Yearly Archives: 2011

Nelson Home Eduction Workshop 26 March 2011

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26 March 2011

Venue: Brightwater Anglican Church hall, 68 Waimea West Road, Brightwater

 

Contact: Elaine hborger@xtra.co.nz. 03 5418802

Cost: $15.00 per family including grandparents, or $5.00 per session

9:00am Registration

9:15am Welcome

9:30am  Keynote message:  Craig Smith

“Home Education From a Biblical Perspective”

10:30am Morning tea

11:00 2 Electives

1. “Reforming the Future through Home Education” Craig

2. “Avoiding Burnout – Keeping Going When the Going Gets Tough” Barbara

12:30 lunch break  Bring your own lunch – drinks available

1:00 2 electives

1. “Choosing or Developing Your Own Curriculum” and “The Vital Nature of Reading Aloud” Craig

2. “Training our Children to Worship” Barbara

2:00 afternoon tea

2:30  2 electives

1. “Home Educating Through Secondary and Preparing For Tertiary Education and the Workforce” Craig

2. “Keeping Going in Home Education” Barbarra

4:00pm Question Time

Conference finishes

Timaru Home Educators Workshop 5 April 2011 – updated information

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Home Education Foundation South Island Tour 2011
with Craig and Barbara SmithChristian Parenting Seminar
Date:   Tuesday 05 April
Cost :  $5 per session or $10 for the four sessions – per family  includes grandparents
Venue:  176 Brockley Rd, RD2 Claremont, Timaru, tel 03 686 3393

 

12.45 pm                 Arrival and Registration

1.00 pm   Craig        “Home Education with Biblical Perspective” and
“The Biblical Trustee Family”

2.00 pm   Barbara    “Training Our Children/Youth to be Pure” from a Christian Perspective

2.45 pm                   Afternoon Tea
Time to view resources available from Home Education Foundation
3.15 pm   Barbara    “Raising our Daughters to be Godly Wives and Mothers”

4.00 pm    Craig      “Is It Possible to Discipline Children in an Undisciplined Society?” and “Christian Parents Preventing and Changing Rebellion in Child’s Heart”

5.00 pm    Both        Question and Answer Session

Time to view resources available from Home Education Foundation

5.30 pm                   Finish

Registrations to
Rachel Little
sc.home.ed@gmail.com

 

Afrikaans home-schooling parents have asked the Pretoria High Court to declare they are not bound by the national education curriculum or policy on religion

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policy row 

Independent Newspapers Picture: Masi Losi

Lucia van Wyk at the Pretoria High Court with papers lodged by independent AfrikaansChristian schools and home schoolers taking on the education minister and arguing that they could not be forced to follow the national curriculum or policy on religion and education.

While a group of independent Afrikaans Christian schools and some home-schooling parents have asked the Pretoria High Court this week to declare they are not bound by the national education curriculum or policy on religion, education authorities maintain these are binding on everyone.

The Beweging vir Christelike-Volkseie Onderwys (BCVO), the CVO School in Pretoria and two sets of parents – the applicants are named as Gysbert van Rensburg and Tina van Deventer – attacked three notices issued by the education minister.

These were the revised national curriculum for pupils in Grades R to 9, the national curriculum statement for Grade 10 to 12 and the national policy on religion and education.

The group asked Judge Cynthia Pretorius to declare these policy statements not legally binding on them as they were only statements and not legislation.

They wanted the court also to declare that there was no legally binding national curriculum or procedure for the evaluation of pupils’ performance…

Read more here:

http://www.tios.co.za/school-minister-locked-in-policy-law-1.1038680

Earthquake affected children and truancy

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Please read this  press release:

https://hef.org.nz/2011/post-earthquake-schooling-options/

Truancy is still frozen for Earthquake affected people. This is whether your old school has reopened or not. If your old school has reopened and you want to keep your children at home then please continue to keep them at home. Your children will not be considered truant.

We will advise when truancy is again back in force. At that time you will either have to send your children to a school, or go on Correspondence School or get an exemption to home school your children. At the moment the law says you have to have your child in school while you go through the process of getting an exemption. We are in the process, at the moment, with the MoE to see if they will lift this requirement for earthquake affected children.

We will add more information here as it comes to hand.

Auckland University CIE entrance requirements

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Here is the link to the Auckland University CIE entrance requirements –

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/ae-cambridge-international-examinations

The entry requirements for the other NZ Universities i.e. Waikato, Massey, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago are pretty much the same.

The standard requirements are as follows:

* required number of points on the CIE schedule (usually 120+)
* “E” level in AS English or above PLUS
* “D” level in IGCSE Maths

Some courses also have additional requirements e.g. art portfolio, music audition

Some Universities require an two to three additional “D” grades at AS level or above

As Janine has already recommended, it would pay to check with the tertiary institution to make sure you are sufficiently covering off the entry requirements if you are at all unsure.

Erena

www.cambridgeexamsolutions.co.nz

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