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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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Posted on 12-23-2008 at 18:30:12
 The Law Commission's Discussion Paper Private Schools and the Law raises important issues that could impact significantly on Christian Schools. Every effort should be made to make submissions (due by 20 March 2009). While the Government is not bound to follow the final recommendations of the Commission, the Commission's work is likely to influence the future of Christian schooling in New Zealand, and be used by the state to control schools.
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Issues Digest for November 2008
Posted on 11-24-2008 at 15:28:07
The Carey College Issues Digest is an occasional digest of recent publications or news relevant to Christian schooling. In this edition: Why science teaching is failing; Family loyalty promotes violence; How content is being replaced with superficiality; Creationism gets coverage in the UK; National testing goes wrong; Research confirms today's students know less than they did in the 1970s; and Problems with teaching problem solving.
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Children Medicated in School Experiment
Posted on 11-24-2008 at 15:25:58
A North Shore school is reported to have medicated selected children twice daily for several weeks to test the principal's pet theory it would improve children's learning. It is frightening that such a thing could happen in this day, and that it could be so enthusiastically reported by newspapers and television news.
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Issues Digest for September 2008
Posted on 09-16-2008 at 11:03:27
The Carey College Issues Digest is an occasional digest of recent publications or news relevant to Christian schooling. In this edition: Why teachers want low NCEA standards to made lower. University exposes problems with teaching National Curriculum. Ministry discovers teaching is best when teachers know what to teach. Schools Plus to control children till 18. HPV Vaccine to be pushed through schools. British School Inspectors' Idiocy. Helpful analysis of post-modernism.
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What Makes for Good Schooling?
Posted on 09-03-2008 at 16:40:16
"One of the great things about the Greek system [of education] was that it focused on building a foundation of facts." "I think we do our children a detriment when we encourage too early the idea of criticism. It's intellectual arrogance and stupidity." These are just two of the insightful comments about education by the author of a new book exploring the phenomenon of innovation.
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International Excellence
Posted on 09-01-2008 at 04:14:27
Carey College student Rennie Qin (aged 16 ) has been placed top of the world in Cambridge Examinations for the second time in six months. Her success comes as our Membership in the Cambridge Primary Programme is confirmed with the presentation of our Certificate of Membership. This is the final step in recognising Carey College as a Cambridge International Centre for all levels of schooling from year 1 to 13.
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Issues Digest for June 2008
Posted on 06-09-2008 at 11:28:17
The Carey College Issues Digest is an occasional digest of recent publications or news relevant to Christian schooling. In this edition: The state takes control of preschool minds; Cult takes control of teenage minds and lives; More religion to be taught in state schools; NCEA computing standards fail; Nigel Latta tells how to stop being "PC" and really help your teenagers; and we review a new book entitled Instructing a Child's Heart.
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Tribute to Mr de Graaf
Posted on 06-09-2008 at 11:05:42
It was my blessing to be befriended by Tony. He was a faithful member of the church in which I am an elder and a diligent Office Manager of the school of which I am Principal. We have all been deeply touched by his passing.
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Tragedy at Elim Christian College
Posted on 04-16-2008 at 06:28:53
We woke this morning to the terribly sad news that six students and a teacher from Elim Christian College here in Auckland have died on a school adventure trip.
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Evidence of Good Standards at Carey (But anti-Christian Tests Rejected)
Posted on 04-02-2008 at 12:21:33
Revised PAT tests published for use this year are vulgar and corrupting, reflecting the anti-Christian commitment of state schooling. But recent testing in our Junior College confirms high standards of teaching reading at Carey College continue.
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NCEA Continues to Short-Change Students
Posted on 04-02-2008 at 12:19:41
It is a national disgrace: officially, not only are 1/3 of NCEA marks awarded by teachers wrong, some schools are consistently inflating NCEA marks. These are just further indicators of a national school system that sells children short on education, and gives them a discredited qualification to match.
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Outstanding Achievements Recognised
Posted on 03-03-2008 at 05:12:16
Carey College students have taken first place in the world in Science, and first place in New Zealand in Computer Science and Divinity, in last year's Cambridge examinations. And the College has been presented with its fourth "Top School" award by Cambridge.
