Roll call to increase student numbers at rural school

08:00 Tue, 4 Mar

New Tapora School principal Bex Thompson has a well-equipped school with three classrooms, a hall, a library and a swimming pool – what she doesn’t...

Calls to cut 100km/h speed limit outside school

15:07 Fri, 28 Feb

A 60km /h speed limit was being considered but new government rules have put that process on pause. Tapora School lies just around a blind...

New principal keen to increase roll at Tapora

21:00 Thu, 3 Oct

There will be something of a scale adjustment needed for Tapora School’s new principal when she starts in the role at the start of Term...

Teachers stepping down from Tapora

11:39 Mon, 24 Jun

Matariki celebrations at Tapora will be tinged with sadness this year, as the community bonfire and potluck dinner on June 28 coincides with the departure...

Tapora planting day

09:00 Wed, 15 May

Tapora School students and local residents dug deep and planted 1350 native trees and plants in wetland on the Taporapora Peninsula on Friday, May 3....

Vintage vehicles brave the mud

09:00 Fri, 21 Jul

Undeterred by wet weather and plenty of potholes, nearly 40 classic vehicles took to local roads on July 1 for the annual Wellsford Warkworth Vintage...