School Stories

Discover how Telling Your Stories partnered with Sparrows Early Learning Centre to create a locally grounded picture book that strengthens identity, belonging, oral language and early literacy. Aligned with Te Whāriki and Kōwhiti Whakapae, this ECE project brings place based storytelling to life for tamariki, kaiako and whānau.

Explore three new stories for the Whangārei Hub, a cluster of 43 schools in the Kāhui Ako o Whangārei in Northland, Aotearoa. Together, these schools support more than 20,000 students, each connected through their shared learning and their place.

Whose Story Are We Telling? The Cost of Disneyfication and the Power of Oral Storytelling I was talking with a colleague just this week and she told me a story. She said she was working in a classroom with students and she asked, “Who knows Māui?” The answer was quick and united. “Oh, he’s in Moana, the movie.” Well of course he is.

Honouring Stories of Place: Bream Bay Kāhui Ako and the Telling Your Stories Project Over the past year, we’ve had the privilege of...

On Monday the 24th of February, we were thrilled to launch the newest Telling Your Stories  project at Ridgway School in Wellington. This...

On Thursday, 30 January 2025, we had the privilege of launching our latest Telling Your Stories project in Whāngarei with Excellere College.

Mt Tarikākā (often incorrectly called Mt Kaukau is a large hill in the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand near Johnsonville,...