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Small School Good Preparation for University
Posted on 03-03-2008 at 03:33:24
Past Pupil Emilie Fisher found Carey College's small size was one of the features of the school that prepared her for university. Guest at our 2007 Final Assembly last December, Emilie told the assembly learning that faith and education were linked was as important for her as getting an education that taught her to think, and prepared her for the challenges of biomedical science.
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New State Curriculum Institutionalises Child Abuse
Posted on 10-29-2007 at 17:01:43
In November 2007 the New Zealand Government will launch a scandalous new national curriculum that lays a foundation for deceit and abuse. It openly plans to keep children from gaining knowledge at school, to prevent them being taught skills, and to tell parents their children are "learning" when they have gained neither knowledge nor skill. It will abuse children and deceive parents on a level unprecedented in our history.
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Should Reasonable Correction Of Children Be Illegal?
Posted on 09-18-2006 at 17:27:24
The anti-smacking lobby in New Zealand is using fear and fallacy in its misguided attacks on loving families. This has paved the way for Parliament to consider making smacking illegal. In a new book By Fear and Fallacy Carey College Principal Michael Drake exposes their tactics.
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The New National Curriculum: Anti Christian
Posted on 09-04-2006 at 06:57:10
The New Zealand Government has released a draft of a new National Curriculum for state schools. Never has the state made plainer its determination to keep children ignorant but happy. Never has there been a clearer statement of the anti-Christian basis of state education.
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Children Selected for Experimental Trials
Posted on 07-19-2006 at 13:09:14
A range of state agencies is progressively revealing and implementing plans to experiment on children with a view to changing how New Zealand society works. All children in New Zealand have been included among those chosen for these experiments, although Carey College will not be taking part. The State has decided that all New Zealand children should be included so parental permission is not being sought.
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Five Reasons to Keep s59 of the Crimes Act
Posted on 06-17-2006 at 16:20:23
The New Zealand Parliament is considering a new law that would ban smacking by parents. It is the first step in banning all forms of punishment and what advocates call "negativity" in the care of children. To sway public opinion they are marginalising Christians and inflaming the debate with false information. Here are five reasons for keeping the good law we presently have.
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Issues Facing Christian Schools
Posted on 11-08-2005 at 14:37:14
Understanding God's sovereignty is a key to our peace and service. As we ponder the morality of our nation and its future, we need this firm anchor: God "does as he pleases with … the peoples of the earth. … Everything he does is right and all his ways are just." Daniel 4:35-37
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What's Happening to State Schools and NCEA?
Posted on 03-15-2005 at 21:23:13
Unfair results, distressed children, confused parents and a Government that over night awards a made-up qualification to students who failed exams. Now even a blind man can see NCEA isn't working. What's the answer?
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Reports Expose the ERO
Posted on 10-27-2004 at 21:26:21
Nonsense and incompetence vie for supremacy in two new ERO reports on Resource Teachers. They cost over ¼ million dollars to produce but lack adequate data, suitable definitions, sound methodology and valid analysis. It may be that there is good research behind the reports, but nothing in the way the reports are written validates the ERO's findings or the ability of the ERO to conduct research.
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War Over Reading and History
Posted on 10-27-2004 at 21:14:27
Guest Article by Australian Journalist Janet Albrechtsen
Despite overwhelming evidence that failure to teach phonics means failure to teach reading, Australians still won't abandon failed whole-language teaching. The "Reading Wars" continue. Now "war" has broken out among historians about the true Australian history. The Australian "wars" parallel the battles in New Zealand for the minds of children.
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The Fruits of NCEA at Cambridge High
Posted on 10-04-2004 at 11:36:30
A lot of issues have been reviewed at Cambridge High—alleged staff bullying, financial abnormalities, management problems and the role of the Principal. We don’t want to comment on those issues. But what Cambridge High shows about NCEA is that what we said from the outset is true: NCEA is a corrupt system that will produce corrupt results and corrupt qualifications.
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Dump the Draft Code of Ethics
Posted on 06-07-2004 at 07:56:13
The Teachers Council Draft Code of Ethics for Teachers gives expression to a narrow set of values that will exclude teachers who are different but presently accepted in our diverse, democratic school system. We call for a code of ethics that respects the diversity of New Zealand culture.
