Earlier this term, students in Mountains Whānau completed the CensusAtSchool. Below is a link to the website in which our students feature. Have a look!
https://new.censusatschool.org.nz/2023/03/10/mission-heights-junior-college-takes-part-in-censusatschool/

𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝟏 – 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥
Students will be released at 1pm on the last day of term, Thursday 6th April 2023. This does not affect our statutory requirements in terms of the number of days open for instruction.

𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 – 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥
School will be closed on Monday 24th April due to a Teacher Only Day. Term 2 will start on Wednesday 26th April after ANZAC Day.

Today was our Kaitiakitanga Community Day. This day was developed to share the mahi of caring for our 20,000 native species that were planted last year. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported this event.
https://youtu.be/sCnjmr5qSs8

I have received notification from PPTA of strike action planned for Wednesday 29 March as at this date negotiations between the secondary teacher unions and the Ministry of Education have not been resolved. 

As was the case on 16 March, owing to the large number of teachers who are union members we will have no choice in terms of Health and Safety but to close the school on 29 March should the strike go ahead.

We wanted to give you advance notice so that you can make arrangements to supervise your child/ren for that day.

I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. 

Year 7 students from Mountains Whānau (7M2) took part in the New Zealand Stats Census Competition and won a prize – a $100 stationery voucher as part of the 2023 Census Teacher’s Toolkit competition. Great work 7M2!

A message from the Secretary of the Howick Lions Club – which has been serving the Howick community for 61 years.

During the COVID era, the Howick Lions Club was unfortunately unable to offer the community the annual Water Safety Picnic due to health and safety considerations – BUT this year it will be back bigger and better than before.

Previous partnerships have been reignited and new ones forged with the Cockle Bay Ratepayers Association who will be supporting this new venture. Details about the event are below:

Date: Sunday 26 March 2023

Venue: Cockle Bay Beach Parade area

Time: 10 am to 3 pm

The BIG Dig is a koha and there will be a number of other free activities plus kai, demonstrations, etc. Hope to see you there!

Please see details below about our upcoming Kaitiakitanga Community Day on Friday 24th March from 8.30am – 3pm. This is a pop-in event to help care for the 20,000 native species that surround our bike track.

This week, Mountains and Coast Whānau have been out at Camp Adair on Year 7 Camp. Here, students from Mountains Whānau are completing the river safety tubing activity. What fun!

A reminder that MHJC will be closed tomorrow (Thursday 16th March) due to the strike.