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  1. I would go with age. If you let your oldest do things now your younger will expect it too. And if you have a non NT kid they might have to wait until they leave home.
  2. I think the US is the only country that only takes each science one year. In NZ kids take general science then take physics, chemistry and biology (or one or two of) each year.
  3. I wear keen Sandals 365 days a year and they are not stinky. My son wears his all year round too - they are a bit smelly sometimes but it has never been a problem. I have had sandals that stink so I don't think it is me.
  4. It is done quite a lot here. I didn't appreciate it when they autosigned my 2 year up for swimming lessons and hassled me to pay the bill. Other that that though it has been fine.
  5. I watched it. I remember the story on the news at the time.
  6. Thanks. I need to give the matter some more thought. I will write them all down and research them. One final question for now - did your boys do 3 externals in one exam or over 2 years? Everyone advises against 3 but it seems odd to me.
  7. Marching Band is a very US thing so we don't have it. I suppose there are sports where the practice every day. I don't know anyone who does one but I have heard of it. But if you do 40 to 50 hours school and homework plus 20 hours of an activity where to you fit in a part time job so you can save for university or just hang out and relax? It just doesn't sound healthy.
  8. No school activity should require that. I can see 10 for certain elite level sports but any more than that should not be permitted.
  9. I read the lord of the rings when I was 12. I watched one of the movies. It was beautiful, moving, well filmed and oh so dull. I didn't notice that when I read it. I think it is something everyone should read once. I haven't got my kids to read it yet though. I have enjoyed the little house books both as a child and an adult but my impressions of the characters have changed a lot.
  10. Thanks so much Ruth. Hopefully I will be able to do the same for someone else. Though my younger gets to do the new version of NCEA.
  11. We use the parent graded option. It was right on the prices page when I enrolled in January and still was last time I looked. But it didn't used to be.
  12. We are overlapping. I think he needs physics, English, Chemistry, Calculus and Statistics. He also says he needs visual design as he thinks he might want to be an architect. I doubt that but he is looking in that region or engineering I would say rather than arts or medicine or law.
  13. Actually if you could that would be great. I did the old school certificate in 3 subjects at night classes, a couple of 6th form subjects ad an adult student then went to university and studied engineering. I skipped all the last 2 years of science and upper level maths. It worked but I would never recommend it.
  14. My younger one probably will do that. My older right now has dreadful executive function and gets upset if I try and manage him too much. As I work full time and am on my own with 2 kids I cannot be assisting with school from 8 AM until midnight. He needs to do the stuff he needs to help with by 4 PM so I can work. I don't want to go to te kura full time next year as I don't want to give up my exemption just in case. So really the decision is what subjects to do through Te Kura.
  15. I was. It just works better to have a clear timetable etc. What I have seen of Te Kura was just so overwhelming in quantity it put me off. But never mind I can do it. For this year our plan is to spend the whole of term 4 revising.
  16. Yes. But it is looking like Te Kura maths and finding something else for English might be easier to manage. It is the algebraic procedure external he is doing (91027 I think). He is doing the 2 maths, mechanics and genetics for science, carbon chemistry using the chemistry exam so 3 strands over two exams) and one English. So 6 standards over 4 exams.
  17. It is the one in November. I know chance and data is considered an easier option but I think his school did it as a 5th easier standard. I just don't want him overwhelmed given that he can't do practice exams. He did the table, equations and Graphs at school I think. We have the D&D book for it so we can look at that along with the Walker's book for that unit. Also I suspect he needs to do Calculus and Statistics at Level 3 (I had to do both first year university) but he probably will do the calculus first so he can do some level 2 standards for it later. Or we could do Algebra 2, Precalculus and Calculus and slot in external exams. I never did any Geometry so I was pretty nervous about doing that next year. I likely will do it with my year 8 kid as he is nearly finished prealgebra and will have time.
  18. No. Derek Owen's. His coming back home wasn't planned and getting AOPS textbooks requires a lot of planning if you are in NZ. Also he really doesn't want things to be that complicated right now. Our choices are doing two DO a year for 2 years (since our school year is 40 weeks rather than 32 that isn't as big a stretch as it sounds but it is a stretch) or switching to the NZ online school system which we can do for free when he turns 16. Until then it is $1800 a subject and quite frankly it isn't of a quality to match the price. To get merit or excellence you have to supplement anyway.
  19. Yes. But we only have 2 years left. This is a kid who did AOPS PA in year 8 (7th grade) then spent 2 years in "extension" classes at high school
  20. Hi. He is in year 11 now. He is signed up to do the chance and the algebra external for level 1 and will finish Algebra 1 next week I think. Te Kura is a possibility but he doesn't turn 16 until the very end of March. I don't want to go full time Te Kura until we are sure so I was planning on using it for the things that are hard for me to teach or find courses for. I was thinking English and graphics (he insists he needs graphics) but it could be maths instead if it works better. What standards would you advise for year 12? And are there any essential he should do at level 1? I think he did one other standard or most of it at school and we have books for at least one other.
  21. Thanks Ruth. Derek Owen's calculus course is AP and Precalculus has honors. I am just looking at my oldest who has just come home. He is very young for year so we are looking at a year 13b so he can turn 18 while still at home. I want him to do the AIMS course (combined first year maths papers for engineering) through University of Canterbury that year but since he was in extension classes but not working in advance if we use the US curriculum he will have to double up classes. He has just done Algebra 1 in less than 2 terms but I don't think he can do that for everything else. Maybe we will do Te Kura for maths when he turns 16 but I struggle with the picking and choosing topics - it just seems incomplete.
  22. Can anyone tell me how NZ Level 3 calculus compares with Precalculus or Calculus from somewhere like Derek Owens (not AOPS or the opposite of)? Thanks Kirsty
  23. Or get the outlining book from remedia and do a crash course. But starting in book 6 seems mad.
  24. Yes. Or you elaborate or focus on another character. The professor can say it must not be an essay they have already used but not claim it is plagiarism.
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