The Specialist Education Services is a Crown Entity which provides high quality specialist services to benefit people with special education and development needs. Online Sunshine Online is an excellent website aimed at assisting the teachers of early reading and their students. It contains a great deal of classroom tested advice, ideas and teaching resources as well as excellent interactive online learning activities for young children. As far as I know it is the only site in New Zealand, and one of the few in the world providing exciting professionally produced educational activities on the Web for the 5-8 year old age group. Access to the Sunshine Online site is free but available only to schools and educators.
Schools can subscribe online.
The Telecom Education Foundation was established in 1993 to support Telecom's vision to ensure that children become information literate and well prepared for life, and work, in the tele-age. The Telecom Education Foundation's activities are many and varied and include support for teachers and students by providing a wide variety of resources available at this site. They are selling this material to polytechs and high schools. Wakatu Learning Center, Nelson Water Safety New Zealand Safety in, on and around water. This site has everything you need to know about being safe with water.