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2012 Learning Theme: Together We Are Strong

Ehara toku i te toa takitahi
Engari toku toa i te toa takitini
My strength comes not from myself alone,
But from the strength of all the people

Kia Ora Tatou, Greetings to all

Dear Parents

I hope that you and your children had a restful Easter break and enjoyed the sunshine.

A very warm welcome to our new students and parents. We hope that you quickly feel part of the ENPS community.

Our Learning Programmes.
Our school theme of ‘Together We are Strong’ continues throughout this term as we launch into the new schoolwide topic of ‘I am a Physicist’. For this topic, the big idea across all teams for our students is Energy changes when forces do work. We will focus on the values of Respect and Courage and the Key Competency of Thinking. The Big Questions we will be examining are: How does energy exist? How does energy change? What is energy? What is physics?

Each sector (Junior, Middle and Senior) has selected different strands of physics to focus on and have developed different exciting contexts for study. When planning these units of study, teachers met with student representatives to ensure that we were considering the students’ thoughts and interests as we planned.