Rotorua Lakes High School “Mauria te pono - Keep steadfastly to the truth”
NEWSLETTER ISSUE No. 2 – 7 FEBRUARY 2020
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Kia ora Koutou, The school term has well and truly begun with academic expectations and courses being discussed with students, and our swimming sports coming up. On Wednesday next week we will be celebrating an investiture assembly, where our prefects and houses captains will be formally badged and presented to the school. Parents of those students receiving acknowledgement are welcome to attend, invitations have been sent out. We hope to see you there. NCEA figures for 2019 continued our positive academic results with our Level 2 results close to 90% verses a 76% national average; our NCEA Level 3 results at 76% verses a national average of 65%. These figures will only get better once we have completed programmes to support students who had marginal results. I want to take this opportunity to again thank the staff at RLHS for the outstanding commitment they put into supporting our students. As part of the Investiture Assembly we will also be recognizing students at Levels 1, 2 and 3 NCEA who received Merit and Excellence endorsements in their overall certificates. It has been a very hot couple of weeks for the start of term and I am conscious that it has been uncomfortable in certain learning environments. The Board is actively looking at ensuring we maintain learning environments that meet the needs of our student and this includes temperature control. At this point in time, we are encouraging all students to remain hydrated and we have fans operating in those rooms where air conditioning is currently not available. We aim to have a plan in place to address school wide temperature control more effectively very shortly. I am also aware that many of our families have had difficulty obtaining the school uniform from our current supplier. We are reviewing these issues to ensure that they will not happen in the future and I apologise for the inconvenience that this has caused you. We are taking this up with our supplier and finding a better approach in the future. For the most part, the uniforms being worn by our students are currently looking very good. One area that I do need to address though is that of socks. The school uniform is plain black, navy or white socks. In recent times many students have started to wear socks with specific logos on them. These are not our uniform. This is a gentle 1