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John Paul College
Address
Map
Whitworth Road, P.O. Box 5040, Rotorua West, New Zealand
Coordinates38°08′36″S 176°13′44″E / 38.1432°S 176.2288°E / -38.1432; 176.2288
Information
TypeState integrated co-educational secondary school (Year 7 – 13)
Motto'Ma te Pono, Me te Aroha: Through Faith and Love'
Established1987
Ministry of Education Institution no.532
PrincipalPatrick Walsh
School roll1115[1]
Socio-economic decile7
WebsiteOfficial website
The John Paul College Administration Building.

John Paul College is a secondary school in Rotorua, New Zealand. It caters for year 7 to 13 boys and girls and offers a Catholic education to its students. It was opened in 1987 and combined two existing schools, Edmund Rice College (for boys) and MacKillop College (for girls).[2] The school was founded to serve the Catholic families of Rotorua. John Paul College was named for Pope John Paul II..

Roll

John Paul College has a diverse, multicultural roll. In 2004, its ethnic composition was: NZ European, 62%; Māori 18%; Asian 11%; Pacific Islands 5%; and Other 4%. [citation needed] The college excels in sporting and cultural activities. Academically, the school offers for senior years the National Certificate of Educational Achievement assessment system (NCEA).[3] As of 2011, it has a maximum school roll of 1,100 students, not counting international students.

Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart

In 1902, Mother Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross), the founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, went to Rotorua during the last of her four visits to New Zealand. Her doctors had suggested that she might find in the mineral waters some relief from the rheumatic condition that was progressively limiting her activities and causing her considerable distress. In the course of her treatment, on 11 May 1902, she suffered a severe stroke and she seemed near death. As soon as she was recovered sufficiently to be moved, Bishop Lenihan, the fifth Catholic Bishop of Auckland, arranged for her to be transported by rail to Auckland where she convalesced at the Remuera convent for the best part of a year.[4] "It was evidently during her stay in Rotorua that Mother Mary MacKillop saw the great need for a Catholic school there, and set the arrangements in motion."[4]

Father Kreijmborg, Mill Hill missionary priest, in 1902, built a school near the lake in St Michael's Parish and prepared a convent for the sisters who arrived the following year.[4] By 1922 the School was proving inadequate for the number of children seeking admission. The decision was made to build a new school in Ranolf Street; St Joseph's School opened in 1924.[4] The school included a secondary department. "[I]n 1954 the staffing levels at St Joseph's, Rotorua, had reached chronic levels. Class sizes were 57, 75, 78, 80 and 100. The educational impact was severe and struggling staff were advised by the Diocesan Director of Schools on how to 'ensure at least some people progress until staffing can be improved'."[5] This led to the secondary section being closed in 1957, with the only available options for Rotorua Catholic families being at that time Rotorua Boys' High School, Rotorua Girls' High School or a boarding school outside Rotorua.[6] There was a strong demand for Catholic secondary education in Rotorua in the late 1950s. Population growth had been high in the Bay of Plenty area, starting in 1950. This growth was contributed to by Forestry, farming and tourism developments. The population of Rotorua was under 10,000 in 1945 but reached 20,000 by 1963.[6]

Edmund Rice College

In 1959, the seventh Catholic Bishop of Auckland, Archbishop Liston, made a request to the Christian Brothers (already established in the diocese at St Peter's College, Auckland) to establish a secondary school for boys in Rotorua.[7] In 1962 the Christian Brothers decided to go ahead with the Rotorua foundation. The site for the college already existed. In 1946, Catholic land-owner Patrick Keaney had bequeathed 4 acres 27 perches to the Parish of St Mary. In 1958 a further 10 acres 2 roods were purchased. The building of the school commenced in 1962.[8] Edmund Rice College was officially opened in July 1963.[6] On the first day, the college had a roll of 115 boys, of whom 25% were Maori.[9]

"Edmund Rice College school bell rang for the first time in 1963 to the sounds of a construction site. Hammers punctuated English lessons and Maths was conducted as the building multiplies in size around the 115 founding students. It was a rugged start to Rotorua's first Catholic boys' college. The boys were pioneers. The facilities in the early days were very basic. The ovals were just farm fields, the buildings were not complete. Nonetheless, in its opening year the school field[s] sports teams, sent a contingent to Tauranga to meet the Queen and staged a musical. Parents took time off to develop the playing fields and roads. The opening year, 1963, was 201 years after the birth of the school's namesake and founder of the Christian Brothers, Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice. Edmund Rice College was fully staffed by Christian Brothers when it opened but gradually lay teachers were employed as fewer Brothers became available. The college was integrated in 1983, as a Form 3-7 Secondary College with an attached intermediate School."[8]

