Schools Programme

We’re offering inspiring experiences to Christchurch school students with FREE sessions for all ages!

Teachers, would you like to secure a booking for your students?

Email schools@wordchristchurch.co.nz. 

BOOKS ALIVE! FOR PRIMARY AND INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS

Kids, tell your teacher. Teachers, bring your class – we’ve got the best and brightest stars of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults coming to Ōtautahi Christchurch!

Books Alive is a programme of large-scale, immersive events that bring hundreds of students in touch with finalist authors and illustrators in the weeks leading up to the annual New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ceremony.

To register for your school for WORD Christchurch Books Alive events for August 2027 please email booksalive@nzbookawards.org.nz or schools@wordchristchurch.co.nz.

INSPIRING MINDS: SECONDARY SCHOOLS DAY
Thursday 23 September 2027, 10am– 2pm

FREE: To register your interest please email schools@wordchristchurch.co.nz

WORD is engaging and inspiring the future of Ōtautahi Christchurch with our free session for secondary school students across the motu. An amazing opportunity for students to meet and listen to exciting exciting writers and thinkers who are movers and shakers in their fields. The line-up will be released by June 2027.

To register your students please get in touch with our Schools Coordinator: Email schools@wordchristchurch.co.nz for more information and to come along.