BUDDING Jamie Olivers got their chef hats during a trip on a cooking bus.
Pupils from Norland Junior and Infant School were given lessons in preparing good food while aboard the Focus on Food Cooking Bus which made a stop at Dean Clough Mills in Halifax.
The bus, funded by Yorkshire Forward and run by the Focus [...]

MetService says two alerts %26mdash; a heavy-rain warning and a severe-thunderstorm watch %26mdash; were in place when the group entered Mangetepopo Gorge, near National Park, on Tuesday afternoon.
But the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre said it did not receive the warnings.
The stream swelled from 0.5 cubic metres a second to 18 cubic metres in [...]

A top Invercargill athletics coach was concerned pupils were competing in the championship event without a basic knowledge of the sport.
Initially the Southland Principals Association had decided to cancel the Southland championships from next year onwards, meaning Southlands young athletes would be left with the Otago-Southland Secondary School Athletics Championships, which alternates being held in [...]

Southland Girls High School is one school that uses School Links communication technology, which allows parents to receive a text informing them of their childs absence from a class within minutes of each period.
Principal Yvonne Browning said the technology was extra protection so parents received prompt reporting back if their daughter was playing truant. %26quot;Its [...]

Ross Scrymgeour, head of private Hereworth School, Havelock North, says the banning of physical games like bullrush and murder-ball illustrates a softly softly approach to education that does not suit boys.
His boys-only schools play rough philosophy made pupils more attentive in class and taught them about physical boundaries.
Boys need to be exposed to this sort [...]

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An unhealthy obsession with celebrity culture is damaging the academic success of British students, a survey of teachers found on Friday, with celebrity couple the Beckhams the favorite inspiration.
Many students are ignoring career aspirations to pursue the chance of fame instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) survey found.
Almost two-thirds [...]