Week 10, Term 2 2021

 Welcome to Week 10

What's happening this week?

• Monday - Cultural Concert rehearsal, starting at 11:15am for those involved
• Tuesday - please arrive at school by 8:30am for Technology
• Tuesday - Principal's lunch in the staffroom. This is for students who have had their names drawn out in the AA draw.  This term it is for Bella P, Emma, Aria, Basel, Tom, Toby and Shihan - well done on being spotted showing the Avonhead Attitude and having your name drawn out!
• Thursday - Sausage Sizzle (orders were due last week)
• Thursday - Cultural Concert, 6:00 - 7:30pm
• Friday - NO winter sport and LAST DAY of Term 2

Over the past couple of weeks...

• Our choir, chorale and orchestra preformed in the NW Festival on Thursday.  They were AMAZING.  I think it was the best NW Festival I have been to.  We were so proud of the energy you showed on the stage as well the the top quality singing!  Zanthe and Rylan MC'ed the whole evening and were brilliant, and Kenta and Zanthe were chosen for a solo in When I Grow Up which they performed really well!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Eliana and Tipani presented their speeches at the Rotary Speech competition. They spoke beautifully and we were super proud of them!  Well done both of you!
  

• Some of our students went to MacBeth at Medbury on Tuesday, while the rest of us went down to Riccarton High to see Footloose.  It was so great seeing some of our ex Avonhead students in lead roles in the musical - we joked that we had 'discovered' them in Year 7/8!
  
  
  
  
  
  

Other notices:

• If you are interested in a korfball workshop in the holidays, an email has been sent out.  Here is the flyer.

Week 9, Term 2 2021

 Welcome to Week 9

What's happening this week? - it's a busy one!!

• Monday - good luck to our students playing in the Term 2 korfball tournament
• Tuesday - please arrive at school by 8:30am for Technology
• Tuesday - Rotary Speech competition - good luck to Eliana and Tipani, our Year 7 and Year 8 speech competition winners!
• Tuesday - Footloose (at Riccarton High School, departing at 11:30am) and MacBeth (at Medbury, departing at 12:30pm) - information was sent home last week about this.
• Wednesday - choir/chorale rehearsal at lunchtime
• Thursday - NW Festival rehearsal
• choir/chorale need to be at school by 8:10am to meet Miss Page. If you are also in the orchestra, please take your instrument with you
• orchestra will have morning tea at 10:15am and then meet Mr Hocquard in the hall at 10:25am, with their instruments
• all students will return to school about 12:00pm
• Thursday - NW Festival performance (6pm - meet inM6, 7-9pm - performance)
• Friday - winter sport
• ICAS and AMC entries need to be in

Over the past couple of weeks...

• Congratulations to all of our Year 7 and 8 speech finalists. Your bravery in speaking in front of 130 ish people, and not to mention the effort you have put into writing and preparing your speeches is to be commended.
• Congratulations to our top 3 place getters in each year group
• Year 7: 1st   Eliana;  2nd   Bella C;  3rd   Callum B
• Year 8: 1st   Tipani;  2nd   Rylan;     3rd   Kenta 
• Eliana and Tipani will present their speeches again in a competition on Tuesday evening at Villa.  Then all 6 will present again in September in another competition.

Other notices:

• If you are interested in a korfball workshop in the holidays, an email has been sent out.  Here is the flyer.

Week 8, Term 2, 2021

 Welcome to Week 8

What's happening this week?

• Tuesday - please arrive at school by 8:30am for Technology
• Tuesday - Room 25's visit to the Material Recovery Centre
• Wednesday - Canterbury Cross Country champs
• Wednesday - Team speech finals
• Thursday - Room 25 and 27 have a speaker from Hearing Christchurch coming in
• Thursday - Soiree 6-7pm (orchestra, choir, chorale and any other students who have been asked to perform)
• Friday - winter sport
• ICAS and AMC entries need to be in
• Korfball entries to be handed in by Wednesday for next Monday's tournament

Over the past couple of weeks...

