Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
Light in Natural Phenomena
In this lesson, students will describe the properties of light, and use them to explain naturally occurring optical phenomena (i.e. mirage, rainbow, shimmering, apparent depth, etc).
Analysing Technology that Uses Properties of Light
In this lesson, students will analyse technologies that use the properties of light and explain how they enhance society (James Webb Telescope, Microscopes, Cameras, Lasers, Solar cells and Fibre optics).
Fact List: Types of Light Emissions
Education Perfect’s Fact Lists test students’ knowledge by asking them questions based on various subjects. This list details different types of light emissions.
“Education Perfect is an excellent resource that has allowed learners to explore science concepts and ideas. I have gained valuable feedback on the understanding demonstrated by the learners, which has informed my own teaching as well as enabled me to differentiate for each individual.”
— Andy Lincoln from Mountainview High School
New revision folder for foundation skills of Level 1 Electricity & Magnetism
This folder contains lessons that help build the foundational skills and knowledge that students can find difficult in Physics 1.3, such as Resistance and Static Charge.
New lessons in the Key Capabilities
There are new lessons in the NZC Physical World folder for Engage with Science and Gather and Interpret Data. Look out for Energy Efficiency lessons: “Determine Energy Consumption of Appliances” and “Planning to Reduce Electricity Consumption at Home.”
Coming Soon!
New Chemistry practicals
More investigation and interactive lessons and more practical work for Chemistry.
Assessments with learner agency
As teachers, we often set an assessment or quiz aimed at specific curriculum levels. Then we look at the data to help determine the level at which a student is working. Have you thought about assigning these assessments in different ways? Try setting your quiz/assessments separately by level and give students the threshold/rubric ahead of time. Let students self-select their starting level, assess their progress and determine the standard at which they’re working. Let our Science subject specialist, Kirsty, show you how!
Let EP help with your end of year reports!
Education Perfect provides great insight into your students’ learning. Our in depth Student Usage Report gives you the ability to track individual student progress and identify key strengths and improvement areas. This information is valuable for parent-teacher interviews and can be included in student reports.
Are you moving schools in 2023?
EP allows you to take any content that you have created with you between schools. This Help Guide outlines what you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose any of your customised content.
Coming Soon!
New Chemistry in context lessons
Watch this space for lessons coming on everyday applications, health and safety.
New to Education Perfect Science?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
Learn more here!
Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
NZC Level 2 and below
Here, Annie highlights work suitable for students who need activities around New Zealand Curriculum Level 2 and below.
Senior Exam revision
Take a tour of the Maths content we have available for senior exam revision.
“Struggling to engage senior students but have used the competition tool to try and keep them working. The assessment tool has been great to monitor progress all year and allows students to see their own improvement.”
– Scott Giffin from Scots College
NZAMT Conference
I had the pleasure of attending NZAMT 17, the biannual Maths conference (it had been postponed from 2021 and usually runs in odd years). The Tarankai Maths Association hosted and they did a marvellous job of looking after the 400 attendees, and the backdrop of Mt Taranaki made the heart sing! I would like to extend my personal congratulations to the recipients of the Jim Campbell Excellence in the Teaching of Maths awards. It was wonderful to connect with so many amazing maths teachers and I am looking forward to NZAMT 18 in Northland next year – I hope to see you all there!
Annie – EP Maths Specialist
NZAMT Conference resources
Follow the link to see the great resources from the recent NZAMT 17 conference. There are three folders of note: – Annie’s resources for ‘Using EP for Projects’ and ‘Teacher engagement in change’, and Hayden Bosgra (Hamilton Christian School) took a session on his school’s journey with ‘Desmos and EP for Maths’ (Hayden gained permission from EP to run this session).
Junior Exams
If you are preparing to test your Y7-10 students, remember that we have some assessments already set up in EP. You can also use our Assessment Template to create your own. Take a look at the section Administering Assessment on EP if you are considering an online assessment.
Let EP help with your end of year reports!
Education Perfect provides great insight into your students’ learning. Our in depth Student Usage Report gives you the ability to track individual student progress and identify key strengths and improvement areas. This information is valuable for parent-teacher interviews and can be included in student reports.
Are you moving schools in 2023?
