Alternative Education News

2026 Amazing Race: Identity & Connection Get your engines ready and your running shoes laced! This Friday, we are taking over the streets of Tamaki Makaurau for the 2026 Amazing Race: Identity & Connection. We have seven teams battling it out across eight secret locations. This isn't just a race; it’s a quest to rediscover our connection to this land, its history, and each other.The key is Team work, communication and resilience...

Welcome to ACES 2026 A New Season for ACES: Fresh spaces and new beginnings Welcome to a new landmark season for ACES (Auckland City Education Services)! As we kick off the new term, the air is thick with the "new car smell" of fresh opportunities. We are thrilled to announce a significant expansion and relocation for our campuses, providing our rangatahi with vibrant new learning environments to thrive in...

Kia ora! Parents, Caregivers & Whānau. All Black Great sends encouragement to Tuakana Welcome to the latest ACES Weekly Buzz! 🥳 While training up Maungawhau (Mount Eden Summit) over the weekend, I bumped into the great Tongan All Black wing Doug Howlett. Our conversation was highlighted by an importance piece of wisdom, his Father gave him to focus on...

Kia ora! Parents, Caregivers & Whanau. ACES Past, Present and Future Welcome to the latest ACES Weekly Buzz! 🥳 This issue is packed with cool updates on how our ACES students are learning and how to approach our end of year events!

Kia ora! Parents, Caregivers & Whanau. ACES Past, Present and Future Welcome to the latest ACES Weekly Buzz! 🥳 This issue is packed with updates spanning ACES academic achievement over the last 25 years, our vital impact in the Community and a celebration of wonderful student talent. We begin by highlighting a significant accomplishment: Damien’s presentation at the recent AALRA Action Research conference. This important study has been academically published and...

Kia ora! Parents, Caregivers & Whanau. Mental Health Awareness Week ACES On The Move! Introducing Julius - Jacob's Story - ACES Exhibition Welcome back to school for our Students and Tutors. Buckle Up! Term 4 is about to become a bustling and exciting ride! Our theme is to "CELEBRATE" and the term will have all the life, colour and vibrancy of a fruit bowl!

Tēnā koutou katoa parent(s), caregivers, whānau and external providers, We have more inspiring updates to share in this week’s newsletter. In this week's edition;

We have more inspiring updates to share in this week’s newsletter. In this week's edition: 🏉1. Introducing New Kaiako - Psalms 'Ilolahia Over the next 3 editions we will introduce our new staff members, who started with ACES AE last week, and we lead this week with the dynamic Psalms 'Ilohaia, joining the mighty Maungawhau Team.

We have more inspiring updates to share in this week’s newsletter. In this week's edition; 🏉1. Sport Academy Project - We look at Real world impact as Ākonga lesson plans come to life We reflect back through the eyes of student Freddie Muller, at the lessons delivered at New Windsor Primary by the Sport Academy Project Team.

We have more inspiring updates to share in this week’s newsletter, we want to firstly honour the wonderful tutor teams who work hard preparing lessons, in some cases picking up and dropping off Tauira to school, preparing lunches, navigating the roller coaster of regulating emotions and behaviours while creating an exciting and compelling curriculum and culture of belonging. Nga mihi nui ki a koutou.

We have some inspiring updates to share in this week’s newsletter — a great reflection of the energy, heart, and commitment across our ACES community and the talent and skill of our wonderful ACES Tauira.

A Month of Growth, Glory, and Giving Back – ACES’ Latest News! It’s been another exciting month at ACES, packed with opportunities to learn, compete, and grow! Firstly, coming up soon, our students will be getting some top-notch financial advice through Westpac's "Managing My Money" course—because let’s face it, who doesn’t need a little help when it comes to budgeting for that extra large coffee or for our Rangatahi those latest Nikes?

The Five Pillars of ACES and Honouring Buchanan... Tēnā koutou katoa parent(s), caregivers, whānau and external providers In this week's edition of the ACES Weekly Buzz, we celebrate the amazing staff wellbeing success story of the ACES Lions Indoor Netball Team, set up by our very own Reuben Feetau - Campus Leader Maungawhau.

In this week's edition of the ACES Weekly Buzz, the ACES Futsal Tournament was held two weeks ago and enjoyed by students, tutors and our professional stakeholders alike, we received some feedback on how it went; ACES says 'Farewell' to Maungarei's Chris Payne; we take a look at what our Tuakana have been up to this term; and Maungarei celebrates the end of the term.

In this week's edition of the ACES Weekly Buzz, we celebrate the amazing success of our whakawhanaungatanga and One School event, the ACES Futsal World Cup, held at Action Central, last Monday 9th June. Mauri ora.

This week's rundown in the ACES Weekly Buzz: > ACES Pink Shirt Day Champions

This week we catch up with Maungawhau's Mark Pomare as he walks us through the amazing, "Guardians of the Community" project and discusses the importance of safety in creating a successful learning environment.

This week, both campuses will celebrate Pink Shirt Day 2025 and we go behind the scenes with Hayward to look at what's planned around this important kaupapa.

Welcome to the first week of Term 2 - Full timetable. It's fitting that our Term 2 theme is Hapori or Community, as we would like to first warmly welcome our new students and their whanau/caregivers, who joined us during Whakawhanaungatanga Week, last week.

Welcome to the last week of Term 1 (yes already!). In this week's issue, we caught up with former ACES Maungarei Student Sam Puna (transitioned 2020); we finally get to meet everyone's favourite Maungawhau tutor, Ezra Purcell.