A school-based programme is being introduced by the Highlanders rugby team this season which will target low-decile primary schools and deliver messages around healthy eating and physical activity.
Wataki Boys High School has topped the list of 2009 NCEA pass rates in boys' state secondary schools in New Zealand.
Grace Hughes heads to Balaclava School for the first time this week but instead of a feeding tube in her lunch box there will be her new favourite food - custard.
Placard-bearing supporters of Otepopo School gathered outside Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean's office in Oamaru yesterday morning to show support for the retention of the school.
Parents and their children will establish strong links with each other and the community through the new Queenstown Montessori pre-school, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes said before he officially opened the new centre on Monday.
When the new Remarkables Primary School in Frankton opens next month, pupils and parents will see measures have been put in place to ensure a safe trip to school.
Queenstown's first Montessori school is already three-quarters full before Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes opens it on Monday.
Education Minister Anne Tolley is satisfied Otepopo School should close.
Wanted: an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys a slower pace of life, wants to live in a natural paradise and does not mind caring for 12 young children part time.
Two Dunedin primary schools are in limbo after applying to the Ministry of Education for voluntary closure next year.
With a little bit of imagination, a new de Havilland Fox Moth at Dunedin's Caversham School playground will take pupils on their wildest journeys.
Macandrew Intermediate in Dunedin has taken a stand against the Government's National Standards by refusing to open a box containing information about the initiative.
There will not be any delays or trial periods for the new national standards in schools, Prime Minister John Key says.
A hunt for profits could erode the quality of new schools, if a government proposal for public private partnerships (PPP) in the education system is pursued, the Otago branch of the New Zealand School Trustees Association says.
Education Minister Anne Tolley says she will sack the boards of primary schools which allow teachers to boycott the new national standards regime.
The number of international fee-paying school pupils studying in Otago and Southland is on the rise again, signalling an economic boost for the South.
Mt Aspiring College's recent Aspiring to Everest Climbathon raised $14,000 for new laptops at the school.
St Kevins College principal Brent Russell has been appointed principal of Dunstan High School in Alexandra.
Learning the finer points of sound recording left members of Logan Park High School jazz bands exhausted yesterday.
It may not be the full rebuild many would like, but the unveiling of a refurbished administration block yesterday was a step in the right direction for Dunedin's Sara Cohen School.
