A 15-year-old Christchurch girl has been driven out of her school by bullies just seven weeks before important exams begin. The girl allegedly received text messages from one tormenter’s parents, who did not want the girl to get her mother involved. The girl’s mother is desperately trying to enrol her in another school – a Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Catholic Education’
Catholic schools not affected by Christchurch shake-up
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012A spokeswoman from St James School, a Catholic integrated school in Christchurch, said she did not envisage the proposed Christchurch shake-up of schools will have an effect because the school’s buildings were owned by the Catholic diocese. ”But we’re feeling very sorry for our colleagues down the road. We’re all in close proximity and it’s Read more
Fiji: confusion about right of Catholic schools to have a Catholic principal
Friday, September 14th, 2012
It has been alleged that Fiji’s Public Service Commission (PSC) refused to consider a submission from the Catholic Board of Education requesting that heads of their schools belong to the Catholic faith. In a letter made public last week, Director of Catholic Education, Remesio Rogovakalali, said the PSC had turned down a Catholic Education delegation request for Catholic Read more
New principal of Hato Petera confident about future
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012The new principal of Hato Petera College is confident that bringing the school into the 21st century will help improve its Education Review Office reports. ERO says Hato Petera, on Auckland’s North Shore, needs a curriculum that better aligns to its students’ career paths, and improved student assessment. The school’s head, John Mathews, says the Read more
School cans money raiser delivering adverts for a Bar
Friday, September 7th, 2012St Teresa’s school in Karori has called off a money raiser involving delivering flyers advertising a new bar and restaurant, during school hours, after complaints from three families. Children in years six, seven and eight were to spend an hour delivering leaflets in return for a $500 donation towards school sports jackets. The bar and Read more
Independent foundation to run Catholic school system in US
Friday, August 24th, 2012
The archdiocese of Philadephia is handing the management of its secondary schools over to an independent foundation in a move aimed at improving finances and increasing enrolment levels. The first independently managed Catholic school system in the United States will be run by the Faith in the Future Foundation, created by concerned Catholics in conjunction Read more
SMSM’s celebrate 80 years in Samoa
Friday, August 17th, 2012
On Wednesday, the feast of the Assumption, St. Mary’s Primary School Savalalo and St. Mary’s College Vaimoso celebrated the 80th birthday Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary (SMSM) in Samoa. The Principal of St Marys College, Sister Sosefina Stowers, related that “In 1864, Bishop Battalion sent Sister Marie de la Merci to Samoa from Read more
Catholic schools hold opportunity for church
Friday, August 10th, 2012
It’s a fairly grim picture for the U.S. Catholic Church these days. Church attendance among all but immigrants in the U.S. is dwindling. Dioceses are being bankrupted by the priest pedophilia scandal. As a result, the church is shuttering many Catholic hospitals, but there’s one possible growth market for the American church: Catholic schools. Since Read more
900 attend Catholic Education Convention
Friday, August 10th, 2012
More than 900 teachers, principals, lecturers, priests, bishops, school trustees are gathered in Wellington from around the country, to celebrate and develop Catholic education at their triennial convention which began on Wednesday. Hon Hekia Parata, the Minister of Education and Lesley Longstone, the Secretary of Education are among those address delegates as well as overseas Read more
Catholic schools urged to imitate charter schools
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012With enrollment dropping nearly 25 per cent between 2000 and 2011, Catholic schools in the United States need to “innovate or die”, according to a recent report by the Lexington Institute, a non-profit public-policy group. To innovate, Catholic schools should imitate their largest competitor — charter schools — by adopting a blended curriculum that harnesses Read more