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Switching the lights back on post-COVID
Did you know that post-lockdown, the government is offering different financial incentives designed to encourage property upgrades across hundreds of…
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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School unveils buzzy student masterclass with Artist in Residence Programme
Mix a professional creative artist with impressionable students eager to learn and the results can be quite transformative.
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Green School Principal Speaks: Caring for the earth and connecting to nature
"As a Green School, we seek to be part of that change in our moral sphere and sense of connection…
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Union and employers come together to call on Government to address pay gap
The call comes after stop work meetings saw NZEI Te Riu Roa members under the ECE Collective Agreement and Barnardos…
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Interactive education: One size no longer fits all
In 2020, we witnessed an unprecedented shift forward towards interactive technology; not just because of COVID. Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of…
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How setting aside some ‘worry time’ can help reduce anxiety over COVID-19 lockdowns
Many New Zealanders will be feeling anxious, disappointed and even angry about the return of COVID-19 in the community.
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Op-Ed: Why schools need to compost
As we have observed, the biosphere basically does two things; it generates organic compounds and decomposes them...
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Young New Zealanders are turning off reading in record numbers – we need a new approach to teaching literacy
Meet Otis. He’s eight years old and until recently he didn’t want to read or write. Then his teacher changed…
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Urgent action needed to halt declining literacy
“We see disparities in Years 4-8 – for example, Māori students in English medium schooling typically have reading comprehension one…
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Op-Ed: Young innovators rise
We don’t have to look too far to see the swell of global crisis and a surge of young people…
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Language for life: funding for new early literary assessment tool
In some areas of Canterbury, alarming numbers of children are starting school with low oral language skills.
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National excellence award for passionate teacher of te reo Māori in teacher education
“I made the choice to learn te reo Māori. I love it and will always be a learner. I love…
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CASE STUDY: Awe-inspiring new sports precinct revitalises Christchurch
Christchurch has certainly endured several tragedies in the past several years; however, facilities like Ngā Puna Wai continue to bring…
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CASE STUDY: Meadowbank School shows “enormous pride” in new sports surfacing
After an extensive amount of fundraising over several years, including countless initiatives and hundreds of hours spent to raise the…
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Dr Hana O’Regan steps into Tumu Whakarae role at CORE Education
Dr O’Regan brings a rare combination of executive leadership, experience as an education practitioner, nternational recognition as a te reo…
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Op-Ed: Resetting hearts and minds: opportunities for transformation from turmoil
I believe our future would be served by looking to examples from our past that remind us that from turmoil…
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Whole-school wellbeing is a marathon not a sprint
If you focus on the new learning and insights, there may be some ‘COVID silver linings’, benefits from the past…
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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…
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N4L offers schools free internet health checks ahead of online exams
“These assessments give our school the assurance we need that there will be no unexpected surprises during the exam period,”…
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Bang for your buck with state-integrated school education, new study finds
“For instance, while the average student at a state school has a 30.5% chance of gaining UE, those at state-integrated schools…
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‘Biggest education changes in decades’ enacted
Education Act amendments are officially law. The most significant change to the original Bill is the restoring of restrictions on…
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Real-time reporting: revisiting and rethinking
Real-time reporting has been gaining more and more interest over time. In some educational settings the process change from a…
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Bring on the money! Covid-19 costs covered with new funding announcement
$38 million will help schools cover unexpected costs related to COVID-19.
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$69m online learning cash injection
The package marks a substantial investment in NCEA Online exams from the government.
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Communicate better with paging and PA systems
To hasten the safe return of students to classrooms post-lockdown, certain tasks skipped to the top of the collective to-do…
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