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This Term at Carey College
Posted on 10-17-2008 at 06:23:35
Highlights this term include school photos, Cambridge exams, participation in the regional Science Fair, a term-long review of parental aims for schooling, and our 21st Final Assembly.
 
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Staff Inservice January 2009
Posted on 12-31-2008 at 07:44:19
 January's annual Staff Inservice, scheduled for the week before the new school year begins, will focus on Teaching in a Christian Way. (The photo is from an earlier year.)
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Recent Art Work to View
Posted on 12-23-2008 at 13:26:56
 We've had some wonderful art work completed this year. It's been on display in the school but now we have posted selections on our flickr site.
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Term 4 Flight Module Completed by Years 7-10
Posted on 12-22-2008 at 16:32:14
A hot-air balloon competition completed our Year 7-10 technology module on flight in term 4 2008.
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| Christian Education Main Page | Current Issues Archive These articles relate to Biblical Foundations in Christian Education. Why Christian Education?
Posted on 06-16-2005 at 08:07:37
What’s the point of Christian education? Our children can get a pagan education without the cost and without the stigma. Can an education without the cross be good for children? Can it honour God?
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What God Requires, Christ Provides
Posted on 10-16-2003 at 09:47:27
What do you say to a six year old who asks, "What does 'justification' mean?" In this extract from an article in Modern Reformation, guest contributor John Piper reminds us that children need the foundational things taught to them in clarity.
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School Standards Come from a School's Religion
Posted on 10-16-2003 at 09:43:55
State schooling is by design and confession godless schooling. Godless schools give godless experiences and pass on godless knowledge justified by godless qualifications.
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Biblical Learning Styles
Posted on 08-23-2003 at 22:34:35
What is the most common learning style? Sin. Mention of learning styles usually induces comments such as, "Sally is a tactile learner: she just doesn't respond to verbal instruction." "Oh, that's not Rod, he's visual." Or, "Sam is so left brain!" "Really? Sue is just the opposite – all right brain." But in Proverbs, God takes learning styles to the heart, the root of all behaviour.
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Maintaining the Faith Amid Cultural Shifts
Posted on 08-21-2003 at 09:53:53
Self indulgence in private life combined with centralised organisation of corporate life, including the state, has become dominant in society. The result is private immorality, child-indulgent schooling, and rigid public conformity. Biblical teaching is precisely the reverse. In this Guest Article Dr Noel Weeks argues that "it is more important that you and your children achieve self discipline than that the children achieve the results that you believe will lead to a high income. Income without discipline is a path to ruin."
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Sinless Psychology
Posted on 08-18-2003 at 20:26:23
The root problem with educational psychology is a rejection of sin: sin in the heart and the corruption of sin in creation.
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The Carey College Way
Posted on 10-15-2002 at 22:34:30
Over the years Carey College has developed a distinctive style of successful Christian schooling. This is the Carey College Way: coordinated individual courses that nurture children in knowledge, skill and Christian life from year 1 to year 13.
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Lessons from Building a Christian Garden Shed
Posted on 07-04-2002 at 20:45:06
We all expect children to have an opportunity to experience the socialising impact of a garden shed. But why not have a Christian garden shed instead of a pagan one?
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Your Child's "Well-being"
Posted on 03-28-2002 at 17:58:21
While working on the new NCEA qualifications we came across repeated reference to the need to evaluate students’ “Hauora/well-being”. This pagan view of the nebulous “self” is now so pervasive that the secular state demands judgement of the spiritual “health” of its students.
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When the Bus Came Too Late
Posted on 03-21-2002 at 17:05:57
"I missed the bus because it didn’t come late enough for me to catch it.” No, we haven’t heard this excuse from a late pupil – not yet that is. But we came up with this while we were talking in the staff room the other day. It is a creative example of the rampant blame shifting in our culture today.
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Setting Standards
Posted on 02-14-2002 at 20:41:19
The politically correct currency of contemporary education, criterion referencing, is so dominant that sanity in setting school standards has been lost in an era of deceit and stupidity. Christian schools should have a different approach.
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The Bible and The Environment
Posted on 02-13-2002 at 13:57:07
The Bible recognizes the grandeur of God in a creation man can use but not despoil. Guest Contributor Peter Barnes explains how this is in contrast to the Green movement which leads to atheism or pantheism, and to the degrading of human-beings along with the rest of creation:
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Christianity is Logical
Posted on 05-09-2001 at 13:48:57
What is logic? It is the conformity of the mind renewed by the Holy Spirit to the mind of God. This is explained by Guest Contributor, Kevin Inskeep.
