Information for International Students and their families
 

John McGlashan College runs an excellent, well resourced International Student programme offering students an education in the English language.  Specialist tuition is given for learners of English.  Each year we have between 15 – 20 students who come from many different countries.  Our international students live either with their parents or in homestay accommodation and we have an international student homestay co-ordinator who can help arrange accommodation if it is required.
	At McGlashan, we think it is fundamentally important that boys learn and develop in a safe school and city, and that they strive for intellectual excellence.  McGlashan boys have skilled effective teachers, clear rules and boundaries, good friends, and great facilities.
It is important that boys make the most of their strengths and abilities – that they leave school with good qualifications and with skills that put them at the forefront in society.  For this reason, there is a strong academic focus at McGlashan.  Our examination results are excellent and students can sit for New Zealand and International qualifications while they are here. McGlashan holds to the ideal of “a healthy mind in a healthy body”.  We do not expect all boys to be top sportsmen, but we do want them to be physically fit and to experience the satisfaction and enjoyment that comes from organised sport – from playing in well managed, well coached teams. We also aim to make them aware of the arts and give them opportunities to express themselves creatively – for example in music, drama, painting, sculpture and design. Above all, we want to work with parents to ensure that, by the time they finish school, our boys have become well educated men of character – men with integrity.

 

 

 

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