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April 2009
Papanui High School
NEWSLETTER The Navy drops in
from the Principal Greetings, Tena Koutou Katoa Every year the Board and staff set goals for the school. All our goals relate to the strategic target of “raising for all”. Some of these goals relate to staff, some to students, and some to our wider community. Our student goals are all about increasing engagement. This year’s engagement goals target four areas. Firstly, we will further be developing the use of ICT in our teaching. Students live in a “connected” world and our classrooms need to reflect that. The school is already a nationwide leader in the use of Moodle. Secondly, we will be exploring more ways of providing “authentic learning” opportunities for students. Increasingly there is a need for student learning to have real, practical context and we want to meet that need. Our third goal relates to attendance. Attendance at school and in class is fundamental for engagement and the old adage “you can’t learn if you not here” is true. From day one this year we have been taking a hard line on students arriving late to school and students have responded positively to this initiative.
Staff are reporting a much more settled start to the day. And our fourth goal deals with NCEA. Our NCEA results have improved significantly over the last four years and we have increased the number of the students gaining NCEA. Now our next step is to increase the quality of achievement in NCEA. We will be working with students this year to increase the percentage of students who gain Excellence and Merit grades in the qualification. Our goals and targets are contained in our Charter which is updated every year. Copies are available from the office. Each year our Annual Report reflects on how well we have achieved our goals. Copies of our Annual Report are also available from the office.
Denis Pyatt Principal The ERO team, pictured left, spent a week in the school in March conducting the threeyearly review. Their written report has not yet been received by the BOT but verbal feedback from the ERO team was highly complimentary of the school. The full report should be online within four or five weeks.
Examination fees 2009
As part of the Navy’s recruitment programme, a Navy helicopter visited the school last month. Matthew Sime and Gabriel Hada were lucky enough to be taken on a 20-minute flight over the city.
Alumni function More than 70 former pupils attended the recent Alumni function in the Staff Room. Foundation pupils Jack Dawber and Des Tomkies recalled helping plough the back fields with Duke the school horse doing the pulling. In those days the roll was 150, not the 1550-plus we now have. Alumni members toured the school and listened to the choir (right) and enjoyed a wine and cheese function. A major focus of the organisation is the 75th Jubilee of the school which will take place in 2011. Alumni wishing to join the association should email: alumni@ Papanui High would like to papanui.school.nz celebrate all students who received Merit and Excellence Endorsement Certificates in NCEA Level 1 and 2 last year. Generally uniform is Scholars will receive Academic looking smart although Blues (ie badges and certifiwith the colder weath- cates) in the same way that er approaching, outer our elite sportspeople do, at wear needs to be a special Scholars Assembly attended to. Students on May 5. need either the school jacket or a plain navy blue polar fleece to wear. No other jackets are acceptable. The jackets are available from DUS and Mainland Uniforms.
Recognising academic success
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Fee Structure for domestic candidates Entry
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Entry for all NQF standards and up to 3 Scholarship subjects
$75
Additional Scholarship entries
$75 per subject
Fee Structure for international fee paying candidates
Fee
Entry for all NQF standards
$375
All Scholarship entries
$100 per subject
Examination Fee Collection Date is August 4. Information about Financial Assistance is available from Mrs Attwood on 352 0701. Applications for Financial Assistance closing on September 18.
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Our Term 2 Adult and Community Education classes begin the week of May 4. New courses next term include: Fruit and Vegetable Carving, Microsoft Office Package (Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint), Roman Blind Making, Barista, and Chair Yoga. For information on these or any course please contact our ACE office on 352 0701.
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Parents of these students will receive invitations in the mail in the next week. In an attempt to inspire other students, each assembly will have the students’ own year group and a younger year group as well. Morning tea will be provided to scholars and their parents after the ceremony.
Diary April
6–8......Catering 302 wine trip 6–9......PED 301 Sea kayaking 7...........Senior Report Evening, 6 – 9pm, J Block 7–9......Year 11 Sell programme 8 .........Junior reports posted 9...........Good Friday – school closed – End of Term 1 27.........First day of Term 2 PTA meet 7.30pm 29.........Junior report evening, 6 – 9, J Block 30........BOT meets 5.30pm
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sUNDAY may 4 2008 N
April 2009
Papanui High School
NEWSLETTER Celebrating our diversity
Albany Peseta, Mr Jones, and Lupe Taufa at the kava ceremony, above. Flags, left, and global cuisine were also enjoyed. The school’s annual International Week provided an opportunity for the more than 40 nationalities in the school to showcase their cultures. An innovation this year was the “Flag of Nations” display and this was followed by a “Parade of Nations” concert in the school hall in which groups from the Cook Islands, Taiwan, China and Ethiopia performed. A further innovation this year was a kava ceremony at which Pacific Island students traditionally welcomed the Head student team and members of staff. The Food Fair, organised by the adult students, was again extremely popular and for the second year in a row the Cook Islands won the Nations volleyball tournament.
