Haere mai! Things are looking a little different around here! We are delighted to share our updated website. We hope it reflects the diversity, passion and brightness found in our schools every day. This process has been under way for some time. It started in March when we sent out a survey about our communications; [...]
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand - State of the Environment The latest State of the Environment for Oceania 2017 Report: Turning the Tide, was released by Caritas on St Francis Day, Wednesday 4 October. http://www.caritas.org.nz/state-environment. We congratulate Caritas on this important report. It is very worth reading and using with students. Did You Know? [...]
Updated Documentation as a Result of the Replacement of the PSCI Act Review and updating of documents containing references to Part 33 of the Education Act 1989, which has subsumed the material in the PSCI Act, is almost complete. Information will be provided as soon as possible. New TCI Qualifications Approved TCI is congratulated on [...]
Otago, Southland Regions: Roncalli College, Timaru: Caitlin Bradley won the senior category of the Caritas SINGout4JUSTICE song writing competition with her song ‘Stronger Together.’ Kavanagh College, Dunedin: Tobias Devereux recently won the University of Otago Junior Maths competition in which he achieved an almost perfect score. Tobias also gained High Distinction in the ICAS (Australasian) [...]
“The Lord hears the cry of the poor, blessed be the poor.” I heard this antiphon at mass recently and it continued to resonate throughout the following week. If we are his hands how are we hearing the cry of the poor? It occurred to me that if we were really determined to model for [...]
Integrated Schools’ Sporting Achievements August 2017 Pompallier Catholic College, Whangarei: D’Artagnan Gould has been selected to represent New Zealand at the 10th World Karate Federation Youth Cup in Croatia. Ciara Smith was selected by the New Zealand Olympic Committee into the NZ Youth Commonwealth Team to compete in swimming at the Youth Commonwealth Games in [...]
Reminder to Boards of Trustees about GovTalks NZSTA has a Govtalks website dedicated to useful videos for school Boards of Trustees. Board members are encouraged to visit the site. Click here for more information http://www.govtalks.co.nz/leadership?videopage=2 “Tagged” Positions in Integrated Schools Proprietors, Boards of Trustees and Principals are reminded that S65 and S66 in the PSCI Act are [...]
A Recent Book for Parents New Zealand Secondary Schools and Your Child, a Guide for Parents by Bali Haque, a leading New Zealand educator, has just been published by Bateman Press, and is available in bookshops. It is a sensible and clear guide, and is worth drawing to the attention of parents of senior [...]
Otago, Southland Regions: Holy Family School, Wanaka: See Nat Warburton’s interview on Seven Sharp www.facebook.com/sevensharp/videos/10155577618537268/ Kavanagh College, Dunedin: Kieran Kelly won first prize in the NEWZATS Cleveland Junior Award for Musical Theatre and Contemporary Solo Singing. Deputy Head Boy Niko Cockerill represented Dunedin as an 'Aspiring Leader' at a forum in Wellington. Sharon Cowie, [...]
In her book, It’s About Learning, Louise Stoll tells the story of a parent who laments the change in the pedagogy associated with spelling. She complains to her child’s teacher and says, “Why can’t we learn to spell the way I did by using rote learning?” The teacher looks at the parent and says, “I can [...]