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The Passion of the Christ
Posted on 04-08-2004 at 14:03:33
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is one man's profession of belief in Jesus Christ. It is his testimony to a spiritual awakening achieved through contemplation on accounts of the violent death of the Son of God. Its artistry is brilliantly matched to its goals. But its message is not the message of the Bible.
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Is Excellence Snobbery?
Posted on 03-07-2004 at 22:17:52
Because we help children win qualifications of integrity that give them entry to universities around the world Carey College has both been recognised for excellence – and called a "snob school"! It seems excellence and difference must be vilified by some to justify national certification of conformity to mediocrity.
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Excellent 2003 Examination Results
Posted on 02-11-2004 at 16:28:46
We congratulate Senior College students from 2003 on their success at Cambridge International Examinations.
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Should schools teach Process or Content?
Posted on 02-11-2004 at 13:47:14
My friend was rejoicing that his son was now receiving an education devoid of knowledge. He is not alone.
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Education Under Judgement
Posted on 04-21-2003 at 22:15:10
In April the International Reading Literacy Study reported that New Zealand primary school pupils ranked "second worst at reading among English-speaking countries and fall behind the Czech Republic, Hungary and Lithuania". But the Minister of Education said "the results were particularly pleasing."
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Managing the SARS Emergency
Posted on 04-21-2003 at 22:13:15
SARS is a significant international disease emergency. In response to advice from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health, we are taking prudent steps to promote the safety of pupils and staff at school.
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9/11 One Year Later
Posted on 09-10-2002 at 13:27:12
When we watched it a year ago, we couldn't believe it. But has that cataclysmic event led to faith in a Sovereign God or in hardened hearts in denial of God?
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School Adventure Activities Deliberately Endanger Children
Posted on 07-27-2002 at 20:06:48
New Zealand school children should be exposed to the risk of personal injury to improve their self-esteem, according to the Ministry of Education. As a result, school children are injured and killed on school "Adventure Activities" every year for the benefit of a "socialised" society. We say this is wrong.
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SCHOOL ABANDONS NCEA: Press Statement of 28 June 2002
Posted on 07-04-2002 at 20:37:31
On Wednesday 29 June we received national radio and TV coverage of our decision to withdraw from NCEA. Teachers, parents and students all over New Zealand responded by applauding our move and asking when the madness of NCEA will end. Here is the original press statement.
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Is NCEA a Fraud?
Part 3: It's Not Working
Posted on 06-25-2002 at 10:47:01
Fears that NCEA would prove to be too cumbersome to work properly are proving sadly true. Teachers are struggling with an impossible work-load and students are increasingly becoming disenchanted by inequities that are all too apparent. Even the NZQA can't get its administrative information out on time.
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Is NCEA a Fraud?
Part 2: Teachers are Directed to Cheat
Posted on 06-20-2002 at 09:29:35
Schools in New Zealand have been instructed that students should not "fail" the new NCEA assessments. And if they do, directs the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, teachers should manipulate the information used in the assessment to ensure the student's apparent "fail" is replaced with a "pass". As an NCEA teacher-trainer explains in support, "It comes down to teachers … guiding the results."
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Is NCEA a Fraud?
Part 1: A Lottery
Posted on 06-11-2002 at 13:23:26
In the light of the first two terms of NCEA, it is difficult to escape the impression that in NCEA a gigantic fraud is being perpetrated on students and the community. As predicted, internal assessment is proving to be so unreliable as to make a student's grades a lottery. Further, students are being assessed at times of the year before they have developed the knowledge and skills a qualification issued at the end of Year 11 should represent.
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Top Marks for Carey College
Posted on 01-28-2002 at 09:13:57
This headline ran in our local newspaper The East & Bays Courier on January 16. It commented on and summarised the newly confirmed report on Carey College from the Education Review Office.
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The Potter of Harry's World
Posted on 12-03-2001 at 14:21:08
So long as the context of debate about Harry Potter's bewitching power to entertain is the morality, magic and meaning J K Rowling has created, we cannot properly judge either the literary value or the moral influence of this phenomenon.
