Education

By Viv Logie

- Mon, 30 August 2010

Reefton is set to lose its ‘digger school’ and extractives course as Tai Poutini Polytechnic moves it closer to Greymouth.

Time in a bottle

By Lisa Rangi

- Mon, 23 August 2010

St Patrick’s Primary School will wind back the clock when it digs up two time capsules, which have lain buried since the current school was built...

By Viv Logie

- Thu, 01 July 2010

Three more jobs will go in the next phase of a major reshuffle at Tai Poutini Polytechnic, which has so far cost $400,000 for seven redundancies...

By Lisa Rangi

- Thu, 01 July 2010

After 23 years teaching five-year-olds at Karoro School, Liz Doocey will tomorrow say ‘goodbye’ as she heads to Christchurch for semi-retirement...

By Lisa Rangi

- Thu, 03 June 2010

West Coast schools are warning parents that young children are being drawn to social networking sites on the internet without realising the...

By Lisa Rangi

- Tue, 11 May 2010

Paparoa Range School’s Blackball site is leading the way with sign language education to help deaf pupil Jake Kilpatrick, and has been recognised...

Ball royalty chosen

- Mon, 10 May 2010

Charlotte Steele and Lucas MacDonald stand proud after they were named Queen and King of the ball, at the Greymouth High School masquerade ball,...

By Janna Sherman

- Thu, 29 April 2010

The Ministry of Education has clammed up over governance changes at Hokitika Primary School. The school leadership has been under scrutiny for...

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