St Cuthbert's Chronicle - 2020 - Issue 99

ST CUTHBERT’S

CHRONICLE 2020

CHRONICLE 2020

Chronicle 2020, Volume 99

Contents CONTENTS

01 Introduction Principal’s Report �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 2 Head Girl’s Report. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Head Boarder’s Report ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Chaplain’s Report �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5

06 Junior School Head of Junior School Report �������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Leadership ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 8 Values ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 9 J.A.M (Jesus and Me) ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 10 Footprints ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11 French ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 12 Jump Jam ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 13 Music ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 14 Physical Education ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 16 Sport ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 18 Classes ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������20 Prize Giving ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������38

40 Senior School Head of Senior School Report ����������������������������������������������������������� 41 Year 7 Homeroom ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 42 House Reports ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������48 House Reports - Year 8 ��������������������������������������������������������������������64 Committees �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 67 Faculties Reports ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 76 Visual Arts �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 102 Sport ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 120 Kahunui - Life Skills Experience ������������������������������������������������������� 126 Cultural Groups ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 128 Prize Giving ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 129

136 College Community Staff Photo ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 136 Autographs ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 137

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PRINCIPAL’S Report

I was so proud of our students and staff and witnessed daily their strength and capacity in adapting to the new learning environment, namely their homes. As the school buildings fell silent for months, we looked for connection online and St Cuthbert’s, the agile-minded school that it is, reaffirmed the primacy of the face-to-face, the social dimension of citizenship and the physical spatial interaction with shared place, despite the remoteness.

“Undoubtedly, 2020 was a challenging year but also one of enormous pride for the College.

St Cuthbert’s could not have done without its world class teachers and their willingness to adapt, change and continue learning.

They transformed a unique situation into one of blessings and opportunities.”

My third year as Principal of St Cuthbert’s saw a challenge unprecedented in the College history – the need to implement a remote learning system to allow students and staff across Years 0–13 to work from home, ensuring the continuation of our exemplary education during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

I am immensely proud of our team who demonstrated creativity and agility through taking immediate and strategic steps.

Through the StCuths@home learning programme we saw our students not only cope but thrive, thanks to the amazing systems which were implemented and supported by the College’s staff. My heartfelt thanks to everyone for their dedication and application and especially to the ILT team whose continual efforts ensured every staff member and student could successfully engage at home.

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Despite being in lockdown our talented senior girls still managed to achieve in many different fields. The Year 7 & 8 Orienteering team won the North Island Secondary Schools’ championships. The first XI hockey team took out the Upper North Island Secondary Schools’ Hockey Tournament which hosted eight Division One teams and was, in effect, a replacement for the national tournament, Federation cup which had to be cancelled.

Our Senior Water Polo girls excelled in gaining selection for the World Under 18s Women’s Water Polo Championships due to be held in Israel but cancelled due to COVID; they went onto play in the New Zealand Women’s Premier League which is a collection of the top Water Polo athletes in the country.

One of the Year 13 cohort, Grace Mora, our brilliant young composer, excelled in winning the SGNZ/Morrison Music Trust National Shakespeare Music Composition Competition and was selected to represent New Zealand at the Globe Theatre in London, UK. During our lockdown in August, we held a virtual celebration of our scholars from the 2019 examination season, and there was much to celebrate. In Level 1 NCEA, our 99% pass rate was the best in six years. Across all NCEA levels, our students continued to attain impressively high-level pass rates far above those of schools in comparable deciles.

37% of our IB girls achieved a mark of 40 or more out of 45, this is compared with 14% worldwide. These IB students were recognised at the IB Scholars’ awards at Parliament Buildings in February.

The 27 girls from the 2019 cohort who sat the NZQA Scholarship examinations, generated an

extraordinary 52 scholarships. Among these we had two Top Scholars nationally, Joy Tong taught by Robert Griffiths was Top Scholar in Latin and Cybella Maffitt, taught by Naomi Saxton was Top Scholar in Media Studies. It is interesting to note that this is the first time in the history of the College that we have had top scholars nationally in these subjects.

This bright cohort of young women had multiple offers of scholarships to universities in NZ and for prestigious universities offshore including Oxford, Sydney, Columbia, Duke and Yale, to name but a few.

Perhaps the most significant memory of 2020 for me will, indeed, be of the young women in this year group. Our Head girl, Ruby Sussock’s extraordinary leadership, her grace, insight, empathy and equanimity has amazed us all.

Ruby was well supported by our wonderful 2020 Deputy Head girls, Millie Caughey and Nellie McKegg and Head Boarder Tulyahna Pulotu McCarthy. These girls and their peers know how impressed we all were by their commitment to community and generosity of spirit; they truly epitomised our motto, ‘By Love Serve’ But to our wonderful Year 13 girls leaving St Cuthbert’s in 2020, you, the ‘COVID- cohort’, your outstanding legacy will be the care and concern you showed for for young and old.

Your online meetings, your phone calls, your online school magazine the ‘Talking Tartan’, your bus buddy duties when nervous little sisters re-entered school post lockdown, and even your enquiries of staff welfare during Level 4 will never leave our memories.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege than the raising of the next generation. Girls, it has been wonderful to have had you and your families as part of this community and we look forward to staying in touch over the years to come.

Ngā mihi nui,

Justine Mahon, Principal, St Cuthbert’s

SCHOOL REPORTS

HEAD GIRL’S

Report

How grateful I am to be living in New Zealand, as we were able to make up for so much lost time in our final term of school. The first week back, the spirit of St Cuthbert’s was felt across the College as we came together for our annual House Music. The performances were some of the best I have ever seen despite the limited time for practice. The half-time entertainment from the male teachers of the school, that left everyone clutching their bellies in laughing fits, and the sheer joy on everyone’s face in the Clouston Hall as they cheered for their friends are memories that I will cherish forever. When asking friends around the school for their highlight of the year, everyone came to the unanimous consensus that House Music was the most epic day of this school year.

Another highlight was the new and improved ‘Making Your Mark’ awards that provided hope and inspiration for the girls, especially the Year 13s nervous for our adventures in 2021 and beyond. The event was a special

time for the Year 13s to be inspired by the amazing work of the Old Girls’ Association in the community and to be appreciated for their leadership and resilience. I will especially remember Old Girl, Janine Smith, for her words of wisdom, encouraging the class of 2020 to be confident that we can tackle anything that life throws at us, which seemed so fitting considering the final year we experienced.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT | HEAD GIRL REPORT

“2020 went by in the blink of an eye. Full of challenging and demanding times, happy moments, crazy memories and everything in between; the year was an incredibly emotional rollercoaster for all. As I come to the end of my journey here at St Cuthbert’s, I have nothing but love and gratitude for this school. Despite the circumstances and the trying times that our cohort, our school, our teachers, and our country have been through in 2020, what an amazing learning journey it has been.”

From the minute you enter this school you look up to the Year 13s, excited about when you will grow up and be just like them.

To not be able to have the usual rites of passage, celebrations, the Ball and time together, was truly devastating. Rather than brushing shoulders in the hallways, we were all stuck at home on our screens. We were upset and frustrated that we could not have the normal Year 13 ‘time of our lives’ that St Cuthbert’s was known for. But despite this, what a special year we had! When one event was cancelled, a virtual one replaced it. We realised that as the leaders of the school, our role as Prefects was even more important in these unprecedented times. We set up a student led e-magazine, a buddy programme - ‘Big Sister, Little Sister’, and an ‘Amazing girls of the week’ initiative. Our time as a cohort, although limited, felt all the more precious. We truly appreciated the times of joy and sadness that we shared together, never taking for granted one another’s presence.

We developed an amazing sisterhood within Year 13 that was strengthened by the shared experience we had this year, and I know this special bond will keep us connected always.

I am so thankful for the confidence, resilience and work ethic that this school has instilled in me. The willingness of the teachers to go beyond what is expected to make sure we personally succeed is the essence of St Cuthbert’s and has kept me motivated academically. I have been hugely involved in sports at the school and the highs and lows that come with being part of a team have shaped me as a person. I am so grateful for all of the teachers, coaches and other support people that I have had or those that inspired me from afar; the girls that I knew or those that I passed in the hallway.

Every person that has been part of this school community has helped me develop into who I have become today. Now the time has come to pass on the torch to the 2021 graduates. Although your final year may still be affected by the pandemic, taking place in this ‘new normal’, we know you will continue to inspire and lead the way for our school. Have courage and empathy to navigate an unknown future and be forever grateful for the wonderful school that you are able to grow in.

For the 2020 graduates there are no words to describe how much I care for you all. The strength you have brought me and the love you have shown is something I will remember for the rest of my life. Good luck for your future endeavours and may we all stay connected for years to come.

Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tū ohu koe me he maunga teitei.

Aroha Nui, Ruby Sussock, Head Girl

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HEAD BOARDER’S Report

Despite 2020 year being highly unpredictable and disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Boarding has been filled with fun and success and is undoubtedly a year to remember!

We kicked off the Boarding year with our traditional activities to help all Boarders settle in and allow new Boarders to get to know the other girls. One of our activities this year was a trip to Parakai Springs where we all had a great time in the pools, enjoying the sun and teaching each other new games such as a Boarding favourite ‘Mama Butterfly’. The following weekend, all Boarders participated in a range of team bonding activities at Totara Park, where we were split into our family group teams each with our own coloured bandana.

All teams had a mix of girls from different year groups allowing them to form new friendships with not only new Boarders, but also strengthen bonds with girls outside their own year group. We engaged in activities such as archery, relay races, orienteering and other team bonding exercises. Not only were the ‘closed weekends’ an opportunity for girls to socialise, but they also allowed new Boarders to meet weekend supervisors and other Boarding staff.

We then had our annual Durham Shield Competition which was a treat as always.

Durham Shield is an inter-House competition where each House choreographs and creates a House performance which was judged by our Belgium interns, Eva and Jarne. Our performances were then followed by a competition of swimming activities such as 4

clothes relays, an underwater race, and the biggest bomb. It was great to see such strong spirit from each House and see all Boarders get involved. This year’s winner was Elgin House with their green theme ‘Area 51’, allowing them to take home the shield!

environmental, health and wellbeing, social

Something we enjoy in Boarding and have lots of fun participating in are our annual themed dinners, where we are given the opportunity to dress up in the theme for that special dinner. Despite COVID-19, we were able to have a few of our annual themed dinners. One of our special dinners was our annual International dinner where we chose a theme of a specific country, allowing us to gain knowledge of the cuisine, costumes, and traditions of different cultures. This year’s theme was USA, where two of our Year 13 Boarders, Claudia and Rosalind, attended as The President of the USA and The First Lady.

We also had our annual mid-winter Christmas dinner where each year group dressed up to the theme ‘The Grinch who stole Christmas’.

With 2020 being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, we sadly missed a few of the scheduled Boarding activities, such as our annual Boarding social with Auckland Grammar and Dilworth schools.

unpredictable times.

When the Epsom campus was closed during Alert Levels 3 and 4, we stayed in touch with each other over Microsoft Teams until we were able to return to Boarding. Throughout the lockdown we had several Boarding calls and House calls to check in with one another.

We also continued to have our Boarding committee meetings online which allowed our

activities and events, and food committees to continue running. Microsoft Teams also provided an opportunity for Year 13s to check in with their new Boarding buddies and ensure they were doing well during these

I have enjoyed being Head Boarder of 2020 immensely and I am honoured to have been given this great opportunity. It has been great working alongside the Heads of Boarding, Mrs Hogg and Mrs Hunt, to try and make 2020 as enjoyable as possible for our Boarders. I am also grateful for all our Boarding staff’s support throughout this year, including our House managers, weekend supervisors, prep tutors who truly make Boarding such an enjoyable experience. I have also enjoyed being a member of the Prefect team for 2020 and being able to represent Boarders within the Day School. My past four years here in Boarding and at St Cuthbert’s has been an experience I have greatly enjoyed, and I will forever treasure the memories I have made.

A big thank you to the other Year 13 Boarding leaders Caitlin, Lily and Moana for their support and help throughout this crazy year. To all the Boarders, thank you for making Boarding the great place it is and all the best for the future!

– Tulyahna Pulotu McCarthy, Head Boarder 2020

SCHOOL REPORTS

CHAPLAIN’S

Report

But I would like to call 2020 the year of growth.

Disappointment is the seed for resilience – the gap between our expectation and the reality we find ourselves in, is what we call disappointment. The bigger the gap, the greater the disappointment.

Disappointment is unfortunately part of life but what we do with these disappointments matters. When we work through these disappointments, it becomes seed for resilience. Pliability, buoyancy, strength – these are all synonyms for resilience.

And let us be honest – we all need pliability, buoyancy, and strength.

Instead of dreading disappointment, see it as the seed for resilience. Resilience is like a muscle – the more it gets used, the stronger it gets.

We, as staff, parents, and students, need strategies for building and maintaining a resilient life.

One effective strategy is to have faith – We need to realise that there are unknowns which we can never control. And we need to understand life is full of uncertainty. It helps to take time to focus on what we can control for a rewarding outcome. And to take a few moments to give thanks to God.

HEAD BOARDER REPORT | CHAPLAIN’S REPORT

There are many words that was used to describe 2020. From interesting, to challenging and unprecedented.

Another effective strategy is to be willing to give support and receive support – be willing to listen and care about other’s concerns; and not to be just a receiver of empathy and compassion, but give others the same emotional support.

This I must share with you: regardless of all the challenges that many families faced, the St Cuthbert’s Community once again showed how generous they are. The Foodbank drives, and all the requests for the various projects, have been exceptional.

I absolutely love the attitude of this community, and I am proud to say that I part of the St Cuthbert’s Community.

– The Rev Dr Francois Joubert

“The Chapel services are a constant highlight for me, whether it is the weekly Services or the Sunday family Chapel Services.”

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Head’s Report

2020 was a challenging year for many due to COVID-19 and everyone had to make adjustments to their daily lives that we never could have imagined. Parents, grandparents and even brothers and sisters all became co-teachers; creative lessons moved into living rooms, kitchens, trampoline tops and even boats, all around Auckland, where I could only watch in awe from my own living-room-zoomscreen, at the ingenious and inspiring learning that was happening.

“Having a competitive streak is always important when wanting to accomplish something well, but being able to have that streak whilst being encouraging and supportive of those around you, is an added quality that I’ve witnessed over and over again within our Junior School… there’s nothing quite like seeing the joy in the faces of the girls when they see their friends succeed.”

These uncertain times have brought challenges for everyone, but they also brought us gifts – we had the opportunity to pause, take a deep breath and to reflect on what is really important in our lives. Lockdown allowed the girls to spend time at home with the people that care for them most, and it enabled them to become more independent and resilient in their learning too, which became hugely evident on their return to school.

Although the year seemed to be put ‘on hold’ a couple of times, it still brought about some outstanding achievement from our girls. Many of our Year 5 and 6s participated in the Australian ICAS assessments, and our girls continue to achieve to a high level with some girls scoring top results in both Science and Maths in Australasia. We were also lucky enough to be able to maintain many of our school Chapel services, assemblies, trips, exchanges with King’s School and camps (even during lockdown!). Although our sporting calendar was not as full as usual in 2020, it didn’t stop some of our talented athletes successfully competing in regional and national competitions in an array of sports. Girls also enjoyed the joys of joining some of our new lunchtime clubs in Dance and Drama, and our ever-popular Jump Jam team performed like never before at the National Jump Jam competition.

However, what I found most heart-warming and refreshing in 2020 was seeing the wonderful sportsmanship in action; during our Sports days, in the classroom environment and even in the playground. Having a competitive streak is always important when wanting to accomplish something well, but being able to have that streak whilst being encouraging and supportive of those around you, is an added quality that I’ve witnessed over and over again within our Junior School… there’s nothing quite like

seeing the joy in the faces of the girls when they see their friends succeed. Our ‘little people’ of the school have had to be more resilient than they probably realised in 2020 … and have certainly taught us some qualities of kindness, patience, sportsmanship, and being respectful of others.

For me, a focus on Wellbeing and mental health has never been more important in education. While I have the highest aspirations for all of our girls academically, nothing compares with the importance of protecting and promoting their current and future Wellbeing. ‘By Love Serve’ continues to be at the centre of all we do, and by focussing on Wellbeing, Leadership and a feeling of safety when taking on challenges in their learning, I think we will ensure that all of our girls are in a position to benefit from a world class holistic offering.

I feel grateful to be the custodian of our Junior School, a true gem within the St Cuthbert’s Whānau. I am immeasurably proud of the Junior School team and the way in which they have moved mountains during recent months and have done so with grace and kindness.

I also appreciate our parent body for their unshakeable confidence and faith in our ethos, our values, and our hopes and dreams for the girls in the Junior School.

2020 certainly was an extraordinary year, and I am thrilled that we were able to celebrate all of the girls in our final assembly by awarding each one of them a very special P&F ‘StCuth’s@ home badge’, which I’m sure they will treasure and reflect on for years to come. I hope every individual can look back on 2020 with a sense of pride in what they have achieved this year, in the classroom and the Zoom-room, and know that their radiant spirit has risen above all adversity – the Junior School girls are all super stars in our eyes.

– Kerry Oldman, Head of Junior School 7

HEAD’S REPORT

JUNIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL Leadership Environment Team

Junior Playground Angels Leaders

Wet Day Team Leaders

Being an Environment leader is a big job, we take care of the House gardens and make sure the correct rubbish goes into the correct rubbish bin. Rubbish in our school is a big issue and with our team we make a difference. One of our big ideas has been reminding girls to bring in ‘naked lunches’. This means there is no plastic or rubbish in their lunch boxes. We have also been encouraging girls to take home their rubbish and not put it in our school bins.

As Junior Playground Angels, it’s important to show the younger girls how to play together happily in the playground, by being excellent role models. At break times, we help the girls get along with each other and we help to sort out any small disagreements and support them when needed. Sometimes the girls just need a cuddle and a friendly smile to help sort out a problem. It they are hurt we call in the duty teacher. We love being Junior Playground Angels because it is so rewarding to help others and see a happy playground. The little girls love coming up to us and sharing their problems with us.

When it is raining, we look after the Years 0 and 2 classes. We make sure they are entertained and safe throughout morning tea and lunch. We also make sure they have a full stomach for learning. The girls enjoy this time inside as they play with the wet day toys and games, read books, draw pictures and play with us…and they love it! When we are working in these classes, we really wish lunch never would end and that we could stay playing with these awesome little people.

— Indi Rowe, Xolaris Anushan and Harriet Perry

House Leaders Our role as House Leaders has been a great honour, a rewarding and valuable experience and an opportunity that has given us pride in each other and ourselves.

Our St Cuthbert’s Houses create new connections between all ages and with girls we might not get to know otherwise. Each House feels like a close whanāu, and, as House Leaders, we appreciate the job of bringing everyone together. In the Junior School our classmates change every year but our House buddies remain the same throughout.

All 16 House Leaders love to help, especially when it is with the littlies and with welcoming any new girls into their House. We cherish the responsibility of organising events like House assemblies and rallying up the troops for Cross Country or Swimming Sports.

2020 was a tough year for spending time together but through our remote learning, there were still ways to reach out and connect as a House.

The House Leaders would like to take this opportunity to wish next year’s House Leaders all the very best.

— Valentina Hania and Bonnie McCarrison

Receptionist Leaders As Reception Leaders we help Mrs Colyer when she has a lot on her plate and when she is on her lunch break. We also help girls when they are hurt by getting an ice pack and keep them company as well as deliver items to classrooms. We also help with IT at our Junior School assemblies. This role for us is very special and we love doing it so much.

— Christabella Amos-Hourigan and Melody Ding 8

— Cynthia Yang and Imogen Gifford-Maposua

Road Patrol Leaders Road Patrol is probably the most important leadership role in the Junior School. As a Road Patroller, you get to use the big orange signs that look like lollipops. It also means that you are in charge of making sure that the children and adults get across the road safely. Road Patrollers must be alert and focussed on what is going on around them. Road Patrol is a job that means a lot of people trust you to get them safely across the road. It is a fun and responsible job that helps keep our community safe. We are proud of all our hard work this year.

— Imogen Gifford-Mapusua and Ella Vickers

Tour Guides Our job as Tour Guides is to welcome new people into our school, by giving a good first impression. By telling our visitors about the uniqueness of our school, we can encourage them to visit again. To be a Tour Guide you need to know how to communicate with lots of people, and can show them around the school efficiently and effectively. You also need to show your ‘By Love Serve’ nature and be friendly and polite.

We love being Tour Guides because we are very proud of our school. Sadly, the Tour Guides have not had many events to work on this year due to COVID-19. Our main event was our New Student Orientation Day. We made sure that we warmly welcomed the new girls to our school and talked to them about all the exciting events that they have to look forward to.

— Alesha Mehta and Aamani Patel

— Samantha Sutherland, Sophie Sun and Lucy Gill

JUNIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL

Values KidsCan

Mobility Dogs

According to KidsCan one in five kiwis live with food insecurities and 254,000 children live in poverty. KidsCan helps the children who live in poverty and don’t have enough to afford basic needs, which are food, clothes, hospitality, education and clean water. KidsCan accepts all sorts of donations from 10c to $10,000,000. If the donations come from kids, your donation still counts. We don’t understand how fortunate we are to come to school without facing the facts of poverty.

Mobility Dogs come to St Cuthbert’s to teach the Junior School girls about their dogs and what they do. They show us how animals can help people. Mobility Dogs are specially trained dogs to help disabled New Zealanders with their individual, unique needs. The dogs provide practical support by picking things up, opening doors and giving companionship and unconditional love. These dogs truly transform the lives of their partners, who enjoy greater independence and quality of life. The dogs also help build stronger communities in New Zealand and we are glad to have a chance to help support this charity. My Grandfather, John Peebles, said, “Going to St Cuthbert’s and showing the girls how Mobility Dogs help, and change people’s lives is a privilege. We are so grateful for your support.”

We chose this charity in particular because there are many kids out there who live in bad conditions and we want to help them through their tough life. We also believe that no child deserves to have any less than we have. We think that if we get a fair advantage of a bright and healthy future then those less fortunate should too. This charity is great for the Junior School because it gives the girls an idea of what some young Kiwis are going through, and we believe that there is no better way to show support than kids helping kids.

— Meher Randhawa, Sascha Newland and Aimee Bradley, Year 6

“You have to bring canned or packaged food and we give them to people who don’t have that much food. I like bringing food because it helps people.”

