An English bishop suggested reorganizing the Catholic school system in his diocese to ease financial strain and address schools that may have strayed from their purpose of faithful evangelization. “Is it time for us to admit that we can no longer maintain schools that are Catholic in name only?” asked Bishop Michael G. Campbell of Read more
The Apostolic Administrator of an Australian diocese is appalled at the decision by a Catholic primary school in the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese to exclude a girl because of her parents’ sexuality. Bishop Kevin Manning said, “To penalise a five year old child because her parents are living in a homosexual relationship is just quite wrong.” Manning Read more
Christian school leaders say the proposed charter schools might give Christian schools a way round current restrictions on their enrolments. Most Christian schools are integrated schools and must focus their enrolments on Christians. Charter schools would get the same funding, without those restrictions. Christian school leaders say that will interest schools that want to help Read more
Six young people who completed a Gap Year programme in Wellington received their certificates at a graduation ceremony on Sunday. The participants are all people who have recently left College and are about to take their next step – work, study, or university. This year they came from from Auckland, New Plymouth, Waipukurau, Wainuiomata and Read more
Palmerston North’s Our Lady of Lourdes deputy principal Jody Hayes has received the CORE Education Award for Professional Learning and Reflective Practice within a primary or intermediate school for her Student Voice and Choice project.
The project was about looking at ways to find what children want to learn about and how a teacher can then apply that to the curriculum.
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Lucia Kennedy wants to help thousands of children across the world achieve their dreams. The Christchurch 12-year-old has enlisted the help of some well-known New Zealanders, written a book, created a website, commissioned a song, and set up a mentoring programme to support her cause. The Take a Chance project was developed by Lucia after Read more
The Ministry of Education last year instructed schools to adjust their terms to allow for a longer than normal holiday in October. The Ministry said the move would ease traffic movement in Auckland during the World Cup Pompallier Catholic College principal Richard Stanton said the school term changes would disadvantage this year’s NCEA students. “Instead of having four Read more
A new international report says single sex schooling offers no benefits and may be socially harmful. The article, published in Science magazine by researchers from the American Council for CoEducational Schooling, says biological differences between the sexes have no significant effect on learning. It says there is no scientific support for single-sex education, and that Read more
Australian schools will be able to choose to employ chaplains or secular welfare officers in a programme announced recently by Education Minister Peter Garrett. According to the ABC, the $222 million program has been under fire since being announced in the budget, with the Greens concerned that chaplains had to be attached to religious organisations Read more
A Wellington primary school has had a quarter of its students off sick because of a contagious virus.
Fifty four of the 220 students at St Teresa’s School in Karori were home sick on Monday, and 48 at the start of Tuesday. That number crept up as sick students were sent home.
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