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Tauranga Girls’ College Newsletter Message from the Principal Welcome to the excitement of Term 3! It commences with the opening of our 2019 Year 9 enrolments and a full school assembly with a focus on ‘finding your passion’ and ‘if not me then who?’ I have a range of inspiring speakers who have agreed to share their stories. Term Three is always a very busy one and with so much already planned, making sure our young women are focussed on learning and making a positive difference ensures that we all bring about the best in each other at TGC. As I continue to emphasise, success can be measured in many ways. We have had amazing academic success, scholarship wins and accolades in business enterprise, sport, the arts and in culture. Our combined production of Beauty and the Beast was nominated for 8 awards last weekend and our Kapa Haka roopu Te Tauranga o Ngā Waka stood at the National Kapa Haka competition for the first time in 14 years. As the Board to Trustees collates the community consultation doc-
umentation, what is repeated are comments that focus on “opportunities, girls learning, supportive teachers and academic excellence”.
Introducing new staff members to our learning community Year 9 Co-hort Dean Anna Leach is a former alumni, having been Sports and Cultural Captain at TGC in 1997. She has been on staff since 2005, coming from Rotorua Girls’ High. She began in the English Department before transitioning to Social Sciences where she has taught Y9 and 10 Social Studies, Tourism, History and is TIC Sociology as well as a very proud tutor teacher. Her passion for students and learning has seen her teach all levels, from booster classes to extension and make connections across all subjects and ages. Anna's passion for the pastoral well-being of students has seen her constantly at school activities getting to know her students to best help grow them as people in
order to enhance their opportunities to succeed as a student. She is the TIC, coach and manager of the TGC 1st XI cricket team who attained 4th in NZ. Her personal relationships with students often sees her referred to as Mumma Leach, gained through a balance of nurturing, investing, and disciplining for the benefit of her students and she is known for the phrase 'it's because I care'. Anna is excited and honoured to be able to get to know the incoming Y9 students and whanau of 2019 and help them to grow, discover, learn, enjoy and succeed in which ever manner best suits them while at Tauranga Girls’ College. Inclusive Learning Leader Tena koe My name is Karen Gilby and I am pleased to be joining the Tauranga Girls’ College staff as the Inclusive Learning Leader in the Learning Support department. I have spent the last 5 ½ years as the Head of Learning Support at
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Bethlehem College, and also have previous experience as a dean and careers advisor. My role is to assist the senior leadership team, deans and class teachers to support students’ learning. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about your daughter’s progress. My email is kgilby@tgc.school.nz Ngā mihi nui. Social Science Teacher Andrea Gannaway I am joining TGC after leaving my position as HOD Social Sciences at Sacred Heart College in Auckland. I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching History and Social Studies for 25 years across a range of co-ed, single sex, state and private schools. My experience teaching in girls' schools has brought me to TGC passionate and excited to again be a part of the education of young women. On a personal level, I moved to Te Puke this year where I share a lifestyle block with my partner. I am very much looking forward to meeting and being a part of the wider TGC community. Enrolments Open and Open Night The College welcomes new enrolments for 2019. I have been fortunate to have received such wonderful feedback about the progress of our College and about the changes that we are undertaking. Much of this was again shared at our Community Consultation meetings in the last few weeks. I encourage you to come and hear from me, my vision is for our College and for your young woman. Our Open
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Night is on Thursday 9 August. Save this date. Changes to leadership roles for 2019 Students are being invited to have a say about leadership in the school. I have a focus on ensuring our potential leaders have a lens on giving back, supporting change and giving a voice to others. All students in Years 9-13 were sent the link a fortnight ago. I encourage your daughter to have her say of ‘how our students lead’ is important to her. F Block all go again Thank you to all the staff and students who coped with construction work in Term 2. F Block is now repaired and has a bright new future ahead of it. New design work is underway If you have popped into the school this week, you will have noticed that our front gardens are having a new makeover. In fact, the old ones have gone! Thanks to our design students and an enthusiastic team of staff supported by path and plant specialists, we should have a new look very soon! A revamp to our House System As part of strengthening our ‘sense of belonging or whakawhanaungatanga’, it is time to review our ‘house system’ at school. A team of staff and students will begin an inquiry into our current system and then consider some new ideas. I am a passionate supporter of ‘house spirit’. This is giving both students and staff opportunities to grow their leadership in this ar-
ea. Students will hear more about this via the notices and tutor time. ERO The Education Review Office will be visiting our College from the 13-24 August. All schools have an ERO review and this year TGC is one of 100s of secondary schools being reviewed around the country. I look forward to an internal lens supporting us to be the best that we can be. We have much to celebrate and look forward to sharing this with the team in a few weeks. Community Consultation, what next? Thank you for taking the time to complete the BoT’s survey about the future of TGC. All the data is now in. It is the BoT’s responsibility to make sense of that data and to turn that into a new Strategic Plan. I will keep you up to date with how that is progressing. It is indeed an exciting time for the school. It is my vision to make TGC the school of choice for girls in the Bay and the Strategic Plan is our way to realise this.
