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Yahoo
27-07-2025
- General
- Yahoo
In pictures: Primary one class photos taken in Inverclyde schools in 1999
FOR this week's trip down memory lane into Inverclyde's classrooms of the past, we're travelling back all the way to 1999 to showcase the second bunch of bright faces. Last week's P1 pictures put six classes in the frame and this weekend we are showing off five more for you to have a look and sport any familiar faces. This week we're featuring the pupils who were starting out at the two classes of St Ninians's Primary in Gourock, Overton Primary, St Laurence's Primary and Ravenscraig Primary in Greenock, and Inverkip Primary in the summer of 1999. Ravenscraig Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) St Laurence's Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) Overton Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) St Ninian's Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) St Ninian's Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) Inverkip Primary (Image: Greenock Telegraph) Our latest dig into the Tele's photo archives has brought up these fantastic photos taken 26 years ago - meaning that all those pictured here will now be in their early thirties. We'll share more old pictures from our P1 archive next week!
RNZ News
24-07-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Education Minister announces $30m to be put towards new classrooms at state-integrated schools
Education Minister Erica Stanford made the announcement on Thursday. (File photo) Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii The Education Minister has announced $30 million will be put towards new classrooms at state-integrated schools. State-integrated schools receive government funding including to maintain buildings and receive less funding than state schools. The schools could have a distinct religious or philosophical approach, and accounted for about 11 percent of enrolments in Aotearoa. Education Minister Erica Stanford said state-integrated schools played an important part of the system, and the government was ensuring they had the support to meet growing demand. She made the announcement at Sacred Heart Cathedral School, across the road from Parliament, on Thursday morning. "It's something that's been a long time coming. We are a government that is interested in choice in education. "We know that there is a huge demand for state integrated schools like the one that we're at today, and there hasn't been a huge amount of money that has been made available for property for these schools. In fact, the last injection was in 2019, and it was only $6 million." The $30m will be phased in over four years, and was expected to mean state-integrated schools could take on 1250 more students. Stanford said the funding approach was different from the usual, but the money would come from the new build package in this year's Budget . "We've done things slightly differently this time where we are saying to school boards 'we're going to make the funds available to you so that we can use capital funding'. "It's the money that we've set aside in the budget to increase student numbers for state integrated schools." Stanford said the government would take applications from state-integrated schools for building funds, and make decisions based on their attendance, achievement rates, and roll to assess demand. The type of special character would not be part of the equation, she said, but the government would take account of donations the schools might be seeking to enable them to provide smaller classes and better facilities than state schools. "We will take that into account when we are going through this. But most of the schools who are asking for donations are doing a very small amount and it's for property." The buildings would be owned by the proprietors of the school, she said. "In this case, it will be the school boards who own the buildings that we providing the capital for - and that's not unusual, we do that across the state sector where quite often school boards will own their own property that they've fundraised for. "The way we're doing this is just to - in the times that we're in - that we're able to find some capital money to help schools. So we're doing things a little bit differently but all it means is more student places and more parent choice." Integrated schools were owned by a third party such as a church diocese and had a special character, such as Catholic religion, which most of its enrolments must meet. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
18-07-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Watch live: Erica Stanford makes schools announcement in Auckland
Education Minister Erica Stanford is visiting Northcross Intermediate School in Auckland, from where she is due to make an announcement. The briefing is due to start at 11.30am and can be watched at the top of this story. Earlier this week the minister announced the government was pulling the plug on open plan classrooms , with Stanford saying they were too noisy and distracting for many children. She also announced a plan to double the economic benefits brought into the country by international students . From November, eligible student-visa holders will be able to work more hours a week, from 20 to 25 hours, and work rights will be extended to all tertiary students in approved exchange programmes. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
16-07-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
The Panel with Liam Hehir and Sue Kedgley Part 1
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Liam Hehir and Sue Kedgley. They discuss the government's new plan to ditch open plan classrooms, hearing from Shirley Boys High School principal Tim Grocott. Then, the country's largest needle exchange provider gets its contract pulled after 35 years. What's next for the service?
BBC News
13-07-2025
- General
- BBC News
Wolverhampton primary school's pupil numbers to rise by 60
Sixty new places are to be created at a primary school under a £1m programme that will see new traditional classrooms built and existing provision places at Perry Hall Primary School in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, will be spread across two new 30-pupil classes, one in Year 3 and one in Year 5, and have been created to address what the city council calls "significant" is one of the city's four "school planning areas" - the locations used to manage school council said the number of pupils in each primary year group, when expressed as a total across the city, had historically grown by about 300 from the start of their primary education to the end. The city's Year 5 cohort had already grown by nearly 340 pupils according to the same current Year 2 cohort had grown by nearly nine classes in three years and the city's Year 1 cohort had already increased by nearly six class sizes in two Stage Two classes – Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 – had increased beyond the historical average, with the latter three year groups all rising by more than 11 full classes.A council report said: "In recent years, there has been a significant increase in demand for in–year primary school places, and this is not abating."This is due to a combination of factors including migration, regeneration and housing, and the popularity and Ofsted ratings of Wolverhampton schools."To meet this demand, additional places are required throughout the city."The council said Perry Hall Primary School had shown it continued to provide an education that "reflected the evolving and increasingly complex needs of the pupils" and planned to refurbish and build 'traditional' classrooms rather than install "modular" temporary buildings."In recent years, several small group rooms have been established adjacent to Key Stage One and Two classrooms, to allow pupils to work with teachers in smaller numbers outside of the traditional class bases," it said."This has allowed the school to support children with progress, who may be disadvantaged or vulnerable."This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