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When “Inappropriate” replaces “Wrong” and “Mediation” replaces “Arbitration”
Posted on 04-18-2001 at 17:46:31
Shifts in the language of social problems reflect shifts moral standards. Justice is lost with sin in these changes. In reality, the “liberalisation” of moral standards will become the tyrant of an oppressed generation.
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Diversity Needed: A Secular View
Posted on 03-14-2001 at 17:25:05
The Utilitarian J S Mill (with whom we hold little in common) gave a neat little explanation of the need for diversity and autonomy from centralised state control in an education system.
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The Christian Context of Education
Posted on 03-14-2001 at 17:18:39
From time to time we make submissions to the New Zealand Parliament about proposed law changes. Here is what we tell the Members about our faith and why we want the preservation of our rights to teach children in a Christian context.
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Biblical Doctrine & the Christian School Part 5
Posted on 02-26-2001 at 12:27:54
Sin is not something children catch but is rooted in the nature of children from their birth. Only in Christ can they be redeemed from sin, and only in him can they live a sanctified life.
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Biblical Doctrine & the Christian School Part 4
Posted on 02-19-2001 at 07:48:49
The problem of sin not only affects a child’s relationship with God, it affects his ability to know, to be self-disciplined, and to work. Faith in Jesus Christ the Redeemer restores to children what sin lost and is the basis of their on-going life of learning.
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Biblical Doctrine & The Christian School Part 3
Posted on 02-13-2001 at 13:40:46
That doctrines of creation and providence are not mere “theological” issues remote from daily teaching. God has created and sustains everything studied in the school curriculum – deny these doctrines and you deny the foundations of education in truth.
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Biblical Doctrine & the Christian School Part 2
Posted on 02-07-2001 at 17:13:28
To teach biblically children and teachers need to see God’s majesty and sovereignty as much as they need to understand how we can gain knowledge of truth. This is the second of a series explaining how the doctrine of the Bible has a direct impact on the life and teaching of a Christian school.
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Biblical Doctrine & the Christian School Part 1
Posted on 01-29-2001 at 11:42:56
The doctrine of the Bible has a direct impact on the life and teaching of a Christian school. In this short summary we examine how basic doctrines of the Christian faith impact on Christian education.
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Spurgeon On Secular State Schools (Part 2): Secular Education Must Produce Godless Scepticism
Posted on 12-27-2000 at 11:59:30
In 1872 C H Spurgeon said, "An education purely secular is the handmaiden of a Godless scepticism."
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Spurgeon On Secular State Schools (Part 1): Christian Teachers Could Not Accept Employment
Posted on 12-18-2000 at 23:08:44
In 1872 C H Spurgeon, commenting on the imminent exclusion of the Bible from state schools in England, predicted that "No true Christian would accept appointment" as a teacher in a state school! How sadly wrong he was.
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Luther Against Indignation
Posted on 11-06-2000 at 08:15:29
Martin Luther's stand against the false practice and false doctrines of Roman Catholicism is well known. What is less well known is his compassionate approach to those seduced by popery.
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When Parents Take Children Seriously
Posted on 10-09-2000 at 13:51:39
When a London doctor took children seriously in her research, she reported an unpopular finding: the quality of family life contributed more to all-round development than social or economic factors. Guest contributor Pastor Geoff. Thomas comments on the work of the late Dr Margaret Pollak.
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What is the origin of Mathematics?
Posted on 09-05-2000 at 17:08:23
Is mathematics an attribute of God, a thing created by God or an invention of man? There is a sense in which it is all three.
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The Christian in Science
Posted on 08-28-2000 at 06:40:26
As part of their annual Science Projects, Carey College students must explain a Christian perspective relating to their studies. The tendency is to look for allegories of the Christian faith in creation; but a Christian perspective demands more than this.
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Forgiveness and Punishment are Not Antithetical
Posted on 08-28-2000 at 06:22:08
There is a common perception that for children to be forgiven, punishment cannot be applied. This is faulty thinking: forgiveness requires punishment.
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Home Schooling and Socialisation
Posted on 08-21-2000 at 17:17:52
Without a doubt this is the one question, reservation and objection that is raised most often. Guest contributor, Craig Smith, asks "What is it, how and where does it take place"?
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How Much Wrong is OK?
