June 2014 Schools Congratulations to St Joseph’s Māori Girls College Taradale for excellent results in 2013 external exams. Students exceeded the national NCEA pass rates, gaining 100 percent passes at NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3, 100 percent passes at University Entrance and exceeded the national Scholarship and Outstanding Scholarship rates. Endorsements for Excellence Level […]
June 2014 Schools Thorndon’s Sacred Heart Cathedral School has won an award from Deaf Aotearoa NZ for its support of Year 8 student Zoe Ferguson. On 17 May, as part of the New Zealand Sign Language In Action Awards Gala 2014 at Te Papa’s marae, Deaf Aotearoa NZ gave Sacred Heart the NZSL in Schools […]
May 2014 Feature David Mullin Many parishes are investigating the costs of projects to improve their buildings following the earthquake risk assessment of archdiocesan buildings over the two years to December 2013. The Project Stronger working group’s main task was the seismic assessment of archdiocesan and parish buildings identified at highest risk in an earthquake. […]
May 2014 Schools A new style of learning which puts students at the centre of the learning process is receiving a definite thumbs up from students at Our Lady of the Rosary school Waiwhetu and teachers are reporting higher levels of engagement and motivation. Two new classroom hubs have been built at the school to […]
May 2014 Opinion Archbishop John Dew The bishops of Oceania are assembling in Wellington this month, the largest gathering of bishops in New Zealand since the Federation of Bishops Conferences of Oceania’s first meeting in Auckland in 1994. Pope John Paul II wrote his apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Oceania in 2001 specifically for the church […]
May 2014 Feature Nā Rāwiri Tinirau i tito tēnei pūrongo rangatira. Kua roa te wā e whakanuia ana te matenga me te aranga ake o te Kaiwhakaora, ko Hehu Karaiti, e ngā Katorika, e ngā Karaitiana, puta noa i te ao. I te tau 1946, i tū te Hui Aranga tuatahi ki te marae o […]
May 2014 Feature Sheena Dickson Home is where the heart is, so the old saying goes but the question is, ‘Is it a healthy heart?‘ Health starts in our families, in our schools and workplaces, in our playgrounds and parks, and in the air we breathe and the water we drink. No wonder then that […]
May 2014 Feature Cecily McNeill A major factor among many in family violence is a lack of nurturing in childhood leading in turn to neglect of children compounded by poverty and lack of access to education and nourishment. American child abuse prevention experts Randell and Sandra Alexander toured New Zealand in February talking to business […]
May 2014 Feature Fr James Lyons Why young people are emerging from Catholic schools without a committed relationship with Jesus Christ is ‘the highest priority issue for all involved in Catholic education.’ This concern is made clear in a message from New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops to all delivering ‘Catholic education in Aotearoa New Zealand’ – […]
May 2014 Opinion Fr James Lyons On 27 April, in the brightness of Easter joy and before one of the largest crowds to gather in St Peter’s Square, two new saints were added to the universal Catholic calendar, both former Bishops of Rome. One was pope for less than five years, the other 27 years […]