{"id":265515,"date":"2026-02-03T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:47:08","slug":"boy-injures-another-student-in-knife-incident-at-tauranga-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265515\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy injures another student in knife incident at Tauranga school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTRRS4_Otumotai_intermediate_school_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"687\" alt=\"\u014ct\u016bmoetai Intermediate School.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n\u014ct\u016bmoetai Intermediate School.<br \/>\nPhoto: Screenshot \/ Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A boy has suffered a minor injury after another student struck him with a pocketknife at school on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at \u014ct\u016bmoetai Intermediate School, with its principal detailing the event in a social media post addressed to parents and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Henk Popping said a pocketknife was pulled out by one of the boys during an altercation, and struck the other student&#8217;s forearm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This caused a minor injury and both boys&#8217; caregivers have met with myself, school leaders and police constables who were notified as a follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both boys have been removed from the school for the remainder of the week which will be followed up with a re-integration process assisted by the Ministry of Education and our Police Community Constables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The school has also taken steps to support students and staff who have been affected by the incident, Popping said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u014ct\u016bmoetai Intermediate School. Photo: Screenshot \/ Google Maps A boy has suffered a minor injury after another student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-265515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265515","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=265515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}