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LINWOOD COLLEGELinwood College, 85 Aldwins Road, Phillipstown, Christchurch 8062

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NAU MAI WELCOME

Linwood College is a place where every learner is known and valued as an individual and where learner success matters. During their years at our school, each learner progresses through his or her various levels of learning and social development on personalised and career pathways.

A Message from the Principal 2

Stepping into the Future: Our Vision 4

The Curriculum – What’s on Offer 6

Pathways to Excellence 10

Co-curricular Activities 12

Linwood College – the place to be for 2020 14

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We employ the best teachers, kaiako who see themselves too, as life-long learners.

Our teachers utilise the full range of teaching and learning strategies to individualise

learning and ensure personalised success.

We are proud of Linwood College’s unique community. Our large and diverse catchment

contributes to a richness which reflects New Zealand’s current identity and prepares our

learners to be active global citizens.

Community connections are integral to our school. Linwood College is the chosen

secondary school for both the Tamai Kāhui Ako and Aupaki Kāhui Ako to ensure a

seamless learning pathway from early childhood centres, schools and beyond to our

tertiary and career partners.

We are excited by the immediate prospect of a brand new learning community. Our school

is to be totally rebuilt. We will have a purpose-built, future-proofed learning environment,

with educational and sporting facilities to rival any secondary school in the country.

Symbolically, this marks the beginning of a new era for Linwood College. I can think of no

better way to outwardly signal our energy, enthusiasm and optimism.

We would love you to be part of this.

Richard Edmundson, Tumuaki-Principal

We are excited by the immediate prospect of

a brand new learning community. Our school

is to be totally rebuilt. We will have a purpose-

built, future-proofed learning environment,

with educational and sporting facilities to rival

any secondary school in the country.

Our College has a clear focus – to meet the individual needs of every learner in a

safe, caring environment.

Linwood learners develop core attributes that will ensure their success throughout life. They are positive, resilient learners who are collaborative and communicate effectively.

Linwood learners are critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. They have the strong foundation of knowledge, skills and attributes required for future success in a world in which technological change and its attendant social impacts are the norm.

Linwood College is a co-educational Year 7-13 secondary school. We opened in 1954 as Linwood High School with the motto ‘Kimihia’ – to seek.

Our motto has not changed and we remain a truly community school – in the community and of the community. We have a diverse, vibrant, globally-rich culture that creates a stable, connected learning and social environment.

All Linwood learners can expect to be challenged, enriched and supported to reach personal excellence. Every learner is autonomous, whereby they self-manage and progressively direct their learning pathway.

Most importantly, Linwood learners discover and realise their academic passions.

Academic achievement is a top priority. We affirm the Government’s target of at least 85% of 18-year-olds having NCEA Level 2 as a foundational qualification for wellbeing. Linwood learners achieve the qualifications that lead to the next stage of their learning or career, whatever and wherever that may be.

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā, nau

mai, haere mai.

Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e

lelei. Bula. Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta.

Warm greetings to our community.

RAISING EXPECTATIONS

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INCLUSIVE, PROGRESSIVE AND

ENGAGING EDUCATION FOR

PERSONAL EXCELLENCE

Linwood College provides a strengths-based education, founded on belonging and diversity. We achieve personal excellence through growth and grit.

Linwood College provides learning pathways to the future, creating for all learners the expectation and opportunities to:

• achieve success

• experience wellbeing and develop resilience

• become lifelong learners who actively contribute to their communities

Our values are guided by the College’s motto – Kimihia – “to search, to seek, to

look for.”

Service has a high profile at our College. We know Leadership through Service further engages our learners who are highly socially conscious and involved with their communities. If there is a way to help our community, then the culture of Linwood College is to provide it.

OUR STRATEGIC GOALS FOR

2020 ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR!

At Linwood all learners enthusiastically access the New Zealand curriculum as evidenced by their academic progress and NCEA. We encourage both learners and teachers to aim for personal excellence, so that our learners’ personal pathways connect beyond their college years into their future.

Linwood College is the local school of choice with learners proud to be part of a community where they are welcome, safe and valued, and where they are involved in and passionate about their learning.

Linwood College is the core of its community with clear and open communication, where whānau feel welcome, where language, culture and identity are celebrated, valuing New Zealand’s bi-cultural heritage and multi-cultural diversity.

Enhancing the mana and dignity of the individual is at the heart of Linwood College.

Everything we do is designed to recognise and nurture the uniqueness of each of our learners. Our learners know who they are, and who they can be.

High expectations and personal excellence are benchmarks.

All learners have natural strengths and talents. Our job is to develop these so that each learner learns and excels not only in these areas, but has the confidence to step outside of their comfort zone.

Our curriculum is innovative. It is personalised and builds on the pathways from our partnership primary schools. We are privileged to provide an integrated, individualised curriculum, for our learners joining in Year 7 or Year 9, through to the senior qualification years and beyond.

