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Friday, January 31, 2025

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A student fights his sweet tooth for the earth

Elias Worrall-Bader is only 17, but his passion for the environment has him doing the unthinkable-giving up sugar for a week.

Representing New Zealand at problem solving

A lot of perseverance is needed to solve some of the toughest problems. Macleans College student William Han equates perseverance to resolutely spending hours on...

Large development plans for Elim Christian Centre

  Elim Christian Centre has purchased 8.99 hectares of land in 16 Yates Road, Pukekohe, to expand and provide facilities for the existing congregation (Elim...

A unique initiative between school, Corrections and Council

Students and teachers of Wakaaranga School are thrilled to be part of a two-fold initiative by Corrections and Auckland Council that ties in with...

Mission Heights Junior College-world champions

For the second year running, Mission Heights Junior College beat almost 850 schools to win the Social Studies challenge in the Education Perfect World Series. The...

Building their way to the top

Many hands make light work, the saying goes, and it couldn’t be more true for a team of Howick College students embarking on the...

Head boy selected for prestigious science camp

BY NATHAN MORTON Not many teenagers can claim they’ve had the opportunity to travel overseas for a prestigious youth science camp, but for Pakuranga College...

Local schools at risk of overcrowding

A government report has revealed nine local schools are among hundreds around the country that are already classed as overcrowded or at risk of...

Tribute to NZ soldiers buried on foreign soil

Reading about historical sites in high school classical studies is one thing, but travelling across the world to visit those places constitutes a whole...

Pageant for a very good cause

If you’re a student at Bucklands Beach Intermediate, you’d be smart to save all your dollar coins for Friday afternoons. For the next few weeks,...

BDSC teacher receives Fulbright Award

The shock is still sinking in for a Botany Downs Secondary College teacher who is about to jet off to the United States as...

Success story for Shakespeare students

Stage blood, ominous scenes and dangerous witches – it’s all in a day’s work for the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare team from Howick College. The team...

Niue principal inspired after visit to college

It’s not every day Howick College has the privilege of hosting the principal of Niue High School, but last week, Charles Ioane landed in...

Students to launch on-line food delivery enterprise

By Marianne Kelly As Akshay Kakkar was asked more frequently by his parents to pick up takeaways, especially when guests arrived, he decided there had...

Crunch time: Have you checked your NCEA results?

Thousands of local students will today learn how they’ve fared in the NCEA exams. Almost 170,000 students throughout the country can now view their NCEA...
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