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  • Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

    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... Read more

  • 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... Read more

  • Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

    Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

    During the last school holidays, MATES ran a Study Fono with a focus on mentoring and tutoring senior students who have been doubly disadvantaged by the first Covid lockdown and loss of nearly a term of schooling... Read more

  • Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

    Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

    An inside look at a MATES Junior study group, where the goal is building relationships - from which confidence and positivity begin to flow out into other areas of life, including the student’s learning... Read more

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  • MATES Senior: We Made it Through 2020
  • Teenagers Studying during Holidays?
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Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

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... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 21st December, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
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... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 14th December, 2020

Updated: 17th December, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

During the last school holidays, MATES ran a Study Fono with a focus on mentoring and tutoring senior students who have been doubly disadvantaged by the first Covid lockdown and loss of nearly a term of schooling... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 17th August, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

An inside look at a MATES Junior study group, where the goal is building relationships - from which confidence and positivity begin to flow out into other areas of life, including the student’s learning... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 30th July, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
Giving Back through Mentoring

Giving Back through Mentoring

Rahui was a MATES mentee in her final year at school... now in her fourth year of a six-year conjoint degree, she decided to give back to her community and become a MATES mentor herself. Here is Rahui's journey in mentoring... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 1st June, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
From Mentee to Mentor

From Mentee to Mentor

Meteri's story with MATES began as a mentee in 2015 at Aorere College, a student with potential who needed help with her studies. Five years later and a Law student at Uni, she has come full circle and has become a MATES mentor... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 1st June, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
“We are speaking. Are you listening?”

“We are speaking. Are you listening?”

May 9-17 is Youth Week 2020 and the theme is: "We are speaking. Are you listening?”. We have asked our MATES team to tell us about the impact of Covid-19 on their lives, on their whanau and communities, and to share their hopes for a post-Covid New Zealand... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 7th May, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

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  • Mentoring and tutoring
Edmond's Story - MATES Junior

Edmond's Story - MATES Junior

Edmond and his mentor Peter have an amazing connection. Our MATES Junior coordinator shares feedback on their journey from 2018... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 13th February, 2020

Updated: 23rd June, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
University For a Day 2019

University For a Day 2019

The highlight of the year for many MATES Senior mentees is the mid-year event, ‘Uni for a Day’ which sees over 80 of our mentees join us at the University of Auckland... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 25th January, 2020

Updated: 23rd June, 2020

Related topics:
  • Mentoring and tutoring
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  • Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

    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

    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...

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    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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