Apertures Press

New Zealand school uniforms are the most visible aspect of the country's schools. New Zealand educators are, however, confronting many less visible issues such as public school finance, discipline, ethnic diversity, disparities in family income, the future of private schools, modernizing the curiculum, local contol of educatiin, and many other issues. How this small democracy is addressing these issues offers valuable insights to educators around the world.

Thanks, you are person number to participate in our project

Navigate New Zealand Schools

Apertures Press International Schools Project

Description of overall Apertures International Schools Project and sample photographs

British book

First book on British preparatory schools (includes some New Zealand preparatory schools

Contributions

How to submit material for our New Zealand project

Elementary school images

Digital drawings of elementary schools

Secondary school images

Digital drawings of secondary schools

Poems by the students

Poetry describing New Zealand school life

School views by the students

Descriptions of New Zealand school life and experiences

More school views

Descriptions of school life and experiences

Photographs

Photographic images of New Zealand schools

Table of contents

Proposed table of contents for our New Zealand book

Glossaries

Glossaries of New Zealand education and words and expressions used by school children

New Zealand classrooms

More information about New Zealand schools

New Zealand schools

A list of New Zealand schools with web pages

Message board

Enter one of your school experiences for our book

The Girls' View

A look at New Zealand schools from the girls' point of view

Historical Views

Historical views of New Zealand schools

Distinctive nature of New Zealand schools

Chracteristics of New Zealand education

Observations at New Zealand schools

Some of our observations during school visits

We are publishing a book describing school life in New Zealand. We have visited over a 100 elementary and secondary schools all over the country to photograph everyday school life. Many additional schools as well individuals have submitted material for our book.

We would be very interested in any insights or interesting personal experiences you could provide us for our project.

Our primary interest is any written comments (short or long) you could provide us about your own personal experiences. We would like to hear from current students (primary and secondary), former students (of any age), teachers, and parents. Details on what kind of information we would like is described on the next page. (Select "Contributions" from the links memo.) We would also be interested in any other interesting material you might like to submit, including drawings, photographs (especially old time photos), poems, etc. Incidentally by old time photos we do not mean just really old photographs, but would like to include some from the more recent past, including the 1940s-70s.

We have also attached some digital drawings of representative photographs. Most of the pictures in the book, however, will be straight forward photographs.

We would greatly appreciate any suggestions or comments you might have on our project.