Nelson Christian Academy

• NCA recognises and believes in developing a life-long love of learning. It wants to encourage good study habits and independent learning skills both at school and at home. We want to assist in developing a positive personal attitude towards study and research that will help students in their ongoing secondary and tertiary education.
• Regular homework of an appropriate nature will be encouraged across the whole school.
• Year 1-3: Regular homework will consist mainly of reading books, sight words, basic spelling skills and mathematics.
• Year 4-8: In addition to the above for Year 1-3, older students will be encouraged to do more research and project-based work based around curriculum unit studies. Extra skill building work will be distributed to individual pupils as the need arises.
• Homework should take no more than one hour a night to complete.
• We invite parents to take an active interest in any work sent home.

Fortnightly prayer meetings are held to pray for the school. Parents and family are welcome to attend these prayer meetings which are held in the school staff room.

Staff prayer meetings are held each morning before school.

If for any reason a child, who is enrolled at NCA is unable to attend school, then school dues are still payable. Arrangements can be made for work to be supplied if the child is away for any length of time, e.g. illness or holiday travel. The school office needs to be notified before 9.00 a.m. (by phone, email, or fax) if a student is away sick. When calling the school about a child’s absence, we need to have an explanation of why your child is absent.