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Ten Reasons Not to Feed Potatoes to Your Kids
Posted on 10-30-2001 at 17:20:59
Alarming research shows that feeding potatoes to children is more dangerous than smacking them.
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Christian School Qualifications, Sacred or Secular?
Posted on 10-03-2001 at 10:55:04
Guest contributor, David Jensen, asserts that using state qualifications compromises the curriculum and integrity of Christian schools. What we teach is shaped by the qualifications we choose, and the cost of choosing state qualifications is the loss of critical Christian content.
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Deceptions of "No Smacking" Propaganda:
3: The Bible Distorted
Posted on 10-01-2001 at 14:43:30
The deceits of those who despise godly discipline reach their diabolical climax in the perversion of Scripture to justify depriving children of godly correction while creating a climate of parental guilt and impotent anxiety.
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Is Home Schooling a Threat to Public (State) Schools?
Posted on 09-01-2001 at 23:22:18
Teachers and experts increasingly demonise home schooling – not because of academic standards, but because home schooling threatens the state's monopoly on imparting values.
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The State Promotes Phonics
Posted on 08-24-2001 at 10:17:16
In a report to New Zealand's Parliament, the Education Select Committee calls for the use of phonics in teaching reading.
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Deceptions of "No-smacking" Propaganda:
2. The Bible Denied
Posted on 08-17-2001 at 16:58:39
The Bible's teaching on punishment, and on corporal punishment in particular, is relatively plain to anyone who wants to read it. How that teaching is interpreted and applied however depends on attitudes to the Bible itself, to sin, to redemption and to eternity.
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Code for Overseas Students
Posted on 08-14-2001 at 11:51:51
The Government is about to impose a madatory Code of Practice on schools providing
education to Overseas Students. Carey College believes there should be clear
guidelines for ensuring integrity in dealing with those students, but in its
submission to the Ministrty of Edcuation has asked for important modifications.
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Deceptions of "No-smacking" Propaganda
Part 1: Twisted Statistics and Hidden Religion
Posted on 08-07-2001 at 09:56:06
No-smackers twist emotions by wrongly equating smacking with child abuse. They twist statistics and they hide extreme aims behind emotive language. One of the most quoted no-smacking tracts gives ten reasons for not smacking – and every one manipulates the truth.
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Impressions of English Schooling 3:
Domination of the State
Posted on 07-30-2001 at 17:42:53
The Christian School movement in England is still small and has a relatively low profile. Yet its independence from a highly centralised state system of education offers wonderful opportunities for biblical schooling and wider Christian witness.
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Impressions of English Schooling
2. Test, Tests & More Tests
Posted on 07-25-2001 at 10:07:02
The progress of children's learning in the United Kingdom is measured by a series of tests beginning in early primary and continuing until year 13. The value of these test is being continuously debated.
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Impressions of English Schooling
1. Senior Exams in Disarray
Posted on 07-14-2001 at 19:39:18
At the end of the first year after introducing major reforms in senior school exams, the English Government has announced immediate changes in the hope of correcting a shambolic situation.
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An Agenda for Children: The New Zealand Government's Agenda for Corruption and Control
Posted on 06-27-2001 at 20:53:52
The New Zealand Government has set out a plan for children that manipulates public perception and distorts the truth. Its Agenda for Children will undermine families, rob children of their childhood and increase state intervention in their lives.
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April Research Digest
Posted on 05-28-2001 at 16:39:33
We review a wide range of research items each term. Here is a brief digest
of some of the more interesting items from recent study. Most items are copyrighted,
so we cannot supply copies but visitors to the school can read the originals
there
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Internet Safety Policy
Posted on 05-28-2001 at 13:41:32
Our Internet Safety Policy was drafted in January and has been reviewed and
modified with reference to a wide range of policies and practices. Here is a final draft published for consultation with our school community. We hope consultation can be completed and the policy finalised by August 2001.
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Call Ignorance “New” and Make It the National Standard
Posted on 05-19-2001 at 19:15:31
Make a false division between what is new and what is old. Then play on people’s emotions to persuade them to fall into step with what is called “new” even if it defies common sense. Above all disparage those who treasure “old-fashioned” ideas that work. Throw in a few technical terms to give it all a gloss of expert knowledge – and you have a defence for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority’s unremitting drive to dictate a national standard of ignorance and incompetence.