LEADERSHIP | VALUES

2020 has been a year full of surprises, however, the generous spirit of the Junior School is very much alive. This year the values we studied were Resilience, Empathy, Acceptance and Generosity of Spirit. These values are part of our daily lives at St Cuthbert’s and come under our school motto ‘By Love Serve.’ Our values underpin the service opportunities we have. Our chosen charities for 2020 were Mobility Dogs and KidsCan.

– Livvy Boyes, 2JAE “For Mufti day, everyone brought a gold coin to donate to KidsCan and Mobility Dogs.”

– Miri Harrison, 4TYL “Mufti day is when you dress in anything you want and bring a gold coin to raise money for Kids Can and Mobility Dogs.”

– Seraphina Somaratne, 4HAR

We love having our Mobility Dogs, Hugo and Gilbert, at school and think they understand what ‘By Love Serve’ means as much as we do!

— Samantha Sutherland and Ruby Kristensen

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JUNIOR SCHOOL

J.A.M. (Jesus and Me) Our J.A.M. lessons in the Year 0 to Year 4 classes are about nurturing the spirit of each girl. These lessons help to form a code of living whereby the girls may thrive in body, mind, heart and spirit as they grow in their personal relationship with God. Our lessons are about reflection, experience, exploration and inviting questions that encourage personal search which we believe is more valuable than simply supplying answers.

J.A.M. lessons always focus upon each girl’s personal journey; they help to uphold the belief that to live in a ‘By Love Serve’ way honours God’s message of ‘Love For All’.

During 2020, the girls have learnt to appreciate the value of ‘the story’. We can begin to understand so much from the Bible, other inspirational books and other people’s stories. Australian Chaplain, Rev. Peter Burnham, once stated, “As teachers we are caretakers of young people’s stories.”

Through our J.A.M. lessons, the girls are encouraged to find their own story and to live it well. They are urged to discover how their story may impact not only their lives, but also the lives of people around them both nearby, and far away.

The light of God has been a main focus in our J.A.M. lessons during this very different year, both at school and during our lockdown Zoom lessons. When we are nurtured by the security of love in our lives, we all feel that comforting sense of wellbeing, belonging and safety.

Together, we share many stories, such as the New Testament story of Zacchaeus, the Parable of ‘The Pearl’, as well as the story of Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, and how he reminds us of God’s love, acceptance and forgiveness. ‘Daniel in the Lions’ Den’ was a focus and we discussed how, as God looked after him, He had His hand upon us during our time in lockdown.

Using YouTube, the girls have loved joining other children from around the world to sing songs that endorse God’s light of joy, hope, peace and love. This has enhanced a feeling of unity and emphasised to us that we are one family, belonging together and bound by the gift of God’s love for all.

We have read wonderful books such as, ‘God in Between’ by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso,‘ I Am’ by Dr Wayne Dyer, ‘The Giving Tree’ by Shel Silverstein, ‘I Am Special’ by Max Lucado, ‘The White Pony’ by Sandra Byrd and ‘Great Joy’ by Kate Di Camillo.

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During J.A.M. lessons a candle is lit to begin and conclude our time together. When asked recently why we light this candle, some of our youngest girls reflected: “We light a candle in J.A.M. because Jesus is like a light” – Nadia, 0ABR “When we light our candle we remember Jesus who means light and love” – Adele, 0ABR “The candle reminds us that God loves us” – Milly, 0ING In our lessons together, bridges are built, connections made, and time is always allocated for both conversation and reflection; this is vital. Making connections that are relevant to the girls’ lives is paramount, as well as understanding the pluralistic nature of our society and upholding respect for others’ faith beliefs.

We often reflect upon the idea that our lives may be like a tapestry that we weave.

One of the girls stated that perhaps the purpose of her life could be in constructing a beautiful tapestry while helping others to construct theirs. While we have fun learning about God in J.A.M., it is wonderful how such a notion may be woven into our souls.

— Mrs Sue Porter

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JUNIOR SCHOOL Footprints

The girls love the stories, and the Word Searches that we share. For me, the main purpose is to show the girls that God is love. To teach them that God is kind and cares for each one of them.

Although we have lost a lot of sessions due to the lockdown, we still managed to spend good time together, learning from the life of Old Testament figures such as Daniel, and his reliance on God and the miracles that took place in his life.

We learned about ‘The Good Samaritan’, and how God loves it when we show mercy to others.

A huge favourite with the Year 5 and 6 girls is the various Parables that Jesus shared.

We studied Parables such as ‘The Sower’, ‘The Lost Sheep’, ‘The Lamp Under a Bushel’, ‘The Mustard Seed’, and many more.

These young ladies are a real blessing, and every day I am so grateful for being able to spend time with them.

— Rev Dr Francois Joubert, St Cuthbert’s Chaplain

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J.A.M. | FOOTPRINTS

I have the privilege of spending every week with the Junior School’s Year 5 and 6 students for our Footprints religious lessons.

JUNIOR SCHOOL French Learning French in Junior School Learning another language helps to develop communicative skills and to encourage intercultural knowledge and understanding.

Learning languages opens students’ minds to different cultures whereby students feel “Citizens of the World”.

At St Cuthbert’s Junior School, we nurture a lifelong passion and curiosity for languages and consolidate the skills for future language learning. The students have the opportunity to learn French from Year 0 to Year 6.

My teaching of French in our Junior School is all about hands on learning and having fun.

The students can experience French food, get to know France and important landmarks and learn about the French language and culture.

This year was a very special year as we had to adopt to different ways of learning. When we had our French Zoom classes girls created origami croissants instead of devouring real ones. Girls were challenged to recreate the Eiffel Tower with materials they had available at home. They learned about French food and their love for “escargots” and the girls were sent off to look out for snails in their backyards.

Students created houses made of paper, labelled them in French, and gave us a virtual tour. They enjoyed creating family portraits depicting their families in as much detail as possible. Girls were able to then film themselves presenting their family.

We talked about favourite sports and the students were encouraged to dress up in their sports uniform, pretending to play and record themselves saying which sport they were playing.

The girls learned and performed traditional French songs and dances and they loved using puppets or masks to present themselves in French.

Even though it was a different way to approach learning French this year, it is amazing how well the girls adapted and progressed, and how much fun they had along the way.

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Jump Jam Jump Jam is incredibly popular in our Junior School, with girls from all ages welcome. This year was especially interesting as we kept the momentum for Jump Jam going online through lockdown.

This year our Years 4 – 6 Jump Jam team, ‘Beauties and the Beat’, qualified for the top category in the national competition. They performed a routine to the song ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’ from the Hairspray musical. On

Saturday 21 November the team travelled to Tauranga to compete against the best Jump Jam teams from around the country. They performed exceptionally well and placed third in the Xtreme category, a huge achievement, especially for a first-time school in this division.

The team received the following awards, Distinction in Technical Execution, Distinction in Presentation, Excellence in Creativity, Excellence in Costumes and Excellence in Sportsmanship. The sportsmanship award

recognises schools who positively interact with the other teams and Jump Jam staff and volunteers. We are so proud of how the girls represented St Cuthbert’s. This is an exceptional result especially given the strange year we have had and all the disruptions to training. The girls showed great dedication and commitment during lockdown by arranging Zoom practices online and their hard work certainly paid off!

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FRENCH & JUMP JAM

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Music

2020 has been a wonderful year of building on skills, experimentation and knowledge acquisition by girls in the Junior School. It has been brilliant to see the girls improving so much as musicians this year and enjoying singing and playing their musical instruments in and out of lockdown!

The resilience and resourcefulness of our girls has really shone through this year. Under lockdown, we had girls in our Huia Whānau singing pop songs while playing percussion parts on plastic cups and Year 1s performing on Māori tapping sticks which they made themselves. Year 2s showed fabulous creativity by making their own percussion instruments at home and Year 4s studied the orchestral work, ‘Peter and the Wolf’, from a fabulous YouTube video.

For many Year groups, 2020 provided an excellent opportunity to learn how to use apps for Music creation. These included Incredibox and Garageband, just to name a few. Music Technology is a brilliant way of fostering creativity for our girls as they manipulate core

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elements of music such as melody, rhythm and form. There are certainly a few Mums and Dads in the Junior School who now have some original ringtones loaded onto their mobile phones, courtesy of their daughters!

The instrumental programme in the Junior school has been continuing to build this year.

As well as having all girls in Years 5 and 6 on Clarinet and Saxophone, we now have girls learning Trumpet and Trombone and making an incredible contribution to classroom bands on these instruments. Many girls in Year 6 have started attending Honours Band rehearsals during Term 4 this year to prepare themselves as they move into Senior School co-curricular groups for 2021. Go Year 6s!

Music lessons remain a weekly highlight for our girls in the Junior School and have helped keep our girls happy and buoyant throughout the year.

We would like to send out a huge thank you to all the parents for supporting their daughters so well at home with their instrument practice and with their online learning.

— Andrew Stewart

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MUSIC

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JUNIOR SCHOOL Physical Education Physical Education in the Junior School is all about having fun, being safe and learning new things. We are trying to develop students’ physical literacy and their ability to perform a range of complex movement sequences by the time they finish Year 6. We are also developing their thinking skills and their ability to reflect on their learning. PE is such a great tool to provide authentic learning opportunities for students to work on key competencies such as ‘Managing Self’, ‘Participating and Contributing’ and ‘Relating to Others.’ Having the ability to demonstrate resilience, manage impulsivity, show respect for themselves and their equipment and use their initiative, will put them in great stead for more PE as they grow and hopefully help take them far in life. PE also provides many opportunities for students to co-operate with peers, develop conflict resolution skills, contribute ideas and keep up a positive attitude.

Along the way we are getting the students to realise their potential in sport and life; the

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intention being that they become life-long participants in sport and recreation. It is so important at the Junior School level that they have a positive experience and they want to continue to play and learn. We want girls to have a diverse range of sporting experiences and not to narrow their focus onto one sport too early as they could risk burn-out, overuse injuries and lessened motivation. We encourage our girls to develop a broad range of transferrable skills and grow their creativity and decision-making capabilities. Students all learn and develop at different rates, that is why it is so important that they want to keep playing and learning.

This year students have smiled, perspired and learned through Aquatics, Netball and Football, Ball games, Gymnastics, Tag games, Tennis, T-ball, Teamwork and Fitness just to name a few.

— Des Knight

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

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JUNIOR SCHOOL Sport

Junior School Athletic Champions Year 4 Champions 1st - Leonie Graystone 2nd= - Nalani Tuhoe and Anna Xu Year 5 Champions 1st= - Charlotte Bruford and Aveia Renault-Pollard 3rd - Alice Li Year 6 Champions 1st - Jackie Xu 2nd - Zara Sharp 3rd - Anemone Morgan Our talented Year 5&6 Athletics students attend the Remuera Zone Day at Mt Smart Stadium. Our girls were strong in their heats with most of them making the finals of their races.

3rd place Year 6 Girls 60m - Zara Sharp 2nd place Year 6 Girls Ball Throw Adora Zhang 3rd place Year 6 Girls 4x100m Relay team Zara Sharp, Anemone Morgan, Meg Fowler and Jackie Xu

Junior School Cross Country Champions Year 4 Champions 1st - Hope Wang 2nd - Mila Firth 3rd - Emily Zhan Year 5 Champions 1st - Aveia Renault-Pollard 2nd - Sophie Qu 3rd - Leila Roosen Year 6 Champions 1st - Aimee Bradley 2nd - Jackie Xu 3rd - Meher Randhawa

Flippa Ball Our Flippa Ball/Mini Polo programme continued to grow in 2020, with two teams being added to the grade, for a total of seven teams, with 70 girls playing the sport in the Junior School. We achieved some top results in our grades, and built a strong foundation of players to serve the Water Polo programme in future years.

Football Consistent training has been paying off as our weekly skill sessions lead to our Year 3 and 4 team making excellent progress in their Saturday morning games.

Thank you to our senior payers who coach and supervise on match day. With the growing numbers we hope to field more teams next year.

Futsal Adapting to this indoor game was easy for our girls as the required ball skills and tactics are similar to football which many of the girls had played this year. We had one team in the local league played on Saturdays and expect to have more next year as this is a fast growing sport.

Tennis Our after-school coaching option offers a real taste of the coordination and footwork needed for this sport. This preparation helps prepare our young tennis players for either club competitions or for playing in one of our school teams from Year 7.

Gymnastics Gymnastics was once again popular in the junior school, with over 50 students giving it a try throughout Terms 1, 3 and 4. The girls gave up their Monday lunchtime every week to train with professional coaches from Tristar. The annual fun festival was cancelled but despite this, the girls carried on training. The Remuera Zone competition still went ahead and the Year 5 and 6 students that competed came away with some fantastic results. Our Year 5 and 6 Teams both placed 2nd overall. A team of Year 6 students then went on to compete at the Auckland Primary school Champs of Champs where Olivia Lindon placed 3rd individually.

Year 5 Team of Gymnasts consisted of: Coco Alpe, Charlotte Bruford, Sophie Loveheart Qu and Ava Burt.

Our Year 6 Team of Gymnasts were: Olivia Lindon, Amber Zhou, Rachel Wight, Zara Sharp and Sacha Newland.

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JUNIOR SCHOOL There were 6 hockey teams across the junior school this year. Due to the disrupted year our Year 4–6 hockey students had a longer season than normal. The girls were able to train throughout Term 1, Term 2 and Term 3 and a lot of the students took part in the hockey holiday clinics which were available. It was great to see such dedication from our students and their enthusiasm for trainings and games. The girls were very fortunate to be coached by our fantastic Senior School student coaches and assisted by our current Blacksticks and Old Girls Julia King, Katie Doar and Madi Doar.

Netball Our junior school netball programme saw 5 teams comprising of over 40 students participating in the Thursday night competition. The students were lucky enough to also be involved in an internal tournament after school where they all had a number of competitive and fun games with one another after the season was cut short.

Skiing This year we had a team compete at the Auckland Primary and Intermediate School Ski Champs at Snowplanet. Alexia Liu was awarded Gold in the Junior Primary Ski Category. In the 365 Challenger Cup, St Cuthbert’s placed 1st for the Primary Girls Ski category with both Alexia Liu and Amelia Huang’s points combined. Alexia placed 1st in the Year 1–4 Girls category in all 3 events. At the NZ Indoor Slalom Championships, Alexia Liu won bronze in the Under 10 category and Amelia Huang won gold in the Under 8 category.

Junior School Swimming Champions Year 4 Champions 1st - Hope Wang 2nd - Jessica Yeoman 3rd - Lucia Yoon Year 5 Champions 1st - Sophie Qu 2nd - Amy Tang 3rd - Teresa Sun Year 6 Champions 1st - Jackie Xu 2nd - Melody Ding 3rd - Aimee Bradley

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SPORT

Hockey

0ABR 0ABR started off this year in Term 2 during the end of the first lockdown, with eight brand new Year 0 girls eagerly looking forward to starting school. We learned about St Cuthbert’s motto, ‘By Love Serve’ and how we can share kindness through ‘kind hearts, kind thoughts, kind actions and kind words’ which we still try to show every day. We learned about our class routines and rules, and how to be a kind friend to others. We celebrated Matariki by reading the story ‘The Little Kiwi’s Matariki’ and created our own artwork to go with it.

BACK ROW: Teacher Aid- Sue Grazier, Isabelle Jo, Liliya Wu , Elaine Sun, Ana Firth, Chloe Chiu, Ava Milne, Class teacher -Brittany Abrahams.

SECOND ROW: Josephina Somaratne, Olivia Rainsford, Nadia Sheikh, Annabelle Ellett, Océane Renault-Pollard FRONT ROW: Adele Davidson, Mikayla Chan, Charlotte Taylor, Amelie Jardine, Harriet Perry, Esme Sun

In Term 3, we were joined by nine new students who were just as eager to begin their schooling experience at St Cuthbert’s.

We were excited about finally becoming a full class and getting to know our new friends.

Before we knew it, we were back in lockdown 2.0 and started to learn in a completely new way – over Zoom!

We celebrated different letters of the alphabet each week by having a princess party, pyjamas day and even having a teddy bears’ picnic when we finally were able to come back to school!

We were glad to see our friends again and get back to our learning. Our P.E.A.C.E topic for the term was Plants and we enjoyed planting our own bean plants and watching them grow.

We learned about the parts of the plant and what parts of the plant we could eat.

We’ve had lots of fun experiences this year, some of our highlights were blowing bubbles and making popcorn so we could write some amazing recounts about them and we were lucky enough to go to the ‘Greedy Cat’ performance at the beginning of Term 4.

We have made so much progress this year and had lots of fun along the way! What a fun year it’s been, even with lockdowns in the middle of it but we have learned to be resilient and to make the most of our time at school.

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We have just started school but we have big dreams already Elsa says: When I grow up I want to be a teacher so I can read books to my class.

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0ING

Florence says: When I grow up I want to be a police lady so I can have a police car with lights.

Victoria says: When I grow up I want to have a toy shop that sells pink bunnies and mermaids.

YEAR 0 | 0ABR | 0ING

Milly says: When I grow up I want to work at St Cuthbert’s and be like Miss Inglis.

Veronica says: When I grow up I want to be a doctor so I can look after sick people.

BACK ROW: Victoria Brabant, Tiffany Song, Veronica Sia Russell-Park, Averie-Lee Kaufusi FRONT ROW: Milly Williams, Amelia Sun, Florence Neal, Aideen Qin, Elsa Shi-Zhang

Amelia says: When I grow up I want to be a butterfly and fly everywhere.

Aideen says: When I grow up I want to help my mum fix things at home.

Averie-Lee says: When I grow up I want to be a painter so I can make my treehouse purple and pink.

Tiffany says: When I grow up I want to be a policeman so I can catch the bad guys.

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1ING Three fantastic terms in 1ING Here are some of the exciting things we experienced in our first year of school: • Having our first PE lessons with Mrs Curtis; French lessons with Madame Hartinger; J.A.M. with Mrs Porter; and Music with Mr Stewart.

• Safe Walking lessons with Constable Gordon – our favourite part was having a ride in a real police car!

• Learning some fancy dance moves – We loved doing Jump Jam and GoNoodle dances.

• Our 100 days at school celebration – What a great day we had dressing up, doing 100 days themed activities and sharing a delicious lunch with the other Year 1 classes.

BACK ROW: Faye Mai, Hayley Hui, Olivia Li SECOND ROW: Nicola Roslik-Wilson, Olivia Mann, Sophia Mi, Isabella Hibbins, Kristin Inglis (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Emily Lim, Effie Ko, Melissa Wang, Meadow Nash, Savannah Ni

• Our first-ever school Cross Country.

We were absolute speedsters racing down the field.

• Making some new friends on our visit to see the Year 1 boys’ classes at King’s School.

• Walking up Mt St John – It was a long way up to the top but what a great view once we got there!

• Watching Year 4’s baby chicks hatch.

The best part was getting to hold them when they were only a week old!

• Our Book Week dress-up day – We loved dressing up as our favourite book character. There were some amazing outfits in the parade too.

• Always trying so hard to get our special sparkly gems to earn merit cards. We learnt to be amazing ‘By Love Serve’ girls and made Miss Inglis very proud.

Miss Inglis says of 1ING – You are amazing!

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We were off to a great start with our learning in the Life Education caravan with Harold the giraffe. He told us all about how to make friends and try new things. We learned about how we can keep stretching our brains and that a mistake is only a ‘beautiful oops’, we need to just ‘keep on trying!’.

BACK ROW: Grace Wang, Carina Liu, Isobel Brolese, Vivienne Guan, Samaira Singh, Ms Nicola Boyens (Teacher) SECOND ROW: Minka Car (Teacher), Monica Wang, Claudia Manson, Aeryl Zhang, Elena Zhao, Carren Wei FRONT ROW: Dina Feng, Olivia Chen, Emma Tang, Sisi Liu, Sophia Xu, Kerker Zhang

When we went into lockdown, we had to learn quickly to use our iPads and work on Zoom.

We learned how to keep ourselves safe online and to login to lessons independently. We loved seeing our teachers and friends online. We went on lots of virtual tours around the seven continents, learning about each continent; what animals live there, what the weather is like, what languages are spoken and what types of food is eaten.

Then, before we knew it, we were back at school and celebrating ‘100 Days of Learning’. We had so much fun dressing up as ‘Old Grandmas’.

Then we went back into lockdown! While we were at home we investigated volcanoes and a plant’s life-cycle. We made our own erupting volcanoes and planted a scrap garden from food waste. Once we were back at school we joined the ‘Little Garden League’. We planted, cared for, and sampled lots of yummy vegetables We hope you enjoy looking at some of our amazing art from this year!

Year One has been so much fun!

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2020 has been a very crazy mixed up year for all of us.

YEAR 1 | 1ING | 1BOY

1BOY

1MER

BACK ROW: Grace Fan, Valerie Sun, Alina An, Jiayi Li, Ama Liang, Emily Fraser SECOND ROW: Aubrey Hooper, Giselle Gong, Jennie Xu, Lara Sun, Xinrui Liu, Mrs Sheryl Meredith (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Saffron Heppner, Miranda Chen, Carla Hocken Cubi, Eva Liu, Annie He, Serena Chen

We were all very excited about starting our first full year at school as 1MER girls, but yet did we know that this year was going to be like no other. We started our year by meeting a new friend in the Life Education bus, Harold the giraffe, and he showed us how we can be a kind friend. We followed on with ‘The Rainbow Fish’ a story on friendships and presented a play and song at our Year 1 Assembly based on this story. Our Year 1 friends from King’s School came to visit and we enjoyed playing games on the courts and singing songs. Then lockdown 1.0 happened; it was strange at first getting use to using Zoom, but we are adaptable learners in 1MER, and it wasn’t long before it felt like quite a ‘normal’ school day.

Our P.E.A.C.E. unit during StCuth’s@home over Zoom was the seven continents and general knowledge about each one, we learned so much and really stretched our brain. Our favourite time of the day was when Captain Barron took us into different continents, onboard his virtual Air New Zealand plane; it was so exciting. We were excited to run in our first Cross Country race and a highlight was running with the kind Year 13 fairies.

Semester 2 was finally here, along with our Mathematical celebration of 100 Days at School. We laughed a lot when we saw each other dressed up as grandmas with our grey hair, handbags, cardigans and pearls.

Mrs Meredith came as Gangsta Granny (she is so silly) and Mrs Barron was such a sweet granny, just like our own. We had a shared Year 1 lunch, with doughnuts, dumplings, cake and fruit; it was a wonderful way to end our 100th day at School.

It was our turn to visit King’s School and we really enjoyed playing in their learning areas and making fruit kebabs (what girl doesn’t love marshmallows?). Then, overnight we went back into lockdown 2.0 and we were off again on our StCuth’s@home Zoom timetables and learning menus.

