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Encourage & Expect
Excellence
January 2018 Page 2 INSIDE THIS ISSUE From the Principal 3-5 Meat & Greet 12 Congratulations 6-7 Notices 13 From the School Office 8 Curriculum 9 Careers 10 Sports 11 KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Friday 27 September—End of Term 3 Monday 23 September—Freyberg House Friday 27 September—Year 11 Semi Formal Awards Evening Monday 14 October—Start of Term 4 Tuesday 24 September—Rutherford House Awards Evening Wednesday 25 September—Halberg House Awards Evening Thursday 26 September—Hillary House Awards Evening 2020 TERM DATES START DATE END DATE Thursday 30 January – Thursday 9 April Year 7 and 13 only Friday 31 February – Full School Thursday 6 February—Waitangi Day Friday 7 February—School Closed Monday 27 April Friday 3 July Monday 20 July Friday 25 September Monday 12 October Friday 4 December
As we wait for the outcome of the Tomorrow’s Schools Review, I thought that it would be timely to
report back on the key points of the outcome of the NCEA Review so that you all have an understanding
of the changes to NCEA and how they might affect your son(s).
There are 7 key points in the change package:
1. Make NCEA more accessible
NCEA fees will be removed from this year (including scholarship)
Where possible, Special Assessment Conditions (SAC) will be made available and easily
accessible to anyone. Students with disabilities and learning support needs will be
provided with equal opportunities to achieve.
The application process for more specialised SAC is simplified.
Achievement standards will be accessible and inclusive by design so that everyone has an
equal opportunity to achieve, and the need to apply for a SAC is reduced.
2. Mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori
There will be equal status, support and resourcing for matauranga Maori in NCEA, and
greater opportunities for students to follow matauranga Maori pathways will be
available.
Te ao Maori and matauranga Maori are built into the outcome statements as part of the
new ‘graduate profile’ for NCEA and in the design of achievement standards.
New Achievement Standards and assessment resources derived from Te Marautanga o
Aotearoa will be developed.
The Ministry will work closely with Maori – in both Maori medium and English medium
education and in the wider community, including iwi, hapu, and whanau – to design what
this looks like in practice.
3. Strengthen literacy and numeracy requirements
NCEA literacy and numeracy requirements will be replaced with a package of new
external standards (10 credits for literacy, 10 for numeracy) set to a standardised
benchmark, which must be met to gain any level of NCEA.
The 20 credit literacy and numeracy requirement does not contribute towards the 60
credits needed for each level of NCEA (it’s a co-requisite).
It has been proposed that students will be able to meet the standard whenever they are
ready. You may have heard through the media that this may be as early as Year 7.
However, it is likely that HIBS will cover the literacy and numeracy requirements over
Years 9 and 10.
Existing tools will be used to help teachers make good, valid judgement on literacy and
numeracy, to assess students whenever they are ready. These standards will be assessed
externally.
4. Have fewer, larger standards
The standards in each subject are rebuilt so there are fewer of them, but each covers a broader
range of knowledge and skills:
Each standard will be worth between 4 to 6 credits with around 20 credits per subject.
The number of credits available from internally and externally assessed standards (not
necessarily assessed by examinations) will be rebalanced to a 50:50 split, with some
exceptions.
When creating courses, schools and Tertiary Education Organisations will still have
freedom of choice and will not be required to use specific Standards.
The Review of Achievement Standards (RAS) will deliver most of this.
Review of Achievement Standards timeline (Indicative)
5. Simplify NCEA’s structure
The ability to ‘carry-over’ 20 credits from a lower level NCEA will be removed. This will
make each level of NCEA a 60 credit qualification.
As a guideline, the number of credits that a student should enter each year will be: 120
credits at Levels 1 and 2, and 100 credits at Level 3.
Resubmissions will be limited to taking students from ‘Not Achieved’ to ‘Achieved’.
6. Show clearer pathways to further education and employment
A Vocational Entrance (VE) Award will be developed
The industry-derived Standards will be strengthened
A clear ‘graduate profile’ will be developed for each level of NCEA
The Record of Achievement (RoA) will be redesigned to make it clear what the student
has achieved, including adding course endorsements for ‘Achieved’ grades.
The Vocational Pathways will be enhanced to improve effectiveness as a navigation and
planning tool.
