Angus and Sonja McFarlane PLD day intro and concluding notes
Powerpoint from PLD day
Angus and Sonja McFarlane intro
Kia ora koutou katoa
Ngaa mihi nui kia koutou
There may be a few people who don’t know me - I’m Samantha Mortimer principal here at Grey High.
Firstly, kia ora to Matua Joe, Whaea Erin and Whaea Kylie for all of their hard work in supporting the mihi whakatau and the day in general.
Secondly, a little introduction from me about Angus’ and Sonja’s journey to us today.
Back in December last year I started talking to Andy (our previous principal) about our hand over 2021. He told me that he had met someone over the hill who he thought would be great to work with Greymouth High School. I had to work out what Andy meant by over the hill and here a hill meant a ginormous mountain range. However, that’s ok I’m slowly getting it. Anyway, after a few more conversations with Andy we talked again about the person he had met and he told me that was Angus. As soon as I found this out I was really excited about asking him and Sonja to work with us today.
The plan came to fruition after an excellent zoom call where I must admit I was a bit of a fangirl and after that copious amounts of emails. I’d like to thank Emily for all of her amazing work in this. In between the zoom and the McFarlane’s joining us today, Angus was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday honours for his services to education, psychology and Māori. Congratulations for this - well deserved. Let’s all show our appreciation.
What I love about Angus’ work, and more recently Sonja’s as well, is that it is about facilitating culturally sensitive and inclusive learning settings, steeped in wellbeing and positive relationships, for all of our rangatahi. I am really looking forward to being challenged to think about what I can do and also what we can do at Grey High and beyond. So I’ll finish here by saying that it is my utmost pleasure to welcome Sonja and Angus McFarlane to Greymouth High School. Kia ora
Angus and Sonja conclusion
What can I say? It has been an amazing day and I would like to personally thank Angus and Sonja for not only making me think but also the three bold steps from every department. (Can you please make sure I get a copy of them as there were many fantastic ideas?) Thank you for your awhi to move us along!
Ka pai to all of you! You are an amazing staff to work with. I told Sonja and Angus last night that you were such a collaborative group who already demonstrate so many of the qualities on the educultural wheel. I see our role as kaiako is to continue to develop these for our rangatahi. Aroha ana!
A reminder that we are going to buy a Hikairo schema for each department and Angus and Sonja we are we are looking forward to working with it to make our curriculum more relevant for our māori learners.
Just a small present from us
Kia ora koutou katoa
Ngaa mihi nui kia koutou
There may be a few people who don’t know me - I’m Samantha Mortimer principal here at Grey High.
Firstly, kia ora to Matua Joe, Whaea Erin and Whaea Kylie for all of their hard work in supporting the mihi whakatau and the day in general.
Secondly, a little introduction from me about Angus’ and Sonja’s journey to us today.
Back in December last year I started talking to Andy (our previous principal) about our hand over 2021. He told me that he had met someone over the hill who he thought would be great to work with Greymouth High School. I had to work out what Andy meant by over the hill and here a hill meant a ginormous mountain range. However, that’s ok I’m slowly getting it. Anyway, after a few more conversations with Andy we talked again about the person he had met and he told me that was Angus. As soon as I found this out I was really excited about asking him and Sonja to work with us today.
The plan came to fruition after an excellent zoom call where I must admit I was a bit of a fangirl and after that copious amounts of emails. I’d like to thank Emily for all of her amazing work in this. In between the zoom and the McFarlane’s joining us today, Angus was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday honours for his services to education, psychology and Māori. Congratulations for this - well deserved. Let’s all show our appreciation.
What I love about Angus’ work, and more recently Sonja’s as well, is that it is about facilitating culturally sensitive and inclusive learning settings, steeped in wellbeing and positive relationships, for all of our rangatahi. I am really looking forward to being challenged to think about what I can do and also what we can do at Grey High and beyond. So I’ll finish here by saying that it is my utmost pleasure to welcome Sonja and Angus McFarlane to Greymouth High School. Kia ora
Angus and Sonja conclusion
What can I say? It has been an amazing day and I would like to personally thank Angus and Sonja for not only making me think but also the three bold steps from every department. (Can you please make sure I get a copy of them as there were many fantastic ideas?) Thank you for your awhi to move us along!
Ka pai to all of you! You are an amazing staff to work with. I told Sonja and Angus last night that you were such a collaborative group who already demonstrate so many of the qualities on the educultural wheel. I see our role as kaiako is to continue to develop these for our rangatahi. Aroha ana!
A reminder that we are going to buy a Hikairo schema for each department and Angus and Sonja we are we are looking forward to working with it to make our curriculum more relevant for our māori learners.
Just a small present from us
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