2025's Day Info

Date & Location for 2025's Physics Teacher Day = Fri, Nov 28th @ AUT's downtown Auckland Campus

This is the 1st time we'll be at AUT instead of UoA.  The AUT engineering department is keen to host us. AUT is just across Wellesley Street from UoA's campus.  We'll be in the WZ Building off Symonds or St Paul Street.

Note: Nov 28th is the last day of the NCEA exam season and the Friday of week 7 of term 4. Hopefully teachers around/near Auckland can arrange cover if needed and attend.

We have now reached 190 folk registered to attend 2025's physics teacher day!  As the maximum allowed for this year's venue at AUT is 190 the registration form for this event has been removed.  

If you have yet to register and REALLY wanna come - email Dave Thrasher @ david.thrasher@stcuthberts.school.nz  

Include the following: 

• your name, 

• your school, 

• a detailed list of who from your school wants to come including full names and emails for each, 

• what dietary requirements each of those folk have

• if any want to present anything in the sharing session

Within a day or so Dave will reply to you whether or not there is still room for you to join the masses and attend the day.

Important notes for planned parts of the day: 

• For the 2nd year in a row, the entire registration fee including catered morning tea and lunch will be funded by MoE's Network of Expertise (NEX) for PLD managed by NZIP.  

• Therefore, there will be no cost to any teacher attending if they have a confirmed registration via the link above. 

• But there is a firm maximum of 190 attendees this year due to venue constraints. 

• Once 190 teachers have registered, no other registrations will be accepted.

• The final date to register is November 14th (two weeks before the Physics Teacher Day).

Be aware, if multiple teachers are attending from 1 school only a single registration form is needed. So have a chat with your workmates before registering, if you're lucky enough to have physics-teaching workmates! 

The day's schedule is still being worked on.  

At this point in time, our planned programme for the day includes:

• Keynote: Professor John Carter: soon to be Deputy Head of School: AUT Engineering

• Also info about AUT's Engineering Department: Mechatronics Lecturer Dr Daniel Konings

• A possible session on info from the UoA Engineering Department &/or Physics Department

• The traditional teacher-run sharing of ideas and Q&A

• A session looking at whatever we know about NZ's rewritten science curriculum and/or the changes to NCEA.

• A session discussing how Yr11 programs (including physics content/courses) currently happen and how those might change in 2028 and beyond in light of the proposed changes to NCEA.

• If time allows, a discussion on any issues that arise from the Level 3, 2 or 1 external physics exams.