TRANSITION VISITS
The move from intermediate school to high school can be a significant event for young people. In order to make this change as easy as possible, we run a structured transition programme for all Year 8 students (2025) intending to come to Green Bay High School in 2026.
The visit is designed to help relieve some of the stress which can be associated with starting at a new school as well as an initial chance to begin building relationships with key people. Students will attend on one of the following days:
- Monday 24 November 2025: Students from Glen Eden Intermediate School (Te Henga Mini School), and students from Blockhouse Bay Intermediate School
- Tuesday 25 November 2025: Students from Glen Eden Intermediate School (Karekare Mini School), and students from Green Bay School
- Tuesday 26 November 2025: Students from Glen Eden Intermediate School (Muriwai Mini School), and students from schools other than our main contributing schools
- Thursday 27 November 2025: Students from Glen Eden Intermediate School (Piha Mini School), and students from schools other than our main contributing schools
Families will receive further information closer to the date.
We look forward to working in partnership with your family over the next five years.
YEAR 9 DEAN (2026) CONTACT DETAILS
Each year group has a Level Dean who works closely with your child’s form teacher and subject teachers. The Dean is supported by an Assistant Dean, and together they oversee the wellbeing, pastoral care, academic counselling, and behaviour management of the students in their cohort, and usually follow their group through to graduation from Green Bay High School. The Deans, therefore, will come to know your child very well, and, along with their form teacher, will be the people who parents and whānau can contact. The Deputy Principal aligned with Year 9 is Sandy Begg.
- Lola Le Grange (Year 9 Dean) ph: 817-8173 ext 245 email: [email protected]
- José Torres (Assistant Year 9 Dean) ph: 817-8173 ext 245 email: [email protected]
- Sandy Begg (Deputy Principal) ph: 817-8173 ext 216 email: [email protected]
YEAR 9 ORIENTATION
All Year 9 students will be placed into their form classes during their first orientation day on Thursday 29 January 2026. For most students, this will be their class for both Year 9 and 10 where they will do all of their core subjects (i.e. English, Maths, Science, Social Studies and PE with Health). Our form classes are carefully created with all decisions being determined holistically, using a broad range of data and information. This includes test scores for English/Literacy and Mathematics/Numeracy, as well as overall teacher judgements (OTJs) of a student's level in different aspects of the curriculum from their intermediate school. We also use the non-verbal reasoning test score from the transition visits. Further to this, we have information collected during enrolment interviews and a transition profile completed by current Year 8 teachers about each student.
We have a history of successfully placing most students into the best class for them from the outset. However, we are always happy to communicate with students and parents/whānau should the need for change be the case. We will also check our placement of students part-way through Term 1, as well as at other times periodically throughout the year.
Please CLICK HERE for our 2026 START UP INFORMATION
