Longworth Education

Recently New Zealand has been honoured with visits from some of the most highly regarded international movers and shakers of the education world.  In March, Sir Ken Robinson presented his vision for an education system that values creativity, innovation and curiosity a...

One of the biggest perceived barriers schools face when choosing to implement a learning through play approach is a fear of the response from their parent community.  Many schools worry that their parents will believe that the school, in adopting play as the medium for...

In the era of Modern Learning Environments and all the various rhetoric around what constitutes 21st Century Learning Environments, one key point seems to be lacking in the conversation.  Money is heavily invested in making our learning environments look ‘modern’ (brig...

-Learning at Longworth Forest-

How many Parents and Teachers take the time to sit and watch a child’s dramatic play? The demands placed on our daily lives  do not often allow us the privilege of  spending time observing and listening. If we decided to prioritise what l...