Week 1 - Term 3 - 2025

 Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua 

‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’

Week 1 14 Hūrae - 18 Hūrae Mon 14 - Day starts with Ako at 8.30am P1: 9 - 9.55am P2: 9.55 - 10.50am P3 - 5 as per normal 10DVC to Hagley Park - Wed 16 and Fri 18 DRA201 Performance - Thurs 17 STA201 Assessment p 2 - 4	Week 2 21 Hūrae - 25 Hūrae International Week (all week) Dance New Zealand - Mon 21 Music L1 Performance - Tues 22 Swimming - New Zealand Champs Thurs 24 & Fri 25 LEF's Due - Thurs 24 TOU201 Field Trip to Mt Hutt - Fri 25 Last day for alterations to 2026 Curriculum Handbook  - Fri 25
Assembly -  Mon - Nil Wed - Welcome Back	Assembly -  Mon - Year 12 - PAC Year 13 - Gym Wed - International
Meeting  Mon: Junior HoD Tues: Department Thurs: Wellness Portrait drawing in E111 (for those interested)	Meeting  Mon: TWH Tues: Staff (Te Tiriti and Literacy) Thurs: Nil

Information for Staff:

1. Welcome back to term 3. Welcome back to Sue BKS after her Term 2 refreshment leave. Thank you to all of the Technology staff who had classes moved around and stepped up while she was away.

We will have a new part-time Art teacher in place.

A very big thank you to all of you who applied for the 'Culture of Learning' Positions. We look forward to the next steps and how we can continue to improve outcomes for all of our wonderful ākonga.

2. This term we will be sending out our newly formatted LEF reports. This will now have attendance graphically shown with an overall attendance rate.

Additionally, the recognitions that staff are adding when LEF's are being completed will also be displayed on the report sent home. This allows parents to get a summary of the recognitions. This is still in addition to the email that is sent home, but families now have a record of these.

A couple of reminders - 

• please do not give out more than one recognition to a student in any one cycle
• Please do give out recognitions and don't get into the trap of just awarding 3's - there are staff who have not yet awarded any! We have had questions after the parent teacher interviews, where comments were really positive as to why a 'recognition' has not been given and they would love to engage in the positive feedback sooner rather than just at the end of term 2.
• We are looking at a system of what an overall 'total' of positive recognitions might mean for the end of the year - more information to come around this.

3. You may have seen the recent email from the Teaching Council re the move from 6 to 8 Teaching standards from 2026. These will be part of our Professional Growth Cycle from 2026.

If you are yet to have a look, the standards and the relevant focus areas can be seen HERE.

If you look at 6.4 on the table, you will see how the new template developed above alongside the live reporting helps with the communication to parents/whānau around progress, strengths and areas for development.