Categories
To ensure that the Awards recognise and celebrate the best of New Zealand education achievements, entries will be judged in four categories, with an additional Education Focus prize also being awarded. From the four categories, a Supreme Award is given to the single best overall entry. Criteria for judging are drawn from the world renowned Best Evidence Synthesis and supported by education strategies and curriculum documents developed in New Zealand.
Descriptions of Awards categories
Excellence in Engaging
This award celebrates working together as a community to transform relationships and strengthen achievement, leading to improved and sustained outcomes for all children and young people.
Excellence in Leading
This award celebrates leadership and its influence on strengthening professional capability and creating a change in conditions, leading to improved and sustained outcomes for all children and young people
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
This award celebrates teaching that transforms the learning of all children and young people, and achieves improved and sustained outcomes.
Excellence in Health and Wellbeing Education
This award celebrates practices that enhance the health and wellbeing of all children and young people, and achieve improved and sustained outcomes.
Education Focus Prize
Excellence in Māori-medium Education: This award celebrates Māori-medium education in Kōhanga Reo and ngā Puna Kohungahunga (early learning services), kura, schools and wharekura that delivers excellent outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi.
The Prime Minister's Supreme Award
This award is selected from the winners in the four Award categories and is determined by the extent of improvement and impact on education outcomes.Prizes and acknowledgement
Recognising entries
All entries considered by the judging panel will receive feedback.
Recognising finalists
All finalists will receive certificates and a financial award to acknowledge their contribution to education.
As part of being recognised as finalists, each finalist group will be filmed by a professional production company to showcase their stories. The short films will be shown at the Awards ceremony and published here.
Category Awards and Prize
Winners of the four categories and focus prize will each receive a package that includes a trophy, certificate, a financial award ($20,000), and a professional development opportunity.
Supreme Award
The winner of the Prime Minister's Supreme Award will receive a package that includes the Supreme Award trophy, a certificate, an additional financial award ($30,000), and an opportunity to represent New Zealand education.
The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievement in New Zealand education.
To do this they will acknowledge the strengths observed in each entry and find ways to share these stories of success.