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No Harm in a Loving Smack
Posted on 05-04-2001 at 17:08:58
There has been a massive push of late by a certain narrow, but powerful group of the community that favours abolition of laws currently allowing parents to smack their children. Guest contributor, Associate Professor of Law James Allen, argues that New Zealand Members of Parliament Laila Harre and Brian Donnelly have no case for outlawing the safe and sensible smacking that a majority of parents know is best for their children.
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No Justice from NCEA Monster
Posted on 04-10-2001 at 17:26:12
The U-turn by the minister of Education on providing marks for the NCEA may be politically astute, but technically it bristles with problems. You cannot graft a fine-grained percentage system on to a broad-band standards scheme without creating a monster. So writes Warwick Elley in a guest contribution.
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School Qualifications Not Needed for University Entrance
Guest Contribution by Craig Smith
Posted on 04-09-2001 at 10:24:56
Education is not in short supply. The amount of education available does not diminish as it is consumed by others. Schooling, however, and places at university are somewhat limited and fenced off by fees and enrolment policies. But education is free to anyone with the initiative and motivation to go get it. The government’s high schools and the teachers unions have had us all thinking they are the gatekeepers to higher education. This is totally false. They are the gatekeepers to politically sanctioned schooling in those institutions.
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More Changes for NCEA
Posted on 04-04-2001 at 11:01:08
The Minster of Education has announced more changes to the National Certificate of Educational Achievement just 10 months before it becomes the only qualification children can get in New Zealand schools. While we welcome the changes, NCEA remains a “qualification” distinguished by its foolishness.
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New Education Law Threatens Christian Schools
Posted on 03-29-2001 at 09:38:10
We are opposed to the New Zealand Government's plans to introduce an Education Council that will control the employment of teachers in all schools, including private Christian schools. This is not the only problem that caused us to make a submission to Parliament's Education and Science Select Committee in March on the Education Amendment (No 2) Bill 2001.
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PAT Results 2001
Posted on 03-19-2001 at 22:17:04
Evaluation of Progressive Achievement Tests for 2001 confirms that reading teaching at Carey College remains of a high standard. The results also confirm significant improvements in students’ study skills.
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William Sawtry d. for Christ 2 March 1401
Posted on 02-26-2001 at 11:54:14
It is 600 years since England burned her first martyr at the stake. This set the pattern for hundreds more to die horrifically. Today we enjoy liberty from such evil persecution, but the issues remain unchanged.
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The Cheating on NCEA Starts
Posted on 12-13-2000 at 09:51:01
Recently the secondary teachers released the results of a poll that showed only about a third of teachers supported the new National Certificate in Secondary Education - but this was touted as "teachers support NCEA"!
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More Sex For Schools
Posted on 12-05-2000 at 18:55:51
The bizarre announcement by the Minister of Education that he intends to compel non-consenting school communities to submit to sex education exposes an agenda of educational perversion.
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Second Thoughts About Harry Potter
Posted on 11-02-2000 at 09:26:48
What happens when you get past the shock of blatant sorcery in the Harry Potter books? These books are undoubtedly popular, and are written with some skill. So at our recent inservice workshop on literature the staff of Carey College read and analysed these books. In the end we confirmed our original decision to exclude them from our curriculum - but our reasons changed.
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Luther's Answer to Halloween
Posted on 10-31-2000 at 23:34:52
What do we celebrate on the last night of October? Carey College teacher Glen Stewart challenges us to remember Reformation Day:
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Children's Health News
Posted on 10-03-2000 at 21:34:00
Three items from the American Academy of Pediatrics point to important issues for schools and parents. Aerobic fitness is critical for children. Parental influence is critical for substance abuse in children. Cigarette smoking by teenagers indicates high risk of depression.
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School Suspension Numbers Rise
Posted on 10-03-2000 at 21:33:37
Last month the New Zealand Ministry of Education released a report on school suspensions that showed an increase in the number of students being temporarily excluded from school. New measures intended to reduce the numbers of children disciplined in this way are clearly failing, but where does responsibility for this rest?
