Parnell District School House System
From 2008 the school will have a school-wide house system. The purpose of the
House System is to...
• Stimulate competition in a wide variety of pupil activities.
• Provide opportunities for leadership.
• Foster the growth of principles of teamwork and co-operation.
• Provide a competitive basis for co-curricular activities
The houses names and colours as agreed by senior management are:
Aotea – Green Te Arawa- Red
Tokomaru- Yellow Tainui – Blue
Aotea: migration waka (canoe) commanded by Turi. It made landfall at Aotea
Harbour, bringing the Nagati Ruanui, Ngamuru and Atihau
Te Arawa: waka whose captian was Tama-te-Kapua. This waka made landfall at
Maketu, south of Tauranga. The Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa tribes are descended
from this waka.
Tainui: waka was commanded by Hoturoa, landing at Kawhia. It brought the
Waikato, Ngati Maniapoto, Nagati Haua, Nagati Paoa, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa
and Ngaitai to Aotearoa.
Tokomaru: waka in which Manaia came to Aotearoa. It was captained by Whata
and made landfall at Mohakatino. Th eNgati Tama, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Rahiri,
Manukorihi, Puketapu and Te Atiawa are descended from it.
Children will be allocated a house at the time of enrolment by the office. Siblings /
teachers will be put in the same house as other family members.
Teachers and teacher aides will be assigned houses. This will be done in such a way as
to ensure there are house teachers in each syndicate of the school. Where job shares
exist both job-share teachers will be in the same house.
Teacher (aide) House Teacher ( aide) House
Wendy Franklin Smith Anne Turner
Karen Fullford Stacey McIvor
Linda Grey-Brett Gretchen Werder
Bob Miller Jenny O’Leary
Carla Mackle Cherry Loveday
Stephanie Lin Sarah Figgins
Sue Parkinson Tokomaru Alex Huke
Kathy Wu Aotea Karen Taylor
Karlos Bosson Tainui Sue Lyons Te Arawa
Grant Edgerley Gianluca Watson
Val Marra Helen Grant
Bronwyn Bell Michelle Simpson
Sue McRae Natascha Chiu
Ambu Halpe Fiona McKinlay
Min Goodwin Susan Judd
Role of Teachers Associated with each House
• House Teachers will over see the election of house captains /deputies and hold
timely meetings as decided by staff, which are designed to build enthusiasm
for inter house competitions – e.g. sports days
• To submit points to the house points container after relevant events
• To liaise between staff and students re house sports.
• To assist house captains to run meetings (approx 1x a term, but maybe more
frequently while we get the house system established.)
• To over see any activities that student house leaders organise at house leader
meetings
Allocation of Points
House points in the classroom
The majority decision was that house points were not to be awarded for classroom
behaviour/ work – it was to be a school wide activity.
Smiley Cards/ Voucher- are for citizenship (caring and sharing, self management,
community service etc) in the playground. Smiley cards must have on them the
number of points that have been awarded to each child. These cards are submitted to
the container in the office and collated at the office. Mrs Franklin-Smith will collate
points.
Points for involvement in sporting /cultural activities:
Individual Group Activity
Participated within School 2
st
1 in school event within school 5 50
nd
2 in school event within school 3 30
rd
3 in school event with in school 1 20
Participated in interschool event 10
Awarded place at Interschool event 10
For a tabloids type event, houses
accumulate the points they gain in
the activity
Celebrating the Accumulation of House points –
Fortnightly Assembly
The house points will be read out to the fortnightly assembly saving the winning place
until last. There will also be a lucky draw from the names in the house poinst6
container. (Wendy to organise small $2 dollar shop type prizes.)
The Flagpole
Each fortnight the house flags made by Miss Turner will be flown with the winning
house having their flag at the top, second place next and so on. Mrs Franklin-Smith’s
students are the flagpole monitors.
The Grand Prize: The House Trophy
The vintage and very ornate House Trophy will be awarded at the end of the year to
the captains of the winning house at the end of year prize-giving.
Leadership
House captains – are identifiable by badges awarded to them at an assembly at the
start of the year. House captain’s duties are essentially leadership of mini- events/ an
role model
House captains for 2008 are:
Intermediate Senior School Junior school
Dept
Aotea
Tainui
Te Arawa
Tokomaru
Notes for 2008 year
• Year 7/8 students will share logo and chant they have made with other
syndicates later T1/ early T2.
• List of children in each house to be distributed by Office – House leaders
names to be at top of list.( to assist teachers in allocating points to various
houses. Also master copy to be on Teacher Drive and periodically updated.
• Flagpole is in perfect working order ( has been checked)
• Consider developing a logo (perhaps waka/ or crest) for each house to be
permanently displayed in the hall.
• Inter-house Tabloids/ skipping event or dance to be organised by senior and
junior syndicates for late Term 1 ( Intermediates excused because of
Wellington)
• Display of accumulated house points in the hall.
