Year 9 students from Water Whanau have enjoyed integrated learning around their Term 1 context, “Fight for Life”. Recently, students took the plunge to participate in a wonderful day of aquatics and snorkelling at the Totara Pools.
Students and teachers are looking forward to Week 8’s EOTC trip to the GoatIsland Marine Discovery Centre and Marine Reserve, where they will be able to view the sea life under the care and supervision of PADI Divemasters and observing the various species in a tidal touch tank at the discovery centre.
Over the weekend, Year 10 Mountains’ Students as well as leaders from Year 8 and 9, travelled to Camp Adir for a Leadership Camp. The purpose of the camp was to develop the leadership skills of Year 10 students who have the responsibility of leading Year 7 who arrived at camp yesterday (Monday) morning. The Year 8 and 9 students will utilise their developing leadership skills within their roles on Whanau Council and other school-wide leadership positions they have been appointed to.
Photographs below show the ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots of the Mud Confidence Course.
Year 9 students in Mountains Whanau have enjoyed integrated learning on their ‘Water Survival – Water Safety’ Context. This has seen Mathematic, Science, English, Global Studies, Physical Education & Health learning areas working collaboratively to achieve deeper, more authentic learning.
Students have been developing an understanding of the water safety issues that are prominent in News Media. They have had the opportunity to develop an understanding of water safety as well as the practical skills to keep them and their families safer, in and around the water.
Congratulations to our Year 9 & 10 debaters who started their 2016 ASD season off with two impressive wins this afternoon. Both teams debated in the affirmative for the moot, ‘Waitangi Day should be replaced with a New Zealand Day’.
MHJC 1 v’s Tangaroa College – Miss Wullings Kayla Pieterse (10F2) Solana Carpenter (9C2)
Ryan Iglesia (9C2) – Awarded ‘Top Speaker’
Christina Bang (10F2) Reserve
Mission Heights Junior College is playing in the very successful (three from three) Year 9 and 10 mid-week cricket competition. Three new players to cricket made their impact felt during Wednesday’s “Cricket BLITZ” match. Our congratulations to: Sheffy Singh, Divek Nadan and Harman Singh.
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.
We are pleased to introduce our 2016 Executive Council.
They are in alphabetical order :-
Alina Hayat
Christina Bang
Hruthin Pagadala
Josh Wang-McCarthy
John Yang
Kahurangi Mason-Wells
Katelyn Knox
Katrina Mohammed
Kayla Pieterse
Oliver Davies
Ryan Ngo
Sophia Herewini
Sinead Venter
Tyler Amos
Marcus Vaevae
Three teams from Mission Heights Junior College have gained merit awards in the senior section of the IPENZ Transpower Neighbourhood Engineers Awards this year. This competition sees students working with engineering mentors to develop technological solutions to an issue/area of concern that the students have identified in their school or community. The school is developing an impressive record of success, having also been awarded prizes in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Congratulations to:
Christina Bang, Sarah Hamza and Tyla Amos whose project “Feel the Heat” was developed to alert parents if they had accidentally left their child/ren in the car;
Katrina Mohammed, Bella Lin and Ryan Ngo whose project “Lock-down” was developed to provide an alert to computer screens if students needed to be alerted that an intruder or other natural threat was imminent;
These two groups gained valuable programming support from MHJC’s IT Manager Ben Doughney, Mrs Middlemiss and Mr Morrison their mentor teachers. They also worked closely with an engineer, Mikesh Patel from Transpower.
Ngapipi Herewini, Ashley Taimataora, Molly Herbert and Sophie Chen’s project “Walking Danger” involved the development an electronic device to increase safety at pedestrian crossings. The girls used a Raspberry Pi and Pythonprogramming language to develop their prototype and were supported by Brett Willis, an electronics engineer from Fisher and Paykel appliances and mentor teacher from MHJC, Rebecca McGrath.
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