Comprehensive analysis of senior high school education in New Zealand

Before going abroad, many friends asked me why I chose New Zealand. But the life experience accumulated in recent years tells me that New Zealand is a good place to study. Because of the special age of high school, most students come out to study at the age of 15- 18. People of this age will have great changes in their outlook on life and values, both psychologically and physically. Strong ability to accept new things, strong adaptability and relatively fast learning speed are the characteristics of this age group. But it is also particularly vulnerable to negative effects, which is also its weakness.

It is parents' dream to send their children abroad at an appropriate age and receive higher education abroad. In my experience, children can be sent out after finishing junior high school in China. The reasons are as follows: the foundation of basic education and junior high school education in China is the basis of continuing to study abroad, which will reduce part of the academic burden and make students pay more attention to English learning in their future studies. Parents will feel more at ease when students are of the right age and have certain independent ability. As mentioned above, students at this stage have strong adaptability, and their ability to accept languages is relatively faster than that of adults. The knowledge of English and subjects learned in New Zealand senior high schools will lay a solid foundation for further study in New Zealand or other countries where English is the first language. This kind of study abroad experience and things learned in daily life can benefit students for life. But also a very valuable life experience in life.

As a country completely open to international students, New Zealand has the following advantages:

1. New Zealanders are friendly, enthusiastic, love to travel and learn about other cultures. New Zealanders are also famous for their enthusiasm for foreign friends.

2. International students will receive high-quality education and living environment in New Zealand.

New Zealand is an English-speaking country, and foreign students will have a good language environment to learn English in New Zealand.

High school and university education in New Zealand provide an excellent academic environment. Various universities also offer a wide range of academic fields for you to study.

New Zealand is a long-term democratic country, which provides a safe and stable social environment for everyone.

6. Various entertainment and cultural experiences are the reasons why New Zealand is famous for its beautiful natural scenery.

7. The cost of living and studying in other countries is relatively low.

8. There are direct flights and buses between major cities. The traffic between cities is very convenient.

9. New Zealand has a pleasant climate, which is very conducive to study, travel and life.

10. New Zealand is a country with many immigrants, and races from all over the world share a friendly life.

In New Zealand, students generally enter middle school from the age of 13. Middle school is responsible for education from grade three to grade seven. Form is the classification method of the old education system. Now it's changed to Year 9- Year 13, but in most cases, Form is still used more. Let's compare the secondary education systems in New Zealand and China:

China junior high school grade two = New Zealand middle school (grade nine) Form 3 students are about 13 years old.

China junior high school grade three = New Zealand middle school (10 year) Form 4 students are about 14 years old.

China senior high school 1 grade = New Zealand secondary school (year 1 1), the fifth graders are about 15 years old.

China Senior High School Grade 2 = New Zealand Middle School (12 years) Form 6 students are about 16 years old.

China University 1 grade = New Zealand secondary school (13 years). The age of the students in Form 7 or Preparatory School is around 17- 18.

In New Zealand secondary schools, from the age of 5, students have to take the school certificate, that is, the secondary school diploma exam. This exam will be replaced by NECA (National Certificate of Education) in 2002. At 6 o'clock, students must also take the 6 o'clock certificate exam. If you want to continue studying in the university, you must pass the college entrance examination for university grants or scholarships from the age of 7. (Note: If students get excellent grades, they can be recommended by the school to enter the university directly from the age of 6). Details about the exam will be introduced in detail in later chapters.

There are about 440 middle schools in New Zealand, which are generally called high schools, grammar schools and universities.

The nature of the school has the following three types:

1. state-these schools are public schools, owned and funded by the New Zealand government or the public. It is managed by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Most schools in New Zealand are public.

2. Comprehensive-These schools used to be private schools, but later they were merged by public schools, but at the same time they kept some religious traditions of their own. Strictly speaking, the merged school is also equivalent to a public school.

