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Kōrero: Primary and secondary education

Home schooling

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Home schooling

Some parents choose to educate their children at home, and they receive an annual state grant to purchase learning materials. Some of these children also take Correspondence School classes. Shown here are four sisters participating in an art class, in 1989. They are (from left) Sarah (12), Rachael (nine), Teresa (six) and Angela (three), with their mother and teacher, Christina Coward.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1989/2622

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Primary and secondary education – The state system in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36627/home-schooling (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.