‘Once upon a time’ in Term 4 was a real highlight for us with dress-up and dramatic Fridays. We have learnt the elements of a fairy tale and with Mrs Meredith becoming a storyteller. During Dramatic Play she even turned into Witchy Pooh Meredith (bad) and used her magic to take the 1MER princesses (good) into her cottage. Yes, we did have a handsome prince riding by.

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2020 has been quite a peculiar year, but we stuck together and made it through.

For parts of this year we had to work from home in our bubbles. Every day we would log into our little square to learn. Zoom became our online classroom where we learnt, sang songs, danced and had fun with our friends.

It was strange not being at school, but it was cool that we could still see our teachers and friends. Our favourite part of online learning was the fun language experiences. We loved planting our sunflowers, blowing bubbles, making popcorn and our very own rainbow glitter playdough.

BACK ROW: Valeria Harris (Teacher), Rita Qiu, Karin Xu, Apple Lu, Rosie Gibbs, Samiya Liu, Miss Emily Fisher (Teacher) SECOND ROW: Sofia Sheikh, Charlotte Booth, Lucy Burton, Stella Chen, Kiki Strickett, Emelia Haydock FRONT ROW: Laura Egerton, Lisa Shi, Emma Mueller, Stefanie Wang, Amber Qu, Alina Chen, Lilian Peng ABSENT: Isabella Zhou

This year we learnt about our brilliant brains.

We also learnt how to make our writing more exciting by adding adjectives and similes.

We loved learning about fractions in Maths and we even got to make our own pizza… it was delicious! In Year 2 we got to make lots of amazing pieces of art. Our favourite pieces were our Eric Carle inspired flower gardens, our Matariki kites, our water coloured Mini Whinnies and our Christmas stockings.

Every season we would spend time outdoors observing the change in season. We loved writing five senses season poems, with our favourite being our winter wonderland snow globes. We loved leading the Year 2 Assembly and had lots of fun creating our very own music video.

This year we have spent a lot of time talking about gratitude and the things we are grateful for. We finished the year with our Year 2 Apron Ceremony where we celebrated and reflected on our first few years at school together. Our theme for the Apron Ceremony was ‘we are all in this together’ and we enjoyed learning and singing songs from the movie ‘High School Musical’. We have loved Year 2 and will always treasure the special memories we have made during this rather unusual year.

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Year 2 has been a year full of fun, laughter and lots of glitter!

YEAR 1 & 2 | 1MER | 2FSH

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2JAE This is what 2JAE thought about 2020…

2020 is definitely a year that will always stand out for us all. The girls in 2JAE showed incredible resilience and perseverance when our mode of learning changed dramatically, not once but twice!

We kicked off Term 1 with some fun Science by making our own flowing soap. Our first batch was such a success that we made more for all the teachers in the Junior School.

The girls designed an individual label for each bottle.

BACK ROW: Chloe Ma, Mia Burt, Sarina Zhu, Yvonne Guan, Winnie Wang, Estella Jiang, Eva Boogaerts (Teacher) SECOND ROW: Sarah Klisser (Teacher), Michelle Tao, Joanna Cao, Clara MacCulloch, Melissa Zhu, Adela Mai, Livvy Boyes, Mrs Lisa Jane (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Aurelia Boldarin, Ashley Rao, Ma Yuan, Lucy Fenwick, Olivia Taylor, Annie Liu, Amelia Huang

Learning about Waitangi Day was so interesting; we made our own Class Treaty and then drew our very own waka. We drew ourselves in our waka with the proverb written underneath: ‘He waka eke noa’ (we’re all in this together).

The learning never stopped even in lockdown!

We planted sunflowers, blew bubbles made popcorn and rainbow playdough. Girls wrote letters to neighbours, essential workers and even the Prime minister.

Matariki provided some wonderful opportunities for reading, writing and glistening star art.

The girls loved learning about the legend of the seven sisters and Māori New Year.

At the beginning of Term 3, the girls set themselves learning goals for Reading, Writing and Mathematics which are written on their individual placemats which sit on their tables.

A highlight for all the girls in Year 2 was running the Junior School assembly, presenting a music video and performing the song ‘Magic in Me’.

Their rendition and retelling of ‘Whoever We Are’ by Mem Fox was beautiful.

In Stretch this year we had incredible activities and learning opportunities. The girls have learned some basic coding and then applied that learning to using Blue Bots robots.

We had a big focus on Te Reo Māori and learning words for emotions, greetings and playground equipment. A trip to the Senior School to do Food Technology was a real highlight. We capped all that off with finding out about our amazing brains.

A great way to end the year was learning all about the different celebrations from around the world. Our focus was mainly acknowledging important celebrations within our families and Aotearoa. The girls had their own celebrations to prepare for in Term 4, with the Year 2 Apron Ceremony. All the girls wrote amazing reflections about their time wearing aprons and what being a Year 2 girl meant to them.

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My favourite moment in Year 3 was the sleepover at school and visiting Kelly Tarlton’s because I had never seen a penguin in real life or a seahorse. I loved it!

— Kiki Kilmister-Blue My favourite moment in Year 3 was when we had the sleepover for Year 3 Camp. I loved watching “Rapunzel” at night in our pajamas and having apples for supper. I have also enjoyed learning about different celebrations around the world.

— Yi Ke Liu

BACK ROW: Mclane Cary, Chloe Liu, Missha Lin, Kiki Kilmister-Blue THIRD ROW: Kristen Slade (Learning Assistant), Lara Feng, Cate Power, Pansy Qu, Eadie Coote, Melody Lian, Mrs Victoria Mauala (Teacher) SECOND ROW: Jocelyn Ke, Alva Zhang, Van Nguyen, Lydia Tang, Olivia Zhang, Luna Wu FRONT ROW: Vanessa Chen, Yi Ke Liu, Charlotte Brolese, Audrey Yang, Sabrina You, Nina Ni, Juliette Clarke

My favourite moment in Year 3 was doing the Year 13 Leavers Assembly. I really liked our sparkling and bossy outfits! We told the girls to just work hard and danced to Mamma Mia. I really liked our Year 3 camp too. I liked making my bed in the classroom and going to Kelly Tarlton’s and the Zoo. — Juliette Clarke My favourite moment in Year 3 was going to the family picnic that we had before our sleepover.

I love it because we got to see our family and sing our songs that we had been practising really hard. I also love doing Maths and Reading tests because it was hard and challenging!

— Vanessa Chen My favourite moment in Year 3 was doing art. I loved doing the fruit bowl for Kwanzaa because I could do all the fruit I wanted and that I could add some depth by adding dark and light colours to make it look 3D. — Eadie Coote My favourite moment in Year 3 was camp, it was super fun sleeping over in the 2FSH’s classroom.

When we went to Kelly Tarlton’s we saw penguins that had eggs under their bellies, and at the Zoo, my favourite animal was the seals. They were playing in the water.

— Pansy Qu My favourite moment in Year 3 was being in lockdown and our Zoom lessons, especially Maths. I loved learning about fractions through our virtual lessons. I loved also having break times because I could make things like paper aeroplanes from our home learning menu.

— Luna Wu My favourite moment in Year 3 was the Swimming Carnival. I loved cheering my friends on and having fun in the water. I also loved Camp. I liked sleeping in my sleeping bag and getting cosy as well as watching the movie, “Tangled”, before bed.

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Our favourite moments in Year 3

YEAR 2 & 3 | 2JAE | 3MAA

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3STV In Year 3 Class 3STV loved...

Camp was exciting because we got to sleep in the classroom... because it is where we do all our learning and it was cool to be here at night.

— Bowie Camp was also my favourite part of this year because it was fun! After being in lockdown, we had so much to explore and I’m so thankful we got to go.

— Hailey

BACK ROW: Kayla Fitchett, Hailey Ko, Annie Zhang, Bowie Adding, Raya Dinesh, Molly Burt, Alice Feng, Miss Elizabeth Stevens (Teacher) SECOND ROW: Zara Reddy, Talitha Mitchell, Olivia Webster, Elisa Xin, Harriet Glenie, Lyndsey Ma, Alira Patel FRONT ROW: Miaomiao Zhong Zhang, Kennedy Campbell, Gladys Hou, Nora Qu, Christina Yeou, Mia Pan, Ana Li ABSENT: Aimee Gill

Spending time with my teacher and all my new friends. We did some amazing Art; my Australian finger painting was my favourite because I love animals and it was interesting to try a new way of painting.

— Kennedy I loved seeing my teacher and going to Camp...

Exploring the Zoo was great and I loved seeing all the animals. Sleeping in the classroom was fun too.

— Ana I loved seeing lots of animals at the Zoo when we went to camp... the red pandas were hiding in their cosy little house..

— Molly I liked Camp because I loved exploring the meerkat tunnels at the Zoo. I learned lots from the turtles!

— Raya My favourite part of Year 3 was Maths... I loved learning lots of new things and working on challenging problems in my classroom.

— Alice I have made amazing friends.

— Samantha T Camp! It was the first time I slept at school and it made me feel excited — Aimee Camp was my favourite because we got to sleepover in the classroom. We got to have a new experience that made Year 3 special.

— Harriet Creating our sleeping bag art – because it was fun to design our own sleeping bag and writing about Camp — Gladys Going to Camp! I think it might be cool to maybe be a Zookeeper, so it was a great experience to see the animals.

— Lyndsey Creating the Australian art... getting my fingers covered in paint was fun... it felt slimy and gooey!

— Talitha

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4HAR had a total ‘blast’. We cooked, created art, did science experiments, discussed history and politics which Bella, Annie, Emily and Katie especially enjoyed and discovered the land of squelchy mud at Camp Adair. We are girls who are kind, positive, confident, persevere, take risks in learning and are happy to be ourselves.

Here are our top 2020 moments.

BACK ROW: Katie Potter, Isabella Zhong Zhang, Olivia Andrews, Seraphina Som aratne, Emily Zhan SECOND ROW: Vicky Hacket Pain (Teacher), Nichole Mayer (Teacher), Leonie Grayston, Carmen O’Neill, Fiona Wang, Iris Wen, Sylvie Haldane, Ms Lynda Harris (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Chloe Cheng, Abigail Zhu, Mandy Feng, Annie Wang, Bella Guthrie, Alicia Li, Holly Ip ABSENT: Emily Wang

COVID-19 came and changed many things.

With a positive growth mindset, we were determined to surf the Corona wave and keep learning. Zoom, let us fly to another person’s screen and gaze into another world like the Moa that roamed NZ long ago with our virtual trip to Auckland Museum, or create bands and plays in the breakout rooms.

We had a beautiful surprise, tiny little chick filled eggs were in our classroom! A webcam was set up so the school could also watch the chicks hatch. The first adorable chick popped out called Taco and afterwards came fluffy chaos as the eggs started to hatch. Soon we were all holding warm bundles of cuteness.

“It’s amazing!” said, the girls as they gazed up at a gigantic mountain of sugar inside the Chelsea Sugar Factory. A million wonderful fragrances swirled around us like an aurora of deliciousness as we stepped into the kitchen to bake cookies and left eating our scrumptious delights.

Singing, “Oh no he’s got my toe!” around the flickering flames of the bonfire and toasting yummy marshmallows at Camp Adair was awesome! The most challenging activity was sloshing through ponds of cold mud, crawling under nets and swinging on tyres, monkey style, across deep muddy pools to finish the confidence course covered in disgusting mud which Sylvie and others loved!

With ‘By Love Serve’ in mind, we wanted other children to also come and experience camp but knew that some kids couldn’t afford it. The idea of a “Treasure chest” was created and soon overflowed with gear thanks to Junior School support which the Y.M.C.A appreciated.

Our class had many amazing experiences which came with new knowledge wrapped up in a bow of joy and friendship!

— Written by the talented 4HAR Girls 2020

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Hello, Kia ora, Ni hao,

YEAR 3 & 4 | 3STV | 4HAR

4HAR

4TYL At the beginning of the year, we all had mixed emotions and thoughts swirling around our heads. Some people were really excited, some were nervous and some were a mixture of both.

However we were all looking forward to having a great year with Miss Tyler.

BACK ROW: Nichole Mayer (Teacher), Chloe Lu, Samantha Thomson, Yiyi Tao, Hope Wang, Chloe Zhang SECOND ROW: Vicky Hacket Pain (Teacher), Nalani Tuhoe, Miri Harrison, Mila Firth, Ashley Mi, Olivia Lambie, Lyvia Sun, Miss Jacqui Tyler (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Iris Dun, Meera Thayalan, Aashna Sidhu-Brar, Hannah Warren, Lila Dilly, Gracie Xu, Hannah Yun ABSENT: Katie Xie

In the first term, our Art project was the ‘By Love Serve’ collage. Everyone had to do a letter and each letter had an amazing colour. After a few weeks in Term 1, we quickly went into lockdown and had online Zoom School. One thing that we really focused on in lockdown was measurement. We even made a one-metre ruler to measure things!

We also did lots of different tasks related to ‘The BFG’ book and listened to the audio. In Term 2, we started in lockdown but we were so happy when we went back to School! Then we prepared for Cross Country. We spent the morning at the fields. It was so fun but tiring. Next was our Samoan art. We put a lot of effort in and when we finished it looked amazing. Then it was the bake sale. There was a prize – the class with the most entries would get a pizza lunch. Lots of 4TYL girls entered and we won... THE PIZZA LUNCH! It was DELICIOUS! In Term 3, we had a surprise lockdown.

Luckily it only lasted a few weeks and a very exciting trip was awaiting us. In preparation for our trip to the Chelsea Sugar Factory we learnt about where sugar is found. Everyone got to do exciting activities. Part way through Term 3, we received 10 chick eggs. We put them in an incubator and they hatched! We were so excited and played with them every day. Four lucky people got to adopt and take them home. In Term 4, we went to Camp Adair.

We did lots of interesting and fun activities at camp and learned lots of challenging stuff we hadn’t done previously. The activities included the Flying Kiwi, the Confidence Course, and Kayaking. There was even a 50% chance of sleeping on the top bunk of the bunk bed!

Everyone had a wonderful time at camp. Back at School, we got to read ‘Wayside School: Beneath the Cloud of Doom!’ Everyone loved the book, activities, and we worked really hard.

It has been a weird year with COVID-19 and lockdowns happening, but 4TYL persevered and we all made new friends and have lots of special memories. We will miss Miss Tyler, Mrs Mayer and Mrs Hacket Pain. 4TYL’s highlights of the year were going on Camp, going into the great outdoors and gaining more confidence.

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2020 has been like the windiest road in the world and COVID-19 made it hard for our learning, but we pushed through it together and conquered the land of Zoom! Back in the classroom some of our highlights included designing siapo patterns, dyeing our New Zealand Landscape Art, creating fraction fish and our study of the novel, ‘Wayside School: Under the Cloud of Doom!’.

BACK ROW: Nichole Mayer (Teacher), Iris Zhou, Isabel Mahon, Kate Xu, Lucia Yoon, Lexi Liu SECOND ROW: Vicky Hacket Pain (Teacher), Sophia Zhang, Molly Atkins, Jessica Yeoman, Indi Rowe, Isla Mitchell, Anna Xu, Joanna Wells (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Hazel Lo, Billie Wild, Nicolee Fernando, Bella Wang, Ariel Su, Georgia Mollison, Sophia Gong

Art was fun this year and we worked on a number of different pieces. We created traditional Samoan siapo patterns which are made up of repeating patterns in the shapes of trees, mountains and lines. When making our New Zealand landscape, rainbow colours were used to create a tranquil view of our beautiful country.

We learned that the difficulty of the art depends on you. If you draw basic outlines then the art will be simple, but if you are very careful to add more detail then your art will be very effective. In Term 4, it was fun designing our own creative fraction fish decorating them with colourful, shiny scales.

They were painted them with bright brilliant colours and they were beautiful.

Have you ever seen a cloud that was about to explode, or even suck up an umbrella? We have been reading ‘Wayside School: Under the Cloud of Doom!’, by Louis Sachar. Wayside School is such an interesting novel. It was enjoyable completing some activities related to Wayside School, including inventing how to cure the hiccups, writing recipes for rainbow stew and creating an iMovie trailer about the story.

We set off on an adventure to the Chelsea Sugar Factory. Inside the factory there was a huge pile of sugar that was taller than a house and we got to make delicious chocolate chip cookies. The train ride took us around all the buildings and the guide told us all about the process of how sugar is made. At the end of our tour the group got to taste all the variety of syrups including vanilla, caramel and butterscotch.

One of our best experiences was going to Camp Adair because it was so muddy. On the confidence course, some of us dove into the mud one by one like penguins while others swung across like monkeys. Another great memory was the mudslide. Everyone flew down one by one, weeee! Rushing up the side, we couldn’t wait to do it all over again. At night, there was a campfire and we roasted marshmallows. Amongst the giant trees surrounding us appeared a two-headed monster (which was clearly Paul and Joe – our instructors) and they made up silly songs making us laugh. The darker the night became, the more creepy crawlies and fire flies came out. Camp was so much fun and it was our favourite thing this year!

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YEAR 4 | 4TYL | 4WEL

JUNIOR SCHOOL

4WEL

5HAD

BACK ROW: Yeih Seol, Ava Burt, Coco Alpe, Jessica Thomson, Alice Li, Bella Chen SECOND ROW: Arya Dixit, Zala Prasnikar, Tanya Li, Alyssa Yuan, Mariana Somaratne, Ms Laura Hadfield (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Freida Coote, Micayla Lin, Coco Cutfield, Joyce Liu, Sophie Qu, Olivia Liu ABSENT: Esmeralda Sinclair

Ahhhhhhhhh! It’s lockdown! There was so much shouting, talking about how they were stuck at home and they would miss their friends way too much! Miss Hadfield managed to console most of us and so we started our first day of online learning! Our class has really enjoyed spending time with our families and doing arts and crafts with our wonderful teacher, though we didn’t enjoy not seeing our friends in person or our teacher. One thing we learnt was new subjects and things in Maths, Reading, and PEACE. We tried really hard to make lockdown fun. But one major achievement was learning how to navigate better on zoom, google drive and email. The other things on online learning, apart from lessons with Miss Hadfield, were the whole Year 5 cohort doing PE, Music, and French together. We also did International Dress Day online when we were all dressed up as a different culture. It was so much fun seeing all our friends in different costumes. We also PREPARED to go back to school which we were very very happy to do. In the end we had a lot of fun, but there was one very important rule we had learnt – stay healthy, stay safe!

— Bella Chen, Coco Cutfield, Tanya Li, Joyce Liu, Olivia Liu and Alyssa Yuan (5HAD) Splash! Oh no, I’ve stepped in a puddle already, oh look what I’ve found a little hermit crab! “ “I’m holding a crab!” I climbed onto a rock.

“Ahhhhh!” Trembling, I put on another crate.

The cold sea wind blew and made my crate tower shake. I freaked out. Another crate came up from my buddy as I heard voices coming from down below saying “You can do it!” “Keep going!’ As I heard encouragement from my team, I knew that I could do it.

The gentle ocean breeze brushed past me, softly swishing the planks of wood that my buddy and I climbed over. Each plank of wood grew further apart, each step was more difficult than the last. We struggled to get to the top. As our team cheered us on, we helped each other climb up; soon we were at the top.

We cautiously floated down, and soon we were on the ground again.

Ping, the arrow hit the mark! I couldn’t believe it, I hit the bull’s eye. Archery was so much fun.

Three people hit the bull’s eye.

A huge wave, my body shivered as my surfboard flipped “Ouch!” I mumbled. At one point Ava and Lilah and I all caught a wave at the same time; it was awesome.

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5HAE Camp Camp was fun, with the glistening sun Each day we did an activity, one was surfing, and we were also learning We had fun with the stack-em tower, we stayed at the beach for many hours

At night we watched a movie, and some of the music was quite groovy Camp was the best, it was a big success

BACK ROW: Mr Jamie Witlock (Teacher), Isabella Clarke, Amy Tang, Aidi Li, Sherine Chen, Sophie Webster SECOND ROW: Isla Thompson, Ava Schaumkel, Sophie Qu, Charlotte Bruford, Lillian Tang, Ms Melissa Hayes (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Bella Deng, Nicole Zhang, Teresa Sun, Leila Roosen, Aveia Renault-Pollard, Elsa Chen ABSENT: Abby Ma

It was the end of camp, oh dear oh dear, but at least I overcame my fear

— Ava S, Sherine C, Sophie Q, Aveia RP, Abby M and Teresa S

Stay Home Home learning is fun we enjoyed it a ton Spotty day pink and yellow day, Lockdown made things slow down a fun kind of way Creations were made and worries started to fade Locked up tight we got a little fright Siblings fighting and dogs are biting The air is at it’s best and we’re getting more rest We’re not allowed in the mall It’s like a big brick wall As the keys are clicking the clocks are ticking Back on Zoom And the flowers start to bloom lockdown is over And we’re out of our enclosure

— Leila, Sophie W, Bella, Charlotte, and Nicole

Preservation Poem Preservation, Conservation, Presentation of our nation!

Stop deforestation, No hesitation Let’s make a potion of devotion, And that potion will help our ocean!

The Earth is ours to embrace, So we must not leave a trace!

GO...Preservation!

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YEAR 5 | 5HAD | 5HAE

We had biscuits for tea, and dinner with peas

5KNI In Week 9 of Term 1, an unexpected lockdown happened. We had to stay home and for the first time learning was through Zoom and StCuth’s@home! The home learning work got easier and we had no homework and, we got to wear Mufti every day! But there were some downsides;, for example, we weren’t allowed to connect with friends, except for Zoom, of course. But apart from that, it was really fun especially lunch! From a different angle it was actually a blessing in disguise, because as we stayed at home, there was less pollution in the world! And, at home, we could spend more time with our family. In conclusion, we think that home learning was the best thing ever.

— Maya, Anya, Olivia, Scarlett and Peng Ming

BACK ROW: Scarlett Harvey, Maya Sheikh, Ava Hua, Peng Ming Qu, Anya Patel SECOND ROW: Claudia Milne, Adele Zhou, Zoe Yuan, Olivia Storey, Celine Liu, Mrs Leigh Knight (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Thea Yi, Isabelle Qu, Lilah McDonald, Tara Murphy, Annie Han, Cedar Adding

In Week 3 of Term 4, we finally got to go to Camp. It was very exciting. After we arrived, we started our activities. It was exhaustingly tiring. We were put into our groups. First off was surfing. We caught many big waves but fell off our boards, a lot. Archery came next.

Everyone was striving to hit the bullseye. Each turn we got three shots. The mosquitoes were flying everywhere. The Giant’s Ladder was extremely high. Many people got scared. You would climb up the ladder and frog-hop down.

