Resources

Resources for Teachers and Boards of Trustees

Careers and Vocations - Thoughts for Principals, Careers advisers, those responsible for career education, DRSs, and Chaplains in Catholic primary and secondary schools [pdf 105kb]

Parish Priests and New Zealand Catholic Schools
A document from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference for the guidance of priests, Boards of Trustees, principals, and DRSs in Catholic schools [pdf 99kb]

The Role of the Proprietor's Appointee on the Board of Trustees [pdf 120kb]

NZCEO and Multi Serve / Cognition Consulting [pdf 46kb]

Memorandum of Understanding between the Multi Serve Education Trust and the New Zealand Catholic Education Office [Multi Serve MOU pdf 130kb] [NZCEO MOU pdf 250kb]

NZ Catholic Education Office Spotless Services (NZ) Endorsement [pdf 115kb]

Summary of the Gross Attendance Dues Rates for 2008 [pdf 103kb]

What the New Zealand Catholic Education Office does:
The Role and Chief Functions of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office [pdf 13kb]

Catholic Special Character and Development 2007 [pdf 665kb]
Review and development document for special character in Catholic Schools

Special Character Review and Development Statutory Requirement [MSWord .doc file 65kb]

Handbook For The Board of Trustees Of New Zealand Catholic Integrated Schools 2007 [pdf 1025kb]
Published By The New Zealand Catholic Education Office Ltd on behalf of The New Zealand Council of Proprietors of Catholic Integrated Schools.

Replaced appendixed maximum roll form in the Handbook for Boards of Trustees in Integrated schools:
- P2MRI Form (March 2008) [MSWord doc 200kb]
- P2 and MRI Process-Classroom Only [MSWord doc 56kb]

Special Character Compliances Required of Board of Trustees of Integrated Schools - a guide for Proprietors and Boards [open or download pdf 215kb]

Preference of Enrolment Policy in Catholic Integrated Schools [pdf 120kb]

Tagged (S65) Positions - Clarifications for Catholic Schools [pdf 147kb]

S 65 Form [pdf 265kb] for Applications for positions in an Integrated School Related to the Special Character of a Catholic School

S 66 Form [pdf 83kb] for Applications for positions in an Integrated School Related to the Special Character of a Catholic School - Deputy Principal

Personal Reference Booklet for Staff in New Zealand Catholic Schools [pdf 235kb]
Contains information on Catholic education, the history of Catholic schools in New Zealand, Special Character, expectations of staff, organisations involved in Catholic education.

The New Zealand Education Community

Who Does What in Catholic Education

Who Does What in Catholic Schools

The Declaration of NZ Proprietors on authentic Catholic school education

The Philosophy of Catholic Schools [pdf 10kb]

Values and virtues in Catholic Schools [pdf 150kb]

Code of Ethics [pdf 10kb]

Building Relationships Between Catholic Schools and Maori Communities [pdf 460kb]

Raising the Achievements of Pasifika Students in Catholic Schools [pdf 122kb]

Sport in Catholic Schools - Our Particular Ethos [pdf 89kb]

Pastoral Care in New Zealand Catholic Schools [pdf 53kb]

National Guidelines On Pre Training, Entry and First Appointment of Religious Education Teachers

Caritas Aotearoa-New Zealand
The Web site of the Catholic Bishops' agency for justice peace and development includes on its Schools' pages: ideas for getting involved in the current year's Lenten theme, competitions, photos and resource catalogue.

A New Zealand Online Faith Community: FaithCentral
FaithCentral is an online Faith Community for teachers and students in New Zealand Catholic Secondary Schools. FaithCentral's purpose is to support their Special Character and the teaching of Religious Education.

Wellington Catholic Education Centre

Catholic Online
www.catholic.org/cen/default.html
News on Catholic education in the USA, and sections on various grade levels in Catholic education.

Bank of Catholic Moral Theology Questions www.boshf.org/biblebank

CyberFaith
www.cyberfaith.com/
This U.S. site is updated weekly with Religious Education resources and spirituality activities for children aged 5-13.

Resources for Catholic Educators
www.silk.net/RelEd/map.htm
You will find many lesson plans here, and heaps of other resources and links.

Sexuality, Health Education, Counselling

www.ywwf.org/index.html
You're Worth Waiting For! Blount Nurses for Health Education. This site provides education on abstinence, safe sex, and the value of virginity.

www.cfoc.org/index.cfm
Campaign For Our Children. This site provides research-based prevention messages which encourage healthy, responsible sexual decisions among early adolescent youth. It is a good educator resource centre.

www.choosingthebest.org/index.htm
Choosing the Best. This site provides abstinence-focused educational curricula, resources and training for teens, in order to promote healthy relationships and decrease teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Model Policy on School Based Health Services (pdf 130k)
Model Policy on School Counselling Services (pdf 110k)
These pages have been extracted from the Handbook for the Board of Trustees of New Zealand Catholic Integrated Schools 2004 for guidance to prospective proprietor appointees whose school employs councellors on policy development.

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