About After Tea
After Tea is not a school, not a kura, not official advice, not a Ministry of Education product. No child accounts. No student PII. We do not invent achievement objectives. Parent Portal year summaries are labelled as parent summaries, not AOs. Practice is teacher-designed and aligned to a named, published strand.
The job
Help a parent understand this year, this term, this subject. Gohan’s v1 is Year 2 and Year 5, English and maths, Term 4 2026. Tap a year and a subject. See official term dates. Read Parent Portal language labelled not an AO. Print a child sheet and a parent card. Te reo Māori is a spoken thread, not a fourth course. Science is out of this cut.
After Tea is a parent letter for Term 4 2026 — Year 2 and Year 5, English and maths. We keep macrons. Content is versioned JSON in this Origin repo — no live scrapes, no GitHub mirror, no second repo. The locked spec lives in PRODUCT.md.
What this site is not
- Not a school, and not a substitute for one.
- Not official advice, and not an MoE or Tāhūrangi product.
- Not a tutor marketplace, not a B2B LMS, not Education Perfect.
- Not Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (the Māori-medium curriculum).
- Not NCEA — that is a later lane, not the homepage.
- Not child accounts, and not a store of student PII.
- Not a scrape of Education Perfect, Mathletics, Studyladder, Twinkl, TPT, or school portals.
Sources
Official-first. Education Counts is for context stats only — we have not invented a figure. We do not reproduce official AO tables.
Ministry of Education
School terms and holidays datesOfficial term and holiday dates for state and state-integrated schools. Last checked 30 August 2026.
Used for: This-term calendar on the home page and /terms
Ministry of Education
Guide for the New Zealand Curriculum — Years 0 to 8 (Parent Portal)Official parent-facing year pages. After Tea treats “your child is learning to / by the end of the year” lists as Parent Portal summaries of the gazetted teaching sequence, labelled not an achievement objective.
Used for: Every Gohan session — Parent Portal year language, labelled not an AO
Ministry of Education
Education CountsOfficial statistics and research. After Tea may link here for context only. We do not invent roll or achievement figures.
Used for: Context stats — none invented in v1
New Zealand Gazette
2025 and 2026 School Term Dates and Minimum Half-day Opening RequirementSecondary legislation setting 2026 term dates.
Used for: Cross-check of 2026 term dates
Ministry of Education
The New Zealand Curriculum — Mathematics and Statistics Years 0–10 (2025)In effect from 1 January 2026 for English-medium state and state-integrated schools through Year 10. Teaching sequences are organised into six strands: Number, Algebra, Measurement, Geometry, Statistics, and Probability.
Used for: Year 2 and Year 5 maths sessions — Tāhūrangi phase citation
Ministry of Education
The New Zealand Curriculum — English Years 0–10 (2025)In effect from 1 January 2026. For Years 0–8 the teaching sequence is organised into three strands: Oral Language, Reading, and Writing.
Used for: Year 2 and Year 5 English sessions — Tāhūrangi phase citation
Ministry of Education
The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) — Science learning areaThe 2007 Science learning area remains in effect until 1 January 2027. It has five strands: Nature of Science (unifying), Living World, Planet Earth and Beyond, Physical World, and Material World.
Used for: Honesty note only — science is out of the Gohan v1 cut
Ministry of Education
Draft Science Years 0–10 (Te Mātaiaho refresh)Published for familiarisation. The Ministry states the current Science curriculum remains in effect until 1 January 2027. The draft organises Years 0–10 into Physical Science and Biological Science.
Used for: Honesty note on science refresh timing — not used as current official strands
Ministry of Education
Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i Te Reo Māori – Kura Auraki (Curriculum Guidelines for Teaching and Learning Te Reo Māori in English-medium Schools: Years 1–13)Official guidelines for te reo Māori in English-medium settings. Te reo Māori is an official language of New Zealand. After Tea does not claim to deliver a school te reo programme or a kura kaupapa pathway.
Used for: Te reo thread on Year 2 maths (numbers to 100) — not a fourth course
Ministry of Education
The New Zealand Curriculum / Te MātaiahoThe national curriculum for English-medium schools. Te Marautanga o Aotearoa is the parallel document for Māori-medium settings. After Tea follows the English-medium pathway unless a page says otherwise.
Used for: Site-wide framing and the /about page