Anchor AIMS Games is back after annual event cancelled last year
5 May, 2021 07:00 PM
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AIMS Games tournament director Vicki Semple. Photo / George Novak
September will bring thousands of young athletes from around the country to the Bay of Plenty, giving it a much-needed boost as the annual Anchor AIMS Games returns. This time last year, the heartbreaking decision was made to cancel the intermediate-aged sports tournament, held in Tauranga, due to Covid-19 and the need to make national safety a priority.
Registrations for 2021 were looking really good , tournament director Vicki Semple said, and were on par with the 2019 games which hosted more than 11,000 athletes 2.3 per cent more athletes than were in the Rio Olympic Games.
Rotorua principals welcome Govt plan to provide free period products to schools
18 Feb, 2021 02:58 AM
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Stephanie Arthur-Worsop is the Rotorua Daily Post s News Directorstephanie.worsop@nzme.co.nzTheDailyPost
Supplying free period products in schools should have happened years ago and will go a long way to reducing the shame and increased absences associated with period poverty, a Rotorua principal says. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti announced yesterday that from June, all primary, intermediate and secondary school and kura students would have access to free period products.
The announcement follows a successful Access to Period Products pilot programme, which has been running since Term 3 last year in 15 schools and kura in the Waikato region.