New Zealands

Education System

Early Childhood
Kindergartens Education and Care Centres Playcentres Home-based Care Correspondence School Special Needs Children

Kindergartens
Children age 2 years old to 5 years old Children can be placed on the waiting list from an early age Morning or afternoon sessions Morning sessions- 5 times a week Afternoon sessions 3 times a week Informal

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.

Education and Care Centres

Offer full day or sessional care (up to 4 hours a day) and are open 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

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 a
playcentre.

Individual play centres arrange their own session times with 1 to 10 sessions per week. Children can attend up to 5 sessions per week.

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.

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.

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.

Primary & Secondary

Compulsory for all children from their sixth until sixteenth birthday 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

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

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 of Education 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 their secondary education and leave in Year 11 or 12.

Primary School
Enrolled by their sixth birthday most attend from age 5 to the end of their sixth year of schooling 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.

New Zealand Curriculum

built r und t e cquisiti n f essenti l c de ic nd r ctic l skills identifies c de ic r essenti l le rning re s: L nguage and languages at e atics cience Tec nology
ocial sciences

T e arts ealt & ysical ell-being

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.

Subjects Taught

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 between them 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 - Mid October to mid December (or early December for secondary schools)

National Certificate of Educational 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.

All ualifications currently on the Framework are made up of national standards. A standard describes what a learner should aim to achieve in a skill or knowledge area. Standards are set by written criteria along with a national moderation system. earners who meet all re uirements get credit for that standard; those who don't may be reassessed when they are ready.

Each standard is at a level from 1 to 8 evel 1 is similar to School Certificate level level 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 National Certificates and National Diplomas.

NCEA provides the pathway to tertiary education and workplace 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 achievement Is 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 and industry ualifications

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.

Uniforms Disipline

School transport

Same as malaysia

Reference

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