Dunedin North Intermediate pupils (front, from left) Thirza
Brizzel, Jacinta Burney and Lennix Hibbert (all 12) enjoy
wearing pink as part of Pink Shirt Day at the school
yesterday.
An Otago primary school principal believes a new online tool
being developed by the Ministry of Education for assessing
primary pupil achievement may go the same way as the
beleaguered Novopay payroll system.
Otago Girls' High School won the ASB 2013 Stage Challenge its
''breathtaking'' performance of Our-tearoa, the second
consecutive year it has won the event.
Frustrations are starting to simmer at several Dunedin
secondary schools over new Otago Regional Council
regulations, implemented for coal-fired boilers, which are
costing schools hundreds of thousands of dollars in
compliance costs.
Debating your needs and wants with your parents is one thing,
but debating needs and wants on behalf of your country with
other nations around the world is another thing.