Science for all

In the last three months we have delivered 3,120 science kits to schools, which equates to 253,000 experiments completed by 5-12 year old students across New Zealand. This was our busiest quarter in the 12 year history of our existence!

August is a big month for the House of Science team, with our annual staff conference held in the sunny Western Bay of Plenty. This year we enjoyed three days of learning, challenges and strategic planning. Our goal is always to reach every 5-12 year old student in New Zealand with our engaging, hands-on science resource kits and empower primary school teachers to deliver great science lessons every week, in every classroom, everywhere. With a third of the country’s schools regularly using our resources there is some way to go but we are up for this task.

Our resource development team are currently working on a new topic to add to the library, called ‘Things with Wings’. It’s another excellent kit that looks at the natural and man-made world of flight. Feedback from our test schools has been very positive and we look forward to rolling this kit out to all our 21 branches soon. The development of this resource was made possible with funding from the New Zealand Aviation Federation.

Thank you for your continued interest in our programme, we could not do this without the generous support of companies, trusts, community grants and individuals like yourself.

In the last three months we have delivered 3,500 science kits to schools, which equates to 284,000 experiments completed by 5-12 year old students across New Zealand.

We opened our 21^st branch, servicing the Nelson/Tasman region at the top of the South Island, at the start of the year. To date 14 local schools have signed up to use our kits and already 5,500 experiments have been completed by these schools.

In May we announced two exciting new partnerships, with dairy giant Fonterra and leading global aerospace company and top U.S. exporter, Boeing.

Our kit development team completed a brand new resource on the heart, and are currently working on a new aviation resource that will be available to schools later in the year.

Finally, we held our Annual General Meeting and distributed our annual report, a celebration of all we have achieved in 2024 and all the partners that made it possible.

Links:

• Boeing partnership launch media article

• Annual report 2024 (PDF)