Huge NCEA Success At Vanguard

Huge NCEA Success At Vanguard

Vanguard Military School is pleased to be able to release its official NCEA results for 2014. The school achieved a 96.2% pass rate at NCEA Level 1 and 100% pass rate at NCEA Level 2. Both of these results are well above the average for secondary schools across the country.

CEO Nick Hyde said “It is very pleasing to see all the hard work done by the staff and the students be rewarded with such positive results. This school is really making a difference to the students lives and there are a lot of happy parents and students who have benefitted from having a choice to attend Vanguard.”

One such happy parent is Trudi Nelson who said, “At his graduation I had tears rolling down my cheeks. It was less than a year before that my head was in my hands after he failed 58 NCEA credits. After just one year at Vanguard he had

failed none. He has been taught discipline, motivation, self-worth and respect. It has completely turned my son around. He actually wants to go to school. I

believe Vanguard is turning around kids who slip through the cracks.”

Vanguard uses a military ethos to educate its students and is a throwback to an older more traditional style of teaching. It is compulsory for all students to take Maths, English and Physical Education as subjects and there are no portable devices used by students in their learning.

Principal Rockley Montgomery was full of praise for those involved with the school. He said “We have used a unique educational model, had great student buy in to our motto of always doing your best and never giving up, had motivated staff and the support we receive from our parents and caregivers have all played a big part in these achievement results.”

One of those achieving is Emi Ngaeruaiti who travels from Flat Bush every day to attend Vanguard. “I achieved my NCEA Level 1 after failing it at my old school.

Vanguard has opened up a lot of doors for me because I have learned the value of teamwork, honesty and discipline. I have gone from careless teenager to an educated young leader with respect for myself, others and my school.”

Vanguard has also released the following information about its 2014 year.

1 – 31 students had previously failed NCEA before attending Vanguard and have now passed.

2 – All students at Vanguard get enrolled to sit NCEA regardless of baseline testing data. An example of this is students who still don’t know their full times tables being enrolled in NCEA Level 1 Maths.

3 – Vanguard teach the NZ Curriculum.

4 – The results are a combination of internal and external assessments. To make sure our internal assessments were valid we sent them to registered and qualified teachers outside of our school to be moderated and we then compared the marks. In all cases we inputted the lower grade.

5 – Even though students travel from as far away as Waiuku our unjustified absent rate was just 2.4%.

6 – Secondary Schools in 2014 had to be open for a minimum of 380 half days.

Vanguard was teaching for 450 half days.

The school was also happy to announce that its roll has increased from 108 students in 2014 to 144 this year.

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