3. Private? Private schools are independent of other schools. Most of these schools have excellent teaching quality and facilities and strict management. But you also need to pay a high tuition fee for it.

According to the student structure, schools can be divided into boys' schools, girls' schools and mixed schools. Single-sex schools are one of the school traditions in Commonwealth countries, and such schools usually have better academic performance. However, some single-sex schools also enroll a small number of students of other sexes in the senior grades. In the composition of teachers, male schools emphasize the use of male teachers, while female schools emphasize the use of female teachers, but they also maintain a certain number of teachers of the opposite sex. There are no restrictions on coeducation. About 25% students in New Zealand choose to study in single-sex schools. The average school has about 500- 1000 students, and 1000 is a relatively large school.

Some schools have religious beliefs. While teaching, they also pay attention to cultivating students' religious beliefs. For example, Catholic schools will require reading the Bible and reciting poems during lunch breaks.

Some schools provide students with dormitories to facilitate students in remote areas to study. Most single-sex schools will provide dormitories. International students can also apply for living in dormitories, but the fees are not included in the tuition fees and need to be paid separately.

school uniform

Most students are required to wear school uniforms when studying in middle schools, but students in grade 6 or 7 are sometimes allowed to wear casual clothes. Some schools don't have uniforms, but students must wear acceptable clothes. The price of school uniforms in public schools is about NZ $400, and that in private schools is about NZ $65,438+0,000.

Generally speaking, single-sex schools and private schools have strict requirements for school uniforms. Some schools even require Form 7 students to wear school uniforms.

School choice

Choosing a school is a difficult problem to decide. Because many friends in China don't understand the local situation in New Zealand at all, choosing a school that is responsible for themselves may be a key issue. Here, I just want to give you a guide, because the New Zealand government does not allow high schools to rank deliberately, and whether a school is good or not depends on many factors. A few suggestions, schools generally located in big cities may have better facilities and be more convenient. The comprehensive conditions of private schools should be good, but the tuition is expensive.

Scholarship means that the score is in the top three percent of the country. One-time award of 500NZD for each subject. Only candidates who choose more than 5 subjects are eligible to receive it.

School system:

The success of the school lies in management. The student management system in New Zealand is very different from that in China. First of all, let's look at the school's semester system. Middle schools in New Zealand are divided into four semesters a year.

There is a two-week holiday between each semester and a summer vacation between the fourth semester and the first semester. I have a holiday of nearly two months. The dates of private schools may be different, but they are roughly similar.

Work and rest system:

The school requires students to report to the school at 8: 40 every morning, and classes begin at 9: 00 after the teacher calls the roll. Students will be assigned to designated classrooms after entering the school. This is the roll call classroom that you go to every morning. There are many names in this roll call place. We call it the mentor group. In the roll-call classroom, the teacher will record the lateness and absence, and check those who were absent before. In general, you will stay in the same roll call classroom until you leave middle school. So call the teacher your daily life teacher, or according to the domestic saying, you can also call him that? Class teacher? . The only difference is that the teachers here will never make irresponsible remarks about your grades. In the roll call classroom, the teacher will read the notice of the school schedule every day. The activities to be held by the school, the meeting or training time of various societies and sports teams are all stated in the daily notice.

The school will hold a meeting every once in a while, requiring all or all students to attend. Generally speaking, parties are mostly lectures by school leaders, announcements of awards and various activities.

The average school has six classes a day, each with 45 minutes. Four o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon. There is a 30-minute break after the first and second classes. There will be about half an hour for lunch after three or four quarters. There was no rest in the afternoon, and school was over after class. School usually ends at 3: 0015-3: 30 pm. Some schools have five classes a day, three in the morning and two in the afternoon, and each class lasts for one hour. The timetable is the same.

Every class, the teacher will call the roll again. Because students' schedules are determined according to the courses they choose, and the classrooms of each subject are different, there is no such fixed classroom in China. In this way, your behavior is completely free, even if you play truant, the teacher will not notice. In order to prevent this from happening, teachers in all subjects will call the roll once to check whether you are at school all day. Otherwise, it shall be treated as absenteeism record.

