Kia ora koutou I once again write in uncertain times. We feel slightly removed from the events in Auckland so we feel we can go about most things fairly normally but there is a heightened sense of caution as this new reality unfolds. A key word at this point for me is vigilance. We need […]
Category: Principal’s Message
We had our open evening last Monday night and our first music evening on Wednesday night. Only a few weeks ago we felt resigned to the fact that these sorts of events wouldn’t happen this year. It’s been lovely to see the re-activation of our cultural and sporting programmes. We are very lucky that we […]
I write at the end of the first school week at level 2. The key principles of level 2 are to: reduce the risk of someone getting infected in the first place, ensure we can identify and contact anyone who becomes infected, understand that it is not business as usual. We have extensively planned for […]
We have entered day 2 of the lockdown, and there is a welcome serenity about life, at least in my household. It has been wonderful to read stories of our staff and the connections they have been making with their students through google meet, google classroom, and the year 11 discord initiative. For the most […]
In his mid-term Principal’s message, Dominic talks of the school’s roll growth, the Education Growth Plan for Wellington Central, and the opportunity to be involved in the first stages of consultation as we work with master planners to develop our facilities and site.
At the start of the year assemblies I spoke about a number of things. One of these was our core priorities based on the māori word WERO. WERO means ‘challenge’ and it is about Whānau, Excellence, Respect and Ora and I want to focus on one of these aspects in particular, whānau. In thinking about […]
This has been adapted from the Principal’s speech delivered at Senior Prizegiving on 4 November. At the end of last term I reflected on success and the many people involved to create that success. My thoughts were prompted by a lovely story that arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago. The email referenced […]
Message from the Principal It is often said that “it takes a village to raise a child” and this term has highlighted to me the strength in collaboration. There have been many highlights of a very busy term but the ones that stand out for me have all involved a high level of cooperation between […]
Please read the mid-term message from the Principal which, as students sit their derived grade exams, focuses on NCEA.
Message from the Principal Recently we ran our annual International Students dinner and I was thinking about the effect these students have on the rest of the students in the school. One of the leaving students from Germany, Nelina Neumann, spoke very eloquently about her time here, about the life long friendships she had made […]