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Tournament of Minds

On Saturday, MHJC hosted over 30 teams from all over Auckland and Northland at the Regional Tournament of Minds Competition.

Tournament of Minds (TOM) is a problem-solving program for multi-aged teams of students who work together to solve a demanding, open-ended Long-Term Super Challenge. The program has Primary, Intermediate and Secondary divisions. Tournament of Minds aim is to enhance the potential of our youth by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time management, and the discipline to work collaboratively within a challenging and competitive environment. The teams had six weeks to formulate a solution to their one chosen challenge and ten minutes to present their solution in person. They also completed an unsighted Spontaneous Challenge.

Congratulations to team ‘Still Wondering’ who won in the Secondary Social Science Challenge. The team consisted of Saketha Jandhyala, Owen Chen, Savir Selagan, Riya Sutton, Yashvi Patel, and Alan Shipway.

Our Intermediate Language and Literature team placed 2nd in their category. The team ‘Literary Coven’ were made up of Dia Pokharkar, Tehzeeb Kaur, Max Jiang, Jay Govindji, Jasleen Brar, and Kirsten Pelayo.

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Year 10 Drama – ‘Dawn Raids’

This past Thursday, our Year 10 Drama students went to see the play ‘Dawn Raids’ at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. The show was an emotional tribute to a dark event in New Zealand’s history. Students loved being able to experience live theatre and get immersed in the story written by Oscar Kightley.

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The MHJC Graduate Profile or Great Learner

With Student Led Conferences coming soon it is a good opportunity to explain a significant change in how we have been reporting to parents. 

Three years ago we felt it important to report on the whole child which is why we refer to the new report as a Holistic Report. We want students to be able to articulate their learning journey by referring to their Graduate Profile recorded within the following broad domains:

  • academic progress and achievement in all learning areas, as well as literacy and numeracy;
  • engagement at school which includes participation in our “Four Cornerstones” or co-curricular activities, attendance, punctuality and homework completion and
  • evidence of living our school values of pono/integrity, awhinatanga/compassion and whakamana/empowering through learning.

The thinking behind this change is that it reinforces our school vision and purpose expressed by our motto of “growing greatness/kia mana ake”. We believe that every student has a grain of greatness and it is our mission to help students to find and grow this grain of greatness. This should be represented by our report which is multidimensional and gives students opportunities to show their greatness in many ways rather than a one-dimensional report on achievement. We believe that all our students should feel or experience success in some way through their MHJC journey and the report acknowledges this.

Teachers have been working with students on what we consider to be an innovative approach to reporting. Rather than teachers passing a judgment on students, it is they who “write their own report” and progress through the stages of our Graduate Profile by understanding and showing evidence of our school values. This acknowledges the need for schools to provide learning opportunities for students to learn how to manage themselves effectively, reach out to others and learn how to learn. These are the messages we receive continuously as the critical ingredients for future success and so it makes sense that everything we do at school aligns with the report.

This is an exciting and at times challenging journey but one which we believe will be of immeasurable benefit to our students. Thank you for supporting us and I trust you enjoy hearing how your child/ren give expression to their journey.

Growing greatness/kia mana ake!

Ian Morrison

Principal/Tumuaki

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Auckland Mathex Competition

Our Year 7 & 8 Mathex Teams attended the Auckland Mathex Competition last night. Quite a few MHJC parents were there to cheer and support our students too. It was one of the most exciting Mathex events to date and our 4 teams put up a great effort with incredible achievements.

Our Year 7 teams scored 80 points out of 100 and our Year 8 teams scored 90 and 75 points.

Congratulations to the students who attended!

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Regional Science Fair Success

MHJC students have had another year of success at the Regional Science Fair. Three groups of Year 9 students received awards in recognition of their hard work. Congratulations to the following students.

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 – Y9+10 Living World – Anu Gill, Aashi Golchaa, Kinjal Pandey (Forest Whānau)

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 – Y9+10 Living World – Shubhreet Kaur, Manaspreet Kaur, Diseni Ratnayake (Mountains Whānau)

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 – Y9+10 Physical + Material World – Dominic Iugan, Kayleen Soong, Aryan Reddy (Coast Whānau)

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MHJC’s 2022 Production – Tickets on Sale NOW

Kia Ora MHJC Community!

We are very pleased to announce that tickets to our 2022 School Production are on sale as of right now!

You can purchase these online via the website: eventbrite.co.nz

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/high-school-musical-mission-heights-junior-college-tickets-406520081507

We hope you are really excited about coming to see your children, their friends and all their hard work!!

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀:

Wednesday 21st September – 7pm

Thursday 22nd September – 7pm

Friday 23rd September – 7pm

Saturday 24th September – 5pm (please note the earlier showing time)

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀:

Students – $15 (17 and under)

Adults – $20

Family pass – 2 Adults and 2 Children – $60

The running time is approximately 2.5 hours, this includes a 20 minute interval. There will be food and drink for sale before hand and during intermission (cash only).

We hope to see you there!

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