Kaikorai Valley College

Former police commissioner Howard Broad is again rallying the troops - this time, former Kaikorai Valley College pupils to establish the school's alumni association.

A manufacturing delay means the long-awaited return of blazers to the Kaikorai Valley College uniform has been prolonged.

Two Dunedin schools, Kaikorai Valley College and Queen's High School, have been included in a pilot project that will use sport as the catalyst to improve academic performance in the classroom.

For more than 50 years, the administration block at Kaikorai Valley College has remained almost untouched, with funding priorities directed to classrooms and equipment for pupils.

A Dunedin secondary school has become the first in Otago to approve a new "cyber citizen agreement", which could see pupils stood down or suspended if they misused the school's computer equipment.

Kaikorai Valley College pupil Jayde Peat has never let his severe haemophilia get the best of him and later this year he will again defy his disorder by representing New Zealand in Sydney as part of the national under-15 mixed touch team.

Hi. My name is Kathleen, obviously, as this is my diary.

As Sir Peter Blake once said: "The hardest part of any big project is to begin."

Waking up on a normal school day tends to be hard enough.

Kaikorai Valley College should probably open a burger bar.