Thank you all for your attendance at the Learning Progress Interviews at the end of Term 1. It is great that so many of you were able to attend, meet your daughter’s teachers and receive feedback about her learning. The girls are always welcome to attend with you and in this way any information or feedback is direct and there is nothing lost in translation!

For Term 2, all students will receive a written report, and this will be ready to go out to you at the end of this term. If you have any concerns or questions regarding your daughter’s learning, please be in touch with her Tutor or Dean.

Further Learning Progress interviews will be held in Term 3, for juniors in Week 4 and seniors in Week 9.

It is important to remember that NCEA is a yearlong event. Assessments happen all year and learning in the classrooms may be tied directly to an internal assessment or preparing for external examinations that will not be assessed until November; all the learning contributes to the assessment package. Term 2 is a busy time for senior students and a large number of internal assessment events occur in the next nine weeks. Internals are the assessments that students have the greatest control over as there is often a longer period in which to complete assignments with guidance and feedback from their teachers. It is the students’ responsibility to manage their assessment programme by meeting all checkpoints and deadlines. RangiLife ‘Course Information’ contains the course outlines for the daughter’s subjects and the Term 2 Assessment Schedule. https://rangilife.school.nz/curriculum-support/course-information/

Keeping on top of internal assessments and keeping up with the learning that is crucial for the external assessments is a balancing act and effective time management is a learned skill. Girls need to be organised, fed and rested in order to properly learn and practice time management. This is a partnership and they need guidance and clear boundaries at home in order to function well at school. Thank you for the part you play in this.

Juliet Collins Assistant Principal - Curriculum