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12 TUESDAY AUGUST 22 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi PEGASUS POST MAIREHAu HIgH SCHooL Encouraging ExcEllEncE in our community The Principal’s Desk Towards the future Mairehau High School is in a strong position to offer students opportunities which will enable them to become learners who are critical thinkers and communicators, responsible and empathetic, confident and connected, digitally fluent, and who embrace challenges. Teachers within our school are leading and developing key initiatives which will provide students with the skills, capabilities and fluency to enable them to be successful life-long learners in a digital world. In our school, we use our head, heart and hands which enable us to describe the critical thinking student who is numerate and literate; a student who can take responsibility for their own learning and manage themselves. The students who pass through our school gates, learn in our classrooms, and access technology through our wireless internet provision, will be well set in the future to access tertiary or employment opportunities. Mairehau High School has implemented Modern Learning Practices through the schools Year 9 and Year 10 flexible learning environment initiative this year. our school continues to implement innovative and creative strategies to support and enhance school improvement and student achievement. To accommodate roll growth, a multimillion dollar building project is in the planning stage to transform Mairehau High School, and ensure secondary school co-educational school provision in the East of Christchurch. The school is about to enter the design stage. At the moment, we are waiting on key compliance reports to be completed before building can take place. Christchurch East Secondary Schools All Christchurch East Secondary Schools are passionate about improving achievement and learning outcomes for all. Mairehau High School is connecting and building relationships with Te Ara Tūhura, a cluster of Primary and Early Childhood schools in the East. This cluster is focused on improved outcomes for all our learners, in each of our schools. our school is also very keen to continue to foster strong relationships with our local tertiary institutions such as the university of Canterbury, Ara, Southern Institute of Technology, and Lincoln university. I am confident in working with other East Christchurch Secondary schools and education providers on the future and quality of Teaching and Learning for our learners. Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to acknowledge Mr Mark Bell ( former Deputy Principal) and to congratulate and wish him all the very best in his new role as an Education Review Evaluator. Mark has contributed significantly to Mairehau High School and we know that he will make a huge impact in making a positive difference to many other schools in his new position. Harry Romana Principal Harry romana, Principal Congratulations We would like to congratulate our Deputy Principal, Mark Bell, on his appointment to a position at the Education Review office. It was with great sadness, but with our very best wishes, that we farewelled Mark at the end of Term 2. Mark had been at Mairehau High School for over 14 years, and was a highly respected and much beloved member of our school community. He was a wonderful ambassador for our school, always championing us to the wider community. Mark believed in our school, and believed in our students, always encouraging them to shoot for the stars and have pride in themselves. It is fair to say he enriched the lives of many students and staff in his time at Mairehau High School. Mark was welcomed to the Education Review office in a dignified and moving ceremony in Dunedin during the school holidays, with Harry Romana, the Principal, and Rebecca Swanson, the Assistant Principal, travelling to support him on behalf of the school. We wish him all the best in his new position at ERo. Kia kaha, Mr Bell. go well! Mark Bell It is our pleasure to announce that after a rigorous recruiting process, Ms Siobhan Murphy has been appointed to the position of Deputy Principal to Mairehau High School. Siobhan joins our staff in Term 4 as Deputy Principal from Aranui High School, where she was Assistant Principal in 2016. Siobhan’s association with Aranui High School began in 1989 when she accepted a Homeroom position, teaching a junior class all their compulsory subjects, except PE. Further roles at Aranui included HoD Social Sciences, Dean, Tutor and more recently, the School garden’s chief gnome. Siobhan is very much looking forward to reconnecting with ex-colleagues and students from Aranui who are now at Mairehau High School. Siobhan lives in Mairehau with her husband Andrew. Together they have two children studying at university who they catch up with during holidays and hear from when the fridge in their flat needs refilling. During winter the whole family enjoys spending time together at Broken River Ski field. This year Siobhan has embarked on a Masters degree as well as learning Te Reo (Māori Language) which means her garden has been left to grow wild and due to the lack of exercise, her dog Alfie is growing larger and larger. Focussing on learning so intensely, Siobhan has found herself “walking in her students’ shoes” and she realises that being a student in 2017 