Challenge Inquiry

As part of our work on our school concept of challenge, some of our middle and senior groups have been learning about the challenges people have when immigrating to New Zealand. Today we had a visitor come in from the Christchurch Resettlement Services. Denise is a social worker who helps people when they come to New Zealand. She talked about some of the difficulties and challenges people have when they immigrate to New Zealand. She told us about the U curve of adjustment, which is illustrated below. Many of the students in our group could relate to the kinds of things Denise was talking about. They had lots of questions to ask and comments to make. We would love it if the students could talk to their parents about the challenges their families had when immigrating to New Zealand, as we will be discussing this next week.