Term 3 - Week 2 - EVEN

“Kia aiki au i toku tupu’anga, ka ora uatu rai toku reo”

“To embrace my heritage, my language lives on”

Week 2 31 Hūrae - 4 Akuhata Kuki Airani Language Week [Cook Islands Language Week] Mokogawa Visit continues - All Week International Week - Mon 31 - Fri 4 Navi outdoors Visit - Mon 31 - Sun 6 12TOU Trip - Mon 31 9DIT Trip - Mon 31 Est. Credits and LEFs due - Wed 2 (See BUB's email with details) UC Classics Day (13CLS) - Mon 31 ICAS English - Tues 1 NCEA Parent Evening - Tues 1 (6pm Staffroom) Year 13 PE to Les Mills - Tues 1 - Wed 2 Jazz Quest - Fri 4 - Sun 6 Squash - NZ Champs - Fri 4 - Sun 6 Chamber Music Final - Sat 5 - Sun 6 Duathlon - NZ Champs - Sun 6	Week 3 7 Akuhata - 11 Akuhata  Geography Week  Navi Outdoors Visit - Mon 7 - Fri 11 Quad Tournament at Avonside - Mon 7 - Tues 8 Yang Jin Visit - Mon 7 - Wed 9 Senior Speech Competition - Tues 8 p4 Year 12 Health - Love Me Not Health Seminar - Tues 8 Southern Jam - Wed 9 - Sat 12 12PHY Investigation - Fri 11 (1-4pm) Aerobics - Regional NZCAF - Sat 12 Year 12 Formal (PTA) - Sat 12
Assembly Nil	Assembly NIL
Meeting  Tues 1 - Teaching and Learning	Meeting  Mon 7 - CGHS Staff Wellbeing Survey Feedback - Staffroom at 3.20. Optional for interested staff. Tues 8 - Departments

Professional Learning and a Heads up:

1. Now is the time to start thinking about whether you would like to take up additional post-graduate study for 2018. The TeachNZ study award applications are now open.
To find out more information go to: https://www.teachnz.govt.nz/teacher-awards/directory/secondary-teachers-study-support-grant/#Secondary Teachers' Study Support Grants

2. If you are interested in reading articles around 'Leadership', you may be interested in this free issue: http://www.educationalleadership-digital.com/educationalleadership/2017summerfree?pg=2#pg2. The Theme is around 'Gearing up for Change'.
A second article on the 'Role of Middle Leaders in a High Performing School Culture' can be found HERE

3. OneTab - This is a chrome extension for anyone who likes to keep a lot of tabs open at once. Once you download it, all you need to do is when you have all the tabs open, click on the icon, and it will put them all into a list. When you need to re-access the particular page it becomes a click away.
This will stop your computer slowing down, but allow you to not loose the pages that you might have open for reference.

4. Now is the time to start checking markbooks to make sure that all students are entered for the correct external examinations. The final date for withdrawal is the 1st September.

If students are being withdrawn from any external, you must make sure that parents are informed, and this change is signaled on the Estimated Credits so the year level Dean can make sure that the student is still on track to achieve NCEA.

Term 3 - Week 1 - ODD

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari he toa takimano

My strength is not that of an individual but that of the collective

Week 1 24 Hūrae - 28 Hūrae (ODD) Start of Term 3 - Mon 24 Visiting students from Mokogawa - all week Australian Maths Competition - Thurs 27 (periods 1&2) Year 13 PE Trip to Les Mills - Thurs 27 - Fri 28 Whānau hui - Thurs  27 @ 6pm (See info below) Music Tour of Primary Schools - Fri 28 Gymsports - NZSS Champs - Sat 29 - Sun 30 Year 13 Scholarship entry forms to be returned to BLS - Fri 28	Week 2 31 Hūrae - 4  Mokogawa Visit continues - All Week International Week - Mon 31 - Fri 4 Navi outdoors Visit - Mon 31 - Sun 6 12TOU Trip - Mon 31 9DIT Trip - Mon 31 Est. Credits and LEFs due this week UC Classics Day (13CLS) - Mon 31 ICAS English - Tues 1 NCEA Parent Evening - Tues 1 (6pm Staffroom) Year 13 PE to Les Mills - Tues 1 - Wed 2 Jazz Quest - Fri 4 - Sun 6 Squash - NZ Champs - Fri 4 - Sun 6 Chamber Music Final - Sat 5 - Sun 6 Duathlon - NZ Champs - Sun 6
Assembly Monday 24th - Period 4 - Full school assembly	Assembly NIL
Meeting  Tues 25: Pedagogical meeting Thurs 27: PCT meeting	Meeting

Information for Staff

1. Māori whānau hui: This will be held on Thursday 27 July from 6 - 7:30 pm in the Staffroom. The purpose of this whānau hui is whakawhanaungatanga kanohi ki te kanohi (making connections face to face) and providing an opportunity to meet students, whānau and teachers. Staff are welcome to attend.

2. Reminder that the course selection booklet on OnStream needs to be updated. Students will again be choosing their subjects for 2018 via the Portal. The course selection afternoon in the Gym will be held on Monday 21 August - no period 5 that day.

3. Holiday Website Exploring:

CK12: This is a great website that supports the use of BYOD in the classroom. The main resources are for Science and Mathematics - but there are lessons for English/grammar available.

The site has lessons already created, which usually have a reading associated with the topic, an activity to complete and a quiz for students to self assess. A great website for any relief that you might like to set.

4.  Teacher Toolkit have put together a number of graphic organizers for Teachers. As holiday break often involves a lot of marking - you might be interested in the '5 minute marking plan'. A chance to summarize feedback to the class as you carry out the marking task.

5. Liz (MWL) sent out a survey to Year 9 at the end of Term 2 regarding the change to our end of year program. Interested staff are asked to contact her around becoming part of the idea/development team, with some teacher release time available through PLD to work with outside providers available.

We are working through creating 'what this might look like' proposals, and there will be more information to come.

A quick snapshot of student responses to date are: