iCraighead Podcast

The Craighead Diploma is a new initiative for the South Canterbury region, coinciding with a change to the NCEA Level 1 Standards that Craighead (and most other schools) has assessed against for the last 21 years. The Diploma recognises not only a student's Academic achievement, but also other aspects of learning and service that take place in other contexts outside of the classroom. From 2024, Year 11 students will work towards their Craighead Diploma which will be embossed in Bronze, Gold or Platinum - based on the student's level of achievement.

We talk with Deputy Principal, Lara Hearn, about the development of and the reasoning for the new direction for our Year 11 students.

The Year 10 students from 2022 have created a series of radio dramas as part of their Drama class. We talk with Miss Haley Vuleta who describes the process and introduces us to the four productions.

A traditional event in our calendar is the Rent A Year 13 event which provides money to a chosen charity. This year, the charity is very local.

On the day before lockdown, the choir rehearsed for the Big Sing Cadenza concert in the Sacred Heart Basilica. Today, we return and record our tracks for the judging of the online competition.

Three Craighead students have created the The Purple Hand Movement as part of their Business Enterprise Scheme and won a local competition for doing so.

In Whanau time today, I discovered that my two Year 7 students are both Boarders and that, in fact they are two of only seven Year 7 Boarders this year. A lot of discussion ensued about life as a Boarder and I realised how much important information was been presented. So we agreed to get the Year 7 Boarders together and have a chat.

May 17 marks the beginning of Languages Week, where we at Craighead celebrate, not just the vast number of languages about, but the cultures too, with clothing, food, puzzles and games.

Pieta was allowed to write a speech about anything for the Rotary Speech Competition. However, the speech needed to meet the four international "Guiding Principles" of the Rotary:

Is it the TRUTH?;

Is it FAIR to all concerned?;

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?;

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Pieta subjected the test to the test.

In 2010, the Year 8 students put together a Podcast to celebrate their completion of the "Number" topic. Here are their voices from the past...

Ten years ago we recorded an episode titled "The First Day of School - 2011". Today we do the same, in a new decade.