2018 has been a great year for Life Education on the North Shore.

As a trust, we own our two mobile classrooms, employ our educators and manage relationships and partnerships within the North Shore (schools, volunteers and stakeholders). We use mobile classrooms to create a unique and engaging learning environment to capture children’s imaginations. Our planning with teachers at each school is an important part of our educators’ roles. Our trust works hard to have the classrooms booked each day of the school year.

Lessons include modules on the following:

- Community and Relationships

- Identity and Resilience

- Food and Nutrition

- Human Biology

- Substances

We have also been involved in:

The Body Worlds Vital Exhibition

World Mental Health Day

Seminars on how to be a digital citizen 

On the North Shore, we have seen 14,000 children and taught 1483 sessions. We owe a big thank you to Corinne and Jenni (our educators) for their professionalism, dedication and enthusiasm in ensuring the programmes are delivered to as many children as possible here on the Shore. At our monthly trust meetings they report the previous month’s activities and share with us the amazing stories, pictures and drawings from children who have attended the sessions. It keeps us all focused on the importance of the messages we bring to the schools. 

However, this could not happen without the fabulous support of the trustees who give generously of their personal time to ensure the trust remains viable financially and meets all the needs and requirements of running a charitable trust. Thank you to you all for your commitment and passion.

Also, the trust is extremely grateful to Bonney’s Transport, Boat Haulage, East Coast Bays Towing, and Crown Relocations for their ongoing support in either moving the classrooms to the schools or parking them up in their yards during the holidays.

Life Education is a charitable trust and we rely on grants and donations to exist. I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the many families, organisations and individuals who support us either financially or with their time and expertise.

Also a big, big thank you to Murray and Carol Judge from Apollo Accounting who keep our “money jar” in order and also host our monthly meeting in their boardroom.

We are so blessed as a trust in so many ways and we thank the North Shore schools and community for their continued support. 

Onward and upwards in 2019.

Christine Meyer-Jones, Chair, Life Education Trust North Shore

chair@lifeeducationnorthshore.nz

Visit: www.lifeeducationnorthshore.nz    

Contact us: secretary@lifeeducationnorthshore.nz

Life Education Trust will be visiting the following schools in December: 

Pinehill, St Johns, Devonport.