General News

The inaugural iWay design challenge has been won by year five students from Te Mata Primary School.

New Zealand’s largest provider of construction and trade training, Unitec, has announced plans to significantly boost student places in 2012 – welcome news for an economy in need of a growing construction workforce.

Eva Tinga from South Wellington Intermediate School won the 2011/2012 NZ Vegemite Spelling Bee Lower North Island competition last month.

The Variety Bash is travelling through the Lower North Island in March 2012 and wants to help children in need along the way.

Have you ever wondered how light works and what it is used for?
Believe it or not, light has a number of roles, from medicine to communications and security.

The Food and Grocery Council welcomes the launch of Be Healthy, Be Active, an online education resource for teachers and intermediate school children.

If a NZ child had won the election, their first order of business could be to provide children with nutritious food and water, hire more police and provide safer homes for children. The finding comes from international aid agency ChildFund’s second annual Small Voices Big Dreams survey which polled 4,600 children aged 10 to 12 from 36 developing countries and 8 developed nations, including 100 voices from NZ.

New Zealand’s first child abuse awareness event, Buddy Day, was successfully held in the Waikato on Friday, 18th November 2011 with the intent that in future it will go nationwide.

The New Zealand Opera School, based annually during January in Wanganui, is delighted to announce that the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation will be the sponsors for the final Opera School concert Great Moments of Opera 2012, in the Royal Wanganui Opera House.

Child abuse prevention organisation, Child Matters, has announced that Bridgette O’Sullivan has agreed to act as an ambassador for the organisation.