29/12/2024
Over the last few years, we have undertaken a journey of reflection, planning for the future and transforming services. We have met with families and had a planning day with the whole team. We have worked with local groups and iwi and have determined that a new name is part of our way forward, along with some changes to how we work. These changes may not be things that are entirely obvious to our families or our community looking in, but have been transformative and we believe will ensure that we are providing the best possible opportunities to get great outcomes for the tamariki and whaanau we work with.
As of January 2025, Conductive Education Waikato will be known as Wana Tamariki Trust. Wana means to bud, shoot, come to life, seedling or young shoot. It also means to be exciting, stimulating, thrilling and moving. It is about having excitement, passion and energy. We believe that this is a very good fit for our tamariki and whaanau and is how we want to work moving forward. Ngati Wairere supported us in the process to find our new name and we are especially indebted to them for this. There are many things we want to achieve in 2025 under our new look and we look forward to sharing these with you as the next year unfolds. We would love to hear your thoughts about our new look and we will be rolling this out from early 2025.