As it got higher, each rung became further apart. Four people were attached to your harness and moved back as you climbed up.

Mountain biking was where we went on a bike ride around the park. We all had fun and learned good skills

— Claudia, Ava, Annie, Tara and Lilah At the start of Term 3, we learned about preserving Antarctica. We had a lovely visitor, Mark Stewart, a member of the Antarctica Heritage Trust. He talked about Antarctica and how Global Warming is affecting it.

He showed us photos of explorers and huts which people built, how they preserved them and what was inside. Towards the end of Term 3, we started writing our speeches.

These were about certain places and animals that needed protecting.

We presented our speeches towards the end of Term 3. We also drew art works about preserving nature and finished it over two terms. In Term 4, before we went to camp, we had a visitor called Sara Kulins.

She talked about respecting marine life.

She showed us the wonders of the ocean, how people are polluting the ocean and how it’s affecting the animals in the ocean and our life on land. She told us about the rocky shore and about what would be at our camp.

This year has been fun and exciting.

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BACK ROW: Lilian Qiu, Samantha Sutherland, Jessica Wang, Fulina Fu, Christabella Amos Hourigan, Sienna Cutfield SECOND ROW: Adora Zhang, Cynthia Yang, Anemone Morgan, Jackie Xu, Angela Wei, Molly Manson, Amy Blanchard (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Adeline Iverson, Mae-Li Darroch, Harriet Bell, Lila Weenink, Mei Peacock, Linda Fang ABSENT: Lucy Gill

Our Term 2 topic was ‘Why is New Zealand called a ‘melting pot’ of cultures?’ As this term started in lockdown, we got to host a dinner party which was themed on a culture of our choice. We interviewed people in our family to find out where our ancestors came from, and how they came to be in New Zealand today.

Due to the second lockdown, our camp was cancelled so we had to experience it online. During ‘camp lockdown’ we revisited the topic of resilience and developed our understanding of collaboration. The few days were filled with nature-themed activities, like making beautiful mandalas using plants and flowers, and we were even asked to construct a solar oven to bake our s’mores in. We wore our screen-printed camp t-shirts and the teachers made a wonderful video of camp lockdown, so overall it was a delightful experience.

The Wonder Project – Rocket Challenge was our fun creative project for Term 3. It included creating, launching and learning about rockets with the help of our three ambassadors: Amy, Kate and Nidhi. We discovered who Sir Isaac Newton was and how his three laws of motion work. We learned from our mistakes many times and kept on trying until we had a successful rocket launch.

With the 2020 elections, our Term 4 topic was ‘Have your say’. We learned about voting, rules, laws and how decisions are made.

We also worked hard towards our Year 6 Graduation. The ‘shoot for the stars’ theme was revealed during the chapel launch, and on Thursday 5 November, the Graduation took place in Clouston Hall. The event was very grand and all girls had a wonderful time.

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One of our favourite parts of 2020 was Leadership Day at the start of Term 1.

We learned to work together as a team, experience new things and make lots of new friends. During Term 1, our topic was resilience where we learned what resilience means and how it can benefit our well-being. We enjoyed the speaker series where a few different visitors shared their understanding of resilience.

The understanding gained from this supported us during lockdown when we needed to demonstrate perseverance and flexibility towards online learning and the situation we all faced. We also created superhero animations on our iPads to demonstrate how resilience could help during difficult situations.

YEAR 5 & 6 | 5KNI | 6BLN

6BLN

6IRE Wow what a year, what can we say!

Our learning in 2020 has been an adventure never to be forgotten.

In Term 1, our focus was resilience and how it benefits our wellbeing. We had to show our resilience during both lockdowns, thanks to jolly COVID-19! We showed resilience by persevering when times were tough.

BACK ROW: Yanni Zhang, Ruby Kristensen, Olivia Lindon, Amber Zhou, Anh Kim Nguyen, Eliza Zhan, Rachel Wight SECOND ROW: Bonnie McCarrison, Ella Vickers, Angela Hsu, Lucy Wright, Aimee Bradley, Sophie Sun, Ms Shelley Ireton (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Xolaris Anushan, Sascha Newland, Aisha Mitha, Michelle Sun, Lily Darby, Imogen Gifford-Maposua, Talia Gluckman

This especially was useful when Camp was postponed in Term 2, and then cancelled again during lockdown 2! Fortunately, Camp went ahead as our wonderful teachers came up with a splendid solution, an online Camp! The teachers created a virtual camping experience in which we got to make pancakes, solar ovens, forts, colourful mandalas and to wear our camp t-shirts which were designed in Term 1.

In Term 2, we went back to generations before, to discover our ancestors’ cultural history. We learned who we are and where we come from.

This was also known as our melting pot, where we embraced our cultural diversities. We made a special book using book creator, to showcase our learning about our families and our history.

We learned that our families are actually very interesting and that everyone’s cultures are different.

Zoom! Zoom! back into lockdown. Up at 8.30am dressed in the theme for the day.

The appearance of COVID-19 again put our Wonder Project on pause and it didn’t lift-off till we were out of lockdown and back at School. Our ambassador, Kate, led us through our rocket journey. We learned about Sir Isaac Newton’s three Laws of Motion as well how to design, build and launch our very own water rocket. After many attempts our rockets were finally launched successfully.

The Graduation was nearing and we prepared items in groups to present to our parents.

It was a phenomenal evening which we all thoroughly enjoyed. The theme was ‘Shoot For The Stars’, which was very apt, because this year certainly taught us to be resilient, as we try and shine bright like a diamond, being ‘the very best’ that we can always be.

Year 6 has been a rollercoaster year that will never be forgotten. It has had challenges that have been beyond imaginable, yet we have been resilient, had fun along the way and are now ready to blast our way over into Year 7.

— Class of 6IRE

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In Term 1 we were learning about resilience.

COVID-19 tested our learning around resilience and created a few ‘bumps in the road’ for the learning journey we were expecting. We soon learned how to work together online and use a new variety of technology overnight!

BACK ROW: Tiffany Ye, Georgia Wilcox, Meg Fowler, Rosabelle Penaflorida, Zara Sharp, Emma Zheng, Peony Westwood SECOND ROW: Ava Kennedy-Grant, Melody Ding, Valentina Hania, Aamani Patel, Amélie Jarvis, Meher Randhawa, Mrs Stacey Pinique (Teacher) FRONT ROW: Claire Dun, Sienna Lala, Amy Glengarry, Sonia Reddy, Alesha Mehta, Rose Larmer, Ranmeng Yang

Term 2 began in lockdown. We celebrated ANZAC day at dawn at our letterboxes, made biscuits, poppies and lanterns.

We were supposed to have our camp in May, but COVID-19 said “no”. The focus question for the term was “How did New Zealand become known as a Melting Pot of Cultures?”

We interviewed our family members, dug out old photos and discovered family stories; researched foods from other cultures and hosted amazing dinner parties and retold traditional stories.

Our Term 3 focus was The Wonder Project. We designed, tested, re-designed and launched rockets, collaborating with class and group members. We discovered Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion and the science behind launching a rocket.

During library, Mrs Elisara gave us a book called “Pom-pom Mania”, which developed a passion for our class of making pom poms.

At the end of the term, we collectively decided to make a pom pom wreath for the door.

Term 4 was SUPER busy and flew by while preparing for our graduation. It was an exhilarating night and the theme was even more bewildering and breathtaking as it was ‘Shooting for the Stars.’ Even though 2020 was disorderly, we all coped and it has become one of the most significant and special years for our class.

— The magnificent team of 6PIN.

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6PIN is a creative and fun-loving, lively class. We have a mix of girls with amazing skills and talents and we all work together and can overcome any challenge. We love art, strive to do our best, look after each other and most importantly, love coming to school every day. We are a keen, enthusiastic and polite class. This year has been like no other, travel plans cancelled, learning from home and a need for us to develop our independence very quickly.

YEAR 6 | 6IRE | 6PIN

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Prize Giving

Principal’s Honours

Academic Awards 3MAA

5HAE

Academic Excellence Lydia Tang Academic Diligence Ngoc Bao Van Nguyen and Cate Power

Academic Excellence Lillian Tang Academic Diligence Sophie Webster and Amy Tang

3STV

5KNI

Academic Excellence Alice Feng Academic Diligence Kennedy Campbell and Olivia Webster

Academic Excellence Guangxi Zhou Academic Diligence Lilah McDonald and Shuang Zi Han

2FSH Samiya Liu and Lucy Burton

4HAR

6BLN

3STV Jing Yi Li and Nuoyan Qu

Academic Excellence Jing Yao Wang Academic Diligence Katherine Potter and Isabella Guthrie

Academic Excellence Anqi Wei Academic Diligence Mei Peacock and Anemone Morgan

4HAR Leonie Grayston & Ka Yee Li

4TYL

6IRE

5HAD Micayla Lin and Yeih Seol

Academic Excellence Meera Thayalan Academic Diligence Katelyn Xie and Lila Dilly

Academic Excellence Amber Zhou Academic Diligence Sophie Sun and Rachel Wight

5KNI Ava Hua and Isabelle Qu

4WEL

6PIN

Academic Excellence Alexia Liu and Lucia Yoon Academic Diligence Pak Shun Lo and Jessica Yeoman

Academic Excellence Meher Randhawa Academic Diligence Alesha Mehta and Sonia Reddy

5HAD Academic Excellence Jingze Li Academic Diligence Mariana Somaratne and Coco Cutfield

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0ABR Nadia Sheikh and Josephina Somaratne 0ING Veronica Sia Russell-Park and Huitau Kaufusi 1BOY Monica Wang and Sophia Xu 1MER Melissa Wang and Saffron Heppner

2JAE Olivia Taylor and Amelia Huang 3MAA Jocelyn Ke and Melody Lian

4TYL Hannah Yun and Zihan Tao 4WEL Bella Wang and Kate Xu

5HAE Leila Roosen and Sophie Qu

6BLN Harriet Bell, Adeline Iverson and Linda Fang 6IRE Lily Darby, Aisha Mitha and Michelle Sun 6PIN Meg Fowler, Rose Larmer and Valentina Hania

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Sports Results

Special Awards

House Awards

Year 4

Presented by Head Girl Ruby Sussock

Athletics Leonie Grayston

Junior School Speech Cup

Work Cup Dunblane

Swimming Hope Wang

Junior School Sports Cup

Year 5

Awarded for Year 6 Outstanding Achievement in Sport Olivia Lindon

Athletics Charlotte Bruford and Aveia Renault-Pollard Cross Country Aveia Renault-Pollard Swimming Sophie Qu

Year 6 Athletics Jackie Xu

Junior School Music Cup Awarded for Outstanding Achievement in Music Si Yue Zheng

Sir Peter Blake Young Leaders’ Award Awarded for Leadership Samantha Sutherland

Cross Country Aimee Bradley

Remuera Lions Club Junior Citizenship Award

Swimming Jackie Xu

Awarded for Citizenship Imogen Gifford-Maposua

Sport – Vera Fowler Cup Kelso

PRIZE GIVING

Cross Country Hope Wang

Awarded for Outstanding Achievement in Speech Bonnie McCarrison

Champion House Kelso

Parents and Friends’ Awards Leadership, Fellowship and Service in Year 6 Cynthia Yang, Lucy Gill, Lucy Wright, Ella Vickers, Amélie Jarvis and Ava Kennedy-Grante

Junior School Merit Cup Awarded for Citizenship and All Round Excellence Bonnie McCarrison and Jackie Xu

Old Girls’ Association Cup Awarded for kindness ‘By Love Serve’ Zara Sharp

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(Year 13), Hayley Minturn (Year 12), Sophie Monks (Year 13), Noor Randhawa (Year 13) and Chloe Tattersfield (Year 13). The Duke of Edinburgh Award is a global education framework, challenging young people from 14-24 years old to dream big and discover their potential by creating opportunities for students to learn a new skill, get physically active, give service to their communities, and take part in an adventure. The Award challenges students to leave their comfort zones—as that's when the good stuff happens! This in turn helps students build self-confidence, greater resilience, and sets them up for success.

It’s hard to find another adjective to describe 2020. Personally, I like “unprecedented” even though it’s now rather worn. The fact is that the response by our St Cuthbert’s girls has been all the more laudable because they had no more chance to prepare for the year of COVID-19 than anyone else, yet have flown through with qualifications and emotions intact.

The creative ways that the girls kept in touch, raising sagging morale and inspiring to keep at their studies were impressive. 'Talking Tartan’ was our own community’s way of keeping in touch. Also, our 2020 Head Girl, Ruby, and her team made an inspirational video, along with the other Auckland prefects, which was played to the participating schools. It made us laugh and made us cry a little too, at the sheer goodness of these positive young people.

I have felt most for the girls whose homes are overseas, whether they be International students or New Zealanders whose families live overseas. Many of them have had to stay here without family members all year and will remain here over the summer. Having said that, the caregivers are great, providing tremendous hospitality. Many take the girls around the country, visiting our beautiful scenery and experiencing Kiwi culture at its best.

Although many activities could not go ahead as usual, some could. In fact, for those doing the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme, it was a golden year, with ten girls in Years 12 and 13, receiving the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award: Harriet Cook (Year 13), Rachel Denny (Year 13), Ella Greenwood (Year 13), Olivia Haskell (Year 13), Charlotte Matthews

Three of our Young Enterprise Teams reached the Central Auckland Regional Awards for Young Enterprise – two competing for the Central Auckland Regional Team of the Year and all three teams winning an Excellence Award. 'Talsh Hoodies' received Excellence in Communication, 'Koa & Co' received Excellence in Promotion and the Paying it Forward Award went to 'You and i'. Overall in the Company of the Year Awards, 'You and i' came first, with second place going to 'Koa & Co'. The winning team ''You and i' are now off to Wellington to pitch to the judges in the National Finals.

The Orienteering team had a wonderful time racing at the North Island Secondary School Orienteering Championships – our first school event since March and you can read more about their success in the Sports section of this Chronicle.

Although the New Zealand tournament for Secondary Schools’ Hockey could not take place, our First Eleven Hockey team played in the Upper North Island Secondary Schools Hockey Tournament. The tournament hosted eight Division 1 teams and we won!

During the tournament, the team played and won 1-0 against Whangarei Girls High, beat Rangitoto College 8-0 and drew with St Kentigern’s 2-all. The team qualified top of their pool playing Westlake in the semi final.

At full time it was 2-all, so penalty shootouts were taken with St Cuthbert's achieving a 5-4 win. In the final, the team again played Whangarei Girls who had just beaten Dio 1-0 to reach the final. St Cuthbert’s came away with a resounding 3-0 win, winning the title of Upper North Island Hockey Champions,

so received a trophy and medals. More than their great ability on hockey, though, was their sporting attitude and I was delighted that many spectators commented on how impressed they were with the team’s inclusiveness, respect, enthusiasm and positivity.

St Cuthbert's excelled at this year’s SGCNZ Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival, which was held as a virtual event for the first time. Grace Mora (Year 13) has been selected from thousands around the country to go to the London Globe in 2021 (COVID-19 permitting) as part of the SGCNZ 2021 Young Shakespeare Company. Earlier this year Grace was announced as the supreme winner of the SGCNZ/Morrison Music Trust National Shakespeare Music Composition Competition.

She was then chosen as one of 44 students for the National Shakespeare school as the composer in September, from which 24 were selected to go to the Globe next year. This is a tremendous achievement and an authentic accolade for her ability as a composer. You can read more about the successes in the Performing Arts section.

Of course, at the end of a year, inevitably we say farewell to some of our staff as they retire or move to different positions. Mrs Merelyn Ford has been the Dean of Melrose for many years.

Wise, active and compassionate, Mrs Ford was a wonderful support to her girls and will be sorely missed. We wish her many sunny and relaxing times at her beach house and a happy retirement. Mrs Heather Roberts came to us from the IT industry and has delivered expertise in teaching Social Studies and Geography for four years. She now would like to devote more time to her own children and there can be no higher calling, so we wish her well. We wish Ms Jessica Tan all the best she moves to her beautiful lifestyle section. After seven years of quiet and effective leadership as Head of Chinese Language, she is retiring to spend time with family and grow more of the magnificent vegetables she so often shares with the faculty.

— Fiona Cottam, Head of Senior School, Deputy Principal

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HEAD'S REPORT

SENIOR SCHOOL

SENIOR SCHOOL

YEAR 7

Homeroom

7MCN

Real Friends In Term 2 for English, 7MCN started studying graphic novels. We studied ‘Real Friends’, which was based on the life of the author Shannon Hale. This is about the stages of friendship a girl named Shannon experiences during Primary School. The book describes how Shannon is the middle child from a family of five who feels left out. The book recounts how her best friend leaves the school then comes back and becomes best friends with the popular girl! It also reveals how another girl makes up rumours about Shannon which makes her life miserable. The book dramatically elaborates real-life situations which we do not acknowledge very often.

The task our class had was to create our own graphic novel scene based on ‘Real Friends’.

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We had the choice to create a Prequel scene • Sequel scene • Alternative scene • Missing scene • or draw a scene from a different character’s point of view We also had to think about visual, verbal and structural language features, symbolism, foreground, mid-ground, background, camera angles and shots/framing.

For verbal language features, we had to think about speech balloons, thought balloons, captions, onomatopoeia, exclamation and font.

For structural language features we were given frame, panel, splash, bleed and gutter to think

about. We studied these language features in class, pointing them out when we spotted them in the book.

As a fun way to finish off the topic of graphic novels we were given characters and we decided to do a role-play. We went in groups and were interviewed by the class. The class would ask the interviewees questions about the characters who we were role-playing and we would have to answer how we thought the characters would express themselves.

This was by far the most enjoyable topic we have had for English.

— Linaya Karunatillake.

SENIOR SCHOOL

7PSN Ode to PSN O PSN, class of 24 friends.

These lines tell a tale of class fun and games.

YEAR 7 HOMEROOM

Ode to PSN’s Cookie Challenge, the end-of-term biscuit game.

O choice between mint or caramel cookie treats The melting chocolate marking twitching cheeks to contest the five second record O success, O sugary reward.

Ode to PSN’s iPads, O enticing screens, desired so, that the request ‘screens down’ causes woe.

With GIFs found and shared And the funny, stupid games O we hope that these will expand our brains.

Ode to PSN’s lunchtime UNO, O UNO game that some enjoy The loud players and the quiet surveyors.

O ripped card that two hands fought upon So that all their cards would be gone O wild card, you creator of wild fun.

So the ode to PSN’s drama comes to an end, Capturing 2020’s good and bad.

The shared misery of ‘screens down’ and topic tests, The bonding happiness of brain snacks and fun contests.

O PSN, class of 24 friends.

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YEAR 7

Homeroom

7VCM

7VCM in a metaphor.

We are….

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A hot chocolate with marshmallows.

10. The laughter to the smile.

19. The brightest star in the night sky.

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The sunshine on a stormy day.

11. The Shaun to my sheep.

20. A bomb on a motionless train.

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The chocolate chips on a muffin.

12. The sprinkles on the ice cream.

21. Air conditioning on a hot day.

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A zoo full of wild animals.

13. The toppings to a pizza.

22. A delightful dream to my sleep.

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A rainbow on a rainy day.

14. The shells on a beach.

23. A shooting star in a midnight sky.

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A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

15. The cure to the COVID.

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The presents on Christmas morning.

16. A cupcake with extra sprinkles.

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A shelter on a rainy day.

17. A bridge with a crack.

9.

The speedos on Rickle the Pickle.

18. An ice-cream in summer.

— Amy, Sasha, Samaiya, Ananrita, Kendra, Sienna, Sofia, Olivia, Violet, Angeline, Julia, Yiwen, Tyleah , Reyah, Imogen, Danica, Henrietta, Evee, Lia, Elma, Isabella and Selina.

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SENIOR SCHOOL

7VUJ A Poem by 7VUJ

YEAR 7 HOMEROOM

A lways having fun together – Emily B onding, belonging and being together – Mp C ough cough, COVID-19, stay away from me!

– Jess D ead brains from all the homework – Esmee E veryone is making friends – Kate F ellow students fabulous wearable arts – Chloe G reatly amusing year – Dora H as been a spectacular year – Yahan I came and I saw this year has been like no other – Christine J ust saying this class is amazing – Amber K ahoots bring out our competitive side – Holly L ively, unique and different – April M y class is filled with all sorts of amusements – Helen N obody is left out and everyone is kind – Willa O nly saying, everyone in this class is crazy smart – Eva P eople in 7VUJ laugh like crazy!

– Anita Q uote :) – Isi R ad class this year – Payten S omeday we'll look back on this year and just laugh – Yulia T he best class is 7VUJ!!!

– Chang U seful hands, ready to help – Jecholeah V ersatile class always – Natalie W onderful place to be – Elizabeth X tra amazing class with unlimited jokes – Helen Y 7VUJ is the best class, no doubts about that – Christine Z ooming each other has come to an end, so now we’re all together again!

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YEAR 7

Homeroom 7WLS Haiku Running, it starts chasing A butterfly. It leaps, Barely missing the target —Luie Townsend Reaching to the sky Covering me from the sun Leafy green forest —Anjali Deva Cherry blossoms Falling gracefully A pond of pink —Victoria Zeng Stealthily crouching He detects a rabbit The sly fox has his dinner —Xanthe Hanning Turquoise eyes flashing Sleek body moving through grass On soft padded paws —Louise Molon-Noblet

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7WLS

SENIOR SCHOOL

7WIT Class Captains of 7WIT

Paragraph writers Proof-reading reminders Freddo Frog fighters Team of high fliers

Sporty supporters Poetry authors Camp quiz winners Cheeky beak visitors

‘Wisdom’ speech presenters ‘Real Friends’ hot-seaters Volcano researchers Korowai believers

Graphic novel illustrators Clay manipulators Māori artefact makers Cake decorators

PowerPoint interactors Inside lunch chatterers Friendly competitors Groupwork collaborators

Relay race winners Māori game singers Fun and laughter bringers Stick pickers

Whiteboard stainers ILT saviours Pou pou painters Wall sign-makers

Digital portrait producers Mysterious lockdown mutterers Pancake-making bloopers Reading Adventure troupers

Not-so silent-ball players PE bag bangers Talented debaters Printing hasslers

We’ve made a lot of memories The type we’ll always treasure The friendships made in 7WIT Are ones we’ll keep forever!

Our hearts skipped a beat when our names were announced as Class Captains. We couldn’t wait to share our knowledge and leadership with the girls of 7WIT. As Class Captains, we learnt many things about leadership which we will value for a long time.

We led 7WIT with compassion, empathy and integrity, which are just some of the many ‘By Love Serve’ values of our College. We would like to thank all our classmates for this challenging and special opportunity to lead them.

