Term 1: Week 4

It's been another exciting couple of weeks in the Senior School. All students have been working incredibly hard on completing all their tests which has been a tough slog. We have managed to pack some learning in too! Below are some highlights from the past two weeks.

Leadership Roles.

Each year we allocate leadership roles to our year 7 & 8 students. These positions are held in high regard by the students and are keenly contested. For a student to be considered for a leadership role they must first write a letter to the Senior School teachers, expressing their interest and explaining the qualities they can bring to the role. Once all letters are received, the teachers spend a great deal of time considering the best student for each role based on leadership skills they have developed throughout their time at Muritai.

We were incredibly spoilt for choice for our Head Boy and Girl this year. Over fifteen Year 8s applied for these roles which show we have a strong team of confident and motivated seniors for 2014.

After seeking feedback from the Senior Management Team and our Board of Trustees we are happy to congratulate  our newly appointed Head Boy and Girl - Jake Murphy and Sally Bird and Deputy Head Boy and Girl Henry Hart and Mia-Treadwell-Burke. I’m sure anyone that knows these students well understand how worthy they are of these roles. We appreciate that they have been excellent role models during their time at Muritai School and are sure they will continue to lead the school well. 

Supporting them will be the 8 House Captains -

Charters - Hannah Moffat and Fabian Chumko

King - Milly Griffiths and Andre Forrest

Sanson - Charlotte Barclay and Todd Wellwood

Cook - Mary Heath and Blair Kuchenbecker

Kindness Boomerangs

At the start of the year all the students at Muritai have been revisiting our Muritai values of respect, kindness, self confidence, curiosity, resilence, commitment, integrity and excellence. In term 1 we are particularly focusing on the importance of demonstrating kindness. Last week Mr Devenport taught for a day in each of the classes and shared  a clip called a 'Kindness Boomerang'.

 


We thought we could have a go creating our own kindness boomerangs in the senior school. There were many challenges for this task including filming the event in one shot with no mistakes and having to rely on facial expressions and body language to demonstrate kindness. Check out the results below:

 

Athletics Training

On the 11th of March we have 34 students representing Muritai at the HRSA Athletics Meeting. These students have had time this week preparing for the event. On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have the expertise of David Lewis, a professional sports coach to train with our relay teams. Thanks so much for our time David.

Swimming

This week all the classes have started swimming lessons with the Hutt City swim coaches. Its been great the weather has been so kind to us - hopefully it continues next week!

Sweden Science Teachers

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have a visit from two Swedish teachers called Fredrika and Jenny, who are currently touring the country. They shared with us a couple of movies their students made about Sweden and their school. They even taught us some Swedish!