‘Serious concerns’: Gloriavale school told it could lose its registration

October 9, 2025: | 1News | The Ministry of Education is considering cancelling Gloriavale School’s registration as a private school over concerns that it was not meeting its obligation to provide a physically and emotionally safe environment for students. Andrea Williams, Acting Hautū (leader) of Te Tai Runga (South), said Acting Secretary of…

Gloriavale Christian School remains on notice

August 21, 2025: | 1News | Gloriavale Christian School will remain on notice despite providing Government officials with an updated action plan. The private school had failed to meet three of the eight registration criteria, with a July Education Review Office report determining that it was not a physically and emotionally safe space…

Gloriavale School

August 19, 2025: | Greymouth Star | Letter to the Editor | The Education Review Office has a lot to answer for. They went up and down the Coast saying this school and that school were not up to standard. ERO would put manager in the take over the school and bring it…

Time for the state to take over Gloriavale’s school

August 15, 2025: | The Press | Liz Gordon | Liz Gordon is a barrister and community activist from Christchurch. OPINION: I seem to have been calling for the closure of Gloriavale school for half my life. When I launched a campaign a couple of decades ago to force the closure of the school, the most…

Children’s Commissioner calls for urgent closure of Gloriavale Christian School

August 14, 2025: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | The Children’s Commissioner is calling for the urgent closure of Gloriavale Christian School, saying she has zero confidence that students are safe. School leaders must next week show the Ministry of Education that they are fixing problems identified in a July Education Review Office (ERO)…

Gloriavale School shows improvement — Education Review Office

July 3, 2025: | Greymouth Star | Arianna Stewart |Subscription Only Things are slowly improving at Gloriavale School, the Education Review Office (ERO) says in its latest report on the West Coast commune. Gloriavale suffered a highly critical review in 2023 that said it did not meet six out of eight criteria for…