Whānau ki te Ako

Well done Grace and Leigh! 🎉

Kia ora e te whānau!

The Hare and The Tortise - a beloved tale, retold by the wondeful ākonga of Ridgeview Primary. The whole school is totally involved in this production and very excited to share it with whānau and our community. Get yourself along!

Fabulous to see Albany Senior High School being recognised as an MoE Spotlight - sharing our approach to hybrid learning and responding to changing needs of our learners throughout a global pandemic! I see this as both acknowledgement and celebration of the incredible, complex work our team has undertaken over the last two and a half year. Well done whānau!!

You can check out the spotlight here:
https://assets.learningfromhome.govt.nz/s3fs-public/2022-06/Spotlight_ASHS_Final.pdf?vuhLKpJ33CCIrGtfit9of0cVC78trETP

We would like to invite our community members to attend this Kathryn Berkett presentation (re-scheduled from 2021) on behalf of our Whānau ki te Ako, hosted at Albany Junior High School, in the Performing Arts Centre (PAC) Tuesday 7th June, 6pm doors open for a 6.30pm start. We look forward to seeing you there.

Mōrena koutou! Manahau this morning as the AJHS wharenui arrived home. We know a tremendous amout of mahi has happened behind to scenes to make this happen. A wonderful and important time for our community. He rā whatiwhati kō.

Spotted! Whānau ki te ako in the North Shore Times.

‘Better Together’ - New Co-lead Principals Announced for Whānau ki te ako

Whānau ki te ako is a Kāhui Ako (community of learning) made up of seven schools: Albany Primary, Albany Junior High School, Albany Senior High School, Coatesville School, Greenhithe School, Upper Harbour Primary School and Ridgeview School and serves over 4000 students from Year 1-13. Our community vision 'Better Together: A connected pathway for empowered learners' reflects our shared thinking and journey together.

Albany Primary’s Maree Bathurst recently stepped down from the role of Lead Principal for our Kahui Ako making way for two new CoLead Principals - Sue Smith from Upper Harbour Primary School and Claire Amos from Albany Senior High School.

The new leadership team would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge Maree for her leadership over the past three and a half years. Maree has steered the “community of learning ship” through the disrupted waters of a global pandemic with warmth and wisdom whilst also managing to nurture and grow the relationships and connections within the kahui ako community.

Sue and Claire are excited to take over the helm, as we move into what is hopefully calmer waters, and look forward to working together to grow collaboration between and across our school community and bring the strategy to life. To this end, you can expect to hear more about the 2022 Whanau kite ako Strategic Plan in the coming weeks. As our vision states, we believe with strategic collaboration we can be “Better Together” as we establish “a connected pathway for empowered learners”.

If you would like more regular updates about what we are up to as a community of schools we would love to invite you to join our page: https://www.facebook.com/Whanaukiteako

Better Together: A connected pathway for empowered learners

Kia ora e moa mā.

We have just fired out our end of year newsletter to your kura. Wrap your eyes around it. We look forward to seeing you all next year! Take care over the Christmas period. Eat, drink, sleep (repeat) and be Merry. Thank you for all you do to make our Kāhui Ako the bestest Kāhui Ako in all the land.

Ngā mihi.
Your ASL team.

Whānau ki te ako - Retrospect and Merry Christmas (1).pdf

Kia ora whanau,
I'd love to invite any future ASHS students and whanau or even those who are just a little ASHS curious to come along to our open evening next term. We'd love to meet you!
Open Evening 6.00-8.30pm on Thursday 5th August. 2022
Enrolments open now! https://www.ashs.school.nz/enrolment/

Thank you all so much for coming whānau. An awesome day!