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Roncalli College - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 44°24′10″S 171°14′47″E / 44.4028°S 171.2463°E

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Roncalli College


Address

Timaru, New Zealand
Coordinates	44°24′10″S 171°14′47″E / 44.4028°S 171.2463°E / -44.4028; 171.2463
Information
Type	Co-educational, Secondary (Year 9-13)
Motto	To Seek Truth and Peace
Established	1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Ministry of Education Institution no.	358
Principal	Chris Comeau
School roll	514^[1] (August 2024)
Socio-economic decile	7O^[2]
Website	roncalli.school.nz

Roncalli College is a Catholic secondary school in Timaru, New Zealand. It was named after Pope John XXIII, whose birth name was Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli. A co-educational school with about 500 students from Year 9 to Year 13, it stands on Craigie Avenue, next to the Sacred Heart Basilica. It is set on 3.12 hectares (7.7 acres) of land, with 13 free-standing buildings.

It practices NCEA examinations for its senior students. In 2005, 87.7% of Roncalli students achieved NCEA Level 1, 70.3% achieved Level 2, 71.2% achieved Level 3, and 66.7% achieved university entrance.

Sports played include netball, rugby, basketball, rowing, mountain biking, badminton, volleyball, soccer, tennis, cricket, and hockey. Cultural activities include occasional hakas and church services.^{[citation needed]}

The school has a large foreign student population, coming from Europe, South America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.^{[citation needed]}

Roncalli College was awarded the 2006 Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ) Program Award by EONZ for its years 10, 12, and 13 outdoor education programs.^[3]

History

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Roncalli College was created by merging St. Patrick's High School and Mercy College in 1981. Roncalli is now on the site, and most of the buildings are remnants from the days of the single-sex schools. St. Patrick's was the local high school for Catholic boys, run by the Marist order, and Mercy College was the local Catholic school for girls, run by the Mercy sisters, from their convent, which was situated on what is now the rugby field, also known as the Thunder Dome.^{[citation needed]}

The schools were separated by the "Iron Curtain" or "Brown Curtain", a corrugated iron fence that ran the length of the boundary between the two schools, which kept the boys and girls separated. The penalties for being on the wrong side of the fence were rather severe; any boy caught on the wrong side of the fence without a valid reason was invariably caned.^{[citation needed]}

In the last days of St. Pats and Mercy, the pupils from St. Pats were instructed by the rector to tear down the fence as a prelude to amalgamation. The event was photographed and featured in the Timaru Herald newspaper.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2007, Roncalli College celebrated its 25th Jubilee.^[4]

Notable alumni

Bronson Beri – basketball player
Deborah Geels – diplomat

Notes

^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
^ "Congratulations Roncalli College!" (PDF). Out and About. Education Outdoors New Zealand. Summer 2006. p. 10. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
^ "Roncalli College, 25th Jubilee". Education Gazette New Zealand. 86 (7). 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008.

External links

Roncalli College Website

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