On 24 May we held the 1st Victory graduation for 23 families. On 31 July we held the 2nd graduation for Victory School families. 13 graduated alongside 10 Refugee families. See......
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Local MP Hon Dr Nick Smith was guest of honour and presented the
certificates. In his speech Dr Smith praised the families for engaging in
education and wished them well for the future. He acknowledged that Nelson had
been a forerunner in Education from early settler days. Our fabulous Nelson
team of tutor Tania O’Meagher, technician Tim Jackson and in-school coordinator
Dianne Goodwin did an amazing job of guiding the families through from
recruitment to graduation. Briar Kopa from Wellington Computers in Homes came
down to help and get to know the Victory team as she deals with all the Snap
internet signups. Victory also hosted families from Auckland Point and Nelson
Central in their intake.
Victory is the first of Di Daniel’s pilot projects to benefit from
2020’s new Auto-Payment option for accessing Snap Broadband (BB). It means that
CIH families without landlines can now afford a Naked BB deal using small
weekly payments, instead of facing a larger amount each month. We wish all the
graduates well and are happy to report that we have connected a further 15
families that would have otherwise gone without BB at home. Please make sure
you keep up your AP payments so the internet stays connected and you don’t
incur any bank charges. For those who still have no internet at home, there are
2 computers in Mrs Goodwin’s room (opposite the sandpit) for CIH parents to
use.
Thanks to Principal Mark Brown and other staff for your support of
Computers in Homes. Mr Brown has taken up a position with the Ministry of
Education Wellington so now he can hang out for coffee in the big city with Di
and Briar! We look forward to working with new principal Wendy Taylor during
the Stepping UP phase of our programme. Every CIH graduate parent received
a Stepping UP set of vouchers to redeem for a further
10 hours of expert tutoring from Tania. A notice has gone out via the
school and Tania is already taking registrations for Thursday
classes, beginning 26 August. We have bought a new datashow
projector for the ICT training room, and Mr Taylor will be ceiling-mounting it.
Thanks everyone – Victory School rocks!!
