At Palmy Boys’

WEEK 1 ORGANISATION

THURSDAY, 1 FEBRUARY
Time Action
8:40am Meet outside the Speirs Centre for the pōwhiri.  The Year 9 Deans, Mr Moore and Mr Cudby, as well as some of our senior students will be on hand to assist.
8:45am Pōwhiri in the school hall.
10.15am Welcome from the Year 9 Deans.  Allocation of students into form classes followed by form class time.  Students will be issued with wall planners and diary, a grooming check will be conducted and they will spend time with their form teachers.  Year 13 Mentor students will be working with junior students.
11.10am Interval
11.30am Teaching lesson.  This class will be taught by the Form Teacher.  Students will be given homework to complete this evening.
12.25pm Year 9 meeting in the school hall followed by a meeting for all bus students.
1.20pm Lunch
2.20pm Teaching lesson – core subject class.  Students will be given homework to complete this evening.
3.20pm End of school

During the day each Year 9 student will be issued with their Palmerston North Boys’ High School ID card.  This can then be used to borrow books from the school library, for printing and photocopying and is necessary for bus students.

All students require an appropriate reading book for SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) with them every day from tomorrow.  This must be an extended text (either fiction or non-fiction), not a magazine, comic book etc.

FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY
Time Action
8.45am Form Time with Form Teacher
9.05am First full school Assembly for 2024 in the school hall
9.40am Timetabled period 1 class (Day 5 of the timetable)
10.25am Timetabled period 2 class
11.10am Interval
11.30am Timetabled period 3 class
12.25pm Timetabled period 4 class
1.20pm Lunch
2.10pm SSR – in period 5 class
2.25pm Timetabled period 5 class
3.20pm End of school

Homework will be given in all teaching classes from today.

WEEK 2 ORGANISATION

MONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY

Time Action
8.45am Form Time followed by the normal Day 6 school timetable

TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

Waitangi Day Public Holiday Observed – School Closed

WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY

Time Action
8.45am Form Time with Form Teacher followed by assembly
9.30am Year 9 Athletics and Sports Talent Identification – school fields (PE uniform, sunscreen and school cap required).  Please note: students attend school in normal school uniform.
12.25pm

Timetabled period 4 class (Day 8)

1.20pm Lunch
2.10pm Timetabled period 5 class (Day 8)
3.20pm End of school

THURSDAY, 8 FEBRUARY

Time Action
8.45am Form Time followed by the normal Day 9 school timetable

FRIDAY, 9 FEBRUARY

Time Action
8.45am Form Time with Form Teacher followed by assembly and Day 10 classes
2.00pm Music demonstration and information about itinerant music opportunities for all Year 9 students – Speirs Centre

Homework will be given in all teaching classes.

During the first few weeks of school, all Year 9 students will be given their usernames and passwords for the school computer network and will be logged into Stratus, our online learning management system.

Week 1 & 2 Organisation

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