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Message from the Principal
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2 March 2016 Dear Parents We have welcomed to the school a large group of new students and staff and the year is well underway. Once again we are very pleased with the depth and breadth of the results gained by our students in the array of 2015 External Examinations. We will be celebrating the achievements of scores of students, who succeeded at the very top levels of their respective examinations, on Friday at our annual Scholars’ Assembly. In the 2015 Scholarship Examinations Macleans students were awarded an outstanding 164 Scholarships which included one Premier (or $30,000) Award, seven Outstanding Group Awards, 12 students gaining three or more Scholarship and two students topping their respective subjects; Chemistry and Media Studies. Our total of 164 Scholarships placed us second in New Zealand behind Wellington College with 165 scholarships. A total of 23 students gained Endorsed with Excellence and 144 Endorsed with Merit over all levels of the NCEA examinations. Twelve students were Top in New Zealand and five Top in the World in the Cambridge International Examinations and one student, Zhong Huang, was the top CIE student overall in New Zealand. The Year 9 Camps have been completed and we are very grateful to the staff who gave up their time to supervise these. The students were also well looked after by a dedicated group of Year 12 Peer Support Leaders who worked with their respective House Leaders and other staff to ensure the success of the eight Whānau House based camps. Our annual swimming sports championship meeting was held at Papatoetoe Pools earlier this term and were once again well supported and some outstanding competition resulted. The weather and events have not made it easy to complete our School Athletics Championship meeting but we are hoping to avoid a third postponement and run it this Thursday, 3 March. The Ministry of Education financed weather tightness programme at the school has now entered its seventh year and we estimate the projects still to be rebuilt will not be completed until 2020. Into that category are Mansfield Whānau House, a new Technology and Science Block, the Auditorium and Administration block, and we are hoping for immediate progress on rebuilding the toilet blocks and walkways. Work progresses on Board of Trustee funded projects such as the new Pavilion and cricket oval adjacent to the all-weather Turf which opened last year. We have once again contracted a specialist in Essay writing to enhance this skill for all of our students and we are very pleased with the obvious progress that many students are making. This year emphasis is being put on Year 9 students in particular being asked to BYOD – Bring Your Own Device to school and this learning aid will be utilised where pertinent during lessons. The Music and Drama Faculties have an array of productions and concerts planned, and the musical this May is the Addams Family with the annual Gala Concert in early July and the senior drama production staged in August. The Kapa Haka and Stage Challenge groups are underway and preparing for their performances throughout the year. The summer term sports teams are doing well overall and the winter season will start this year with an inter-school tournament involving basketball, netball, hockey, football and rugby on the last Friday and weekend of this term. Teams from Macleans, Takapuna Grammar School, Rangitoto College, Western Heights High School (Rotorua), Botany Downs Secondary College, Pakuranga College, Howick College and Onehunga High School will take part. The school roll totals 2,537 students which includes 323 international students. We are very grateful for the critically important ongoing support of our parents in assisting us in maintaining the high expectations of effort and behaviour we expect of our students in and out of the classroom and for the provision of the annual donation. Thank you and best wishes for 2016. Byron Bentley |
Stationery
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Back to School stationery is still available to buy through the Office Max website until 7th March. |
The school stationery shop is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at interval and lunch. |
Uniform
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A reminder about girls’ skirts length, these should be on the knee. |
Uniform Shop
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The Uniform Shop will be open this Saturday 5th of March. |
The Uniform Shop is open during the term at the following times; |
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