From the Principal

Kia ora koutou,

A highlight for Mangakōtukutuku College over the last fortnight was the Pasifika Festival Assembly. Beautiful students doing beautiful dancing and having lots of fun. It was wonderful to have the students and teachers from Patricia Avenue School join us for the occasion. We look forward to seeing more of our lovely neighbours.

SENIOR SCHOOL AND NCEA

With the Literacy and numeracy testing coming up and the mock exams coming up we have set up a senior school taskforce to interview all our students and to put in place an individual plan for every one of them. Please ask your student whether they have been interviewed and what their plan is for the rest of the year.

WISDOM FROM OUR ACADEMIC COUNCIL

Here are two tips from our students who are in the Academic Council:

1. Don’t go on social media before studying. It puts you in a lazy mindset and it’s hard to refocus.
2. Physical exercise is a rest from mental exercise.

Good advice I reckon - You could reinforce these tips with your students at home.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

A number of senior students achieved Excellence in their Internal Assessments during Terms One and Two. Congratulations to you all. Please click on the link below to view the names of these students:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WY-yNy_iw5Zy2vTWvnzwd59aUCplB1e0/view?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful week.

Barbara Cavanagh
Acting Principal-Tumuaki

Recent News

Pasifika Assembly

Our first Pasifika assembly took place two weeks ago. Students and staff shared what they miss most about the islands and our talented students performed a number of cultural dance items.
We are so proud to have such diversity within in our school.

Leadership Symposium

On Friday 30 August our Head Students hosted a Leadership Symposium in collaboration with the Head Students from Hauraki Plains College. A large number of students from across the Waikato participated in the day which included an address from ex- Melville High School student Ihaka Stanley.

Winter Sport

Well done to all students who participated in Winter Sport this season. We are proud of the way that you represented our school on the field and court.

A special thank you must go out to all those who voluntarily coach and manage sports teams.

Reminders

1. Junior testing for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 is coming up in Weeks 6 & 7.

2. Mock exams will take place in Week 10. All senior students who will be sitting External Exams at the end of the year will need to participate in these.

3. Common Assessment Activities for Literacy and Numeracy will take place in Week 9.

4. All students should have their mobile phones in a Yondr pouch for the duration of each day.

5. Students are not permitted to leave school grounds during the day. This poses a serious Health and Safety Risk. If your child needs to leave school early, please contact us directly.