Education System in NZ1

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New ZealandsEducation System


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Early Childhood

Kindergartens

Education and Care Centres

Playcentres

Home-based Care

Correspondence School

Special Needs Children


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Focus on social skills and learning through play 3 trained

teachers.

Parents are expected to help out both with class supervision

and with fundraising and committee work.


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Education and Care Centres

Offer full day or sessional care (up to 4 hours a day) and areopen for up to 8 or 9 hours (between 7.30am and 6.00pm).

charged on the basis of a weekly or daily fee, an hourly fee

applies for casual care.

Montessori and Rudolph Steiner schools


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Playcentres

run as parent co-operatives

parents

are closely involved in both running the centre and

working with the children during session times.

run the session on a roster

can undertake training for supervising sessions at aplaycentre.


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Individual play centres arrange their own session times with 1

to 10 sessions per week.

Children can attend up to 5 sessions per week.


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Home-based Care

provides supervised, home-based care for very small groups of

children.

referred to as family day-care

care is provided in the local caregivers home.

include evenings and weekends to help parents who work

irregular hours.


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Correspondence School

provides early childhood education for children under the age

of 6

For children

in remote areas

sick

Disabled

do not have a settled address

have special needs.


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Special Needs Children

against the law for any educational institution to treat a student

differently because they have a disability

Specialist Education Services (SES)

Early Intervention teams offer family-focused support to young

children with developmental needs from birth until they are

settled at school.


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Primary & Secondary

Compulsory for all children from their sixth until sixteenthbirthday

free at state (government funded) schools until the age of 19, or

21 for special education students with disabilities

however, parents are expected to meet some minor costs


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school day usually begins about 9.00am and finishes about

3.00pm (the secondary school day ends around 3.30pm)a short break in the morning, about an hour for lunch and

sometimes, a short afternoon break

begins at Year 1 and moving up one class each year to the

final Year 13

Years 1 to 3 are often referred to as primers or juniors


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Years 4 to 6 as standards

Years 7 and 8 are known as forms 1 and 2

Years 9 to 13 as forms 3 to 7

Class sizes are set by the school in accordance with Ministry ofEducation guidelines.

Some junior classes may include children of different ages and

year levels in the same classroom - composite classes

Students 16 years and over may choose not to finish theirsecondary education and leave in Year 11 or 12.


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Primary School

Enrolled by their sixth birthday

most attend from age 5 to the end of their sixth year ofschooling

children in their seventh and eighth years either continue to

attend primary school or move to a separate intermediate

school

Intermediate schools operate only in urban areas.


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New Zealand Curriculum


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built r undt e cquisiti n f essenti l c de ic nd r ctic l skills

identifies c de ic r essenti l le r ning re s:

L nguage andlanguages

at e atics

cience

Tec nology

ocial sciences

T e arts

ealt & ysical ell-being


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These are balanced by 8 practical or essential skills:

Communication skills

Numeracy skills

Information skills

Problem-solving skills

Self-management and competitive skills

Social and co-operative skills

Physical skills

Work and study skills

Each term, most schools prepare student Progress Reports and

hold parent-teacher evenings.


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Subjects Taught


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School Terms/Semesters

begins in late January or early February, after a summer

holiday of about 6 weeks, and ends in December

divided into 4 terms with breaks of two to three weeks betweenthem

Term 1 - End of January to early April

Term 2 - ate April to end of June

Term 3 - Mid July to late September

Term 4 - MidOctober to mid December (or early December

for secondary schools)


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National Certificate ofEducational

Achievement

main national ualification for secondary school students

part of the National Qualifications Framework

National Qualifications Framework

covers industry and education ualifications from year 11

(formerly Form 5) of secondary schooling and entry level to

vocations, through to post-graduate level.


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All ualifications currently on theFramework are made up of

national standards.

A standard describes what a learner should aim to achieve in askill or knowledge area.

Standards are set by written criteria along with a national

moderation system.

earners who meet all re uirements get credit for thatstandard; those who don't may be reassessed when they are

ready.


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Each standard is at a level from 1 to 8

evel 1 is similar to School Certificate levellevel 2 to Sixth Form Certificate

levels 3 and 4 are similar to University Bursaries

Each standard also has a credit rating.

Students accumulate Framework credits towards NationalCertificates and National Diplomas.


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NCEA provides the pathway to tertiary education andworkplace training and gives everyone a full picture of what

students know and can do.

Challenges students of all abilities, in all learning areas

Reports more details about a student's achievementIs officially recognised in New Zealand and internationally

Is recognised by employers, universities and polytechnics

and used as the benchmark for selection

Provides opportunities to begin studying for tertiary andindustry ualifications


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Has exams as well as internal assessment

Has a national system for checking internal assessments

Shows credits and grades for separate skills and knowledge

in some standards

The National Qualifications Framework contains two types of

national standards

achievement standards

unit standards.Credits from all achievement standards and all unit standards

count towards NCEA.


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Reference

http://www.nz-immigration.co.nz/education/early-childhood.html

http://www.nz-immigration.co.nz/education/primary-

secondary.html

http://www.nz-immigration.co.nz/education/curriculum.html

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