Week 5 Notices and Events

What a cold and bleak weekend it has been! I hope you managed to drag yourself outdoors for at least a short time, in between the rain and freezing conditions!!
It's a short week for you all this week - the teachers have a Teacher Only Day with other schools in our cluster on Friday.  We hope you enjoy the long weekend, with Monday being Queen's Birthday, you will have four days off!  Who knows when the Queen's actual birthday is?

Notices and Reminders for the week...

1)  Chess is on Monday and Tuesday.

2)  There will be no winter sport on Friday; please check with your coach about whether practice will go ahead this week or not.

3)  Spelling - keep up to date with your activity sheets.  If these don't get completed during class time, it is your responsibility to finish them for homework.

4)  Enjoy reading each night.  Try and share a good book with a classmate.

5)  Keep working on your speeches.

6)  ICAS Science will be held at 11:15am today in the Quiet Space.  Please take your pencil case.

7)  National Young Leaders Day is tomorrow. We hope you have a great time and can't wait to hear how it went and what you got out of it!  Please be at the Horncastle Arena to meet Mrs G and Mrs Lewis 9:10am.  Remember your lunch, drink, pen and notebook.

8)  NEXT WEEK (week 6) technology will be on THURSDAY instead of Tuesday.

Well done to all our sports teams, cross country runners and basketball team who competed last week.

Week 4 Notices/Events/Reminders!

Hi everyone - I hope you had a great weekend and didn't get too wet!  I bet some of you had your weekend sport cancelled!  Here is a run through of this week:

1)  Chess tournament teams are being organised so if you want to be considered as a competitor you need to be at lunchtime practice and be moving up the chess ladder.

2)  Remember your sports gear for winter sport training and Friday sport.  We had some great wins on Friday - well done to everyone for the launch of our winter sports.  Remember you look and feel part of the team when you are wearing your uniform!

3)  Mr Rodger is away Monday and Friday this week - Mrs Ellison is in Monday and on Friday Mrs Moore will be in.

4)  Homework this week - keep up to date with your spelling activity sheets, 20 mins minimum of reading each night (even online news reading is a good idea), learning of your new spelling words and any other work set by your teachers for other subjects.

5)  Tim is in as usual for the sports and house captain programmes on Thursday.

6) Good luck to all our cross country competitors who are off to the zone cross country competition on Wednesday this week at Jellie Park.  Good luck too for our Year 7/8 Basketball team who are competing on Wednesday  We know you'll do the HQ proud!

Enjoy your week everyone and  following on from our discussion on Friday last week, remember we are working on being respectful to all who we deal with during the school day here in the Senior HQ at the moment!                                      

Congratulations basketball team!!

You guys are awesome. We are so proud of you!!!!!

Senior HQ Cross Country - May 2016

NAME		ROOM	YEAR	GENDER	PLACING
CHIN	Paris	HQ2	7	GIRLS	6
GLENTWORTH	Samantha	HQ2	7	GIRLS	2
HANDS	Skylar	HQ2	7	GIRLS	4
IRVING	Anika	HQ2	7	GIRLS	5
KINGI	Mya	HQ3	7	GIRLS	3
SMITH	Georgia	HQ1	7	GIRLS	1

BLANCHET	Lewis	HQ3	7	BOYS	4
DOWN	Jacob	HQ2	7	BOYS	5
HAYWARD	Jacob	HQ4	7	BOYS	1
TAYLOR	Hamish	HQ4	7	BOYS	6
THOMSON	Will	HQ3	7	BOYS	2
THOMSON	Zack	HQ1	7	BOYS	3

CALVERT	Hannah	HQ3	8	GIRLS	6
DUNLOP	Molly	HQ1	8	GIRLS	5
HANKS	Charmaine	HQ2	8	GIRLS	3
JOHNSON	Kayley	HQ4	8	GIRLS	4
McINTOSH	Eliza	HQ1	8	GIRLS	1
MUNRO	Mikayla	HQ2	8	GIRLS	2

FEE	James	HQ4	8	BOYS	3
MAYONE	Francesco	HQ3	8	BOYS	5
MORGAN	Flynn	HQ4	8	BOYS	6
RAWAT	Amit	HQ4	8	BOYS	1
WAKEFIELD	Mackay	HQ4	8	BOYS	4
WATSON	Bradley	HQ3	8	BOYS	2

Week 3 Details

I hope you all had a great weekend - this Canterbury autumn weather is just so lovely!  Here are the notices and reminders for this week in the Senior HQ:

1)  Winter Sport kicks off this Friday so please come organised with your sports clothes, equipment and a big lunch!
2)  Chorale is Monday as usual.
3)  Mr Rodger is on a course on Friday so Mrs Moore is in Home Room 1 for him.
4)  ICAS digi tech is this Tuesday at 11.15am for those of you sitting this test.
5)  Homework - reading and spelling each night along with any other work your teachers have set you.  Check out the cross country video too once it's uploaded!
6)  Inquiry workshops on our theme of "What Comes Next?" commence on Wednesday this week.  Workshops and teachers are as follows: 'Campaign Earth' with Mr Rodger, 'Inventions' with Mrs G, 'Careers and Money' with Mrs Busfield and 'How Stuff Works' with Mrs Moore.  Almost all of you got your first choice from your survey picks so that worked out really well!
7)  Pink Ribbon Breakfast people - meeting at the start of lunch today in the Quiet Space - bring your lunch
8)  Competitive chess is on today - there is a tournament coming up and we need to decide teams, so you must come if you would like to be considered!

