Melissa Chan-Green
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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Hi and welcome to School Shorts with me, Melissa Chan-Green, journalist and mum of two with a passion for education.
We have looked at learning challenges and struggles that students might face, especially when they are beginning school in other episodes.
We're going to look a little more specifically this time at what are some of those root causes
And what can we change as parents if we are more aware of that?
And what impact does that have on their learning outcomes?
So we are joined by Ondi Ford and Carolyn Masson from Ready for Learning.
Kia ora.
Thank you so much for being with us, ladies.
Ondi and Carolyn.
Kia ora.
Co-founders of Ready for Learning.
What does Ready for Learning mean?
When are you ready for learning?
Yeah, because so what you're doing and you're saying is, look, in New Zealand and in other countries around the world, we typically have children start school when they are five.
How do you best prepare those children for being ready at five?
And what are you seeing in terms of school readiness at the moment?
Listening.
Do you think that COVID made us pay more attention and go, oh, hang on, we're noticing these challenges and...
We attributed it to COVID, but perhaps it was just actually that we started to go, we really need to have a look at what's happening here.
So with structured literacy, I mean, so much of the science around that is how do you scaffold children so they don't have to hold a lot in their working memory and they take, you know, one step at a time.
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