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QueenstownMarch 4

Principal 'ticks all the boxes'

A principal with a passion for bolstering education standards will take charge of Queenstown Primary School.

QueenstownAugust 12

School celebrates its diversity

Queenstown Primary School pupils, parents and staff celebrated their second annual International Day on Friday with a showcase of just a handful of the 40 nationalities represented in the classrooms.

QueenstownMay 13

Retiring school stalwart preparing to hit the slopes

Fifteen years equates to ''literally hundreds'' of changed light bulbs (although the introduction of energy efficient bulbs has slowed that down), many doors falling off their hinges from high use and countless sports balls reclaimed from roofs.

QueenstownMarch 24

$30,000 raised at school fair

Queenstown Primary School is $30,000 better off after its popular annual school fair was held on Saturday.

QueenstownNovember 16

Supporting cat rescue

They say never work with children and animals but on Saturday pupils from Queenstown Primary School volunteered their time and raised more than $250 in aid of the resort's stray and rescued cats.

QueenstownNovember 15

Science the star of roadshow

Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Colin Kirkpatrick (12), Hayato Yoneto (11), Nicholas Clark (10) and Ben Soto (11) test the human gyro exhibit at the Fonterra Science Roadshow in the school hall on Wednesday.

QueenstownSeptember 23

Primary source of talent puts on the show

Year 6 pupil Elijah McDonald sang a pop medley and strummed his guitar to victory in the fourth annual QPS Has Talent competition on Friday.

QueenstownJuly 31

Celebrating diversity

Queenstown Primary School pupils celebrated their remarkable diversity with national costumes, flags, cuisin

QueenstownJuly 17

Primary school staying put

Queenstown Primary School has ruled out the suggestion it could move into the larger campus of Wakatipu High School when the high school moves to a $30 million purpose-built facility on 8ha of land in Frankton.

QueenstownMarch 25

Young players perform with distinction

The Queenstown Primary School Boys years 7 and 8 cricket team distinguished itself at the Otago Region cricket finals in Invercargill last Wednesday.

QueenstownFebruary 7

Primary school enrolments up

More than 200 new pupils begin studying this term in the Wakatipu area's seven schools.

QueenstownDecember 20

Primary school fares well

Queenstown Primary School is actively fostering pupils to become "confident, competent learners", according to the Government's education watchdog.

QueenstownDecember 4

Spreading Christmas cheer with cakes

Senior Constable Chris Blackford, of Queenstown, on behalf of his fellow officers, gratefully accepts a gift basket of Christmas baking from Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Eve O'Connor (11), Tessa Paterson (11), Bjorn Pollock (11) and Leyland Rapata-Brookland (11) on Friday.

QueenstownOctober 25

New face for the new term

Queenstown Primary School's new principal, Lyn Bird, with some of her younger charges at the school yesterday.

QueenstownSeptember 18

Hotel gift boost for school's project

Copthorne hotel administrator Natalie McAuliffe, also co-ordinator of environmental projects, said when she read the Queenstown Times report about Queenstown Primary pupils earning an Enviroschool bronze award, she decided to get the Copthorne hotels to encourage them, as the company has three properties awarded Qualmark Enviro-Gold status.

QueenstownSeptember 11

Schools joining cleanup work

Pupils from Queenstown Primary and KingsView schools will muck in with volunteers this week in efforts to remove scrub from the unearthed ruins of a historic gold-mining community near Arrowtown.

QueenstownAugust 23

Schoolgirls put history on stage

About 60 excited girls will represent Queenstown Primary School for the first time in the Stars on Stage performing arts challenge in Dunedin tomorrow night.

QueenstownJune 26

Many attend Internet talk at school

Parents, teachers and pupils were briefed on internet safety and how to prevent cyber bullying on computers and mobile phones, during presentations at Queenstown Primary School on Thursday.

QueenstownJune 26

Making light work of it

About 20 Queenstown Primary School pupils in years 7 and 8 were hard at work creating their own willow and tissue paper lanterns, on Friday, for the popular Winter Festival Mardi Gras tomorrow.

QueenstownMay 22

Wilderness adventurers

Queenstown Primary School year 6 pupils explored the great outdoors at Sydney Cove, on Ulva Island, near Stewart Island, earlier this month.

QueenstownMarch 27

Fun, fun, fun at school fair

Yet again the Wakatipu community has shown its generosity, helping raise an estimated $30,000 at the Queenstown Primary School fair, which principal John Western described as a "stellar" day.

QueenstownMarch 24

Fair fare - candy can-do

Queenstown Primary School student council members (from left) Ashley Burney (12), Ben Stevens (12), Sam Shaw (12), Bence Csontos (12), Mitchell Mawhinney (12), Felicity Blakeley (12), Hugh Taylor (11) and Kayley Paterson (12) prepare $2 bags of sweets for their stall at tomorrow's school fair.

QueenstownFebruary 24

Pupils rally round for earthquake victims

Queenstown Primary School principal John Western says a mufti day with the theme of Canterbury's colours of red and black will be held today, for gold-coin donations to the New Zealand Red Cross.

QueenstownOctober 28

Large squad for championships

More than 60 pupils from Queenstown Primary School are expected to compete at the Otago Central Primary School Athletic championships next Wednesday.

QueenstownSeptember 21

Pupils put on musical with a message

Queenstown Primary School pupils showcase their talents on and off the theatrical stage for the second and final community performance of a musical with a message tonight.

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