Latest News February 2012

New Buildings project Underway

Our current building project is well underway with the construction company taking advantage of the long holidays to complete demolition work and the underground services, and begin the re-building process.

One of the original two-storey teaching blocks will be extended to provide four new Science labs, a Maths Faculty office, and a Science Faculty office. The original gymnasium (affectionately referred to as the "Old Gym" since our new, much larger facility was built) has been stripped back to its steel framework and will be completely refurbished to include an additional Weights Room, Sports Office and three Health Education teaching rooms.

Work is progressing well but is not expected to be completed until the start of November.

Year 9 Parents Evening February 21

Next Tuesday 21 February at 7pm there is opportunity for all parents/caregivers of Year 9 students to meet with staff.

The evening will begin in the College Hall with a brief welcome and introduction by senior staff. Parents/caregivers will then meet with their child's form teacher . The Form Teacher will give you the opportunity to learn how the form class is settling into their timetable and to ask any questions about procedures and systems at Lynfield College.

Tea and coffee will be served in the staffroom at around 8pm.

We look forward to welcoming you all next Tuesday evening.

Great Barrier Camp for BOT Student Rep
 

Kia Ora, my name is James Olsen, and I’m the Student Trustee on the Lynfield College Board of Trustees. I was elected to this position in September last year and my role is to bring a student perspective to the Board table.   To understand my role, the legal requirements and ethical responsibilities, the Board paid for me to attend a five day governance challenge at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre on Great Barrier Island, with forty other student trustees.   The aim of the course was for us to challenge ourselves both physically and mentally so that we can better understand the way we work, thus allowing us to fully understand the students so that we can properly represent their views at the Board level

This was then supplemented by governance sessions in the evening to ensure in depth understanding of the issues pertinent to running secondary schools.   The Outdoor Pursuits Centre Governance Challenge was a valuable and much appreciated investment by the Board, which will allow me to fully participate effectively at Board of Trustee meetings. I look forward to working with Board members and students throughout the year through the Student Council.

Leadership Camp 2012
 

Lynfield College has run an annual Senior Leadership and Team Building camp for Year 12 and 13 students since 1992. The aim of the camp is to enhance leadership skills and help develop team spirit.

For 2012 a two day camp based at the AUT campus launched the Prefects Training Programme (PTP) for our 2012 leadership team. PTP has been running in our school in association with AUT for the last five years. Students and staff stayed over two floors of the AUT student apartments which had been reserved for our students over the two day programme.

The agenda consisted of business planning, individual goal setting and tertiary transition planning as well as developing leadership concepts to assist the students in achieving their and the College's goals across the year.
 

	Some of the student leaders:  James Olsen (BOT student representative), Maddie Hughes (Head Girl), Kendra Wright (Social Committee), Jasmine Low (Asst Arts and Culture Captain), Jonathan Feki (Head Boy), James Johansson (Asst Arts and Culture Captain), Jason Qu (Social Committee).   The images below show the leaders in two teams which competed to complete a road race, riddle and produce a video.
The image opposite shows (facing camera) Nishita D'Silva (Deputy Head Girl), Shantrelle Prendigrast (Arts and Culture Captain), and Nalin Choudhary (Academic Captain).

Welcome to our Year 9 Students
 

3 February 2012

Year 9 Dean Mr Denis Van Dijk has 380 students to get to know as they begin their secondary schooling at Lynfield College. Having farewelled his former cohort as they ended Year 13 in December Mr Van Dijk is delighted to find his new group are equally as enthusiastic about achieving highly and getting involved in all the activities on offer.

The timetable has been operating for just over a day and Year 9 students were this morning being introduced to their courses of study in Technology and Art. The images below were captured around several of these classrooms.

Excellent 2011 NCEA Results

1 February 2012

Last year’s NCEA results have brought smiles to the faces of students and teachers alike at Lynfield College. Student achievement data shows improvements at all levels, with Lynfield College results exceeding the Ministry of Education’s guidelines, the national data and the Decile 7 data in almost all respects.
 

At Level 1 92% of Lynfield students met  the Literacy requirements and 91% the Numeracy. The pass rate for the NCEA Level 1 certificate was 80.2%.
 

86.9% of our Year 12 students were successful at Level 2 (NZ average 81.4%; Decile 7 schools 84.9%).
 

At Level 3 71% of our Year 13 students gained their Certificate while 64.3% also gained University Entrance.

Congratulations to all students and best wishes for your 2012 studies.