A photograph of children walking home from school along Gayhurst Road. A crack can be seen running across the footpath.
A photograph of children walking home from school along Gayhurst Road. A crack can be seen running across the footpath.
Cabinet papers show the government's one-billion-dollar plan for reorganising Christchurch schools in the wake of the Canterbury earthquakes is one of the most expensive options it could have chosen.
Schools will begin re-opening from today in Christchurch, helping children and their parents regain some sense of normality amidst the chaos caused by last month's earthquake.
All Christchurch secondary schools involved in rowing have made it to the annual Maadi Cup regatta at Lake Karapiro in Waikato despite major setbacks caused by the February earthquake.
Some Christchurch schools are so worried about the impact of February's earthquake on their students that they want special consideration to be given in their exam marks.
Five years on from the Canterbury earthquakes, many children are still showing signs of stress. Our health correspondent Karen Brown says child health and education experts want children to get more help.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Barbadoes Street, Gloucester Street and Armagh Street. Christchurch East School at the bottom".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 24 September 2010 entitled, "Let the wild rumpus, I mean the school holidays begin...".
An aerial photograph looking north over Avonside. In the bottom centre of the photograph, Avonside Girls High School can be seen.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Substantial site development in Kennedys Bush Road, near the intersection with School Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Haldenstein's and Unlimited School, north-west corner High and Cashel Streets (under deconstruction)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Substantial site development in Kennedys Bush Road, near the intersection with School Road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Waiting for water at Redcliffs School".
A digger clearing a site at Cathedral Grammar School, on the corner of Park Terrace and Chester Street West.
Historical images of the Engineering School, taken of the College of Engineering circa 1962. Image of the Mushroom Building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Music specialist Dale McKay and the children of Bluestone School record her earthquake song".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "All Black Captain Richie McCaw meets students of the badly-damaged St Paul's School".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Music specialist Dale McKay and the children of Bluestone School record her earthquake song".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Music specialist Dale McKay and the children of Bluestone School record her earthquake song".
A new way to get students left classroom-less by the Christchurch earthquake back into school is proving successful.
Students forced to leave Christchurch's Linwood College by February's earthquake returned to their school for the first time today.
John Townend is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University Wellington.
John Townend is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University Wellington.
A photograph submitted by Andy Palmer to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Redcliffs School, 25 Feb 2012.".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "All Black Captain Richie McCaw meets students of the badly-damaged St Paul's School".
Historical images of the Engineering School, taken of the College of Engineering circa 1962. Image of the Mushroom Building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "All Black Captain Richie McCaw meets students of the badly-damaged St Paul's School".
A photograph of street art painted on a fence at Central New Brighton School. The artwork depicts a landscape.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Substantial site development in Kennedys Bush Road, near the intersection with School Road".