EP allows you to take any content that you have created with you between schools. This Help Guide outlines what you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose any of your customised content.
New to Education Perfect Maths?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
Learn more here!
Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
New Japanese grammar lessons
We are delighted to release the first of our new Japanese grammar lessons. These engaging and visually appealing lessons have been carefully crafted to help students understand and practise new grammar points. Look out for more of these lessons coming soon and also look our for these coming in German, too!
More Spanish video lessons
We are continuing to add to our bank of Spanish video lessons. These lessons are ideal for senior students – why not try them out for exam preparation!
COMING SOON!
Beginner Level Samoan content
We are so excited to announce that Education Perfect have partnered with the Ministry of Education of New Zealand to bring a Beginners’ Gagana Sāmoa course free to all schools throughout Aotearoa NZ. It will be with our tamaiti and ‘āiga mid 2023!
“I am a complete fan of Education Perfect! I love it because you can set tasks for students to complete independently. They can use it to teach themselves a new grammar point / vocab set before you even teach it to them – creating the flipped classroom effect! It can be used as a great source of differentiation. High achieving students can just keep learning and learn, whilst low ability students can use it as additional support for material taught in the classroom. It is is a more interesting way of learning vocabulary for NCEA and we love the game Dash, which can be used interactively in the classroom. I love the fact that you can show parents on parents evening how much work their children are doing and how well they are achieving. It gives students the ability to take control of their own learning and success.”
— Naomi Connolly from Paraparaumu College
Language Teaching for Non-Specialists: The Essentials
Are you looking for end of year assessment tasks for your students?
If so, don’t forget we have a wide range of pre-built assessment tasks you can use. Get in touch with your EP rep for more information or email [email protected] if you would like someone to get in touch with you.
New EP Languages YouTube playlist!
We have just created an EP Languages YouTube playlist. Here, you will find a large bank of short videos which will equip you with plenty of tips and tricks to help use EP in different ways.
Let EP help with your end of year reports!
Education Perfect provides great insight into your students’ learning. Our in depth Student Usage Report gives you the ability to track individual student progress and identify key strengths and improvement areas. This information is valuable for parent-teacher interviews and can be included in student reports.
Are you moving schools in 2023?
EP allows you to take any content that you have created with you between schools. This Help Guide outlines what you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose any of your customised content.
New to Education Perfect Languages?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
Learn more here!
Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
NCEA Literacy
Here at EP, we try to keep ahead of the curve. While we all wait for more certainty regarding the new Literacy and Numeracy co-requisites, we have curated Reading and Writing folders of work for you to try out. As always, we are keen to hear your feedback. Rest assured, EP will be there to support our teachers.
Everyone’s a critic!
Have your students critique classmates creative writing! By adding Peer Review to both new and existing lessons, students can see how their peers approached a given question and offer their feedback in a teacher moderated environment. Students will be given a randomly chosen, anonymous student’s response, along with marking criteria. They’ll be able to read the response and rate it between one and five stars. If you have enabled commenting, students can also leave written feedback.
“I am really enjoying Education Perfect. The maths tasks are superb, and I am learning to use the literacy tasks and assessments more effectively. I will eventually branch out to the other curriculum areas. Oh, and the spelling tasks are great.”
– Tom Gordon from Breens Intermediate School
Literacy NZC Level 3
Check out our Reading Skills lessons including Proofreading, Skimming & Scanning!
Literacy NZC Level 3
Dive into our cross-curricular Information Reports and learn about Māui dolphins and the terrifying Pouākai/Haast’s Eagle.
Writing Portfolios on EP
Join Julian, our English Teacher Consultant, on this webinar as he talks you through how to get the best out of EP.
Using ESOL/EAL resources for NZC L1 & L2 learners
We have a huge number of resources for students at NZC Level 3 and above but for those students who aren’t quite there, check out our ESOL/EAL resources in this webinar from Julian, our English Teacher Consultant.
Let EP help with your end of year reports!
Education Perfect provides great insight into your students’ learning. Our in depth Student Usage Report gives you the ability to track individual student progress and identify key strengths and improvement areas. This information is valuable for parent-teacher interviews and can be included in student reports.
Are you moving schools in 2023?
EP allows you to take any content that you have created with you between schools. This Help Guide outlines what you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose any of your customised content.
