Carey College
"In your light we see light." Psalm 36:9
helping parents nurture children in excellence and truth for Christ
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Carey College
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Auckland 1072,
New Zealand
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Carey College
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Carey College
21 Domain Road, Panmure,
Auckland 1072,
New Zealand
E-Mail: enquiries@carey.school.nz
Do not send unsolciited
commercial email
Many Secondary children look for challenges beyond the core curriculum. At Carey College we have long enjoyed a flexibility in curriculum that has broadened children's experiences. In response to requests from parents and pupils, 14+ extends that with a range of school based and supported opportunities.
14+ offers curriculum , sport and service options in or linked with school. It also offers parents a resource through which they can provide their children with outdoor adventure activities.
Children can opt to integrate 14+ activities into The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award for Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Or their 14+ activities can be stand-alone experiences.
14+ offers curriculum , sport and service options in or linked with school. It also offers parents a resource through which they can provide their children with outdoor adventure activities.
Children can opt to integrate 14+ activities into The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award for Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Or their 14+ activities can be stand-alone experiences.
The Carey College secondary courses offer students an extremely wide range of academic and practical courses with great flexibility.
14+ builds on that foundation to offer students in year 10 and beyond a range of enrichment activities that easily integrate school and family life.
14+ builds on that foundation to offer students in year 10 and beyond a range of enrichment activities that easily integrate school and family life.
14+ students are able to include in their school programme short courses from a virtually unlimited spectrum. Students may include courses in subjects they are not taking as part of their core such as languages and technology, or extend courses that they are already studying, or even structured hobby activities. As with all secondary students, such things as private music lessons and sports can be included in their portfolio of subjects.
14+ students can select one or more sporting or “physical recreational” activities (team or individual) leading to performance or competition. Timetabled Physical Care time and coaching can be provided but students are expected to make good use of non-class time. With the help of parents or through extra-mural clubs students can engage in community based programmes of physical recreation which in turn are credited to their Young New Zealanders’ Challenge awards.
14+ students can select fields of service in or linked to school that can be allocated class time if appropriate. Opportunities for service include helping with practice groups or pupils with special needs, school-community or environmental management, special projects for school development or representing the school to the wider community, or serving in the community.
As a licensed Operating Authority of the Young New Zealanders’ Challenge of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards Carey College is able to support parents in organising expeditions for their children’s awards. We can help put parents in touch with community resources for planning and conducting expeditions. All expeditions run in conjunction with the 14+ programme need the school’s validation of the planning, qualifications of the supervisors/leaders, and risk management and safety.
For Gold Level Awards only, parents arrange for children to engage in an activity which involves being away from home for 5 days and 4 nights with people you don't know or don't know well and there needs to be a purpose for the event. This can be part of an activity arranged by a club, holiday camp, or special project.
14+ and Families
14+ is an expression of the Carey College commitment to help parents nurture their children for Christ. Many schools usurp the roles and responsibilities of parents in a multitude of ways - even to the extent of taking children away from homes and school for experiences that schools have no biblical mandate to provide.
God has called and equipped us at Carey College to teach the academic and practical content of the school curriculum. We are also well placed to link parents with each other and community resources for things that lie outside our curriculum. Many hobby activities, for example, have links with the curriculum. For Awards these activities can be done at school, at home or both. Sport and service activities can also be done at school or in the family’s community, but much more extensive opportunities normally exist in the wider community. The school can credit planned sport and service activities for Awards.
Adventure and Residential activities belong unequivocally to the family and its community, and our role here is limited to advice and validating activities for Awards.
14+ is an expression of the Carey College commitment to help parents nurture their children for Christ. Many schools usurp the roles and responsibilities of parents in a multitude of ways - even to the extent of taking children away from homes and school for experiences that schools have no biblical mandate to provide.
God has called and equipped us at Carey College to teach the academic and practical content of the school curriculum. We are also well placed to link parents with each other and community resources for things that lie outside our curriculum. Many hobby activities, for example, have links with the curriculum. For Awards these activities can be done at school, at home or both. Sport and service activities can also be done at school or in the family’s community, but much more extensive opportunities normally exist in the wider community. The school can credit planned sport and service activities for Awards.
Adventure and Residential activities belong unequivocally to the family and its community, and our role here is limited to advice and validating activities for Awards.
How Does the Hillary Award Work?
The Hillary Award is a voluntary, non competitive programme of leisure activities for those aged 14 - 25, designed to offer a personal and individual challenge. There are three levels in each of which students engage in activities in each of the following areas: Skills (covering almost any non physical hobby, skill or interest); Service (giving help in the local community); Physical Recreation (sport, dance and fitness); Adventurous Journey (training for, practising, planning and completing a journey on foot, horseback or by boat or cycle); and for Gold Level only Residential Project (spending 5 or more days on a purposeful project with new companions). Carey College integrates and coordinates these activities for intersted students: some activities can be undertaken at school while others are the repsonsibility of parents and community clubs.
This award was initially known as The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, more recently as the Young New Zealanders' Challenge. It is now called the Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award and is run by The Young New Zealanders' Challenge.
14+ activities can qualify students for a Hillary Award.
