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
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Tonga’s Apifo’ou College to celebrate 125th anniversary
Friday, November 25th, 2011
APIFO’OU College, Tonga’s third oldest secondary school is to mark its 125th anniversary with week-long celebrations, that are expected to draw in thousands of ex-students from the outer islands and abroad to Nuku’alofa from December 23-30. The celebrations are scheduled to begin on Friday, December 23 with a presentation to the Queen Mother at Tufumahina Read more
School Term changes good for traffic, bad for Pompallier students
Friday, September 30th, 2011
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
Primary school hit hard by illness
Friday, September 9th, 2011A 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.
Read the article...Religious group wants to keep children out of school
Friday, August 5th, 2011
The head of the Sabbath Day Christian Revival Church, Pastor Vilikesa Raqio, has requested the Fiji Government to reconsider its stand on religious groups that keep their children out of school. Mr Raqio said he supported the Government’s intention to send all school-aged children to school, but said “I strongly feel that those religious groups that Read more
Huge class-sizes, no blackboards, noise, but students achieving well
Friday, June 10th, 2011
No blackboards, 200 students in a mega-classroom, agile learning areas, open-plan rooms where much larger groups, and sometimes even the whole school, learn under one roof are increasingly part of the Catholic school system in the Sydney diocese of Parramatta. With a stated goal of closing the last traditional classroom within 5 years, executive director of Read more
Vatican salutes school crucifix ruling
Monday, March 21st, 2011
The Vatican welcomed as “historic” a ruling by the European Court of Rights that said displaying crucifixes in schools in Italy did not breach the rights of non-Catholics. “It is an important and historic ruling,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a statement, adding that the decision “has been welcomed with satisfaction by the Holy Read more