Intervention - High School Week

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 High School Week 

What is it?
High School Week is an initiative created and designed to support our students to be mentally prepared for high school. This is a week dedicated to resilience, movement around the school, reading timetables, completing school work and homework, ultimately being ready for learning. 

Why are we doing it? 
We have a duty in preparing our year 8s for high school and this is important to us. As busy and chocka as Term 4, I know that one will give time and energy into things that are important. This week will help us show our Year 8s, who are going to high school next year, a glimpse into what it is like to move from class to class, teacher to teacher. What it's like to carry bags and gear around the school. What it's like to do homework etc. 

When are we doing it? 
This will happen in Term 4 - week tbc.

Who is involved? 
With the make up of our school, we usually have our year 5-8 students participating in this. While some may say that there isn't any point of our year 5-6s doing it, I think otherwise. This preparation, over time will support them and each year provides them with another year to practice and experience this. 

How does it work? 
Weeks prior - we will look at grouping kids according to levels. See the sample below. Once 'classes' are complete then teachers decided which level they will teach. Planning is shared with the team so we all have access and can see what is being taught. Levels will be changed according to where the need is. For example, your will see there are 2 L3 on the table. This is because we have a huge chunk (approx 40 students) working at Level 3 for maths. You will notice on the table that our Literacy is the Summer Learning Journey. We use these activities and promote the summer learning journey during this time, with the hopes that they will be engaged and continue throughout the programme in the summer holidays. Sport timetable works on rotation. 


The week before we work with students to put together their subject choices and their timetable (see sample below). This template is printed and given to them. Each subject will be shown with who is teaching what level and which classroom they will need to go to for that time. Whanau Room is their classroom. They will start and finish each day with their regular teacher. This will be a chance for teachers to check in with their students, help them prepare for the day and then in the afternoon continue with their regular programme. It's term 4 - things are crazy and things need to be done. 

We will be using the old school bell to signal start and end of each period. The idea is that students will move to and be ready for their classes. 








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