Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Live on Prime Time TV

It's not every day you appear live on prime time television, on New Zealand's biggest channel, TV1.

Front Page News

It's not every day you make the front page of the country's only national newspaper!

This story covers what happened to my family when we had the misfortune of putting our kids in the local, and oh so beautiful on the outside, Titirangi Rudolf Steiner school.

Monday, 25 February 2013

Broken Promises

New Zealand's dirty secret is that it's rife with bullying and that the statistics for child suicides is one of the worst in the world. Not quite the "better place for the kids" they keep advertising themselves as, eh?

Monday, 17 December 2012

Konini's Enviro Maze

Schools in New Zealand haven't got a good reputation - mostly due to the fact that bullying is not properly dealt with. Our own experience of four schools in West Auckland definitely bear that out. But then there are jewels shining through, and Konini Primary is one such school with a principal and teachers working hard to make a difference.