Keeping your place in the Maadi Cup rowing team could prove expensive for all parties. An injunction costs approximately $15,000 to $20,000, according to Hasting Lawyer Jol Bates. Bates represented the Battison family in the Bay last year when St John’s College pupil, Lucan Battison, was suspended for refusing the school’s request to cut his Read more
The Mercedarian Missionaries, who came from Berriz in Spain, recently celebrated the 87th anniversary of their arrival on Saipan. The Mercedarian sisters were the first group of religious women to come to the island. The Spanish Sisters Loreta Zubia, Inocencia Urizar, Maria Teresa Cortazar, Pilar Lorenzo and Aurora Chopitea arrived by boat at what is now Read more
Five students at St. Joseph’s College, in Apia, Samoa, have been expelled after they were identified as the culprits in a bullying video, filmed at the school. The video, posted on Facebook, showing a St. Joseph’s College student being beaten by another student while other students look on, has gone viral. They are also likely Read more
A colourful record of the 150 years history of the work of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary [SMSM] in Samoa and the Jubilee celebrations in Apia last year, was launched last Saturday. The 150 Anniversary Commemoration Magazine is the work of a Media Committee led by Sister Vitolia Mo’a and was designed Read more
The Auckland Diocese has offered Hato Petera College, which sits on prime real estate on Auckland’s North Shore, only a short-term extension to its lease. New Zealand First Deputy Leader Tracey Martin has suggested moves are underway to cash in on the booming property market. Continue reading
Catholic schools in Suva archdiocese celebrated Catholic Education over a week in February, instead of on one day as in previous years. Archdiocese Catholic education director Pio Bosco said Archbishop Peter Loy Chong changed the duration of the celebration. Instead of having it in July, the timing of the celebration was also changed to be Read more
A Catholic education leader is sounding a note of warning after an experiment in giving condoms to teens in a college was hailed as a success. The chief executive of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office, Br Sir Patrick Lynch, spoke about an experiment at James Cook High School in south Auckland. Condoms were given Read more
A St John’s College, Hamilton, student has topped NZ Scholarship economics for the second year running. Huon Fraser, 18, had the highest score for the subject in the last round of the challenging NZQA exams. He was under the tutelage of Shaun Healy, who also taught the year before’s winner. Fraser, also the school’s 2014 Read more
She’s done a lot of acting, been classically trained as a singer and has sung at weddings and funerals. She took the lead in Mozart’s Magic Flute in Hamilton, directed some big productions at Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Hamilton, where she studied and later worked, and for Riverlea Theatre – shows like The Wizard Read more
Late last year Mrs Rose Sawaya was appointed principal of Bishop Viard College in Porirua. She has now taken up her new position at the College at the beginning of this new school year. Mrs. Sawaya was previously the Principal of Sacred Heart Girls College in New Plymouth. Before that was Deputy Principal of Sacred Read more