LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR… Living Laughing and Learning CHRISTCHURCH Conference!

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR… Living Laughing and Learning CHRISTCHURCH Conference!

We are looking forward to a great weekend with families coming from all around the South Island.

Please register by Tuesday 8th September. You can email your registration intention DianaWaringChristchurch@hef.org.nz Registrations received after this date will not be guaranteed workshop choices or Friday night supper!

See www.dianadownunder.com for registration details.

Friday 11th September at 6pm Come and join the growing multitude for a fun and educational evening, including vendors and secondhand resources. Music, Singing, Drama, Comedy, History comes alive, great food and fellowship.

Saturday 12th September – 9am – 5pm Come to all or part of it. Key note sessions with Diana Waring will encourage and inspire you. We have practical workshops with topics for Mums, Dads and teens.

First Workshop session – choose one of four

Diana and Bill – Making the most of teen years at home. Encouraging session for teens only

Barbara Smith – Avoiding Burnout. Strategies to identify and overcome burnout.

Lennie Harrison – Early Reading and Writing Skills. A practical session aimed at 4-8 year old children

Linda Gage – Character Training. Focusing on the heart while they learn and grow.

Second Workshop session – choose one of four

Bill Waring – The Homeschool Principal; an encouraging discussion time for Dads

Helen Pearson – Developing Good Thinking Skills in the Course of Life. Look beyond the “right” answer

Lennie Harrison – Meat for Teenagers; directed at parents only with Christian content

Linda Gage & Cynthia Hancox– Time Management. Practical tips for balancing the house, the family, life and everything.

Please note: the teens workshop with Diana and Bill Waring is for teens, not parents. This is a wonderful opportunity for teens to be inspired to make the most of their years at home and think outside the box as they prepare for their future.   Friday only $20 for the whole family Friday and Saturday $40 for the whole family  

Come along and be encouraged, equipped and inspired for your home education journey!

Please forward this link to others you think might like to go to the conference and to other email discussion groups. Thanks

Diana and the Media

Radio Rhema 1:30pm September 10

Shine TV 11:00am September 18.

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Last shipment before September Conferences 2009 .

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Website: http://mycmsite.co.nz/gracegreen
Phone: 06 878 0058
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Auckland conference registrations close 4 September—TODAY

Please note that the Auckland conference registrations close 4 September http://www.aheconference.org.nz/

TODAY

Auckland Home Educators Conference 2009

Registrations close 4th September

Date : 19 September 2009

Venue: Windsor Park Centre, 550 East Coast Road, Mairangi Bay, North
Shore

click here for map

Cost for AHE Members: $35 single, $45 couple

Non-AHE members*: $50 single, $60 couple

Outside of AK attendees: $40 single, $50 couple

(Outside AK is north of Wellsford, south of Pukekohe)

*Join AHE for $20 and make use of our member rates.

Early birds (paid by 31 July) get into their preferred workshops
(room permitting), and reduce the above rates by $5.

Registration: Online at www.ahe.org.nz/conference-form

Payment:  Internet banking: A/C name – Auckland Home Educators Inc.

A/C number – 12-3011-0543821-01

(Put family name in reference field; and MEM in another field if joining AHE)

Cheque: Make out to Auckland Home Educators Inc. and post to:

AHE conference at 47 Anderson Ave, Point England, Auckland 1072

(Include your filled in registration form or you can use the online registration form).

Auckland Home Educators Inc (AHE) is a non-profit, democratic, volunteer-run organisation dedicated to providing networking opportunities and representation for home educators from the Auckland Region.

The conference organising team has worked hard to offer you a balanced programme, catering for all ages and stages, styles and beliefs, and we hope you will find something to whet your appetite and interest, whatever your style of home educating. Sessions which are particularly faith-based are marked as such. We are expecting places to fill up fast, so you are advised to get in early as numbers are limited.

We are gearing up for an exciting time. You can expect to be encouraged, refreshed and inspired after listening to this fantastic line up of speakers. Hope to see you there.

Please click on the links below for

(All these files are in pdf format, you can download an Adobe reader here to view them.)

Contact Us

http://www.dianadownunder.com

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Join us on
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Sponsors in New Zealand:

Phone:  (06) 364 7687

Email:  youngvalue@gmail.com

Web site (under construction):  http://www.longacrecatering.co.nz

LONGACRE CATERING Ltd is a complete mobile dining experience.  We provide the kitchen and dining facilities at the destination of your choice.  We can cater for almost any function in a number of different styles.  Weddings – staff functions – family gatherings – 21st’s – logistical support –

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LearnEX

LearnEX Educational Services Ltd
50 Walpole Avenue, Manurewa, Manukau 2102, New Zealand
P +64 9 269 3532     F + 64 9 269 3530     M + 64 27 479 000 2
E learn@learnex.co.nz W www.learnex.co.nz
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Latest New Edition of Diana Waring Curriculum Now Available

Secure your order of this outstanding resourceat the most favourable prices by ordering now.

Last shipment before September Conferences 2009 .

Order from www.cesbooks.co.nz

email cesbooks@xtra.co.nz phone (06) 374 7630

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Grace Green Creative Memories Consultant

Grace Green – Creative Memories consultant
Website: http://mycmsite.co.nz/gracegreen
Phone: 06 878 0058
Helping people organise and display their photographs

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Star 4 Health

Rose Lee – Independent distributor of health and nutrition products.

