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SPARX

SPARX - NEW!

Just launched - SPARX Resources for state schools. Resources with creativity, depth of professional understanding and value for money!
 
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SPARX Resources - are for you!Looking for integrated resources to meet the new NZ curriculum requirements?


SPARX Resources are for you!








We have integrated SPARX units that:

  • integrate Science, Social Science, Health, Language and Character Education
  • are broad enough to allow teachers great flexibility
  • are broad enough to allow for unique school community responses
  • link to the NZ Curriculum vision, principles, values, key competencies, achievement objectives
  • respect cultural perspectives
  • bring cohesiveness to the school community
  • incorporate the latest ideas on educational processes and practices
  • develop values and habits of mind
  • can be purchased individually, or as a money-saving subscription
We can save you time, provide professional development in the course of planning and inspire your educational programme.


SPARX Resources

  • provide suggested big ideas, focus questions, skill foci, value foci, key areas of investigation, and lots of ideas to stimulate great teaching within a contemporary framework of learning
  • provide ideas for each broad topic in the subjects of:
    • Science
    • Social Science
    • Health (not PE)
    • Language genre
    • Character Education/Values
    • Art, via the Celebrate Art resources

The following topics are available:

Growth
Reach Out

Challenges

Change

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What Schools Say

"SPARX resources have provided a model that is values-based, and supports the principles and values of the NZ Curriculum. I have found the Sparx Learning Path easy to adapt and follow. The words are easy to explain to children. You can take the inquiry model apart and focus with children on each of the stages.

The shared language across the school has been  valuable and the questions give the teachers lots of ideas for lessons and discussions. The extra Discovery Sheet resources are valuable."

Tui MacMillan,
Tirimoana School



"As Curriculum Leader at our school, it is a pleasure and a privilege to endorse the curriculum resources designed by Helen Pearson."
 
Wanda Nair
Assistant Principal
Christ the King School,
Mt Roskill, Auckland


“We have found SPARX Resources very useful for our planning. We have enjoyed the way it links and connects the learning areas together. It is a great integrated resource that fits in with the NZ curriculum very well. We find the SPARX Learning Path is a good basis for teachers to link prior knowledge right through to new learning. We really like the Character Education Teacher Manual and have found the Responsibility focus excellent as a foundation.”
Kerry Farrant, DP, Putaruru School



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Sample Pages from SPARX Teacher Manuals

These pages are available in a PDF format and require a PDF reader to view, click here to download a free version if you need it.
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