COVID-19 UPDATES

Update on Covid @ South Mak

Evening family and whanau, The weather truly has made it very pleasant around school for all those able to attend.  Just as an update, alongside our current number of students and families isolating due to Covid we have been informed of a student who was at school today that has

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Principal's Vlogs

Update on Start of Year managing Covid:

Friday 28th January Dear Parents, Caregivers and Whānua, There are exciting times ahead. Come Tuesday the 1st of February we will enter another interesting year for education and for our whole community. I have waited to send information about how we will be starting the year until we have the

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Curriculum consultation, we would love more feedback. Please click the link to complete.

Kia ora,

This survey is to help our school localise & formulate the part of our curriculum that involves Science, Social Science, Health and parts of Technology & the Arts. We want to identify the content and ideas that are both important for our students’ future, as well as reflective of the interests, values and aspirations of our students, parents and wider community.

We still highly value Literacy & Maths of course, and these are certainly key parts of our local curriculum. However this survey is purely to determine what is important for us to teach in the other areas of the New Zealand Curriculum, so our cross-curricular programme can sit alongside what we do in Literacy & Maths.

Please consider the suggested ideas at the top of each box, and consider how important you feel it is for your child to learn about that while at our school. Rate each idea using the 1-5 scale below:

HOW IMPORTANT DO I THINK IT IS FOR MY CHILD TO BE LEARNING THIS?