CensusAtSchool New Zealand has just been run in May/June 2011. This is the fifth time CensusAtSchool has been held in New Zealand, and it is also run in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, UK and USA.

Over 25,000 Year 5-13 students from around the country have taken part to date by completing 31 questions. This is the second biggest participation the project has had to date. More than 1,600 teachers have registered their classes.

There has been significant media coverage of this year’s census – including a story on 3 News, front page story on the NZ Herald which went around the world, radio interviews on Newstalk ZB, Radio Live and Radio New Zealand National.

CensusAtSchool data will be made available to teachers and students via its website shortly and has been referenced in many New Zealand textbooks.

Almost 24,000 students have taken part

Thanks so much to all those who have taken part during the official data collection period! We really appreciate you getting on board.

If you haven’t taken part so far but would like to, good news:
We are keeping the survey open until the end of the school year.

We’ll be sending out an update soon about everyone’s data becoming available, but in the meantime we wanted to tell you about a new blog the Department of Statistics has launched:

http://www.statschat.org.nz

I think you’ll find lots of food for thought there about current statistics in the media and links to good resources. Subscribe to the site or bookmark it.

CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10

A quick reminder that there’s two more school days left of the official data collection period for CensusAtSchool – we’ve had over 21,300 responses to date!

After June 10, the survey will remain open for use during the rest of the year with your class, but we won’t be pushing the data collection side of things as much and will be focussing on getting the data ready for use.

Many thanks for your participation to date!

A quick reminder that CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10.

Please help us get as many students taking part this year before the end of next week.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Make sure your students take part!

Just a wee reminder that the end of CensusAtSchool is approaching and we’d LOVE, love, love for your students to take part if they haven’t already!

Can you get them to take part before the end of June 10?

Get your students to take part by visiting: censusatschool.org.nz

(Make sure you register first – you’ll be automatically emailed a code for your class to use.)

FAQ

When can my students take part?
Any time during school hours from May 2 – June 10

What should I do to prepare beforehand?
Read through the Making Measures document

Help! I can’t find my registration code, what do I do?

Simply re-register

Have another question?

Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com

Thanks so much to everyone who has taken part in CensusAtSchool so far…
We’re almost at 10,000 responses!

If you haven’t taken part yet, there’s still time. Please help us get the number of students taking part to be as big as possible.

We’d love your feedback if you’ve taken part so far – we’ll be doing a proper survey later in the year but if you have any little stories or feedback you can send in, I’d love to share it with everyone. Could you reply to this email with those?

Have a question? Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com

Unfortunately we were notified at the very last minute that the CensusAtSchool story was pulled from 3 News last night due to the late breaking Osama bin Laden news yesterday which took up a lot of the news hour.

We hope that the story will screen on 3 News tonight!

Welcome back… we’re SO excited that CensusAtSchool launches today!!!

Please get your students to take part by visiting: censusatschool.org.nz
(Make sure you register first – you’ll be automatically emailed a code for your class to use.)

FAQ

When can my students take part?
Any time during school hours from May 2 – June 10

What should I do to prepare beforehand?
Read through the Making Measures document

Help! I can’t find my registration code, what do I do?
Simply re-register

Have another question?

Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com

For urgent inquiries, phone Rachel Cunliffe: 027 3833 746

We’ll get back to you quickly!

Just a quick note to let you know a story on CensusAtSchool is being filmed right now for 3 News tonight!

We’ll let you know the link when it’s up online too, but thought you might like to tune in and tell your students!

It’s almost the end of the term and we know you’re looking forward to a well-earned lovely two week break!!

We just wanted to remind you that it’s time to take part in CensusAtSchool when you get back.

3 things you can do now:

1. Register if you haven’t already
2. Book in computer lab time for your class if needed
3. Download and read the teacher information pack (Word file)
4. Oh and… please spread the word to other teachers!

Stay tuned for more updates.