Three Underway

It's all go at the moment with three schools in the middle of their training and all graduating before Christmas.
Gisborne Intermediate has a large group of about 25 training hard towards their graduation on Monday 6th December at 6.00pm.
Te Karaka School is assisting Waikohu College (Soon to be both amalgamated in to an Area School) with their numbers by holding training nights at the primary School.
Around 16 whanau will graduate at assembly on Friday 26th November at 2.30pm.
Awapuni School is running training sessions on behalf of Gisborne Girls high School and about 20 whanau will graduate on Monday 22nd November at 6.00pm.

KA MAU TE WEHI WHANAU!
See you all at the graduations.

Awapuni Graduation

Thanks to Awapuni School for running a Computers in Homes programme that included Lytton and Kaiti Whanau.

Awapuni Graduation on PhotoPeach

Kia ora Waikohu whanau.
Thanks for the awesome night at your graduation. You guys were just da bomb!
Sorry for some of the bad pictures. Blame the camera man.

Waikohu College Graduation August 2010 on PhotoPeach

Ilminster Intermediate Graduation June 2010

Wow, what luck! I have found the missing graduation pictures. I hope all is progressing well. Keep up the mahi whanau.


Ilminster Intermediate Graduation June 2010 on PhotoPeach

Te Karaka whanau at Waikohu College

Te Karaka whanau at Waikohu College are hard out with their 20 hours of training on how to manage the information age. Great to see everyone learning 21st century skills.

Caught on Video!

Some more graduation pics from Ilminster Intermediate, this time they are moving. Well done again whanau and keep in touch. Hopefully your broadband is pumping?

Graduation Day at Ilminster Intermediate

Graduation evening at Ilminster Intermediate was a time to celebrate those 8 whanau who completed their 20 hours of training. All of our participants were congratulated by Nona Aston (Gisborne Deputy Mayor) and Di Das (CiH National Coordinator) who both encouraged whanau to take further steps in future learning journeys.

Waikohu College

What an awesome bunch of whanau who turned up for our CiH project introduction at Waikohu College. They definitely are a close bunch with plenty of whanau connections. Enthusiasm was the highlight of the night and it looks like they are going to have plenty of fun during their training sessions. Waikohu are set to graduate around 20 whanau.
A big shout out to Jenny Lynch for taking on the role of Project Champion and Trainer.
We are all looking forward to graduation day.

Broadband - For our new project

Our new Intermediate and Secondary Schools project will be the first time Computers in Homes whanau will be supplied with six months free broadband.
The only catch is that you will need to have a land line (Phone line) for broadband to work. Our ISP (Internet Service Provider) will be a combination of Slingshot and Watchdog. Watchdog will be providing the internet safety filter for us once again. That will stop access to inappropriate sites.

Ilminster Intermediate and Lytton High School will be our fist schools to start in term 1 2010.

New Project Announced

Computers in Homes - Gisborne is pleased to announce the successful bid for a further CIH project.
We have been successful with the 3rd round of the Community Partnership Fund. (This was a contestable fund available from the Department of Internal Affairs.)
Our Secondary and Intermediate Schools (Sec/Int) project is set to roll out computers and training to 195 whanau through:
Gisborne Girls High School
Gisborne Boys High School
Ilminster Intermediate
Gisborne Intermediate
Waikohu College
Lytton High School
Campion College

The first school cluster of 27 whanau should be graduating by the end of this year.
Other Schools will be progressively going through the project with the last to graduate during the first term of 2011.

We look forward to rolling out yet another Gisborne based Computers in Homes project.

Rere School Whanau Graduate

Thanks to all of the team at Rere School for putting on such a neat graduation. Also thanks to Douglas Birt from GDC as the guest speaker

Waerenga-o-Kuri School Graduation

A big shout out to all involved with the graduation as we had yet another awesome night of whanau completing their Computers in Homes programme. 

An added bonus was the TVNZ camera crew who were following Mayor Meng Foon putting together a news clip on his community involvement.

I hope you like the slideshow.

Waipaoa Station School Graduation

The whole school turned out for Waipaoa Station School's graduation, plus some community supporters. An excellent graduation was capped off with a fantastic community kai.

Thanks to Marcus Lloyd the trainer and Principal Julie Tumarae.

Sorry about some of the hazy pictures, time I need to buy a better camera.

The Last Project Roll Out.

Thanks to Riverdale School and principal Yvonne Williams for hosting our last project roll out. What a great bunch from a number of different school.

Check out some graduation photos.

Central School Graduation

Gisborne Central School was the site of our second to last Gisborne City roll out. Thanks to Principal Mark Penman for helping out with a roll out of whanau from a number of schools.
A big thanks to John and Julie for providing the training and assisting with the organisation. The times I visited everyone was having fun and going hard out with their e-Learning.

I was sorry to miss the graduation but if anyone has any photos please email to irl@xtra.co.nz and I will post them up here on the blog.

We Hit 502 Whanau!!

With the Riverdale graduation last week our Gisborne City project has reached its last roll out. That means that 502 whanau have been through the programme.

It was fitting that the last group of 11 whanau participated at Riverdale School. Riverdale was where the project was launched nearly 2 years ago.

While the roll outs have been completed we will still be available over the next 6 months to help with technical problems where we can.

A big thanks to all who participated and to all the schools who made it possible

St Marys Catholic School Graduation

St Marys whanau graduated with an excellent night of celebration at the school. Thanks to the trainers for another awesome group of parents going through the project. thanks to Mayor Meng Foon for sharing in the celebration.

Patutahi School Graduation

Patutahi School graduates with 17 whanau completing training and recieving their computers. An excellent group who participated in the project were all looking forward to having their computers installed at their homes. He tino pai rawa atu koutou!

Mangapapa School

Well done to Mangapapa whanau who recently graduated and are now part of the digital world. Thanks also to MP Moana Mckey and Mayor Meng Foon who were on hand to congratulate whanau and encourage further learning.

Sorry about a couple of blurred photos, I need to get rid of the shakes.

Waipaoa Station School

A fantastic drive out to our smallest school at Waipaoa Station School to meet the 5 families who have started training. Thanks for the time you gave to hear about the project and I look forward to your graduation.