If you are late and miss the morning roll call classroom, you must go to the management office to sign in. Otherwise, your roll call teacher will record you as absent and send it to the teachers in each class. If the class teacher sees you, he will mark you as here, otherwise he will always record your absence. If you are late, the teacher will help you remember the L symbol. If you are too late, you will be warned. If it is serious, you will stay after school to clean up. If you can't go to school due to illness or other reasonable reasons, parents should call the school for leave. And write a leave note and bring it to the roll call teacher when the students go to school. If you are absent too much and can't give a reasonable explanation, you will be in danger of being fired.

Management:

The administration of the school is also very effective, and almost everything is managed by special personnel. From recording lateness and truancy to the huge area management of cleaning responsibility, the division of labor in all aspects of the school is very detailed.

There are many teachers in the school you can ask for guidance and help.

1. Roll call teacher: They are your life teachers. If you have any questions, ask them.

2. Subject teachers: They will answer your study questions.

3. Grade director: responsible for your annual study review and personal style.

4. Career guidance director: responsible for transferring schools, exchanging students and providing information about the next educational institution.

5. Student transfer teacher: give guidance and suggestions to your study and life. Any trouble, they are the people you should look for!

Generally speaking, the most contact may be your roll call teacher and grade director. If you need to change shifts, drop out of school, etc. You need their consent. They also try to check and correct late absenteeism. If your grades are really poor, or if you have any trouble at school, you must go to the director's office last year. But they are also happy to help you.

International students are a special group, so usually the school will have a special person to manage international students. They are called the deans of INTERNATIONAL STUDNENTS, and they will manage almost all your problems, such as finding a host family, paying tuition fees, and arranging course changes. And any problems and troubles you have in school and life are also under their management.

Students need to abide by certain rules and regulations at school.

The school absolutely forbids the following behaviors: stealing, playing truant, violent fighting, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, destroying public property, and disobeying the correct orders of teachers.

Take care of your belongings and lock your bike in the study. The school has a special bicycle parking garage, and all school hours are locked. Ask the phone to turn off or mute. Please take important things with you. I lose things at school from time to time.

There are several ways to punish students who violate the regulations. The lightest is detention, that is, staying after school or during lunch to clean for a certain period of time. The second is to be sent to the grade director to be lectured and warned. Depending on the seriousness of the case, the grade director may send you home directly or invite your parents to school. More serious is the daily newspaper. If students skip classes too much, or are too naughty in class, the school will give them a warning at school, and then ask them to bring a daily report to the teachers in each class every day to sign and write down comments on their classroom performance. If they don't behave well between daily reports, they may be fired. The most serious thing is a serious warning and dismissal. Every school will have a boarder committee (school board) composed of school teachers, senior leaders, community representatives and police. The headmaster is not the only one who has the final say in expelling students. He can only expel a student after the discussion and approval of the boarder trust meeting. It should also be mentioned that traditional English schools have the position of head teacher, who is a student representative elected by students and teachers among seventh-grade students. They are responsible for managing some students' problems, discussing various suggestions and organizing various large-scale school activities. In addition to teachers, they also have the right to give it to any student who violates the rules.

Examination setup

Students usually have unit quizzes, and teachers will personally supervise them in class. If there are multiple courses in a subject, teachers will take quizzes on the same day to avoid missing questions. In the middle of the second semester, students are required to take the mid-term exam. The exams are distributed for a week, twice a day, and each exam lasts for 2 hours. 9: 00 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3: 00 p.m. to1p.m. If you don't have an exam on a certain day, you don't have to go to school. At the end of the fourth semester, there will be an annual final exam, which covers the whole year's study content. The schedule is roughly the same as the mid-term exam, except that the exam time is increased to 3 hours. The national unified examinations such as grants are conducted in the examination rooms of designated schools. The above final exam is not a grant exam. The grant will be added to the exam, and the time schedule is the same as the final exam. The examination time is about 65438+early February, and the time is uniformly stipulated by the state.

