From the Acting Principal Kia ora tatou - Rosehill College
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From the Acting Principal Kia ora tatou.
My best wishes for your good health and safety.
My comments here are addressed to everyone: parents, caregivers, students and staff. Our first action is to
check that you and your children and whanau are not stressed out and to reassure you that ‘we have got this’
and are doing our very best to ensure that it will be possible to have a successful year 2020.
• A free app to check wellbeing is a N.Z. one with Sir John Kirwan called MENTEMIA.
• If you wish to make responses or comments to me, please do so j.clarke@rosehillcollege.school.nz.
Senior Leaders and Staff are at their laptops throughout the working day.
LEVEL 3 RETURN TO CAMPUS - Date to be announced on Monday
• The School needs to be deep cleaned for 2 days before anybody returns on site.
• Y9-10 students may attend but if they can continue to work from home they should.
• We will offer safe supervision of students continuing to do the remote work teachers have set for them.
• No buses, no Canteen, short breaks, 1m distance, no practicals, own protection & sanitiser.
• We are seeking clarification of possible on-site conditions for the safety and wellbeing of Staff and students and will
determine those on Monday and inform you.
• We will survey families on Monday for an indication as to whether they require their children to come to school and if
they require bus transport.
Please take time over the weekend to consider what your decision will be for when Level 3 happens.
Mrs Blakely, who is now on her much-deserved sabbatical, has done a superb job of preparing us for this Term and is still
continuing to assist; especially with the work in conjunction with her Assistant Ms Herst to order devices, modems and hard
copy resources for our students who do not have online access.
SCHOOLWORK & PROGRESS
It has been frantic with many people working through every day so far which is why a routine is important. Following your
school timetable can help but whatever order things are done is secondary to ‘knuckling down’, completing set work and
turning up for any scheduled lessons. Teachers are more than ever being really helpful and I am confident that we are step-
by-step putting in place opportunities for students to gain success in every subject. I have sent out and posted on the website
guidelines for students and parents/caregivers.
ROUTINE
Probably the greatest need is to find the motivation to do work when you’re isolated from a physical class and face-to-face
contact. Sticking to a routine of work times and break times and activity time is good practice. Also take the time to gather
thoughts and process and synthesize ideas.
ENSURING SUCCESS THIS YEAR
2020 is not going to be a normal year. We have already made subject course work plans for changes that will best create
conditions to achieve and achieve well. Catch-up times will be created. There may be fewer or different assessments in a
course. There will be an impact ‘down the track’ but we’re working hard to minimise that. So more than ever are the needs to
finish everything, work to a level of excellence and get everything from what is on offer that you can.
TUTOR GROUP FRIDAY
Today, Friday was our first Tutor Group Focus day where teachers and Heads of House checked on the progress and wellbeing
of students. It’s important that people check that others are ok. It allows some designated time away from the demands of
schoolwork and a chance to connect with others through challenges and activities that Head Students and House Leaders are
providing through Instagram.
I applaud all of your efforts. We are great people doing great things through the best forms of remote communication.
Through experience I know that Rosehill College rises to the challenge in a crisis. Ka Kite ano.
James Clarke, Acting Principal Term 2
17 April 2020 Issue No. 10 www.rosehillcollege.school.nz
Mr & Mrs Aitchison Rosehill Knitters Club
Socially Isolated Exercise Once school returns to ‘normal’ a Knitters Club
Our daily exercise involved bending, stretching and bagging rubbish! for students will be starting up.
Cleaning up one of the duck ponds at Addison Park
During lockdown a number of families are
using this time to sort out their cupboards and draws. If you have
any wool, yarn or knitting needles that can be donated to the College
it would be appreciated.
Once the College is open for business these can be dropped off to
Reception.
From the Ministry of Education
Home Learning | Papa Kāinga TV and Māori Television
education broadcasting started 9am 15 April
Home Learning | Papa Kāinga TV will start education broadcasting for
early learners and students in Years 1–10 from 9am on Wednesday 15
April, with Māori Television launching te reo educational programmes
on the same day.
As a result of negotiations led by Nicholas Pole (Chief Review Officer
and Chief Executive of the Education Re Review Office), Home Learning
| Papa Kāinga TV will be free to air, on TVNZ channel 2+1 and on TVNZ
on Demand, as well as on Sky Channel 502. It will run from 9am to 3pm
on schooldays with programming for children and young people, as well
as for parents.
ROSEHILL COLLEGE MUSIC Content will be grouped for early learners and students by age range,
DEPARTMENT CHALLENGE - and will include play, literacy, mathematics, science, te reo Māori,
physical education and wellbeing. All of the programmes will feature
create a music video highly experienced teachers and presenters, along with wellbeing and
movement experts.
This competition is open to students and staff!
Home Learning | Papa Kāinga TV will be on air for one month with
Two categories: provision to extend beyond that if needed.
A. make a music video using one song or a medley of songs
B. make a music video using your own original song/composition
Free internet safety filter for parents
Category A
1st prize: $100 While children are learning from home, they are away from the online
2nd prize: $50 safety and security services provided by Network for Learning (N4L) at
school. So together with N4L and Netsafe, we have launched
Category B www.switchonsafety.co.nz - a free way to block the worst of the web for
1st prize: $100 students and teachers.
2nd prize: $50
Please share this website with your parent communities so that they
Criteria - video will be judged on: can follow the instructions to set up their child’s device for safer
* creativity connectivity while they learn from home.
* the story
Remember, no technical solution is a silver bullet. Please remind your
* the use of those in your "bubble"
parent community to complement this with digital citizenship toolkits
* entertainment value
provided by Netsafe.
* props used
* musicality
* x-factor
Netsafe
Netsafe provides comprehensive support and information to support
Share your music video using your school email address with
everyone to stay safe as they work, learn and play online. Netsafe
musicdepartment@rosehillcollege.school.nz by 11.00pm on Friday
has new and updated resources for parents, whānau and students at
May 8th.
https://www.netsafe.org.nz/advice/staying-safe/
Winners will be contacted by phone or email, and results will be
published in the school newsletter on Friday May 22nd.
From the
Careers Department
Media Design School
Even in lockdown students have big decisions to make about their futures, so the MDS Team has been working on creative ways to help students engage
with their prospective career paths as they learn remotely.
You are invited to join them at their upcoming webinar, where they will be sharing an overview of the creative programmes that Media Design School
has to offer.
This would be perfect for any students who are interested in pursuing further studies in 3D Animation and VFX, Game Development, Web + Interactive
Design, Motion Graphics, Graphic Design, Artificial Intelligence or Cloud Computing. They will walk attendees through the content of their programmes
and the MDS Course and Careers Advisors will be on hand to answer any questions.
Their next webinar will take place on Monday 20th of April from 12.30pm-1.30pm. If you would like to take part in the webinar use this link to register
your interest : Media Design School Presentation, opening up and registering through Google chrome works best.
From Otago University
Welcome back to this very unusual Term 2!
We hope that you’re all coping with being in your bubbles and adjusting to a vastly different way of learning.
We’ll be in touch with you to reschedule our introductory visits to an online version very soon, but in the meantime students are welcome to contact us
at any time, as usual. Our contact details are here: https://www.otago.ac.nz/liaison/index.html
We’ve made a little video about our liaison team – check it out here on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UOLiaison/posts/2582941401946302
Remember to join Otago's facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/UOLiaison ,
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