7. Keep NCEA Level 1 as an optional level
NCEA Level 1 is currently optional throughout New Zealand and this won’t change. How-
ever, at HIBS, we see considerable value in our students studying NCEA Level 1 and they
will continue to do so.
Teacher-only days
During the recent collective contract negotiations, an Accord was reached between the Ministry of
Education and PPTA Te Wehengarua for eight additional teacher-only days over the next three years.
These days are set aside to support the implementation of NCEA and wider strengthening of
curriculum, progress and achievement practice.
For the secondary school sector, the days will be additional to schools’ existing allocation of teacher-
only days with two days scheduled for 2020, three for 2021 and three for 2022.
The 2020 dates for teacher-only days for all schools in Wellington are Tuesday 4 August and Tuesday
17 November.
Mike Hutchins
Principal
BADMINTON
It's the third time HIBS have made the final for the Premier grade but the first time we've won it. Both
Wellington College and HIBS were unbeaten throughout the season. In the final itself both teams won
three matches and 16 games each. We took it out on points - 308 to 302.
Sam Merton, Alexander Yan, Hamish Tallon, Hunter Arthur, Jake Naylor
Ashley Boag was Mitchell Heberley made Zhi He played in George Baird and Aryav
2nd in the 50m the swimming finals in four the Wellington Bhawan competed in the
freestyle at the races at the AIMS Games Chess Rapid Tennis Tournament at the
NZSS swimming and finished 2nd in 200m Tournament and AIMS games and won a
championship in Breaststroke, 3rd in 100m was first equal in Bronze medal.
Hamilton. Butterfly, 4th in Individual the B grade and
Medley 200m and 6th place second equal in the
in the 100m Breaststroke. Open grade.
Jake Beare was Lorenzo Caratori Rhys Evans was Theo Potter was Felix
selected in the Tontini was selected in the selected in the Middelplaats was
Hutt Valley SNIPS selected in the Hutt Valley SNIPS Hutt Valley SNIPS selected in the
Rugby Team. Hutt Valley SNIPS Rugby Team. Rugby Team. Barbarians SNIPS
Rugby Team. Rugby Team.
VAUGHAN COVENY CUP
HIBS Junior 1st XI Football Team won the Vaughan Coveny Cup Final at Rongotai College against
Tawa College. HIBS despite going 1-0 down early on, they came back to win 4-1.
2020 TERM DATES
Page 1 of the Newsletter you will find the start dates for 2020.
Please also note, the school will be closed on Friday 7 February the day after Waitangi Day.
HOUSE AWARDS EVENING
Your son's attendance at his House Awards Evening next week is compulsory and families are also
invited and encouraged to attend the Evening.
The Evenings are a great opportunity to recognise student achievement within the House and
parents will gain a greater insight into the Tutor Group and House system.
Students are required to be dressed in their formal uniform and are expected to present the uniform
to a high standard on this important occasion.
Formal Uniform for Seniors — Blazer, shirt and tie, long trousers, black socks and polished regulation
shoes.
Formal Uniform for Juniors — Short or long trousers, shirt (can be short sleeve), tie, school socks and
polished regulation shoes. No jersey.
If there is a reason why your son is unable to attend his House Awards Evening, please inform the
school as soon as possible by emailing the Housemaster.
The Evenings start at 7pm and are held in the HIBS Auditorium and should finish around 8/8.30pm.
Freyberg House Awards Evening Monday 23 September
Kent Lawton
klawton@hibs.school.nz
Rutherford House Awards Evening Tuesday 24 September
Gareth Walsh
gwalsh@hibs.school.nz
Halberg House Awards Evening Wednesday 25 September
Reta Snelling
rsnelling@hibs.school.nz
Hillary House Awards Evening Thursday 26 September
Patrick Houghton
phoughton@hibs.school.nz
SENIOR END OF YEAR REPORTS
With the exception of the following courses which have already been reported on in Week 6 this
term 11/12/13DET, 11/12/13PED, 12/13DES, 11,1213DVC, 12/13GAT, 11MAA, 13MAT, 12/13ARP
and 11/12/13ART, all other senior courses and Tutor Teacher reports will be available on the
Portal Friday evening 27 September.
The final printout of all Internal grades and the results from the Internal Evidence Exams (IEE) will
be on the Portal at the start of Week 4, once the seniors have left to start exam leave in Term 4.