school life

High school life in New Zealand is not as boring and meaningless as studying at home all day. Besides studying, high schools here attach great importance to sports activities and the cultivation of students' interests. You can join various sports teams at school. Take Hamilton Boys' High School as an example. The school sports teams are: football, basketball, rugby, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, cricket, hockey, golf, rowing, track and field, long-distance running, skiing and so on. After the first semester begins, each sports team will recruit new people to join. Some traditional main teams, such as football team and cricket team, are divided into first team, second team or teams below 16 19 according to their age. You need to pass a rigorous selection exam to get into the main team. If you just want to have fun, each team will have a social team to organize friendly matches, and anyone can participate. After joining a sports team, you need to participate in the prescribed training. The training time will be notified on the bulletin board, sometimes before class in the morning. Usually arranged after school. Repeated absence from training without reason will lead to expulsion from the team and disqualification. Each sports team is guided by a teacher and coach. Don't underestimate the school sports team. Almost all teams have their own official competitions. You can feel it from the venue, equipment and students' attitude. Professional sportsmanship? The existence of. There are leagues between schools, national championships and even overseas exchange competitions. It is a great honor to get a good ranking in major competitions. The more awards you get, the more famous the school will be. Therefore, no matter students, athletes or schools, they put a lot of energy into all competitions. The school will hold water sports meeting and field sports meeting in the first two semesters every year. Sports meetings are mostly held in gymnasiums and other places, and competitions will be held in groups in schools. Hamilton Boys' High School is a very traditional English school. How many houses are there in the school? University? . Each college has its own special symbol, which consists of many roll-call classrooms. Universities compete with each other in sports competitions for the annual university championship. This academic competition is fully explained in the movie Harry Potter. In a word, the competition between colleges has brought more fun to the sports meeting.

If you are not interested in sports activities, you can join other cultural activity groups in the school. For example, you can join the debate team, school band and so on. Famous school bands also have the opportunity to be invited to perform overseas. Even if you study general subjects, each subject has its own field trip day/itinerary. One day in the school year is your sports day. You will be taken to a place related to your study for actual investigation. For example, Economic Field Day will take you to visit the largest agricultural trade fair in New Zealand, and Biological Field Day will take you to visit a creature from a forest or lake. If students learn foreign languages (German, French, Japanese and Latin), they will have a better chance to be organized to study in countries where their mother tongue is the first language. Students need to write a field report and hand it in as an evaluation.

The school holds many tourism activities from time to time. School group tours are relatively cheap, and it is more fun to play with classmates. Travel overseas and visit domestic cities. The charges vary.

You are allowed to wear plain clothes for a few days each semester, but there is a charge for it to raise money for activities such as school clubs. Plain clothes cost one yuan to two yuan a day. Of course, you can also wear school uniforms without paying.

In single-sex schools, every semester the school will also jointly hold benefit dances with other single-sex schools. For example, boys' schools will unite with other girls' schools. The purpose of the fellowship dance is to raise funds for the school community, and at the same time, it also gives students in single-sex schools the opportunity to meet more friends of the opposite sex. Friendship dances are usually held in the school auditorium and supervised by teachers. The music is mostly intense electronic synthesis dance music, and the clothes are very casual. The dance starts at 7 pm and ends at 10. Tickets are only sold to students participating in the school, and the fare is1NZD 5 yuan.

