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Speaker 1: Heather Duper see Alan Heather lockdowns were never in the

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Speaker 1: public God. Actually, I'm going to deal with the lockdowns

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Speaker 1: and the tarmuquis and just to tack it's nineteen past

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Speaker 1: five now the governments announced it's going to try to

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Speaker 1: get kids a little bit of help with some of

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Speaker 1: those maths issues. So from next year there's going to

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Speaker 1: be a trial of maths tuition two thousand, Year seven

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Speaker 1: and Year eight students will be part of this program.

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Speaker 1: It will be intensive. The kids will get thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: extra tuition up to four days a week. In the

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Speaker 1: Education Minister's Erica Stanford, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Rika, Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. So what is this? Is

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Speaker 1: this the kids sitting in a classroom learning from a

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Speaker 1: teacher dedicated thirty minutes a.

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Speaker 2: Day something like that. We know that all of the

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Speaker 2: international evidence tells us that if you are really far behind,

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Speaker 2: especially in mathematics, one of the best interventions you can

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Speaker 2: do is intensive tutoring in small groups to get up

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Speaker 2: to where you need to be. Because a lot of

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Speaker 2: our students have missed big chunks of their learning and mathematics,

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Speaker 2: and we are particularly targeting those in Year seven and

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Speaker 2: eight who are not going to see all of the

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Speaker 2: benefits of our amazing new curriculum and all of our

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Speaker 2: new materials going to go off into high school and

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Speaker 2: not be where they need to be. So we've had

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Speaker 2: reading interventions in the past, we've never had one for maths.

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Speaker 2: And my intention is that we put this trial up,

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Speaker 2: see what it does, and then roll it out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so it's only for two thousand this time around,

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Speaker 1: But how many thousands of kids actually need it?

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Speaker 2: Do you think? Oh, there'll be many thousands of kids

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Speaker 2: that need it. I just want to make sure we're

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Speaker 2: doing the right thing. We have done some trials in

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Speaker 2: the past or that the previous government have as well

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Speaker 2: around tutoring, and we learned some lessons there. But this

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Speaker 2: is going to be a high bred model where we

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Speaker 2: have some young people learning groups of Ford just with

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Speaker 2: a tutor by themselves, four times a week half an hour.

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Speaker 2: And then we'll have a high bred model where we've

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Speaker 2: got that happening plus some online learning using a maths

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Speaker 2: program as well. And so we've got a few different

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Speaker 2: things running. We're going to see which one after twelve

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Speaker 2: weeks works the best. Which is the best intervention and

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Speaker 2: then we will lock to roll that out.

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Speaker 1: Listen, Erica. We spoke at the very start of the

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Speaker 1: program to a couple of principles from Havlock Northrope said

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Speaker 1: about the bus being cut for the schools coming in

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Speaker 1: from Clive, which is about ten or fifteen minutes away.

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Speaker 1: Is this just a cost saving thing by the Ministry

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Speaker 1: of Education.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not cost saving at all. Any eligible child

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Speaker 2: who is eligible for a school bus will get it.

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Speaker 2: The issue that we've got is we have rules in

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Speaker 2: place and if for ineligible students, the Ministry does reviews constantly.

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Speaker 2: They do them every single year to see as children

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Speaker 2: move in and out of different areas and different schools

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Speaker 2: are used to eligible for school transport, and if you're not,

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Speaker 2: then the route will change. So I'm going I think

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Speaker 2: in that particular case there is a public bus that

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Speaker 2: is available, then it becomes so we are the Ministry

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Speaker 2: are the provider of last resort when there is nothing

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Speaker 2: else available. But if there is a public bus, it

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Speaker 2: is then on the council to make sure that that

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Speaker 2: route is on time and then picking up the right

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Speaker 2: kids from the right place. That is up to them.

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Speaker 2: But look, I acknowledge that that there are some probably

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Speaker 2: some things we can do much better in school transport.

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Speaker 2: In March or February March this year, I've tasked the

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Speaker 2: ministry with some work to go away and have a

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Speaker 2: look at how we can do better.

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Speaker 1: Cool Erica, thank you so much appreciated Erica Stanford, Education Minister.

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