WEEK 1 ORGANISATION

THURSDAY, 30 JANUARY

Time	Action
8:40am	Meet outside the Speirs Centre for the pōwhiri.  The Year 9 Deans, Mr Moore and Mr Squire, 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, 31 JANUARY

Time	Action
8.45am	Form Time with Form Teacher
9.05am	First full school Assembly for 2025 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, 3 FEBRUARY

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

TUESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY

Time	Action
8.45am	Form Time followed by the normal Day 7 school timetable

WEDNESDAY, 5 FEBRUARY

Time	Action
8.45am	Form Time followed by the normal Day 8 school timetable
2.00pm	Music demonstration and information about itinerant music opportunities for all Year 9 students – Speirs Centre

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, 6 FEBRUARY

Waitangi Day Public Holiday Observed – School Closed

FRIDAY, 7 FEBRUARY

Time	Action
8.45am	Form Time with Form Teacher followed by assembly and Day 10 classes

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.