Week 7 news and reminders

Brrrrr, what a cold weekend it was!  We hope you managed to get to your sporting events and other activities over the weekend.  Mrs B had the pleasure of going to Hairspray on Saturday - it was amazing!  If you have the chance to go, then definitely take it.

In other news, last Wednesday, as you know, we had 9 students take part in the Canterbury Spelling Quiz.  78 teams competed in this event, and after 10 rounds of spelling, abbreviations, proofreading, word origins, and dictionary skills, our teams came 7th= (on 94/100), 23rd= (on 91/100) and 35th= (on 88/100).  The winning teams finished on 96/100, so we were very close!!  Congratulations to

Avonhead 1 - Ben Guo, Kayley Johnson and Evan Ting

Avonhead 2 - Caitlyn Elder, Aden Li and Elnathan Chung

Avonhead 3 - Will Mason, Fonie Ka and Jiaming Yang

Reminders for this week:
1)  Tech is on Tuesday again this week.  Please remember to be at school by 8:30am.  Well done last week!!
2)  Speeches need to be completed and ready to present in your writing groups this Wednesday.  Make sure you are familiar with you speech - practise it over and over and over again at home.
3)  Chess as usual today and Tuesday.  There will be 4 of you travelling to Halswell School on Thursday to compete in the Canterbury Inter-School chess tournament - team announced after chess club today.
4)  Keep preparing for the school Talent Quest
5)  Mrs Moore's inquiry group - please remember your trip notices.
6)  Mrs B's inquiry group - please remember to complete the CareerQuest - see your email for the link.
7)  ICAS Writing is on today, 11:15am in the staffroom - Ben, Anika, Charlie, Sammy and Neve!
8)  ICAS Spelling is on Wednesday at 11:15am.
9)  Please bring in your Pink Ribbon Breakfast return slips
10)  School disco is on this Friday - 7:30 - 9:30pm.  Thanks to the Student Council and Mrs G for organising this.  We look forward to seeing you all there to show off your dance moves!
11)  Talent Quest entries - those of you who entered will be performing this Thursday afternoon to your houses.  Good luck and make sure you are well rehearsed!

Here's a great Ted Talk for you to watch at home which may help some of you with your speech presentation.  Amy Cuddy Ted Talk

Have a great week everyone!