Open Night Revisited Parent Handout Main Points: ● SGHS ○ Where relationships count and excellence is expected ○ Once a Girls’ High girl, always a Girls’ High girl ○ Integrity, Responsibility and Respect ● Middle School Learners / Adolescent Learners ○ Brains still developing ○ State of change: puberty, transition to adulthood ○ Boundaries changing...or not… ○ Peer relationships and risk taking ● Curriculum ○ Flight Plan ○ Learning Packages ○ Learning throughout the day ● Support Network ○ Tutor Teacher / Homeroom Teacher, Subject Teachers, Year Level Co-ordinator, Head of Junior School, Assistant Principal, Connexions staff ● Resilience ○ Ability to laugh at yourself, brush off upsets, look at positives and bounce back by looking to goals and beliefs ○ Learning to ‘get along’ with others in a new class make up ○ Friendships ○ ‘Mean’ vs ‘Bullying ● Devices ○ Facebook’s legal age, Snap Chat, where devices go overnight, parent ‘friends’ ○ Online identity - thinking about what profiles will say in their future ○ Manners with devices - where did you go online? Who did you go with? ○ Devices in the classroom - managing distractions, learning skills to access info at fingertips, personalisation, creating, digital citizenship, being ‘good’ with our devices Website Links: ● SGHS Ultranet
● SGHS Website
● Netsafe Contacts: ● Erin Pickering
● Christine Willis ● Elaine McEvoy ● Mark Pickering ● Margaret Ereckson ● Kaaren Wilkes-Patterson ● Liz Dodds http://southlandgirls.ultranet.school.nz/Home/ http://www.southlandgirls.school.nz/ http://www.netsafe.org.nz/ Head of Junior School (HOJS) Assistant to the Head of Junior School Year 7 Year Level Co-ordinator (YLC) Year 8 Year Level Co-ordinator (YLC) Guidance Guidance Careers