MacKillop College

MacKillop College (named after Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross)) for girls was opened by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart on 14 February 1966, on a site adjoining Edmund Rice College, with a foundation roll of 146 girls in Forms I, II and III. The day began with an assembly at which Father D McKenna, parish priest of St Mary's, Rotorua, blessed the five rooms ready for immediate use and he blessed a crucifix for each room. Work had started building the college in 1965. The buildings were finally completed in 1975.[10] MacKillop College was officially opened by Archbishop Liston on 8 May 1966.[11] Difficulties in providing a wide range of subjects at senior level resulted in sharing classes with Edmund Rice College. This was convenient also because the two colleges were situated so closely to each other. In general, the girls went to Edmund Rice College for the science subjects while the boys took languages and biology at MacKillop College.[12] "Integration brought an interesting situation. MacKillop was structured as a 'Form 1-7' school, while Edmund Rice was deemed to be a 'secondary school with an attached intermediate'. This meant teachers working [in] the Form 1 and 2 classes in each school were on different pay scales and the schools were staffed according to two different formulae. And this for schools which were about 200 metres apart!"[12]

Amalgamation

The cost of upgrading the schools when they were integrated and the need to ensure that facilities were not duplicated led Bishop Gaines, the first Catholic Bishop of Hamilton, to decide to amalgamate the schools. For example, the Education Department estimated the cost of upgrading Edmund Rice and MacKillop Colleges to meet integration requirements at $1.2 million.[13] "The decision was surprisingly controversial, and the consultation process could have been done better. There was a feeling among some that the decision to amalgamate had been taken, and that any consultation was simply 'going through the motions'."[12] "Bishop Gaines drove the change and it was his financial genius which pulled off the sale, and later the purchase back of [the] McKillop [College site], for a very healthy profit to the school. The funds from the initial sale enabled John Paul College to build and refurbish, to meet the needs of the growing numbers of students."[14] The amalgamation was completed in May 1987 and Edmund Rice College and MacKillop College closed. Edmund Rice College was in its 25th year. The Christian Brothers Community was reduced to three, was relocated in rented accommodation nearby, and the Brothers former home became the administration centre of John Paul College. At the end of 1989 the Christian Brothers Community was withdrawn from Rotorua.[12]

John Paul College

"In May, 1987, John Paul College opened its doors to 687 students. For a time the new school operated in both places, but the former Edmund Rice College was chosen for the new site because it had more potential for development."[15]

John Paul College attained its 20th anniversary in 2007. It considers itself to be a Lasallian School whose mission is to form a Community where teachers and students can live their faith and become the persons that God wants them to be. "We believe that the love of Christ binds us together as children of God, peoples of all races and conditions, rich or poor, bright or otherwise, for all are made in God's Image and are members of His family. On this faith rests the mutual love and respect that is fostered between teacher and student in our Schools. We believe as lay colleagues to the De La Salle Brothers we give testimony to the Providence and Presence of God as we educate the young in the tradition of Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, giving attention to all and especially to pupils whose development is hindered by economics, personal and other problems."[16][17]

The school is currently undergoing a multi-million dollar refurbishment and building program, with the Edmund Rice Administration Centre, Whare Tapere, 10 new classrooms and the refurbishment of the old McKillop block now completed. The school is expected to build a new auditorium, as well as an extension to the gymnasium. [citation needed]

Sister Anne Marie Power R.S.J. has said that Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross) "would have a smile of approval for this important educational venture which is doing so much for the Catholic youth of Rotorua - a place very dear to her heart for the care that was afforded her there in a time of failing health, and especially because it was she herself who initiated the founding of the first Catholic school in Rotorua."[18] The school is also a fitting legacy for Blessed Edmund Rice and the efforts of the Christian Brothers.

John Paul College Houses

The names and colours of the John Paul College Houses[19] are:

  • Kanea - yellow
  • La Salle - Purple (changed from silver in 2013)
  • MacKillop - green
  • McKenna - blue
  • Rice - red

Each House is named after its patron:

  • Kanea - Kanea was the daughter of Mita Taupopoki, the distinguished leaders of Tuhourangi. Like her father, who was an astute man, Kanea was blessed with outstanding qualities of mind. All her life she practiced the virtues of her Catholic faith. She was a role model for the young women of Te Arawa in the exemplary manner in which she lived her life. She was a descendant of Hinemoa and Tutanekai.
  • La Salle - Saint John Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719) was a prominent Catholic saint in France who made it his life's work to help improve the education of children. He founded an order known as the Brothers of the Christian Schools (now known as the De La Salle Brothers). He is the Pantron Saint of Teachers and his feast day is the 7th of April.
  • McKenna - Father Daniel McKenna was a Mill Hill Missionary born in the city of Limerick, Ireland on the 6th of December 1911. Educated in Ireland he moved to New Zealand after becoming a Priest on the 9th of July 1939. He was Parish priest of Saint Michael's from December 1951 until the creation of St Mary's Parish in 1954, when he became its first parish priest. He remained priest of this Parish for the next 30 years. He was instrumental in the creation of the Catholic primary schools and in establishing both McKillop College and Edmund Rice College. He died on the 14th of January 1983.
  • MacKillop - Mother Mary Helen MacKillop (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) also known as Saint Mary of the Cross,[20] an Australian nun, who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who founded Catholic education in Rotorua and who staffed MacKillop College.
  • Rice - Edmund Ignatius Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers.