Our actions are guided by:

SERVICE – Manaakitanga

EXCELLENCE – Hiranga

RESPECT – Whakaute

CURIOSITY – Manawareka

HONESTY – Whakapono

OUR VISION

SEaRCH

STEPPING INTO THE FUTURE – THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

We are finishing developed design and preparing for the physical

work to begin for our total school rebuild. The time frame is 3 years so

Linwood College will relocate to the empty Avonside Girls High School

site mid-2019.

The Avonside site is close, approximately 4 minutes' drive or 2.2 kms

from the current Linwood College site. Free school buses are being

provided for the duration of the rebuild. This will allow for uninterrupted

teaching and learning for our students during the rebuild period.

We have responded to the clear community voice on Linwood College's

future direction. We will have purpose-built general and specialist

facilities for classroom learning, sports and cultural pursuits.

These facilities will centre on learner-autonomy for personalised

success and future-focused employability and leadership skills.

Our school

Our choice

Our future

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THE LEARNING PATHWAY:

YEARS 7-10 CURRICULUM

Year 7-8 learners experience a calm, settled and stable start to high school. Their curriculum is a combination of both home-room learning with a specialist middle-years teacher and lessons in specialist rooms with specialist teachers. The emphasis in the first two years is on enhancing positive learning dispositions and literacy and numeracy to broaden and deepen curriculum understanding. All areas of the curriculum and the key competencies are integrated to provide coherent and meaningful learning opportunities to ensure learners are fully prepared for the next stage of their learning pathway.

Year 9-10 learners continue to taste all areas of the national curriculum. Many students will join Linwood College at Year 9. Our social programmes integrate them with other students in their class and year group effectively. From Year 9 students will have specialist teachers for all their subjects, including access to specialist facilities. Two enrichment classes will operate during both Year 9 and Year 10. At Year 10 students are in their final year of preparation for the senior school and national qualifications and are exploring specialised subjects to meet their individual interests and strengths. Many Linwood Year 10 learners start their national qualifications success in this year.

THE CAREER PATHWAY:

YEARS 11-13 CURRICULUM

In the senior years timetabling practices and our partnerships with University of Canterbury, Ara Polytechnic and other tertiary providers offer a broad curriculum accommodating the widest possible combination of post-school study and career choices. Through extensive and expert career services, a senior learner at Linwood College has understanding of their pathway and how their present learning fits into this pathway. Whatever their aims, our learners and their families and whānau make well-considered, informed choices to ensure they are following the subjects and interests they value and enjoy.

We know that this is what leads to success.

ENRICHMENT & ‘GATE’:

GIFTED & TALENTED EDUCATION

At Linwood College “high achieving” is not only about academic subjects, but also includes leadership, sport, drama, music, kapa haka, performance – the whole person.

We have an Enrichment and GATE programme in place led by a staff member with specific expertise and understanding for this. All our teachers recognise their responsibility to adapt teaching programmes so all learners are appropriately challenged – including GATE learners.

Our Enrichment and GATE programme

has four areas:

• enrichment and acceleration classes

• out of class activities and events specifically for our GATE learners

• activities and events for GATE learners and their families

• combined GATE events for those in the Tamai and Aupaki Kāhui Ako.

SUCCESS FOR SPECIAL

EDUCATION LEARNERS

Linwood College is an inclusive and supportive environment. Every learner is welcome whatever their learning needs. We work in partnership with the Ministry of Education, special education specialists and other support agencies to adapt school systems to suit our learners – not the other way round.

We operate accelerated learning classes where the curriculum and systems are adapted to meet the academic and social learning needs of each learner. We also have our Accelerated Learning Centre, which provides targeted assistance to individuals or small groups, from single lesson, to longer term programmes. The Accelerated Learning Centre staff also have expertise welcoming learners with particular emotional and social needs.

SUCCESS FOR MĀORI

LEARNERS AT LINWOOD COLLEGE

Linwood College affirms the centrality of Māori as tangata whenua. We recognise, in particular, our context within the wider takiwa of Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga. We welcome our responsibility under the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the New Zealand Curriculum to promote and provide instruction in tikanga Māori – Māori culture – and te reo Māori – Māori language.

Our three outcomes for our Māori learners are:

• feeling supported in their identity and presence at Linwood College

• learner retention rates match or better the school average

• Māori achievement rates – Years 7-10, NCEA – match or better the school average.

Success for Māori learners is integral to our school’s wellbeing and enriches all our community.

SUCCESS FOR PASIFIKA

LEARNERS AT LINWOOD COLLEGE

Our three outcomes for our Pasifika learners are:

• feeling supported in their identity and presence at Linwood College

• learner retention rates match or better the school average

• Pasifika achievement rates – Years 7-10, NCEA – match or better the school average.

Linwood College welcomes the diversity of cultures and experiences that our Pasifika learners bring to our school and how this enriches the learning and social experiences for all our community.

CURRICULUM – WHAT’S ON OFFER

Linwood College has an eye on the future for every one of its learners.

Our learners are active shapers of their futures, rather than passive

consumers. Linwood learners are equipped with the global employment

attributes, particularly digital understanding, to be happy and successful

in their future lives and careers.

