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WINGS NEWSLETTER Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland
Vol 16, Term Four, Week One, 16 October 2020
Welcome back to school for the final term of this very strange 2020. I hope, like me, you were able to at least have a couple of days away with your families. However, I am cognizant that Years Six, Nine and the Seniors did have high-stake Cambridge Examinations beginning this week, so it really was not a holiday for most. Our Lower College students also have internal examinations beginning after Labour weekend. I wish to also acknowledge the time staff gave up over the recent holidays to offer tutorials for most subject areas. I know the attendance of these seminars was almost at 100% which is again, quite remarkable. Many of you will have read the articles that have been published in the Herald over the past number of weeks highlighting the concern the New Zealand Institute has over New Zealand’s decline in the PISA results. (These are tests run in all OECD countries with 15-year-old children in Math's, English and Science). This has occurred at the same time most New Zealand schools have moved to a very skills based, student centred learning strategy. I can assure you that ACG Schools offer a knowledge contentbased teaching approach and that if the data for private schools is assessed independently,
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