Posts Tagged ‘Maori Youth’

Hato Paora College 100% pass-rate

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

Hato Paora College, in Feilding, New Zealand, had a 100 per cent pass rate in NCEA levels 1, 2 and 3  last year – a first for the school. Principal Debra Marshall-Lobb said. “We take considerable pride in these results, but I’m not saying it happens all the time, it was an accumulation of five Read more

New principal of Hato Petera confident about future

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

The 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

Positive ERO report for Hato Petera – but more needed for sustainability

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Hato Petera College in Auckland has received a genreally positive  report from Education Review Office But  ERO notes that the college still needs help in and out of the classroom if it is to have a sustainable. Hato Petera has gone through significant changes including a new principal and board of trustees chairman and with Read more

High exclusions rates for Maori and Pasifika school boys

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

A recently published report on pupil exclusions shows Maori and Pasifika boys in lower decile schools are the group worst affected. The Ministry of Education report on expulsion shows there was a clear link between the socio-economic mixes of schools and the removal rates. “Students from the lowest quintile schools are five times more likely Read more

Hato Paora College takes Wairarapa by storm

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

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