A brawl between students yesterday has led an Auckland high school to shut its doors for the next two days so that "emotions" can cool down.
Papakura High School principal Simon Craggs said the school will remain closed today and tomorrow to give his team time "to investigate and for emotions to return to normal within the school".
Police were earlier called to the fight at about 2.19pm yesterday.
They attended and located a group of students "having an altercation, which grew as more students joined in", a police spokeswoman said.