On June 27 Justice David Collins ruled the suspension that kept the Year 12 student and 1st XV rugby player out of school for five weeks, was unlawful, and conditions imposed on the pupil’s return to school were unreasonable. After “deliberately” waiting for “things to settle down in the papers”, the ruling said, Mr Melloy Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Catholic Education’
St Kevin’s College now has horse arena
Friday, September 12th, 2014
St Kevin’s College in Oamaru, New Zealand will hold a grand opening of its new horse arena next month. The co-educational secondary boarding school introduced an equine studies programme in the second term of this year and the support and interest had been ”amazing”, assistant principal and programme co-ordinator Jo Walshe said. The programme had Read more
St Joseph’s School Dannevirke gets a makeover
Friday, September 5th, 2014
St Joseph’s School Dannevirke has a lot to be excited about. The school has had a big makeover. Principal Chris Gunn describes the new amenities as a “cutting edge first for Dannevirke”. Gone are the dark, dingy, box rooms and unappealing toilets and in their place a state-of-the-art modern learning environment, funded by the Catholic Read more
Army comes to Francis Douglas Memorial College
Friday, September 5th, 2014Colby Wall has had his eyes set on joining the army since he was a child. The 15-year-old had his chance to drill the New Zealand Army on a career in the military when the Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles were at his school, Francis Douglas Memorial College, as part of the regiment’s tour around Taranaki Read more
Strengths and benefits of Catholic and independent schools
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
Two recent pieces published on The Conversation (by Barbara Preston and Jennifer Chesters) argue that parents might be wasting their money paying for a non-government school education. They contend that government school students do better at university and, especially when compared to students from independent schools, have similar labour market outcomes. Defining the value of Read more
Aquinas student recognised with Youth Spirit Award
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014An impressive student from Aquinas College in Tauranga with a record of service to school and community has been recognised through the Trustpower Youth Community Spirit Award. Adam van Leeuwen was named the winner of the award which was run in conjunction with the Trustpower Tauranga Community Awards and was jointly run by Trustpower and Read more
Dunedin diocese keeps school attendance dues increase low
Friday, August 22nd, 2014Dunedin diocese has kept the increase in attendance dues per student at Catholic schools next year to $10 per annum for both primary and secondary schools. According to The Tablet, 2015 attendance dues for primary students (year 1 to 8) will be $420 per annum, while for secondary students (years 9 to 13) it is Read more
Catholic schools highly praised by Metro magazine
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Catholic secondary schools in Auckland have been singled out for high praise in Metro magazine’s annual analysis of the region’s schools. Editor Simon Wilson wrote that academic results are critically important, but the best measure of a school is its character. “In the sense that it takes a village to raise a child, good schools Read more
Marycrest for sale on TradeMe
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Marycrest, a girls’ rehabilitation school, has been listed on TradeMe by a man who says he’s Georgian royalty. It is on state Highway 1 near Otaki, on the Kapiti Coast, and has been unused since it shut in the early 1980s. Marycrest has been listed for a minimum $2 million by Victor Greenwich, now living in Sydney, Read more