Some 1200 Canterbury school children will not be able to return to their schools for weeks.

Secondary teachers' plans to go on strike next month show they disconnected from the real world, Prime Minister John Key says.

The Rotorua Girls' High School ball went ahead without Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner, who died in a car accident a month ago.

A shoplifting spree in Queenstown has concluded with four boys expelled from their Melbourne school.

Thousands have farewelled a teenage girl killed while driving with friends to pick up their school ball gowns.

Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner was well known for her kind and giving nature and finally donated her organs.

A boy's death-defying plunge from the top storey of an apartment block was the latest in a string of serious incidents involving King's students.

A two-car crash which left five Rotorua Girls' High School students injured today has been "absolutely devastating", principal Annette Joyce says.

An Education Review Office survey of 229 schools found about 20pc had inadequate inclusive practices for special needs pupils.

Education Minister Anne Tolley has told principals they should stop talking to the media and focus on implementing the controversial national standards.

Teachers who were sacked or quit over alarming conduct remained registered to teach on the official database that is supposed to warn parents and schools.

Staff at Kerikeri High School fear students' mid-year exams and assignments may have been lost in a suspicious fire.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.