Tara Kanji Principal
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Celebrating 60 years at our Diamond Jubilee 60th Reunion Tauranga Girls’ College has a proud history of providing a wide range of opportunities and learning pathways for our students to thrive and succeed, within and beyond the classroom. Established in 1958, our college will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held over Labour Weekend (Friday the 19 and Saturday the 20 October, 2018). The celebration will commence with an informal ‘Chatter and Platter’ evening on Friday night, while Saturday’s activities will be more structured, showcasing past and present successes of our students. In keeping with our school’s philosophy of ‘Empowering Tomorrow’s Women’, as one of our events, we are planning to showcase our ‘Sixtieth Summit’ on Saturday 20 October, featuring high profile, successful women. Our aim is to attract guest speakers - as ‘Wahine Toa: Aspirational Agents of Change’ - from a diverse range of fields and backgrounds. We would like them to share their inspirational and motivational stories with our community audience, so that in turn, with the support of their families and our community, this encourages our young women to reach their potential. The organising committee is excited about creating an event which is more than just an opportunity for past pupils and staff to reconnect and reminisce. The Summit will provide an innovative twist to our celebrations and will be open to the general public to attend. Whether they went to TGC or not, this event is designed to inform and entertain! If you would like to be a sponsor involved with our Diamond Jubilee 60th Reunion, please e-mail your details to Ewan McLeod, our Reunion Event and Communication Manager at 60thReunion@tgc.school.nz. If you would like to pre-register, you can go to our website:www.tgc.school.nz - and on the home page's top right hand tab there is a link to the pre-registration form.
Zony Nominations Tauranga Girls’ College is a member of Musical Theatre NZ. Each year the local region reviews the productions staged and holds an awards evening. Our production of Beauty and the Beast received 8 nominations: Best Youth Production Best Musical Direction - Miss Stephanie Geor Best Leading Male - George Hiku Best Leading Female - Shenazzar Sta Lucia Best Staging of a play or musical Best Lighting & Vision Best Make up & Hair Best Direction of a Musical - Toni Henderson What is most impressive is that 7 out of 8 nominations are in categories that judges our show against adult theatre societies. The final awards are held 3 September in Hamilton Congratulations to all involved in the show!
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Tauranga Performing Arts Festival The Tauranga Performing Arts Competitions Society holds their annual competitions festival in the July School Holidays at Baycourt Theatre and attracts competitors from across New Zealand. Art forms included in the festival include Piano, Instrumental, Singing, Speech and Drama, Ballet, Tap Dancing, Highland Dancing and Modern dance. This year we had a number of our students competing in the individual disciplines listed above who achieved personal success. Our 2 school dance troupes (Hip Hop and Contemporary) also competed in the group dance section. The adjudicator described both troupes as promising. Thank you to those who came along to support the girls. As a school we are very proud of their dedication and passion to dance and the way they model our school values in the community. Teacher in Charge of Dance, Caroline Gill describes our dance troupes as “supportive, hard working, and encouraging of themselves and others”. TGC students also entered the musical competitions, gaining 1st, 2nd and 3rd places: Annabel Robinson, Onya Lee, Charlene Anderson, Emily Newbury, Tamsyn Harawira (1st in folk or traditional song in own selection) and Shenazzar Sta Lucia (1st in Folk, Art and Sacred and the Bruce Millar Cup and Lions Club Scholarship)
Each Week we will be featuring one of our artists, in the Newsletter and in the College Foyer.
“My theme for my 1st board this year was ‘mood change’. Throughout my internal and leading up to my Canvas I used different conventions such as colour/water/appointing and brush strokes and nature to visually represent the mood change in my paintings as well as the body language and facial expression of the figures in my painting. In my future paintings I wish to focus on the nature part of my paintings and continue my theme of ‘mood change’ and show the healing powers of nature”
Rebecca Kneale 12WLK
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Ngā Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua o Aotearoa 2018
It has been 14 years since Tauranga Boys’and Girls’ College Kapa Haka qualified for Nationals. The journey in preparation for 30 minutes of performing on a national stage in front of thousands was no easy feat. After nine intense weekends of learning and practice Te Tauranga o Ngā Waka (TGC & TBC combined) kapa haka finally took the stage at Nationals which was held in Palmerston North. The competition runs over an entire week and consists of 3 pools each run over an entire day. Top 3 from each pool are placed as top 9 and once again compete on finals day. A total of 47 schools from all over Aotearoa competed this year and the standard of performances were exceptional. All performers exuded passion and kept the audience wowed. D-day arrived for our kapa haka and preparation started at 4:00am. Soon enough it was time to head backstage ready to perform. I sat in the audience along with other supporters from Tauranga Moana waiting in anticipation. A stunning, sharp powerful performance was delivered by our kaihaka that made Tauranga Moana very proud. Although we didn’t make the top 9 finalists the experience of being involved with high calibre performance was undoubtedly an opportunity that was appreciated. Over all we placed 18th however, placed 3rd in Kakahu (dress), 3rd in Waiata-a-ringa (action song) and 3rd in Poi in our pool. To put things in perspective the top 2 overall placings were in fact in the same pool as our Kapa Haka.
Open Night
Option Evening
The Open Night for prospective students for 2019 will be held on:
Option Evening is scheduled for:
Thursday 9 August at 5.45 pm.
Tuesday 14 August 5.00pm - 7.00pm in J Block.
If you know of anyone considering sending their daughter to Tauranga Girls’ College in 2019 please pass on this date to them. Please invite them to contact the school reception for further details.
You are encouraged to attend this with your daughter, so that you can discuss subject choices with staff
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Speech Competition Congratulations to Emily Newbury who came second in the North Island Lions Speech Competition finals on July 1st. She will now compete in the national finals, held in Rangiora in August.
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Underwater Hockey Tournament The Northern Regional Championship was held here in Tauranga the weekend of 22-24 June 2018. There were 10 Senior Girls teams in the competition with Tauranga Girls’ College contributing an A and B senior girls team this year.
Smokefree Rockquest Shae Northfield received the Best Vocalist Award at the BOP Smokefree Rockquest in the first weekend of July. Congratulations Shae!
Selection to NZ/USA Programme Congratulations to Laura Degas who has been to be part of a NZ/USA Youth Search and Rescue end of season exercise programme in the Yosemite National Park in California.
U18 NZ Underwater Hockey team Congratulations to Momo Hongcherdchai 13PLD and Eloise Sharpe 12BXT, who were both named in the U18 Underwater Hockey team to represent New Zealand at the Trans Tasman championship to be held in Rotorua this year in October. Six months of training camps and extra personal training has paid off. Well done girls!!
The A team had a great set of group play games, winning all 4 games which put them straight through to semi finals, where they came up against EGGS. The game was 1-1 at full time, so went to sudden death with EGGS scoring the first goal. TGC played DIO in play off for 3rd & 4th, the score 0-1 against us at full time. The professional refs for the tournament commented that there was nothing between the 4 top teams. This team have qualified to compete at the NZSS Championship in September, to be held in Rotorua. The B team had a tough set of group play games, a toss of the coin placing them 5th in their group. In the group they pulled off one win and one loss to be placed 8th all round. It was an absolute pleasure to take this group of students to this competition, they certainly were a credit to our school values in all areas of the weekend. Roll on Nationals in September.
Past Students’ Swimming Success Ruby Matthews (Yr 13 in 2017) recently competed in the Swimming New Zealand Open Championships. She competed in the 200-meter Breaststroke and came 2nd in the open women category , taking 4-seconds off her personal best and obtaining the Bay of Plenty open record. She also competed in the 200 meters Individual medley, coming 3rd and in the 400 Individual medley in which she also came 3rd. We look forward to hearing from her next season.
Hockey Success Four Tauranga Girls’ College students played in tournaments during the recent holidays in rep teams. Isla Johnson in Y13 was in the prestigious Midlands U18 team. She played in Dunedin. They ended up in the middle of table. But as goalie Isla's role was pivotal! Anika Russell Y12 , Kayli Tuiraviravi Y11 and Alexis Cowbourne Y13 were in the Tauranga U18 team and they played in Palmerston North. All these girls will head to tournament again for our school as part of our 1st 11 team. This time to Whangarei.
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Year 12 Drama
Congratulations to Taylor Graham 11OSL and TGC Premier Football Team member who is also a member of the WaiBOP U16 Representative Futsal Team who came 3rd at the National Youth Futsal Championships in Palmerston North during the school holidays. In the final game they defeated the Auckland team to secure third place after Mainland (2nd) and Wellington (1st).
Geography Photo Competition Ocean Highway Singapore port is the world’s second busiest port with 1000+ ships docked daily. This image shows the interaction between the ships, people, and natural environment. This interaction is vital to the population because Singapore is lacking natural resources. The port supplies the population with necessities that are unavailable in Singapore. The interaction between environment and the port allows for people to get necessities, however this interaction has a negative impact on the natural environment. A large number of ships entering and exiting Singapore port contributes to 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions are a result of shipping. Ella Westenberg has won the Level 2 New Zealand Board of Geography Teachers photo competition. The brief was to choose a photo that she had taken herself and give it a 100 word caption using the key geographic concepts. Ella chose her photo well and wrote an excellent caption. She received a $150 for her efforts. Well done Ella!
In the last week of Term Two, the Year 12 Drama students performed their class production of "Hope Springs” to four appreciative audiences of family, friends and teachers. Hope Springs is a correctional facility for teenagers. Sent to the remote island by their parents, students are subjected to questionable discipline in the attempt to 'cure' them of their rebellious ways. When communication with the island breaks down, an inspector and her assistant turn up to discover the students have taken over the island! The girls met the challenge of an ensemble play and a traverse stage with enthusiasm and produced performances to be proud of!
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Entrepreneur in Action After winning a place on the ‘Entrepreneur in Action’ challenge, Abbey Crawford has won further prizes and accolades. On Friday 29th June, Abbey Crawford as part of the OffKuts team for Young Enterprise jetted off to Wellington to take part in a weekend consisting of 2 challenges: Genesis energy product development and developing a market strategy into South America. Students were placed into mixed teams from different schools. After 2 full days and little sleep to perfect their challenges, Abbey’s team ‘Asia NZ’ was the first team in history to win both challenges. This was a massive achievement showing not only how much they learned from mentors, but also how much they developed as a team, in such a short period of time. The first challenge prize was a brand new top of the line speaker, and the second challenge prize was a fully paid trip to Brazil with her team. The team will travel to Brazil later this year. They have also won a $7,000 scholarship each for future study at Massey University.
SPCA Visit Ali Bulder the Tauranga SPCA Education Officer visited the careers room for a very well attended lunchtime session. The two rabbits she brought with her ‘stole the show’ as the photos indicate. Ali talked about the role of the SPCA, and about careers relating to animal care and protection. She also explained about the requirements for volunteering. Students who are 16 years and under were invited to register their interest in volunteering, and become part of a new group called ‘Attention Ambassadors’. This group runs every Wednesday and Thursday from 4-5pm during the school term, at the animal shelter in Greerton. Once students have signed up Ali will update them on events by email. The purpose of the group is to give the cats that are in the adoption area attention and handling using play, reading to them and grooming them. Volunteers will also learn more about animal behaviours, especially cats and kittens. Students over 16 were given details on how to apply for voluntary work. There is a four page application form to be completed. Mrs Wilson in C1 has details, if students missed the presentation.
Head Students’ visit to Tauriko School
Each year head students from TGC and TBC are invited to speak at Tauriko School. “I just wanted to say 'thanks again' for coming to Tauriko School and speaking so well to our Years 5-8 students about your respective leadership journeys. Our students always enjoy and appreciate this annual event whereby college leaders come to talk to them. There is always great value in the messages they take away from the session and this year was another fine example of this.” Lisa Rose Deputy Principal Tauriko School
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Duke of Edinburgh This year a group of girls at TGC have taken up the opportunity to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh award system. The bronze award is being organised through Bluelight with the help of Mrs Prendiville and Miss Robinson here at school. The Duke of Edinburgh award requires students to participate in a skill and sport for three months, and also give back to our community via a service, for six months. The girls are doing a range of services, including volunteering at farms and retirement villages. The organisations being aided are very grateful, and it provides the students with great work experiences! The hands on part of the award is a practice tramp, and then an overnight tramp. For the practice tramp, the group of 15 girls decided to climb Otanewainuku, a mountain in the Oropi area. On Friday the 22nd June we travelled to and climbed Otanewainuku in preparation for a 2 day hike that the group will set out to accomplish in late Term Three. The weather provided the group with a sunny yet crisp day, however the hard work of walking up Otanewainuku certainly warmed everyone up! We got to pitch a tent on the field and also learnt how to use a compass. It was a very enjoyable day and everyone involved had lots of fun!
Spirit of New Zealand Tauranga Girls’ College was given the opportunity to send away a great team of Year 10 girls to compete in a 5 day trophy voyage with the Spirit of Adventure Trust for the last week of Term Two. There were 10 of us lucky girls. We all had a different view of what it was going to be like; we had individual challenges that we had yet to overcome, mine was getting up early so we could have a nice refreshing swim at 6:40 am but as every day went past I got used to it . Some of the activities were challenging and required a lot of teamwork as we all had different abilities, but we dealt with them well. There were moments where we thought we couldn't do it but with encouragement from our team, Mrs Pitt and our other new friends we got through it. While we were on this voyage we got to meet some pretty amazing people. Without meeting these people my time would have been very different. Tauranga Girls’ College was very successful in the voyage. We came first equal with a combo of Auckland and Havelock North schools. I was very proud of myself and my team due to this success. None of this would have been possible without the teachers and the spirit team so Tauranga Girls’ College would like to thank all the teachers and volunteers for all they did for us. Amelia McLaren 10HGS Girls on board: Amelia McLaren, Jess Monk, Sam Nicholson, Katie Swinehart, Julia Hampton, Brooke Pouterawa, Asher Wadsworth, Danielle Neilson, Emma Bettelheim, Scout Atkins
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All our Year Nine students are invited to participate in this voluntary research. The Canteen will be providing the students with a breakfast, paid for by the University of Auckland.
Understanding the importance of differences in fructose absorption: A study in New Zealand secondary schools This is a world first research study to increase our understanding of how sugar impacts New Zealanders. This will be a partnership between scientists at the Maurice Wilkins Centre of the University of Auckland, New Zealand secondary schools, and their communities. Aim: To find out how we differ in the way we absorb the fructose component of sugar. Who can take part? High school students. What happens? Your teacher will talk about the study in class and invite you to take part in the study. To take part, you must first read the study information then complete an Assent Form and obtain the Consent of one of your parents or primary caregivers. Students aged 16 years and over may consent themselves. What do you have to do? Complete a short questionnaire in class. Have your height, weight, bioimpedance (a method for measuring body composition) and waist circumference measured. Following an overnight fast: (1) drink a fixed amount of fructose (up to 50g) in the first year and then later breathe into a portable hand-held breathalyser, (2) drink a fixed amount of fructose and glucose (up to 50g) in the second year and then breathe into the breathalyser, (3) drink a fixed amount of fructose, glucose and sucrose (up to 50g) in the third year and then breathe into the breathalyser. What next? Copies of the study information and Assent/Consent forms will be distributed in class to students by their form teacher. Return signed assent/consent forms to your teacher to confirm you wish to take part in the study. A member of the research team will liaise with your teacher to arrange a suitable date/time to conduct the study. Contact your teacher if you have any questions about this study. APPROVED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND HUMAN PARTICIPANTS ETHICS COMMITTEE ON 20 DECEMBER 2016 FOR THREE (3) YEARS, REFERENCE NUMBER 018344.
NCEA Survey If you would like to complete the survey regarding NCEA, put a submission in or watch the videos related to the big opportunities the links are on this webpage. The quickest way to complete the survey is to click on the pink box, top right of the page. More options are just below that box. https://conversation.education.govt.nz/conversations/ncea-have-your-say/ Please share the link with as many people as possible. The more information the government gets the better the informed they will be to make the decisions. It would be great for them to get feedback from former students, employers, tertiary institutions and anyone who has had experience with NCEA.
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Coming Up... Mon 30 June - 15 Aug Mon 30 June Fri 03 Aug
Labo - Japan visit Health Week
Tuesday 31 June
BOPSS Table Tennis Championships
Wed 01 Aug Fri 03 Aug
Year 11 Production
Wed 01 Aug
Year 9 & 10 Report Evening: 4.30pm-7pm
Thur 02 Aug
Mufti Day
Fri 03 Aug
BOPSS Basketball Junior Baywide, all divisions NZSS Squash Championships
Mon 06 Aug- Fri 24 Aug Mon 06 Aug
Tues 07 Aug Wed 08 Aug
Thur 09 Aug
Friday 10 Aug Mon 13 Aug - Fri 17 Aug Monday 13 August
Tuesday 14 Aug
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Junior Report Evening We encourage you to come and discuss your child’s learning. To book an interview: Go to the website http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz The code to start the registering and booking process for our parent-teacher interviews is:
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Japanese Rugby 7’s visit BOPSS Skiing Eagles Secondary Schools Golf Tournament 11MAP Adrenaline Forest field trip Y12 Devising Workshop Beca Careers Day Chess Y9 & Y10 Open Evening Rotorua High School Winter Exchange 12/13 Painting, Art Gallery Trip CANVAS Careers Expo— Year 12 Maths Week
Dance NZ Made Competition BOPSS Table Tennis Victoria University course planning Y10 Maths Mind competition Y8 BYOD Community Information Evening: 5.30pm Option Evening
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Contacting the College 2018 We encourage parents to contact the College (578 8114) for support at any time during the year. The Pastoral Team includes: Year 9
Dean: Ms Robyn Mankelow
ext 767
Senior Leader: Mrs Bird
Year 10
Dean: Kylie Valentinet
ext 766
Senior Leader: Ms Glenda Rowlands
Year 11
Dean: Ms Caroline Gill
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Senior Leader: Mrs Ferguson
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Dean: Mrs Bridget Prendiville
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Senior Leader: Ms Millar
Year 13
Deans: Mrs Audrey Keightley and Ms Margot Glaser-Brown ext 770
Senior Leader: Ms Millar
Guidance Counsellors Ms Judy Burr
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Ms Chantal Stopford
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