Cobham Intermediate School - Cobham Intermediate School Achieving for Life
General Information
With a consistent roll of over 660, Cobham Intermediate is able to provide significant resources and facilities specifically tailored to meet the needs of year 7 and 8 students. Our innovative teaching programmes include accelerated classes for the highly able, inquiry immersion classes, learning and special needs support, bi-lingual provision, English as a Second Language (ESOL) and high quality international student care.
Core classroom teachers work collaboratively to cater for the needs of individual students. We employ specialist staff not only in the technology subjects (food, fabrics, wood, metal/plastics), but also in music, art, science, and physical education. This allows for smaller class sizes and more comprehensive, professional activities in these areas of the curriculum.
Cobham offers a diversity of opportunities across academic, cultural and sporting domains, a strength that meets the educational needs of our multi-cultural intake and provides rich experiences across the curriculum. Our students excel in these fields, all of them achieving successes in a positive, caring environment. All students (and staff!) are encouraged to live up to our motto “Achieving for Life”.
Please read more about what Cobham offers students on this website and in our latest Education Review Office Report (2010). We welcome your interest and would be delighted to host you on a visit to our school or assist in any way we can.
Communication
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Reporting
Update Coming (May 2013)
Parents/Caregivers of Year 7 students are requested to accompany their child and share an interview with the classroom teacher on enrolment day.
Towards the end of Term 1 a brief outline of Progressive Achievement Test scores and other relevant data will be issued. Parents and students are asked to read and consider this teacher produced discussion sheet prior to attending an interview with the student's classroom teacher.
A full, computerized report will be issued towards the end of the year.
Either parents or teachers may request additional interviews at any time.
Attendance
School is open to students from 8am each morning.
Playground supervision by teachers does not commence until 8.15 am.
If through illness, or unavoidable cause, a student is to be absent, parents/caregivers are requested to telephone the School Office between 8 - 9am.
On the student’s return to school an explanatory note from a parent/caregiver about the absence is requested.
Parents will be contacted in the morning if a student is absent and an explanation has not been received.
Dates and Events
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Homework
Homework will be set during the school week and is expected to be completed.
Recognizing different rates at which students work, an average of 30 minutes per night over four nights per week is a reasonable time.
Out of School Sports
Water Polo
Students may take part in this sport by completing a permission slip and paying the appropriate fee (currently $55 per term).
All games are currently held at the Jellie Park Sports Pool on Friday evenings between 7.00pm and 9.30pm. Games last for 20 minutes and vary according to the weekly draw.
We do require parental assistance with the running of these teams (no experience necessary)
Basketball
We enter teams into the YMCA Bishopdale basketball competition held on Friday nights.
Tournaments
Canterbury Indoor Tournament
Held in Term 3 2012
Sports involved
Water Polo
Basketball
Badminton
Volleyball
Squash
Table tennis
Venues vary for each sport.
Link to further information and permission slips
South Island Indoor / Outdoor Tournament
Teams from around the South Island are invited each year to attend this event, in 2009 teams from Nelson to Invercargill participated.
Even years (2010, 2012, …) Outdoor Tournament – Rugby, Rugby League, Netball, Hockey, Football
Odd years (2009, 2011, …) Indoor Tournament – Basketball, Badminton, Squash, Volleyball, Water Polo, Table tennis
Link to further information and permission slips
Other Tournaments Cobham Attend
AIMS Games National Sporting Championships
AIMS = Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools
Held annually in early September at Tauranga
Students are billeted with Te Puke Intermediate
Sports available – swimming, water polo, cross country, rugby 7’s, badminton, football, netball, hockey, gymnastics, tennis, multi sport, squash, basketball, golf
See: www.nzaimsport.co.nz
Link to further information and permission slips
Summer Tournament
Held annually late in Term 4
South Hagley Park - Softball, Cricket, Touch rugby
Pioneer outdoor courts - Beach Volleyball
Venue t.b.c. - Tennis
Venue t.b.c. - Golf
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