Ph/Text: 027 260 ROSE (027 260 7673) or email: wairererose@gmail.com

Preview my range at: http://www.star4health.co.nz and quote “Rose” as reference if ordering from there

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Phoenix Trading: Ruth Stormer
Independent Phoenix Trader
Beautiful cards and giftwrap at an affordable price
Check out the website http://www.phoenixtrading.com
email ruth.stormer@gmail.com for your free brochure
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Ever wanted a complete K-12 Maths Programme that was Asia-Pacific specific, with our money and metric measures taught throughout, that makes maths SO easy to understand? The Math-U-See International Edition is currently distributed within New Zealand by LearnEx Educational Supplies. With full local and online support, Math-U-See enhances real life understanding of Mathematics by using a multi-sensory approach to teaching maths. Unique and specifically tailored manipulatives are integrated in each and every lesson to concretely show an abstract maths concept ; lesson-by-lesson DVDs enable auditory learning and provide an ”in-home tutor” ; teacher and student materials provide a way to confirm understanding,  thus paving the way for a real life integration of maths in everyday life for each and every learning style; each and every student. Honors Levels are now also available for high school years, giving advanced work for higher education preparation. See how today by requesting your FREE Demo DVD and Info Pack, or see us at the New Zealand Conferences – at the Math-U-See display in Christchurch or with LearnEx Educational Supplies in all other locations. or email us at mathusee@bigpond.com

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International Freedom in Education Day (IFED)

JIPLI

Sentence to think about : ‘Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children’.
( Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, Article 26.3 )

International Freedom in Education Day (IFED)

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Journée Internationale Pour la Liberté de l’Instruction (JIPLI)

Dear Home-educating Friends and Supporters of Freedom in Education,

The 3rd International Freedom in Education Day  (IFED) will take place on the 15 September in Europe. Activities will focus on  Tuesday, September 15th, 2009. Other events will happen throughout that week in many countries all over the world.

The aim of IFED is to promote the importance of free choice concerning the type of education that your family chooses and to spread information about alternative ways of learning that are available or are being fought for in various countries.

Free choice in education is important in all learning situations and we welcome and invite alternative movements in education, learning organisations, schools and, of course, parents and children, to take part in this global event.

On this website we will publish all the information and/or links to events on or around the 15th of September (conferences, gatherings, education fairs, etc.), where ever they may take place and in any language. So please send us your projected events.

A few examples of past events are local picnics and information tables, discussions in philosophy cafés in France, a demonstration on freedom in education in Sweden, a home education conference in Scotland, a home educators’ outing in California, and an evening conference and discussion on freedom in education in Austria .

IFED was originally initiated by home educators, which itself includes a wide variety of choices in education and methods. This choice is often legally possible but not well-known in most countries, and constantly under attack by those who think that the state alone should decide where and what children should learn. At the moment the governments of Sweden and England are planning to impose severe restrictions on
home education.

We will also post links to other websites and announcements in other countries. If your native language is not English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, please send us a short English description and in your native language, of your event that you would like placed on the website.

So please tell us about your planned events, no matter how small it may seem! We’ll be great in numbers!

Contact JIPLI

Please do not hesitate to spread the information about the IFED as far as possible. We want to reach all corners of the earth!

Sincerely yours,


P. S.:
Please tell us how you call “Freedom in Education Day” in your native language! We will add on our website all the translations that you send to us.

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En français : JIPLI
Journée Internationale Pour la Liberté de l’Instruction

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In English : IFED
International Freedom in Education Day

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In Deutsch : ITdBF
Internationaler Tag der Bildungs-Freiheit

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I Sverige : IDFU
Internationella Dagen för Frihet i Utbildning

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En Español : DILE
Día Internacional de la Libertad de Educación

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Po polsku : MDWE
Miêdzynarodowy Dzieñ Wolnosci w Edukacji

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In Italiano : GILI
Giornata Internazionale per la Libertà dell’ Istruzione

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In Dutch : IDVO
Internationale Dag voor de Vrijheid in Onderwijs

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In Esperanto: ITLI
Internacia Tago por la Liberaco de la Instruado

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In Russian: MSVO
Mezhdunarodnyi den`Svobody v obrazovanii

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Kyouiku no Jiyu no Hi

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Five suspended after violent attack

More weapons used in school fights

LATEST: An Auckland secondary school today suspended five students after an attack on a pupil at another school.

The victim, a 14-year-old boy, was beaten up at Lynfield College on Monday by a group armed with a softball bat.

Lynfield College yesterday suspended one of its own students, who led the group of eight teenagers to the classroom where the incident took place.

Nearby Mt Roskill Grammar School today said five of its students had been suspended as a result of the assault.

The five would appear before the school’s board of trustees next week, principal Greg Watson said in a statement.

The board would decide whether the boys would be excluded or allowed back to school under certain conditions.

All eight in the group are also being dealt with by police, although police have said they will not face criminal charges.

Police are also investigating an incident in Porirua in which about 20 boys, believed to be from Mana College, went to Bishop Viard College and threatened students on the rugby field.

They were believed to be armed with a baseball bat.

Meanwhile, Secondary Schools Principals Association president Peter Gall said anecdotal evidence of an increase in school-related incidents involving weapons was a cause of real concern.

“It could be a baseball bat, a cricket wicket, an iron bar, a hammer, a screwdriver,” he said.

Mr Gall, principal of Papatoetoe High School in south Auckland, said people carrying such items, when questioned, would reply that they did so for their own protection.

“Well, that’s nonsense,” he said.

“As far as I’m concerned, they don’t need that sort of protection – ever.”

Mr Gall said his own school had been troubled by a youth gang that was “obviously working in a planned and co-ordinated way” in targeting students on their way home.

“They had hammers and stuff, and they were pinching cellphones off kids,” he said.

“We got some good information to the police and they made four arrests and that cleaned that up pretty quickly, but the fact that it happened is a real concern.”

He said the issue was a difficult one for schools to address and they had to be “incredibly security conscious”.

Staff had to be active while on duty and management relied on students to pass on any information about unusual activity.

– NZPA