Media releases
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Prize winners cover length and breadth of country
20 Dec 2012
The success of students from across New Zealand has been recognised in the annual prize giving for Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (formerly The Correspondence School). More than seventy prizes or awards were given out this year, including to Dux Laura Henderson, from Te Karaka (near Gisborne), who also ...
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Response to Radio NZ
05 Jul 2012
Yesterday Board of Trustees Chair Trish McKelvey was asked by Radio NZ to comment on a letter written to the Board by the PPTA, a copy of which had been given to RNZ. Very little of the statement was mentioned by Radio NZ in its coverage of this issue ...
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NZ’s largest school celebrates student success
14 Dec 2011
New Zealand’s largest school, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (formerly The Correspondence School), celebrated the success of students around the country in a prize giving ceremony at the school in Wellington this month. Eighty students received prizes or awards for their efforts in 2011, including Dux Seth King-Wall from ...
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Haldon Unit
04 Nov 2011
At its monthly meeting this week, Te Kura's Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to cease funding the Haldon Unit in South Canterbury. Board Chair Trish McKelvey said the Board acknowledged the impact of its decision on the families who use the unit. “The Board discussed the matter ...
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The Correspondence School student prize winners for 2009
20 Jan 2010
The Correspondence School’s student prize winners for 2009 were announced recently in Wellington. Eighty-two students from New Zealand and overseas were awarded prizes, with 15 students and their families gathering at the end of last term to receive their awards at a prize-giving ceremony held at Pipitea Marae. The Correspondence ...
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Learning at home for three to five year olds
24 Jul 2009
Rural families may be eligible to enrol with The Correspondence School’s free early childhood education service. Families with children aged between three and six years old, who live more than six kilometres from a licensed early childhood centre, are able to enrol with the school. “The programme is unique ...
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