2014 Term Three and Four Planner
This is a combination of the Kamar events planner and some senior leadership team discussions.
Some key things to identify are that our seniors are under pressure with there being only around about 60 days of learning left in the academic year.
Another important aspect is that we've yet to finalise the dates or the number of days that our senior school examinations will need.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Maori Language Week at Waihi College.
Maori Students and Waihi College
The 5th of our college annual goals ties nicely in with the Maori Language Week. That goal states...
"Culturally Responsive Teaching - Teachers will continue to develop culturally responsive teaching practices that recognise the special place of Maori and Pacifika students to maximise effective learning relationships with students."
Waihi College is very much a bicultural school. We have on our role 201 students that primarily identify themselves as Maori. [based on the number of domestic students as at June 2014].
This means that 29% of our role, on enrolment have selected to identify firstly as Maori. There will be an additional number of students that will see themselves a Pakeha first with some Maori ancestry/whakapapa.
In year seven and eight 35% (67 students) of those cohorts primarily recognise themselves as Maori. There is a case for speculating that students are becoming more open to acknowledging their culture.
What does it mean to be Maori?
An interesting thing that can be noted, within the statistics of Maori in the population of students at Waihi College, is that whilst there are significant numbers of students identifying as Maori only two thirds were able to connect/identify with a specific Iwi.
n.b. Did you know that the Hauraki Maori Council officially recognised in the 1960's a new Iwi - Ngati Waihi. None of the current group of students recognised themselves in this Iwi.
Maori students are not getting the results that they should be getting. We in NZ education have a collective issue on addressing this inequitable situation.
Something tangible that we can all do as teachers is to check that we are honouring our Maori students names. Here is a video highlighting that pronunciation is important. The real key message is to be able to show the students that you care enough to try.
The 5th of our college annual goals ties nicely in with the Maori Language Week. That goal states...
"Culturally Responsive Teaching - Teachers will continue to develop culturally responsive teaching practices that recognise the special place of Maori and Pacifika students to maximise effective learning relationships with students."
Waihi College is very much a bicultural school. We have on our role 201 students that primarily identify themselves as Maori. [based on the number of domestic students as at June 2014].This means that 29% of our role, on enrolment have selected to identify firstly as Maori. There will be an additional number of students that will see themselves a Pakeha first with some Maori ancestry/whakapapa.
In year seven and eight 35% (67 students) of those cohorts primarily recognise themselves as Maori. There is a case for speculating that students are becoming more open to acknowledging their culture.
What does it mean to be Maori?
An interesting thing that can be noted, within the statistics of Maori in the population of students at Waihi College, is that whilst there are significant numbers of students identifying as Maori only two thirds were able to connect/identify with a specific Iwi.
n.b. Did you know that the Hauraki Maori Council officially recognised in the 1960's a new Iwi - Ngati Waihi. None of the current group of students recognised themselves in this Iwi.
Maori students are not getting the results that they should be getting. We in NZ education have a collective issue on addressing this inequitable situation.
Something tangible that we can all do as teachers is to check that we are honouring our Maori students names. Here is a video highlighting that pronunciation is important. The real key message is to be able to show the students that you care enough to try.
Here is that video by Key and Peele "Substitute Teacher" (comedy central)
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
2015 Term Dates
Official Term Dates
We have finalised the plan for next year. Here are the main dates that you can book in for...
Here is the calendar in a graphical format...
You can find this saved as an Excel spreadsheet on the s drive at S:\Administration\Waihi College 2015 Calendar.xlsx
We have finalised the plan for next year. Here are the main dates that you can book in for...
Term One 10 Weeks (from
Tuesday 27 Jan to Thursday 2 April)
- 26 Jan Auckland Anniversary
- 27 Jan Teacher Only Day
- 28 Jan Teacher Only Day
- 29 Jan Year 7 Only
- 30 Jan Years 7 - 10 Only
- 2 Feb Full School
- 6 Feb Waitangi Day
- 2 April Last Day of Term
Term Two 11 Weeks (from
Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July)
- 27 April Anzac Day (observed)
- 29 May Teacher Only Day
- 1 June Queens Birthday
- 3 July Last Day of Term.
Term Three 10 Weeks (from
Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September)
- 31 August to 4 September (Week Seven) Winter Tournament Week
- 31 August Teacher Only Day
- 25 September Last Day of Term
Term Four 9 Weeks (from
Monday 12 October to Friday 11 December)
- 26 October Labour Day (observed)
- 9 November NCEA External Examinations Start
- 11 December Last Day of Term/Year
Here is the calendar in a graphical format...
You can find this saved as an Excel spreadsheet on the s drive at S:\Administration\Waihi College 2015 Calendar.xlsx
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