Thursday 13 February 2020

Week 4 - Term 1 - 2020

Aroha ki te tangata,
Ahakoa ko wai te tangata

Love people,
in spite of who they are

Week 4
17 Pēpuere - 21 Pēpuere

ERO  - All week

11Art Exhibition @Wigram - All week

Rowing - CSS Regatta - Mon 17 - Wed 19

Year 9 Camps - All week

Lincoln Uni visit - Lunchtime - Tues 18

Summer Sport Starts - Wed 19
Week 5
24 Pēpuere - 28 Pēpuere

University of Canterbury visit - Mon 24

Athletics Sports - Tues 25

Year 9/10 Plunket Babysitting cert - Tues 25 and Thurs 27 after school

Equestrian - Canterbury Show Jumping - Wed 26

Peer Support (p3) Wed 26

13BUS Regional Enterprise Day - Thurs 27

13GRA Field trip - Thurs 27

Rowing Camp - Fri 28 - Sun 1

Polyfest Camp - Fri 28

Staff start of year function - Fri 28

Tennis - SI champs - Sat 29 - Sun 1

SI Multisport champs - Sun 1
Assembly 

Wednesday -  Yr 11 NCEA Assembly (PAC)

Friday - House Assemblies

Assembly - 

Wednesday -  Year 12 NCEA Assembly (GYM)

Year 13 Assembly - PAC (guest speaker)

Friday - Prefect Assembly

Meeting 

Staff Meeting - 3 ERO Groups
Pastoral - (Board Room)
HOLAs (S4) 
and rest of teaching and support staff (staffroom)

Meeting 

No Meeting due to Athletics sports.

Information for Staff:

1. NCEA Online for 2020
Around two-thirds of exams will be offered digitally this year, comprising 58 exam sessions and 21 subjects at Levels 1, 2 & 3 unless otherwise stated.  The full list is:

Art History
Business Studies
Chinese
Classical Studies
Education for Sustainability (L2 only)
English
French
German

Health
History
Home Economics
Japanese
Latin (L1 & 2 only)

Media Studies
Psychology
Sāmoan

Social Studies
Spanish
Te Reo Māori
Te Reo Rangatira



2. Teacher survey on the 2019 exams
The annual teacher survey seeking feedback on the 2019 exams can be found at the bottom of the Schools and Teachers webpage.

Or, click here for the NCEA survey and here for the Scholarship Award survey.

The survey closes on 21 February.

Teachers are encouraged to respond to these surveys, either as an individual or as a group.
Feedback from the teacher surveys is highly valued by NZQA.

3. On request’ Best Practice workshops
Based on the success of the ‘on request’ model, NZQA are continuing to offer facilitators to subject associations or regional cluster groups. This allows workshop organisers to ask for targeted support for their participants. More information about the different options may be found here.
If you have any questions, please email workshops@nzqa.govt.nz.
Last year CGHS hosted a hui for Canterbury Te reo Māori teachers, so please see BLS if you think this could be of use for your Learning Area.

4. Focus on the future - Skills or qualifications? You may be interested in this short article - https://idealog.co.nz/etc/2017/09/do-you-need-degree-work-tech-more-100-nzs-biggest-companies-say-no. One hundred of our largest and most successful companies have written an open letter asking the government to rethink our education system, arguing that degrees don’t matter as much as skills, attitudes, motivation and the adaptability of job applicants

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