect School
To investigate how homework is adapted to provide engaging and relevant learning for students as well as positive opportunities for engagement with families and communities.
Download: Full report (PDF 203 kB)
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Vincent, Jennifer
Marco School
To investigate if remote/rural students are prepared for their transition to high/boarding school.
Download: Full report (PDF 107 kB)
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Watson, Grant
Upper Moutere School
To increase professional understanding of and capability in the further leading of collaborative teaching and learning in flexible teaching and learning environments.
Download: Full report (PDF 175 kB)
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Watts, Alan
Stella Maris Primary School
To raise achievement in mathematics by research, observation and review.
Download: Full report (PDF 77 kB)
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Wells, Philippa
Tasman School
To explore the research that underpins the inquiry process of professional learning and these communities.
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Willocks, Grant
Temuka Primary School
To research current knowledge of brain development and about how we learn, then investigate the implications for this practice within the modern learning environment.
Download: Full report (PDF 907 kB)
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Woon, Linda
Otonga Road School
Investigate how to lead multiple schools in a collaborative exercise to lift student achievement as well as to educate for religious and cultural toleration.
Download: Full report (PDF 453 kB)
