CONGRATULATIONS YEAR 9 LEADERS
CONGRATULATIONS YEAR 10 LEADERS
PB4L – Positive Behaviour 4 Learning
Positive Behaviour 4 Learning a is framework that Wairoa College has been using for many years now. However, it is getting a little bit of revamp this year with some new and exciting things happening.
The driving force behind PB4L is staff openly and transparently acknowledging out students’ positive actions. We want our young people to leave school in a positive way, into whatever they would like to do, with positive behaviours in place.
There are two new changes in school. The first is the KARMA Cards. The acronym KARMA stands for our four values of Kotahitanga, Aumangea, Respect and Manaakitanga. If you demonstrate good behaviour and these values, you are an Awesome person.
Each student has a KARMA Card and must have it sitting on their desk in class. Whenever staff see positive behaviour, they reward students by stamping their card and acknowledging their behaviour. When a student’s card is full, they pop into the house box at the office and go into a weekly draw for chocolate. At the end of each term, all KARMA Cards from the entire term will go back into a big draw for prizes.
The second change is a new fortnightly report. Each fortnight, teachers will be marking students on their ability to meet classroom expectations. The first focuses are on students’ effort and their ability to meet deadlines in subject classes.
The expectations of effort and meeting deadlines may look differently in different subjects so teachers will be having a conversation with students about this.
This fortnightly report is entered on KAMAR when teachers do the roll. Students will be given a mark between 1-4.
1 – Erratic (Students are erratically attempting work and/or meeting deadlines).
2 – Inconsistent (Students are occasionally attempting work and/or meeting deadlines).
3 – Consistent (Students are frequently completing work and/or meeting deadlines).
4 – Extra/Excellent (Students are going above and beyond expectations with completing work and/or meeting deadlines).
At the end of each fortnight, an email will be sent to all whanau with your student(s) report.
The purpose behind this report is to give students a more regular idea of how they are meeting classroom expectations. We are wanting to improve communication with our whanau in the community and allow better conversations to happen between students, whanau and teachers to improve learning outcomes for our students.
Please note that we need an up to date email from all whanau. Whanau teachers will be contacting you to update our details. These reports do not replace our current reporting system but support it.
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Class 7CAre enjoying to learn how to thread a sewing machine by their sewing teacher Mrs Murphy. | Class 7O Enjoying Digital Technologies in the computer suite. | Class 7C Concentrating on making a fruit smoothie. |
Class 7C
Are enjoying to learn how to thread a sewing machine by their sewing teacher Mrs Murphy.
Class 7O
Class 7C
LEVEL 2 CHEMISTRY
9C and 9O Sailing
Senior Tourism Class
The students were then given a talk by Rubyanne Edwards the Tourism Information Coordinator. The students learnt a lot about the various roles within Tourism and they left with many brochures highlighting the beautiful local attractions in our area.
Many thanks to Hope and Rubyanne for their enthusiastic hospitality.
Ngā mihi Paddy Owen
Farming and Agriculture
HAWKES BAY ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP
Hawkes Bay Secondary Schools Swimming Champs
(12 years) make waves at the annual Hawkes Bay Secondary Schools swimming champs in Flaxmere.
Was a nice little meet to get Kaylah back into the competitive world after a number of meets being cancelled due to Covid, with Kaylah entering a small number of events she came home with top placings within the 14-15 year old female age group 1st 50m freestyle, 2nd 50m breast stroke , 2nd 50m butterfly.
It was a joy to see Kaylah up there with the top competitive swimmer in her age group.
Ronan swooped up 4th 50 backstroke, 4th 50freestyle and considering he was the only 12 year old male swimming he did amazing for his age group mixed in with 13 year old boys , he placed 10th overall in 100 freestyle this even was open age so he came up against a few 17 year old males .
These two swimmers put Wairoa College on the board with our female placing 5th school overall out of 10 and Boys 6th overall out of 7 schools.
Both swimmers continue to train 5 days a week to prepare for future competitions.
Well done Ronan and Kaylah.
