A group of students from Hamilton Catholic school, Sacred Heart Girls’ College, have been stood down for an alleged case of serious misconduct involving drugs. Board of Trustees chairman David Kraakman said five girls, aged under 16, were stood down last Friday for the alleged incident. “Five students are being talked to and could appear Read more
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Millions to quake-proof schools
Friday, July 5th, 2013Seismic strengthening of school buildings is underway in Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses. Catholic Schools Board executive chairperson Gary Quirke says in the next three years, CSBL plans to spend more than $20 million strengthening and replacing buildings to make schools safer in a major earthquake. As the property manager for the proprietors of 77 schools in Read more
Not everyone happy with plan to merge two schools
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
A plan to merge two schools takes away choice, some parents say. Last week Christchurch, New Zealand, Catholic Education office manager Mike Nolan announced St Paul’s School in Dallington and Our Lady of Fatima School in Mairehau are to merge. “The minister has agreed in principle to the formation of a new state integrated full Read more
Agreement in principle on merger of 2 Christchurch Catholic schools
Friday, June 28th, 2013Agreement in principle has been reached over the proposed merger of St Paul’s in Dallington and Our Lady of Fatima School in Mairehau. The merger is to proceed and the new school will be situated in Mairehau, on the site of Our Lady of Fatima in Innes Rd. Following the earthquakes and the red-zoning of St Paul’s Read more
President Obama sees Catholic schools as divisive
Friday, June 21st, 2013United States President Barack Obama has argued that parish schools are an impediment to the establishment of a lasting peace in Northern Ireland. Speaking in Belfast to a crowd composed mainly of children, Obama said “segregated schools” block the path to full reconciliation. “If towns remain divided, if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Read more
St Pat’s Kilbirnie gets artificial turf
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Last week St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie opened its new artificial turf. Wellington City Council covered $800,000 of the floodlit artificial turf’s $1.7 million bill. The responsibility for finding the remaining $900,000 to fund the artificial turf has been accepted by the St Patrick’s College Foundation. Some avenues of revenue generation have already been identified. The Marist Read more
Gay rights group trains Catholic teachers
Friday, May 24th, 2013
The gay rights group Stonewall, which campaigns for the legalisation of same-sex marriage, says it has been invited into several Catholic schools in England to give staff lessons on preventing “homophobic bullying”. After St Mary’s Primary Catholic School in Wimbledon, south London, confirmed inviting Stonewall to help staff address issues concerning homophobia and discrimination, the Read more
Catholic schools day celebrated in Taranaki
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013The sound of 700 hymn-singing school children rose from St Joseph’s Catholic Church in New Plymouth yesterday. The sweet sounds were a part of the celebrations of the national Catholic Schools Day, an event that happens every three years. St Joseph’s Catholic School student Asia-Rose Blowfield, 9, said it was nice to see so many Read more
Catholic college welcomes new rugby sideline initiative
Friday, May 10th, 2013Auckland Catholic school, De La Salle College, involved last year in a high profile rugby brawl with Auckland Grammar has welcomed a new initiative aimed at improving sideline behaviour among supporters. The initiative involves having a parent or guardian of every boy playing for De La Salle attend an educational evening about appropriate sideline behaviour. Read more
To Stream or not to Stream?
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
At St Mary’s primary school in Lochee, Scotland, I had the same teacher for six years, Mrs W. For me, she was an excellent teacher: she encouraged me to read widely, gave me ample time for creative writing, drilled me in mental arithmetic, and allowed me leadership opportunities, which largely consisted in time out of Read more