Newsletters 24/07/2024

In today’s newsletter we have the following:

● Senior Leadership
● Student Achievement
● Staff
● ANI Community

Senior Leadership Team

Acting Principal News

Dear parents and whānau

Kia ora koutou

A very warm welcome back to you all. As our Principal, Jason Pocock is currently on sabbatical, I am in the Acting Principal role for the next 3 weeks.

I hope you had a lovely break with your whānau over the holiday period and managed to spend some quality time with family and friends.

We have begun the term strongly this week and have plenty of exciting things coming up.

I would like to take a moment to introduce some special new people to our Kura. David Sinclair has started his tenure with us and is in Room 2, part of the wonderful Matai team. Tiffany Song has also started this week and will be our new Japanese kaiako, taking over from Yasuko Okamura, who has become a mum. We all wish Yasuko all the best and will no doubt see her again soon with her new addition. We are very fortunate to have Harry Williams return to our ANI whānau. Harry was a teacher aide at our kura and is currently completing his post-graduate diploma to become a fully-fledged teacher. Harry also coaches our school Water Polo team and will attend AIMS with the squad later in the term.

We have a large Korean tour group from Cheongwon Elementary School joining us for the next 3 weeks. They are immersed across our kura and as an IB school, it is a wonderful opportunity for our students to connect with other cultures and be global citizens. Our school production rehearsals are well underway and “The Addams Family” is set to be a huge hit. A massive nod to the efforts of Blake Wilson, Maddie Brodie and their awesome crew of staff and students for the mahi they dedicate to this. The shows are in Week 4, beginning with a Tuesday matinee for our local schools, then 3 evening shows beginning at 6.00pm. Be sure to get your tickets early, as you won’t want to miss this!! Tickets are available on our school Kindo Shop.

Sports and dance teams, along with some individual sports persons are busy training in preparation for attending the AIMS games later this term in Tauranga. This year we have 127 students competing in the week-long tournament, the biggest of its kind in Australasia. 18 Dedicated staff members will attend this event in the capacities of coaches, managers, drivers and chaperones.

If you have been in school recently, you may have noticed a few changes. All school buildings have now been completely repainted, with contractors readying to move inside to begin working on the interior. This is in alignment with further improvements such as Autex wall coverings which will be installed later in the year. The ongoing works are all part of our 5-year property plan, which is due to be completed by the beginning of 2025.

Recently, we were lucky enough to secure funding from grant applications that have resulted in 2 new installations at ANI. The first one is the installation of netting around the shade sail area in the Y7 quad. This is to protect buildings and windows from sports and balls that are used in that space. The second grant was used to have 4 reversible netball/basketball goals installed on our court area, providing more opportunities for our tamariki and community to use both while at school and out of hours. A thank you to our PTA for providing some additional funding for these projects to have them completed.

And finally, I would like to share a whakatauki (a Maori proverb) that resonates with me about life at ANI.

“Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari he toa takitini”, meaning “Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many”.

Have a great weekend whānau

Kia haumaru te noho

Scott Boniface

Acting Principal ANI

Deputy Principal’s News

Attendance

Kia ora, e te whānau,

Welcome back to term three from Ashley, Scott & Kieran. Today’s DP news is an important note about our attendance and lateness procedures which have been refreshed.

As a school, we are committed to ensuring the highest attainable attendance rates and to support the academic progress and well-being of all our students. Minor disruptions to attendance or repeated patterns of lateness are shown to have a huge impact on the learning and development of ākonga in schools. Our students crave routine and we often hear from parents about the importance of preparing our students for their next school and onwards. We couldn’t agree more and ask that our whānau support these routines by ensuring their young person is at school as much as possible and on time.

Did you know that lateness of a mere 10 minutes a day can add up to a total of 5 full days missing across the school year? These first 10 minutes are crucial for our students to set themselves up for success in the day. Our Deans have been analysing our lateness recently and you will be contacted by your young person’s classroom teacher if there is a concerning pattern.

In the refresh of our procedures, there are a few key things to note on the following topics:

Justifying absences and our required follow-up as per the Ministry
Overseas Trip procedures and follow-up
What follow-up from the school office you can expect from daily absences
Procedures on students arriving late or leaving early and what is required of whānau
School requirements on truancy

Please click through to our website to see our refreshed attendance procedures.

We expect our whānau to be familiar with them and to adhere to these expectations as best as possible.

Enjoy the beginning of the term!

Nga mihi

The ANI DPs – Kieran, Scott & Ashley

Teacher Only Day:

Just a reminder that next Monday 5 August, school will be closed for a Teacher Only Day.

School will be open for lessons on Tuesday 6 August.

Korean Translation:

다음 주 월요일 8월 5일은 교사 전용 날로 학교가 문을 닫습니다.

학교는 8월 6일 화요일에 수업을 위해 문을 엽니다.

Mandarin Translation:

提醒一下，下周一 8 月 5 日，学校将因教师专属日而停课。

学校将于 8 月 6 日星期二开学上课。

Printing Student Reports:

To print student reports you must have the Hero app.

(For clear instructions on how to download the app please click here.)

When printing your child’s report this is best done on a laptop or PC and if you have an Apple device then please login to Hero via a browser, not the app.

Once you have logged in and can see your child’s details and the 2024 Report underneath, the printer icon appears.

Please click on this and then save as a pdf. There is likely to be approximately 7-9 pages.

2025 Enrolments

High School Applications

Kia ora whānau,

The majority of High Schools in Auckland are opening their out of zone applications for 2025. Each High School runs out of zone applications in a different way so please refer to their websites for key dates, procedures, documentation, ballots and any other information.

Responsibility for enrolling students into High School lies solely with the parents and caregivers of the child. Please contact the High School directly with any queries around open days/evenings and enrolments. ANI is not responsible for student enrolment to 2025 High Schools.