Motto

JPC's current motto is Ma te Pono, Me te Aroha - Through Faith and love,[21]

Principals

John Paul College

  • Mr Jack Griffith 1986 - 1988 (Foundation Principal)[22]
  • Mr Steve Robb 1989 - 1995[22]
  • Mr Bede Roughton 1996 - 2002[22]
  • Mr Patrick Walsh 2003 - (Current Principal)[22]

MacKillop College

  • Sr Angela Gould 1966 - 1967 (Foundation Principal)[23]
  • Sr Alphonsus Hogan 1969 - 1971[23]
  • Sr Gertude McGowan 1972 - 1983[23]
  • Mr Jack Griffith 1983 - 1987 (Final Principal)[23]

Edmund Rice College

Head Prefects

Year Head Boy Head Girl
2014 Fintan Walsh Ana Smith
2013 Sam Kelly Molly Florence
2012 Viliami Taliauli Rebecca McMenamin
2011 Liam Walsh Rebecca Roling
2010 Michael Lovegrove Elizabeth Bickerton
2009 Christian Thurston Anna Colby
2008 Kieran McHugh N/A
2007 Nicholas O'Sullivan Emma Jane Reichardt
2006 Daniel McLeod Julia Harvey
2005 Sam Escott Melissa Lowe

Edmund Rice College

Main article: Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand

The following is a list of Christian Brothers known to have been associated with Edmund Rice College. Template:Multicol

  • Br Paul Alonzo Boyd
  • Br Ian Robert Carroll
  • Br Richard Ignatius Carroll
  • Br Raymond Bonaventure Connolly
  • Br Simon Germaine Coughlan
  • Br John Stanislaus De Courcy
  • Br Brian De Porres Fitzgerald
  • Br Brian (Peter) Eulogius Fitzgerald
  • Br Michael Paul Follas
  • Br William Peter Galland
  • Br Garvey

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  • Br Norman Campion Gillies
  • Br Richard Steven Glen
  • Br Michael Patrick Guthrie
  • Br Terry Felix Hunter
  • Br Noel Thaddeus Jeffery
  • Br Anthony Dominic Johnston
  • Br Austin A Loftus
  • Br Gerard Vincent Lovell
  • Br Christopher Claver Marlow
  • Br John Paul McKean
  • Br Michael Joseph McMenamin

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  • Br John Nicholas Melia
  • Br James Alexis Morris
  • Br Peter Gregory Mullane
  • Br Patrick Vincent Mullin
  • Br David Michael O'Dea
  • Br David Garnier O'Donoghue
  • Br Desmond David O'Hehir
  • Br Arthur Edwin O'Kane
  • Br John Didicus O'Neill
  • Br Francis William Perkins
  • Br John Paschal Prendergast

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  • Br John Virgil Riley
  • Br Ignacy John Rubisz
  • Br Michael Alwin Sheahan
  • Br John Henry Shepherd
  • Br Rex Anthony Sisson
  • Br Anthony Leo Smith
  • Br Ray Clement Stedman
  • Br Victor Antonine Sullivan
  • Br Neville Anthony Symons
  • Br Edward John Thorpe
  • Br Gary Joseph Wellsmore

Template:Multicol-end

Notable alumni

Main category: People educated at John Paul College, Rotorua

Business

Church

Sport

  • Dame Susan Elizabeth Anne Devoy, DNZM (1998, for services to sport and the community) - World Champion Squash Player 1985, 1987, 1990 and 1992 (runner-up in 1989) (old girl of MacKillop College).[29]

Entertainment

  • Cliff Curtis - international television and film star; has won three New Zealand Film and TV awards for the films: Desperate Remedies, Best Performance in a Supporting Role: Male (1993); Jubilee, Best Actor (2000); and Whale Rider, Best Supporting Actor (2002); also acted in The Piano, Once Were Warriors and River Queen (Edmund Rice College Old Boy)[30]
  • Clinton Roberts - New Zealand radio personality, currently airing on The Edge FM[31] and also appears on popular New Zealand music channel prime time daily show, Vodafone Select Live. (John Paul College Old Boy; 2005)