That is why we believe in a “pathwayed curriculum.” This means the

school, our learners and their families and whānau all know how the

learning at Linwood College connects to the learners’ present interests

and their post-school futures. Our curriculum is dynamic, challenging and

exciting, enabling learners to expand their visions and define their own

personal ambitions for the future.

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At Linwood College learning success and personal wellbeing are inseparable. Positive

learning relationships and whanaungatanga are at the centre of everything.

Each learner belongs to an Ako group within one of four houses. The Ako Kaiārahi (mentor) has responsibility for the academic and personal welfare of the learner and is the first point of contact for family and whānau. Parallel to this, the house dean remains with their cohort as their learners advance through both the junior and senior school, creating lasting relationships with both learner and whānau.

We know that effective learning occurs in a safe and caring physical and emotional environment. We embrace diversity and inclusiveness as we see this as reflective both of New Zealand society today, and of New Zealand’s global future. Linwood learners have an international understanding. Supporting this positive learning and social environment, the dean of each house is part of a wider year level team that monitors the wider academic, health and social well-being of each learner.

At Linwood College, learning success and personal well-being are paramount.

PATHWAYS TO EXCELLENCE: LEARNING AND SOCIAL WELLBEING

Each learner belongs to an Ako group.

The Ako Kaiārahi (mentor) has

responsibility for the academic and

personal welfare of the learner and is the

first point of contact for family and whānau.

A renewed part of the Linwood College experience is the fostering of leadership at

all year levels. Leadership through Service is at the heart of our school both for the

cross-cultural, global understanding that this brings and because of the inseparable

connection between social and learning confidence and abilities.

A Linwood learner is ambitious. Our learners are challenged to fulfill, and perhaps

exceed their individual ambitions. Because we are in our Tamai and Aupaki Kāhui Ako

(learning communities) we access and use extensive learning and social data from our

partnership primary schools. Our own learning and social data systems are based on

learner-family-school target setting. Throughout their College years Linwood learners

and their whānau know the learner’s own learning data, where they are currently at,

and how this relates to their individual learning pathway.

Keeping in mind the need to equip all our learners with global skills, our goal is to best

prepare them for the rapidly changing dynamics of the world that awaits them.

Everything we do is designed to recognise

and nurture the uniqueness of each of our

learners. Our learners know who they are,

and who they can be.

High expectations and personal excellence

are benchmarks.

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GET OUT THERE AND DO IT

CO-CURRICULAR

From automatic inclusion in our vibrant

‘house’ system, Linwood College

learners are engaged in good-natured

rivalry and fun in a competitive

environment where friendships are

forged across levels.

But there are a host of other opportunities for participation elsewhere too; performing arts and sports cover a very comprehensive array of co-curricular activities on hand at Linwood College. There is something for everyone – from chess to theatre sports, from kapa haka to the school production, from netball to rugby.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

The Visual and Performing Arts at Linwood College are an integral part of school life and the College has a proud tradition of strength in these areas. This tradition continues today with innovative design and performance. Through the Visual and Performing Arts, learners experience essential skills for the modern world by developing their creativity, discipline, social awareness and confidence.

SPORTS

Linwood College excels in recreational and competitive sport ranging from traditional school sports to more recent offerings such as Ki o Rahi. We recognise that sport encourages life-learning skills requiring learners to set goals, work as part of a team, and develop leadership. Time management, commitment, persistence and resilience are required – all critical coping skills.

INTERNATIONAL CITIZENSHIP

Linwood College sees itself as representative of the age. Our community is socially and ethnically inclusive and as such is a mirror of New Zealand and the wider world. A Linwood learner embraces the concept of being valued and recognised for their worth, and knowing their place in the wider world community. Through our range of learning and social activities and events, we celebrate our special blend of cultures and ethnicities, with everyone attuned to the wider picture. Linwood College opens doors for learners to have experiences which will make them further aware of the rich society in which we live. Service and leadership, collaboration and self-belief are all strong components on the path to international citizenship. At Linwood College we make sure these opportunities are presented and taken up for self-growth and development.

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From what you’ve read, you will be able to tell that Linwood College is no

ordinary school. We know we are unique in our diversity and the richness

this provides for our school community.

We have clear goals for ourselves, and goals for our learners. Our future is

bright and our learners are assured of a well-supported path to achieving their

potential – on every front.

For an educational opportunity of a lifetime, pre-enrol now for 2020.

Complete our easy enrolment application form and leave the rest to us.

At our enrolment interview we can discuss your child’s future and you can

share their talents and aspirations.

We look forward to welcoming your children, our Linwood learners in 2020.

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LINWOOD COLLEGE – THE PLACE TO BE IN 2020

Our future is bright and our learners are

assured of a well-supported path to achieving

their potential – on every front.

For an educational opportunity of a lifetime,

pre-enrol now for 2020.

Linwood College, 85 Aldwins Road, Phillipstown, Christchurch 8062

www.linwoodcollege.school.nz