Welcome to Explore Pippins – we are so happy that you have joined us and know that your tamariki will have a lot of fun and learn some great things!

Explore Pippins is designed to be a girl-led programme, but we encourage parents to supervise and enjoy sharing the experience with your tamariki. Some activities require adult involvement for safety and developmental reasons, others your tamariki will be able to achieve independently.

We recommend using the Google Chrome browser to view the Explore Pippins website. If you are having problems playing an activity, we suggest you check which internet browser you are using and switch to Google Chrome.

Pippin Leader

You will get an email from your Explore Pippin Leader (to the email address you used to register) with their contact email address in it. Your Explore Pippin Leader is one of our wonderful volunteers who has been trained in GirlGuiding NZ practices as well as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Educational Method. They will be able to help guide you towards badge completion and help you on your Guiding journey.

You are welcome to send specific questions about the programme through to your Pippin Leader. Please forward any more general questions to the Explore Pippins staff team, explore@ggnz.org.nz

Your Explore Pippin Leader will communicate with her via your registered email. We suggest reading the weekly emails together so that you can share in their achievements.

Parent Portal

You will also be sent a link to register on our Parent Portal which is an important site where you can track badge progress, check on event invitations and stay up-to-date with GirlGuiding updates. You should receive a link to the Parent Portal within 24 hours of registering for Explore Pippins. If you haven’t please check your spam folder (and mark us as a safe sender!) or contact us on explore@ggnz.org.nz. If you’re having trouble setting up your Parent Portal login, please see these instructions.

If any of your contact details change please update them in the Parent Portal.

Uniform

We will post a sash out to you for badges to be sewn on to.

Once you set up your Parent Portal account, you will be invited to optional Guiding events. Each event is different but some events she may be required to wear a Pippin t-shirt, e.g. ANZAC Day Service.

You don’t need to purchase a uniform although many of our tamariki like to wear one while they are doing their Pippin activities. Uniforms and other Guiding items can be purchased via XCM.