Author: wmc

Garin group tours Vietnam

Linda Mato is Head of Social Sciences at Garin College, Richmond, Nelson. During the September school holidays, Linda organised a ten-day trip to Vietnam for 24 students and six adults, including herself, one other staff member, Rachael Carson, the school

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Whanganui school honoured

Congratulations to Cullinane College, Whanganui, at being awarded runner-up for the Mainstream Employer of the Year Awards held in Wellington on Thursday, 12 October 2006.

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Singing teacher honoured

Much loved singing teacher, Sister Mary Winefride Blake RSM QSM, has been awarded one of the highest papal honours ever given to religious and lay people.
Sr Winefride, who celebrated her Diamond Jubilee earlier this year, last week received a medal

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Classroom can be a minefield

At times in the privacy of my own home, like every parent, I sound off about teachers. Things like ‘what the heck did they tell the kids that for’, or more often ‘why are they charging that much!’ and sometimes ‘why don’t they teach english/maths/science/

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Treasured teachers

Teachers are taonga who turn over the paua shell of children’s lives to reveal the beautiful colours of the potential/good news that is within.

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Spreading the good news

Every morning approximately 8,500 young people in our diocese set off to be educated in a Catholic school environment which can unashamedly proclaim that ‘Christ is the reason for this school’. We feel blessed that our schools are imbued with ‘Jesus’ valu

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Increasing workload

The workload for teachers seems to be increasing year by year as the fixing of one social ill after another is laid at the door of the school. I wonder if they are not a handy, captive group on which we can all lay our responsibilities.

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