Learn More About the Junior Certificate of Learning

Find out what the Junior Certificate of Learning is. Whether you're a student, parent, or teacher, this quick guide will help you understand.

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FVHS Junior Certificate Of Learning JCl (2)

What is Arataki?

The key concept behind Arataki is to ensure that all of our students belong to the Forest View High School community, they are connected to a person who is their champion in all aspects of school life.  This happens through having key people in the school who care for you, know you and celebrate your successes.  Likewise they will also let you know when you need to be better and together you set goals to achieve for the year.

Arataki is part of the holistic well being of our young people.  We have a responsibility to ensure that when our students leave us they are not only educated (have gained as many qualifications as possible) but they have the soft skills required to be successful in life.  These skills include understanding how to run their personal finances, how to navigate the world of drugs and alcohol, how to work alongside others to achieve a team goal, how to make phone calls, have a bank account and IRD number, understand how tax works and also know how to access help from the services in the community.  

Each student has Arataki for 15 minutes per day, where their Arataki teacher  is able to check in on them to ensure there are no pastoral issues to follow up. There are also longer Arataki blocks each week after one of our assemblies -  Full school, Lake or Year Level assemblies.  

Each Arataki class is year level specific and lake based e.g. 11 Whakamaru, 12 Arapuni etc.  Arataki time can also be used for guest speakers, Tertiary providers to visit and other year level specific events.  Using Arataki as the time for all of these events avoids us interrupting the core classes for students.

Arataki teachers are your main and first contact with the school and they will be in touch with you regularly about concerns, positives, attendance and academic progress.