New to Education Perfect English?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
Learn more here!
Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
Senior Psychology
Check out our brand new supporting resources for Year 12 & 13 Psychology students! We have just released 8 lessons covering Localisation of Function in the Brain: including Cerebral Cortex, Emotion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.
Aotearoa NZ Histories
EP’s Being an Historian Skills lessons guide your students through how to complete an inquiry into their local history.
Prepare your staff for 2023. Contact EP to arrange a trial with our introductory package of lessons.
Sustainable Oceans Lessons Complete!
We’re thrilled to have completed our package of 13 engaging lessons on Sustainable Oceans. These resources aim to raise awareness of the challenges our oceans are facing and empower students to take positive action towards a more sustainable future. Designed for Year 7-10 students in NZ, these engaging lessons explore a wide range of topics including rising sea levels, ocean plastic, overfishing, and the impact of climate change on our oceans.
Almost 1 million questions answered!
Since commencing the ODT weekly quizzes in February this year, over 4,000 NZ students from 334 schools have engaged with the content, amassing a whopping 947,000 questions answered. It’s clear these quizzes are now a regular activity in NZ classrooms! EP would love to hit 1,000,000 by the end of the year.
If you are not already using them, these quizzes are FREE for all EP teachers to use in their classrooms. With ten questions about national and international news and current events, the quizzes are designed to keep students engaged with news media, which can then lead to classroom discussions about significant events around the world and how this impacts Aotearoa New Zealand.
“It is great to be able to use EP to set up additional activities and tasks that allows for greater levels of individualisation to akonga programmes. Being able to make lessons and activities to encourage greater skill development, both generic and specific to the topic they are studying in History is excellent.”
— Jenna Teesdale from Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
Let EP help with your end of year reports!
Education Perfect provides great insight into your students’ learning. Our in depth Student Usage Report gives you the ability to track individual student progress and identify key strengths and improvement areas. This information is valuable for parent-teacher interviews and can be included in student reports.
Are you moving schools in 2023?
EP allows you to take any content that you have created with you between schools. This Help Guide outlines what you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose any of your customised content.
New to Education Perfect Humanities?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
Learn more here!
Have you confirmed your 2023 plans?
Our team is nearing completion of 2023 subscription requests. If you haven’t already confirmed plans for next year, we urge you to get in touch as soon as possible. The customer support and service that you know and love centres heavily around forward planning to ensure every one of our amazing schools and teachers is well taken care of. Ensure 2023 gets off to the best start possible!
Meet the gang!
Fred Hollows Humanity Awards – Winner Announced
Education Perfect are proud to be supporting The Fred Hollows Humanity Awards in New Zealand. These awards were created to recognise primary-age students who strive to make the world around them better and demonstrate values of kindness and integrity.
Madison Macmillan is this year’s Fred Hollows NZ Junior Ambassador. The 11-year-old student from Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School has donated over $1200 from the hundreds of books she has sold to the Northland Rescue Chopper Service. Madison has been fundraising since before she started school. As well as being a Chopper ambassador, she has voiced numerous radio ads and fronted many Facebook and YouTube interviews with pilots and intensive care paramedics.
Madison was presented her award a couple of weeks ago and walked away with a goodie bag courtesy of Education Perfect. Well done Madison! Your achievement is very well deserved!
“As I continue to work with EP, I continue to find ways of gaining insight into the progress students are making. I’m keen to keep working to get the most of out EP for our students so we can help them improve as quickly as they can.”
– Ben Crawford from Nayland College
A partnership with 1.5 million reasons to celebrate!
EP has been partnered with a non-profit organisation called Digital Wings for the last 1.5 years. Digital Wings works with companies to collect old or unused tech to either refurbish and donate to communities in need, or ensure that e-waste is disposed of properly through a third party called RemarkIT. We recently received an update to highlight that EP has collectively supported with bringing digital inclusion to over 1.5 million New Zealanders!
Student Data Analytics
Inquire. Analyse. Act
No more slow, frustrating, manual, reporting with limited capability. Time can be spent improving educational practice, not wrestling with data!
New to Education Perfect?
This video is a great introduction to a number of key features including:
- How students use the program
- The available content
- Browsing content
- Assigning Tasks and Assessments
- Tracking Student Usage
