Throughout 2020 and 2021:

  • Auckland has lost 101 physical school days
  • Waikato has lost 63 physical school days
  • Tai Tokerau (Northland) has lost 52 physical school days
  • The rest of New Zealand has lost 42 physical school days


What’s the impact on our children?

NOTES:

  • The data is for public primary and secondary schools.
  • Pre-school, private-school, and tertiary education are not included in this data set but have also been heavily impacted by Covid lockdowns.
  • From Wednesday 17th November 2021:
    • Children in Years 0 to 8 will return for part-time learning, e.g. three days per week — unless their parents or carers need to go to work.
    • Children in Years 9 and 10 will be able to return for full-time learning.
    • Children in Years 11-13 could physically return to school from Tuesday, 26th October 2021 (so their physical school days lost are up to 16 days less for Auckland, Waikato, and parts of Northland. The figures in the graphic show the impact for years 0 to 10 since that is the majority).
  • Schools have operated online learning during lockdowns.
  • Teacher-only days may vary between schools.
  • Attendance rates are not included in this graphic but can be found via the source data if you are interested.
  • There have been partial lockdowns within some of the education territories above, e.g. not all of the Waikato, Upper Hauraki, Upper Northland.
  • The children of essential workers have been able to attend physical school during certain periods, e.g. level 3. This equates to ~2-6% attendance.

Thank you to the Factors who shared this information, and helped pull it together.

SOURCES:

https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/attendance-under-covid-19
(Schools 2020 XLS, Schools 2021 XLS)

https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/history-of-the-covid-19-alert-system/

https://covid19.govt.nz/activities/education/#education-at-alert-level-4

https://www.education.govt.nz/school/school-terms-and-holiday-dates/school-terms-and-holidays-archive/

https://www.education.govt.nz/school/school-terms-and-holiday-dates/

https://publicholidays.co.nz/2020-dates/

https://publicholidays.co.nz/2021-dates/

Data published by the Ministry of Education
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Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0

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