9 SEPTEMBER 2010 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 115

Notice

The Designated Character of Clover Park Middle School

Aims, purposes and objectives of Clover Park Middle School
The following aims, purposes and objectives constitute the character of Clover Park Middle School:

(i) To provide a learning environment where Māori tikanga, Samoan, Cook Islands, and Tongan cultural practices, language and knowledge are the norm, and where all students actively take part in one of these cultural communities within the school.

(ii) To enable children to draw on strong Māori and Pasifika cultures, identities and languages so that they can gain the knowledge and skills necessary to do well for themselves, their communities, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific region and the world.

(iii) To provide an holistic Māori-Pasifika learning environment based on the philosophy and practice of whanaungatanga – kinship and reciprocity.

(iv) To honour the Treaty of Waitangi.

(v) To provide the community of Otara with a marae based Māori bilingual option and a Pasifika bilingual option for children beyond Year 6.

(vi) To give students participation in decision-making in curriculum content and planning.

(vii) To develop classroom practice where Māori knowledge and Pasifika cultural knowledge is normal, valid and legitimate, and guides classroom interactions and learning.

(viii) To ensure that children will be secure in their knowledge about the Māori and Pasifika world to enable them to participate in the wider world.

(ix) To involve parents and wider whānau/family in the education of their children, in culturally familiar ways that are empowering.

(x) To foster high expectations for excellence in learning – culturally, socially and academically, so Māori and Pasifika children have choices for their futures.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of August 2010.

HON ANNE TOLLEY, Minister of Education.

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Merger of Te Whānau o Tupuranga (556) and Clover Park Middle School (1250)

Pursuant to section 156A of the Education Act 1989, I hereby declare that Te Whānau o Tupuranga (556) and Clover Park Middle School (1250) will merge on 28 January 2011 with Te Whānau o Tupuranga being the continuing school.

The merged school will be a Year 7–13 designated character school under section 156 of the Education Act 1989.

As the two schools already have the same board of trustees, there will be no change to the board constitution and no need for new board elections.

Notice

The following aims, purposes and objectives constitute the character of the merged school:

(i) To provide a learning environment where Māori tikanga, Samoan, Cook Islands, and Tongan cultural practices, language and knowledge are the norm, and where all students actively take part in one of these cultural communities within the school.

(ii) To enable children to draw on strong Māori and Pasifika cultures, identities and languages so that they can gain the knowledge and skills necessary to do well for themselves, their communities, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific region and the world.

(iii) To provide an holistic Māori-Pasifika learning environment based on the philosophy and practice of whanaungatanga – kinship and reciprocity.

(iv) To honour the Treaty of Waitangi.

(v) To provide the community of Otara with a marae based Māori bilingual option and a Pasifika bilingual option for children beyond Year 6.

(vi) To give students participation in decision-making in curriculum content and planning.

(vii) To develop classroom practice where Māori knowledge and Pasifika cultural knowledge is normal, valid and legitimate, and guides classroom interactions and learning.

(viii) To ensure that children will be secure in their knowledge about the Māori and Pasifika world to enable them to participate in the wider world.

(ix) To involve parents and wider whānau/family in the education of their children, in culturally familiar ways that are empowering.

(x) To foster high expectations for excellence in learning – culturally, socially and academically, so Māori and Pasifika children have choices for their futures.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of August 2010.

HON ANNE TOLLEY, Minister of Education.

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Notice of Direction for Appointment of a Limited Statutory Manager for the Board of Trustees of Colwill School (1254)

Pursuant to section 78M of the Education Act 1989, I direct the Secretary for Education to appoint a limited statutory manager for the Colwill School Board of Trustees because of risks to the operation of the school.

The following functions, powers and duties of the board are to be vested in a limited statutory manager:

• All functions, powers and duties of the board as an employer (whether statutory or otherwise); and
• all functions, powers and duties of the board to manage financial operations (whether statutory or otherwise).

A limited statutory manager must also advise the board on the exercise of its governance powers.

This notice takes effect on the date of its publication.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of August 2010.

HON ANNE TOLLEY, Minister of Education.

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Education (Early Childhood Centres) Regulations 1998

Cancellation of Licence for an Early Childhood Centre

Pursuant to Regulation 12(1)(d)(i) of the Education (Early Childhood Centres) Regulations 1998, and acting under authority delegated by the Secretary for Education, I hereby cancel the licence dated 8 March 2010, which was granted under those Regulations to Philippa Brunn.