Education

BaseUp for Omokoroa’s pavilion

Five-year-old Keaton Rose and brothers Mitch, 6, and Baxter, 8, will be run, run, running around Omokoroa next weekend to drum up funds for their community's plan... Read More

Collecting’s tipping point found

Some people collect teapots, or willow pattern plates, ball point pens, happy meal toys, beer cans - and every now and then they appear in the media with stories... Read More

Into Te Puke’s dragon’s den

There was something called a boom bed. There was a survival fishing rod. There were luminescent revision sheets for the anxiously insomniac exam candidates. Inventions,... Read More

Dragging the chain on deceased accounts

Bereaved families are facing bills of thousands of dollars to pay for the funerals of loved ones, because of hold-ups at the country's largest bank. ANZ bank has... Read More

Helping save the animals

This Sunday at Omokoroa No 1 School is Animal Day, a fundraising event organised entirely by two schoolgirls. Maya Stone and Sunny Davis, both aged 11, have spent... Read More

$2.7m for more local classrooms

Tauranga MP Simon Bridges visited Matua Primary today to announce three new classrooms for the school. They are among eight new classrooms being built in the Bay... Read More

Students to take on Ultimate Relay

This Friday every student at Tauranga Intermediate will be running, jumping, sack racing, and doing all sorts of fun games. It's all part of their Ultimate Relay,... Read More

Bay schools are Chemquest champs

Katikati College, Tauranga Boys' College and Whakatāne High School are among the winners of the recent University of Waikato Chemquest challenge. It was a close... Read More

Bringing the pacific to the Bay

Arataki School has been busy practising their Cook Island and Samoan items in preparation for the upcoming Pasifika Festival in the Bay to be held at Arataki School... Read More

Reserve grade high scores

More than four hundred runs were scored in the Western Bay of Plenty Reserve Grade encounter Mount Maunganui and Tauranga Boys College second eleven at Blake Park... Read More

Foundation food tick flicked

Twenty-five years after being launched to help consumers make healthier food choices, the Heart Foundation's Tick will be phased out next year. Tick Programme manager... Read More

‘Hard to Believe’ defies belief

Do you know about arguably the most awful things happening in the world? The film ‘Hard to Believe' is a serious investigation into one of the most horrifying... Read More