Nga mihi nui kia koutou katoa. Welcome to the Hornby High School newsletter for August 2023.

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It has been a busy term.

Resilience is a key attribute for any young person. The New Zealand Curriculum has seven key competencies including self-managing. If there was ever a time when students needed to enact this, it was during the period of rostering home.

The word homework has a tendency to cause a range of reactions most frequently, “nah the teacher didn’t give us any”. On many occasions this is likely to be true. However, a resilient, self managing learner with clear academic goals will always find ‘work’ to do ‘at ‘home’. This might include:

reviewing work covered in class

reading a book

checking out the subject learning site

doing online research related to current in class topics

checking out studyit (https://studyit.govt.nz)

writing a personal blog

getting a study buddy…………………..

It is key for students to take responsibility for their learning; the teacher is there to guide and facilitate but a successful teaching and learning relationship needs to be reciprocal. On that note, our senior students in particular should be using their time to complete unfinished work and to start studying for the derived grade examinations which are calendared for week 9 of this term.

A reminder also that we do have an ‘open door’ policy at Hornby High School, and if parents/caregivers have concerns please feel welcome to contact the office to arrange to talk with one of our staff, teacher of your child or one of the year group Deans.

Ngā mihi nui

Iain Murray