Education / February 2021
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Stakeholder Update – Return to Alert Level 2 (1 March)
- College Sport Wellington
- Dear students, staff, family members, partners and supporter of College Sport Wellington, On behalf of the Board and Staff of College Sport Wellington, I want to thank you for your continuing support of secondary school sport, particularly under these trying times.
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Cullen Breakfast
- Wellington Girls' College
- On Thursday 25 February Head Girl Izzy Hewett (left) and Head of Heritage Sophie Trench attended the Cullen breakfast where Hon. Grant Robertson spoke about the direction of the NZ economy.
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Wellington Girls' College, Pipitea Street, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Space: Robinson Research Institute’s next frontier
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Director of the Robinson Research Institute Dr Nick Long explains how his teams' expertise in electromagnetic technologies is taking them to space.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Term 1, Week 4)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 1 March – Year 9 Noho Marae begin Wednesday 31 March – Learning Conversations Y9-13 Thursday 1 April – Teacher-Only Day: Capital City Kāhui Ako.
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Farewell Wendy Carroll
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Marsden Avenue, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The value a society places on knowledge is judged by how it treats public libraries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Anne Goulding from the School of Information Management explains why the part privatisation of Wellington's Central Library is dangerous in this opinion piece originally published on Stuff.co.nz
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Portfolio chosen for Exhibition
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Marsden Avenue, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Turfing Latin part of a disturbing pattern
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Josh King explains how the axing of Latin from NCEA is indicative of a wider trend in New Zealand and the world.
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Wireless for sound
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumnus Harsh Tataria, who graduated here in 2017, is waiting to return from New Zealand to his job teaching communications engineering at Lund University.
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Drilling into Peter Barrett’s career
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Emeritus Professor Peter Barrett FRSNZ, FGS explains how he became Aotearoa New Zealand's pre-eminent Antarctic scientist and climate change spokesperson.
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‘I don’t know anybody who’s got a job as interesting as mine’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Shanny Campbell tracks her career from a Master in Development Studies to country director of Tajikistan for the Asian Development Bank.
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Storytelling to come to terms with the pandemic
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Storytelling is a crucial coping device, enabling you to situate yourself in relation to a bigger event, write professors Stephen Dobson and Donna Prendergast.
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Climate Change Committee advice will shift our impacts—to where?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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Climate Change Commission advice will shift our impacts—to where?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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Local government’s Māori representation gap
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Jack Vowles puts paid to the claim Māori wards are unnecessary because Māori are proportionally represented in local government.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 3, Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Tuesday 23 February – Aroha Day Friday 26 February – Athletics Carnival Monday 1 March – Year 9 Noho Marae begin Important Information Covid-19 Update Kia ora koutou I am sure that we all have welcomed the news of the move back to alert level 1.
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tennis – Premier Teams Day
- College Sport Wellington
- Wellington College and Hutt International Boys battled it out on Wednesday at the Premier Teams Tennis Champs.
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Futsal Level 1 Coaching Course
- College Sport Wellington
- Capital Football are running a Level 1 Futsal Coaching Course on Sunday 28 February.
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Women’s power in anonymity
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Netflix show Bridgerton shows another side to the agency and influence of women in heavily patriarchal societies, writes Rachel Boddy.
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Defiant through Shock – Liam Maitland
- College Sport Wellington
- “I don’t remember much, but what I’ve been told is I turned pale and was puffing heaps.
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Scholarships reward school students’ resilience
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The new Ngā Hoe a Kupe Pathfinder Scholarships have been awarded to twelve young women from Wellington secondary schools.
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Stakeholder Update – Alert Level 2, 15 February 2021
- College Sport Wellington
- Dear students, staff, family members, partners and supporters of College Sport Wellington, As we’re sure you’re all feeling, last night’s news was disappointing and certainly a fly in the ointment for the sporting calendar.
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School Photographs – revised schedule
- Wellington High School
- Following the move to Alert Level 2 we have worked with the photographers and have revised the school photos schedule.
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 2, Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 15 February – Year 9 Meet the Teacher (6pm) Monday 15 February – Board of Trustees meeting (6.
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why impeachment might not be a good idea
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Hayden Thorne is no fan of former US president Donald Trump, but asks if a public impeachment is really the best way forward?
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Entries Open – 2021 Wellington SS Waka Ama Sprint Champs
- College Sport Wellington
- Hoe Tonga Pacifica Waka Ama Association, in association with College Sport Wellington, is pleased to offer secondary school students the opportunity to participate in our region’s Secondary School Sprint Champs.
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Researchers illuminate a role for moonlight in fisheries management
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A University-led study shows how the lunar cycle influences the behaviour of larval fish predators and prey and as a result growth rates.
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Artist reworks Adam Art Gallery building for new show
- Victoria University of Wellington
- US-based Walters Prize winner Kate Newby is internationally sought after for her architectural 'interventions' that lead to new appreciations of locations and materials.
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Student Leaders Inducted
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Marsden Avenue, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Study finds birdsong remains the same after 1080 drops
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Researchers find no evidence forests 'fall silent' because poison is killing large numbers of the very birds it aims to protect.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Term 1, Week 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 8 February – Waitangi Day holiday (school closed) Monday 15 February – Year 9 Meet the Teacher (6pm) Monday 15 February – Board of Trustees meeting (6.
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Welcome to 2021
- Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Marsden Avenue, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Schools are failing to identify high-ability science students, research shows
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand's smartest young science students aren't always identified in the school system, indicates new research.
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Powhiri and blessing
- Ridgway School
- Twice a year we formally welcome new staff and students with a pōwhiri. We do this at the start of the year and at the start of Term 3.
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Ridgway School, 120, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Call for 'immediate and decisive action' on climate change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Climate Change Commission's Professor James Renwick outlines its long-anticipated advice to the New Zealand Government.
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Study shows benefits of wetland restoration
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Gains in soil quality contribute to a more stable climate, diminished flooding, and cleaner waterways, says study leader Dr Stephanie Tomscha.
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The politics of public spaces
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand’s history of the built environment is not immune from the discrimination seen in the US and other countries, writes Christine McCarthy.
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