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  • Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

    Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

    Great Potentials has partnered with HIPPY Australia to pilot a structured Tutor Development system, "Pathways to Possibilities" launching early in 2021... Read more

  • From the Archives: MaryAnne Schwenke

    From the Archives: MaryAnne Schwenke

    When mother-of-three, MaryAnne Schwenke started on the HIPPY programme, she discovered skills she didn't know she had and set out to achieve her dream of becoming a teacher... Read more

  • New HIPPY Coordinator Dives Right In

    New HIPPY Coordinator Dives Right In

    Introducing our brand new HIPPY Coordinator for Henderson South, Christine Wang, who started her new role in the middle of lockdown, but didn't let that hold her back from diving right in, and letting her community know all about HIPPY... Read more

  • Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Through play children solve problems, test out ideas and explore their imaginations. HIPPY helps parents create a fun learning environment at home where creativity is unleashed, bodies get moving and children develop a life-long love of learning... Read more

  • Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors
  • From the Archives: MaryAnne Schwenke
  • New HIPPY Coordinator Dives Right In
  • Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives
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Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

Great Potentials has partnered with HIPPY Australia to pilot a structured Tutor Development system, "Pathways to Possibilities" launching early in 2021... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 21st December, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
From the Archives: MaryAnne Schwenke

From the Archives: MaryAnne Schwenke

When mother-of-three, MaryAnne Schwenke started on the HIPPY programme, she discovered skills she didn't know she had and set out to achieve her dream of becoming a teacher... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 1st December, 2020

Updated: 22nd December, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
New HIPPY Coordinator Dives Right In

New HIPPY Coordinator Dives Right In

Introducing our brand new HIPPY Coordinator for Henderson South, Christine Wang, who started her new role in the middle of lockdown, but didn't let that hold her back from diving right in, and letting her community know all about HIPPY... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 3rd November, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
From the Archives: Marietta Ulugia

From the Archives: Marietta Ulugia

In this series, we are dipping into the archives to share inspiring HIPPY stories from years gone by. Here is the story of Marietta Ulugia, our HIPPY Coordinator in Otara from 2009-2011 - living proof of the success of HIPPY. Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 6th October, 2020

Updated: 18th January, 2021

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

Through play children solve problems, test out ideas and explore their imaginations. HIPPY helps parents create a fun learning environment at home where creativity is unleashed, bodies get moving and children develop a life-long love of learning... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 7th September, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

Maiyah, a former "HIPPY child", is an 8-year-old girl from Hornby in Christchurch. Since she was five years old, Maiyah has been baking and selling cupcakes to raise money to help the homeless in her city. She’s just a young girl, but she’s making a huge difference... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 1st July, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
HIPPY Made the Difference: Tai's Story

HIPPY Made the Difference: Tai's Story

Tai is a mother-of-four who had struggled with literacy herself and when she started with HIPPY none of her four pre-school children were engaged in ECE. She says that HIPPY has made the difference for her family... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 2nd June, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
Web-HIPPY launched for Lockdown

Web-HIPPY launched for Lockdown

Great Potentials has worked around the clock with our international HIPPY community to develop an online version of HIPPY meaning we are now able to continue to support our families while keeping our staff safe within their bubbles. Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 20th April, 2020

Updated: 23rd June, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
HIPPY helped change our family's future

HIPPY helped change our family's future

Deidre grew up in a house that was lacking talk, books and encouragement. Now she is an early childhood centre supervisor who has raised her children to love education. HIPPY was the catalyst. Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 12th February, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
Jasmine's Story - HIPPY gave me opportunities

Jasmine's Story - HIPPY gave me opportunities

As a solo mum at 18, Jasmine thought the only potential she had was earning a very low wage at a basic job - and she felt OK about this. But then she was introduced to the HIPPY programme... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 25th January, 2020

Updated: 23rd June, 2020

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  • HIPPY - Home based pre-school education
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    Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

    "Uni for a Day" is legendary, This much-anticipated outing is held each year to give Year 8 students something to aim for as they prepare to begin High School. After being cancelled twice due to Covid, it was finally held in October 2020...

  • Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

    Pathways to Possibilities – Unleashing the Potential of HIPPY Tutors

    Great Potentials has partnered with HIPPY Australia to pilot a structured Tutor Development system, "Pathways to Possibilities" launching early in 2021...

  • A Very Whanau Christmas

    A Very Whanau Christmas

    Christmas is nearly upon us, so we asked a few members of our Family Service Centres team to share the way their whanau celebrates the season…

  • MATES Senior: We Made it Through 2020

    MATES Senior: We Made it Through 2020

    MATES had a challenging start to a year that will go down in history, but the team finished the year in style with an epic Senior Prizegiving and celebration held in rooms at Eden Park...

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  • Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Through play children solve problems, test out ideas and explore their imaginations. HIPPY helps parents create a fun learning environment at home where creativity is unleashed, bodies get moving and children develop a life-long love of learning...

  • Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

    Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

    Maiyah, a former "HIPPY child", is an 8-year-old girl from Hornby in Christchurch. Since she was five years old, Maiyah has been baking and selling cupcakes to raise money to help the homeless in her city. She’s just a young girl, but she’s making a huge difference...

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    SWiS: Speaking the Lingo in Papakura Schools

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    Uniting Against Covid-19

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    Our Latest Annual Report is Out

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    Our Work: Purpose and Proof

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