Associate Minister of Education Hon David Seymour has announced Budget 2024 will provide $8 million of funding over two years for a new targeted programme to provide food to up to 10,000 two-to-five-year-olds who attend community-based early learning services in low socioeconomic communities. This initiative will begin in 2025. 

Planning is underway with the support of an expert advisory group. Keep an eye out for more information in a future bulletin. 

Smarter lunch programme feeds more, costs less – Beehive.co.nz

Contact school.lunches@education.govt.nz with any inquiries.

In the 26 April He Pānui Kohungahunga | Early Learning Bulletin, we gave you information and resources about the full framework of Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa, which came into effect on 1 May.

Using the updated Early Learning Curriculum Framework – Bulletin 26 April

To support licensed services (centre-based, home-based, hospital-based) that are implementing Te Ara Whānui, we have updated guidance for the curriculum licensing criteria. We want to know if this guidance is clear and ask you to complete a survey, which will be open until 26 July.

You can access the survey on our website:

Seeking sector feedback on updated guidance for curriculum criteria – Ministry of Education

We are aiming to provide draft guidance for feedback to support Te Ara Māori later in the year.