Education

Kawerau Putauaki School celebrating $72k grant

Kawerau Putauaki School is celebrating after NZCT awarded the school with a grant of $72,637 for sports uniforms, an indoor sound system for the school hall,... Read More

Tauranga to launch Māori local curriculum

More than 1700 early childhood, primary and secondary school teachers will gather at Mercury BayPark on Monday for the launch of the new Māori local curriculum. The... Read More

Tauranga to celebrate STEM Festival

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM for short, is happening all around us, all the time, without most people ever realising. Young... Read More

Waihī Beach School wins big for the environment

Waihī Beach School is celebrating a national win after a huge year of hard mahi/work on environmental and sustainable projects. It has been rewarded... Read More

STEM forum proves popular in Tauranga

Plans are afoot for a second STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Educators Forum for next year. House of Science NZ, a not-for-profit... Read More

Tāneatua golf boys win gold

A Tāneatua School boy is heading back to school this week, ready to celebrate his golfing success with his schoolmates. In basketball boots, with borrowed... Read More

International competition returns for NZ schools

New Zealand Rugby have announced today the 2023 New Zealand Schools, New Zealand Barbarian Under 18 and New Zealand Māori Under 18 Ngā Whatukura Boys teams. The... Read More

Young Innovator Awards celebrate BOP youth

A Pāpāmoa College student who came up with the idea for a daily wellbeing check-in app has taken out the Intermediate People's Choice Award at Priority One's... Read More

Primary students finally meet their mascot!

The long-time mascot of Mount Maunganui Primary School has, for the first time, visited the children it inspires. Mountie was ‘born' 10 years ago and... Read More

Community backs new Mount Maunganui cycleway

Mount Maunganui's Grenada Street is set to receive a new cycleway as part of a $6.95m upgrade to the road. The separated two-way 1.7km cycleway will run along... Read More

Zespri AIMS Games athletes give back

Young athletes participating in the Zespri AIMS Games are taking a brief respite from their intense sporting endeavours today to rally together for a display... Read More

Chasing hoops, hopes and higher education

Two of the Bay of Plenty's up-and-coming star basketballers have scored university scholarships to play overseas. Briarley Rogers and Hineaupounamu ‘Missy'... Read More