http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10549045 Broadcaster ‘disgusted’ with school after bullying 4:00AM Saturday Dec 20, 2008 By Vaimoana Tapaleao Kate Hawkesby says deciding to remove her sons from Victoria Avenue School was a no-brainer. Photo / Supplied Broadcaster Kate Hawkesby has pulled her two children out of their Remuera primary school after its handling…
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$1.5m paid to control kids
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4764141a11.html $1.5m paid to control kids By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 18 November 2008 A fund to help schools with troublesome pupils has dished out more than 1300 payments – mostly for dealing with violence and aggressive or threatening behaviour. The Interim Response Fund was set up…
Teachers fight to save Shakespeare
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4761441a11.html Teachers fight to save Shakespeare By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Saturday, 15 November 2008 Shakespeare’s plays and other great works of literature considered too difficult for some pupils will disappear from classrooms under proposed changes to the curriculum, alarmed principals say. There are also fears that…
Homeschooling as at 1 July 2008
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/schooling/homeschooling2/homeschooling/32587 Homeschooling as at 1 July 2008 For any enquiries about this report, please contact the Data Services Unit via email Information.Officer@minedu.govt.nz, or you can download the supplementary tables from this webpage. Statistics on homeschooling At 1 July 2008 there were 6,501 home schooled students recorded on the Ministry of…
Planning, recording and not worrying about the ERO-Wednesday, Oct 15 at 7:30 pm
This meeting will be operating on the KISS principle ie keep it short and simple. We will be discussing ideas to make life easier for homeschooling parents by doing some advance preparation and putting into practice some very simple ideas which make having a review no big deal. The meeting…