Primary

More than 450 local primary students are about to get hands-on experience with science at the University of Auckland.

Primary teachers have released details of their proposed regional strikes in November as a nine-day strike ballot begins tomorrow.

Copies of The Kitchen Science Cookbook will be gifted to every decile 1 and 2 primary school in the country.

Auckland’s Freemans Bay School is the overall winner of the Nightingale Award at the 2018 Resene Total Colour Awards.

Rotorua primary school principals are increasingly concerned about the video game Fortnite as it affects some pupils' school work.

The second annual Auckland Primary Teaching Expo is coming up fast on 11 September. Vanessa Page, who found a job at last year’s expo, talks about her experience of the inaugural event hosted by the Auckland Primary Principals Association (APPA) in partnership with the University of Auckland last year.

Just over half of New Zealand primary schools say they do not have all the teachers they need.

Kiwi kids' poor understanding of money sparked the creation of a new online financial literacy program.

A large part of the reason behind tomorrow’s industrial action boils down to one big question: can you build a life and be a primary school teacher at the same time? The four people interviewed for this story, who are in and around the day-to-day of that life, say the answer, as matters stand, is categorically ‘no’. By JAYLAN BOYLE.

JUDE BARBACK catches up with Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop during her visit to New Zealand to discuss her fascinating research project in which she has studied the lives of 150 children for over 14 years, making some compelling conclusions about the impact of early childhood education and transitions.