UPDATED: Police are currently responding to calls of a concerning nature directed to a number of schools throughout the country, including Tahatai Coast Primary School in Papamoa.

The safety of students, teachers and schools are our priority, say police.

Stuff is reporting a school in Hamilton has also been evacuated.

"We understand the fear and concern that these calls cause, however we reiterate that so far we have not established any actual threat to any school.

"Police are working with the schools' management teams to decide on the appropriate response.

"It is believed, based on the information available to us at this time, that today's calls may be similar to those received earlier this year, which inquiries indicated originated overseas.

"We should make it clear that while such calls may display a New Zealand number, they can still be originating from overseas."

Pupils at Tahatai Coast School have been evacuated to Grenada Park.

Similar incidents have previously occurred overseas.

Until police can rule out any actual threat, they must take all these calls seriously and respond accordingly.

Police say how a school responds to these calls is a matter for the schools' management in conjunction with police.

Schools will respond differently according to their individual circumstances and the information available to them.

"Police will not be disclosing the names of each school who has received a call today given the ongoing investigation and in the interest of preventing further such calls being made to other schools."

EARLIER:

Pupils and teachers have been evacuated from Tahatai Coast Primary School following reports of a bomb threat.

A parent of one of the pupils at the school says she just received a text from the school advising her to pick up her children.

"The school has recieved a bomb threat phone call, we have evacuated the school as a precaution to Grenada Park," reads the text message.

"Please collect your child from there."

Police say similar threats have been made to other schools as well.

"Police were alerted by the school at 11.28am," says a police spokesperson.

"Police are making enquiries. Any decision on evacuation is made by the school.

"Threats have been made to other schools in NZ. A Police media statement will be sent out shortly on the national picture."

This is the second time this year bomb threats have been targeted at schools.

Earlier in the year, police were called to Brookfield Primary and St Thomas Moore Catholic School following reports of bomb threats.