Kristin School
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| Motto | Progress with vision, integrity and love |
| Type | Independent international Co-educational (Kindergarten to year 13) Non-residential |
| Year established | 1973 |
| Address | 360 Albany Highway, Albany |
| Principal | Peter Clague, Executive principal |
| School roll | 1670 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is high) | 10 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 29 |
| Website | http://www.kristin.school.nz |
Kristin School in New Zealand is an independent(i.e. private), international, non-residential school. It is co-educational and an IB school of about 1670 students.
Years K-13 (Kindergarten to Year 13), on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Located on a 20-hectare site within the growing northern fringe of Auckland, the school is set in park-like grounds.
Established in 1973 by a small group of parents, the school is owned by the Kristin School Charitable Trust (non-profit making - fees are used for expenses and facilities) and is governed by trustees and governors appointed from both the school and the wider community.
Set up with a Kindergarten and three separate schools - Junior (years 0-6), Middle (years 7-10), and Senior (years 11-13). Reflecting contemporary managerialism, each school has its own principal and an executive principal has overall responsibility to the Board of Governors.
In the terms of its management and governors, the school formally emphasises an holistic education, of building greatness not only through world class academic excellence but also instilling values-based self-confidence, a strong community service ethic, and a vision for students as citizens of the world.
Reflecting its locational setting, the school is overwhelmingly ethnically Pakeha, with East Asians making up most of the remainder of the school community. Maori and Pacifika students while not absent, as social groups are notably underrepresented. Although, the higher level of fees charged (appoximately $NZ10,000/year/pupil) do mean that the school is predominantly populated by richer familes, Auckland's establised elite generally prefer to send their children to established private schools elsewhere in the city - Kings, Diocessen, St. Cuthberts, and St. Kentigans. This gives Kristin a more nouveau-riche orientation, in line perhaps with Senior College.
[edit] Curriculum
- International Baccalaureate:
- Primary Years Programme
- Middle Years Programme (with laptop programme)
- Diploma programme.
- New Zealand NCEA
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
[edit] History
At the end of 1972, St Anne's, a private school in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore, was forced to close. Concerned parents held meetings and decided to start a new school, which opened in February 1973, using the leased Methodist Health Camp at Campbells Bay. The initial roll was 42 children with a staff of five. Fees were $100 per term. Immediately a search was carried out to find a permanent home for the future. The School grew rapidly, and soon a suitable site was found at Albany, where Kristin opened in 1978 with a roll of 235. The roll in 2007 had grown to a total of approximately 1670 with students from at least 42 cultures.
[edit] Kristin Fashion Show
Originally named "Canteen Fashion Show", the event was started by Claire Ashenden and Tom McRae in 1998 after a close friend and classmate passed away as a result of cancer. The students though that a positive way to help other teens in this situation would be to raise money by hosting a fashion show, passing all proceeds onto CanTeen.
Eight Years on the show has developed to be bigger and better than ever before and the name has been changed to "Kristin Fashion Show" (as proceeds are now divided between The Child Cancer Foundation and CanTeen).
The Kristin Fashion Show features some of New Zealand's top clothing labels, which are all modelled by Kristin students, who range in age from 5 to 18. Raffles and auctions are held during the show, again with all proceeds going to CanTeen and the Child Cancer Foundation.
Every year the fashion show committee strives to find way to increase audience enjoyment, and the amount raised for these charities, the goal for the 2007 show is to raise $30,000 NZD (up on $26,000 NZD from the 2006 show), over the 2 nights of the show (the first night available only to sponsors) around 3000 people will attend. The show is produced with no automatic funding and relies entirely on sponsorship from the community.
