Pursuant to section 158B of the Education Act 1989, I hereby give the following notice:

1. I hereby approve Vanguard Military School Christchurch Limited to be a sponsor of a Partnership School Kura Hourua.
2. The name of the sponsor’s school is Vanguard Military School Christchurch.
3. The sponsor’s school will be located in the Christchurch area.
4. Vanguard Military School Christchurch will be a co-educational senior secondary school.
5. Education at Vanguard Military School Christchurch will be given for class levels 11 to 13.
6. Vanguard Military School Christchurch is permitted to provide religious instruction to students.
7. Vanguard Military School Christchurch will operate with the following aims, purposes and objectives:
   1. The school utilises the ethos and training methodology of the military in order to achieve, especially for students/recruits from disadvantaged backgrounds, attitudinal and academic excellence that facilitates multiple exit points into a broad range of further training or employment options.
8. This notice shall come into force the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Auckland this 6th day of September 2017.

Hon NIKKI KAYE, Minister of Education.