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ACCORD DAY

We had a fantastic teacher only day on Tuesday 30th November. We always try to do something fun and Kate Cronin, our teacher in charge of staff wellbeing, organised each department to dress up in fancy dress based on a movie. We had Maths as Ghostbusters, Tech as the Pink Ladies from Grease, Languages as Mean Girls, Supported Learning as witches, The Arts as Aladdin, PE department as T-birds from Grease, Science as Lord of the Rings and SLT as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was good fun and I promise you that we did lots of learning as well!

PLD FUNDING FOR GREYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL - Culturally competent teaching - He Kākano

We have been successful at receiving from the Ministry of Education 200 hours of professional development - Culturally competent teaching; He Kākano. We will be working with Kati Waewae and we are very excited about this. My thanks go out to Whaea Kylie Bellis who put in massive amounts of work into this application, as well as Ariana Stevens and the Komiti Matauranga from Kati Waewae.

PLD FUNDING FOR OUR MĀWHERA KAHUI AKO

We have also been successful in receiving from the Ministry of Education 400 hours of professional development on Restorative Practice. My thanks go to Mandy Dodds and Shirley Serban for all of their hard work. I am very much looking forward to working even closely with our surrounding primary schools to develop Great West Coast Kids.

Youth Member of Parliament

Our absolute congratulations go out to Samantha Bergin who has been offered the position of Youth MP with Damien O’Connor. We are so proud of her and we know she will not only represent Grey High fantastically well but also the Coast.

Annual Planning for 2022

We are in the throes of annual planning for 2022 with the whole teaching staff. At the moment our annual plan is looking specifically at our Junior and Senior Curriculum, Restorative Practice and PB4L and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Traffic Light System

Even though we will be moving to the Traffic Light System across NZ on Friday in schools here on the Coast we stay following the Level 2 rules. Next year we will make sure that we follow the Government advice for the Traffic Light System in the new year.

Junior 2050 Programme (Different timetable)

Next week we are running our Junior 2050 timetable with a wide range of amazing opportunities to choose from. Our thanks go to Lara Thompson and her team who made this happen:

• Civil Defence

• Media

• Parliament and procedures

• Time capsules

• Our plastic landfill

• Life on Mars

• Where are all the bees?

• A bit of a squeeze

• Too fat, no food

• Emerging markets 2050

• Taskmaster

• Get outside

• Textile upcycling

• Resene Mural Painting

End of school dates and times for Juniors - including Prizegivings

Friday, 10th December Junior Prize Givings

Year 9 Prize Giving - 9.50am - 10.50am

Year 10 Prize Giving - 11am - 12pm

Year 9 and 10 finish at 12pm

Dates for start of year 2022

February 1st - Y12 + 13 course confirmation

Students who have been notified that their course selections need modifying will come in to make further arrangements.

February 2nd - Y9 + 13 start date

All Y9 + Y13 students will start at 8.40am. Some Y13 students will have peer support with the Y9 students to help them orientate themselves at GHS.

February 3rd - All school start

All students at school and on timetable.

“Whāea te iti kahurangi - strive for success”

Ngā mihi nui

Samantha Mortimer

Principal

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