Choose Outdoors

Choose Outdoors

Our POET Coordinator Pete Guyan loves the outdoors – but what happens when you have your family in tow and being indoors is the more appealing and comfortable option? Pete has shared with us his recent family adventure and how the best stories can come from...
Hamilton Tramping Club

Hamilton Tramping Club

In today’s blog post, we are showcasing a local group – Hamilton Tramping Club who, alongside their passion for getting outdoors, have also recently stepped up and supported our work. Hamilton Tramping Club is a small, friendly Club which has been tramping...
Doing The Hard Mahi

Doing The Hard Mahi

Ngā mihi nui ki a koe to our amazing School Coordinators. To honour their hard mahi as part of our POET whanau, we are including a blurb of each of our School Coordinators on our website. Check them out here. Our School Coordinators are dedicated educators with a...
How I Got Into Outdoor Education

How I Got Into Outdoor Education

Our Programme Coordinator, Sophie Milne is taking over the blog today – she shares how she found her passion for the outdoors and turned it into her career: I’m lucky enough to be working in my dream career. If you told me 10 years ago that I’d be working in...
From “Totally Terrified”, to POET Leader

From “Totally Terrified”, to POET Leader

Let’s face it, school camp can be a pretty daunting experience for a wide eyed and nervous year 9 student. There are so many firsts on camp – their first time camping, staying out in nature, cooking meals, being away from family (and technology!), trying new...
Staying In & Getting Out

Staying In & Getting Out

Our Chair, Marlene Julian has written from her bubble to let us know how she is getting her daily dose of the outdoors during the New Zealand Covid-19 Alert Level 4: From my bubble to yours….what a glorious autumn day it is today. Just because I can’t drive to the...