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NCEA: Confusion over Assessment Gets Worse
Posted on 09-27-2000 at 11:06:31
The second training day for teachers revealed growing confusion over how children's work is to be marked. In three subjects our staff were 'trained' in three distinctly different practices were upheld.
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Education Forum Reports Fail New School Qualification
Posted on 09-11-2000 at 21:49:32
At the beginning of September, Mr John Morris, acting chairman of the Education Forum, released three reports on the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), all of which are highly critical of this new school qualification. Here is a media release from the Education Forum:
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Sneaky Attack on Young Minds
Posted on 09-11-2000 at 21:48:54
In a letter to the New Zealand Herald, educator Mr Lockstone criticises the bias of the New Zealand Curriculum From the English and Social Studies syllabuses he highlights deficiencies that attack the minds of this nation's youth.
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Institutionalising Home Schooling
Posted on 09-05-2000 at 17:08:03
There is an increasing tendency to 'accept' the legitimacy of home schooling. But at the same time there is a tendency to attempt to institutionalise it to increase control of independent families.
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NCEA a Logistical Nightmare
Posted on 09-05-2000 at 17:07:33
The new National Certificate in Educational Achievement will result in large schools having to record as many as 79,200 pieces of information each year. Many students will have certificates supported by several hundred items of information. Guest Contributor Michael Irwin argues that the proposal will be unworkable and incomprehensible.
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Government to 'Inquire' Into Home Schooling
Posted on 08-21-2000 at 17:20:19
The Government has announced an inquiry into homeschooling. Included in the terms of reference is an examination of the quality of homeschooling. Why?
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The Teacher Registration Board has failed to achieve its goals:
Posted on 08-21-2000 at 17:19:56
It was meant to ensure teachers were properly qualified (but schools have to keep recruiting teachers who don't meet the artificial standards set ) and stop child abusers getting close to children (but all but one education worker convicted of child abuse since the TRB started was a registered teacher). Now Government plans to replace it with an Education Council with greater powers. Here is part 1 of our response.
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What We Learnt from the first NCEA Professional Development Day
Posted on 08-14-2000 at 14:15:00
At the start of this term our teachers joined hundreds of others throughout Auckland for the first training day for NCEA assessment. We learnt that NCEA is not ready to start and confirmed our expectations that internal assessment will be as poor under NCEA as it has been under other failed systems.
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There are two sorts of children who use alcohol, drugs or cigarettes:
Posted on 08-14-2000 at 14:13:42
Boys and Girls. We live in an age where pressure is brought to bear on children to 'try' taking substances such as pills, drugs, alcohol and tobacco products. Here is the text of a pamphlet for our secondary parents and pupils.
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Government Report Slates Science Teaching
Posted on 07-17-2000 at 07:48:12
A report from the Education Review Office has failed the teaching of science in New Zealand - but this is a result of 30 years of Government policy.
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Is Private Immorality a Public Issue?
Posted on 07-01-2000 at 09:46:19
Yes, always. Whether it is a matter of leadership or citizenship, the Bible holds the individual and the community responsible for moral conduct.
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Practical Subjects Can Be Examined
Posted on 06-26-2000 at 09:50:24
One of the most persistent
deceits perpetrated to justify increased dependence on internal assessment in place of
examinations is that practical subjects cannot be examined. Nonsense!
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The National Certificate Of Educational Achievement
Posted on 06-19-2000 at 10:33:00
In 2002 the New
Zealand Qualifications Authority will introduce a new structure of secondary and
tertiary qualifications. Following consultation with the NZQA, Carey College is
planning to offer a range of these qualifications to our students.
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Revolution in the Pacific
Posted on 06-12-2000 at 10:58:15
The Solomon Islands and Fiji are the latest
Pacific nations to suffer armed insurrection. Inevitably there are underlying issues of
injustice and oppression as well as the more obvious tribalism, nationalism and
racism. How should students in Christian schools evaluate these events?
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The National Certificate Of EducationalAchievement
Posted on 06-05-2000 at 14:06:20
Last week the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) and
Ministry of Education presented details of the latest version of the National Certificate
of Educational Achievement (NCEA). Carey College has not participated in other
recent reforms of state qualifications - but is likely to take part in this new
qualification.
