Media releases

  • 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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