— Emily Martin, Bianca Brdanovic, Lilli Reid and Scarlett Foster-McAuliffe

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YEAR 7 HOMEROOM

7WIT Memory Makers

HOUSE Reports

Dunblane What an incredible year it has been to lead Dunblane House! We’ve absolutely loved strengthening our House ties and continuing to be tough competitors this year, and despite setbacks, it’s been amazing to see our Dunblanians strive to their personal best in all aspects of the College.

What started off as a normal year, quickly changed as we moved into online learning and uncertain times. Whilst this could have posed a challenge, Dunblane fully embraced the opportunity to be resilient and have a positive attitude to make this year not only full of fun, but memorable too. The way our girls were able to stay connected and responsible for their learning at home is certainly a reflection of the strong students that Dunblane has always had!

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Something that was really exciting during lockdown was the Big Sister Little Sister project that the Prefect team set up. During this project, Year 13 Dunblane students were partnered up with Year 7 Dunblane students, and the pairs could connect online and chat about what they were getting up to during lockdown. This reminded us all of the importance of taking the opportunity of lockdown to slow down and be present with ourselves and our families.

Our tutor leaders and tutor teachers were also huge pillars of support in keeping Dunblane connected, particularly through our weekly online ‘tutor class’.

We have been incredibly lucky to have had 3 school terms, where Dunblane was able

SENIOR SCHOOL Wearable Arts fostered a chance for the tutor groups to connect and similarly, House Flowers was a great event to reunite the Year 13 Dunblane cohort. In these events, Dunblane gained 4th in the Box Dresser category, 2nd in the Futurist category and Year 7 were 1st equal with Lindisfarne for their wonderful decorations for Wearable Arts, and best Form and Balance for House flowers.

House Performance was an event that our leaders really pushed for, to make up for such a

disrupted year and to bring the house together in what is arguably the most competitive, but hilarious, house event. Our theme was ‘Alexa Play… My Life as a Feminist’, where we explored one girl’s encounter with 5 influential female leaders. Dunblane put on a great performance, gaining the 'Best House involvement award', but more importantly gaining a day full of laughter and time together!

Dunblane’s achievement and continuous participation to make this ‘not-normal’ year, a whole lot of fun, is testament to the amazing girls Dunblane has, and is something to be proud of.

We would like to thank all of the tutor staff, Ms Roberts and of course, Ms Disbrowe who have helped us to achieve such an unforgettable year.

Thank you to our Year 13 Dunblane Cohort for the creativity and leadership that you have contributed and thank you to the entire house for being such an amazing bunch of girls whom we can always count on.

Leading Dunblane this year has been an incredible privilege for Hannah and me and we are both proud of the success of the House. It has been so rewarding to see how our Dunblanians have created an inclusive, determined and fun environment for all of us to enjoy. Our best wishes to the House and our girls next year; we will miss you all and can’t wait to see you achieve the amazing things you are capable of!

— Niamh Orr-Walker and Hannah Fan

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HOUSE REPORTS

to participate in Athletics, Swimming Sports, House Flowers, Wearable Arts and House Performance – in all of which, our House did amazingly well. Gaining 3rd place at Athletics, and 3rd at Swimming Sports made us a strong competitor for the other houses!

HOUSE Reports

Durham It has been an absolute pleasure to watch and help the girls in Durham navigate and blossom into the young, independent women they are today. Although this year was heavily impacted

by COVID-19, every single one of our girls has shown a huge amount of courage and has continued to put in huge amounts of effort into not just House events but into maintaining the sense of community we have in Durham. We could not have been more proud of our girls and it has been a privilege to lead them, hyping them up and fostering the caring nature that Durham has always been known for.

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Durham actively participated in each house event and we are proud to have received a few awards throughout the year. With Athletics Day and Swimming Sports to kick off the start of the year, we were all decked out in pink gear and filled with Durham pride as we cheered on our girls. Everyone participated in every event and tried her best. We were so ecstatic to have our amazing senior girls come 1st in 4x100m house relays at athletics. However, it wasn’t just the seniors as our younger girls all did their best in each event bringing their smiles and energy to the track events and swimming relays!!

SENIOR SCHOOL HOUSE REPORTS The Year 13s all worked together to create our amazing masterpiece in the annual House Flowers event. This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our whole House who brought in materials to help us construct our design. The theme for House Flowers this year was “time.” Our girls worked hard together to create a sculpture that represented the way life is affected by time. This was shown by the bright, colour of the flowers that gradually decayed moving down the sculpture. The sculpture highlighted the blossoming of new life and the falling of the dead leaves representing how in nature, as one plant dies, another blossoms.

Wearable Arts was another exciting House event our girls were a part of. This year was a little different as we created our outfits in Tutor

Classes and it was a nice experience mingling with the younger and older girls in senior school.

This year they used cardboard to create outfits for the various categories like Avant Garde, the Futurist and Box Dress. It was so good to see the creativity and ingenuity that came from the Durham girls for Wearable Arts.

Our final House event this year was House Music. The Durham girls all worked together to create an amazing performance to fit the theme ”Alexa Play Monopoly.” Definitely it was one of the highlights of the year seeing their enthusiasm in helping teach one another dances and, their hard work paid off as we also were awarded Most Inventive Costume!

We would like to acknowledge and thank the previous Dean and Deputies Ms Yelavich,

Ms Young and Ms Brabant for the love and support that they gave to Durham during the time that they were with us. We would also like to thank all the tutor teachers as well who were incredibly strong and persevered through the lockdowns supporting the girls and making sure everyone was nice and safe in their bubbles. We are grateful to have Mr Gilmour as our new Deputy; he is a wonderful, cheerful new member to the Durham community. To Ms Coleman, we could not be more grateful for the support she showed us and the House during this year putting in time not just at school, but extra time during the lockdown where she was so supportive and loving. We know this year has been quite the memorable one and will miss our House (the best House) so much!

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HOUSE Reports

Elgin As we all know, this year hasn’t been quite like others. However, despite the many months of lockdown, Elgin has still had great successes.

We started the year off with Athletics and Swimming Sports which allowed our House to get to know one another and push one another to our fullest potential. Athletics was our first event in which we placed second.

The participation in Elgin House events was amazing. We often had so many people signing up for races that we had our very own Elgin races! We were so proud of everyone’s spirit and enthusiasm towards the first event of the year and it made everyone very excited for the rest of the events for the year.

Swimming Sports was our second and finest event of the year. We were able to come out on top for this one and take the win.

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We have some amazing swimmers in our house who placed very highly and gave it their all. What was most impressive was the effort and enthusiasm that everyone else in Elgin contributed. It can be daunting swimming in front of a big crowd when you are not a confident swimmer, however, every single girl there gave it a go and we had outstanding participation in the House Events. The combination of the phenomenal effort from the House and results from our swimmers, is what allowed us to achieve first place.

Our last athletic activity of the year was Cross Country. The House section of this was unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19 and only the championship racers competed in the 3.2km race. We had some girls racing in this from all three age groups and we had some amazing results, too.

SENIOR SCHOOL It was a shame that this was cancelled but it made us even more eager for the other House events to come.

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House Flowers was a huge success.

Putting our own spin on the theme of “Elements”, Elgin created a piece inspired by the Amazon rainforest, creating a frog sitting in our hanging basket. We used a wide range of plant material including flax, succulents and vines, which wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the numerous donations from the girls. The effort of our Year 13 creators paid off as we ultimately came third, with a big thanks to our artistic directors Amanda and Sophie for pulling it all together.

For House Music this year the theme was “Alexa Play...”. We decided on “Alexa play the movies of our childhoods”, and chose a range of iconic movies- ‘Matilda’ for Years 8 & 9, 'High School Musical’ for Year 10, ’10 Things I Hate About You’ for Year 11, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for Year 12 and ‘Pitch Perfect’ for Year 13. We couldn’t have done it without our amazing choreographers and directors Sammy and Rachel, who all worked tirelessly to create the show. Overall, it was a very memorable day, aided by all the effort put in by the students.

Our Wearable Arts event was held in Tutor Groups instead of Year groups, and, instead of newspaper, we were working with cardboard. Everyone worked extremely hard to create some amazing garments with the themes of “Flamboyant”, “Box Dress”, “Circus Circus”, “Isolation Garment”, “The Futurist” and “Avant Garde”. This was a great opportunity for leadership within the Tutor Groups and we were amazed at how many girls stepped up to lead in the creation of the garments.

Overall, 2020 was a challenging year for many but we could not be prouder of how all the girls have come together and given everything their all, despite the circumstances. It has been our privilege to lead such an amazing group that has helped make our final year here such a great one. We wish all the girls the absolute best for next year.

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HOUSE Reports

Iona This has been a strange year with the Coronavirus dominating. However we couldn’t be prouder, as leaders of Iona, of our kind, cooperative and enthusiastic House. Even though COVID-19 has caused disruptions to our lives, the fact that we still managed to enjoy so many House events together has been a huge highlight.

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and it was clear our House had a really fun day. Another amazing effort from Iona.

The year began with swimming sports, our theme being Hawaiian/beach. Many of the girls involved themselves and enjoyed the day, but the best part of this event was just how supportive the girls were of one another.

We were ‘super proud’ of our girls' efforts in this event.

Next we had the rewarding event of House Flowers. With the selected group of the most artsy and creative Year 13s, we fulfilled the theme of “the elements” by creating an hourglass to represent the element of time. Using flax, purple hydrangeas and ivy, we couldn’t be prouder of the beautiful floral installation the team created. With the supplied foliage and support from our younger Ionians, we were grateful for the House's contributions in helping us take away the award for 'best use of contrast'.

Following this we had our annual Athletics day held at Mt Smart stadium. Rearing to go, Iona came into the event with enthusiasm dressed as purple pirates! From the sprints, to long jump, there were sweets, dances and songs

Our next House event was wearable arts.

For this event, each tutor group from years 8 to 13 worked together to respond to a theme and form a costume out of limited material consisting of cardboard and tape.

SENIOR SCHOOL Although we were not able to hold our Cross Country or spend the most amount of time as a House, the most rewarding part of being the House Leader for Iona this year was our service project Painga Trust as well as the ‘Big Sister, Little Sister’ programme during lockdowns and at school.

Collecting books, toys, stationery, sanitary products and many much-appreciated goods, the girls in Iona contributed to the less fortunate lives of children in lower

decile schools such as Kelvin Road, Papakura Intermediate, Red Hill and Edmund Hillary.

With a hygiene bank held in June, there was a whole school collection of much needed hygiene products for this beloved project of Iona's. The collection, handed over in term 4, undoubtedly changed the lives of many children and families alike, and we thank the giving girls of Iona for their kindness.

The last house event of the year was House Music. This was an exciting House competition which allowed everyone to show creativity and enthusiasm through dancing and singing. This year's theme was “Alexa play …” and took this crazy year as an opportunity to do “Alexa play the year of 2020”. Showcasing the major events of this year such as the Australian wildfires, climate strikes, US election, online learning, and of course COVID-19, this event was 100% student led and we spent a whole day in our

year groups choreographing dances that we would perform together at the end of the day.

The girls put so much effort in and it showed, as we managed to come away with the prize for best choreography in our performance, and third place overall!

It has been a tricky year, however we have had ‘a blast’ as a House. Special thanks to our Tutor Group teachers for always looking after our girls, with our Deputy Dean Miss Donovan and our House Dean Ms Morrison who is always working behind the scenes.

It has been a pleasure to see our House grow, become more inclusive and kinder to one another and the girls should all be proud of their achievements this year. We are very grateful to have been the leaders of this House for 2020 and we feel such a sense of pride for our achievements as a house.

— Stella Stiven & Zoe Perkins

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Iona did an amazing job, managing to take out first place overall! Our tutor classes IAKAH and IAMIL were also the winners of their respective themes, IAKAH winning the ‘Isolation Garment’ theme with their stylish coronavirus costume and handbag, and IAMIL taking out first place in the ‘Avant Garde’ theme. In addition to the older girls, our year 7s gained third place overall in their Wearable Arts competition.

HOUSE Reports

Kelso 2020 for Kelso has been, while different and a challenge, an all round success.

The participation of our House has been extraordinary this year. It has been a pleasure and honour for us to lead the girls, and we are so proud of the way that they were able to rally around each other to create an awesome blue team!

This year we were ‘stoked’ to have our year 8 Kelso girls join us throughout our House events. They added such an awesome level of enthusiasm and determination, and we were very proud that they were representing us. With the addition of our year 8s, it has been even more special to watch the bonds and relationships form and grow throughout the year groups. The spirit from all the girls,

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challenging and supporting one another continues to grow every year, bringing along a very strong sense of pride for our blue House.

A major highlight for Kelso this year was Athletics day, the participation from the house was unmatched, and the energy that the girls brought to the activities was exceptional.

From great efforts in the gumboot throw and pretty much every girl participating in the optional 100m sprint, to coming first in both the senior and junior relays, Kelso really shone through. For the first time in many years, we took out first place and could not be prouder!!

Another successful event for our House was the creation of our House flowers. With the overall theme being elements, we of course went for the obvious choice of using water.

SENIOR SCHOOL Another great success for Kelso was our House performance. Our theme was Alexa Play… Musicals and from Lion King to Mamma Mia to Heathers, all the girls got involved. We won 'best overall design' thanks to our girls singing and dancing their hearts out. It was amazing to watch our visions and ideas come to life. The talent among Kelso was inspiring, and we have confidence that Kelso will continue to perform strongly over the coming years. We took out second place, which we were incredibly happy with and very proud of, and it was so awesome to see the whole Senior School finally having fun together.

It has been really rewarding watching our House give their 100% effort and enthusiasm this year and, as leaders, we couldn’t ask for a better group of girls to work with. Thank you Kelso for making this year so memorable and always having high spirits. A huge thank you to all our tutor teachers, Mr Vink and especially Mrs Olsen – your dedication to our house is so special.

— Hannah Stewart and Molly Want

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We wanted to create something more than just a water droplet, and after many long hours of dedication from our hard working year thirteens, we created our sculpture, representing Waitapu – ‘sacred water’. We wanted to convey the overall message that we must respect the element of water, and not take advantage of this resource we have been provided with, our inspirational quote being “the more we look after our beautiful mother earth, the more she will look after us”.

HOUSE Reports

Lindisfarne

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2020 was a year unlike any other, but Lindisfarne’s unwavering house spirit continued to thrive and grow through these unprecedented times.

However, it became clear where Lindisfarne’s true talents lay as we watched our girls sweep up numerous victories in the artistic house events.

Lindisfarne started the year hesitantly with our sporting events such as athletics and swimming sports. It was clear that although we did not champion the sporting side of these, we certainly won in House spirit. With the theme doctors and nurses for athletics we saw Lindisfarnians from all year groups wearing face masks, stethoscopes and white coats. A little later into term one, Lindisfarne dived head first into swimming sports with the theme “Lindisfarm.” Our Lindisfarne girls loved participating in flipper races, relays and more, while also supporting their friends on the sidelines in farm animal inspired costumes.

First with House flowers, Year 13 came together to create a beautiful floral arrangement inspired by the theme 'The Elements'. Our Year 13 team aimed to capture the beauty of flowing water through the construction of a magical garden fountain. Our artistic girls worked tirelessly from early hours in the morning to erect an intricate triple-layer wire structure, adorned with woven flax, draping vines, bubbly white hydrangeas, and fleshy succulents — a stunning display which ultimately won us 1st Place overall!

SENIOR SCHOOL HOUSE REPORTS This was only the beginning for Lindisfarne, as we continued to demonstrate our talent in wearable arts. Lindisfarne girls in tutor groups worked to recycle cardboard boxes into outfits which were Avant Garde, future inspired and more.

In the final house event of the year, House Performance, Lindisfarne completed the prompt ‘Alexa play…’ with an iconic childhood memory: Disney. Led by creative director Noor Randhawa, our talented performers took the audience on an adventure through Disneyland: from Mickey Mouse’s

Clubhouse to Elsa’s ice palace; each year group presented an energetic rendition of a beloved movie, capturing the euphoria of each fairy tale world through dance and song. At the end of the day, we were incredibly proud to be awarded 1st place, as well as the prize for 'most successful coordination of a large group'. This victory in House Music could not have been achieved thanks to our Year 13 and Year 12 choreographers, specifically Arabella Patrick and Victoria Ryan.

Overall, this victory was a real ‘happily ever after’ for our hardworking performers.

It has been a privilege to lead such an incredible House filled with girls who really took on the challenges of COVID-19 with open arms, helping to lead our house to incredible successes. We want to thank all the tutor teachers and most importantly our Dean Mrs Cullinane for their support throughout the year. We wish everyone a great 2021 and good luck to the next leaders of Lindisfarne.

— Arabella Cryer and Belinda Hu

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Melrose Melrose has had a funfilled and exciting year despite the difficulties of 2020. We have a very talented House with strengths in all different areas which was helpful when it came to our overall success in House events this year.

We started off with Swimming Sports and had a few great successes over all age groups, taking out second place overall! Everyone participated on this day and took part in the relays which made it a lot more fun and competitive.

Next up we had Athletics Day, which was great fun, and although we didn’t place as a House, we had some great individual successes from Melrose.

It was then House Flowers when the year 13s came to school nice and early to create our eye-catching red flower which represented the current state of the earth due to climate change and global warming. This was a fun experience for all the year 13s. Throughout the day of House Flowers, we saw Melrose girls from all year groups come to support the House and look at our design.

In term 4, we had House Music and Melrose chose the theme ‘Alexa play… 2020 rewind’

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in which each year group in Melrose performed a dance to represent a few of the many events that got cancelled this year due to COVID-19.

We all had so much fun on this day and we won the award of 'most striking performance'.

This year, we also had the year 8s join us in House activities and join our tutor groups.

We really enjoyed this as they had a lot of energy to bring to the House and had a lot of spirit when it came to the House events which we loved.

This year, we have seen a huge step up in participation from everyone across Melrose which has been great. We love seeing everyone get involved and have fun when it comes to House events.

Overall, Melrose has had a great year and a lot of fun along the way thanks to all the amazing, hardworking girls who we have in Melrose and thanks to our awesome Dean, Ms Ford. It’s been a pleasure being in Melrose for 13 years now since I was in year 1, and Mel for 5 years. We can’t wait to see the success of Melrose in the future.

— Mel Nosseir and India Swney

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HOUSE Reports

York It has been a great pleasure leading York alongside our year 13 cohort this year! We have worked hard together, put our best efforts forward and most importantly, had fun in every event possible making 2020 (despite the COVID-19 limitations) a successful year for York house. From House events throughout the year such as Athletics and Swimming Sports to House Flowers, Wearable Arts and House Performance, ‘Yorkies’ have truly shown the best of our abilities in both the sports and creative areas.

At the beginning of 2020, we had Athletics and Swimming Sports in which we displayed our House spirit in all aspects, with girls dressing up in orange ‘Disco’ themed

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outfits and participating in every event.

As both events had welcomed us with hot and sunny weather, it was incredible to witness so many of our girls getting involved and contributing to our House points, even if the athletic events were not their strongest suit. Although being the smallest House, we celebrated each person who took part by cheering them on and chanting at the top of our voices, no matter if they were running 100 meters or swimming 25 meters freestyle.

With the overall theme of House Flowers being ‘Elements’, a group of Year 13 girls from York utilised bright orange Cockscomb flowers and a variety of foliage to construct a flame, symbolising our response to the theme – fire.

SENIOR SCHOOL Wearable Arts, the next event, was also so much fun and an extremely successful House event. Our tutor groups had performed and crafted such creative garments in response to all six themes; The Isolation Garment, Circus Circus, Avant Garde, The Futurist, Box Dress and Flamboyant Dresser.

In collaboration with other year levels in their tutor classes, YKTIP was awarded the overall prize for Flamboyant dresser and YKWAH. House Performance was the final House event of the year, in which the theme was ‘Alexa play…’, York chose the theme of ‘Alexa play Kiwiana’. Showing an array of typical New Zealand childhood moments, involving many memorable Kiwiana jokes and television moments, we danced to many well known artists from New Zealand such as Benee, SIX60 and Drax Project. As a House we won the award for 'best realisation of a theme or story'.

We have greatly appreciated all the fun, excitement, supportive network and memorable moments there have been throughout this year.

A big thank you to Mrs Adsett, Ms Choi and all other York tutor staff for their support and the love they’ve put into York house. We are so incredibly grateful for our York Year 13 cohort and their immense dedication in making sure 2020 in York was a year to remember - we couldn't have done any of this without you!

— Bella McDonald and Caitlin Reelick

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Working from 6am with the support of the girls from our House, and procurring a continuous supply of newspaper, we were able to take out second place and overall 'best House response to theme'. This was an incredible result and we are so grateful for everyone who contributed to our success in this event!

HOUSE

Reports Year 8 Dunblane This year, Dunblane House has had a great time! We started off with Swimming Sports doing lots of exciting relays, for example the tyre race.

This year because of COVID-19, we haven’t been able to have as many House lunches as we were planning, but we had one amazing House lunch, when Year 7 and 8 came together and the Year 13 prefects came down to greet all of us.

Soon after, we had the lead up to Wearable arts with all the tutor classes working together to make creative cardboard outfits! On the day, there was chaos backstage but we all had so much fun watching all the girls walk down the catwalk. The Year 7s had a competition for making cardboard trees as the decorations and Dunblane won!

Athletics was the most amazing event of the year! It was incredible to see all our Dunblanian girls giving everything a go, and even signing up for events right on the spot!

The House relays were another great aspect of our House spirit!

Orientation day was a chance for us to meet new girls who were going to join Dunblane in 2021!

Recently, we also had our House music, where we came together as a whole House, and showcased our talents. It was a creative and loud afternoon and we got to experience House Music for the first time with the seniors.

GO DUNBLANE!!!

— Chloe Vickers and Justina Maka

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Durham

Iona

Durham! Durham!

We’re the best!

We are better than all the rest!

Iona has participated in many events such as House Music. In House Music we all worked together to make five dances. Iona had lots of fun working together as a whole. The Year 7s got to come and enjoy watching this event, whereas the Year 8s got to participate for the first time ever. The entire House came together and had lots of fun.

Durham! Durham!

Hear our cheer!

We will win, every year!

We are daring!

We are cool!

So, come on Durham, rule the school!

D-U-R-H-A-M Go, Go, Go Durham

— Charlotte Cameron and Eva Dacre

Elgin Elgin has had tons of fun with the activities this year; we started off the term with Swimming Sport, it was over crowded with other Houses but Elgin stood out the most; we were yelling and cheering at the top of our lungs as our House competed in the swimming races.

