Video resources are available from The Revolution Tour, thanks to funding from the Ministry of Social Development, it has developed 6 short talks that support young people’s mental health.
https://www.revolutiontour.co.nz/
Video resources are available from The Revolution Tour, thanks to funding from the Ministry of Social Development, it has developed 6 short talks that support young people’s mental health.
https://www.revolutiontour.co.nz/
On Friday 12th February, students and staff from Water Whānau travelled to the Panmure Pools for a start of year celebration. Students spent time strengthening relationships, building water confidence, and having fun.
SPECIAL REPORT: Starting Year 7
Starting Year 7 poses many new challenges, but also offers exciting opportunities. It comes with a number of mixed feelings. Unfortunately for many Year 6 students, 2020 was marred with school closures and remote learning due to the pandemic and the overall impact of this is still unknown.
For many students regular orientation activities at the end of 2020 were less than ideal. Therefore, many students may be feeling a little bit more anxious than usual about their expectations of starting Year 7. Grasping new skills and establishing new study practices can quickly become daunting and overwhelming.
During this time of transition, parents and carers need to be supportive, but also realistic in their expectations. This is an important milestone in your child’s life. There will be feelings of exhilaration, but also the fear of the unknown. Therefore it will be important for parents and carers to be vigilant in monitoring their child’s mood and mental health during this time. They could easily become overly anxious or even depressed.
In this Special Report, there are a number of strategies offered that can make this transition period smoother and start things off on the right foot! We hope you take time to reflect on the information offered in this Special Report, and as always, we welcome your feedback.
If you do have any concerns about the wellbeing of your child, please contact the school for further information or seek medical or professional help.
Here is the link to your special report https://mhjc.nz.schooltv.me/wellbeing_news/special-report-transition-high-school
What a beautiful weekend to enjoy our place Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau.
Many thanks for the kind donation of hand sanitizers from a donor to the temple.
Kia ora
Just a brief welcome message from me to our new and returning staff and students. I trust this year will be a fulfilling one for you all as you continue your journey of growing your greatness.
Hopefully we will be able to follow a normal start up to the year with Admin Day on Tuesday 2nd February. Should the lockdown levels change, owing to COVID, I will inform you as soon as possible by email, web site and facebook.
This message from the Ministry of Education is particularly relevant as we must remain vigilant and follow the regular reminders we received last year:
We continue to have a large amount of control over how we can prevent the spread of COVID.
For our school we will:
display QR code posters for the NZ COVID Tracer App
keep our visitor register, attendance register and timetables up to date
be monitoring for illness and asking anyone who is unwell to remain at home, or to go home
encourage people with relevant symptoms to seek medical advice through Health Line or their GP and get tested for COVID if recommended to do so
reinforce the importance of good hand washing and drying
reinforce good cough and sneeze etiquette
we will continue to regularly clean all parts of our school.
Best wishes to you all.
Nga mihi
Ian Morrison
Principal