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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kew Primary School was a primary school in Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand.Kew School was merged on January 29, 2005, as part of the Ministry of Education review of schools in 2004, with three other schools Clarendon, South Invercargill, Clifton to form New River Primary school on the ex Kew site.The school had close ties to the New Zealand Foundation for Character Education Incorporated. In December 2000, it became the first school to be awarded the use of the Foundation's registered Cornerstone Values logo, for its success in "implementing an effective approach to character education". The Foundation says on its website, "Kew School is able to demonstrate a dramatic change in school culture, overwhelming parent and community support for character education, a co-operative teaching and learning environment and enthusiasm among the staff for the difficult task of teaching."