Tainui School pupils (from left) Jonas Machek (7), Harry Gill (7) and Annika Rudd (6) continue to use their Covid-19 hygiene skills to keep their school germ-free. PHOTO: JOHN LEWISDunedin schools are still screaming out for relief teachers, despite a noticeable drop in sickness in classrooms. Despite the decline, Dunedin relief teacher pool manager and Elmgrove School principal Chris McKinlay said the pool of relief teachers was still being stretched. But at the end of term two, the need for relief teachers climbed to the point where the pool ran dry and some schools could not be accommodated. The situation was not helped by term two being longer than usual, and the year-on-year decline in the number of relief teachers in the pool.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 29, 2020 22:52 UTC