Our press release with insights into our students’ school lunches received a range of media coverage, including:

• Survey shows the number of students using school tuck shops has halved, Newstalk ZB interview with Rachel Cunliffe (May 2, 2017)
• Tuck shops losing out to packed lunches, NZ Herald, Online (May 2, 2017)
• Tuck shops losing out to home packed lunches, NZ Doctor (May 2, 2017)
• South Canterbury schools take part in nationwide survey measuring where they get their lunch from, Stuff (May 3, 2017)

Our press release with insights into our students’ screen time received a range of media coverage, including:

• Some Kiwi schoolgirls spend over five hours a day on their phones after class, Seven Sharp feature/TVNZ (March 15, 2017)
• NZ children’s screen time unsupervised and unlimited, Computer World (March 15, 2017)
• Unsupervised: Are Kiwi high schoolers safe online? Educators NZ (March 15, 2017)
• Kids say there are no limits on their screen time out of school, RadioLIVE (March 15, 2017)
• Most Kiwi kids have no screen-time limits, NZ Herald (March 15, 2017)
• Half of NZ high school students unsupervised online outside of school, Netsafe NZ (March 14, 2017)

Our press release with insights into our students’ pocket money received a range of media coverage, including:

• Project answers questions about how much pocket money Kiwi kids earn, NZ Herald (February 28, 2017)
• 新西兰儿童每周赚多少钱？学生兼职也现男女收入不平等, Chinese Herald (February 28, 2017)
• How much pocket money should we give our kids, RadioLIVE interview with Rachel Cunliffe (February 28, 2017)
• Mike Hosking Breakfast interview with Rachel Cunliffe, NewstalkZB (March 1, 2017)
• High School Kiwi Kids Average $15 per week Pocket Money, Rachel Cunliffe live on Seven Sharp (March 1, 2017)
• 中视新闻, Rachel Cunliffe interviewed on WTV (March 2, 2017) [The news starts from 6:50]

Radio New Zealand interview with Anne Patel: First national data on school bullying confirms its prevalence (June 12, 2015)

Maori Television: Students believe verbal abuse is biggest bullying problem in schools (June 12, 2015)

NZ Herald: Biggest bullying problem in NZ schools revealed (June 12, 2015)

Stuff: Verbal abuse a problem in New Zealand schools, children’s census finds (June 12, 2015)

Stuff: CensusAtSchool: Less texting, more social media (June 13, 2015)

But wait, there’s more …

The CensusAtSchool bullying data came out, coincidentally, on the “Day of Silence”, an event to raise awareness of the damaging effect of  homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, name calling and harassment in schools. Here’s a story from Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report:

Bullying of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students (June 12, 2015)

Watch this video featuring Sue Hodge from Elm Park school in Pakuranga and Julie Middleton from the CensusAtSchool team on Te Kāea, Māori Television’s news show, on March 17.

A story about Census at School will air during Afternoons with Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand National (101FM) today, Monday 22 July at 3.30pm, and a slightly longer version again during Our Changing World on Thursday 25 July.

Nichola Coe, Head of Maths at Kapiti College, is visited by Radio New Zealand to learn about CensusAtSchool. Nichola opens with this beautifully worded thought:

“I think there is a song to be sung behind every graphical representation.”

Professor Chris Wild and Rachel Cunliffe are also talked to.

Listen to the story:

Questions on value of homework – NZ Herald

Engaged parents help kids more – Wanganui Chronicle

Homework merit for children questioned – Nelson Mail

This morning, Rachel Cunliffe spoke with Kathryn Ryan about the CensusAtSchool project:

• Teen girls flock to short smart tweets – NZ Herald
• Bebo out as girls flock to Twitter – Central Leader 29 May 2013 p 14
• Leighton Smith and Larry Williams discussed the results on their Newstalk ZB radio shows.

Thanks to Khandu Patel of Dyer St School for sending in this story about CensusAtSchool in the Hutt News: