Sunday, 27 June 2021

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.


Sunday, 20 June 2021

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






Saturday, 5 June 2021

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.