House System1

Parnell District School House System From 2008 the school will have a school-wide house system. The purpose of the House System is to... •

Stimulate competition in a wide variety of pupil activities.

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Provide opportunities for leadership.

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Foster the growth of principles of teamwork and co-operation.

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Provide a competitive basis for co-curricular activities

The houses names and colours as agreed by senior management are: Aotea – Green Tokomaru- Yellow

Te Arawa- Red Tainui – Blue

Aotea: migration waka (canoe) commanded by Turi. It made landfall at Aotea Harbour, bringing the Nagati Ruanui, Ngamuru and Atihau Te Arawa: waka whose captian was Tama-te-Kapua. This waka made landfall at Maketu, south of Tauranga. The Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa tribes are descended from this waka. Tainui: waka was commanded by Hoturoa, landing at Kawhia. It brought the Waikato, Ngati Maniapoto, Nagati Haua, Nagati Paoa, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Ngaitai to Aotearoa. Tokomaru: waka in which Manaia came to Aotearoa. It was captained by Whata and made landfall at Mohakatino. Th eNgati Tama, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Rahiri, Manukorihi, Puketapu and Te Atiawa are descended from it.

Children will be allocated a house at the time of enrolment by the office. Siblings / teachers will be put in the same house as other family members. Teachers and teacher aides will be assigned houses. This will be done in such a way as to ensure there are house teachers in each syndicate of the school. Where job shares exist both job-share teachers will be in the same house.

Teacher (aide) Wendy Franklin Smith Karen Fullford Linda Grey-Brett Bob Miller Carla Mackle Stephanie Lin Sue Parkinson Kathy Wu Karlos Bosson Grant Edgerley Val Marra Bronwyn Bell Sue McRae Ambu Halpe Min Goodwin

House

Teacher ( aide)

Tokomaru Aotea Tainui

Anne Turner Stacey McIvor Gretchen Werder Jenny O’Leary Cherry Loveday Sarah Figgins Alex Huke Karen Taylor Sue Lyons Gianluca Watson Helen Grant Michelle Simpson Natascha Chiu Fiona McKinlay Susan Judd

House

Te Arawa

Role of Teachers Associated with each House • • • • •

House Teachers will over see the election of house captains /deputies and hold timely meetings as decided by staff, which are designed to build enthusiasm for inter house competitions – e.g. sports days To submit points to the house points container after relevant events To liaise between staff and students re house sports. To assist house captains to run meetings (approx 1x a term, but maybe more frequently while we get the house system established.) To over see any activities that student house leaders organise at house leader meetings

Allocation of Points House points in the classroom The majority decision was that house points were not to be awarded for classroom behaviour/ work – it was to be a school wide activity. Smiley Cards/ Voucher- are for citizenship (caring and sharing, self management, community service etc) in the playground. Smiley cards must have on them the number of points that have been awarded to each child. These cards are submitted to the container in the office and collated at the office. Mrs Franklin-Smith will collate points.

Points for involvement in sporting /cultural activities: Individual Participated within School 2 st 1 in school event within school 5 nd 2 in school event within school 3 rd 3 in school event with in school 1 Participated in interschool event 10 Awarded place at Interschool event 10

Group Activity 50 30 20

For a tabloids type event, houses accumulate the points they gain in the activity

Celebrating the Accumulation of House points – Fortnightly Assembly The house points will be read out to the fortnightly assembly saving the winning place until last. There will also be a lucky draw from the names in the house poinst6 container. (Wendy to organise small $2 dollar shop type prizes.)

The Flagpole Each fortnight the house flags made by Miss Turner will be flown with the winning house having their flag at the top, second place next and so on. Mrs Franklin-Smith’s students are the flagpole monitors.

The Grand Prize: The House Trophy The vintage and very ornate House Trophy will be awarded at the end of the year to the captains of the winning house at the end of year prize-giving.

Leadership House captains – are identifiable by badges awarded to them at an assembly at the start of the year. House captain’s duties are essentially leadership of mini- events/ an role model House captains for 2008 are: Intermediate Dept

Senior School

Junior school

Aotea Tainui Te Arawa Tokomaru Notes for 2008 year •

Year 7/8 students will share logo and chant they have made with other syndicates later T1/ early T2.

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List of children in each house to be distributed by Office – House leaders names to be at top of list.( to assist teachers in allocating points to various houses. Also master copy to be on Teacher Drive and periodically updated. Flagpole is in perfect working order ( has been checked) Consider developing a logo (perhaps waka/ or crest) for each house to be permanently displayed in the hall. Inter-house Tabloids/ skipping event or dance to be organised by senior and junior syndicates for late Term 1 ( Intermediates excused because of Wellington) Display of accumulated house points in the hall.