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Year 13 Dean's Report

Rowena Clemence —

Kia ora i te whānau. Year 13 is a special year, it is our students' final year and it is the end of something, but the looking forward to something new for us all. I'm genuinely excited, proud, and hopeful, for what this year will give us.

The kura spirit will be tested and developed with Athletics day coming up, for which our prefect team have been busy preparing and for which our Year 13 cohort in general has been showing great enthusiasm.

I'm pleased with the uniform standards, and timeliness of most of our cohort as it has steadily improved over the past five years, it is a telling sign of maturity that we turn up for the boring bits as well as the interesting bits and the fun.

I would like to make it clear how very proud I am of our 2020 academic results for this cohort. It was a significant improvement from 2019 with a good understanding of how NCEA works, made even more impressive by the fact that it was a very tough year in so many ways.

This year, it is 60 credits at level three to attain NCEA Level Three, as long as your young person has 20 credits or more at level two already. For University Entrance Literacy, students need five reading credits and five writing credits. These are from 'tagged' standards, which are up online on NZQA and should be clearly denoted on course outlines on subject teachers' sites. These credits can come from a range of Level Two or Three standards. Please let me know if this needs clarifying. Many young people have already attained their UE literacy in Level Two so do not have to worry about this. University Entrance itself is 14 credits in each of three approved University Entrance subjects. Generally, these are subjects which are Achievement Standards based rather than Unit Standards based. Again, these courses will be denoted on course outlines on teacher sites.

Some useful places to go to for information are listed here:

Teacher sites at Hornby High school (scroll down for the buttons)

NZQA University Entrance Literacy standards

NZQA UE in approved subjects

ARA

SIT

University of Canterbury

If you need help, support, or a chat about how your young person is going at kura, please reach out, I'm most accessible on my email; ce@hornby.school.nz

Ngā mihi aroha,

Rowena Clemence (pronouns: she/her)

Year 13 Dean 2021, e-Learning Co-ordinator & HOD Visual Art

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