More than 100 Auckland kindergarten teachers have been ordered to take a tree-climbing workshop in order to be allowed to supervise kids tree climbing.
Since 2016, 120 early childhood education teachers have been put through the Auckland Kindergarten Association's (AKA) class, the Herald reports.
AKA Roskill South Kindergarten head teacher Karen Ramsay told the Herald the workshop helped create a "really rich and meaningful experience".
"We have a PowerPoint with lots of pictures on it, but also we go out into a reserve and look at trees as well," she said.
"They're doing a site assessment of the tree and just thinking about the condition of the tree."
An AKA spokeswoman said the workshops were created after several pre-schoolers were injured by trees.
She told the Herald these risks needed to be managed under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
However New Zealand Kindergartens Inc CEO Clare Wells said the workshop's existence was news to her.
"I know teachers obviously talk about children and risk-taking generally as part of the curriculum, but not specifically [tree climbing]," she told the Herald.
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