Posted on 08-14-2000 at 14:14:15
It used to be that people believed right was right, and wrong was wrong. If they did wrong, they tried to hide it, or justify their actions as really right. But today people appear content to say what they are doing is wrong but 'OK'.
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The Impudence of Being Bored
Posted on 08-07-2000 at 21:04:51
That obnoxious and deceitful word boring never was allowed any standing in our family. It was considered a cop-out word that acquires a life of its own when allowed to spring forth from the mouth of a sinful child, or from the frustration of an exhausted parent.
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Creation in Six Days? By Bob Sheehan
Posted on 07-31-2000 at 14:16:03
A literal interpretation of the Genesis account of creation is foundational to the Christian faith and to the Christian School Curriculum. This article by the late Bob Sheehan is reproduced with permission from Reformation Today 137:4
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When Shame Replaces Guilt
Posted on 07-31-2000 at 14:15:16
When a person has a sense of guilt he knows he answers to a transcendent authority. When guilt is replaced by shame he no longer answers to absolutes: he has simply lost face before another fallible person.
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The Marginalizing of Biblical Christianity
Posted on 07-31-2000 at 14:14:38
Banning Harry Potter from a few schools makes news headlines - but the Bible has been banned from many more schools for decades. Biblical Christianity is no longer a minority view - its is an unacceptable one.
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Personality or Character?
Posted on 07-24-2000 at 08:00:14
Personality is "quite literally, a twentieth century creation." Personality has to do with perceptions of people and how they present themselves: character has to do with what a person really is.
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Where Has Human Nature Gone?
Posted on 07-17-2000 at 07:46:00
The idea of Human Nature has gone form our society and from our schools. In its
place we have substituted self.
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Stripping Virtue from the Christian School Curriculum
Posted on 07-01-2000 at 09:45:37
Following the pattern of the world, Christian schools now speak more about values than virtue. What is left of the Lordship of Christ in those schools?
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Home & School: Fortress or Oasis?
Posted on 06-12-2000 at 10:58:35
Is your home a fortress? What
about your school? Guest contributor Dr Noel Weeks asks if it should not also be an
oasis.
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Autonomy, Taste and Art
Posted on 05-29-2000 at 09:03:35
It is unlikely that man's unsuitable desire to be without God is
more evident anywhere than in art. When it comes to evaluating works of art there is a nearly universal
demand to pay homage to individual taste: "I like it and don't you dare challenge me." Yet we must
teach children - and we must teach ourselves - to submit preferences of taste to the
standards of the Bible.
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Why We Teach Phonics
Posted on 05-23-2000 at 11:17:29
The New Zealand Parliament is conducting an enquiry into the teaching of reading. In our submission made this week we have explained how our phonics course is taught and why it works with no children failing to learn to read. Our Christian faith results in a commitment to teach the structure and order God has given.
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Studying the Psalms Helps Children Know Christ
Posted on 05-15-2000 at 10:01:00
The year 4 - 8 pupils at Carey College have
been studying the Psalms with their teacher Mr Stewart this term. This selection of the notes children have
compiled from their studies illustrate not only how the Psalms can be studied, but how they can expand our
knowledge of Christ and direct our worship.
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C S Lewis: The Influence of Right Words and Wrong Doctrine
Posted on 05-08-2000 at 08:57:35
C S Lewis's works have long been respected by many as examples of truly Christian
writing. Yet while he championed Christianity and the Bible as truth, his own
testimony is that he categorically denied basic doctrines of biblical Christianity. He
was without doubt a great scholar and writer. We can gain much from the study of his
literature, but we must be alert to the distortions he brings.
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The Rule of Law
Posted on 05-01-2000 at 09:06:13
In our Current Events lessons, we aim to teach children to evaluate news in the
context of its geographical, social and historical context as well as in the light of
God's Word. Evaluating events in Miami and Zimbabwe last week can be
overshadowed by emotional reactions. Looking at these events can help children
apply God's word to daily life.
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Why is there War?
Posted on 04-24-2000 at 15:02:49
On ANZAC Day (25 April) we in New Zealand thank God for our present peace, and give thanks for those who sacrificed so much to make it possible. The horrors of war often cause
people to ask "Why does God allow war?" Yet that is the wrong question.
