{"id":17536,"date":"2026-05-29T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17536"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:48:04","slug":"manurewa-high-school-to-shut-early-with-too-many-staff-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17536","title":{"rendered":"Manurewa High School to shut early, with too many staff sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large South Auckland high school will close early on Friday because it does not have enough teachers present – again.<\/p>\n

Manurewa High School, which has nearly 2300 students, said on Thursday 29 staff were absent due to “a number of recent illnesses and events\u2026 and need their classes to be covered by a reliever”.<\/p>\n

“Normally we are only covering 10-15 staff per day,” the school’s senior leadership team\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Covering larger numbers of between 20 and 25 staff daily has become common over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, we cannot sustain this, and we are notifying whaanau that we are closing school at the end of lunchtime on Friday 29th May.”<\/p>\n

Children who could not leave (for example due to age or transport issues) could remain at school.<\/p>\n

“We thank you for your support and understanding.”<\/p>\n

In a follow-up\u00a0post on social media<\/a>, the school said students would be released between 1.50pm and 2pm.<\/p>\n

The school closed early on one day in June 2025 for\u00a0similar reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education in March forecast a\u00a0likely shortfall of 710 secondary teachers this year and 510 next year<\/a>, up from last year’s projection of 550 and 330 for the same period.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large South Auckland high school will close early on Friday because it does not have enough teachers present – again. Manurewa High School, which has nearly 2300 students, said on Thursday 29 staff were absent due to “a number of recent illnesses and events\u2026 and need their classes to be covered by a reliever”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17538,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17536\/revisions\/17538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}