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12 [Edition Tuesday datE] April 16 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi 1 SCHOOL OPEN DAYS WESTERN NEWS Catholic Cathedral College To Live By Faith Catholic Cathedral College is first and foremost a Catholic school and for 150 years Catholic children of Christchurch have been educated on this site. We aim to produce graduates who are confident, compassionate, connected citizens, willing to make a positive contribution to our society with a focus on faith, justice and equity. As the only co-ed Catholic College in Christchurch, with a vibrant mix of ethnicities, we offer excellent preparation for life. We have a strong focus on our bicultural heritage and all students from Year 7 to 10 learn Te Reo Maori. We encourage our students to strive for excellence and have had sustained excellent academic results over recent years for all students, across all levels of NCEA. We recently won the highly coveted Bishop Lyons’ Shield, a public speaking and debating competition for the seven Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese. Our Vocational Pathways programme offers individualised programmes giving students access to a range of tertiary providers. If you are looking for a Catholic faith-based education, please visit us on our Open Evening on Thursday 23 May, 6.30-8pm and experience the special atmosphere and sense of family that is so evident. Open Evening Thursday 23rd May, 6.30-8.00pm www.cathcollege.school.nz | 62 Ferry Road | Tel: 982 1690
WESTERN 2 [Edition NEWS datE] Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday April 16 2019 13 SCHOOL OPEN DAYS All New for Avonside at Ōrua Paeroa A new school, a new location, and a new uniform! What a fabulous year for Avonside Girls’ High school as a new chapter in the school’s 90 plus year history is written this year. As Avonside Girls’ High School moves into its new home on Travis Road at the beginning of term 2, it will take with it its traditions, culture, history and values and its focus on working with every student to help her identify her strengths and develop her talents so that she can flourish in her future. Just over 1000 girls will move onto the new site in Travis Road and experience learning in New Zealand’s newest secondary school buildings. The campus which also includes a satellite unit of Ferndale School, is New Zealand’s first ever co-location of a state girls’ school and a state boys’ school sharing the same site and some key facilities and yet delivering teaching and learning within their own single-sex learning environments. One look inside the impressive entrance foyer reveals an exciting campus with fabulous facilities to enhance learning for students. In the front section of the school lie the shared facilities, boasting the reception and administrative centre for both schools, a spacious library, a cultural space, two theatres, a cafeteria with indoor and outdoor seating, and student kitchen facilities alongside a commercial kitchen for teaching senior Hospitality courses. The design of the school then separates into two separate schools each designed around its own courtyard. The school is organised by learning areas, denoting the school’s support of subject discipline knowledge and skills, yet with adjacencies that provide opportunities for learning to be connected across learning areas for students. Avonside supports the development of the whole student with a strong ako programme delivered within a vertical form structure and wonderful opportunities for involvement beyond classroom learning time. The superb facilities in the new campus certainly enhance those opportunities for our students. Avonside Girls’ High School has embraced this opportunity to provide this exciting new brand of 21st century style single-sex education – the best of both worlds! Shirley Boys’ High School at Ōrua Paeroa Finally after 8 years of unstinting effort, Shirley Boys’ is in its new home, one that features state of the art facilities for teaching and learning in the 21st Century. The new campus features a Performing Arts Centre, full size all weather turf, sports fields, the largest school gymnasium in the city as well as traditional classrooms and modern flexible spaces designed to meet the needs of all of its 1250 young Shirley men. Shirley Boys’ High School, Kiwi Soul Global Vision At Shirley Boys’ High School, students are encouraged to participate in a vast array of sporting and cultural activities and in all of these areas they are expected to prepare themselves for action and success on the world stage, while also being encouraged to retain and strengthen their own cultural roots. Shirley Boys’ High School encourages students to strive for personal excellence. Learning occurs both inside and outside the classroom, reflecting the desire of the school to focus on teaching the whole person to ensure a lifelong desire for self-improvement. At Shirley Boys’ this is known as “BTB – Better than Before”. BTB leads to achievement, which can be as modest as getting fit for a sport or improving a test score or learning to sing in a choir. BTB can also be as spectacular as achieving a Premier New Zealand Academic Scholar Award (awarded to the Top 10 academic students in NZ).
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