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The Redemptive Focus of Christian Education
Posted on 04-17-2000 at 10:21:34
We are called to know, to serve and to shine: only by faith in Christ can these
callings be fulfilled. There is a real danger in Christian schooling that the 'academic
and skill' part of schooling is separated from faith in Christ. Yet all education is
religious by nature. For Christian schools, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is critical to
every aspect of the curriculum
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The Importance of Teaching Truth
Posted on 04-11-2000 at 09:24:36
Truth has been discarded from modern schools. Truth is said to be an
enigma, something that doesn't exist outside the mind of each individual. But
truth does exist outside the experience of people, and by the grace of God we
ave the task of making it known.
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When Good Children Sin
Posted on 04-11-2000 at 09:20:54
Some children are to be noted (and commended) for characteristic good
behaviour. It comes as a shock to parents and teachers when good children
are suddenly overtaken in some obvious sin - cheating, lying, stealing,
or the like. Too often their accrued good deeds are used to off-set the
uncharacteristic wrong action. But we hesitate to punish good children to their
detriment.
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Obedience & Blessing
Posted on 04-03-2000 at 10:31:33
One of the most frequent misunderstandings of the grace of God that shows up in
children's work - in their assignments and in examination answers - is
that God blesses those who obey him and punishes those who do not. Most children
from Christian families recognise that justification is by faith; that they come to new
life in Christ by faith. But the sustaining of that new life in fellowship with grace they
attribute to works.
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The Necessity of Intolerance
Posted on 03-27-2000 at 10:19:45
We are tolerant of other religions in a pluralistic society - but we are not
tolerant of a state religion imposed on any part of our society, especially when it
comes in the guise of a national curriculum.
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Some Schools Teach Truth
Posted on 03-20-2000 at 08:45:28
This is the sixth and final article in this series: not all schools teach the truth. Some hide the truth from children, and others even deny there is absolute truth. These deceptions leave children without a foundation for life.
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How John Dewey used Schools to Destroy Families
Posted on 03-20-2000 at 08:39:10
The Infamous humanist John Dewey saw schools that forced parents to group children from different families with their peer groups as the best way to break down family values. Today's schools and many church institutions follow his diabolical rule.
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The Place of Literature in the Curriculum
Posted on 03-13-2000 at 08:45:06
Literature is basic to our faith, our culture and our way of life. Our faith is directed by the Word of God given in writing so that we can read it. This is more than enough reason to learn to read and to read well.
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Some Schools Take Children to the Devil
Posted on 03-13-2000 at 08:44:48
This is the fifth of our series of articles identifying the differences between secular schooling and Christian schooling.
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The New Zealand School System
Posted on 03-06-2000 at 08:30:56
From the beginning, the law required that all instruction in state schools "be of an
entirely secular nature." The practice that has developed since then has rigorously
excluded the Christian faith from lessons and general school life in state schools,
although many other religious beliefs, including traditional Maori pantheism, are
taught.
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Some Schools Are For Fools
Posted on 03-06-2000 at 08:30:19
This is the next in our series of articles contrasting biblical
schooling with secular schooling.
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Oliver Cromwell
Posted on 02-28-2000 at 08:15:29
There are lessons to be learnt from Oliver Cromwell's period as "Protector" of
England attempting to introduce godly rule to the nation.
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Some Schools Nurture Children
Posted on 02-21-2000 at 08:42:11
Parents who aim to raise children who will serve God in adult life will choose a school that submits to God. Parents who choose a godless training for their children choose a godless life for them.
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Look Up! Look Down!
Posted on 02-14-2000 at 08:16:08
The question of socialisation of children is a vexed one for many parents and schools.
But for the Christian, the issue of socialisation is not one to be
determined by statistics but by God's word. This article explores this issue of "The Biblical Way of Socialisation".
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Some Schools Abuse Children
Posted on 02-14-2000 at 08:15:23
This is the second of our series of articles identifying the differences between secular schooling and Christian schooling.
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Creation in Six Days
Posted on 02-05-2000 at 23:43:11
Were the days of Genesis 1 days of 24 hours as we know them or were they longer periods?
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Foundations for Christian Education
Posted on 02-05-2000 at 23:42:10
There is wonder and joy in teaching with Christ at the centre of every lesson.
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Some Schools Love Wisdom
Posted on 02-05-2000 at 23:41:59
This article is the first of a series of articles contrasting biblical schooling with secular schooling.
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What Makes a Christian School Different?
Posted on 01-25-2000 at 16:57:46
We believe God's rule over our lives is active and real so that everything we study at school must be studied in the light of God's word - the Bible... Without this perspective, children are shown a world of shadows, and knowledge is twisted...
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