Important Dates
- Wednesday 27 March – Learning Conversations
- Thursday 28 March – School closed
- Friday 29 March – Good Friday (school closed)
- Monday 1 April – Easter Monday (school closed)
- Tuesday 2 April – MoE stipulated holiday (school closed)
- Monday 8 April – Board meeting 6pm
- Friday 12 April – End of Term 1
Important Information
Learning Conversations – Wednesday 27 March
The first Learning Conversations of 2024 take place on Wednesday 27 March and provide an opportunity for all students, their caregivers and rōpū teacher to reflect on the student’s wellbeing, engagement and progress.
Learning Conversations will take place on Wednesday 27 March and will be held in person at school. Each Learning Conversation will take 15 minutes at most and bookings are available from 8.30am through to 4.10pm. Please support this event. Students should make an appointment to attend even if parents/whanau are unavailable.
– Bookings for Learning Conversations can be made at https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code/22rxj
– Bookings are made by choosing the year level then the rōpū teacher. Please note that we are only able to run one learning conversation per student.
– Other than attending their Learning Conversation, your student will not be attending school on 27 March.
What’s happening?
This week we have enjoyed celebrating neurodiversity week raising awareness and inclusivity.
Thanks to our very own, Nigel Sutton for his engaging and honest presentation and for sharing his perspective. Thanks to Shannon Hennig for her student workshops celebrating individual strengths and differences.
Students enjoyed the jelly bean competition. We had over 100 entries. The winners were two students from year 9, Ethan and Hugo, congratulations!
There is still time to enter the T-shirt design competition so get creative.
Achievements
Former student Cadence Chung excels!
Cadence has recently been featured in an engaging news article by Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka. As Kraus Innovator-in-Residence at Wai-te-ata Press she has achieved success in the production of her book Mythos, an audio-visual anthology of art by young New Zealanders. Mythos was celebrated at a well attended book launch this month. Read the full article here.
Published poetry and prose from Joshua Toumu’a and Nadezhda Macey
Both former students, Joshua and Nadezhda’s scripted works are celebrated in the online literary journal Starling, which showcases the best new poetry and prose from young New Zealanders. Take a glimpse at the impressive emerging talent in Issue Seventeen
Careers
Here is the latest Careers & Pathways Newsletter. If any of the opportunities interest you, please see Chuni Bhikha, Dean/Careers Advisor located in the Year 13 Dean’s office by Student Services.
Community
Real Parents Webinars 
We are excited to announce an upcoming webinar all about managing teens and their screen time on 30 April and then a webinar all about the things our teens need to thrive on 29 May.
Both of these have been designed by the Real Parents team who with a background in psychology, education, and social work provide one-on-one parent coaching and facilitate parenting programmes – including Tuning into Kids, Tuning into Teens, Incredible Years, and Incredible Years Autism – some of which receive funding from MoE.
These sessions will be hosted by Amber Paterson, a talented youth worker who has been working with teens for over 10 years and also provides supervision for other youth workers in the Canterbury community.
Webinar Details:
• Title: Balancing our teens’ screen time
• Presenter: Amber, youth worker and facilitator for Real Parents
• Duration: 1.5 hours (with Q&A)
• Date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
• Time: 7:30pm
• Cost: $18 per person
Webinar Overview:
Worried about your teen and their screen time? Wondering how you can support them to have a healthy relationship with their tech?
Our team who have backgrounds in psychology, social work, youth work, and education have put together this one-hour presentation packed full of ways we can support our teenagers to have a healthy relationship with their screens and technology while also maintaining a strong relationship with your teen.
Webinar Details:
• Title: 6 Things our teens need to thrive!
• Presenter: Amber, youth worker and facilitator for Real Parents
• Duration: 1.5 hours (with Q&A)
• Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024
• Time: 7:30pm
• Cost: $18 per person
Webinar Overview:
Do you ever worry about your teen? Wonder what more you could be doing for them?
Our team who have backgrounds in psychology, social work, youth work, and education have put together this one-hour presentation packed full of ways we can support our teenagers to thrive in society, understand their emotions, be confident in themselves and succeed in becoming whoever they want to be. We will walk you through the best things you can be doing for your teen to set them up for success and ensure they grow up to be the amazing person you know they can be.