Rotorua Lakes High School “Mauria te pono - Keep steadfastly to the truth”
NEWSLETTER ISSUE No. 25 – 6 September 2019
CHALKBOARD
From the Principal – P. 1 - 4 News – P. 4 - 7 Careers / Gateway P. 7 - 8 Notice Board – P. 8 - 9 Contact Us – P. 10 Our Sponsors – P. 11
Dear Parents / Caregivers & Whanau Kia ora tatou katoa. Ka timata te Wiki o te Reo a te Mane nei. Ka tautoko matou i tenei kaupapa rangatira i te kura whanui nei, kia marama pai tatou nga Kaiako me nga tauira ki etahi ahuatanga o te Ao Maori me ona Tikanga hoki. Ko te tino wawata ka whakamahia te reo i te tau katoa. He iwi kotahi tatou! As I have said above: As many of you may be aware, Maori Language Week starts on Monday. We are looking forward to supporting this initiative across the school and developing student awareness of Te Ao and Tikanga Maori. In some ways every week should be Maori Language week as it represents a part of who we are as a nation. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate and celebrate some of the fantastic successes we have had in Lakes this week. As you will read below Alana Kairaoi achieved National Champion in Squash New Zealand. Our brother and sister duo, Holly and Luke Gardner, are National Champions in Rock Climbing and our students have been away on tournament achieving successes and gaining experience. Briar Wilkinson has been selected as a Netball Umpire at the AIMS Games next week. We wish her all the best and congratulate her on completing her umpiring qualifications. I look forward to these positive sporting achievements continuing into the future. Our senior students have only 30 days of school remaining as of Monday 9 September. It is really important that they are present and focused in this remaining period to ensure that they get the best support that we can offer. For our Year 13 this is the final countdown of 13 years of schooling, so now is the time to ensure they put in every effort. Our staff are spending a lot of time running tutorials, doing revision exercises and going through past exam papers which will give the students a firm footing as they head into the externals. If you have a Senior Student please encourage them to keep up the good work. As you may well be aware there is an ongoing concern regarding the National Measles epidemic. As yet, we have no direction from the Ministry of Education, but it is likely that we will need to identify who has had a measles 1