{"id":77,"date":"2015-05-06T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:36:33","slug":"schools-in-the-edmund-rice-tradition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"Schools in the Edmund Rice Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2075 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated-1024x339.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated-768x254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/School-Crests-updated.jpg 1289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are five schools in New Zealand that draw on the foundations of a Nga Parata Karaitiana (Christian Brother) heritage and celebrate the Edmund Rice inspiration today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-peters.school.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>St Peter&#8217;s College<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Auckland (boys\u00a0 Year 7 &#8211; 13)<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liston.school.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Liston College<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Auckland (boys\u00a0 Year 7 &#8211; 13<\/span>)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stc.school.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>St Thomas of Canterbury College<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Christchurch (boys\u00a0 Year 9 &#8211; 13)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stkevins.school.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>St Kevin&#8217;s College<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <strong>Oamaru\u00a0 (co-ed\/boarding\u00a0\u00a0 Year 9 &#8211; 13)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.school.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trinity Catholic College<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Dunedin (co-ed\u00a0 Year 7 &#8211; 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SKC-castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-722 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SKC-castle-300x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SKC-castle-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SKC-castle-768x208.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SKC-castle.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNga Parata Karaitiana (The Christian Brothers) arrived in Dunedin from Australia in 1876 and opened their first school on the Trinity Catholic College site. Other schools that they were associated with were: Christian Brothers Junior School Dunedin, St Edmund School South Dunedin, St Patrick&#8217;s School Oamaru, Edmund Rice College Rotorua (now John Paul College) and Nukutere College Rarotonga. The school on the Kavanagh site were Christian Brothers and then St Paul&#8217;s High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are five schools in New Zealand that draw on the foundations of a Nga Parata Karaitiana (Christian Brother) heritage and celebrate the Edmund Rice inspiration today. St Peter&#8217;s College \u00a0\u00a0 Auckland (boys\u00a0 Year 7 &#8211; 13)\u00a0 Liston College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Auckland (boys\u00a0 Year 7 &#8211; 13) St Thomas of Canterbury College \u00a0\u00a0 Christchurch (boys\u00a0 Year 9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/?page_id=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schools in the Edmund Rice Tradition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmundrice.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}