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New Zealand’s first senior secondary school is open for business on Auckland’s North Shore and it doesn’t just push the boundaries for new schools, it breaks them.

“After the first day at Porirua College I wondered what I’d got myself into. I couldn’t pronounce many of the students’ or teachers’ names, I had no idea of their background and little idea of where to start in terms of building relationships with them – well, without sounding a bit thick or ignorant… at this point I knew I had a challenge ahead of me,” Helen Hardwick (HOD PE Porirua College).

Children have until 15th April to submit their pictures for the 19th International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment.

Cecilia Johnson has recently returned from Tanzania where she worked as an English Teacher Trainer on assignment with Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) in a secondary school in Arusha. She muses on whether she ‘made a difference’.

It’s a globe-trotting year ahead for two Lincoln University Commerce degree students who have wrapped up their study and will soon be capped.

Students in Wellington and Hutt Valley secondary schools are being denied information about local Te Atiawa history according to Victoria University graduate Dr Richard Manning.

When Papakowhai School in Porirua took over the running of their after school programme from a private provider it could have been a huge headache.

Education Outside the Classroom brings the revised NZ Curriculum ‘alive’ encapsulating the underlying principles; vision and values; key competencies and learning areas. It offers teaching and learning in ‘real’ contexts through connections with community and environments.

Sixty per cent of school trustees are planning to re-stand in the 2010 triennial trustee elections, with a further 10 per cent yet to make up their mind says the president of the NZ School Trustees Association (NZSTA).

When do fish become fishes and mice become mouses?