EDUCATION: Nurture and grow at nine ? challenge at 10.
That's the message from Wanganui Collegiate School headmaster Craig Consedine about the Year 10 students who will spend five weeks in the school's new Aramea programme.
The programme will be opened officially on Sunday at the Mangatepopo School camp on SH47 when the first intake of students arrive.
Director of the Aramea programme, Don Humphrey, said he and a group of staff worked over the past 12 months and wove the academic curriculum into environmental/ecological studies, the history of local iwi, plate tectonics and vulcanism, and reflective and creative writing based upon the majestic scenery?just some of the threads to be drawn upon in the five week autumn programme for the first of 44 students who arrive on Sunday.
"Day one we'll be putting packs on our backs and heading off on a two-day tramp in the park" The tramp is part of the Duke of Edinburgh award which all students will be working toward, Mr Humphrey said.
The next intake of more than 40 students will spend the second part of the term at Mangatepopo.
The programme is a natural extension of an innovative educational approach designed to nurture the development of independent and capable young men and women, said Mr Consedine.
"This makes their passage through adolescence more fulfilling."
Aramea ? "Pathway to experience."
lThe Aramea programme aims to turn students on to learning and help them discover their potential.
l "The five-week living and learning experience will promote the growth of responsible individuals who are critical and creative thinkers, cooperative team players, effective communicators and demonstrate self-directed learning. It acknowledges the practical, outdoor knowledge many students have and allows students to see the very links between classroom theory and the world around us." - Craig Consedine.
New programme for Collegiate students
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.