We congratulate: • Milly Schofield for her considerable riding success at the New Zealand Standardbred Association Annual Show. • Ryan O’Rourke who gained first place in the Beach Flags, Board relay and Taplin in the Canterbury Surf Life Saving Championships Under 14 section. • The Senior Girls Volleyball team who made it through to the semi finals of the Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Volleyball Champs in Division 2. They narrowly missed out of a place in the finals. • The school’s 1st XV whose season has started well with a win against the Sapporo Yamanote touring Japanese side and then a subsequent win in a pre-season match against Geraldine High School. • Head students Josh Butler and Jen Eder who took a leading part in the Commonwealth Day Commemorative Service in the Christchurch Cathedral. • The Music Department who hosted a Young Singers in Harmony Boys’ Barbershop workshop recently. Fifty boys from Christchurch schools spent a morning in the new music suite polishing their skills. • The school’s Debating teams who have made a flying start to the year. Both senior teams won their first round debates as did the two intermediate teams. The junior teams will have their first debates shortly. Debating at the school is expanding hugely and there are now nine teams taking part in competitions.
Touch success continues Current students, alumni, and staff of the school featured strongly in the National Touch Championships in Wellington recently. Ex-students Chad Tainui, James Wihongi, and Michael Cavanagh were selected for the New Zealand Opens Men’s team. Current Kelsey Berryman, Alesiha Berryman, students Janelle Cavanagh Janelle Cavanagh and Ms Mortimer. and Kelsey Berryman join staff member Frankie Championships in mid-March, the Mortimer and alumni Aleisha Girls’ Senior team went through Berryman in the New Zealand the tournament unbeaten, beatOpen Women’s team to play a ing Rangi Ruru 6-2 in the final. three test series against Australia They will represent the South in April. Island at the nationals later this In the South Island year.
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Championship titles Papanui High School students performed with credit at the Canterbury Secondary Schools Swimming and Athletics Finals last month. In swimming, Julin Le Ngoc, Ryan O’Rourke, Jade Rogerson, John Mathias, Matthew Davison, Carl Johnson, Ashton Edwards and Caitlin Ruddle made the finals. Jade gained 2nd place in the girls U14 50m backstroke, while Matthew won titles in the Boys Open 100m breaststroke and the Boys Open 50m breaststroke. His
50m title set a new Canterbury Secondary School record. In the Athletics Championships 12 students made the finals with Matthew Harris coming 1st in the U14 100m and 200m, Kelsey Berryman coming 1st in the girls senior long jump, 100m and open 300m hurdles, Nathan Shaw was 2nd in the junior 200m, Lauren Welsh was 1st in the intermediate discuss and 2nd in the shot, Matthew Brorens was 2nd in the Junior Javelin and 3rd in the junior discus and Ben Musson was 1st in U14 3000m.
Kapa haka wows dignitaries
The school’s Kapa Haka group was invited to perform before the Prime Minister at the opening of the New Zealand Community Boards’ National Conference. The group, ably led by Albany Peseta, Tiana Milner and Delanie Holland, made a huge impression and were, in the words of Mayor Bob Parker, “absolutely outstanding”.
Students have been very busy this term with field trips which allow them to learn and to be assessed in an appropriate environment. Field trips this term have included: • Year 11 Art students spent a day on and around the Port Hills working on their sketching skills. • 55 Year 12 Outdoor Education students attended two camps in the Hawdon Valley testing their bushcraft skills, including tramping, camping, cooking and navigation. • 38 Year 13 Health and Home Economics students attended a threeday course in Hanmer Springs. • 80 Year 11 Geography students visited the St Helena winery as part of their viticulture studies. • 33 Year 12 Geography students spent three days roaming the high country at Cass gathering data for their research assignments. They measured river flows, examined the Otira viaduct, visited a high country station and assessed the human impact of Castle Hill village. • 60 Year 10 Outdoor Education students attended three-day camps in the Craigieburn area where they enjoyed a week of near-perfect weather. • 80 Year 12 Biology students spent a day studying the Estuary. • 180 Year 13 students enjoyed their annual conference at the University of Canterbury. Students heard from panels of expupils and employers and had the opportunity to attend workshops on goal-setting and money management. In the afternoon they visited Lincoln or Canterbury University or the CPIT • Year 13 Outdoor Education students made a five-day traverse of the Southern Alps via Harper Pass
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