CONGRATULATIONS to our basketball team who won the tournament on Friday and have qualified for the Canterbury's.  Here's a wee snippet from an email from Mr Malins - we are so proud of you boys ...

"...I really was impressed with their attitude, and really thought that they are fantastic Role Models (it's a shame other couldn't see them!).  

As not only did they have fun, but played fair and even after running up 34 - 0 against a couple of teams were great winners.

In case you haven't heard they won the zone competition (was a tough game against Russley 10-8), so have qualified for Canterbury's..."

Finally, we got some great snaps during the Thursday visit by the Penrith Panthers.  Several HQ students went up the front taking part in competitions and question time and our Senior League team got a group shot too!  Here are a few snaps:

Have a great week everyone!

SENIOR HQ TRIATHLON 2016

We all enjoyed a fabulous sporting event last Thursday when the Senior HQ students took part in the school triathlon.  We had ..... students who competed individually and all other students were in teams of 3 to complete the course.  The race consisted of a two lap run, a two lap bike and two laps of our obstacle course (kyrpton and other obstacles).  The results were as follows & be sure to watch the movie of the event at the bottom:

INDIVIDUAL PLACINGS & TIMINGS:-

Boys Individual

1. Bradley Watson  22:51

2. Hunter Mason  23:06

3. James Fee  24:07

4. McKay Wakefield  25:26

5. Flynn Morgan  26:37

6. Jack Anderson  27:59

7. Ryan O’Connell  28:31

8. Callum Wakefield  30:15

9. Barnaby White  30:16

10. Will Mason  32:43

11. George Allen

12. Spencer Wilson

13. Elnathan Chung

14. Paul Shin

Girls Individual 

1. Eliza McIntosh  24:27

2. Georgia Smith  28:21

3. Molly Dunlop  28:33

4. Dakota Coleman  35:08

5. Fonie Ka  36:30

6. Neve McErlain

7. Libby Sellars

8. Eva Franicevic

TEAM PLACINGS & TIMINGS:-

Boys Team Results:

1. Sam Weir, Cullen Neal, Oliver Butler  22.15

2. Lewis Blanchet, Jacob Down, Jacob Hayward  23:04

3. Zack Thomson, Ryan Smith, Waqa 24:05

4. Amit Rawat, Fran Mayone, Logan Timms  24:51

5. Will Thomson, Alex Pau’u, Decklyn Lamborn  26:04

6. Jaynesh Patel, Aden Li, Matt Dandoy  26:40

7. Senta Yamamoto, Jia Ming Yang, Ben Guo  27:03

8. Hamish Taylor, Charlie Ho, John Li  27:07

9. Peter Kim, Ashton Harrison, Blair Nielson  28:40

10. Evan Ting, Beile Hu, Mason Powell  28:44

11. Hayden Li, Nachito Munzo, Sravesh Sarath  29:57

12. Jimmy Smith, Jacob Carter, Blake Stuart  30:10

13. Blake D’Abbadie, Hamish Daglish, Cameron Heaphy  30:33

14. Kyle Whiu, Sam Forster, Banuve Dretiverata  31:46

15. Nick Li, Alex Davis, Benji Paulin  32:10

16. Simon Chong, Connor Broadhead, Jack Forbes  35:38

Girls Team Results

1. Amily Chen, Anika Irving, Paris Chin   25:09

2. Sammy Glentworth, Dani Calvert, Molly Stretch-Davidson   27:14

3. Lillica Hands, Hannah Calvert, Tayla Hurcomb   27:15

4. Mikayla Munro, Shantay Bajamundi, Mikayla Munro   27:53

5. Skylar Hands, Tayler Halliday, Amber Roberts   28:09

6. Charmaine Hanks, Tazma Martin, Maia Renata   28:26

7. Kayley Johnson, Ainslee Paulsen, Emily Ladbrook   28:28

8. Anna Sawyer, Amrita Rawat   31:02

9. Lucy Ruge, Alyssa Murphy, Grace Robins   31:38

10.= Gina Tang, Leisha Duseigneur, Mya Kingi   32:56

10.=Aaliyah Kingi, Tanna Yung, Aadilah Shah   32:56

12. Nina Guia, Caitlyn Elder, Bianca Youl   33:43

13.  Zahra Ellis, Hannah Newman, Danielle Hall   35:25

14. Yiting Wei, Tina Lin, Emily Chao   36:42