INTERNAL EVIDENCE EXAMINATIONS (IEE)
These examination results are valuable for two reasons:
1. The grades generated through the IEE provide the evidence for decisions about
Derived Grade applications should this be required, and
2. Students receive feedback from their teachers about their examination achievement. The
feedback indicates what they already know and understand and what they still need to revise
to improve their performance.
The examination timetable has been published on the HIBS website. You can navigate to the
timetable by clicking on Curriculum in the top menu, then on Senior School from the drop-down
box, and open the link Senior Internal Evidence Exams 2019.
JUNIOR SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS 2019
The Junior Examination timetable will be published on the HIBS website in Week 1 of next term.
Once published this document can be found by going to the HIBS website, clicking on Curriculum,
then Junior School from the drop-down menu. When the page opens you will be able to click on
the Junior Examination Timetable to open the document. Once published the timetable will also be
emailed out to all parents with a son in the junior school
CAREERS University Applications Over this term, the Universities have been visiting HIBS to assist students with course planning. If any students need additional help with planning for next year, they can arrange a time to see Ms Moore (this could be done during exam leave) or if the University has a Wellington based office (Victoria, Canterbury, Otago) there is the opportunity to talk directly to the liaison staff to meet with them. Contact their offices directly to make an appointment. Victoria has one more evening Information session on 28 November. As a general rule, applications for Universities are due before 10 December (some courses vary). Polytech Applications These are either open or opening very soon. Our advice is for students to apply as soon as they can, as places in courses fill up on a first in first served basis. Finances Ms Moore has been offering information sessions on Student Loans and Allowances and on dealing with Finances/Tenancy laws this term. Students wishing to apply for a student loan or allowance need to complete the application by 16 December. There is some work involved with making sure all the correct documentation is submitted, so I would suggest that they start working on this at the beginning of November, at the latest. Student employment Money Hub has a good guide for getting a job while at school or a tertiary student. https:// www.moneyhub.co.nz/student-jobs.html For Year 13 students looking to go into tertiary education next year, they can also use student job search for summer jobs. https://www.sjs.co.nz/ Jeanie Moore Careers Advisor
BMW DRIVER SCHOLARSHIP WINNER Joshua Donohue recently competed in Auckland for a chance at the E30 BMW Race Driver series scholarship. A car he is new too and has never been on Pukekohe race track. There were 24 competitors plus a panel interview. The BMW team awarded Joshua the BMW Driver Scholarship.
WORLD CHALLENGE You can still apply for the epic expedition program to Nepal! Applications close 27 September. This is a completely unique, once-in-a-lifetime, STUDENT-LED expedition. The outcomes are a life- changing personal development journey and an incredible broadening of understanding of other cul- tures and communities. Participants will learn how to look after themselves in an unfamiliar environ- ment, they will trek the Himalayas and they will plan and execute this expedition themselves, run their own budget and decide what they do in the country. FIND OUT MORE HERE: https://weareworldchallenge.com/australasia/hibsnepal/ Feel free to contact World Challenge on 0800 456 134 if you have any questions or visit the links below: Forever Changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HranDlRKG0E Safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owlmpXjSdtg Our Travellers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqKKXjLZgc SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE Applications are now open for these summer holidays for the Spirit of Adventure, and they would love you to join them! You may be eligible to apply for funding to help support your voyage. You can either book directly on their website https://www.spiritofadventure.org.nz/voyages/ voyage/10-day-development or contact Julia Bryant for more information – 021 55 44 53 Julia.bryant@spiritofadventure.org.nz. Be in quick, strictly one student per school per voyage. UNITE This year, Ben Porter and Sahil Sejpal established a non-profit charitable organisation called Unite. It was made purely in the hope of benefitting lives. The morals it upholds encourages the youth of New Zealand to focus on helping citizens in our local communities. Ben and Sahil aspire to make a prominent impact on hundreds of lives in New Zealand and they wish to give every child an equal chance at success. A part of their mission includes delivering baskets full of goodies to those they feel are deserving. These gift baskets are typically presented to members of the community that are experiencing or have been through hardship, need a positive boost, or to people who simply deserve some recognition. Ben and Sahil would absolutely love your help! Please visit their website www.unitecharity.net to nominate someone deserving or even just to see more about what they do.” - Ben Porter and Sahil Sejpal.
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