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4 hours ago Yevette Williams and Dale Burden have not been seen at the school for weeks. Photo credit: St Peters School. WorkSafe is making inquiries into concerns around staff wellbeing at a prestigious high school after the headmaster and deputy principal vanished. Dale Burden and Yevette Williams - a married couple - have not been at St Peters School since the most recent holiday in April. The school had remained tight-lipped on the pairs absence until W...

Erkkila defended the tight-lipped approach to the senior leaderships disappearance, saying although he acknowledged there had not been enough communication to parents and caregivers, the Board has "legal obligations". "For that reason, it has been a difficult environment to navigate. But I also recognise the need to be open as possible with our school community is important." He assured parents the wellbeing of "the school community" is of utmost importance. According to Stuff, Erikkla said stu...

Libby Wilson13:44, May 11 2021 Supplied Executive principal Dale Burden, pictured, and deputy principal Yevette Williams, his wife, are not around at St Peters School, but the reason remains unclear (file photo). The principal and his deputy principal wife are absent from an exclusive private school in Cambridge, but management remains tight-lipped as to why. St Peter’s School was “unable to provide any comment at this stage”, when Stuff asked about executive principal Dale Burden and d...

JASON DORDAY/Stuff Barring jackets from classrooms at Mount Albert Grammar School has drawn some flak from parents. (File photo) “According to my daughter most of the older rooms are cold – a new TV is bought but not heating.” The woollen school jumper is uncomfortable and itchy to wear, she said. Kelly-Hunt said the uniform was so expensive she had to buy it secondhand. “Why are they charging that amount for a uniform and our kids have got to take that jacket off and be cold i...

Press Release – Independent Schools of New Zealand A new, in-school-based model of educating secondary school teachers has been warmly embraced by the first inductees, with some even describing the initiative as pivotal to their decision to pursue further qualifications and thereby help alleviate the country’s severe teacher shortage. Developed through the close collaboration of the University of Waikato and both independent and state schools, the innovative model commenced at the start of ...

Thursday, 6 May 2021, 2:49 pm A new, in-school-based model of educating secondary school teachers has been warmly embraced by the first inductees, with some even describing the initiative as pivotal to their decision to pursue further qualifications and thereby help alleviate the country’s severe teacher shortage. Developed through the close collaboration of the University of Waikato and both independent and state schools, the innovative model commenced at the start of 2021. It entails stud...

In recent years McNamara went duck shooting at Mount Albert station, at the head waters of Lake Wanaka near Makarora, but the friend he went with had since moved to Temuka. He was not sure where to shoot this year, and with some old hunting mates having passed away, McNamara advertised for a maimai in The Southland Times. He got six replies from different parts of the south, including Kingston, Dipton and Wendonside. Robyn Edie/Stuff Duck shooter Michael McNamara with some of the decoys he is...

Born in 2004, Brunt – a prefect at Mount Albert Grammar School – is the youngest of the lot, having just turned 17. That means she wasn’t yet alive the last time the Blues men won Super Rugby – or Super 12, as it was known back then – in May 2003. But if that makes you feel old, don’t worry, because assistant coach Anna Richards is in the same boat. “They love telling me that they werent born when I last played, so Im not too happy about that,” she joked on Thursday, when as...

Arrests made as police investigate drug syndicate with links to a Mexican cartel © RNZ / Richard Tindiller Police have arrested eight people and disrupted plans to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the country from Mexico, they say. Police and Customs Service searched 10 properties in Rotorua, Te Kaha, Te Puke, Ōmokoroa, Mount Albert and Auckland CBD, as well as a boat moored in Northland. Those involved allegedly planned to import a large quantity of cocaine and methamphetamine i...

Press Release – New Zealand Police Police have arrested eight people and disrupted plans to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the country from Mexico. This morning Police, along with New Zealand Customs Service, carried out search warrants at eleven properties throughout the wider Bay of Plenty, Northland and Auckland areas as part of Operation Tarpon. The operation, run by the National Organised Crime Group (NOCG), has targeted key players of a drug syndicate operating in New Zeal...