We go to the break not quite having finished the first semester. At the end of January we will have got to the halfway mark of the 2020-2021 academic year.
As a New Zealander who watches a lot of rugby, I am very familiar with ‘a game of two halves’ as a cliché to describe a game in which fortunes turn after halftime.
For a rugby fan, there is nothing more thrilling than when your team has struggled through to halftime and, having fought hard enough to stay in the game, finishes strongly and wins in the end. These are the games that you remember and people talk about for years to come.
All of us – students, families, faculty, and staff – have had to struggle through a lot of change and uncertainty up to this point in the year. I am very proud of the way that we have all supported each other. We have focused on what we knew we could control and worked together to deal with circumstances that we were not sure we could deal with until we did.
It would be foolish to assume that the second half of the year will be easier than the first. But on June 16 I think we will look back on the 2020-2021 school year as a year of two halves. And as difficult as it was, it will be what we did in the first half that we will remember with the greatest pride.
On behalf of us all in the Elementary School, thank you for your support and we look forward to working with you and your children in the second half of this year like no other.
School starts again on Monday, January 11, 2021.
Elementary School Blog – November 5, 2021
We trust that you were able to meet with your child(ren)’s teachers to discuss their progress at this halfway point in our first semester.
Elementary School Blog – October 29, 2021
Today you will be able to access your child(ren)’s Quarter 1 Progress Report on Powerschool following the instructions in this blog.
Elementary School Blog – October 15, 2021
It is good for young people to have a break from schedules and structured activities – even if they say they are bored from time to time.
Elementary School Blog – October 8, 2021
Tuesday was World Teachers Day. I had not realized until a student emailed me an apple!
Elementary School Blog – October 1, 2021
It is a good feeling to work with teachers who believe that they can cause learning and are committed to reflecting and acting on evidence to make sure that every single student is learning.
Elementary School Blog – September 24, 2021
All cultures have big stories like The Odyssey that students can read and think about big ideas. The more big stories they read the better!
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