A female teacher struck off for sleeping with a student has been ordered to pay a third of the disciplinary proceeding costs.
Kelsey Rebekah Allen was a newly-graduated physical education and health teacher at Morrinsville College in Waikato when she started a relationship with an 18-year-old student in late 2014.
Allen, then 22, had a months-long relationship with the student that involved kissing, oral sex and sexual intercourse.
It started when Allen began counselling the student, the New Zealand Teachers' Disciplinary Tribunal heard last year.
The pair exchanged thousands of intimate texts between August and November 2014.