We would like to inform the community that Neil Penfold has been appointed to the Senior Management team of Selwyn College. Mr Penfold has been with the college since July 2013 and he has served the college admirably as Mountains Whanau DP since that time. Mr Penfold’s replacement will start at the beginning of term 3.
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Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – Year of the Rooster
Ji nian kuai le. Gongxi fa cai, xin nian ji xiang.
祝 大家， 鸡年吉祥， 新年快乐，恭喜发财。
ERO Report 2016
Please see the PDF below for our latest report from the Educational Review Office.
e-asTTle
At Mission Heights Junior College we use e-asTTle tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year to help us gain an insight into the numeracy and literacy abilities of our students. This data in turn helps us to personalise and cater for the diverse learning needs of our students, it is also used to help us measure student progress.
At the completion of each test each student has an ‘Individual Learning Pathway’ report that is generated for them. This report allows them and us as their teachers to identify their strengths and weaknesses. This is the report that your child will share with you in their Student Led Conference.
The report is divided up into four quadrants:
- Achieved (Yellow) – questions that, given the student’s overall e-asTTle score (in the appropriate curriculum area), should have been answered correctly and were.
- Strengths (Green)– questions that were expected to be answered incorrectly, given the student’s overall e-asTTle score, but were answered correctly. These questions are more difficult than his/her overall ability. However for reading, it is possible for a student to have correctly guessed the answer to questions that would normally be outside their ability range. While such responses will be excluded from the student’s level calculation, the questions will still display in the Strengths box.
- Gaps (Red) – questions that, given the student’s overall e-asTTle score should have been answered correctly but were incorrect. These are questions that would be expected to be relatively easy for the student. This is an area where teachers will investigate to determine the reason. It may be due to carelessness, skipping questions, illness or not having being taught it yet. As these questions are at a level easier than the student’s overall ability, it is expected that the student should be able to learn this information quickly.
- To Be Achieved (Blue) – questions that were expected to be answered incorrectly, given the student’s overall e-asTTle score, and were answered incorrectly. These questions signify areas that the student has yet to achieve and in which it is expected they will require more teaching and learning of strategies to achieve in this/these areas moving forward.
It is possible for the same objective to be listed in multiple quadrants, because the questions relating to a single objective may be of varying curriculum levels.
A question may appear more than once in the same quadrant. This is because a question may have more than one objective associated with it.
More information about the ILP reports can be found here.
We have recently developed and are trialling a new tool which will see students identify the area of most concern in the ‘To Be Achieved (Blue)’ box of their report and make a goal using strategies to target this area of weakness. We are hoping that by doing this students will have a better understanding of the reports, their own capabilities and take more ownership of their learning between tests by making and revisiting goals around their needs.
At the completion of the test an overall score is generated for each student, from these scores we are able to identify if students are ‘well below’, ‘below’, ‘at’ or ‘above’ where they should be for their cohort nationally. This information is outlaid in the ‘MHJC Traffic Lighting’ for reading and maths and is used by teachers to personalise the learning of students with level appropriate texts and tasks. This differentiation and personalisation of learning is important in order to help students make positive shifts towards where they need to be to meet cohort expectation or to extend them and provide them with the necessary challenge needed if they are working above level.
Alanna Young Thanked for Considerable Service to MHJC’s BOT
Mrs Alanna Young will be standing down as Board Chair this year and wishes to thank the Board and community for their support over 8 years of service. Alanna has thoroughly enjoyed working on the Board of Trustees and for the school – supporting the school’s vision “Growing Greatness through innovative, constantly evolving and personalised learning”.
Alanna was co-opted as a parent representative onto the Establishment Board of Mission Heights Junior College in 2008, a year prior to its opening in 2009. In 2010, she was elected as Board Chairperson and continued in that capacity until the beginning of this year. Mr Blair Telfer has now been elected as Board Chairperson, to aid succession planning with the Triennial Board Elections coming up shortly.
Mission Heights Junior College is certainly a better place due to the strong leadership and support Alanna has given the school.
Enrolment Information
Mission Heights Junior College is open for students in Years 7 to 10. MHJC will not enroll students under the age of 10 years.
An Information Evening for prospective students enrolling for 2024 will be held on 2nd Aug 2023 from 6pm to 7pm. This will be a good opportunity to meet the principal, members of staff and students and go on a tour of the school.
IN ZONE STUDENTS
In zone students can enrol by following the link to our enrolment form below. Before you begin the enrolment process, please ensure you have digital copies of the documents below ready. Please note that we cannot accept an enrolment without these documents.
If you have any enquiries, please contact us at enrolment@mhjc.school.nz please note we cannot answer technical queries at this email address.
Technical Problems when Enrolling
Most technical difficulties experienced when trying to enrol online can be solved by simply following the steps below;
- Only upload documents that are less than 8 MB in size
- Restart your computer
- Delete your cookies and browser cache (how to do this: https://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies)
- Check your browser and computer operating system are up to date
Documents Required when Enrolling at MHJC
- Student’s birth certificate
- Student’s passport for proof of citizenship
- If resident or non-resident, a valid student or resident visa. Parent visas in this case are also required.
- School report if your previous school was not Baverstock Oaks School or Mission Heights Primary School
- Signed copy of the Parent Cybersafety Agreement form
- Student’s immunisation certificates (including Covid vaccination if applicable)
- Legal custody parenting order (if applicable)
For homeowners :-
- Proof of your address #1 : Sales and Purchase Agreement. We also accept Auckland Council rates bills or Watercare bills.
- Proof of your address #2 : Electricity bill, House, contents or car insurance policy that is current with your name and address)
For people who are renting in-zone :-
- Proof of your address #1 : Tenancy Agreement which must be valid for the period of 12 months from the first day the student commences school at MHJC and it must be a council approved rateable dwelling of which your family are the occupants. Boarding, flatting and homestays are not permitted.
- Proof of your address #2 : Tenancy Services Bond Lodgment Receipt from the Department of building and housing
- Proof of your address #3 : Electricity bill, House, contents or car insurance policy that is current with your name and address
For parents living with family in-zone :-
- Statutory declaration form . With this form, we require the following :-
- either the Rental Agreement or Sales & Purchase Agreement of the property owner
- or a signed shared rental agreement if applicable
- a current electricity bill of the property at that address
- a bill or letter addressed to the parent at that address
Please note that we do not accept bank statements or handphone bills. We can request further documents if the above are not satisfied.
JPG, PDF, PNG or DOC file types are accepted.
OUT OF ZONE STUDENTS
The board of Trustees has approved a limited number of spaces to be available to out of zone students in the 2024 academic year.
Applications for Out of Zone students for the 2024 academic year is now closed. Confirmation by Out of Zone ballot is scheduled for Wednesday 6th September 2023. Applicants will be notified of their ballot result by email after Friday 8th September 2023.
Priority Category
Priority 1- applicant is part of a special programme (not applicable for MHJC)
Priority 2 – applicant is the sibling of a current student of the school
Priority 3 – applicant is the sibling of a former student of the school
Priority 4 – applicant is the child of a former student of the school
Priority 5 – applicant is either a child of an employee of the school or a child of a member of the Board of Trustees of the school
Priority 6 – applicant belongs to none of the above
If you have any enquiries, please contact us at enrolment@mhjc.school.nz .