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It was a busy week at Grey High last week. We are well into the swing of it and everyone should be settled into routines. Akoranga is an important value at our school and all of our teachers are working hard with our students to ensure that they are making progress across their subjects. Our senior students should be focusing on NCEA and their career pathways. Our junior students have their first family meeting on Thursday and this is a great opportunity for us to work together to ensure our 9s and 10s are realising their potential.

Still in terms of akoranga, I would like to remind you about the Akoranga Learning Hub which you can find on our website. Again, this is a great way for you to know what your young people are doing in class!

Learning can happen anywhere and this is one of the reasons why we support experiences outside the classroom. Our year 12 Biology class visited the shore line at Punakaiki on Monday as part of their “Rocky Shore” NCEA internal. Last time they tried to do this we had to call them back due to the tsunami warning but it was better luck this time! Our year 9s on Tuesday took part in Top Team Games supported by our Peer Support Leaders. Thanks to Maddy Crawford for all of her organisational skills.

The health, wellbeing and safety of our young people is very important to us and one of our school values - HAUORA. Please read the section we have written on vaping later in this newsletter.

A reminder that school will be shut for Easter on Friday 2nd April and school starts again on Wednesday 7th April.

“Whāea te iti kahurangi - strive for success”

Ngā mihi nui

Samantha Mortimer

Principal