Prestigious Awards

Study Awards
Year	Recipient	School	Study Topic
Scholarships
1997	Owen Arnst	Wakari	School wide self-esteem building.
1998	Dave McWhinnie	Anderson's Bay	Promoting Your School in a Positive Way.
2000	Nigel Wilson	Kaikorai	Integration of computer education through the curriculum.
2001	Sally Direen Paddy Ford Tony Hunter Bruce Robertson	Balaclava Halfway Bush Wakari Arthur Street	Homework centres and shadowing as a professional development technique.
2002	Patsy Inder Noel Matthews	Caversham Calton Hill	Welfare and learning programmes which promote high achievement for Maori and boys. Homework Centres.
2003	Steve Brown Danny Knudson	Brockville George Street Normal	Achievement of Boys. Gifted Children.
2004	No Award.
Prestigious Awards
2005	Paddy Ford	Halfway Bush	Self-management and autonomy in schools.
2006	Bruce Roberston	Arthur Street	I.C.T. application and use in schools in New Zealand and beyond.
2007	Garry Anderson	The Terrace	Physical Education.
2008	Whetu Cormick	Macandrew Intermediate	The Arts.
2009	Gary Tenbeth	College Street	To explore the concept of “thinking” and to make a linkage to our curriculum’s key competencies.
2010	Wendy Brookes	Cromwell	Restorative Justice.
2011	Tony Hunter	Tahuna Normal Intermediate	Behaviour Modification.
2012	Chris Smith	Millers Flat	Studying the Scottish Ministry of Education's Glow Programme.
2013	Richard Newton	St Clair School	Investigate the impact of flexible teacher student staffing models.
2014	Jenny Clark	Opoho School	Jenny will be attending the ICP in Finland and visiting schools to further understand equitable education systems. A particular focus will be on strategies implemented in schools to establish equitable learning opportunities and the processes for facilitating collaboration between teachers, school leaders and schools
2015	Brent Caldwell	Mornington School	Brent will examine current best practices used to support the learningof priority learners (dyslexic children) within the modern learning context at Fairly House School in London, an independent day school for hcildren with Special Learning Disabilities. Fairly House School doubles as a research centre to advance teaching and learning programmes for dyslexic children.
2016	Tania McNamara	Milton School	Tania will address the lack of oral language skills in chidlren starting school, reflecting on current practices and inquiring into research surrounding new and innovative ways to enable our children to be come successful learners of literacy, by developing oral language skill sin the first three years of school. Her research will include vsiting prominent London schools working with Talk4Writing and attendance at the Talk4Writing conference in London.
2017	Heidi Hayward	Dunedin North Intermediate School	Alternative Education for Troubled and Traumatised Children
2018	Stephanie Madden	Abbotsford School	Stephanie is investigating how schools can support students to develop resilience, independence, persistence and intellectual risk taking through applying the 'Challenging Learning' philosophy.
2019	Gareth Swete	Sawyers Bay School
2020	Jen Rodgers	St Clair School	To understand how to enable more play in a Y5-6 child's day while ensuring they have a rich curriculum to prepare for future learning. Also enabling learners to be fully agentic in their learning through play. Developing children's metacognitive understanding of their play would be an outcome of my research.
2021	No Scholarships awarded due to COVID
2022	Greg Hurley	Silverstream School
2023