Counting worms and pulling weeds at Kaikorai Valley College has helped the New Zealand International Science Festival and the Department of Conservation reach the final of the prestigious 2010 Stockholm Challenge Awards.
The overwhelming view of the Calton Hill School community is their school should remain untouched by potential mergers in the South Dunedin school review.
It's not often you get to be silly in public. But yesterday, hundreds of people across Otago wore red noses for a serious cause: Cure Kids.
Finding better ways to curb unruly behaviour on school grounds will be the topic of a study by Tahuna Intermediate principal Tony Hunter after he won an Otago Primary Principals' Association study award.
Consultation on the restructuring of six South Dunedin schools has begun and further schools in Dunedin and Otago could be in line for more of the same, Education Minister Anne Tolley said yesterday.
American pilot Alex Marshall was airlifted to Queenstown Lakes Hospital yesterday with a broken ankle after the glider he was flying landed heavily, 35km west of Omarama.
Otago Harbour was plugged at crucial points yesterday as part of a Maritime New Zealand training exercise aimed at stopping the spread of a simulated oil spill.
It seems not everyone welcomes the South Dunedin schools review.
"My hand aches and my eyes are really sore. And now I have to go home and study for my English exam."
St Patrick's School in South Dunedin will be the sixth primary school in two and a-half years to close in the city, but an education specialist believes closures may become less frequent.
The Post Primary Teachers' Association yesterday called off strike action planned for today - but the decision was announced when classrooms were empty.
The limited statutory management of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Otepoti, in Sunnyvale, has been lifted and the Maori immersion school is free to run itself again.
"In the past, it was a sad old building with lots of walls and dark rooms with lots of secrets."
"We want people to walk in the door and say, 'Hey look, this is Port Chalmers'."
Kaikorai Primary School principal Nigel Wilson says the great thing about teaching is "no two days are the same".
The face of New Zealand's territorial forces may change drastically if a defence force proposal is accepted by the Government.
The Post Primary Teachers' Association and the Ministry of Education have resumed pay talks, but left annoyed and frustrated secondary schools in their wake.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin has taken advantage of a rare opportunity to expand the college by up to 25%, by buying the neighbouring Otago Polytechnic buildings which were owned by the Ministry of Education.
Lately, Ben Mulholland's house in Mosgiel has been looking more like a night club after dark than a humble home.
Police called off a high-speed pursuit near East Taieri yesterday in the interests of public safety, after a motorcyclist reached speeds estimated at more than 180kmh.
