New Rotorua Boys High School terraces represent young men climbing to the highest levels of knowledge
14 Apr, 2021 06:00 AM
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Rotorua Boys High School director of Māori performing arts Jamus Webster (left), principal Chris Grinter and deputy principal Rie Morris at the school s new terraces. Photo / Andrew Warner
Rotorua Boys High School director of Māori performing arts Jamus Webster (left), principal Chris Grinter and deputy principal Rie Morris at the school s new terraces. Photo / Andrew Warner
The atmosphere at events and sports matches at Rotorua Boys High School will go to a new level thanks to terraces unveiled today.
P. LOWRY/MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
Over the past decade, botanist Pete Lowry has noticed a worrying trend in his field. An expert on the
Sciodaphyllum (formerly
Schefflera) genus of neotropical plants, he used to have a relatively easy time doing fieldwork abroad, he says. Now, however, he and his colleagues at the Missouri Botanical Garden face a mountain of logistical hurdles to gain permission to work in the various countries they want to visit, let alone bring samples back home with them.
For example, although one of Lowry’s study species,
S. patulum, extends from southeastern Ecuador through Peru and into Bolivia, he says he often has to limit the scope of his research to a single country to avoid engaging in the time-consuming and costly process of obtaining permits in each. It’s frustrating, he says, because “with the exception of islands and locally endemic species, species don’t know border limits. [They] occur wherever they occur.”
Tauranga doctor becomes Rotorua teacher to help improve the lives of young people
5 Feb, 2021 08:00 PM
4 minutes to read He spent six years studying to be a doctor and six years working in a hospital. But now a proud Palestinian Kiwi has also become a teacher in Rotorua, just so he can help make a difference to young people.
Dr Abdal-Bari Al-Chanati, 30, from Tauranga has this week started a new career as a teacher at Rotorua Boys High School.
And while he s commuting Monday to Friday inspiring the students at the school to be good at science, he s also picking up shifts at Tauranga Hospital on the weekends to keep his hand in .
Rotorua provisional school rolls 2021: Single-sex schools have largest student spike
17 Jan, 2021 05:00 PM
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Rotorua brothers Taylor, 11, and Harrison Beazley, 13, will both start at new schools this year. Photo / Kelly Makiha
Rotorua brothers Taylor, 11, and Harrison Beazley, 13, will both start at new schools this year. Photo / Kelly Makiha
More Rotorua parents are opting to send their kids to the city s single-sex secondary schools, which both face significant roll jumps this year according to provisional figures.
However, co-ed schools remain the city s largest. More than 300 new students are set to join Rotorua school classrooms this year, making up a total provisional class of 2021 of 13,901 students.
Rotorua Daily Post Year in Review: November 2020
8 Jan, 2021 07:50 PM
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Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2020. Here s what made headlines in November.
November 4
He used to clean the windscreens of people s cars at traffic lights to make a few bucks, now the former Rotorua homeless man is cleaning windows for a real job.
Brian Bam Bam Mollgaard was a familiar sight either sitting on footpaths with an upturned cap politely begging for money or cleaning windscreens of cars stopped at traffic lights for coins.
But thanks to a Rotorua window cleaning business owner, Bam Bam now has a job and a fresh outlook on life.