The Marist Brothers’ Old Pupils’ Association in Samoa is preparing to celebrate the 125 years since the establishment of the Marist Brother in Samoa. A series of events has been planned that will culminate in the 125th celebration in August 2013. Already the Marist Brothers have leased the old school library to the Association for them to Read more
On Saturday past students of Marist Brothers High School Suva marked the end of the school’s 75th anniversary celebrations with a bazaar. Old Boys President Nesbitt Hazelman said they raised more than $40,000 but expected more after the bazaar. Hazelman said the bazaar was to bring months of fundraising for a new club house and various Read more
A dispute has arisen between been the board of trustees of St Teresa’s School, in Karori, Wellington, and its staff about the teachers attending Tuesday’s meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute. In a letter to parents the board said it asked that staff attend two separate meetings – in Wellington and in Lower Hutt – Read more
Authorities for French-language Catholic education in Belgium have applied for state permission to give lessons on Islam in their schools where a large number of pupils – sometimes the majority – are Muslims. Catholic schools have been legally barred from doing this for the past 10 years, with one exception for a school in Liege Read more
About 130 former pupils and family from around New Zealand, with a few from Australia, attended a St Ita’s School centenary reunion at Rakaia at the weekend. The school opened in 1912 in a building which remains in the town today, and has become the St Ita’s Guest House. The catholic school closed 25 years Read more
One of Vatukoula’s oldest primary schools will celebrate its Diamond Jubilee this month with hundreds of former students expected to flock to the gold mining town for the event. Former students of Vatukoula Marist Convent school from Nadi, Suva, Lautoka and overseas have been preparing for the three-day celebrations. Association president Graham Peckham said he Read more
This week in Suva, Fiji, there have been a number brawls involving students from the city’s boys’ secondary schools. Brawls last Friday and on Monday involved students from Suva Grammar and Marist Brothers’ High School. Three people were hospitalised and a Marist student was arrested. He appeared in the Magistrates Court on Wednesday and was charged with Read more
A former Catholic school in Dunedin is about to become home to a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys. The former St Patrick’s Primary School has been sold by the Dunedin Catholic Diocese to the Al-Noor Charitable Trust – a Christchurch-based charity established to form Islamic education institutions in New Zealand. Continue reading
St Bede’s Old Boy and Bishop of Christchurch, Rev Barry Jones, on Friday 21st of this month led a ceremony to deconsecrate the St Bede’s College Chapel. Its deconsecration and eventual removal is a huge disappointment to the College community and is a result of the Christchurch earthquakes. The chapel has been closed since May 6, Read more
A merger of two Christchurch Catholic primary schools is under discussion. Under the proposal, Dallington’s St Paul’s School, which suffered severe earthquake damage, would form a new school with Our Lady of Fatima at its Mairehau site from 2015. St Paul’s is housed on an Education Ministry site in Champion St until the end of 2013, with Read more