Year 9 Mountains student are today at the AUT Millennium centre enjoying water based EOTC activities – flipper ball, snorkelling, kayaking and water safety skills. This experience is a part of their Water Safety context.
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2016 Secondary Schools 3X3 National Slam Tournament
Mission Heights Junior College has enjoyed a strong start to Day 2 of the 2016 Secondary Schools 3X3 National Slam at The Trusts Arena, Waitakere. The event attracts some of the strongest ‘sharp-shooting’ athletes from around the country.
The boys 3X3 team gained two strong wins over Rosehill and Tamaki Colleges, with the girls win against St Mary’s being followed by a hard-fought loss to a strong Westlake Girls team. Here is an instructional clip that details the rules of the game… https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Teams have been joined by our two fantastic tournament referees, Marco de Costa (10C2) and Amy Moore (9F1). Our teams are…
Josh Wang McCarthy (10W2) Captain
Ian Orosio (10W1)
Jordan Johns (10C1)
Anthony Nelson (10W1)
Jeremy Peng (9W2)
Sophia Herewini (10M1) Captain
Tiana Herewini (9M1)
Katelyn Knox (10F1)
Annemeik Vaha’akolo-Ngaika (9F2)
Bianca Langi (9W1)
Scroll down for some clips of our MHJC players in action….
“Science Outbreak Evening”
On Tuesday 5th April students in 8W1 & 8W2 + staff hosted a family science evening where students applied their science learning, by teaching others.
A range of interactive stations were set up within Water Whanau to promote learning and enjoyment of science – Mrs Kent’s English class even set up a crime scene investigation! The evening successfully showcased science learning across the curriculum and shared information + tips detailing how families can support Term 2 Science Fair investigations.
Trivia Quiz Winners
Our first ever MHJC Trivia Quiz was a huge success. Over fifty students and staff from across the school competed in the quiz competition. Questions came from geography, music, books, food and sport categories. Many groups had strengths in music and most now know they need to brush up on their geography knowledge for future quizzes!
Congratulations to Team Friday for being our first winners of the year!
Cleaning Up Our Community, One Park at a Time
The Enviro Council has been busy keeping up appearances at the local Mission Heights Reserve. Through Auckland Council’s ‘Adopt a Park’ programme, students monitor and report on the state of the park. Here you can see several Enviro Council members collecting rubbish so everyone can enjoy a clean park. Compared to their Term 1 rubbish collection last year, students collected three fewer bags of rubbish – a positive improvement!
Surf Life Saving
Mountains Year 9 students visited the Mairangi Bay Life Surf Saving Club on the 31st March. After spending time indoors learning about rips and reading tides, students headed into the ocean. Everyone practiced saving their friends with floatation devices and boogie boards and also learned about beach patrol protocols.
Snorkelling at Goat Island Marine Reserve
As a part of Term 1’s “Fight for Life” learning context, Year 9 students from Water Whanau travelled to the Goat Island Marine Reserve on Thursday 31st March.
Students viewed the sealife by snorkelling from the beach under the care and supervision of PADI Divemasters and teachers. A large range of species were visible in the marine reserve, such as large 40 year old snapper, blue cod, red moki, sting rays, jelly fish, sea urchins and kelp.
Thank you to Miss Young for planning this wonderful EOTC experience!
KDEC Community Focus Trips
Year 9 KDEC students, Jordan, Charlie, Ula, Adam and Courtney visited Saint Paul’s Church this morning as a part of their Maths learning with fractions and financial literacy (money, prices and change). KDEC students prepared fruit to serve to guests following their service.
KDEC students enjoyed the opportunity to develop personal leadership and inter-personal communication skills with people beyond their MHJC classroom. The students also taught community members numbers , basic everyday words, greetings as well as the alphabet in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). This sharing proved valuable as the priest has progressive hearing loss!
Piha Camp a Winner for Water Whanau
On the 16th March Year 7 students from Water Whanau set off on an exciting camp with twenty Year 10 leaders. Day one started with a splash as students participated in a day of water safety fun at the Massey Park Pools, Papakura. Students capsized out of boats, learned life-saving and floatation techniques and experienced the currents of the lazy river. At the end of the rotation cycle students particularly enjoyed some free time in the wave pool.
Campers then jumped back on the bus and continued the long journey to Piha. After many sing-alongs students finally arrived at Piha Mill Camp and were placed into ‘tribes’ for the next three days. The competition between the six tribes was evident from the beginning. After a fun afternoon participating in different activities at Piha Beach students returned to camp for some dinner.
Thursday saw an early rise followed by a quick breakfast before heading off for an action-packed day of camp activities. Students all participated in archery (“Mockingjay”), camp cooking (“MasterChef”), problem solving, the Amazing Race and hiking to the beautiful Kitekite Falls. Throughout these activities students had the chance to earn points for their tribe, as well as earning “camp money” from the Year 10 leaders.
The camp show was next on the list. Students all showcased a variety of talents, including magic card tricks, singing, extreme make-overs and even a performance by the teachers! It was a fun-filled night, during which the “winning tribe” was announced. Congratulations to the Green Tribe who took out Water Camp 2016. It was fantastic to see such strong relationships grow between Year 7 and Year 10 students throughout the camp.
Thank you to Mr Field-Mitchell and Miss Young for organising the camp and to all students who made Water’s Camp 2016 such an awesome and memorable experience!
The Road to Slower, Safer Travel
Four students attended the annual Travelwise Student Workshop to plan their communication plan for the year. Wasan Abu Nada (8M2), Victoria Kree (8M1), Leon Lei (7C1) and Aliza Azba (7W2) participated in activities to identify how to advertise, develop key messages and tag lines, and also had the opportunity to use a speed gun on local traffic.
The photograph (below) shows the girls participating in a ‘Road Safety’ relay race. Stay tuned for further information from the team, who have decided to focus their efforts on reducing the speed of drivers around the school this year.