The annual senior prom is the most popular among students. This kind of dance is different from ordinary social dance. The prom can only be attended by the seventh grade or some schools, and the sixth grade can also participate. You need to invite a partner to the dance. Of course, you can go alone, but the fare is different. This kind of dance is large in scale, so the dress is more formal. Boys need to wear suits and girls wear evening dresses. Because dresses are expensive, clothes are mostly rented, and the cost is between 60- 100ZND. Senior high school prom is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so everyone is more active, and it naturally takes time to dress up. Dances are usually held in the social room of the hotel, and each dance has its own unique theme. So the scenes and other arrangements will be decorated according to the theme of the dance. Your dress should also match the theme as much as possible. The music of the dance is mainly electronic composition, but there will be band performances and some slow-paced social dances. The fare for two people is about 60NZD, and the fare for a single person is about 40ZND.

Because the seventh grade is graduation grade, the school's graduation dance is mostly held at the end of the third semester, so as not to delay the review of the fourth semester and the sprint time before the exam. In fact, the ball also has its special significance in New Zealand. Most students in Grade 7 are between 17 and 18. Graduation from high school also means the end of an important learning stage in life, and it also means that students bid farewell to adolescence and enter adulthood. This is a bar mitzvah in New Zealand.

All student activities are organized by students themselves. The seniors in grade seven of the school have student unions, and any suggestions that students have can be implemented after they discuss and pass. They are all responsible for the organization of various activities, such as the management of gatherings, ballroom dancing and the arrangement of graduation dances. From the arrangement and decoration of the dance to the printing and publicity of tickets, all the students worked together. Teachers never interfere, but only give financial guidance. The cultivation of students' independent leadership ability can be seen from this.

Even in class, the teacher is very casual. Most teachers let students sit wherever they like. If you feel comfortable, you can lie on the ground as long as it doesn't affect the class. In class, the teacher just gives lectures. As long as you don't interfere with him, what you do has nothing to do with him. The speeches and discussions in class are also very casual. Some teachers even mingle with students in class, discuss the plot of yesterday's football match and TV play, and tell a joke or story. Everything feels relaxed, and there is no feeling of depression. Teachers may exist in the form of friends. There are also many competitions at home and abroad, such as the famous Australian Mathematics Competition in New Zealand.

The teaching facilities and means of a school may vary from school to school. However, various equipment and means will be used in the teaching, so that students can have a deeper understanding. Projectors, slide projectors, TV documentaries, computers and other tools have been widely used in teaching. Some students even wrote the economic report in the form of POWERPOINT and FLASH animation, and the teacher gave high marks as a result. Comments: Well done. The school has complete infrastructure. General schools have libraries, auditoriums, indoor basketball halls and large outdoor sports fields. Conditional schools include swimming pools, tennis courts and gymnasiums. All kinds of facilities are open to students free of charge within the specified time.

Senior high school education in New Zealand focuses on cultivating students' abilities in all aspects and encouraging them to develop their own specialties. The school also pays special attention to the cultivation of students' self-help ability and leadership ability. China students' hands-on ability is not strong, but in New Zealand, teachers will specially require students to have certain hands-on experimental investigation ability. For example, physics experiments. After the teacher explains the purpose of the experiment, all the equipment needs to be built by itself, recording data, drawing pictures and completing a complete experimental report is its requirement. It won't give students an almost finished experimental report to record the data like China did. The assessment of each subject requires students to investigate independently and then write a report. This requires some investigation skills, such as using the library, talking with relevant people, searching for relevant information on the Internet, etc. The ability of independent investigation is cultivated at an early stage. Students with excellent academic performance are rewarded by the school, making them feel that their achievements have been recognized. Teachers will give encouragement to students who are not interested in learning. Without coercion and abuse, students get respect at school and their specialties can be brought into play. Teachers always instill learning into students as their own ideas. It is your own business if you don't study hard. The teacher left after class, and no one will ask you about your homework and grades again. It doesn't matter if you don't hand in your homework, and it doesn't matter if you don't hand it in on time. Everything is done according to the regulations. Deduction points should be a zero-point teacher. They won't talk to you all day and ask you for it. It seems feasible to deduct points if you don't pay. ? Anyway, I'm not the last person to take the college entrance examination. ? A teacher said to his classmates.