Schools adapt to keep classes going as teachers off sick

Schools are having to get creative to keep classes going as students and teachers are hit hard with Covid and seasonal bugs.

Yesterday the government announced it's supplying 50 child sized masks to all Years 4-7.

That's on top of giving out up to 30,000 masks a week to all other students and school staff.

At the moment some primary schools are having to plug significant gaps with multiple teachers sick.

Wendy Koefed is Newmarket School principal and president of the Auckland Primary Principals' Association. She talks to Lisa Owen.