SchoolNews - New Zealand

Your stories: Omakere School’s journey to Environmental Manaakitanga

Omakere's normal school year centres around a whole-school inquiry into its environment: "Most of our class work, including literacy and maths, activities, and artwork focuses on caring for the environment.”

Wine-making a passion project for St Peter’s Cambridge Year 10-12 students

Collectively hand-picking 1.5 tonnes of grapes on a clear March morning, the bounty was delivered within 2 hours to Volcanic Hills Winery at the base of Mt Ngongotaha in Rotorua.

What do students need in the age of lockdown learning? Early lessons from New Zealand’s online frontline

Op-Ed: Why schools need to compost

Music education win to support NCEA students

Addressing Rangatahi education challenges after COVID-19

Bringing local histories to life through te reo Māori resources

Applications have opened for round four of Te Aho Ngārahu, a fund that enables Māori storytellers to develop quality localised te reo Māori education resources for ākonga, kaiako and Kāhui Ako.

Nanogirl teams up with teachers and TVNZ to broadcast free STEM lessons

5 ways to keep human connections when moving learning online due to coronavirus

How can video assist your classroom?

Climate change resource a good start but more work to do

Wine-making a passion project for St Peter’s Cambridge Year 10-12 students

Collectively hand-picking 1.5 tonnes of grapes on a clear March morning, the bounty was delivered within 2 hours to Volcanic Hills Winery at the base of Mt Ngongotaha in Rotorua.

‘Sugar in Schools’ project has many benefits

School parking pitfalls: Is the run, walk or roll to your school stressful?

School migration might help slow rising obesity levels and improve independence skills; but it is never going to be possible 100 percent of the time for all families and increasing foot traffic around school carparks…

$199 million education wellbeing package now complete

Primary school counselling support gets green light

A rose-tinted cure: the myth of coloured overlays and dyslexia

NZ parents concerned children could catch COVID-19 at school, Otago study reveals

Locking down professional quality sports surfaces

School News took some time this issue to speak with industry experts in sports facility resurfacing to find out about new design trends, drainage concerns and different application types.

CASE STUDY: Meadowbank School shows “enormous pride” in new sports surfacing

CASE STUDY: Awe-inspiring new sports precinct revitalises Christchurch

As sport resumes after lockdown, it’s time to level the playing field for women and girls

Forget old screen ‘time’ rules during coronavirus. Here’s what you should focus on instead

We need public value from govt funding of the private Green School New Zealand

The criticisms from educators are that this decision conflicts with values we hold dear in New Zealand, especially the value of equity in education. Even the Green Party sees it as a violation of its…

Switching the lights back on post-COVID

Listen here: How acoustics impact learning

Op-Ed: Why schools need to compost

Communicate better with paging and PA systems