Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
St Peter’s College Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand Catholic School for Boys in the Edmund Rice Tradition June 13, 2014. Newsletter 9/14 ‘Enrolment of the Family’ or ‘Just Send Him to School’ We are at the tail end of interviewing a large number • An expectation that musical achievement e.g. gold of enrolments for year 7, 8 and year 9 (2015). The medal for the Concert Band at the National Band process of enrolment at St Peter’s College is a very Championship depends on support from families with considered and thoughtful process. It occupies regards to camp, transport and Friends of Music etc. many hours of organisation, interviewing, collating • A culture of 14 dinners: new parents, rugby dinner, and deciding. football dinner, music excellence dinner, sporting Enrolment at St Peter’s College involves a system. excellence dinner, basketball dinner, hockey dinner, Open day in March, advertising in March, application cycling wine tasting, cricket dinner, waterpolo dinner, in April, interviewing in May and June, decision in old boys dinner, leavers’ dinner, mothers’ dinner, June, testing year 7 in October, parent meeting jubilee dinner, rowing luncheon etc. November, registration in January – all before the • 7 parent teacher interviews on a year level basis boy enters a class. And that excludes the 100 day with 100% expectation of parental attendance. induction in February and March! I appreciate that is a very stressful time for families. Enrolment at a • Academic reports on twice a year basis. school is never a certain process. • Behaviour discipline which involves the family. There are plenty of schools in which to “just send • Samoan, Maori, Tongan, PTFA groupings and him to school” philosophy reigns.
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