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Govt Efficiency Delivers $100m In New School Classrooms
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:01:01 +1200 | New Zealand Government
This Government is focused on raising student achievement and closing the equity gap and to do that our children need warm, safe and dry classrooms. Our drive for efficiency and good value for money is delivering more of these classrooms across ...More >>
Going On Strike Is Not A Reason To Skip School
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:02:28 +1200 | New Zealand Government
“School holidays start this Saturday. If students want to show how much this cause means to them, they could march on their own time. That would send a stronger message than taking the last day of term off."More >>
$2.5b Investment Needed To Stop Tamariki Sitting On Learning Support Wait Lists
Tue, 8 Apr 2025 07:12:45 +1200 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
2024 data obtained by NZEI Te Riu Roa showed children under five waiting six months to access the Early Intervention Service in some regions, which has huge impacts on their learning and oral literacy.More >>
The Truck Cat Takes The Wheel
Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:51:02 +1300 | Hardie Grant Books
This is a very special year for NSS as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. NSS began in 2001 as an initiative during Library and Information Week to promote the value of reading and literacy in primary school aged children.More >>
Food Cuts And An Earthquake Bring Double The Devastation For Children In Thai Refugee Camps
Fri, 4 Apr 2025 10:00:55 +1300 | Save The Children
Due to budget shortfalls, The Border Consortium (TBC), a government and non-government organisation funded provider of food assistance for refugees living on the border, has said it will have to reduce food support this month, affecting more than 80% ...More >>
Creating Safe Spaces And Healing Hearts For Bright Futures
Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:04:28 +1300 | UNICEF Pacific
Regional conference to address abuse, neglect and mental health issues that impact the wellbeing and learning outcomes of Pacific children More >>
Majority Of Kiwis Agree—Parents Should Provide School Lunches
Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:29:09 +1300 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This poll confirms what we've all been saying: New Zealanders expect parents, not the Government, to feed their kids. It's time to phase out this expensive and wasteful programme.More >>
Draft English Curriculum Lacks Connection With Reality
Tue, 1 Apr 2025 13:45:35 +1300 | PPTA Te Wehengarua
Moving away from a curriculum that is underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a seriously backward move, says Chris Abercrombie. More >>
Hawke's Bay Schools Climate Change Challenge Now Open
Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:09:28 +1300 | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
With two terms to develop and deliver their projects, students will have the opportunity to showcase their creativity and innovation in addressing climate change. More >>
School Lunches Failing To Meet Nutrition And Energy Standards: Urgent Action Needed
Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:40:41 +1300 | Public Health Communication Centre
Briefing authors say SLC, which supplies over half of the students in the programme, has failed to fully disclose sufficient information to assess nutrition compliance of all meals despite its website stating, ‘transparency is at the heart of what ...More >>
Marsden Welcomes Connah Podmore As 2025 Artist In Residence
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:58:41 +1300 | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Marsden’s Artist in Residence programme extends beyond the school community, with Connah also leading a workshop for local primary school students. The residency will culminate in an exhibition of both Connah’s and our students’ work at Te Auaha ...More >>
Greens Call For Govt To Scrap Proposed ECE Changes
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:25:30 +1300 | Green Party
The Government’s proposed changes remove obligations to honour te Tiriti o Waitangi and mana whenua status of tangata whenua, undermine qualification requirements for teachers, and reduce protections for teachers More >>
Attendance Rates Rising But Not Good Enough
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:10:29 +1300 | New Zealand Government
In Term 4 of 2024 58.1 per cent of students attended school regularly, an increase of 5.1 percentage points from 53 per cent in Term 4 of 2023. Attendance rates across all equity index groups increased from 2023 to 2024.More >>
Stop Early Childhood Education Going The Same Way As School Lunches, NZEI Te Riu Roa Says
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:05:25 +1300 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“The school lunches changes have cut costs while torpedoing quality and even introducing safety risks. Now we’re facing quality cuts to young children’s education – even saying teachers don’t need to be qualified to teach in the classroom – and ...More >>
Harmful And Outdated: Government Standardised Testing Move Is Dangerous
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:18:49 +1300 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Government's decision to tender for new standardised assessment tests from year 3 risks shifting teacher efforts from personalised teaching and learning to over-assessment, Ms Madden says.More >>
Principals Stunned As Ministry Looks For New Reading, Maths Tests
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:25:18 +1300 | RNZ
The Education Ministry has blindsided schools by going to market for a new national test. More >>
National Standards Returning By Stealth
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:20:07 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
Having our tamariki undergo standardised testing from a young age only fuels anxiety and stress for students and parents. It pits students against each other and only reinforces in children who don’t have the same out-of-school support that they’re ...More >>
Volunteers With Intellectual Disabilities Contribute More Than 32,000 Hours In 2024
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:48:37 +1300 | Student Volunteer Army
The SVA Service Award is a nationally-recognised framework to celebrate the impact of volunteering. Users log hours in the SVA web app, building a Summary of Service to showcase their achievements and receiving pins when they reach key milestones.More >>
Education Sector Leaders Oppose Proposal To Scrap Expert Teachers Of Literacy And Māori
Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:56:24 +1300 | Te Akatea
Education leaders say the Minister’s decision disrespects the mana and expertise of Resource Teachers and places schools and teachers in the impossible situation of having to comment on this proposal when they are desperate for any additional ...More >>
Calls To Ditch NCEA Tests Expose A Deficit In School Leadership
Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:26:33 +1300 | ACT New Zealand
NCEA exists to offer real knowledge and skills, and set real standards – not to give qualifications to everyone. Testing against real standards makes the system accountable, ACT Education spokesperson Laura McClure says.More >>
