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MSR Youth - Issue 5

(un) Healthy Youth - Challenging the way we think!

                                         

In the latest issue of MSR Youth we focus on health - a future for Youth and the challenges we face in New Zealand today


Editorial

If the system's not working, replace it! Can we rise to the 21st Century challenge?



Features


What pushed Peter Snell's buttons? How to keep physically active and eat well - How Peter Snell thrived growing up
Weak education: There is a better way The need is to find new and more productive pathways to address a weak area in our education system



Special topic




Energy for life So, to be healthy we need to be active and eat well but we need fat on our bodies too, contrary to what many popular magazines say
Biotech that doesn't bore you to tears Putting the Technology Curriculum's best ideas into practice with simply amazing effects for Year 7 and 8 students
What hard science says. The essentially energy for life - what it is, how it works and why we need it for energy.
Seeds of knowledge How one NZ school used a gardening competition to develop life skills and environmental awareness



Point of view



President's message The Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) doesn't help. That's because it takes every opportunity to criticise middle schooling. But that PPTA criticism has no basis in research. The PPTA has no facts to support its claims that specialist teaching should start earlier and that middle schooling's not good.
Principal profile - For their futures sake! The present generation is a cut above: they're optimistic, talented, resourceful and they need to be for the future's sake
Principals view point - Non negotiable, we know what the better way is! It's moving away from 'one size fits all' education - teachers need clear lines of communication with the family, high achievement expectations and contagious passion for learning