Notes

  1. ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. ^ Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001.
  3. ^ "Curriculum". John Paul College website. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  4. ^ a b c d Sister Anne Marie Power R.S.J., Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart: New Zealand Story 1883-1997, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, revised edition, Auckland 1997, pp 141-45.]
  5. ^ Dominic O'Sullivan and Cynthia Piper (eds), Turanga nagatahi: Standing Together: The Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, 1840-2005, Dunmore Press for the Catholic Diocese of Wellington, 2005, p. 96
  6. ^ a b c d e Donaldson, p. 15.
  7. ^ (The diocese of Hamilton, in which Rotorua is located, was not established until 1981.)
  8. ^ a b Bridget (Anderson) Harrod (ed.), 100 Years Catholic Education in Rotorua 1903-2003, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Rotorua, 2004, p. 39.
  9. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Harrod, p. 40.
  10. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 46.
  11. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 49.
  12. ^ a b c d Donaldson, p. 16
  13. ^ Dominic O'Sullivan and Cynthia Piper. (eds), pp. 105-06.
  14. ^ "A Note From Steve Robb – Principal of John Paul College from 1989 to 1995". John Paul College website. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  15. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 57
  16. ^ "The Mission Of Lasallian Schools". John Paul College website. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  17. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 60 (sourced from; "2002, History of the College"): "John Baptist De La Salle (1651-1719): In 1998, at the invitation of the Bishop, the association of the College with the De La Salle Brothers began with the establishment of a Brother's community. This association was formalised in 1999 with a request from the Board of trustees that John Paul College become a Lasallian Associated School. This association in no way lessens the contribution of the Christian Brothers or the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, but strengthens and consolidates the spirits given to the College by these two Congregations for all to come to know the mind and heart of Jesus".
  18. ^ Sister Anne Marie Power R.S.J., Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart: New Zealand Story 1883-1997, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, revised edition, Auckland 1997, p. 148.
  19. ^ John Paul College houses
  20. ^ "Sainthood changes church to St Mary's". Otago Daily Times. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  21. ^ "Mission". John Paul College - Rotorua. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  22. ^ a b c d Bridget (Anderson) Harrod, p. 61.
  23. ^ a b c d Bridget (Anderson) Harrod (ed.), 100 Years Catholic Education in Rotorua 1903-2003, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Rotorua, 2004, p. 56.
  24. ^ a b c d Bridget (Anderson) Harrod, p. 45.
  25. ^ Forty Years Teaching in New Zealand, St Peter's College Magazine 1988, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1988, p. 5; Paul Malcolm Robertson, Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces, an unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1996, p. 279
  26. ^ Robertson, p. 280
  27. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 45: Quoting Br. Scott, Father Trevor Murray, 1983 Edmund Rice College magazine:" on a beautiful day in December 1982, Trevor Murray was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Edward Gaines. More than 2000 relatives and friends gathered at the Rotowhio Marae, Whakarewarewa, to celebrate this very important day for the new Diocese of Hamilton [created in 1981] and for Edmund Rice College. Father Trevor is the first Maori to be ordained in Rotorua, the first priest to be ordained from the Hamilton Diocese, and the first Old Boy of Edmund Rice College to become a priest. On the following day, December 5th, Father Trevor celebrated his first mass on the same Marae. We congratulate Father Trevor on his ordination to the priesthood and wish him every blessing for the future."
  28. ^ Bridget (Anderson) Hodder, p. 45
  29. ^ "The Queen's Birthday Honours 1998". DPMC. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
  30. ^ IMDB profile: Cliff Curtis.
  31. ^ "Clint". The Edge FM. Retrieved 2008-12-25.

References

  • St Peter's College Magazine 1961, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1961
  • St Peter's College Magazine 1961 and 1964, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1964.
  • St Peter's College Magazine 1988, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1988
  • Paul Malcolm Robertson, Nga Parata Karaitiana The Christian Brothers, A Public Culture in Transition, A Comparative Study of the Indian and New Zealand Provinces, an unpublished thesis for MA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1996.
  • Sister Anne Marie Power R.S.J., Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart: New Zealand Story 1883-1997, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, revised edition, Auckland, 1997.
  • Liston College 25th Jubilee 1975-2000, Liston College, Waitakere City, 2000.
  • Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876-2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001.
  • Education Review Office, Education Review Reports: John Paul College
  • Bridget (Anderson) Harrod (ed.), 100 Years Catholic Education in Rotorua 1903-2003, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Rotorua, 2004.
  • Dominic O'Sullivan and Cynthia Piper (eds), Turanga nagatahi: Standing Together: The Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, 1840-2005, Dunmore Press for the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, 2005.
  • Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.
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