Schools close for holidays at the end of the week and principals are worried that severe disruption from winter illnesses and Covid-19 will be even worse when they reopen.
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Halaevalu Tu’ipulotu Halanukonuka has a passion for maths and voluntarily gives her time to teach to lower decile students from her home in Panmure, Auckland.
A decile 10 school in central Auckland says the gap is widening between it and lower decile schools because of the Government’s donation scheme. But the principal of a decile one school in another part of the city disagrees, saying her students are better off under the current arrangement. Since 2020, decile 1-7 schools have had the option to receive $150 per student, per year instead of asking their families for donations. Decile 8-10 schools are excluded.
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The two intruders were seen crawling along the library floor about 1.38am Monday and spent about 30 minutes inside. They made away with 10 of them, McMurray said. She said the incident had left her “disappointed”. “It’s for the children in our community.” Given the alleged offenders knew where the Chromebooks were stored, McMurray “sadly” thought they were either ex-students or knew students at the school. “The Chromebooks only work with school software, so the sad thing is they may dump them, which is such a waste.”
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About 30 Chromebooks were stolen on Monday after two people broke into the library at Alfriston College in the wee hours of the morning, school staff said.