Pursuant to section 158B of the Education Act 1989, I hereby give the following notice.
1. I hereby approve Villa Education Trust to be a sponsor of a partnership school kura hourua.
2. The name of the sponsor's school is South Auckland Middle School.
3. The sponsor's school will be located in South Auckland.
4. The South Auckland Middle School will be a
co-educational composite school.
5. Education at the South Auckland Middle School may be given for Years 7-10.
6. For the 2014 year, the South Auckland Middle School will enrol students in Years 7-10. None of the class levels at the school will be single sex.
7. South Auckland Middle School will operate with the following aims, purposes and/or objectives:
- To provide a learning environment that is thorough, innovative and able to be applied for each learner, through his or her individualised education.
- A strong emphasis on thinking skills and on
learners understanding how they think and learn (meta-cognition).
- Building of personal character through applied Christian values.
8. This notice shall come into force the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
Dated at Wellington this 16th day of September 2013.
HON HEKIA PARATA, Minister of Education.