Mrs Mortimer's reflections at Grey High/Māwhera

English department - Mean Girls Maths department - Ghost Busters MRS SAMANTHA MORTIMER — DEC 2, 2021 Tēnā koutou katoa Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou ACCORD DAY We had a fantastic teacher only day on Tuesday 30th November. We always try to do something fun and Kate Cronin, our teacher in charge of staff wellbeing, organised each department to dress up in fancy dress based on a movie. We had Maths as Ghostbusters, Tech as the Pink Ladies from Grease, Languages as Mean Girls, Supported Learning as witches, The Arts as Aladdin, PE department as T-birds from Grease, Science as Lord of the Rings and SLT as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was good fun and I promise you that we did lots of learning as well! PLD FUNDING FOR GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL - Culturally competent teaching - He Kākano We have been successful at receiving from the Ministry of Education 200 hours of professional development - Culturally competent teaching; He Kākano. We will be working with Kati Waewae and we are very excited about t

T4 Week 6 Tēnā koutou katoa Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou Senior Prize Givings A quick reflection on prize giving. I know it wasn’t exactly what we wanted but it was still amazing! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make the occasions as special as we could! The students were amazing and the year 13 event was really great with tables, buffet food and a lovely atmosphere. Year 13 last day Hopefully you saw the photos in the paper about the Y13 last day. It was such a fun time! The year 13 prank selling the school online was brilliant and I laughed so much. Very clever! Thanks especially go to the Fire Brigade for sending the fire truck for the slip and slide - very much appreciated! Quad Activities Days Our thanks goes to Maddy Crawford who has organised four Quad days for our junior students (2 for year 9 and 2 for year 10). A number of our junior students missed out on across-schools’ competitions this term due to Covid and when I talked to Maddy about this she ran with th