Mrs Mortimer's reflections at Grey High/Māwhera

From the principal: 2021 Week 10, Term 3 MRS SAMANTHA MORTIMER — SEP 29, 2021 T3 Week 10 Tēnā koutou katoa Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou Welcome to Week 10 The last couple of weeks of school for term 3 have been busy for us all. NCEA 2022 Options evening - online Thank you to everyone who went online to meet up with our Heads of Department using Google Meets. Jayne Wheeler (DP) worked really hard with our staff to set this up. I was very impressed with how well everyone adapted. We need to be able to be flexible and to be able to work with each other, our rangatahi and our whānau differently when needed. We also set up a really good session for our senior students on Monday during mentor time to allow them to meet with Heads of Department to ask questions. However, please do not hesitate to contact individual HODs, teachers, Deans and so on if you have any questions. Please phone the school office or email individuals to make an appointment. NCEA parent-teacher interviews (online) - Term 4

  T3 Week 9 Tēnā koutou katoa  Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou  Welcome to Week 9 We have just over a week until the end of term 3 and we are all working hard with our students to make sure that they are on track in all of our year groups.  For our senior students we have extended our teaching time to ensure that they get the most support possible so that they can achieve at the highest level. Primary School visits This week we have been catching up with our transition meetings we missed during Lockdown at the primary schools.  I have loved visiting the schools and seeing where our students have come from.  It is also great to meet the year 8s teachers and principals.   Te Pūtairiki UC Māori Law Society visit It was great to have Māori Law Society based at the University of Canterbury come over to the Coast and engage with our senior Māori students who may be thinking of going University in 2022. It provided an open forum to explain life at University and for the students to have one on one t

  T3 Week 8 Tēnā koutou katoa  Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou  Welcome to Week 8 Myself, Jayne and Rowan have met to look carefully at our calendar and set dates for the rest of the year.  However, we are mindful that things might change and we appreciate your support if they have to.  IMPORTANT CALENDAR DATES FOR THE END OF THE YEAR Wednesday, November 17 - Last day for senior students Wednesday 17th November: Senior Prizegiving Monday 22nd November - NZQA exams start Thursday 2nd December - Yr 13 Leavers' Dinner  Friday 10 December - Junior Prizegiving 11.30 -12.30pm - last day of school for juniors  Exams finish 14 December   SPORTS Maddy Crawford  will keep you updated as soon as we hear anything about sports.  We are keeping our fingers crossed that nationals will go ahead for basketball. WEST COAST SECONDARY & AREA SCHOOL  PRINCIPALS’ ASSOCIATION  I met with the high school and area school principals from the West Coast on Tuesday.  It was really good to share our stories and t

T3 Week 7 Tēnā koutou katoa Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou Welcome back to school everyone. I would like to thank all of you for supporting your children and us during the time they were learning online. It’s not an easy thing to do and we really appreciate all of your efforts. We started back at school yesterday and it was really good to see all of the students. For the most part, well that is what they told me, they were happy to be back and to catch up with everyone again! We are working hard to set routines and get everyone back into swing of things. NCEA There are some changes around NCEA and credits that I have put below. We will work with our students about these changes and make sure that they understand what it means. Students disrupted by 16 days of alert level restrictions this year: (15 days total at l3/l4 and a teacher only day) Learning Recognition Credits (LRCs) for every five credits a student earns, they get one extra Learning Recognition Credit students at NCEA Level