Before COVID-19 came, we performed Wearable Arts. All the Houses got together and showed off their best fashion designs that were made of only cardboard. All the Houses were very good but our personal favourite was Elgin’s. As lockdown finished, we had another amazing event coming up… House Music! Elgin’s theme was “Favourite Childhood Movies”. We showed off our amazing dance moves; we didn't end up winning but we all had an incredible time

— Frankie Wright and Emma Glengarry

Having House Music was a highlight to the entire year especially after the difficult time that we had to go through during lockdown where we had to miss out on time together as a House. It was amazing to be together as a whole and have such an enjoyable experience competing in House Music.

— Melanie Wang and Claudia White

Kelso This year has been a chaotic one to say the least. Nonetheless, Kelso has stayed strong and supported one another through the obstacles it faced.

We all gathered as a House at House lunches, getting to know each other and just talking. It was really special to see everyone together and having fun. Events such as Swimming Sports, Athletics and House Lunches really helped bring Kelso together and ignite House spirit.

Something really impressive was the participation in activities such as House relays. Especially at athletics, where the runners represented Kelso proudly and the wave of girls in blue cheered enthusiastically from the stands. Thank you, Kelso.

— Ava Dilly and Mercy Turvey

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HOUSE REPORTS – YEAR 8

SENIOR SCHOOL

HOUSE

Reports Year 8 Lindisfarne

Melrose

York

Being the House Leaders of Lindisfarne this year was awesome!

One event in particular that really showed our House spirit, was the Year 7 and 8 Athletics Day. There was a sea of white clothing, tutus, balloons, onesies, you name it, we had it in white! You see white specks zooming along the race track, participating in all events, giving each event all the effort they could.

This year has been “different” to the many years House Leaders have had in the past, but it has still been filled with fun. Swimming Sports was the first full House event of the year. We got to experience the lively House relays and even if we didn’t win, we still enjoy seeing the smiling faces.

It has been a pleasure to be the Year 8 House Leaders of York for 2020. Despite COVID-19, we have still been able to lead York in many events this year, one of these events being Athletics. The Year 7 & 8 Yorkians had a blast at Athletics this year with all the spirit and House colours! A definite highlight was the House relays. York came 1st! We were so proud of the teamwork displayed throughout this race. Everyone did themselves proud.

Then came the final event that would really test our House spirit: the House relays! Loud cheering from the Lindisfarnes bleachers roared through our ears as we sprinted past, passing the batton to one another, without dropping it thankfully, clambering exhaustedly back to our seats, panting like dogs.

Overall being the House Leaders of Lindisfarne was such a wonderful opportunity; we learned so much from it, especially time management.

From organizing House lunches, to meeting new people and helping in sports events, we were extremely busy.

— Mia Kelliher and Morgan Abel-Pattinson

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Unfortunately, cross country was cancelled and we didn’t get to take part in the House chants before the second lockdown. This year, we got to be involved in the wearable arts. Creating the costumes was a blast. The creativity from everyone showed on the runway.

At House Music we were all singing and laughing as all the hard work that we had put into our performance had paid off. Athletics was the last House event, people were exulting with joy and cheering on the others. The tutus and glasses made the House buzz and I could feel the excitement. Being a House Leader was an opportunity that we never would have imagined we would be able to experience, but it is an opportunity that is fun, exciting, challenging and more importantly, a great time.

— Pippa Whineray and Lois Wolfgramm

The Year 8s of York also had heaps of fun working with the Senior School in House Music.

The theme for York this year was “Alexa play my life as a Kiwi” and the Year 8s and 9s worked together to create a Jump Jam dance. It was a great opportunity to meet and learn from the older girls in our House and do something a bit different for a day! The Year 7s came to watch and support their House in this fun event as well. We look forward to doing some more fun and exciting activities with York before this year comes to an end.

— By Freya Reid and Xin-Xin Zhu

Committee The Communications Committee has had an unprecedented year in 2020, due to COVID-19 and the ensuing challenges which it brought us. Our goal this year was to encourage and provide exposure to our talented students and their voices, while simultaneously creating an atmosphere of inclusivity of all students who take a potential interest in writing.

We faced a year of intermittency, and trial and error. Valentine's Day was an experience we were all very grateful was able to take place. We beautified the Atrium in streamers and wrote pick-up lines on post-it notes and stuck these on lockers

to spread our love. Our planned speed-dating event had to be cancelled, sadly, as were visits from writers. Despite the adversities of 2020, we managed to end the year on an excellent note with the annual Writers Night, a showcase and celebration of some of our creative talent within St Cuthbert’s. It was a beautiful night of sharing stories and memories – and feasting of course.

band of writers across the Senior School; interest and commitment was strong. Special thanks to the librarian, Cait Kneller, for all her inspiration, support and guidance with ‘Margin’, and for revamping the ‘Margin’ website. This can be accessed through the FC Library website. There are exciting plans for further development of written and visual stories i n 2021.

Comm Comm has a key role in the ongoing management and organisation of the student publication, ‘Margin’, that was started by members of 2018 Comms. The ‘Margin’ sub-committee worked closely with a growing

Overall, we had an amazing but challenging year and we all very much enjoyed growing closer as a committee.

— Willow Handy and Rosalind McCallum

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HOUSE REPORTS – YEAR 8 | COMMITTEES

SENIOR SCHOOL

COMMUNICATIONS

DEVELOPMENT Committee We as the 2020 Development Committee, were lucky enough to have been involved in so many projects this year, despite disturbances from COVID-19. We initially were committed to putting on the annual Fashion Show, working with local brands to raise money for the Sports Achievers' Fund, which helps St Cuthbert’s students who are high achievers in their chosen sport and who would otherwise be unable to represent the school at a national or international level due to financial constraints. Leading up to this event, we as a Committee really enjoyed learning more about event planning and how to advertise and communicate with brands for this significant College event.

Nevertheless, due to lockdown being implemented, we did have to cancel the event.

This, however, did not deter us from giving back to our St Cuthbert’s community and the wider community. During lockdown, we initiated the St Cuth’s Together Calling Campaign in which we would call Old Girls

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of the College and check up on them during this uncertain time. Even talking to them for a few minutes every couple of days, allowed us to form great friendships and brought a bit of happiness to both of our days during this time.

Once we were back at school, we worked on Gratitude Day where we gave thanks to our teachers and staff of the College.

We used some products we had received for the Fashion Show from our generous sponsors at Griffins and MOR to make goodie bags for them, as a small token of our appreciation for all the help they gave us as students throughout this year.

With the remainder of the products from brands such as Stolen Girlfriends Club, Prescription Skincare, Epsom Spray Tan, Papinelle, Lewis Road Creamery, Servilles, Angel En Provence and more, we were able to put together two raffles to help raise money for the Sport Achievers’ Fund.

— Lola Cox and Chloe Tattersfield

SENIOR SCHOOL

GAMES

Committee

COMMITTEES

The Games Committee aims to encourage participation in Sport and to promote all of our awesome Sports teams across the school. We are all very lucky to have the opportunity to participate in the vast range of codes.

This year has been very challenging and we have definitely felt tested at times with there being many cancellations due to COVID-19.

Due to this the Games Committee had to adapt throughout lockdown to encourage our students to keep moving throughout a very challenging and uncertain time. To continue promoting Sports we created a challenge which was the hashtag #activeisolation. We started this off to create a challenge for girls to post photos or videos of their being active during isolation and were so happy with the huge response we had from the girls at St Cuthbert's.

Though this year provided a very different sporting season; to what we are all used to, there were still some great sporting achievements which are a testament to the hard work of our girls and coaches. Earlier in the year, we hosted a Games Committee sausage sizzle to raise money. These funds went towards a shared pizza lunch later in the year, to thank all of our student volunteer coaches. These girls give up a lot of their time to help our younger students excel in their sports and this lunch was a token of our appreciation for all their hard work this year.

We are very lucky that as well as this challenge, we had many coaches encouraging their teams to keep active.

These students were provided with many resources to keep moving and had challenges to complete as well as workouts done on Zoom with their teammates.

— Rachel Denny and Charlotte Penny

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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Committee The aim of the Global Citizenship Committee this year was to raise awareness, fundraise for a range of different causes, and enhance the community within St Cuthbert’s. Despite the challenges and limitations that came with COVID-19, we were lucky enough to be able to continue with the majority of our events, and also support lives that were affected by the lockdown.

At the beginning of this year, we fundraised for the Grace Milane Handbag appeal in memory of the British backpacker who was tragically killed in New Zealand in 2018. From both the Junior and Senior School we managed to collect over 100 handbags, filled with a range of supplies to help domestic violence victims in New Zealand. We also held the Love and Diversity week where we celebrated the many different cultures and identities at our school, and organised a poetry competition, celebrated Pink Shirt Day and gave a cake to the Tutor Class which won a quiz about Love and Diversity.

Our biggest event of this year was the Fair Trade Baking Competition which raised over $1,000 for Fair Trade, and saw some incredibly talented students from across the College enter some delicious cakes.

Some of the amazing entries are pictured here on the right.

Towards the end of the year, we held the first-ever Gratitude Day, where we aimed to celebrate the things for which we were grateful despite COVID-19. Alongside the Service Committee, we held Foodbanks to support those in need after the lockdown.

We would like to thank everyone in our Committee who managed to help us bring these events to life and to everyone who participated in any of our fundraisers.

We also want to thank Ms Giles for being an incredibly passionate and motivating leader; we couldn’t have done it without you.

— Olivia Thompson and Amber Waymouth Global Citizenship Committee Leaders

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SENIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL Committee As COVID-19 and lockdown occurred relatively early in the year, many events had to be cancelled but it encouraged us to get creative!

The Senior girls checked in on their Little Sisters by joining their classes, participating in games and class work. Keeping fit, active

and creative was also something that we thought about during lockdown and so a Bingo game was created. The girls sent in photos of themselves completing the tasks and some awards given out to girls that went the extra mile. The Committee really enjoyed seeing how committed and excited the girls were to see us in their classes and participating in Bingo.

Once we were through lockdown, there were many events such as the Kings School Exchange, Gratitude day, various Camps, and the Book Parade. But the personal

favourite was probably the Book Parade as the Senior girls were able to join in too, and dress up as their favourite character.

We have enjoyed our time with our Little Sisters in the Junior School this year and have really felt as though we have made a difference and connected with the girls and, we would have to say that the most rewarding part was being able to bring smiles to the girls’ faces!

— Olivia Haskell and Natania Thomas

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COMMITTEES

It has both been an exciting and interesting year for the Junior School Committee who have worked hard to ensure that there is a bond and real connection between the Senior School girls and their Little Sisters.

PERFORMING ARTS Committee The Performing Arts Committee has had a great year, still managing to do two of our three events despite the challenges faced.

‘May Music Month’ is celebrated around the country and this year we adapted it to an online platform, ‘Making Amazing Music’ in our Bubbles, which was met with great success. We had a fantastic range and variety of performances from both staff and girls, with such a wonderful response that we extended it to June as well, calling it ‘June Tunes’.

We also still managed to hold the annual Talent Quest. After a week of lunchtime auditions, we had some amazing performances with our six finalists – Arabella Patrick, Wannabe (K Pop dance crew), Justina Maka, Hayley Minturn, Fangyu Zhu and Brooke Darrow performing at lunch to a fantastic audience.

Hayley Minturn took out first place with a very impressive musical theatre performance ‘The Girl in 15G’. We were very thankful to our judges Ms Thwaites, Ms Walsh, Mr Gilmour, and Mr Smith for giving up their time to help judge this event. We were also very lucky to have Samara Saunders perform while the judges deliberated. Samara came third in the 2019 Talent Quest and performed a hip-hop routine.

— Eva Matheson and Cate Sharma

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SENIOR SCHOOL

SERVICE

Committee experiencing hardships, and motivate them to want to continue to provide Service and Justice beyond our College projects. All of us involved in the Service Committee, have very much enjoyed giving back to others and it has been a very rewarding experience. A big thank you to Reverend Joubert for his support throughout the year.

COMMITTEES

The Service Committee has aimed to not only provide Service, but work to provide Justice to a variety of communities.

This year, post COVID-19, it is now even more important that we look out for one another and do our best to help in every way through these tough times. As part of our ‘By Love Serve’ motto at St Cuthbert’s, Service and Values Projects are one of our main focusses, and getting every girl Year 7-13 involved in aspects of Service this year has been one of our goals.

— Sarah White and Anna Hill

This year, the structure of Service Projects has changed in order to achieve this goal.

Each House has been assigned a charity or project on which they will focus their efforts and work directly with the organisations.

This is so, as a community, we are able to help multiple important causes, while making sure that every girl is able to be directly involved in Service. The projects include; Camp Quality, DePaul House, Manurewa East Primary, Girls in Need, Refugee Resettlement Centre and Painga Trust.

This year has had a few disruptions to say the least and has meant that we have had to readjust our timeline by pushing back some of our plans. Fundraising activities were limited this year, as we understand the difficulty in asking our community members for funds post COVID-19. We have, instead, looked at what we can do collectively as a community to help those in need with limited fundraising. The multiple Foodbanks held throughout the year were extremely successful, and we appreciate the generosity of the College community. The Committee has also run the Senior School Mufti Days, and the donations given will be put towards continuing the Service Projects into next year. We look forward to hearing about all the amazing work that will be done next year.

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VISUAL ARTS Committee The perk of being in the Visual Arts Committee was having full control over the creative direction of the Ball. We got to choose the theme, plan the decor and make decisions that would ensure our vision came to life in the best way possible.

Our theme was Renaissance, meaning rebirth and renewal. We wanted to use the Renaissance Art period as the aesthetic of the ball, with arrangements of grand statues, projections of Botticelli and Da Vinci paintings and ethereal lighting. We divided the tasks among the team such as liaising with White Door Photography over backdrops, making a launch video, creating invitations, lighting, walls, and decorating the entrance way among

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others. As the leaders of the Committee, we oversaw all operations, attended meetings with the Steering Committee (the committee of parents who handled logistics) and ensured everyone could do their tasks as easily and efficiently as possible.

We devoted a few weekends to look at the storage of decor, from previous years, making our decorations (we made a bunch of beautiful hanging clouds!), and doing final preparations. It was awesome to see how well everyone cooperated and worked as a team. Although we didn't ever see the Ball come to life, we were able to contribute to Gratitude Day, sending in our

artwork to be printed on thank-you cards which was a great success.

The Visual Arts Committee has had a whirlwind of a year, adapting to change.

While sadly our main focus, the Ball was cancelled due to the second COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, the skills we have learned from collaborative work, planning/gathering ideas right through to execution were spectacular and will stay with us, always.

— Jeri Misa and Starr Zhang

Committee Being a leader of the Year 7 and 8 Committee for 2020, has been very rewarding and exciting; in particular, learning to lead a group of committed Year 13 students, as well as meeting and connecting with the younger student body.

Even though this year didn’t turn out like many of us had hoped, our Committee still managed to participate in a wide range of activities, some selected by ourselves, and others by the Year 7 and 8 students.

Our first event of the year was a shared lunch that we organized in the first term to encourage the Year 7’s to mingle with one another. This helped both new and old girls to mix. We all got involved, bringing food to share, laughing and talking with one another. As a committee

we worked together as we learnt to trust one another, and Alayna and I also grew in our confidence to lead.

We planned many other events for the Year 7 and 8s however these had to be put on hold due to COVID-19 and the lockdowns. The main event was the Year 7 and 8 social, a highlight of the school calendar for our Committee. Everything had been planned (with the help of the amazing Parent Committee), decorations had been bought and invitations were sent, we had even picked our costumes of the night; Fairies!

Then we went into lockdown, and our plans were crushed.

Though we weren’t able to hold the social, this significant disappointment taught us many

valuable lessons such as the ability to continue on in the face of adversity, as well as the ability to problem solve. We were forced to think outside the box as we planned lunch time games for the girls, sweet scrambles, and tutor time Kahoots. We also visited the Year 7 classrooms many times, helping them with their artwork for the Wearable Arts Competition in Term 2.

Even though this year didn’t pan out like we had hoped, we still managed to have a lot of fun as a Committee; we connected with the younger girls and formed many new friendships which I know we will consider to be highlights of our last year at St Cuthbert's.

— Anna Harrison and Alayna Willis-Baker

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COMMITTEES

SENIOR SCHOOL

YEAR 7 AND 8

SENIOR SCHOOL Commerce Young Enterprise 2020 You & ï You and ï Eyewear manufactured stylish and affordable blue light glasses which work to reduce the harmful effects of blue light on eyes, from screen use. At the Central Auckland Regional Awards they won the ‘Paying it Forward’ Award and as winners of the Central Auckland Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Competition, they competed at the National Awards in Wellington.

Koa & Co Koa & Co was established in 2019 and strove to educate, specifically the youth of today, about the importance of iron for our body, whilst creating vitamin supplement gummies that support healthy iron and immunity levels and stress management.

At the Central Auckland Regional Awards, they won the ‘Excellence in Promotion’ Award and came 2nd in the Central Auckland Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Competition.

TALSH Hoodies TALSH Hoodies raised awareness for the prevalent issue of mental health for 13 – 18-year-old teenagers in Aotearoa through the sales of their original and uniquely designed hoodies. The hoodie design was visually appealing and signifies a deeper understanding of mental health. At the Central Auckland Regional Awards, they won the ‘Excellence in Communication’ Award.

LOST + FOUND In the midst of the pandemic ravaging the world and many experiencing hardships, LOST + FOUND, a non-profit business, was dedicated in collecting toys and books for less fortunate children. Through both lockdowns, they managed to amass many boxfuls of toys and books for many deserving children with Women’s Refuge.

ECOCUP ECOCUP designed and sold St Cuthbert's first ever reusable cup. Sourced from Keepcup, the cup features double walled glass with a black silicone band around the outside with the St Cuthbert's logo printed on. They wanted to help with the College's aim of becoming more environmentally friendly and reducing waste.

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SENIOR SCHOOL COMMERCE

Year 10 and 11 Business Market Day

Auckland Accounting Case competition

Despite multiple date changes, interruptions due to COVID-19 and reduced time to produce, market and sell their products, the Year 10 and 11 Business students held a successful Market Day with 20% of profits being donated to charities of their choice.

Noor Randhawa, Sarah White and Stella Stiven won the Auckland Accounting Case Competition at the end of June. For the preliminary round of the Competition, teams were required to write their responses in the format of a report and, based on their performance in the reports, finalists were selected to present a pitch to the panel of judges through a video recording, with a live Q & A session that followed.

Hands-on at Otago Jemima Hawkesby was selected to take part in the Hands-On at Otago Programme which took place in January 2021. She experienced a week of Otago student life – living in a residential college, undertaking detailed studies in her chosen major of Marketing and learning from some of the foremost researchers in the country. She participated fully in research projects as well as a range of other university studies and there was also opportunities for her to explore career options and to consider new and unfamiliar possibilities for study.

Future of Auckland challenge Yolanda Lin, Felcia Fong and Spring Zhang came 3rd in the Future Of Auckland Challenge 2020 at the University of Auckland in July. Felcia Fong said, “It was a lot of fun and such a great experience. It was a crossover between Geography and Economics, with the Case Competition about making Auckland a more sustainable city and improving things such as the public transport system or the water system. We worked really hard on our case until 1.00am on Saturday and then kept working the next morning, and I'm super happy that our hard work paid off and we placed 3rd ”.

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SENIOR SCHOOL English Pop-Up Globe In February of this year, all of Year 10 were fortunate enough to be able undertake a trip to the Pop-Up Globe in Ellerslie, to watch a live performance of the play 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare. We had been studying 'Romeo and Juliet' in class for a few weeks prior. We had also watched Baz Luhrmann’s screen adaptation of the famed play, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, which we all thought would be hard to top, even in a stage play.

As we entered the theatre, we were all struck by its beauty, and gazed admiringly around at our surroundings. The Pop-Up Globe is a full scale replica of the Second Globe, which was Shakespeare’s own theatre in London.

Historians spent a decade researching it, in order to create an accurate idea of what it was really like. They explained to us that the structure was constructed from over 100 tonnes of scaffolding, with a huge domed roof placed on top. The stage was intricately decorated with paintings and carvings, and the roof was royal blue, with a golden sun painted over the top.

I was lucky enough to score a seated spot in a box, which was right on the wings, so close that we could make eye contact with the actors. The fight scenes were epic, and startlingly real and the actors wore authentic Italian costumes that looked as if they were straight out of the thirteenth century. I loved one of Juliet’s outfits in particular, which involved a full-length crimson dress, with puffed sleeves and matching ribbons.

Year 9 Spelling Bee Congratulations to Teresa Yu who won the Spelling Bee with the winning word ‘abstemious’.

Ena Yin secured second place.

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The story was beautifully told, with serious scenes surrounding love and violence, mixed in with hilarious jokes that had the audience clapping and howling with laughter. The show ended with an explosion of confetti, and deafening applause. Overall, we all really enjoyed the trip, and felt very lucky to see one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies in such authentic surroundings.

— Imogen Weenink

Year 10 Spoken Word Poetry The spoken word poetry unit, as a whole, taught me to channel my emotions and desires into a creative outlet. This unit also aided me in the discovery of one of my new favourite hobbies — writing poetry!

In our first lesson that we had a workshop with Ramon from Action Education, who specialised in spoken word poetry, and he taught my class how to write down what we felt, saw, heard, tasted and smelled to describe our emotions.

Essentially, he taught us how to put into words what we already knew. Ramon asked us to write a poem personal to us, one that we wouldn’t share with anybody else. In that activity, I got my first glimpse of the art that is spoken word - and I realised that I loved it.

In the days that came after that lesson, my teacher, Ms Young, helped us identify key language features, which would later go on to shape the way we presented our pieces. Gradually we learnt how to express ourselves effectively through the medium of

poetry – when the time came to present our poems to our class, I could see that every single student tried their best.

I was fortunate enough to represent my class in the spoken word poetry competition, held between eight students from different classes across the year level.

It was an amazing event; each girl expressed themselves from the bottom of their hearts on potent issues, including those of climate change, the misunderstood youth, feminism, and sea life. It was an emotionally moving experience, and every single poem was amazing. I managed to land first place, tied with Faith Chadha.

I am extremely grateful for the chance to have learnt about spoken word poetry, and the opportunity to perform my poem for my year.

I thoroughly enjoyed and learnt so much from this unit.

— Kenisha Sarda

SENIOR SCHOOL

Year 11 Writing Award and Prose Prize by Meagan Tupuola Fa’alogo When I went home, There was a rift where a pese was.

