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School Kit Educational Trust

Keeping our education projects free for every NZ Classroom Teacher.

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National Film Unit reels neatly catalogued in a Southland School circa 2018. NB: Nostalgic memories for some but School Kit makes quite the opposite

We have a problem.

School Kit is too popular. We provide a huge range of innovative education projects to NZ classroom teachers for free. We work best at scale but we always run out of kits.

At School Kit our partners share between them the costs of visiting 800 schools a year, hosting resources online, providing registered teachers for one to one and group support, evaluating every kit. It makes things cheaper and more efficient.

But we still have a limit on how many we can supply. We want to be able to visit more schools and deliver more kits into classrooms.

We established the School Kit Educational Trust to help us keep our kits free for teachers.

See what we make here

What’s most important to us?

Keeping our resources free to teachers keeps access equitable.

Maintaining an even nationwide spread across isolated, rural and urban areas when it comes to both school visiting and teacher participation is our key focus.

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Fund us

  • School Kit visits 800 schools every year. Choose a region that means a lot to you and we’ll make sure our School Visiting Team conducts a minimum o 400 teacher conversations an follow ups in your name.

  • Teaching can be a lonely business. Being in the same space as every other teacher in the country teaching the same kit as you is a powerful way to address teacher loneliness and at the same time build capability.

  • Teacher Champions do the hard yards at School Kit. They support, encourage, praise and compliment teachers in a region that matters to you. If you’d like to support a Teacher Champion for a year then we would love to hear from you.

  • Have a subject that is dear to your heart. We can design, build, produce, send and support an education project around that and make sure students remember the learning for life.

Get in touch

Work with us.

  • Fund an education project

    Are you a charitable trust or community group looking to extend the reach of your own schools’ project? We design beautiful educational resources.

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  • Utilise our infrastructure

    If you have an educational project you are passionate about then we have the expertise, the systems and the infrastructure to help you scale it.

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  • Collaborate with us and reach further

    Utilise our model, our database and our visiting programme to talk with teachers at 800 schools. Then let us help you release your kit nationwide.

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Our Supporters and Trustees

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Benny Castles

Introduced to Mark Rothko, Titian and the language of Richard III by teachers at St Paul’s Collegiate School.

David Bremner

First discovered that you could play an instrument for a job during a school programme at New Plymouth BHS.

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Kate Brazier

Taught by teachers in Christchurch and rural Canterbury schools

Emma Bettle

Heard the smash hit Poi e for the first time in Ms Broughton’s class at Russell Street School.

Miriam Makgill

Rodney Hamel (Patron)

Met Wordsworth for the first time at Otago Boys High School and Christ’s Hospital

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  • Patron (went to school in Dunedin)

    Rodney’s professional life saw a lifetime commitment (almost without a break) to St Paul’s Collegiate School teaching Art, Art History, Classical Studies and English. Rod was also a landscape painter, painting scenes of Maungakawa Hill for over 30 years. His paitings are held in a variety of collections. Rodney’s legacy is the remarkable clutch of poets, journalists, curators, thinkers, politicians and designers who passed through his classrooms.

  • Trustee (went to school in Auckland and Hamilton)

    Benny steers the iconic NZ brand WORLD through multiple menswear & womenswear collections every year. A connoisseur of all things film, he also consumes books at a terrifying pace and rarely is without an opinion when standing in front of an artwork. We are thankful for his creativity, his humour and his support of all things School Kit.

  • Trustee (went to school in Canterbury)

    Kate is Senior Advisor - Performance Reporting at Callaghan Innovation. Her academic career focussed on mental health and suicidal ideation. He professional career has spanned roles in Nielsen Research, Waka Kōtahi and Meridian Energy. She is highly focussed on her community servng as Chair of the Te Aro School Board. We love her for her straight talking, her sharp brain and her wise advice.

  • Trustee (went to school in New Plymouth)

    David is Principal Trombone of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as well as Music Director of both the 7x NZ Champions, Wellington Brass, and the National Band of New Zealand. David is famous for his excellent storytelling skills, his wide network of friends and his ability to sit and chat with almost anyone about almost anything.

  • Trustee (went to school in Palmerston North)

    a is the founder and owner of School Kit, a New Zealand based education company that offers beautiful resource kits and powerful learning experiences to teachers and their students. She is passionate about the power of education in changing lives, using good design to convey complex ideas (to small humans) and the importance of being curious about and connecting with others.

  • Educational Advisor (Went to school in Cambridge)

    Miriam has had a long career in teaching. Currently part of the Tauranga Intermediate Senior Management Team, her teaching experience spans Year 0-8 and her strengths lie in literacy, gifted and talented education and peforming arts.

Our work proudly aligns with and supports the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

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Charities Commission No. CC50970

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