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Celebrating learners at Ballance School
25 Feb, 2021 01:19 AM
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Ballance School has a strong focus on the environment.
Bush Telegraph
By Steve Carle
Ballance School has started the new term with a new principal, Brenda Sutton. She has been a principal for the past 16 years.
Before her appointment at Ballance, Brenda was principal at the picturesque Kenepuru Sound in the Malborough Sounds. She ran a rural schoolover the past 11 years with a roll fluctuating between 10 and 15 students. It was two hours from the nearest town.
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Before that she had been principal at Akitio School for five years, after teaching at Pahiatua Primary School.