More Bay of Plenty schools providing gender-neutral toilets
13 Feb, 2021 10:00 PM
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Gender-neutral toilets are becoming more common in schools across the Bay of Plenty. Photo / Getty Images
Gender-neutral toilets are becoming more common in schools across the Bay of Plenty. Photo / Getty Images
Gender-neutral bathrooms appear to be on the rise around Bay of Plenty schools.
Gender-neutral, or unisex toilets, have begun popping up in schools to ensure all students feel accepted. It s exactly why Te Puke Intermediate principal Jill Weldon made the decision to convert four of the 30 bathrooms using property maintenance money from the Ministry of Education last year.
Jo Raphael: More focus needed on school upgrades
11 Feb, 2021 08:00 PM
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Funding has finally been approved for a Rotorua school to get its first proper upgrade since it opened in 1956. Photo / File
Funding has finally been approved for a Rotorua school to get its first proper upgrade since it opened in 1956. Photo / File
OPINION
The squeaky wheel gets the grease – when someone complains about a problem long enough and loud enough, something is done about it. That s how Lynmore School principal Lorraine Taylor describes lobbying the Government for upgrades to the school.
Rotorua Lakes Council has approved Lynmore School s $3.5 million six-classroom block - after eight years of lobbying the Government.
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.
Summer read: Which Rotorua schools are the most popular
2 Jan, 2021 07:01 PM
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Sunset Primary School brothers Boyboy Patangata, 6, and Grant Poi, 9, love their school. Photo / Ben Fraser
The Rotorua Daily Post is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. The Westbrook Primary School zone may be one of the most sought after areas for parents to move into but the principal says his school is no better than any other in Rotorua.
According to Rotorua real estate agents, Rotorua homebuyers and tenants motivated by choosing a primary school for their children are mostly seeking properties in the Lynmore, Westbrook, Otonga and Glenholme primary zones.
Blast from the past: 2020 in review with Rotorua Weekender
23 Dec, 2020 06:56 PM
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Western Heights High School student Zach Jans was the Senior Composition winner in the 2020 NZCT Chamber Music Contest. Photo / File
Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
It has been one crazy year, full of challenges, hope and the community rallying around each other. Rotorua Weekender editor Shauni James takes a look at some of the highlights from the newspaper s coverage over 2020.
January
- Sustainable Backyards shared information on what environmental events they would have coming up.
Rotorua s Kymbali Dender went to South Africa as a volunteer to help rescue coastal birds. Photo / File