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Schools better prepared for lockdown: 'They know what they're doing'

Homeschooling resumed for hundreds of thousands of school children across Aotearoa today, with the return of alert level four.

New zones for Auckland schools: 'There'll be some pretty angry people'

New zones for Auckland schools: There ll be some pretty angry people (Photo / Getty) By John Gerritsen,  Some Auckland principals are expecting confusion and hostility when they introduce enrolment zones for the first time next month. Their schools are part of an unprecedented Education Ministry push to create or redraw enrolment schemes at 135 Auckland schools. The ministry worked with the first 60 schools last year and principals said six of those schools in Manurewa were introducing their zones at the start of term two, May 3. The principals said all 35 primary and intermediate schools in the area would then have a zone, a change that would not affect children already in the schools but would apply to new enrolments.

New zones for Auckland schools: 'There'll be some pretty angry people'

Auckland school principals confident in face of three-day alert level 3 lockdown

Auckland principals are confident this week s lockdown will have little impact on children s learning - as long as it is only for three days. Rowandale School principal Karl Vasau says the community appears to be better prepared for dealing with the latest lockdown. Photo: Supplied About 250,000 school students are learning from home for the duration of alert level 3 and principals have said some would find a longer lockdown difficult, because they did not have internet connections at home. They said the fact the lockdown was happening so early in the year presented its own challenges. Albany Senior High School principal Claire Amos said the school started the year with a plan for dealing with another lockdown but Sunday s announcement was still a shock.