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Principal of 18 years leaves to take up Wellington post
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Principals are concerned families with connections to the schools will be out of zone.
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Tauranga iwi setting 'new benchmark' with curriculum collaboration
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'Are you from here?': Incident at Devonport Primary School fair sparks investigation
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Truancy crisis: One officer for 80 schools in Waitematā East
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Classmates' messages to be read at Auckland schoolgirl's funeral
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Editorial: Bringing disabled schoolchildren back into the fold
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Neighbouring schools on high alert after latest Papatoetoe High School Covid scare
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Dan Bidois: How to stop the school system failing our young
Opinion: Schools, parents, and the sector need better oversight of low-performers.
'Icing on the cake': Primary school gets brand new $3.5m classroom block, first since 1956
The primary school hasn't had a new classroom since it was built in 1956
Local Focus: New Pāpāmoa school opens
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Back-to-school stress to be 'amplified' this year
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Schools preparing for Covid-19 lockdown
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Back to School: How to build a healthy lunchbox your kids will eat
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Reading between the lines
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War of words as experts clash over how to teach kids to read
Debate raging between experts on whether phonics is the way to teach reading or a "fad".
Roll estimates give Tauranga a new biggest school
Principals of fast-growing schools complain the ministry is moving too slow on new builds.
Revealed: The Rotorua schools expecting growing rolls
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Mark Bracey: Why phonics isn't the silver bullet to improved reading
Opinion: Learning to read can come naturally as a child is exposed to text in a fun way.
Shock after much-loved Canterbury school principal's sudden holiday death
Alan John Sutton died of a heart attack while in Ashburton on Sunday.
Local Focus: Building future scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians
Getting kids to solve problems "from the ground up". Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Sneak peek given for Pāpāmoa's Te Ōkūroa Drive School ahead of 2022 opening
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'Shameful': A third of New Zealand 8-year-olds say they are bullied
'This is the children telling us in their own words that this is happening.'
Seven years in the making: Tauranga Primary unveils new pou
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Adam Duchac on New Zealand's truancy problem
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Primary school principals back breakaway union
Dissatisfaction with the NZEI has lead to approval to break away from the union.
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Auckland school locked down after two people try to remove child
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