Ministry of Education position paper: Assessment

URL: Ministry of Education position paper: Assessment
This paper presents the Ministry's position on assessment. It outlines our vision for assessment and describes what we believe the assessment landscape should look like if assessment is to be used effectively across all layers of the schooling system.

Māori students targeted for leadership - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: Māori students targeted for leadership Massey News (press release) Te Rau Whakaara, which means creating pathways, is a new student-centred approach to accelerate Māori achievement at Massey developed by Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika) Professor Sir Mason Durie. In his speech at the launch, ...

Teaching practices changed at school - Northern Advocate

Northern Advocate

URL: Teaching practices changed at school Northern Advocate In response to the ERO's observation that NCEA achievement levels had slipped below those of similar schools, Kamo reduced the number of NCEA subjects for senior students from six to five. "This has effectively provided a 20 per cent increase in ...

Damaged schools to share with others from next week

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Students from two severely damaged Christchurch high schools will start sharing facilities with other schools from next week.

Schools reopening a sign of slow recovery - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Seventeen schools are expected to resume again tomorrow and another eight on Thursday. More than 70 schools have not yet signalled when they will start classes again. The schools opening today are: Waitaha learning centre, Ouruhia Model School, ...

Tent-town campus planned for Canterbury University - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The University of Canterbury will resort to teaching students from an interim tented campus after February's magnitude 6.3 earthquake. Though the campus was not badly damaged in the quake, extensive building checks are being undertaken. ...

Pupils to return to shared sites in earthquake-stricken Christchurch - Stuff.co.nz

URL: Pupils to return to shared sites in earthquake-stricken Christchurch
Stuff.co.nz
St Andrew's College rector Christine Leighton said reducing the school's three-week term breaks was one option up for discussion, as was timetable rescheduling. Rescheduling would make teaching and learning "the absolute focus of the day", she said, ...

Students asked to express themselves through poetry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Year 12 and 13 secondary school students are being urged to express themselves, during a time that for some has been one of grief and trauma. Ten talented writers will win prizes for their poems, including the opportunity to attend a master class with ...

McGlashan boys more courteous than usual - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: McGlashan boys more courteous than usual Otago Daily Times St Margaret's College pupils (from left) Katherine Harper, Maddie Mark, Charlotte French and Diana Chen (all 16) in a mathematics class at John McGlashan College yesterday. Photo by Linda Robertson. ...

Quake 'like a caterpillar' - pupils return to school - New Zealand Herald

Otago Daily Times

URL: Quake 'like a caterpillar' - pupils return to school New Zealand Herald Six-year-old pupil Toby was on the school field when it hit. "It was like a caterpillar because it had lumps. I felt myself going that way and that way - it was weird," he told nzherald.co.nz. Teacher Margaret Shead was in the staff room when the ...

Wakatipu High following trend with NCEA results | Stuff.co.nz

URL: Wakatipu High following trend with NCEA results | Stuff.co.nz
Wakatipu High School is following a national trend in which the number of pupils achieving National Certificate of Educational Achievement increases the higher the school's decile reaches up until decile 10, when the numbers slump ...