About Us

The founders were Stuart and Elizabeth Macmillan. It is with great sorrow that Elizabeth passed away on 15th November 2024.

Stuart was born in Honiton, Devon, UK in 1961. Of Scottish descent but also having a line of 2 generations from New Zealand, his family emigrated to NZ in 1974. Establishing this business with its guides have been the dream of Stuart and his late wife as they saw the decline in standards of children socially and academically.

From Stuart: “I am passionate to see the right skills being provided to children to see thm grow into socially responsible, successful people. This is not being provided by government curriculums that are often swayed by vocal minority groups. Our kits are not influenced by ideologies but rather by the basic understanding of what everyone need in life to be successful. I stand behind all we provide.”

Mission Statement

The purpose of Teaching Manuals is to provide a wide range of guides and resources to assist with education.

Education can be defined as the giving or receiving of instruction. At Teaching Manuals, we place value on the education of the whole person, not just the basics but pointers as to how each person can discover and learn by themselves.

Teaching Manuals also provide tools to aid in life. Guidelines on how best to study, how to fit in and make sense of the world, develop a code of values to live by, make friends, create plans to reach goals and methods to train the individual on how to succeed at all they do.

Our school-wide-project guides also help schools reduce bullying and truancy, create a safer and better educational environment, fit in with their community and teach each child in the way they need to be taught. Together, we can make schools a place kids want to be and parents want to send their kids to, a place of engaged and fundamental learning.

Our Values

Parents are the first and foremost educators of their children and secondly their extended family. Schools are an extension of the home and the first part of the community that young people become a part of and receive guidance and instruction.

Schools have to address the needs of the modern child to ensure they are equipped to handle challenges put before them and tools to assist them along their path. School Kits provide extra resources for schools to help them accomplish this in depth.

Our advantage is we are not controlled by government policies and all of our material is family-friendly based and based on a traditional worldview.

None of our resources includes any sexuality, RSE, “gender identity”, DEI or CRT that governments and organisations promote. We address students as he/she, boy/girl, and male/female as they are born and only agree with using pronouns and names that match a person’s biological sex. We do not promote cancel culture as we promote gender, social and racial equality. We are all born equally human. We promote an education system and schools that only supply all the essential and basic tools to prepare students for work, character development and success. The values we promote are time-tested and universally accepted (honesty, personal responsibility, integrity, empathy, etc).

Your Advantage with us

All of our resources are provided in both PDF and Google Docs so you can copy, share, customise and reorganise all the material on your Google Drive or create lessons and projects on Google Classroom.

There are no additional fees or subscriptions for our resources and no limit on the number of teachers or students you can share the material with within one school, unlike other resource providers.

Our History

We started in 2002 on seeing a need for our children to develop greater skills than just the academics and topics being taught at school. Back then we noticed an ever-decreasing spiral in the behaviour of youth and the fostering of personal values was lacking in education systems.

In our early years, we created and supplied schools with guides and resources on character education, bullying prevention, life skills and truancy reduction.

Over the years we expanded and produced more resources, lessons and books to help teachers and students. Today we cover an even greater spectrum of educational needs with a wide range of digital kits for education and learning. Our view is that we need less government-sponsored ideology being taught in schools and more flexibility to teach traditional subjects and the development of the mind.

You can se more of our products on our NZ site: School-Kits.