• Congratulations to our boys' and girls' basketball teams who competed last week.  The girls' team won, and the boys' A team came 1st and the B team 3rd - great effort everyone

• Congratulations to our Cross Country zone participants.  The following students have qualified for the Canterbury's which will hopefully be this Wednesday
• Monica (9th) - Year 7
• Isabel (11th) - Year 7
• Tala (1st) - Year 8
• Angus (4th) - Year 7
• Seif (5th) - Year 7
• Benji (6th) - Year 7
• Saad (9th) - Year 7
• Toby (11th) - Year 7
• Sam (12th) - Year 7
• Josh (1st) - Year 8
• Kupa (2nd) - Year 8
• Sam (10th)  - Year 8
• Darius (11th) - Year 8
• All the very best to you all

• Fifteen of our students worked with mentors from the University of Canterbury.  They did their presentations at the university a couple of weeks ago
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Room 27 visited the MRF to learn about what happens to our recycling
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Week 6, Term 2, 2021

 Welcome to Week 6

What's happening this week?

• Technology is on Tuesday - please arrive at school by 8:30am
• Wednesday - NW Zones for Cross Country
• Wednesday 7-8pm - FWA meeting in the staffroom (a letter was emailed home - see here for a copy)
• Thursday 1:45pm - House Colour and Challenge day
• Friday - winter sport

Over the past couple of weeks...

• Congratulations to our house captains, who have just received their special house colour hats.

2021 House Captains

RIMU: Valavia and Matthew

KOWHAI: Sophie and Theo

RATA: Remas and Josh

KAHIKATEA: Ziba and August

• Our Fun Run was held.  Everyone went through a short circuit through many different obstacles

• Lake Avonhead was formed!!!!

• A whole lot of students from Mrs Moore and Mrs Lane's literacy class and Room 27 took part in an online spelling quiz run by the Otago Daily Times.  One of our teams (Francheska, Darius and Wei Wei) finished 12th overall.  
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Week 4, Term 2 2021

Welcome to Week 4

What's happening this week?

• Korfball training starts on Monday at 8am in the hall.  There are a couple of slots left for this term if you would still like to join. Please see Mrs B for a notice (cost is $14)
• Fun Run - Tuesday afternoon
• NW Festival rehearsal for our choir is on Wednesday morning. Miss Page sent home an information sheet last week. The bus leaves Avonhead at 9am and you will be back by about 1pm.
• Mix n Mingle is on Thursday evening

So far this term...

• We had two successful days in town learning about Climate Change and how we can contribute to future proofing our city, learning about biodiversity in our city, visiting the Canterbury Museum and taking a walk around the city and looking at changes, and enjoying a Rollickin' Gelato!
• The Year 8's spent a day at Riccarton High School seeing what is in store for them next year.
• We had our Cross Country.
• Some of our students competed in the Regional Chess Power event held at Avonhead
• Some students tried out the new softcross (like lacrosse) set that Mr Rodger purchased - it was harder than it looked but heaps of fun!!

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Mrs B's daughter, Ellie, is in the musical Fame Jr which is being put on by the Kirwee Players.  The children have been working hard over the past 12 weeks and will be putting on 4 shows this weekend.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here

Day 3: Hanmer Springs camp

Here's a snippet of today's activities.  These photos are only from a few devices - we have plenty more to share later :)

Beautiful day in Hanmer Springs today, and we have continued to have students push themselves to try new things - so awesome!  We've had a few learn to ride a bike, some who climbed higher up the tree than they thought they could, children who have walked up Conical Hill and the list goes on.

Our parent helpers have been amazing, especially our kitchen and first aid crew of Willie, Gilly and Annette.  They were the best mashed potatoes I've ever had!

See you all tomorrow. Our plan is to pack up after breakfast, and clear the cabins, then the children will head off for their final two rotations. We aim to leave here about 1:30pm and hope to arrive at school between 3:15 and 3:30pm.  The children may not be on the same bus as their bags, so if you could please wait on the school side of the fence, that would be really helpful with our unloading of children and bags!

This wee guy certainly gave a couple of teachers a HUGE fright!

Lunch line

Playing Werewolves with Mrs Lane

Dessert - what a mess the servers ended up making!!!