Queenstown Primary School

Queenstown Primary School pupils, parents and staff celebrated their second annual International Day on Friday with a showcase of just a handful of the 40 nationalities represented in the classrooms.

Fifteen years equates to ''literally hundreds'' of changed light bulbs (although the introduction of energy efficient bulbs has slowed that down), many doors falling off their hinges from high use and countless sports balls reclaimed from roofs.

Queenstown Primary School is $30,000 better off after its popular annual school fair was held on Saturday.

They say never work with children and animals but on Saturday pupils from Queenstown Primary School volunteered their time and raised more than $250 in aid of the resort's stray and rescued cats.

Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Colin Kirkpatrick (12), Hayato Yoneto (11), Nicholas Clark (10) and Ben Soto (11) test the human gyro exhibit at the Fonterra Science Roadshow in the school hall on Wednesday.

Year 6 pupil Elijah McDonald sang a pop medley and strummed his guitar to victory in the fourth annual QPS Has Talent competition on Friday.

Queenstown Primary School pupils celebrated their remarkable diversity with national costumes, flags, cuisin

The Queenstown Primary School Boys years 7 and 8 cricket team distinguished itself at the Otago Region cricket finals in Invercargill last Wednesday.

Queenstown Primary School is actively fostering pupils to become "confident, competent learners", according to the Government's education watchdog.

Senior Constable Chris Blackford, of Queenstown, on behalf of his fellow officers, gratefully accepts a gift basket of Christmas baking from Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Eve O'Connor (11), Tessa Paterson (11), Bjorn Pollock (11) and Leyland Rapata-Brookland (11) on Friday.

Queenstown Primary School's new principal, Lyn Bird, with some of her younger charges at the school yesterday.

Copthorne hotel administrator Natalie McAuliffe, also co-ordinator of environmental projects, said when she read the Queenstown Times report about Queenstown Primary pupils earning an Enviroschool bronze award, she decided to get the Copthorne hotels to encourage them, as the company has three properties awarded Qualmark Enviro-Gold status.

Pupils from Queenstown Primary and KingsView schools will muck in with volunteers this week in efforts to remove scrub from the unearthed ruins of a historic gold-mining community near Arrowtown.

About 60 excited girls will represent Queenstown Primary School for the first time in the Stars on Stage performing arts challenge in Dunedin tomorrow night.

Parents, teachers and pupils were briefed on internet safety and how to prevent cyber bullying on computers and mobile phones, during presentations at Queenstown Primary School on Thursday.

About 20 Queenstown Primary School pupils in years 7 and 8 were hard at work creating their own willow and tissue paper lanterns, on Friday, for the popular Winter Festival Mardi Gras tomorrow.

Queenstown Primary School year 6 pupils explored the great outdoors at Sydney Cove, on Ulva Island, near Stewart Island, earlier this month.