I am pleased to report on a very positive and productive two weeks with students back on site.  The boys pleasure at being back, catching up with friends, classmates and teachers has been obvious.  This reinforces the role that schools have to enable social interaction as well as enable teaching and learning.  With over 90% of our boys on site the tone has been very positive and settled.
 

The focus in the classroom has been on engaging all the boys in their learning, ensuring those who have fallen behind during lockdown catch up and grow their knowledge and understanding of the content delivered online.  Our assessment schedule has been extended to support all students to achieve with the majority of NCEA internal assessments now due on the last day of this term, Friday 3rd July.  This will enable our senior boys to spread the pressure of completing assessments out over the remaining 5 weeks.  The students have adhered to the MOE Health and Safety requirements for schools under Alert Level 2 whilst enjoying the ability to catch up with mates socially and sharing in physical activity, and class activities. 

I remind all parents of the requirements under Alert Level 2 MOE guidelines that parents / supporters / spectators do not come on the school site.  If you need to come on site you are required to sign in at our front office to enable contact tracing.  All parents should remain in their vehicles when they drop off or pick up their sons.  This ensures our school bubble, safety and hygiene protocols are met.

Planning is well underway to get our sporting programme back on track to ensure our boys get to experience many of the opportunities we offer here at Tauranga Boys' College.  Unfortunately, under MOE guidelines, the same requirements need to be met as we begin the sports programme and we cannot permit spectators on site until Alert Level 1 due to the inability to meet contact tracing requirements.  Therefore, NO spectators are permitted on the school grounds - parents are to drop off and pick up their sons and remain in their vehicles.  Please support us by adhering to this request to enable us to begin training and trials and understand our coaches and managers will be busy with your son and not to be distracted from training and trials to ask you to leave our sidelines.  We thank you for this imposition in advance and like you, cannot wait to have you join us on the side of the sports field in the not too distant future.  Currently our plans are to open our site to spectators and parents when Level 1 commences or such time as the MOE informs the school that we do not need to contact trace.  We are optimistic this will be by 22nd June.

We understand at this time that  some of our families may be experiencing significant financial pressure due to COVID- 19. Tauranga Boys' College dooes not want any boy to miss out on the opportunity to play sport for the school due to financial difficulty.

The Titans Trust would like to help families who are in need of some financial assistance so that your boy may play sport and they have set up a generous Sport Support Fund.  For you to access this you need to follow these steps:

1. Email sport@tbc.school.nz
2. State the Sport / Team you are involved with and the subscription fee
3. Identify briefly your reason for support, either loss of job or personal financial circumstances.

The Sport Support Package will guarantee payment for the subscription fee i.e. Rugby Junior $70, Senior $90, Football $80-$110, Basketball $120, Hockey $140 (approximate costs).  The Sport Support package will also consider payments for Tournaments and inter-school games.  As a school we respect the fact that it’s often hard to ask for help but if it makes a difference for your son then I urge you to contact us and assure you this will be treated as a confidential matter.

Enjoy the Queen's Birthday weekend with whānau and friends.

 

This is an outstanding achievement recognising diligence and application to studies throughout the whole year with both internal assessments and external exams.  Centurion status is a goal a large number of our boys aspire to, and it is really encouraging to be able to recognise boys who have achieved this status in 2019.

Students currently in Year 13 who achieve NCEA Level 3 prior to week 1 of Term 4 and pass 100% of the credits they are entered in, will be recognised before the end of the school year. 

 

Benjamin Adams	Liam Duffin	Thomas Friskney
Logan Green	Thomas Leslie	Christopher Maine
Daniel Maine	Jack McKenzie	Vijay Nirvaneshwar
Nick Rea

 

 

Kade Allen	Hayden Collier	Lucas Cowley
Zach Dalton	Kyle Duck	Jack Hoggard
Cameron James	Patterson Kelly	Theo Lafont
Josh Manners	Joseph Mortimer	Riley Parnwell
Reece Talopau	Callum Toft	Ben Tortoiseshell
Riley Usherwood	Matthew Wagstaff	Jaren Young

 

 

 

Bronze Centurion Badge
Level 1, 100% Achievement - Yr 11 & 12 2019 

THANK YOU!
 

A huge thank you to our Homestay families. Your care and support of our International Students during the COVID-19 lockdown period has been amazing under very challenging circumstances. 

It is great to have our students back at school and looking forward to new experiences in Sport, Study and the Arts here at Tauranga Boys' College.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OLD BOY SAM CANE 

During lockdown some of our Old Boys' from the Creative Arts industry, Law and Sport gave generously of their time and participated in Zoom meetings with students.  

The pizza construction site alongside the Hospitality block is once again in action.  COVID-19 won't stop this highly anticipated asset from being completed by the end of the year.  Construction of the covered seating area is about to begin.

This is a great site to use in order to get information
https://school-leavers-toolkit.education.govt.nz/

Senior Pasifika students can receive extra support for assessments and homework in Room 35 at lunchtime every Monday and Thursday.

Pacific Rise will begin again in Term 3.  

Congratulations to Logan Cassidy, Jahmyn Murray, Levi Fraser, Taiwhakaea Togo-Hawkins and Tuawhenua Downes who all completed the Countdown Level 2 SEEDS final assessment this week.  This will assist them to get a part-time job with Countdown if they choose to do so.  The next programme will begin next week.  The Level 2 Food and Manufacturing course has resumed at the Pacific Coast Technical Institute.

We have a  few Senior students working at Good Neighbour and assisting in the kitchen with the catering arm of the organisation.

Are you looking for a way to support our community as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

With a heightened awareness of health and well-being due to COVID-19, I share information from the BOP District Health Board below relating to Rheumatic Fever prevention and HPV immunisation that needs your attention.  

HPV Immunisation
High School Catch Up Programme
 

Our senior boys will continue to be offered the opportunity to be involved in the government funded HPV (human papilloma virus) immunisation programme.  Many students will have had their HPV vaccine at Intermediate, however many also missed out.  We began this catch up programme in term 3 last year and continued in term one 2020.  Due to school closure as a result of COVID-19, this programme was delayed but we will be offering this again as soon as possible.

Some facts about HPV: