Friday was Pink Shirt Day across Aotearoa.
Students and staff at MHJC got involved to spread the message of anti-bullying and acceptance.
We thank everyone who took part! We look forward to 2025!

Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day!

Pink Shirt Day is all about working together to stop bullying and to celebrate diversity in our communities.

Pink Shirt Day is celebrated in Aotearoa and around the world. MHJC will celebrate tomorrow by having students and staff wear pink. We look forward to seeing a sea of PINK tomorrow at MHJC!

Today, a number of MHJC students travelled to St Cuthbert’s College to participate in the annual Lit Quiz.
Our Year 7 team competed against 84 other teams and placed 13th overall! Congratulations to these students on a fantastic day!

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 – 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

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On Wednesday, MHJC held the annual 𝐓𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐚-𝐍𝐮𝐢-𝐚-𝐊𝐢𝐰𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥. This festival is a showcase of our Māori and Pasifika cultures and enables students to show who they are to our school and whānau community. The students involved put on incredible performances and we are excited to continue this festival in 2025.

Next week (Week 3 – May 13th-17th), MHJC will be holding our annual 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤.
The week promotes our MHJC philosophy of Kaitiakitanga (Guardianship) of our place, our home, our school, and our land.
Throughout the week, there will be four key activities that support environment initiatives . .

1. Wheels and Walk to School

2. Best /Cleanest Whānau Tautaiao Enviro Cup

3. Tread Lightly Educational lessons for all Year 7 classes

4. Pest Free Howick presentations to all students

An email outlining the above activities has been sent to all students and whānau. Please see this email for more details on how students can participate. We look forward to an exciting week.

Earlier this week, MHJC had teams compete in the South & East Auckland Cluster Chess Tournament.
Our intermediate chess team did extremely well at this tournament and have now qualified for the Auckland Regionals that will be held on August 1st. Other results from the tournament include:

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
4th place overall (Champions Trophy qualifier) – Japneet Singh (8F1)
3rd place overall (Champions Trophy qualifier) – Vihaan Morem (8M1)
1st place overall (Champions Trophy qualifier) – Ayaan Bhatia (8M1)

TEAM AWARDS
1st place overall 22 points (Auckland Regionals qualifier)

Please see below for some important reminders.

Year 10 NCEA information Evening 6-7pm Tuesday 14th May 2024 – held in the Theatre

Teacher’s Paid Union Meeting – Thursday 16th May 2024
Members of the PPTA (Secondary Teachers Union) will be attending a meeting on Thursday 16th May, 2024. As a result normal classes will stop at 12.00 noon. Please collect your child(ren) @ 12.00 noon from the Valderama Drive entrance only.
The school will remain open with teachers who are not PPTA members supervising students who need to remain at school in their Whānau.
Please email the Whānau Assistant, as below, if you wish your child to be supervised at school from 12pm on Thursday 16th May. For organisational purposes your email should reach us by Thursday 9th May, 2024.
It must be noted that if this request is not received, it is understood that the parent/caregiver will take responsibility for the supervision of their child/ren.

coast-studentservices@mhjc.school.nz
forest-studentservices@mhjc.school.nz
water-studentservices@mhjc.school.nz
mountains-studentservices@mhjc.school.nz

MHJC students have featured in a recent Times article about Anzac Day. Norah Mukalef delivered her stirring Anzac speech in Howick, while Mohammad Dhalli, Abel Wee, and Faazil Muhammed shared their poems at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. It is great seeing these students recognised in our wider community – we hope you enjoy the article too.

𝐀𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 – 𝐀𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
To commemorate Anzac Day, MHJC had three students travel to the Auckland War Memorial Museum – Mohammad Dhalli, Abel Wee, and Faazil Muhammed.
These boys presented their winning poems at the event. They were part of the 9 finalists who spoke, out of 189 entries. Congratulations to these three boys on doing a fabulous job representing our community and MHJC.