Sports events
Start time: From 9.00am
Athletics Day: 23 & 24 February
Swimming sports: 9 & 10 March
We welcome parents, caregivers, and whanau, to come along to these events to support our students. Postponement of events due to weather will be notified via our school's Facebook page.
Project
As you will no doubt have seen the major re-development project is well underway with work on B-Block well underway. I hope to have a timeline update early next week, and although it has been a very long time coming, it has at least begun. Let's hope for fine weather and committed construction crew.
Wifi Upgrade
We have also over the holidays carried out a major Wifi upgrade, replacing all our wireless points throughout the school giving us fast wireless access throughout, finally, and making work so much easier and more efficient. There is a further upgrade to happen once the major works project has relocated and finalised the server. But we are so lucky to now have quality equipment and access throughout the school.
Change to our Whanau Ako House Structure
This year we have changed our Whanau Ako classes to be vertical classes, having years 9,10,11,12, and 13 students in the same House Whanau Ako class.
They remain within their same houses, but we have changed the way that we put them into their Whanau Ako classes.
The reason for the change to vertical classes is to strengthen the house structure by providing more opportunities for our great senior students in terms of leadership within the house and school and giving greater opportunities for our seniors to mentor younger students and be seen as active and involved role models.
Our senior students are exemplary young people and we need to develop and utilise the attributes they bring to the school.
This is a structure we used to have in the past and now we are bringing back something that has been successful and will be moving into the future.
For me, this structure fits in so well with our school motto:
WIRED – Whanaungatanga – Integrity – Respect – Excellence – Determination
House Names:
Hillary - Whēkite – Observation / See - Blue
Rutherford - Werohia – Analyse and Investigate - Red
Reed - Whēkaro – Learn - Yellow
Halberg - Whakairihia – Apply new knowledge - Green
Swimming sports is 9/10 March
Athletics is 23/24 Feb!
Edgecumbe College Junior Certificate
Has been developed and awarded this week to recognise students who have succeeded academically in Years 9 and 10.
Each of the subjects in year 9 and 10 are awarded credits. All the credits are added at the end of the year and students who have gained academic success are awarded a Bronze, Silver, or Gold certificate. The top three students are chosen in each level for the Supreme Award. This award takes in the quality of credits and points awarded for Achieved, Merit, and Excellence. These are all added and ranked 1st to 3rd in each of the year levels.
All the very best for the year, without Covid playing a major part, we are looking forward to a settled and successful year for our students.
Attendance
The most important thing our students can do for their achievement is to attend school regularly!! This as you will have seen in the press is a major, if not the major issue facing New Zealand / Aotearoa. Having successful, educated young people is a must if we want to be successful as a nation.
Whilst 80% attendance for a student sounds good, it actually means that they are missing a day a week! Or in the case of junior students, they are missing almost 8 weeks a year!!!! Students must be here at least 95% of the time unless the are other issues beyond their control.
To learn and succeed students need to be at school. Please support us in our endeavours to get all of our students to school.
3D Printing
