Nominations sought for Delargey Awards 2024
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference sponsor the biannual Delargey Awards for young people and are seeking nominations for 2024. The nominations’ closing date is 15 May 2024.
Category: Young Church
Free school lunches
Students from six schools in the Wellington area visited Parliament on 10 April to urge the government not to make any cuts or changes to the free school lunches programme. It has been proposing to review the programme ahead of Budget 2024.
Celebration of cultures for Sacred Heart and St John’s Colleges
Sacred Heart College Napier and St John’s College Hastings celebrated a melting pot of culture through performance and food at Fiafia: A Night of Cultural Celebrations, on 22 March. More than 500 people attended the event held at St John’s College.
Cultural and enterprise learning trip to Mexico
St Peter’s College student Bindi Rolton has been invited on a trip to Mexico for the ‘LatAm Biz: Globalista – Entrepreneurship in Mexico’ programme. LatAm Biz: Mexico is a joint programme between the Latin American Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (LatAm CAPE) and Young Enterprise (YES). Bindi wrote this article before she left for Mexico last month.
St Peter’s canoe polo teams excel at nationals
History was made for Palmerston North’s St Peter’s College senior girls’ canoe polo team who won a gold medal at the New Zealand Secondary School Canoe Polo Championships. The three-day competition in March was held at Hokowhitu Lagoon (Centennial Lagoon), Palmerston North.
‘Keep our free school lunches’ Bishop Viard College students say
Students at Bishop Viard College Porirua have posted a video on YouTube in which they discuss the benefits of the free school lunch programme – Ka Ora, Ka Ko. The Government proposes to review the programme ahead of Budget 2024 in May, and Associate Education Minister and ACT leader David Seymour has stated he wants to cut the programme by up to 50 per cent.
Three decades of outstanding service
St Brigid’s School, Johnsonville, acknowledges and celebrates Deputy Principal Fiona Kearns on her remarkable 30-year tenure at our school – an impressive milestone!
New chair for Council for Young People
Nick Wilson of Palmerston North is the new chair of the Council for Young People of the Catholic bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Nick is the Diocesan Young Catholics Team Leader for the Diocese of Palmerston North. He has had a career in education in New Zealand and overseas. He works as the Manawatū Catholic Tertiary Chaplain and is on the Diocesan Leadership Team.
Tuākana 2024 – walking beside young people
Three new youth ministers have been appointed as Tuākana (youth ministers) to Catholic colleges in Wellington for the archdiocese’s 2024 Youth Minister programme. They are Sabrina Brown and Alysse Saipani, at St Catherine’s College, Kilbirnie; and Sarah Beamish at Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt.
Commissioning Mass for educators
St Mary’s of the Angels Church was packed on 12 February for the celebration and Commissioning Mass for Catholic educators in the archdiocese’s lower North Island area. It followed the upper South Island Commissioning Mass at St Mary’s Church in Nelson on 9 February.