“I’m delighted to announce that we’re building a new specialist school in Gisborne. Currently, there is no specialist school serving Gisborne, Wairoa and the wider Tairāwhiti region. Alongside the base specialist school, an extra two satellite teaching spaces will be provided on the shared school site of Te Wharau School and Ilminster Intermediate School, Inner Kaiti, Gisborne. “We have funded an additional 122 specialist classrooms including two new specialist schools announced earlier this year. Today’s announcement brings that to three new specialist schools, we are also upgrading six existing specialist schools.