E ngā reo, e ngā mana, rau rangatira mā, ngā matā waka, tēnei te mihi nui atu ki ā koutou katoa. Ko te wawata me te tumanako ka noho ora mai koutou katoa.
Dear whānau,
We hope you are well and enjoyed the recent long weekend. It was nice to have some time with the family.
Recently we have had assemblies for our senior students with some clear messaging around the expectations this term and a conversation with students about safe driving and responsibilities for restricted drivers at school. For our senior students, it is important that they take control of their learning, understand how many credits they have, what assessments are coming up and what priorities for learning they need to make. This going to be a focus of Mentoring time with their Student Mentor.
As we head into term 3, a focus for senior students during Mentoring time will be career planning, subject selection and exam revision techniques to help position our young people to excel in the exams and have a learning pathway for 2022. Our junior assemblies have focused on the importance of attendance and celebrating those students who have consistently attended school in term 1 and 2. I feel it is important to reiterate the importance of attendance and punctuality for learning. Please support us by ensuring your young people arrive to school on time, ready for learning and in the correct uniform.
B Block toilets
Thank you to all members of the community who contributed towards our consultation around the placing of cameras in our B-Block toilets. Through that consultation process, with both the community and our students, we've decided to place cameras externally, on the outside of the bathroom doors to capture images of students walking in to the bathrooms. None of the images will take any footage from students inside public spaces in the bathrooms, but we believe that this strategy will help identify students who have created unsafe behaviour that affects others. When this occurs, this will help us to be proactive in our response to maintain the bathrooms and keep them a safe and secure place for students. Please refer to our Privacy Policy on SchoolDocs.
SchoolDocs is an online site where parents can access all our school policies and procedures and this is accessed through using the login (below). From time to time the school will communicate and consult with the community around various policies and procedures, for example, most recently, we consulted with the community around our reporting of progress and achievement for students in Term 1, which formed an improved procedure and policy for our school.
Visit: https://www.schooldocs.co.nz/Home/SchoolLogin
Username: whakatanehigh
Password: whs100
Whakatane High School Vision Consultation
The Board of Trustees is really interested in consulting with the community around the Strategic Vision for our school. The Strategic Vision of our school will help us align resources and our energies to make sure we are the best school for our community. To do this, we're asking questions about what the community feel our vision for education at Whakatane High School should be. We want you to think about who are the adults that we want our young people to become, so that our young people are able to thrive in life, at school and beyond school.
To make this a really simple process, here's a link for you to follow, which will bring up a simple survey of only three questions, which will help you give some feedback to the school around what you feel we should be. What we should keep, stop and start doing. Once we have gathered this information, the Board of Trustees will synthesize this and present it as a consultation to the community, before we eventually work towards developing a robust and progressive charter, which suit the aspirations of our community.
Martyn Knapton
Principal
