Marist Brothers’ High School launched its Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a special mass at the school’s Lambert Hall in Suva on Friday 20 April. Marist Brothers’ High School opened its doors at its initial location in Toorak, Suva, way back in 1937 before moving to its current site, Flagstaff, a decade later. Originally known as Read more
A Dunedin secondary school principal has defended the practice of taking “sweeteners” from school uniform suppliers in return for business. Kavanagh College principal Tracy O’Brien says it is common for schools to have a rebate scheme where suppliers provide a percentage of sales income to schools which buy their uniforms. He was aware of a Read more
Children with disabilities now have access to vocational education at the Marist Champagnat Institute. A statement from the Australian High Commission said the Suva-based secondary school was the only one in Fiji that specialised in teaching vocational and mainstream curriculum to children with disabilities. “The Marist Champagnat Institute is different from other special education schools Read more
For the last 3 years, The Logos Project has offered the schools of the Auckland Diocese the opportunity to send their school leaders to a unique retreat called the Special Character Retreat. The retreat provides an opportunity for student leaders who are seeking a transformative experience that links faith and life in a way that Read more
John Paul College and Reporoa College are the only schools in the Rotorua area to have beaten the national average for NCEA achievement at every year Level.
The National Certificate of Educational Achievement 2011 statistics were recently released by the New Zealand Qualifications Association, revealing the pass rates for Rotorua high schools.John Paul College
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Hato Paora College students have just completed a successful visit to the Wairarapa; the first since 1986. They have taken part in the Viard Shield athletics competition at Chanel College, played against Rathkeale and Wairarapa Colleges and performed a concert. Not only did their kapa haka concert at the Masterton Town Hall go off without a hitch, but Read more
In 1985 Rosalyn Williamson filled in as piano teacher at Hato Paora College for a day and a half. Twenty-seven years later, she has retired from teaching at the school.
“I found it so wonderful to hear the boys sing I realised what a special place this was right from the first day,” said Mrs Williamson – or Whaea Roz as she is known to the students.
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It is hoped that the pupils under canvas in five Christchurch primary schools will soon be able to return to their classrooms. On 17 February blocks were closed at St Mary’s School and Our Lady of Assumption School Hoon Hay. Some days later pupils at schools St Bernadette’s, Hornby, Christ the King, Burnside and St Peter’s, Read more
The Catholic Bishop of Christchurch , Barry Jones, says a comparison of this year’s annual survey of the numbers of adults and children coming to Sunday Mass with the surveys of the last few years seems to show that the earthquakes have had no effect on the number of persons coming to Sunday Mass He Read more
Children in two Christchurch Catholic schools are being taught in marquees set up as clasrooms. Five tents have been at Our Lady of Assumption in Hoon Hay to temporarily replace the block that housed five of the school’s 12 classrooms. The school has a roll of 260. Four have been installed at St Mary’s, in Read more