Alice O’SullivanYear 8 Dean

Korean Translation:

오클랜드의 대부분의 고등학교는 2025년 학교 스쿨존에 살지않는 학생들의 지원서를 공개합니다. 각 고등학교는 다른 방식으로 진행함으로 주요 날짜, 절차, 문서, 투표 용지 및 기타 사항은 해당 웹사이트를 참조하십시오. 학생을 고등학교에 등록시키는 책임은 전적으로 자녀의 부모와 보호자에게 있습니다. 오픈데이 관한 문의사항은 고등학교에 직접 문의하세요.

Mandarin Translation:

亲爱的家长们，您们好

大多数商中已开放2025校区外高中申请。每个学校校区外申请过程不同。请参考学校网站了解其关键申请日期，程序，所需文件，投票及其他信息。

高中入学申请是家长及学生的责仼。如有任何关于开放日及招生的问题，请直接联系高中。ANI不负责学生的高中入学申请。

Student Achievement

Principal Awards

ANI Alumni visit from Germany

At the Year 8 end-of-term 2 assembly, a very special guest and ANI Alumni, Andrew Pegler, visited ANI with his family all the way from Germany.

Andrew attended ANI from 1984 until 1985 and is now the Head of Humanities at Kama International Bilingual School and kindly shared some wonderful photos of his classes and one of the old buildings before it was demolished.

Andrew awarded the Premier Pins and was then given a tour of ANI led by students from our German Club.

He sent this lovely email after his visit:

It was wonderful to meet you in person yesterday and a great experience, not just seeing the school but getting to see the school in action!

Thank you so much for arranging that.

Please thank Jason from me again for his time and especially to Selina for providing two fantastic guides. They were an absolute tribute to the school and I really appreciated the tour and the chance to talk to them.

If there is anything I can do to help in future please let me know. Now have a great end of term and an excellent holiday!

My old classroom looked in great shape for a 40 year old…

General Assembly

Sustainability

Pest Monitoring at Windmill Park

Our Sustainability Team spent time with our local park ranger learning about animal and plant pests. We are helping the ranger to find out which pests are present in our local park. We spread peanut butter into 6 monitoring traps around the park and we’ll collect them after 4 days.

We will then identify the pests from the footprints they leave in the trap. We also spent some time learning about some of the plant pests in the park. Once we could identify them we set about removing some of them. Well done team and thank you for caring for our community

Arts

School Production

We will open our gates for a short time only so get your tickets fast! The only way to purchase tickets is to log onto your Kindo app. $20.00 for Adults and $10.00 for 13 and under.

Show Nights: Wednesday 14 August, Thursday 15 August and Friday 16 August.

Doors Open: 5:40 pm – Show Starts 6:00 pm

Ticket sales are now available via the online Kindo Shop linked here.

Children’s After School Music and Arts Classes

Welcome to our Children’s After School Music and Arts classes which are administered by Auckland Normal Intermediate School.

These classes offer your children a wealth of enjoyable, educational and challenging activities for after-school participation.

The program is aimed at 6 –13-year-old primary school students from our local community.

It is subsidised by the Ministry of Education and follows the New Zealand curriculum guidelines.

To enrol your child online simply browse our after school classes in our Kindo Shop and add items to your shopping cart linked here.

Sports

Sports update: We are very very excited for term 3 in the sports realm. With Central Zones continuing and AIMS looming – we are JAM PACKED. Throughout the term, there will be AIMS pre-tournaments that players will attend. Team coaches and managers will be in touch regarding this! Our water polo team are also ramping up for the Tim Sonderer Memorial competition next week. Gooooo ANI & GooOooOooo SPORT! Xavier RiceANI Sport’s Coordinator

Staff

A message from our SENCo:

Launch of New Literacy Support Program

Launch of New Literacy Support Program

We are thrilled to announce that starting on Monday of Week 2, we will be launching our new Literacy Support Program. Our dedicated team of teacher aides has been diligently researching and evaluating various structured literacy programs. From this, they have developed a comprehensive program tailored specifically to support our ANI students.

What is Structured Literacy?

Structured literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is systematic, explicit, and cumulative. It focuses on teaching the foundational skills of reading, including phonology, sound-symbol association, syllable instruction, morphology, syntax, and semantics. This method is especially effective for students with reading difficulties, as it provides clear, direct instruction and practice in a logical sequence.

Selected students will receive 3-4 sessions per week, with the aim of accelerating their progress in literacy. We are confident that this new initiative will greatly benefit our students and enhance their learning experience.

Candice Etzine

ANI SENCo

ANI Community

ANI PTA

The ANI PTA are an active and awesome group that support the school in a number of ways from helping out at events to hosting parent information evenings and the odd bit of fundraising. If you would like to join our group please email me: pta@ani.school.nz

We are in the early planning stages for our ANI Quiz night so watch this space for more details.

Ngā mihi nui,

Luke BarnardANI PTA Chairperson

Auckland Schools Mountain Biking:

A message from Jon Hasler, Auckland Grammar School.

Please find information on this race here:

Event Manual: linked here

Race Course Vs Hazards Vs Marshal positions: linked here

Registration (entry): linked here

Please note that the rider name may appear in the pre-registration section as they have raced before, that does NOT mean they are registered to do Race 3. You must still register them, and of course pay, to be registered to race.

If you have raced before, enter first name of rider, then (parent) email (email used last time / for invoices)

NOTE: You are now able to volunteer for multiple events – so if you have helped in then past, and want to again, please do!

Jon Hasler

Auckland Schools Mountain Biking / Auckland Mountain Bike Club.
P +64 9 623 5400 http://www.ags.school.nz