\u201cThe school has also taken steps to support students and staff who have been affected by this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said officers attended and liaised with people at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a report of an assault. No serious injuries were reported, and an ambulance wasn\u2019t required.\u201d<\/p>\n
The principal told the Bay of Plenty Times the altercation between the two boys happened about 10.30am during the morning tea break near a toilet block close to the school office.<\/p>\n
The principal said the boy with the pocket knife was a Year 7 student and the Year 8 boy allegedly had a \u201csmall nick taken out of his forearm\u201d.<\/p>\n
The incident was captured on a CCTV security camera, and one of the teachers was able to quickly defuse the situation. Both boys were taken to the school office.<\/p>\n
The principal said the injured student was taken to Tauranga Hospital by his mother.<\/p>\n
The principal appreciated the \u201cquick response and support\u201d of the police community constables, who were able to interview both boys at the school and speak to their caregivers.<\/p>\n
The principal wanted to be open and transparent about the incident and was speaking to the Bay of Plenty Times to ensure accurate details of the incident were reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cA meeting will be set up with the boys and their caregivers next week to discuss their reintegration back into the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
The principal said the circumstances that led to the incident were still being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe school has also taken steps to support students and staff who have been affected by this incident.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,58454,1558,71,305,78,671,29819,61094,111,43,139,69,26525,151320,5196,4062,9631,1227,1865],"class_list":["post-265093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-altercation","tag-been","tag-from","tag-have","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-involving","tag-knife","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pulled","tag-pupils","tag-removed","tag-school","tag-student","tag-tauranga","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}