EXCELLENT
CARE AND
SUPPORT NETWORKS
“Effective
systems identify specific students who
require
additional support and prompt attention is
given to the
needs of these students.”
Confirmed ERO
report, May 2004, page 3
“Study group
teachers provide a whanau approach
that is
central in meeting social, emotional, physical
and academic
needs”
Confirmed ERO
report, May 2004, page 6
A Sense of
Respect
Our first core value is to do with respect,
and this is the area where we have successfully made the greatest changes.
Visitors to the College, without exception, remark on the everyday practice
and expression of this important value they see happening.
An Effective
Guidance Network
We have a guidance counsellor, an RTLB and
deans at every year level. We have a learning support department which aims
to maximise learning outcomes for students who need extra care.
A School Wide
Study Group System
Every student is placed in a small study
group in which they will usually stay from year to year. The study group
aims to support the fast forward literacy development in the
junior school, and the completion of NCEA levels 1 – 3 in the senior school.
Homework completion is also a feature of the study group time, as is
pastoral care.
Excellent
Home/School Links
Our Community Liaison Officers
are well known and respected in the local community. They provide an
increasingly widely recognised, effective service in keeping parents well
informed about the school and feeling properly understood and supported.
They are becoming recognised nationally as being experts in their field and
their restorative justice programme is being sought after by
other schools around the country.
