Kindness Week will be running in Week 3 this term, from Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th May.
Awhinatanga (Kindness/Compassion) is one of our underlying values at MHJC.
A recent story of outstanding Awhinatanga occurred this past Friday. A number of students travelled off-site to participate in the Imagine Cup. One of the students attending won a competition at this event and was a gifted a brand new laptop as a prize. This student realised a peer of hers’ would benefit more than herself from receiving such laptop, so she gifted this laptop prize to her peer. What an awesome act of kindness and generosity and a huge display of one of our key school values!
Our first Hui/Fono will be held this week on Thursday 12th May from 6-7pm in the staffroom. Please RSVP to Miss Shields (Pasifika parents) – ashields@mhjc.school.nz or Ms Katafono (Māori parents) – mkatafono@mhjc.school.nz. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!
Today, all Year 7 students at MHJC walked down to the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple. Students participated in a morning of cultural learning and sharing. A fabulous tradition for MHJC students and our wider community.
We would like to extend an invitation to all our 2021 Graduates to attend an afternoon tea on Thursday 26th May from 4-6pm in the MHJC gym. Unfortunately, due to covid, our graduating class of 2021 was not able to have the typical graduation ceremony and dinner. This time together on May 26th will enable us to farewell the 2021 graduating class and share stories/photos of their time at MHJC. We ask members of the 2021 graduating class to RSVP using the link below. Dress code for this event is new school uniform or smart casual. We look forward to seeing you!
Every Wednesday, for the next 20 weeks, our Pasifika students will have the opportunity to experience and learn about Pasifika drumming. Today was their first session. What great music! More to come as this programme progresses.
Samara Ndoro (10F2) and Faazil Muhammed (7F1) presented their Anzac poetry at the War Memorial Museum on Anzac morning. Both students spoke beautifully. There were 3 divisions – under 12 years old, 12 to 17 years old, and 18 years old and over. Three winners in each division shared their work. It was excellent to see MHJC values in action with students ‘Growing their Greatness’ amongst other North Island finalists.
A reminder to our community that the last day of Term is next Thursday 14th April. School will be finishing at 1pm. We wish our community a relaxing break.
Our ‘MHJC Term 1 Newsletter 2022’ has now been sent out to our community and can be found linked below. We would like to thank everyone for a fantastic start to the school year and we wish our community a wonderful final week of term and break!
Whānau Āwhina Plunket is offering an online Babysitting Course to our senior students.
This course is designed to give high school students the knowledge and skills to babysit children of all ages. It’s written for first time babysitters; students don’t need to have previous experience to enrol. The course ideal for students aged 14 and above and takes around 2-3 hours to complete.
Students work through nine sequential modules, and on completion of the course and the final quiz, will receive a certificate certified by Whānau Āwhina Plunket to show employers that they have completed this course and are ready to babysit. As well as the certificate, the students are sent a Babysitter’s Manual that supports all the information they have learned in the course.
This course is presented using videos, quizzes and activities which are fun as well as informative. For more information, please see the link below.
