School News

NZQA scholarship results show that St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland is New Zealand’s top school at Scholarship level for the sixth consecutive year. 

Students at the all-girls college were awarded a total of 120 scholarships, of which 20 were at outstanding level. 

Legitimately eating chocolate as part of your homework is surely every 10-year-olds dream come true. This term, several y-7 students from ACG Sunderland got to enjoy this task when developing a new chocolate product for Whittaker’s chocolate and creating a targeted advertising campaign to launch it to market.

Fulbright New Zealand and the Cognition Institute have selected two researchers from different education sector branches for exchanges to the United States of America in 2011.

Ngaire Addis from Havelock North High School and Dr Veronica O’Toole from the University of Canterbury are the two recipients of Fulbright – Cognition Scholar Awards in Education Research for 2011, and will each spend several months in the US conducting research aimed at improving aspects of the schooling system in NZ.