We have talked a lot at the start of this year about Excellence and Merit endorsement.
As a school, we are encouraging all our students to aim as high as they can to live out our school values and motto, “Altiora Peto”, to seek higher things. This week I also want to highlight the exemplary work of our Learning Support staff. These staff work with and support students and teachers for whom school can be a difficult learning environment for any number of reasons. These students have been incredibly successful over a number of years with the support we are able to provide as a school.
This year’s Year 12 students (Year 11 last year) saw their NCEA results continue to be a source of pride for CBHS. Seventy-one students in Year 11 last year were on our Learning Support register receiving different levels of input. Of those seventy -one, 73% gained NCEA Level One. Two students did that with Excellence endorsement and another thirteen with Merit endorsement. And of the forty-six Year 13 students on the Learning Support Register this year, last year 78% of them gained NCEA Level Two.
The success of our Learning Support staff and our teachers in meeting the varied and different learning needs across all of our students is highlighted by these excellent results. These results reflect the determination of those students to seek higher things, and our staff in supporting all learners at school.
Each boy’s individual journey should be a journey that strives for personal excellence, no matter what that looks like in an academic sense, a co-curricular sense, and in terms of their personal character development. Success is more than just Excellence, it is also ‘excellence’.