When I wanted to fill it with card games in the kitchen and weeping on Ingram Street, Our lives were torn by deciles And Power Stations.

When did Samoa begin to feel so far?

Because, I feel this sorrow.

But my grief is in English.

And I feel I cannot talk And I don’t know how to breathe And I don’t know when to speak And I want to feel Alofa. Love.

I want to feel entrapped and sure In the gifts, Mum has given me.

Joan Holland Poetry Prize and Award for Writing Excellence by Rebecca Greenwood Collection Only Words Are Light

An ekphrastic poem inspired by In the Matter of Knowledge by L.Budd et al A tiled wall of grey, navy slates; They reflect light like river stones.

Dust trickles through the crevices of books and all the things that books hold. Their souls are painted over so they shine and speak together: “Light has yellowed like a tulip.”

Like the pages of an old book, a tulip opens for the sun and is turned golden with knowledge, ‘til the knowing is worn away.

The knowing is worn away like river stones.

ENGLISH

Please enjoy this selection of writing from our 2020 prize-winning writers: Science Writing 2020. Science Writing Topic “Logic will take you from A to B… Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein Abstraction and Facts

Minds are unruly creatures.

They don’t like to stay caged in your head So, they go wandering in Calculus when the numbers are blurring and x’s and y’s wait to be written and you already have the formulas stored in your knuckles and fingertips but you still can’t answer the question Because your mind escaped long ago.

It broke its leash.

And left you behind.

— Rebecca Greenwood, Year 13

— Rebecca Greenwood, Year 13

So, I can say I want to go back But I know It’s much deeper than that.

As deep as the graves that brought us here As deep as the oceans we conquered As deep as the feelings that carried me here, Oh, I wish my feelings were as deep.

I’m entrapped and afraid In feelings of guilt With stolen emotions I shouldn’t be a part of.

There’s a rift where a pese should be, And going home would be useless.

What’s home anyway?

Joan Holland Poetry Award Rebecca Greenwood Year 13

Year 6 Science Writing Olivia Lindon

Senior Prose Prize Maxie de Man Year 13: Cucumber Sandwiches

Year 11 Writing Awards First place: Meagan Tupuola Fa’alogo Runners-up: Zoe Fisher, Rebecca Ross

Senior Science Writing Emma Akeroyd Year 12: A tribute to Albert Einstein’s first wife

Year 10 Writing Awards First place: Faith Chadha Runner-up: Kelly Zheng

Year 11 Science Writing Faenza Hiroti: Kaitiakitanga is the key to saving our planet

Year 9 Writing Awards First Place: Dilani Dinesh Runner-up: Maya Ng + Ella King

Year 9 and 10 Science Writing Hershel Rhandawa Year 9: One idea

Year 7 and 8 Writing Award First place: Eassin Wang and Shanaiya Singh-Ali

Year 7 and 8 Science Writing Bonnie Wang

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SENIOR SCHOOL Languages Classics

Latin MMXX

The year began with dreams, planning and excitement for the European trip to Italy and Greece. However, it quickly became clear that we would not be heading away and that visiting the wonderful places we learn about will have to wait for the future.

In 2020, we celebrated the inaugural year of the teaching Latin at Year 7 level, designing a course to introduce our newest students to the language and mythology of ancient Rome.

Lockdown life suited Classics surprisingly well. In Year 12 from each individual home, we acted out the ‘Antigone' via video, and the Year 13s achieved outstanding results for their lockdown internal assessment on Roman art and architecture.

Both classes were filled with bright, funny and curious students who have learned much about the society, history, art and literature of the Classical world. They have been able to see the ways our own culture has been shaped from millennia ago. Year 12 has been intrigued by the sculptures of the Golden Age of Athens and Year 13 has become real experts on Augustus’ rise to power as Rome’s first Emperor.

There have been a lot of laughs, quizzes and jokes, many memes and even a couple of ice-cream days!

A highlight for Year 13 was the enthusiastic participation in the nationwide NZACT Classics Week competitions, including the task to recreate an ancient artwork which led to full class participation and the masterworks that follow.

Our Year 9 students had their annual toga-tying competition and despite being held during lockdown, our girls still managed to create a virtual catwalk to display their impressive toga-tying technique!

The annual ‘Class Sacrifice’ undertaken by our Year 10 Latin students is always a memorable highlight of the year.

Students learnt about the Roman religion and the ritual process of sacrifice in ancient Rome before recreating it themselves…albeit on a stuffed toy.

Year 10 students also created a real estate ad for the Palace of Cogidubnus, a King in Roman Britain. A group of enthusiastic students recreated the story of Pandora’s Box for which they received a ‘Commended Award’ in the Classical Languages Teachers Association competition.

Our Year 11 Latin students enjoyed a dress-up day online through lockdown with students creating distinctly Roman costumes whilst our Year 12 and 13 students enjoyed their study of Latin Literature including famous Roman ‘love poetry’ and relationship advice from 2000 years ago!

LEFT: Annual toga-tying competition MIDDLE: Class Sacrifice RIGHT: Recreation of the story of Pandora’s Box

The Gemma Augustea from the early 1st century CE

Chinese

LEFT: 12IB students try out traditional Chinese clothes in preparation for Languages Week MIDDLE: Year 8 Dragon Boat racing RIGHT: Year 8 lockdown exercise: making Chinese shuttlecocks and then playing with family at home

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Te Reo Māori SENIOR SCHOOL

French French Exchanges At the start of 2020, seven St Cuthbert’s students travelled to Paris for between six to eight weeks where they stayed with their host families. Our students attended two different local schools in Paris: Ecole Alsacienne and Lycée Lakanal. Our students enjoyed the opportunity to experience the Parisian lifestyle as well as the chance to travel around France and see more of the country.

French Competitions Three of our Year 8 French students participated in the annual French Speech competition which took place at Auckland Normal Intermediate on, 4 November 2020. Ciara Wynn gave a beautiful speech and came 1st in the Year 8 group whilst Hana Rachakarakij came 3rd in the talent show with an impressive Thai song sung in French. Well done girls!

LANGUAGES

Te reo M āori students created a scavenger hunt in the library for ‘Te Wiki o Te Reo M āori’, where participants had to find all of the ‘atua wahine’ (female deities) hidden all over the library.

Various competitions took place throughout 2020, including an online Year 9 contest among all the Year 9 classes and a French baking competition for the Year 10 during lockdown.

Some students from Year 9 to 11 completed the Australian Assessment of Language Competence test in French and they all performed very well. All students achieved Credit, Distinction or High Distinction, fantastic results!

Speech competition

Sapphire Tutini and Luci Hollister find a creative way to demonstrate the words ‘runga’ (above) and ‘raro’ (below).

Zara Ford and Olivia Gillingham show their classmates the difference between ‘tere’ (fast) and ‘pōturi’ (slow).

Te reo M āori students learn words for mauī (left), matau (right), huri (turn), roto (inside), waho (outside).

Kai during lockdown!

French Exchange

Spanish

Spanish Competitions

There were fewer opportunities for the many cultural activities we like to run in our classes in 2020, but we still made the most of every learning opportunity.

Spanish students from all years benefitted from working in small groups with our 2020 Spanish assistant, Olaia Perez Imirizaldu, to whom we are grateful, for her help in building their confidence in spoken Spanish.

We’d like to recognise Year 11 student, Julie Li, who won the national Spanish Speech Competition which had the theme of ‘Fiesta’.

Julie presented a beautiful speech on her favourite event, the Chinese Autumn Festival.

Our Year 9 and 10 girls enjoyed some Mexican-themed activities based on the ‘Día de los Muertos’ festival, including the making of piñatas. Year 10 Spanish students completed a food unit in between the two lockdowns and enjoyed creating their own ‘Pintxos’.

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Our congratulations to the Year 10 and 11 girls who took part in the Australian Language Certificate examinations in 2020 and, in particular to the following girls who achieved Distinction and High Distinction Awards!

Ella Alfaro Campbell Ava Alpe Molly Cardwell-Dray Sasha Gabriel Zoe Guan Grace McCarthy Amy Seymour

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Cate Tipler Mia Vanderkolk Florence Cook Romy Lee Safia Moore Poppy Paterson-Boock

TOP: Escape Room based on movie, Coco BOTTOM: Pintxos photos

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SENIOR SCHOOL Mathematics Mathematics Highlights of 2020 2020 involved the Year 7 and 8 students coming under the Mathematics faculty umbrella for their courses. Much discussion and development work was done to ensure the courses flow well into Senior school and are engaging, enjoyable and challenging. This included fun construction and geometry activities in Year 7 and a competition involving graphing and Origami leap frogs, in Year 8.

In the Senior school, this is the first year IB students have had a choice between two mathematics pathways. IB introduced two separate Mathematics courses in 2021: Analysis and Approaches (AA) and Application and Interpretation (AI) both courses running at HL and SL. There are several Mathematics Competitions in which students participate, these encourage problem solving skills and lateral thinking.

We are very proud of our girls' achievements.

St Cuthbert's took out top of NZ honours at both Year 9 and Year 10 in the Otago Junior Mathematics Competition – an outstanding result. Additionally, in the Australian Mathematics Competition, our students were awarded top prize winners for Year 9 and for Year 10.

We are delighted to have had a record six students selected into the second round of the NZ Olympiad, three of these being prize winners who were selected for the January 2021 Olympiad Camp held at Auckland University.

NZ Maths Olympiad A record six students were selected into the second round of the NZ Mathematics Olympiad, with Brena Merz being selected for the 2021 NZ Maths Olympiad Squad.

NZMO select 25 students to participate in NZMOC training camp at Auckland University in January 2021; this is whittled down to a team of six students who compete at the 2021 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).

We have three medal winners – these girls have been selected in the top 25 for the NZ Olympiad training camp in January.

• Silver Award and in the top 12 students in NZ: Brena Merz

• Silver Award: Ena Yin – we believe Ena is the first Year 9 student, again, among the top 12 students in NZ. • Bronze Award: Belle Yin – again impressive, for a Year 9 student • Round two Qualifiers: Grace Wu, Dawn Chen and Jifei Shao

University of Otago Junior Mathematics Competition 2020 This annual Year 9 to 11 mathematics competition, was held while in lockdown on 13 May 2020, involving 1944 students from, 73 different schools.

The competition has an emphasis on problem-solving skills. We are very proud of our girls’ achievements. St Cuthbert’s took out top of NZ honours at both Year 9 and Year 10, an outstanding result.

• 1st in NZ in Year 9 with 98%: Ena Yin

• 1st in NZ in Year 10 with 98%: Grace Wu • 2nd equal in NZ with 91%: Belle Yin

Students in the top 30 candidates in NZ for their year group.

• Year 9: Sophie Robb 90%, Priyanka Gai, Jifei Shao, Jennifer Liu, Dawn Chen Yicky Zhou and Ella Cham • Year 10: Sophia Zhou and Leonore Li

• Year 11: Maria Gong 91%, who was in the top five of all Year 11 candidates, Brena Merz and Charlotte Wen

Australian Maths Competition (Years 9-13) The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) involves students in more than 30 countries attempting the same problems which are designed to test mathematical thinking. They become progressively more difficult through the competition, so that at the end, they are challenging to even the most gifted students. School-based maths competitions don’t get much bigger than this one!

• Best of School with the highest score in St Cuthbert’s and in the top 0.3% Grace Wum Year 10.

• Two Prize Winners, both in the top 0.3% Belle Yin of Year 9 and Grace Wu of Year 10 • High Distinction Vanessa Bu, Ena Yin, Jifei Shao, Lily (Mohan) Hu, Lingshi Chen and Charlotte Wen

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SENIOR SCHOOL A problem-solving competition which seeks to identify computer programming potential from students in both Australia and New Zealand.

Mathex The St Cuthbert’s team won the trophy at Mathex in 2019, so naturally the girls were very keen to compete to retain the cup. The 2020 teams competed later in the year due to a COVID-19 reschedule.

MATHEMATICS

Computational and Algorithmic Thinking ( CAT)

High Distinction was awarded to Kelly Zeng, who gained 100%!

Year 7 and 8 – Mathematics Year 7 and 8 integrated well into the Senior school, enjoying some fun activities as well as in their new courses.

APSMO Competition – Year 7 and 8 This competition develops flexibility for problem-solving, fosters creativity and ingenuity, and strengthens intuition.

Schools participate from around Australia and New Zealand.

Year 8: 1st: Julia Sung, 2nd Ella Zhang

Year 7: 1st =: Emily Cheng and Ellie Siu 2nd Regina Cao

Otago Problem Solving – Year 7 and 8 Problem Challenge is a Mathematics problemsolving competition aimed at children in Years 7 and 8, which is run by the University of Otago.

2020 Prize winners, who gained a $25 book voucher were, April Li, Eassin Wang, Evee Tan, Emily Chen and Ellie Su

Australian Mathematics Competition – Year 8 1st: Mabel Zhao

The Year 9 Mathex Winners holding their cup: Sophie Robb, Belle Yin, Ena Yin and Jifei Shao Mathex Year 10 Team: Georgie Huxford, Grace Merrilees, Alexandra Bow, Grace Wu

The 2020 Mathex competition was held on 27 and 28 October. The atmosphere in the stadium was suspenseful as the competitors waited their turn to begin. The competition is held annually, and teams of four must correctly answer 20 questions within a 30-minute timeframe to win. An added challenge is that you must run your answers to the marker awaiting you at the end of the row, and run the rest of the loop back to your team. The competition was intense, with runners barrelling down the lanes, colliding, sprinting and sweating. There were some 90 teams entered per year group, and St Cuthbert's was proud to have pulled off the top four to ten results for Years 9 and 10. It was a fun night, and our mathematicians look forward to bringing a new fire to next year’s event to steal the win.

— Grace Merrilees, Year 10

2nd: Olivia Wei

Year 8 Geometry Leap Frogs, pictured: Cindy Zhou, Chanel Marusich and Bella Fairbairn

Constructions by Louise Molon-Noblot Year 7

Year 12 IB completing spaghetti trigonometry graphs, pictured: Chanel Mahon and Jennifer Wu

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SENIOR SCHOOL Performing Arts The St Cuthbert’s Performing Arts Centre, affectionately referred to as ‘the PAC’ has increasingly become a hub for lively activity in the College.

and sent us home to teach scripted performance, dance steps, theatre history, puppetry, clowning, song composition from the comfort of our living rooms and home offices.

We are very accustomed to dancers running to class in exercise pants, actors rounding the corridors in flowing skirts and masks, and hearing wonderful background soundtracks of everything from Bach to Blue Note.

Through this, we saw our students continue to stay engaged and focused on their performing arts subjects and produce some very exciting works. Out of a time of adversity and uncertainty we all learned to adapt and ‘go with the flow’ and from this shift in emphasis, students’ imaginations extended, and we had time to perhaps go deeper into the practice.

As teachers, we have learned to mark papers to Jazz, learned that screaming is probably safe, and crying is all about how many tears you can produce!

But it was far from all ‘fun and games’ in 2020.

COVID-19 shut the doors of the PAC

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Without the demands of public performances, we looked for other ways to produce work that could be viewed and experienced differently.

We recorded everything and chose various platforms to get the performances to our community.

Out of lockdown, we have been able to produce the Junior Musical and other smaller events to complete the year.

My warmest thanks to the entire Performing Arts Team, who are wonderfully skilled and committed, and who successfully managed to navigate this unprecedented year, and nurture each one of their students along the way.

— Judy McIntosh, Head of Faculty, Performing Arts

SENIOR SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS

Dance Year 7 Dance Year 7 Dance was so enjoyable in 2020. We started off every lesson with a warm-up to the beat of the latest hits. This year we worked on three major dance pieces: ‘Matilda’, hip-hop and ‘Hairspray’. ‘Matilda’ was a lot of fun as you used your whole body in the movement. It was also the most challenging piece because, at times, everyone was doing something different and it was long, but that’s what made it so enjoyable! Our hip-hop piece was my personal favourite because I got to see my class’s sassy moves and expressions. Lastly, we did the ‘Hairspray’ piece, which was full of catchy moves and group section. Online dance was difficult, but we tried our best and did exciting dance activities/pieces at home.

Overall, I absolutely LOVED dance this year, it was tons of fun and I can’t wait for 2021!

— Zara Toes, Year 7

Year 8 Dance Year 8 Dance this year has been really fun. The good thing about Year 8 Dance is that even people who have never danced before, or don’t know much about dance can still participate and do well. I personally really enjoyed learning the Oompah Loompah dance from ‘Willy Wonka

and the Chocolate Factory’ because it was a very up-beat dance. It was challenging at times to get everyone to dance in unison and get all the moves right, but, when we had finished the dance and had to perform it, I think it looked amazing and we were all really proud of what we achieved together as a class.

I have never taken ballet classes, and learning techniques that I hadn’t ever done was fun.

Overall I have really enjoyed taking dance in year nine; it has been a great way to learn a lot more about this art and keep active and I am looking forward to taking dance again next year.

— Rebekah Breed, Year 8

Year 10 Dance

Year 9 Dance As a new student, coming from a small country school I had never had the opportunity to study Dance as a subject until this year. Although I participate in weekly dance jazz classes outside of school, I was excited about finding out what sort of new styles I would learn in this class.

So far we have learnt a musical theatre routine, hip hop, ballet technique, dance history and we still have the choreography section to come.

I really enjoyed learning the musical theatre number from the movie ‘Hairspray’. It was upbeat and slightly challenging but I think all the best dances are. Sadly, lockdown meant we couldn't perform that dance but our classes continued online. During the August lockdown, we started the hip hop section learning from videos in groups and we were assessed when we returned to school. The most challenging aspect in class this year was the ballet section.

— Lucy Gilmour, Year 9

The Year 10 Dance semester has proved that anyone can dance regardless of previous knowledge or experience. It has lead me into a new world for performing because you realise that emotions are delivered through the use of your body, not the voice. You put on different personalities for a few minutes and share the stage with others who enjoy it as much as you do. From dancing ‘Greased Lightning’ to contemporary pieces, there was something for everyone. Whilst staying in lockdown, it forced us out of our laziness and delivered creativity in our own rooms. As challenging as it was to not knock something over, we still got on our feet and were able to follow along to some hip hop.

Learning the routines can prove difficulty, but left me feeling accomplished. Giving everything a go, especially whilst having fun is what kept us going!

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Dance (Continued) Year 11 Dance

Year 12 Dance

Year 13 Dance

In Year 11 Dance in 2020, we managed to fit a year of laughter and positivity in the time we had together in and out of the classroom. Attempting to dance during lockdown was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. Initially, we worked on our solo pieces to ease the stress of needing a class of peers to work with, but as that came and went, we moved on to our group hip hop piece which was being taught to us by a guest choreographer over zoom. As lockdown wasn’t my most favourite thing, Dance definitely kept me going and it was full of jokes and laughter and was definitely a positive output for me. It was also really fascinating to see how the piece came together as we were learning a group piece at home alone, so you could see how we each interpreted what we were being indirectly taught.

The showcase this year was a bit of a struggle as we were still under COVID-19 restrictions, but it was so rewarding to see how far we had come, not only through our dances but our relationships too, leaving Dance this year, one of the most memorable subjects.

Dance has been an eye opening experience for me this year. 2020 was my first time taking Dance as a subject and it has been a class full of personal growth, technical development and friendship. One of the best things about Dance is the exploration as we cover a range of differently styled dances that have allowed me to explore not only my own ability but the capability to bring a choreographer's intention to life. Dancing a Bob Fosse piece and selected works from Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, I have been able to expand my knowledge of the world of movement and storytelling. This knowledge extended into creating our own choreography where we explored a typical day in lockdown through gestural movements and repetition to communicate a sense of monotony. It has been a welcoming class, the inclusive environment makes it easy to work cohesively as an ensemble, allowing me the ability to get to know my fellow dancers well. Overall, Dance has been an engaging and exciting experience this year.

I loved being a part of Level 3 Dance in 2020.

As a combined class with Level 2, our year was full of fun and laughter while also being challenged and working hard. We started the year learning a number of contemporary pieces from Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ which we later studied for our written external exam.

We also learnt other pieces such as a Bob Fosse inspired number. The annual Dance Showcase in September was again a highlight of the year. We had a great audience turnout comprising of Boarders, staff, other students, and parents, and we loved showing what we had learnt throughout the year in full costume and staging. Another personal highlight for me was working on our own choreography internal, which we created on a small group of Year 12 students. We were not able to complete this internal, but it was very rewarding seeing my vision come to life and working with the girls in my group.

— Zjana Marsh-Richards, Year 11

— Helena Haldane, Year 12

— Eva Matheson, Year 13

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SENIOR SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS

The Company Being part of The Company, although our time was limited, was an amazing experience in 2020. We started off the year learning a minimalistic, yet powerful chair routine choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. We were challenged by having to come up with our own choreography to mix into the dance; it was so rewarding being involved in the creative process of such an empowering routine and I was so proud to watch the piece come together. My highlight of dance this year was performing at Cultural Honours. It is always exciting to share the pieces we have so passionately worked on throughout the year; however, after many disappointments including the cancellation of Showquest, I was especially grateful to be able to perform the routine ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ for the first time in front of an audience of our friends and family. The Company has always been full of equally enthusiastic dancers who create such a supportive environment. I was so grateful for what we were able to accomplish this year as a team due to the circumstances and it was a great way to finish off my school dance career. The Company this year, as Ms Mahon would say, is “one for the archives”.

— Giulliana Winter

enough to have an amazing group of dancers who are talented and hard working. Seeing encouragement and support within the group and the final performance at assembly, have been gratifying. We are very proud of the piece that we created with the girls within such a short amount of time and, it was also a great opportunity for us to get to know girls from other year groups. This has been an experience in our dance journey that we are truly grateful for and we look forward to coming back next year to the new studio and seeing the new K-pop group perform!

— Brijana Shao and Abbie Xi (Crew Choreographers and Leaders) Annyeonghaseyo. This year has been quite hectic and challenging. I have loved being a part of this group. I was able to learn different dances but also, make new friends and share interests. As one of the non-Mandarin speaking members it wasn’t too hard to keep up with the group. I am very proud of the hard work and dedication of our leaders, Abbie and Brijana. I will never forget our performance during assembly – such a positive and supportive response from the College community. Whilst performing the crowds roared, cheering and clapping and made our hard work worth it.

— Maataua Tanielu-Seve (Crew Member)

K-pop Crew

Hip Hop Crew

Cancellation of rehearsals and performance opportunities throughout the year made it challenging, especially for our first time leading the group. However, we were lucky

Choreographing the St Cuthbert’s first ever hip hop team was a really rewarding experience for me. Watching the girls grow from auditions to our last performance was such a privilege!

