Week 3 - Term 2 - 2026

 E tūtaki ana ngā kapua o te rangi kei runga te Mangōroa e kopae pu ana

The clouds in the sky close over, but above them spreads the Milky Way

Look on the bright side

Week 3 4 Haratua - 8 Haratua Otago University and Polytechnic Open Day - Sun 3 - Mon 4 Canterbury Road Race - Tues 5 Careers Evening at CBHS - Tues 5 Senior Parent Teacher Interviews - Tues 5 Year 13 Emerging Futures - Tues 5 Late Start p2 - Wed 6 DRA101 Trip - Thurs 7 MAO101 Te Reo Māori Trip - Thurs 7 Careers Expo - Thurs 7 - Fri 8 Year 13 Formal - Sat 9	Week 4 11 Haratua - 15 Haratua Pasifika Fono - Mon 11 CGHS Open Day - Tues 12 LEFs due - Wed 13 Inter-School Senior Debating - Thurs 14 Cantrices Camp - Fri 15 - Sat 16 HoLA Meeting p 1 - 3 - Fri 15 in 126
Assembly -  Mon - Year 10 - Gym Year 13 - PAC Wed - NZ Sign Language Year 11 - PAC	Assembly -  Mon - Year 9 - Gym Year 11 - PAC Wed - Aroha / 40 Hr Challenge Year 12 - PAC
Meeting  Mon: PL Embed Tues: Nil Thurs: PCT	Meeting  Mon: Nil (HoLA postponed to Fri 15 p 1 - 3) Tues: Learning Area Thurs: Nil

Information for Staff

1. Dylan Wiliam is widely regarded as a leading authority on formative assessment, and in this piece, 'Formative Assessment and Its Impact on Education' he highlights two key insights about feedback that genuinely drives learning forward: 

• First, real gains come from continuous, moment-by-moment assessment. The most effective formative assessment isn’t something that happens every few weeks—it occurs every 6–10 minutes during a lesson. Teachers need to regularly check for understanding and adapt their teaching in real time. The takeaway is that engagement is built through frequent cycles of thinking and feedback, not just end-of-lesson reviews
• Second, following on from our PLD session on Tuesday this week, it’s essential to gather evidence from every student. Depending on volunteers or asking “any questions?” provides a distorted picture of understanding. Effective teaching requires insight into all learners, not just the most confident ones, because instructional decisions are only as strong as the evidence behind them. This makes strategies like mini-whiteboards or whole-class response techniques fundamental rather than optional.

2. On Monday it is PL Embed time, a place to try something new, or put something back into one of your lessons that may have slipped off your radar. Here is a bit of a reflection tip called the 5/5/5.

This is a quick reflection framework that can be used after any PLD, inquiry, PT Interviews etc.

• Five things that worked
• Five things that didn't and 
• Five ideas to try next time.

Week 2 - Term 2 - 2026

 Ko te kai rapu, ko ia te kite

He who seeks will find

Don’t sit back, have a go and experience it

Week 2 27 Paenga-whāwhā - 1 Haratua ANZAC Day observed - Mon 27 DVC201 Software Course - Tues 28 9ZOO Field trip - Tues 28 GEO301 Field trip - Wed 29 - Fri 1 Canterbury Secondary Schools Show Jumping competition - Wed 29 CGHS Cross Country - Thurs 30 Inter-School Debating - Thurs 30 World Vision Conference - Thurs 30 Student Coaching Course - Fri 1	Week 3 4 Haratua - 8 Haratua Otago University and Polytechnic Open Day - Sun 3 - Mon 4 Canterbury Road Race - Tues 5 Careers Evening at CBHS - Tues 5 Senior Parent Teacher Interviews - Tues 5 Year 13 Emerging Futures - Tues 5 Late Start p2 - Wed 6 DRA101 Trip - Thurs 7 MAO101 Te Reo Māori Trip - Thurs 7 Careers Expo - Thurs 7 - Fri 8 Year 13 Formal - Sat 9
Assembly -  Mon - Nil Wed - ANZAC awareness Year 12 - PAC	Assembly -  Mon - Year 10 - Gym Year 13 - PAC Wed - NZ Sign Language Year 11 - PAC
Meeting  Mon: Nil (ANZAC observed) Tues: Professional Learning Thurs: NIL	Meeting  Mon: PL Embed Tues: Nil Thurs: PCT

Information for Staff

1. Our professional learning session on Tuesday will have 2 parts to it. The first half is linked to the observation data that was synthesied to help create our CGHS 'Culture of Learning'. The team have chosen to do a half our session on 'Checking for understanding'. This will be an interactive session that will have some new strategies for some of you, or a chance to reconnect with why you might do what you do to help engage all learners in the topics you are covering. If you would like some prior reading - and may not have heard of the phrase 'hinge questions' - Dylan Wiliam has a good summary 

The second half, is based on presentations created for the Talanoa Ako PLD that a group of staff participated in during the recent break.

Both topics are linked to our strategic goals.

2. An education worth having... 

Colleen O'Rourke talks about the best use of AI in education, neural networks inspired by nature and using AI to meet specific needs. 

Week 1 - Term 2 - 2026

 Whaowhina te kete mātauranga

Fill your mind with knowledge, keep learning.

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Week 1 20 Paenga-whāwhā - 24 Paenga-whāwhā Equestrian Event - Canterbury Show Jumping - Wed 22 Year 12 Drama assessments - Thurs 23 DVC101 Field trip - Fri 24 ANZAC Day - Sat 25	Week 2 27 Paenga-whāwhā - 1 Haratua ANZAC Day observed - Mon 27 DVC201 Software Course - Tues 28 9ZOO Field trip - Tues 28 GEO301 Field trip - Wed 29 - Fri 1 Canterbury Secondary Schools Show Jumping competition - Wed 29 Otago Junior Mathematics Competition - Wed 29 CGHS Cross Country - Thurs 30 Inter-School Debating - Thurs 30 Student Coaching Course - Fri 1
Assembly -  Mon - 8.30 Ako for all - Connect Wed - Anzac Day Year 10 - PAC	Assembly -  Mon - Nil Wed - NZ Music Month Year 12 - PAC
Meeting  Mon: TWH Tues: Staff Meeting Thurs: PCT	Meeting  Mon: Nil (ANZAC) Tues: Professional Learning Thurs: NIL

Information for Staff

1. Welcome back to Term 2. 

You can now explore the new pages on our website that show a snapshot of some of the key moments of our Kura's history. The future section will contain photos and updates of our rebuild and we will work on relevant communications around this. Check it out at https://www.cghs.school.nz/past-present-future/.

2. When posting announcements in Google Classroom, you can now add a voice recording, video recording or a recording of your screen.

Make the Stream of your Google Classroom an interactive space by checking the settings (in the settings cog, top right) so that students can post and comment.