New Plymouth Girls High School

• Regarding Travellers, we feel that for students who may be experiencing some stressful situations in their lives a chance to feel included, valued and supported in ways that they may not normally be.

• Travellers gives students with common issues an opportunity to interact with others in a more informal environment.

• Travellers gives pastoral staff  a heads up about students who may require extra support. Also provides a supportive environment to students who might otherwise be overlooked.

  School Counsellor

Nayland College

Schools will find the Travellers Programme valuable

  • as it uncovers issues Year 9 students are working with so they connect with the counsellors early in their secondary schooling.

• it is a strength-based programme which works to build resilience and empowers young people to accept that "life is a journey" and that they do have choices as to their future.

Auckland Boys Grammar

•  Love the survey. We have 500 students in our Year 9 intake!! We can get an awful lot of valuable information, (particularly on the High Group), within 3 weeks of starting school.

• The programme teaches valuable life skills that the students apply both backwards, (to what has happened in their lives to date), and forwards. They are being made more resilient and armed for the future.

•  We build relationships, but in particular, they build a relationship with the facilitators. They know where to come in the future when something happens, they bring friends or tell me about people in trouble, they help me recruit into Travellers, and they provide me with lots of valuable information. For me, the 8 weeks of the programme is an investment that pays a dividend for 5 years and sometimes longer.

Guidance Counsellor

McAuley High School

•   Travellers is a great Programme because the Questionnaire immediately picks out the most needy High risk students who benefit so much from the Programme.

• The skills that Travellers teaches are Life Skills that assist the student to keep safe, stay focused and improve in behaviour.

•  There is a marked noticeable improvement in the classroom learning of students once they’ve done the Travellers Programme and integrated the skills into their academic performance.

Guidance Counsellor