Senior Leaders are working towards welcoming everyone back next week with a focus on “connection” particularly with our newly enrolled students.
An email will be sent later this week giving more information about the start of school following the “Red traffic light” settings announced yesterday.
Plans are already in place to ensure that students and staff will be safe and we encourage parents to consider Ministry of Health advice about getting their children vaccinated ahead of school opening.

Parents of Year 10 students and school leavers, who are not currently at school, may collect packs at the dates and times below. Packs include Yearbook, photographs, certificates, and other items to be taken home if students are not returning.  More information will be shared by your Whānau Leaders nearer the time about the Health and Safety Guidelines for this process. Please enter on the Jeffs Road side of the school.

Year 7, 8 and 9 students who are retuning to MHJC in 2022 will get their packs in the new year.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, prizegiving this year will look at little different.  Each prizegiving will be broadcast via Youtube, these links will only work from the date and time each specific prizegiving starts.

Year 7 Prizegiving, available from December 15, 10:00am: https://youtu.be/Pilhy_xz8f4
Year 8 Prizegiving, available from December 15, 10:00am: https://youtu.be/ogvQ9WTnRCQ
Year 9 Prizegiving, available from December 14, 10:00am: https://youtu.be/RxEFpoG9sWA
Year 10 Graduation and Prizegiving, available from December 14, 12:00pm: https://youtu.be/VnCCI7o8w2w

A reminder of dates / times for the final week of school.

To avoid any confusion this announcement may cause, next week and until the end of the school year, MHJC will continue to offer students the same distance learning opportunities either on site or at home as we have for the last two weeks.

Packs containing Year books, photographs, certificates and other items will be issued for students to take home, or pick up next year if returning.

Parents of Year 10 students and leavers who are not at school may collect these packs on the following days and times:

• Coast Monday 13 December – 3 – 4 pm
• Forest Tuesday 14 December – 3 – 4 pm
• Water Monday 13 December – 3 – 4 pm
• Mountains Tuesday 14 December – 3 – 4 pm

More information will be shared by your Whānau Leaders nearer the time about the Health and Safety Guidelines for this process. Please enter on the Jeffs Road side of the school.

Prizegiving and Graduation ceremonies will be pre-recorded owing to Covid-19 restrictions, and a link will be sent out to the community at a later stage.

Last Week of Term

Monday 13 December – Year 7 and 8 normal day, school closes at 3 pm
Tuesday 14 December – Year 9 and 10 last day, school closes at 3 pm
Wednesday 15 December – Year 7 and 8 last day, school closes at 1 pm

Please note this day has been cancelled to allow for supervision of our Year 7 and 8 students on Friday 26th November.

We would like to wish our community a very Happy Gurpurab/Guru Nanak Jayanti/Prakash Utsav!

Congratulations to Harmann Mahey (9W2), who won 2nd prize in the University of Canterbury Law School Essay Competition, under the question category – Should we continue to keep our borders closed to try and prevent the spread of Covid-19? The competition was open to secondary school students across the country. This is a tremendous achievement and a testament to Harmann’s hard work and skill.

Jennifer Sun (7M1) will represent Aotearoa in the 1st Chinese Bridge Chinese Show for foreign primary school students. Only two students were selected across New Zealand and Jennifer is one of them! The show will take place online on 23 November. We wish Jennifer all the best.