General News

Recently Papamoa College won the Education Project award in the Registered Master Builders 2011 House of the Year and RMB Commercial Project Awards, in association with PlaceMakers.

A ground-breaking tool developed by Careers NZ is set to revolutionise the way we prepare secondary students for training, employment and life beyond school.

Smart teenagers across NZ are sending in their technology inventions for this yearís ETITO Bright Sparks Awards.
The 11th annual awards will shine the spotlight on the next generation of engineers and technology developers. The Bright Sparks Awards were launched by ETITO, the industry training organisation for the electrotechnology and telecommunications sector, to encourage young people to experience electronics directly through a project-based approach. 

PPTA says a move to place more social workers in primary schools is addressing at-risk children early in life is commendable but misses violence at secondary level.

The St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland U20 Senior A Team of Devon Hiley – Team Captain, Y12, Helena Jackson, Y12, Meghan Carroll, Y13, Elise Salt, Y12 and Danyela van der Sande, Y13 raced in the NZ Secondary Schools’ Team Time Trial Championships in Manawatu between 8-10 October 2011. They took out the Championship title and beat the existing record with a time of 26.02 minutes.

Young Enterprise Scheme students from St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland have developed a reusable snap and roll lunch bag that is stylish, eco-friendly and BPA free.
The bag is space saving, with a snap band down the spine allowing it to roll down when empty, washable, and can be used time and time again.

The University of Auckland is running free parenting programmes for parents of pre-teens and teenagers as part of a research study comparing the effectiveness of two parenting programmes.

A programme that gives secondary-school students hands-on experience of health careers to encourage them into the sector has taken the top prize in the EEO Trust Work & Life Awards 2011.

Hawke’s Bay District Health Board won the Supreme Award for Programme Incubator, which engages teenagers with health workers and the jobs they do in a bid to encourage them into the skill-short sector. Students of Maori and Pacific Island heritage are a particular focus, as the DHB wants to build a health workforce more representative of its community.

Comparing two job options just got a whole lot easier with the development of a new online tool by Careers NZ.

Careers NZ website content manager Bernie Burrell said young people are often faced with either too many or too few career choices and, as a result, they sometimes struggle with weighing up the options and information that’s out there.

Three St Cuthbert’s College students and one staff member succeeded at the NZ Poetry Society’s 2011 international poetry competition.

Year 12 student Maria Ji became first in the open junior section of the competition.

Maria won $200 for her poem My Friend Nick, which will be published in the NZPS 2011 anthology.