can be very challenging and exciting at the same time. The range of learning opportunities at Mairehau High School encouraging passion and offering individual challenges to both students and staff are what excites Siobhan most about joining us here. Whaowhia te kete mātauranga (Fill the basket of knowledge) Siobhan Murphy Top Student Excellence Award During the recent term break, Year 11 Student Cody McCallum attended the Blue Light Youth Course run at the Burnham Military Camp. Cody did extremely well on this and was awarded the Top Student Excellence Award out of 30 students who were on the course. Cody has a definite career pathway in place – and we hope to see Cody in a police officer’s uniform in the next few years. Cody McCallum Mairehau High School, Hills Road, Christchurch P. 385 3145 F. 385 3143 admin@mairehau.school.nz www.mairehau.school.nz
PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi TUESDAY AUGUST 22 2017 13 MAIREHAu HIgH SCHooL Encouraging ExcEllEncE in our community Tena koutou katoa At the end of Term 2, Mairehau High School was represented at Ngā Manu Kōrero - our regional Māori speech competition for both the Canterbury and West Coast regions, for the first time in 6 years. We were fortunate to have two of our students stand to represent us this year. We had Phoenix Neilson represent us in the Senior Māori section, and La Bella Currin-Waru represent us in the Senior English section. It was the first time both students had ever stood to represent at Ngā Manu Kōrero and did so in front of all of the competing schools in both the Canterbury and West Coast regions. Just getting to this point was an achievement in itself, not to mention that both of our representative students are in Year 11 and were standing up against Year 12 and 13 students from the other competing schools. Both students did a great job and represented our school with pride. At the end of both speeches our newly established kapahaka group, under the reins of our new kapahaka tutor Miss Satriani Reihana, stood and performed our recently composed Mairehau High School haka for the first time in a public arena, with great passion. A lot of milestones were achieved that day. Whaea Dayna Hagley Dance Company on the 10th of August Hagley Dance Company came to our school to run a 90 minute work shop. This was offered to all year 11 - 13 Performing Arts students. It began with a performance by the Dance Company of a Maori inspired contemporary piece which was incredibly moving. They then ran a full muscle and bone warm up and then everyone split into groups to learn some contemporary choreography. This was great for dancers of all levels and everyone came away with a good experience. Dance and Performing Arts at Mairehau High School is thriving and continually moving forward! Phoenix Neilson and La Bella Currin-Waru FLT (Flexible Learning Time) Mystery dish We recently had a visit from Canterbury university who delivered interactive lessons to all Year 9 and Year 10 students in FLT (Flexible Learning Time). Students learnt about water purification in developing countries and about the many economic and practical issues which impact upon this. our students created water filters in groups and were given budgets and materials in accordance with the nation they were allocated. our Year 9 students also have a Life Skills class which is covered in FLT. Some of the topics covered have been gardening, how to change a car tyre, meditation, driver education, cooking from a mystery food box and problem solving. Flexible Learning Time (or FLT) enables our students in Year 9 and 10 to engage in personalised, crosscurricular and real-life learning opportunities for 3 hours each week. The emphasis is on our students choosing and directing their own learning journey with the support of their teaching team. Most recently our Year 10s worked on projects that might contribute to their future career selection whilst our Year 9s worked on projects that involved them learning invaluable life skills, though generally not on a school curriculum. Both projects involved students Learning to make water purifiers embracing new experiences and extending their knowledge, skills and thinking. Smokefree Rockquest 2017 Rockquest was founded by two music teachers in 1988 (glenn Common and Pete Rainey) and since then there have been countless successes in its 29-year history such as Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Nesian Mystik and our very own Mairehau High School student band Falter, who were the National winners in 2003. This year we had four entries with two groups and two soloists carrying on our proud tradition. Entrants have to write and perform original music. This year we had the group, Heck, I Don’t Know – Ella Peoples, Rachel Wilson, Maddy Bouma and Tammy Reynard, and soloist entrants, Rachel Nolan and Moeka Ishizawa, and Darrell Faamau Suaesi in a group with his friends, who competed at the Aurora Centre on Saturday May 27th. We were really proud when Darrell and his friends from Haeata were chosen to go forward to the Regional Final and even more so, when they were selected to go to the National Final on Sept 2 in Auckland. good luck to you and the group Darrell. Darrell Mairehau High School, Hills Road, Christchurch P. 385 3145 F. 385 3143 admin@mairehau.school.nz www.mairehau.school.nz
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