Children taught in hallways due to lack of space at school Samantha Olley © RNZ / Sam Olley
Children at a rural Te Tai Tokerau school are learning in the corridor, in the staffroom and sometimes even outside because of a lack of classrooms.
Tautoro School, south of Kaikohe, has doubled in size in the past five years to 154 students, but it is not getting any new teaching spaces until the end of the year.
The library is now a full-time classroom, and the school s biggest room has been split to fit two classes.
There is no school hall and sometimes children are taught outside, depending on the weather, so they re not so squished.
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