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Production 2022 – Ticket Sales

A reminder that MHJC’s production is coming up.

Please note, tickets to the Saturday show have now sold out and there are only a few tickets remaining for the Friday show. Ticket sales are online via Eventbrite or at the door before the show (if tickets remain). Tickets will also be sold before school next week by reception.

We look forward to seeing you at our 2022 Production!

Te Petihana Movement

This week we celebrate Te Wiki O te Reo Māori and this year, we are excited to collaborate with our neighbouring kura, Mission Heights Primary School.

Today marks 50 years of Te Petihana movement.

“The Māori Language Petition (Te Petihana) presentation to Parliament on 14 September 1972, with over 30,000 signatures, kickstarted major shifts in the revival of Te Reo Māori as a living language in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since this moment 50 years ago, Te Petihana has, and continues, to inspire the Māori language movement.”

MHJC and MHP look forward to continuing this celebration for the rest of the week.

AIMS 2022

Last week, a group of Year 7 and 8 students headed down to Tauranga for the AIMS Games (Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools). Teams and individual athletes competed across a number of sports and had a successful week with other athletes from across the country.

Congratulations to all who competed!

Tournament of Minds

On Saturday, MHJC hosted over 30 teams from all over Auckland and Northland at the Regional Tournament of Minds Competition.

Tournament of Minds (TOM) is a problem-solving program for multi-aged teams of students who work together to solve a demanding, open-ended Long-Term Super Challenge. The program has Primary, Intermediate and Secondary divisions. Tournament of Minds aim is to enhance the potential of our youth by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time management, and the discipline to work collaboratively within a challenging and competitive environment. The teams had six weeks to formulate a solution to their one chosen challenge and ten minutes to present their solution in person. They also completed an unsighted Spontaneous Challenge.

Congratulations to team ‘Still Wondering’ who won in the Secondary Social Science Challenge. The team consisted of Saketha Jandhyala, Owen Chen, Savir Selagan, Riya Sutton, Yashvi Patel, and Alan Shipway.

Our Intermediate Language and Literature team placed 2nd in their category. The team ‘Literary Coven’ were made up of Dia Pokharkar, Tehzeeb Kaur, Max Jiang, Jay Govindji, Jasleen Brar, and Kirsten Pelayo.

Year 10 Drama – ‘Dawn Raids’

This past Thursday, our Year 10 Drama students went to see the play ‘Dawn Raids’ at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. The show was an emotional tribute to a dark event in New Zealand’s history. Students loved being able to experience live theatre and get immersed in the story written by Oscar Kightley.