The Pacific Island and Diversity stages will be combined and will have two days allocated to each. The Māori stage will run for four days. Polyfest schools liaison Labne Fa’afua said more than 70 Auckland high schools were expected to take part in 2020, and eight more from outside of Auckland.
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Raymond Tutuila from Sir Edmund Hillary collegiate senior school performing at Polyfest in Manukau in 2019. (File image) “[The cancellation] was something beyond our control but this is good news that it’s back again and I’m sure all the participating schools will be eager to get practising again,” Fa’afua said.
Only a third of senior high-school students enjoyed learning in Covid year - study
18 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Mentors in the Graeme Dingle Foundation s Stars programme work with Year 9 students at Kelston Girls College. Shaniya Singh is second-from-right. Photo / Supplied
Only a third of senior high-school students enjoyed their learning in last year s Covid-disrupted year, new research shows. The Education Review Office (ERO) surveyed students at 67 schools nationally just after Auckland s August lockdown and found that 65 per cent of primary school students in Years 4 to 8 agreed that I am enjoying my learning .
But the numbers enjoying my learning dropped to just 39 per cent in the first two years at high school, Years 9 and 10, and 33 per cent in Years 11 to 13.