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  • Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

    Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

    Marissa was 18 when she had her first baby. Shy and lacking confidence, she thought her working life was over. Until she started her son on the HIPPY programme and her confidence began to grow... Read more

  • Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Group meetings – or ‘whānau hui’ – are an important part of HIPPY, helping build connections and combat isolation. Kaikohe Coordinator, Emily Rogers, recently took her HIPPY whānau to a local drop-in centre/pregnancy hub and did a very cool enrichment activity making DIY deodorant... Read more

  • A Community Empowered thanks to HIPPY

    A Community Empowered thanks to HIPPY

    Back in 1997, Kelston cluster school principals met to discuss how they might better engage with local families and support parents. HIPPY became the catalyst that helped empower and engage the Kelston community... Read more

  • HIPPY Founder’s New Zealand Legacy

    HIPPY Founder’s New Zealand Legacy

    Professor Avima Lombard was HIPPY’s original founder back in 1969, in Israel. When she passed away in 2008, Dame Lesley Max wrote a piece in appreciation of Professor Lombard, giving us a glimpse into the legacy she created for us in New Zealand.... Read more

  • Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"
  • Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant
  • A Community Empowered thanks to HIPPY
  • HIPPY Founder’s New Zealand Legacy
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Marissa's Story:

Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

Marissa was 18 when she had her first baby. Shy and lacking confidence, she thought her working life was over. Until she started her son on the HIPPY programme and her confidence began to grow... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 7th April, 2021

Updated: 8th April, 2021

Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

Group meetings – or ‘whānau hui’ – are an important part of HIPPY, helping build connections and combat isolation. Kaikohe Coordinator, Emily Rogers, recently took her HIPPY whānau to a local drop-in centre/pregnancy hub and did a very cool enrichment activity making DIY deodorant... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 24th March, 2021

Updated: 31st March, 2021

A Community Empowered thanks to HIPPY

A Community Empowered thanks to HIPPY

Back in 1997, Kelston cluster school principals met to discuss how they might better engage with local families and support parents. HIPPY became the catalyst that helped empower and engage the Kelston community... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 2nd March, 2021

HIPPY Founder’s New Zealand Legacy

HIPPY Founder’s New Zealand Legacy

Professor Avima Lombard was HIPPY’s original founder back in 1969, in Israel. When she passed away in 2008, Dame Lesley Max wrote a piece in appreciation of Professor Lombard, giving us a glimpse into the legacy she created for us in New Zealand.... Read more

Posted to: HIPPY Stories

Published: 1st February, 2021

Updated: 3rd February, 2021

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

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

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: 3rd March, 2021

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

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

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

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

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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  • Marissa's Story:

    Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

    Marissa was 18 when she had her first baby. Shy and lacking confidence, she thought her working life was over. Until she started her son on the HIPPY programme and her confidence began to grow...

  • Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...

  • Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Group meetings – or ‘whānau hui’ – are an important part of HIPPY, helping build connections and combat isolation. Kaikohe Coordinator, Emily Rogers, recently took her HIPPY whānau to a local drop-in centre/pregnancy hub and did a very cool enrichment activity making DIY deodorant...

  • Our Learning Plan

    Our Early Learning Centre offers a curriculum based on Te Whariki. Each child is welcomed for who they are. Our staff are skilful at settling and working alongside children, following their play ideas. Whānau experience respectful relationships with kind and caring teachers who value their children.

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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...

  • HIPPY Programme

    HIPPY Programme

    HIPPY is a home-based Early Learning programme that helps parents from disadvantaged communities lay the foundation for their children’s success in school and later life...

  • Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...

  • Auckland is at Level 3 again

    Auckland is at Level 3 again

    The Government has just announced our third Covid lockdown here in Auckland - initially for three days. We will keep the website updated, along with our Facebook pages. Our Auckland sites are closed but our staff are working from home to continue to support our families and programmes.

  • 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...

  • Family Service Centres

    Family Service Centres

    Our Family Service Centres assist the community with housing, food, health care, employment support and wellbeing services as well as offering early learning services, parenting programmes, playgroups, social workers in schools, counselling and more...

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  • We Are Open (again) at Level 2

    We Are Open (again) at Level 2

    The Government has announced that Auckland is moving to Alert Level 2 from 6am Sunday. This means that from Monday 8 March our office, Takanini Family Service Centre, Papakura Family Service Centre and Papakura Early Learning Centre will be open as normal, with Level 2 protocols in place.

  • SWiS: Speaking the Lingo in Papakura Schools

    SWiS: Speaking the Lingo in Papakura Schools

    Papakura Family Service Centre's enthusiastic Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) team work in five Papakura schools, offering support and assistance to the schools’ children and families who are increasingly facing significant challenges in this community.

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