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Three's a crowd on holiday

For the past 6 months the Kelly triplets have been excitedly counting down the days leading to their return to Milton Primary School.

Three's a crowd on holiday

6-year-old identical triplets Olivia, Charlotte and Haylee have been excitedly counting down the days leading to their return to Milton Primary School.

School's out...let holiday fun begin

It's a big step in a small person's life - going to school. For some it's traumatic, for others just overwhelmingly exciting.

Brave kids not bugged by creepy crawlies

Move over milk and lunch monitors - a cockroach infestation at an Auckland school has forced it to introduce roach monitors.

The teacher 'talent drain'

Senior education officials say the teacher drain from Auckland is reaching crisis point - leading to calls for an "Auckland allowance".

Parents shop around the elite schools

A move by one of the country's most exclusive private schools to take girls at a younger age has seen an exodus of 50 students from its competitors.

Wanaka boy accepted into new school

The Education Ministry's head of sector enablement and support, Katrina Casey, said a school had been directed to enrol the boy.

Tom Nicholson: Dyslexic kids need more than kind words

Murray Britt & Kay Irwin: Returning to rote learning 'condemns future to failure'

Children learn to use strategies to build a wide repertoire of mathematical knowledge, write Murray Britt and Kay Irwin.

Editorial: Big overhaul of numeracy doesn't add up

There is no need for a major overhaul to the Numeracy Project, just modification so that rote learning is taught for the benefit of struggling pupils.

Teachers of maths to be targeted

Falling maths grades will be addressed by "lifting" primary teachers' knowledge through more on-the-job training, the Government says.

Kids' math skills don't add up

A report to be launched by the Minister of Education today criticises the way pupils are taught maths and calls on parents to demand a return to basics.

Now you are five - stay home

Primary schools are looking to adopt new policies that will see children begin at preset dates throughout the school year - meaning some will wait up to five weeks after they turn five.

Parents, place trust in ECE

Is NZ childcare up to scratch?

A Herald investigation has found there were 150 services reviewed by the ERO in 2014 alone that required "further development" or had to have a supplementary review. Is NZ childcare up to scratch?

School snubbed because it's 'brown'

A high-performing, predominantly Maori and Pasifika school says it is being snubbed by locals because of its low decile and "brown" community.