Plan for dealing with disruptive kids too late says PPTA
The Dom Post reports: Education Minister Anne Tolley unveiled plans at the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) national conference in Wellington yesterday to put 12,000 parents of disruptive kids...
View ArticleBulk Funding
Trevor Mallard blogs: Anne Tolley will announce a progressive introduction of bulk funding for schools starting soon with the staffing component for guidance and careers counsellors being abolished and...
View ArticleWellington Primary Schools
A friend of mine has their kids at St Marks (which by coincidence was my intermediate school) but it has got too expensive for him as fees have gone up 25%. They live in the Hutt but are happy to move...
View ArticleLet students and parents decide
Amanda Fisher at Stuff reports: After huge community pressure, including a hikoi to Parliament, the education minister has partly backtracked on proposed mergers of schools. In May, Anne Tolley...
View ArticleSchool Libraries
The Press reports: Schoolchildren will be asked to help fill the roles of Christchurch support staff facing job losses, a support staff worker says. … “In one case, a librarian has lost her job, a...
View ArticleChristchurch Schools
The Press reports: Principals were reduced to tears as their jobs, schools and communities were put on the chopping block. In an announcement marred by confusion, the Education Ministry said 13...
View Article10 ways to recognise a good school
Stuff reports Professor John Hattie’s 10 indicators for parents: 1. In the playground, do the students look each other in the eye? Or do they avoid each other, or sit in cliques. 2. Diversity breeds...
View ArticleThe Christchurch Schools announcement
Beck Eleven at The Press wrote: Few people embrace change. That’s just science. Nonetheless, it is inevitable, especially in this post-quake era. However, I find it incomprehensible how Education...
View ArticleGetting it right this time
Stuff reported: The Government will announce interim decisions for 31 schools earmarked for possible closure or merger as part of its ”education renewal plans” for the city at noon on Monday. Schools...
View ArticleChristchurch Schools details
The details are all on the dedicated website. A summary: Only 19 out of 215 schools in Canterbury are affected, representing around 5% of Canterbury pupils 12 schools that were proposed for closure or...
View ArticleEditorials on Chch schools
The Press editorial: The big reduction in the number of schools being forced to close or merge, announced by Education Minister Hekia Parata yesterday, is more than welcome. It ends the anxiety of the...
View ArticleLabour even complains about new schools!
Newstalk ZB reports: Two new schools are to be built in north east Hamilton, but the plans are not without controversy. Minister of Education Hekia Parata has announced a primary school will be built...
View ArticlePress says Parata listened
The Press editorial: The proposal that the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, put forward yesterday for changes to five schools in the eastern suburbs is a compromise and will not please everyone. It...
View ArticleInvesting in Educational Success initiative moves forward
Hekia Parata announced: Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed advice from sector leaders on the Government’s $359 million initiative to raise student achievement, saying it maintains momentum...
View ArticleLabour against paying the top teachers more
The Herald reports: The Government’s $359 million expert teachers policy has proved to be the latest in a series of “epic failures” in the education sector due to a lack of consultation with teachers...
View ArticleWhy didn’t he just cut his hair?
Stuff reports: A hero schoolboy is heading to court in a rare legal fight after he was suspended from college because his hair is too long. Lucan Battison, 16, who received a bravery award in April for...
View ArticleIs it the parents refusing the hair cut?
Stuff reports: The 16-year-old student suspended for having long hair could be back at college while waiting for his court hearing – if he agrees to a haircut. Lucan Battison was suspended from St...
View ArticleTest kids when they enter school
Stuff reports: Children whose knowledge isn’t up to scratch when they start school should be tested so the funding they require can be measured, a new report on child poverty says. Children in poverty...
View ArticleNine new schools for Auckland
The Herald reports: National will build nine new schools in Auckland if re-elected, associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye announced today. The schools would be built as part of a $350 million...
View ArticleA cool school app
Stuff reports: Keeping up with the kids’ school activities just got easier for some Hamilton parents thanks to a mobile phone app. Parents can notify absences, check upcoming events and get notices and...
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