Archive: 2016

THREATS MADE TO SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE TODAY

Posted 1 December 2016

As you may or may not be aware, there have been a number of bomb threats made to our schools in New Zealand today, Thursday 1st December 2016. THE RECOMMENDATION FROM HARRISON TEW IS THAT IF YOU RECEIVE A BOMB THREAT, THE ...

How To Help Children Cope with Disasters

Posted 15 November 2016

After natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunami threats, people often need physical first aid, but what about the need for psychological first aid?  Nigel Latta presents a fantastic discussion on helping children cope with disasters and trauma here - http://www.goldfishwisdom.org/parents/coping-with-disasters including trying to ...

UPDATE ON TODAY'S EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH CANTERBURY

Posted 14 November 2016

 As of 3.30pm The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management has cancelled the tsunami warning in place for Wellington to Banks Peninsula. Based on all available data, Civil Defense says the tsunami threat has now passed. But it says coasts may still ...

UPDATE ON NORTH CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE

Posted 14 November 2016

Click below to read the latest updates on this morning's earthquake  As of 12.30pm - There is a tsunami marine and beach threat from Wellington to Banks Peninsula. The threat for all other regions has been lifted.   All previous threat regions will experience unusually strong ...

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE HAS HIT NORTH CANTERBURY REGION

Posted 14 November 2016

Just after midnight a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck 15km northeast of Culverden, with a series of continuing aftershocks. Since then, there have been several severe earthquakes in the Seddon and Kaikoura region. Strong earthquakes have been felt in Wellington and throughout both ...

2017 TRAINING PROGRAM

Posted 3 October 2016

HARRISON TEW will be undergoing a revised training program for school's during the 2017 year. The training will look to expand the schools current capacity to deal with incidents. We will be in touch with schools shortly arranging dates for this training. If ...

ROWANDALE SCHOOL IN LOCK DOWN

Posted 3 February 2016

ROWANDALE SCHOOL IN LOCK DOWN This morning at approximately 8.15am, Wednesday the 3rd of February 2016, Rowandale School, Manurewa went into lock down as a result of suspects of a recent shooting at police in South Auckland, allegedly being in the vicinity ...