Yearly Archives: 2010

Tomorrow, Saturday: Workshop in Invercargill: 24 April 2010

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Sat 24 April 2010

Workshop in Invercargill

Venue: Rosedale Bible Chapel Cnr Bourke & Exmouth Sts Invercargill

Contact: Joy Gibson  Phone: 03 214-4493 briangibson@clear.net.nz

Costs: $15 / family or $5 / session

Programme:

9:00am Venue Opens, Resources

9:15am Welcome & Notices

9:30-11am Two Electives

Craig Smith: The Christian Dad’s Essential Role in Home Education

Barbara Smith: Avoiding Burnout — Keeping Going When the Going Gets Tough

11:00am AM Tea, View Resources

11:30am Two Electives

Craig Smith: Choosing or Developing Your Own Curriculum

Barbara Smith: Training Our Children’s Minds, The Tools of Learning and Motivation

1:00pm BYO Lunch, Resources

1:30pm Two Electives

Craig Smith: Changing the Heart of a Rebel (for preventing rebellion and dealing with it as a Christian)

Barbara Smith: Training Our Children to Worship

2:30pm PM Tea, View Resources

3:00pm Two Electives

Craig Smith: Training Our Children/Youth to Be Pure

Barbara Smith: Raising Our Daughters to Be Godly Wives and Mothers

4:30pm View Resources. End

For more Coming Events for April/May/June  please check here:

https://hef.org.nz/category/coming-events/

Ballarat Home Education Conference 15 May 2010

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Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Home Education Conference 15 May 2010

Venue: The Venue has changed to: One2one Gillies Street Church of Christ (formerly known as Ballarat Family Church of Christ)

121 Gillies St , Alfredton VIC 3350

Cost: Donation

Contact: Joy 03 53447290   email: jam@goonly.net

Speaker: Barbara Smith

Programme:
9:00am Registrations, Resources

9:15am Welcome & Notices

9:30-11am
Avoiding Burnout — Keeping Going When the Going Gets Tough
(During this presentation Barbara Smith will look at the symptoms and causes of home school burnout and strategies for avoiding it. Many of us worry about whether what we are doing is right, is there a better way and strive too hard. Barbara will lead us to an understanding of what home education really calls us to.)

11:00am AM Tea, View Resources

11:30am
Training Our Children’s Minds, The Tools of Learning and Motivation
( Barbara takes the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages of classical education and applies it to the Hebrew/interpersonal approach to learning which results in a very interesting and informative workshop.)

1:00pm BYO Lunch, Resources

1:30pm
“Christian Parents Preventing and Changing Rebellion in a Child’s Heart”

2:30pm PM Tea, View Resources

3:00pm

“Books, Great Books and More Books – Creating your own library; how to use it”
How is your home library coming along? From her years of home education experience Barbara will share her wisdom of what it really is worth spending your money on to develop your home library. What books are of greatest value? And Why?

4:30pm View Resources. End

For more information:
https://hef.org.nz/2007/workshop-electives-offered-by-barbara-smith/

An Evening in Te Anau: Thursday 22 April 2010 – Venue and programme change

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Venue and Programme change for Te Anau

An Evening in Te Anau

Thursday 22 April 2010

Venue: Lakeside Presbyterian Church, Te Anau Terrace, Te Anau

Time: 7pm

Contact: Nancy, 03 349-8166, gnbarnes@xtra.co.nz

Programme:

7pm Keynote with Craig “Home Education – Getting things Into Perspective.”

8pm two electives
Craig: “Is it Possible to Discipline in Our Undisciplined Society.’
Barbara: “Christian Parents Preventing and Changing Rebellion in a Child’s Heart”

Parents of bullied kids can sue school, advisor says

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Parents of bullied kids can sue school, advisor says

Pupils who are bullied in schools may be able to seek redress in court, the Children’s Commissioner’s principal advisor Janis Carroll-Lind says.

Parents of kids could sue schools which failed to act when their children were bullied, Dr Carroll-Lind told a forum on bullying in Auckland yesterday.

“Schools had both a duty of care to their children and a fiduciary obligation similar to a doctor-patient relationship.”

She said there was the potential to go to court if schools were found to have breached their duty of care, The New Zealand Herald reported.

If doctors, school counsellors and psychologists working with young people could prove that a young person’s health was affected because of the bullying, there was the potential for the courts to deal with the case, Dr Carroll-Lind said.

A girl in Australia was recently awarded compensation after being bullied from the age of eight. Her parents had to move her to an expensive private school after the bullying came to light.

Schools needed to be much more consistent in their responses to bullying, Dr Carroll-Lind said.

Home Education Awareness Week 11-16 October 2010

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Home Education Awareness Week 11-16 October 2010

Home Educators all over the country use this as an opportunity to do something special to raise their profile locally and develop a bit of positive public relations. This helps in gaining the movement a bit more credibility, especially when applying for grants or discounts with resource suppliers, or for admission to tertiary institutions or gaining help and advice from schools and perhaps even the use of some of their resources. And of course the benefits would be examined by more people, thereby bringing more people into the home schooling movement and your local support group.

For more information on HEAW go to: http://hef.org.nz/2007/home-education-awareness-week/