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IMPORTANT NCEA NEWS

Alan McIntosh —

NCEA Fees

All students have been charged NCEA fees on their accounts and payments can now be made. If you are on SBHS Automatic Payment, the NCEA fee will be handled through this process provided your AP payments are sufficient to cover the year’s financial commitments. If you have any questions regarding payment of NCEA fees, please contact Sandra Wolland on extension 393, or email studentoffice@shirley.school.nz

Scholarship

Scholarship forms have been given out to all teachers of Level 3 classes. Teachers and students are being encouraged to have a conversation in relation to whether trying for a Scholarship is a viable option.

A cost of $30.00 per Scholarship subject is on top of the standard $76.70 NCEA entrance fee.

Scholarship is a monetary award to recognize top students. It does not attract credits nor contribute towards a qualification but the fact that a student has gained a Scholarship will appear on their Record of Achievement.

Scholarship will enable students to be assessed against challenging standards, and will be demanding for the most able students in each subject. Scholarship students will be expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalization, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations. 

New Zealand Scholarship

New Zealand Scholarship provides recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. New Zealand Scholarship assessments enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject. Assessment is by either a written/spoken examination or by the submission of a portfolio or report of work produced throughout the year.

Scholarship candidates are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations.

How is New Zealand Scholarship marked?

Markers allocate a score of 0-8 for each component in the New Zealand Scholarship assessment using subject specific schedules. These are based on a Generic Marking Guide, as follows:

· An answer given a score of 8 is an Outstanding answer in all respects. Strong evidence of integration and synthesis. As good as could be expected under examination conditions. Accurate, comprehensive, coherent, lucid, perceptive.

· A score of 1 shows Meagre understanding relevant to the question.

· A score of 0 is awarded for answers that are blank or irrelevant.

The work of the highest scoring candidates is reviewed by marking panels, to identify the top candidates in each subject. Exam booklets for candidates whose scores are close to either the Scholarship or Outstanding cut-offs are also re-marked, to ensure their results are correct.

New Zealand Scholarship assessments have between 3 and 5 components, and the scores for each component are totalled to give the final result.

New Zealand Scholarship: Monetary Awards

a. The New Zealand Scholarship Monetary Awards for 2016 are available to Candidates who meet the eligibility and entry requirements under Rules 5.2 and 5.3 and this Rule 7.3.2, and comprise:

Premier Award

  • For the very top 5 to 10 Candidates. The minimum eligibility requirement to be considered for this award is achievement of at least three Scholarships at “Outstanding” level in the same year. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.
  • $10,000 each year for up to three years for as long as the recipient maintains at least a ‘B’ grade average each year of their tertiary study.

Outstanding Scholar Award

  • For the next 40-60 top Candidates. The minimum eligibility requirement to be considered for this award is achievement of three Scholarships with at least two at “Outstanding” level in the same year, or more than three Scholarships with at least one at “Outstanding” level in the same year. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.
  • $5,000 each year for up to three years for as long as the recipient maintains at least a ‘B’ grade average each year of their tertiary study.

Scholarship Award

  • For Candidates who achieve Scholarship in three or more subjects in the same year.
  • $2,000 each year for up to three years for as long as the recipient maintains at least a ‘B’ grade average each year of their tertiary study.

Top Subject Scholar Award

  • For the top Candidate in each one of the Scholarship subjects.
  • $2,000 each year for up to three years for as long as the recipient maintains at least a ‘B’ grade average each year of their tertiary study.

Single Subject Awards

  • For Candidates who achieve Scholarship in one or two subjects in the same year.
  • A ‘one-off’ award of $500 per subject (maximum payment $1000).

Eligibility to receive a monetary award

For recipients of all New Zealand Scholarship awards:

i. the recipient must be enrolled in tertiary study in New Zealand (at least 0.4 Equivalent full-time student (EFTs)) with an institution which holds accreditation under section 250 of the Act to provide one or more approved programmes, and must allow use of their name and school for publicity about their success:

ii. Single Subject Awards are paid only in the first year of tertiary study in New Zealand.

iii. for awards with second or subsequent year payments, recipients must maintain at least a ‘B’ grade average during each year of their tertiary study in New Zealand with an accredited provider in order to qualify for payment in the following year.

iv. Note that StudyLink has separate requirements relating to payment of New Zealand Scholarship Awards.

a. Monetary awards for Scholarship cannot be accumulated except as specified below.

b. Where a Candidate meets the criteria for more than one monetary award, he or she will receive only the award of the highest monetary value, except where a Candidate receives a Top Subject Scholar Award and also achieves a Single Subject Award in a different subject, in which case he or she will receive the Top Subject Scholar Award and a maximum of one $500 Single Subject Award.

c. The monetary amounts for the Premier Award, Outstanding Scholar Award and Scholarship Award are available only for results obtained within the year of entry. Thus results cannot be aggregated over a period of time.

d. To be eligible for New Zealand Scholarship Monetary Awards, Candidates must notify NZQA through their Learner log-in of their intention to accept an award by 15 January 2018 following the receipt of their result.

e. On notification to NZQA through their Learner log-in, recipients of monetary awards may defer receiving the award for up to one year after they leave school. Recipients of monetary awards who want subsequent deferments must apply to NZQA for approval.

A Candidate who defers an award because they are still at school and gains:

i. an award in the same subject in more than one year will only receive one monetary award being the highest value award achieved:

ii. a Single Subject Award in one subject prior to Year 13 and in a second subject in Year 13 is eligible for two one-off awards of $500 as long as the student is enrolled in tertiary study as outlined in rule 7.3.2 b. up to the maximum payment of $1000 for Single Subject Awards:

iii. a Single Subject Award in a subject prior to Year 13, but fails to gain a Single Subject Award in the same subject in Year 13, will still be eligible to be paid for the award gained prior to Year 13:

iv. a Single Subject Award in one or two subjects prior to Year 13 and the Scholarship Award in three or more subjects in Year 13 is eligible only for the Scholarship Award in the three or more subjects:

v. a Top Subject Scholar Award in the same subject in two different years will receive payment for one Top Subject Scholar Award only:

vi. a Top Subject Scholar Award in a subject prior to Year 13 and a Single Subject Award in another subject in Year 13, or vice versa, will receive both awards.

b. New Zealand Scholarship results do not contribute towards the University Entrance.

Scholarship forms are available from teachers, the main reception, or Mr McIntosh and need to be returned to Mr McIntosh as soon as possible.

Financial Assistance

Financial Assistance forms are now available from Mr McIntosh or the main Reception. To qualify for Financial Assistance parents need to be on a benefit, have a Community Services Card, income levels that equate to Community Services threshold levels. If a family has more than two members sitting NCEA examinations and the total payment exceeds $200.

Financial Assistance forms must be returned to Mrs McKernan at the student office no later than Friday17th August  2018, or emailed to skm@shirley.school.nz

Ideally, Financial Assistance forms should be returned as soon as possible.

Families who received Financial Assistance in 2017 must complete a new application for to qualify for 2018

Alan McIntosh

Principals Nominee.