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USA National Reading Panel Gives Thumbs Up To Phonics
Posted on 05-15-2000 at 10:01:46
The United States National Reading Panel
has released a major report that upholds the systematic use of phonics as an essential element in teaching
children to read. Carey College has always used phonics to teach reading with a very high level of success.
Guest to this web site, Associate Professor Tom Nicholson, presents a review of the report.
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The Christian Context of Education
Posted on 05-08-2000 at 08:57:45
Whenever we make a submission to Parliament we include a statement of our basic
beliefs. We do this partly to explain to Members of Parliament how important our
faith is in guiding the schooling we provide, and to demonstrate to them that our
schooling is based on principles that should have the support and protection of good
law and justice. At the same time, we pray that our submissions will bring before
Members of Parliament some of the basic principles of biblical Christianity, and so be
used of God to move their hearts to honour him in their lives and work.
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Stopping Bullying in Schools Starts with God's Law
Posted on 05-08-2000 at 08:47:02
Concern about bullying is a hot topic in today's schools. It is a proper concern
- for too long children have suffered all sorts of intimidation from others as
"part of growing up." The Bible is clear on its demands for loving others - but
how can this insidious evil be stopped in schools?
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Teaching Safe Use of the Internet
Posted on 05-01-2000 at 09:07:36
Carey College has well developed and extensively used computer systems. Pupils
have open access to computers and the internet. That raises issues of safety for
children. We are presently revising our "Safe Surfing" policies and will be reporting
to parents at a meeting later this month.
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When the State Comes Visiting
Posted on 05-01-2000 at 09:06:43
The Bible does not give the state authority for education. Yet in most western
countries the state has assumed authority to control education and spend vast sums of
its funds on schooling. How should Christian schools respond when the state seeks to
exercise its unwarranted authority over parental choice?
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Inane Standards still being Dumped on New Zealand Children
Posted on 04-24-2000 at 15:02:13
Despite overwhelming dissatisfaction with the concept of unit standards (now called
"Achievement Standards"), the Government of New Zealand appears immovable in its
determination to dump meaningless criteria - and equally meaningless qualifications
- on children and schools. New English Achievement Standards distributed last week
are typically dumb.
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Employment Relations Bill Part II:
Posted on 04-17-2000 at 10:16:15
Provisions in the new Employment relations Bill are likely to seriously reduce the
ability of small schools to arrange work for teachers, especially part-time teachers. As
a result small schools may be hampered in the courses they can offer and risk having
significant financial burdens thrust on them.
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Employment Law Threatens Christian Schools
Posted on 04-11-2000 at 09:19:41
The new socialist Labour Government in New Zealand is hastily pushing
employment law to the left. Christian Schools will be prohibited from
employing only Christian teachers if the proposed law is passed. It will even
prohibit Churches from using religious belief as a criterion in employing
pastors!
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Truancy Officers Compromise Child Safety and Constitutional Freedoms
Posted on 04-03-2000 at 10:01:51
Recently home-schooled children and their parents in New Zealand have been
accosted in the streets by people claiming to be "truancy officers". This is part of a
drive to deal with juvenile offending associated with truancy. Yet this action
threatens the safety of children and tramples on constitutional freedoms.
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The Worship of Sport
Posted on 04-03-2000 at 10:00:32
There is a new drive to achieve high levels of secondary school participation in major
sports. The exaltation of sport as if it is a measure of all that is good for children is
vain.
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Achievement 2001 Not Just Unworkable, but Perverted
Posted on 03-20-2000 at 08:38:05
State school teachers have formed an association to oppose the new New Zealand
qualifications structure called Achievement 2000 because it is unworkable and
because of its sexual immorality.
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Pokemon
Posted on 03-13-2000 at 08:46:03
We were asked by a local newspaper last week to comment on Pokemon. Several local secular schools had banned the game and the cards.
We explained our position.
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Children are Dying on School Camps
Posted on 02-21-2000 at 08:44:56
Two more school camp deaths last week were tragic -
but why are schools taking children on camps in the first place?
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Angelic Children and Their Privacy
Posted on 01-31-2000 at 23:10:04
Today's teachers are afraid to touch children, but they intrude on the intimate lives of children in an unprecedented way.
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