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Administration
Boosting mental health and skyrocketing resilience
Last year, a group of five students from Whanganui High School won the most demanding level of achievement for young…
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Education
A guide for teachers: what to do if a teenager watches violent footage
Students are finding and watching disturbing footage of the Christchurch Mosque attack. There are a few things we know about…
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Health & Safety
Post-Christchurch attack lockdown review initiated
The Review will get underway within the next two weeks and will take a while to complete.
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Activities
Aspirations of Māori students boosted by Waikato initiative
Experiencing subject learning in a workplace context is having “positive and profound” effect on secondary school students throughout Waikato, with…
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Administration
5 self-care tips for grieving teachers
Make sure your own ‘oxygen mask’ is firmly in place before you try to help anyone else.
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Property
Solar power: sun, STEM & stimulating cost savings
Case studies and insights: Meet the schools ahead of the solar curve and hear from leaders in the solar sector…
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Administration
What do I say? “Dead, dying, death.”
We received all your questions, so let’s talk about student suicide: how to respond, how to prevent and how to…
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Events
Sports Day planning: everyone’s chance to shine
Love it or hate it, bring the eggs and spoons, rally up the rounders team and oil up the wheelbarrows.…
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Activities
Teacher bases winning ways on developing curious minds
It is likely all Tawa schools will benefit from Carol’s win. School Principal, Kelly Barker, says Hampton Hill could use…
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Administration
Trailblazing role brings Te Reo to digital classrooms
In a first for New Zealand education, a cluster of Northland schools now has its own Rumaki and Reo Rua…
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Education
MoE support for schools post-Christchurch attack
"While we remain very focused on Christchurch schools, kura and early learning services, we know children and young people around…
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Administration
Secondary teachers and NZEI support student climate action
“We belong to the successive generations who have made this climate mess, and we are whakamā our young people are…
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Education
Education in schools needed to address gender equality
If boys and girls are virtually the same socially, psychologically and cognitively, there is no need to try and fit…
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Administration
Exploring sustainable school ideas
If anyone has a vested interest in environmental sustainability, it’s today’s youth. Unfortunately, they are growing up in a society…
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News
CensusAtSchool: a statistical experience for students
“Students get the whole statistical experience – from filling in the survey to delving into the data to gain valuable…
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Administration
Taskforce gathering intel on future schooling system
Is our current education system still relevant? Does it work for those that are parents, school board members or educators?
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Education
$1.27m funding for gifted education starts this term
One-day schools bring gifted children together for one day each week, so they can engage in different types of challenging…
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Administration
Secondary teachers hoping for realistic government offer
National action has been pencilled in for April 3, the Post Primary Teachers' Association has revealed.
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
Outdoor furniture in learning environments
According to Ken Robinson, "We know three things about intelligence: One, it’s diverse… We think about the world in all…
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Administration
After 10,000+ quakes, how do we help our tamariki?
How do we improve learning and behaviour of school children after a natural disaster?
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Industry Voices
Pump up the heat with max efficiency
10 degrees Celsius is the lowest acceptable temperature for a teaching classroom. We have firmly entered the age of environmental…
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News
Hundreds of teacher vacancies as schools reopen
Some principals said they had been forced to take measures such as hiring retired teachers, using several part-timers to cover…
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News
Why we are quitting: teachers reveal all
"Far too much teaching for assessment rather than for learning and critical thinking. Endless administration, pointless meetings and increasingly unreasonable…
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Profiles
Mahi and aroha rebuilds self-belief for kids, whanau and community
Previously under statutory management our school had a falling roll, results of varying standards, the property was in disrepair, and…
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Administration
A word from the Ministry on school transport
Kura are provided with separate transport funding in recognition of the philosophy of Māori immersion. Funding is provided on a…
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