While the number of pupils being stood down, suspended or excluded from Otago schools has reached some of the lowest levels in more than a decade, concerns have been raised about the increasing number of younger pupils displaying violent behaviour in the classroom.
If Queen's High School new principal, Di Carter, has plans for the South Dunedin secondary school, she is not revealing them just yet.
Arthur Street School's version of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony may have been created on a shoestring budget compared with the official ceremony in Glasgow today, but childhood imagination and enthusiasm well and truly made up for it.
Mathew Denys' trip of a lifetime to the World Science Conference in Jerusalem next month is in limbo as conflict rages in Gaza.
A cold is different from influenza. The flu usually develops more quickly. You will have fever and muscle aches within a few hours and will generally feel sicker than with a cold. John Lewis and Eileen Goodwin report.
Otago Girls' High School has established a permanent house system aimed at building on the school's camaraderie and competitive spirit.
Some people tend to get a bit twitchy when it comes to choosing their own funeral casket, especially when they are still alive.
When Anne Limburg founded the Dunedin Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines 25 years ago, she never dreamt it would be so successful.
For more than 40 years, David Feather and Max Larkins have been making sure important mail such as birthday cards, letters from home, medical appointments and, of course, the bills, reaches your post box each morning.
The Ministry of Education has called for tenders to develop the Otago Girls' High School music department to the tune of nearly $2 million.
If a goat is tethered with a 4.5m-long rope to the corner of a shed which is 2m long and 2m wide, what is the maximum area the goat can graze?
If three Columba College pupils could see their business plan come to fruition, every hospital in New Zealand would have a 3-D printer creating low-cost prosthetic limbs for amputees.
James Eason takes one look at me and says: ''You're a 9 - maybe a 9.''
No matter how difficult the questions are, the South Island Secondary Schools Brain Bee Challenge is no place to lose your head.
Otago principals have backed a New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF) survey which shows schools across the country are vehemently opposed to the Government's $359 million Investing in Educational Success (IES) policy.
Two Dunedin physical education teachers are among eight nationwide to receive prestigious awards to study overseas.
The new wood pellet boilers heating many of Dunedin's schools are costing more than three times as much to run as their older coal-fired equivalents, which has left one school principal regretting the decision to move to wood pellets. Reporter John Lewis talks to several Dunedin schools about why they have, or have not, converted to the new technology.
The hunt is over at Kaikorai Valley College after a major search found the leaking pipe which was causing heating woes.
For most Taieri College senior pupils, the school ball is one of the highlights of the year, if not their entire secondary education.
The answers to some of the nation's future financial dilemmas may rest in the hands of pupils from southern secondary schools.