Many of our performance opportunities were unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19, but the girls worked extremely hard and always gave 100% to everything I threw at them. We did everything from hip hop basics to a full twominute routine which the girls finally performed in front of assembly. This was so amazing to finally show off what they have been working so hard on. For me working with the girls was such an amazing creative outlet to not only improve my choreographing skills but my teaching skills and these girls were so supportive and willing to give everything a go. I’m so proud of them!

— Brianna Dixon (Crew Choreographer and Leader) In 2020, St Cuthbert’s introduced the new Hip Hop crew. This was a long-awaited group which allowed the hip hop dancers in the school to unite together. It was a challenging year as we saw restrictions from COVID-19, meaning we had to social distance to keep safe which was very challenging for our crew. Dancers in the group ranged from Years 7-13; it was a nice way of branching out making friends who weren’t in our year groups. Everyone had different dance experience. It is always great to learn from each other. Our amazing choreographer, Brianna Dixon, worked so hard in shaping the dance to make the performance worthy. Everyone had so much fun performing to a cheering crowd in assembly. Our group was a big hit and hopefully, in the future, hip hop will continue to grow at St Cuthbert’s.

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Drama Year 7 Drama This year we only did drama for two terms but I loved every minute of it. We had the best teacher possible and the most exciting lessons. I always looked forward to them. If we felt self-conscious or nervous, she helped us get through it and we learnt so much. From melodrama to mini playwriting, we always had a plan and the lessons were well thought out! We learnt so many techniques that I can use over my lifetime in drama like levels, melodrama and play writing. It was such a great experience, and I wouldn't change it for the world. I can’t wait for 2021. I honestly think it could be my highlight of the year. When we were working in a team or by ourselves our teacher always encouraged us to do our best. If anything was different, I am sure it would be even better!

— Amy Brockley

Year 8 Drama Drama this year has been extremely enjoyable.

From virtual plays to re-creating myths and legends, I really enjoyed it. Even the written work was “a blast”! I’m glad we didn't let lockdown get in the way of our learning otherwise I’m sure quarantine would have been a lot more boring. One of my favourite activities was when we got put in groups and had to write and perform a play ourselves. This was supposed to explain a myth or legend about a different culture, and it forced us to work together as a team, to include everyone's ideas and to get to know each other a bit

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better. I recommend taking drama (I know I will be), because it’s enjoyable and gives you a chance to break out of your comfort zone and try something new. Plus, it’s a great way to build collaboration skills. Is that alright? I really like it!

— Shanaiya Singh-Ali

Shakespeare on Trial - The Year 7 and 8 Musical JUDGE: William Shakespeare, four hundred and four years after your death your work is accused of being boring and out of date. How do you plead?

Awoken on the 404th anniversary of his death, William Shakespeare was put on trial before the Celestial Court to face the charge that his plays were boring and out of date!

Year 9 Drama This year in Drama we looked at a variety of different activities, including Greek theatre, improvisation and Greek chorus group work. At the start of the year, we did a lot of improvisation in groups and by ourselves. We also participated in theatresports and games to help us adapt to the new class and get to know each other really well. But lockdown suddenly struck the whole College and we had to come up with different ways through which we could still have fun and learn about Drama. During the lockdown, we devised a drama based on ‘The Doll’s House’ by Katherine Mansfield, created a script within our group and edited together a video of ourselves doing it at home. Near the end of lockdown, we started researching Greek theatre and chose a task to do at home, which we then presented to our classmates, once we were back.

So, with the aid of many of his characters, and quite a few that aren't, Shakie defends himself with the assistance of his trusted lawyer.

— Alyssa Rollinson, Year 9

We met his parents and his wife before we bowed down to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. Fortunately we all kept our heads intact from the Public Executioner. However, sadly, there were those who met their untimely demise due to the plague. We were introduced to authors who no one had ever heard of and saw characters play pranks on others. Meanwhile, Shakie was convinced his plays and sonnets were still relevant for all time. The Celestial Court definitely had something to say about that!

Drama has boosted my confidence to act in front of others and break free of my personality. We have done modern scripts such as ‘Dags’, which emphasises teenage struggles. When doing clowning, we acted goofily with objects as if we had never seen them before, playing with imagination. Our culture and identity got to shine through when performing a written monologue. Some people described themselves as materials or fonts for ‘The Ian Sharp Poem’, and others did ‘Rhyming the Past’, encouraging individual speaking.

Year 10 Drama, Level 2

SENIOR SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS One reason I love Drama is that we get to see everyone in the class playing completely different roles we might not choose to do, and it’s always funny when parts of the play don’t go quite as planned. Towards the end of the year, our class worked on an exciting piece for the One Act Play Festival at St Cuthbert’s which we performed to our loved ones.

so couldn’t practise as much as we would have liked to, but we managed to work together to get it ready to perform once lockdown ended.

The script left us to create our own characters, to interpret their traits and characteristics however we liked, which was scary and exciting at the same time, as we had full creative freedom.

— Jojo Houben, Year 10

Drama this year has taught us all a lot about working as a team, embracing other styles of acting, and overcoming challenges, and I cannot wait to do Level 2 next year.

Year 11 Drama Drama was an interesting, fun and engaging class to be involved in this year, where we as a class, learnt about the different aspects of drama, and how to apply them to our acting.

We focused on Elizabethan Theatre, the performance style used during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, around 400 years ago.

We all worked with each other as we studied the features and trademarks of Shakespeare, and then got into costume and performed scenes from Twelfth Night, using what we had learnt, to make it as close to traditional Shakespeare as possible.

We also produced a public performance of the play ‘Flesh’ by Rob Drummond.

This was my personal favourite unit, and we all supported each other to create a drama that we could be proud to show to our parents on the performance evenings. We faced some struggles during this unit, as we went into lockdown halfway through,

— Jessica Went

Year 12 Drama Drama is an extremely important part of my school life. 2020 has been a strange year for Drama from finishing internals in lockdown to putting on our play at short notice but this has not taken away from the enjoyment and the fulfilment that I find in this class. We have made our way through the various internals in which we have devised our own dramas, worked on a piece of Brechtian theatre from the anti-war play ‘Mother Courage and her Children’ and improved upon our drama techniques voice, body, movement and space.

Through our performance of ‘Away’ written

by Australian playwright Michel Gow, I have learned the importance of telling a character's story and working effectively with an ensemble.

My fellow classmates and I work exceptionally

well together with respect for each other as performers and friends. It is through this class that I have learned a lot about myself, my love for this subject and my ability to perform with others to produce a quality piece of theatre.

— Helena Haldane

Year 13 Drama Year 13 Drama is a very involved course.

Throughout the year we complete five internals ranging from performing scenes to creating our own devised performances. All these standards are elevated by the supportive atmosphere of the class. We also study a theatre form as part of our course. This year it was Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Top Girls’, as part of the Political Theatre form. A highlight of the course is the Play. This year we performed Jemma Kennedy’s ‘Second Person Narrative’, a play that explores how we are shaped as individuals throughout life.

We were more than fortunate to have been in Alert Level 1, allowing us to have a great performance opportunity, in a year that has seen so many cancellations for the Performing Arts faculty. It was a highly collaborative and rewarding effort. As a class we are grateful for the effort and knowledge of Ms Waalkens who throughout the year, taught us valuable skills which enhanced our dramatic performances.

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Drama (Continued) Level 1 – 3 Drama Drama continues to flourish at St Cuthbert’s throughout what has been an otherwise tumultuous year. Two new teachers joined the department; Rita Stone for our Years 9-11 and Rachel Walsh teaching our Year 7 and 8s.

The 2020 year began with our annual Shakespeare Soiree. Over 100 students rehearsed and presented a range of scenes at two dress rehearsals before the COVID-19 national lockdown cancelled the final presentation and adjudication. Three scenes were, however, selected to be filmed and submitted to the speedily reimagined, online version of the University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival, and this year St Cuthbert’s won a range of awards for those submissions. The Shakespeare Soiree and Sheilah Winn Festival is a great way for all students to participate even if they haven’t enrolled in NCEA drama.

The Theatre Club is a wonderful opportunity for students studying Drama at Years 9-13 to see live performance and gain experience in critically analysing effective performance skills.

This year our Theatre Club attended ‘UPU’

by Silo Theatre at the Auckland Arts Festival – a powerful theatrical exploration of Pacific literature.

Drama productions within the school curriculum continue to excite and challenge the school audience. The Year 11 production, Rob Drummond’s “Flesh” was an examination of tribal animal (human) instincts under extreme pressure. Our Year 12 students explored relationship dynamics in Michael Gow’s “Away” and the Year 13 class performed “Second Person narrative” by Jemma Kennedy, a play about selfhood and the decisions we make, or have imposed upon us, in constructing a life.

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learn how to express yourself and allow your creativity to develop. The many young students who step through our PAC doors join a family of like-minded individuals who share their passion. Drama has a special place in the heart of St Cuthbert’s life.

— Rita Stone, Drama Teacher

Shakespeare Soiree Shakespeare Soiree at St Cuthbert’s is an amazing way for girls to express their talent and creativity, from tragedies that break our heart to comedies that make us laugh out loud.

Students are given the opportunity to direct, act and self-direct, in small groups of girls in a 5- or 15-minute Shakespeare scene. It is the most anticipated and exciting event of the year.

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 many groups only managed to perform at the dress rehearsal, but for most, this did not matter because Shakespeare Soiree provides much more than the opportunity to perform on a stage. The girls enjoy learning about the amazing language and possibilities of Shakespeare, not to mention the strong friendships formed between senior directors and Year 9 and 10s!

The two teacher directed groups and one Year 13 self-directed group, fortunately were able to get their groups videoed and submitted.

‘Measure for Measure’ directed by Rita Stone won Best Adult Director. Our other teacher directed group ‘Twelfth Night’ directed by Debbie Waalkens won Best Set Design, Best Communication with the Audience and we were very proud of actor Helena Haldane who came runner up for NSSP in her role as Olivia.

‘Comedy of Errors’ directed by Amelia Barrett, Hannah Went, Hannah Fan, Nellie McKegg, Arabella Cryer, Sarah White and I won best Ensemble. As well as this, Hannah Fan and I won best Comedy Duo.

In addition to acting successes, Genevan Ryan won 1st prize in the SGCNZ Shakespeare Poster and Connie Wing came 2nd in the SGCNZ static Image competition. Renee Yi Zhang also came 1st in SGCNZ Shakespeare Video Title Card Competition. One very gifted student, Grace Mora, won the Music composition inspired by a Shakespeare play in both sections. She has been chosen to represent New Zealand at the Globe Theatre next year.

We are immensely proud of every girl and cannot thank Mrs Waalkens and the Drama department enough for yet another successful year of Shakespeare Soiree.

— Maddy Lamb

Theatresports Despite the disrupted year of going in and out of lock downs, Theatresports 2020 was both fun and an amazing learning experience.

With majority of the group being new Year 9s it was great for the older and younger girls to mix together and learn from each other.

This year, a main focus was accepting and expanding on offers which is ultimately the foundation of a good Theatresports game.

We attended only one player night due to COVID-19, at Epsom Girls’ Grammar School.

We had compiled a team of two Year 11s and two Year 9s giving the team a wide variation of experience levels.

As captain this year I found it both challenging and rewarding. I was able to make friends with the new players as-well as strengthen relationships with older players. Ultimately, it was “a ride of a year” and we are all grateful for our wonderful tutor and Ms Stone for helping us along the way.

— Rebecca Ross

Music 2020 was lots of fun and I learnt so much, for example, what solfa is and how to write out stick notation. Also, we looked at the famous composer Mozart and his compositions. Then we completed fun activities based on his life, career and childhood. A highlight of music this year was watching ‘The Magic Flute’ in class, where we could relax and listen to the complex music, variety of instruments, and laugh at the ‘entertaining’ characters. My favourite part was taking a sneak peek at ukulele, piano and percussion instruments which we focused on in small groups, as well as building our confidence in singing. I loved playing all the quirky music games, and there were a lot of laughs involved!

Music this year was a great insight into Year 8 Music and I can’t wait for more music in 2021!

— Zara Toes, Year7

Year 8 Music Music in 2020 was fun, even though part of it was cut short by lockdown. In Term 3, we learnt about the elements of music by listening to children’s songs. Our favourite part was when we got to use these skills by creating our own children’s songs, making the lyrics and melodies in groups then performing them to the class on the ukulele. We enjoyed this because we got to try out the skills we’d learnt and use them to create entertaining songs. In Term 4, we created posters about New Zealand singers and songwriters and learnt the guitar. Overall, Music in 2020 has been really fun; we’ve enjoyed learning about singers and songwriters, as well as using new skills.

worked mostly on our theory, listening and aural skills which are essential for all musicians.

We enjoyed the learning in our jazz unit and participated in many quizzes which helped make our brains work in a different way and it was a unique and enjoyable way to learn.

‘Full year Music’ is the class that we both look forward to during the day and always ends with many laughs and a smile on our faces.

We highly recommend fellow musicians and students to take this course as each lesson is always a different learning experience.

— Hana Ehsankya and Ellen Lucas

Year 11 Music Year 11 Music is a class with multiple talented musicians, with a variety of instrumentalists ranging from clarinettists, to violinists, to drummers. We have different music experiences, knowledge, and taste; and therefore learn from one another. In Level One music, we wrote our own songs and compositions, as well as studying two pieces of music. In 2020, these were ‘Fortunate Son’, written by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and ‘Hebrides Overture’, by Felix Mendelssohn. We learnt about the different elements in music, and how composers have used these to express emotion through their compositions. We have also done two solo performances and a group

performance, with our chosen instrument, and this helped us to display our abilities and improve our skills. Overall, my class has really benefited from this course, as it enhanced our knowledge of music theory, history, and we have all certainly enjoyed the curriculum.

— Heidi Erhard

Year 12 Music Level Two Music in 2020 was incredible, especially with trying to learn Modes over Microsoft Teams for our Contrasting Music Works External in which we studied U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday,’ and Lilburn’s ‘Overture Aotearoa!’. In conjunction with this external, a few of the class members also studied score reading as one of the externals. Throughout the year, we worked on our several different internals which included composition, performance and studying certain New Zealand Composers and groups, supporting each other throughout the process.

With the occasional tea breaks and constant music playing in the background, our Level Two Music journey, both online and in real life has been the most incredible experience, full of learning opportunities and musical knowledge!

— Demira Singh

— Helena Wong and Ava Wedlock, Year 8

Year 10 Music In 2020, our learning was targeted more towards gaining musical skills through song and instrumental writing, theory, listening and aural skills. Due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, we were unable to delve into solo and group performances and hip hop music. However, we explored music history and learnt about the different types of music in different time periods.

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Year 7 Music

SENIOR SCHOOL

Music

Co-curricular Music Concert Band

Rock Band

Jazz Group

Our Concert Band members begin their journey in the Year 5 and 6 Classroom Band Programme.

Rock Band is great as there aren’t many other opportunities to play Rock Music at school. We met since the beginning of 2020, and we’re all glad that we joined this programme as we have become great friends. All of us have improved our instrumental and vocal skills. We practise as a band twice a week at school, as well as individual practise at home. Felipe Simonetti, our tutor, has helped us polish our songs so that we can perform to the best of our abilities. He always encourages us to try our best and I’m very grateful to have been part of the 2020 Rock Band.

The Jazz Groups at St Cuthbert’s had a great year playing and learning together despite the restrictions of COVID-19. Throughout lockdown, Stage Band, Milestones, B Band and the Sax Quartet all continued rehearsing.

We learnt about recording music individually, and B Band produced a ‘virtual band’ performance of one of their pieces, ‘Kiss the Girl’. After returning to school, we performed in the Instrumental Showcase. Once we were back at school we recorded video submissions for the online KBB Music Festival showcase.

We have loved being part of the jazz programme this year and are proud of everything we have been able to achieve.

Without the pressure of external competition, we have been able to grow closer as a group and develop as jazz musicians in different ways than usual. We are all looking forward to next year and are excited about what the future holds.”

The Honours Band is for Years 7-10 students who play brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, and is directed by Oliver Gilmour.

Girls were able to rehearse on Zoom during the first lockdown, and together learnt pieces such as ‘Korobushka’, and ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’. Year 9 student, Estelle Lee, said “I know I speak for all of us in the Honours Band when I say we’ve all had fun having our individual voices come together to make a whole.”

The Concert Band is made up of Years 9-13 students and is directed Andrew Stewart.

Girls were able to rehearse through lockdown and took part in the Instrumental Showcase, playing an arrangement of ‘Africa’ by Toto and ‘Appalachian Tapestry’. Year 12 student, Hayley Minturn, reflected “As Concert Band leader, I would like to thank all the wonderful musicians who have demonstrated commitment, resilience and enthusiasm. Most importantly, I would like to thank Mr Stewart whose dedication, energy and talent has enabled Concert Band to be so successful and enjoyable for all the girls. We are all looking forward to the opportunity of performing again in 2021.”

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— Ellen Lucas, Year10

Flute Choir Flute Choir is an all-comers Year 9-13 ensemble directed by Ms Brawn-Douglas.

During lockdown they rehearsed over Microsoft Teams and added ‘virtual rehearsing’ to their skill set. Tishani Vanniasingham of Year 12 said, “Personally, I love how Flute Choir is not about competing, winning or reforming music as we know it. It is about creating a community of enthusiastic flautists, enjoying the experience of making music together and looking good doing it! The memories that I have formed while being in the Flute Choir this year, will last for a lifetime.”

— Keying Huo-Smith, Year 13

SENIOR SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS

Orchestras Many of our string players begin the development of their skills in the Suzuki Violin Group Lesson. We eat lunch together, then we take a bow and play our pieces.

If you haven't learnt the song being played, hearing it at Group Lesson helps you to learn it later. I like playing violin games at Group. My favourite is hide the bow. I think it is good to come to violin group lesson as it helps you to learn the violin.

— Ariel Su Junior Black Watch Orchestra (JBWO) is an auditioned orchestra for students in Years 4-6. JBWO performed in the Instrumental Showcase, and enjoyed the opportunity to observe the other orchestras and bands in performance. Mei Peacock from Year 6 said ‘A huge thank you to Mr Stewart for putting so much effort into the orchestra’s rehearsals and performances. I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of the JBWO for this year.”

Black Watch Strings is an all-comers chamber orchestra directed by Ms Dragana Yelavich.

Whilst the group was impacted by lockdowns, they were able to continue rehearsing and making music together. “Black Watch Strings was filled to the brim with excitement, and I look forward to next year.”

— Meagan Luo Black Watch Orchestra is St Cuthbert’s symphony orchestra. They rehearsed over Zoom through lockdowns and were able to perform at the Instrumental Showcase and submit entries to 2020 virtual KBB festival. Concert master, Stephanie Lu, said, “Thank you to Mrs Tibbles for her continual determination to enable us to achieve the highest level of excellence we possibly can.

She is supported by the section leaders who do wonderful work in leading sectional rehearsals. We particularly enjoyed performing Vaughan Williams ‘Fantasia on Greensleeves’, and the 2nd Movement from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. We hope that next year will provide

us with more opportunities to perform and share our hard work.”

Sebastian Squad is St Cuthbert’s auditioned Year 9-13 chamber orchestra directed by Mr Mark Bennett. While previous years have had full performing schedules, 2020 was comparatively quiet. Sebastian Squad collaborated with the choirs to create an audio track of ‘He Himene’ for the online May Music Month celebrations. A highlight was a commissioned work by NZ composer David Hamilton for string orchestra and two Guzheng soloists (Sophie Li and Grace Pui). Stephanie Lu said, “2020 was difficult for all of us, and the commitment shown by all members of the Sebastian Squad has been admirable. Thank you to Mr Bennett for his wonderful choice of repertoire for us - we are always excited by the variety of music we explore. We hope that next year will present us with more opportunities, and we are looking forward to being able to share our hard work more publicly in 2020.”

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SENIOR SCHOOL Physical Education 2020 was a year full of challenges, new skill development and an unexpected remote learning experience within our Physical Education and Health lessons. 2020 was very different due to COVID-19, but nonetheless, students experienced a wide range of differentiated learning opportunities from their own homes. Our courses were modified, with everyone involved highly adaptive and receptive to new learning. This experience pushed students and teachers out of their comfort zones, physical and social limits and resulted in some exceptional new learning experiences.

Year 7 started the year with Adventure Based Learning (ABL) and team sports such as Touch, warm-up games and two types of Gymnastics, both Rhythmic and Olympic.

Many Orienteering and Fitness for Life units were completed at home as part of the online learning experience. Most classes had an Aquatics module of Stroke development, Snorkeling and Water Safety concepts.

In Health Lessons, we covered Friendships and Relationships and had a special focus on Mental Health while working from home.

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We were lucky enough to have the opportunity to enjoy lessons with the Life Education Trust in Term 1.

Year 8s had an interesting year. In 2020, we introduced more Game Sense and Orienteering based lessons due to the lockdowns. The team sports in which Year 8s participated were Soccer, Waterpolo and Basketball. These large ball sports are important for the students to develop understanding of the importance of the teamwork and skill development, that can be transferable to other areas of sport and life. The Mini-Olympics unit gave the girls the opportunity to collaborate, design and implement a unique warm-up game in which they could teach their peers. Health units included Mental Health, Sexuality and Anatomy.

Two overarching themes were the focus for Year 9 students in Physical Education.

“TEAM” (together everyone achieves more) gave students the chance to take on a range of roles within a team while experiencing Volleyball, Netball, Ultimate Frisbee and Touch.

The Challenge unit pushed girls out

of their comfort zones. Completing an Aquathon and Gymnastics performances gave the opportunity for students to develop and showcase their focus and persistence.

Year 10 students spent time preparing for their Kahunui experience by developing their interpersonal, teamwork and aquatic skills. Opportunities to experiment with leadership and demonstrate persistence, gave them a strong foundation for their challenging month away. Compassion and tolerance were the focus of the Disabilities unit, while skill acquisition was at the forefront of the Badminton, Lacrosse and Invasion Games units.

Year 11 Health and Wellbeing students had the opportunity to experience a range of games, sports and leisure activities to build a foundation for an active, healthy lifelong approach to Wellbeing. Contrasting favourites were the Yoga and Boxfit sessions, highlighting the range of ways to keep moving in an enjoyable way.

SENIOR SCHOOL The broad theme for 2020 was ‘Experiential Learning’. Students had opportunities to engage in learning through both practical and theoretical mediums.

Over the course of the year, students participated in a wide range of physical experiences. For NCEA standard 1.1, students explored the different factors that influenced their participation. Futsal, Turbo Touch, Kickboxing and Yoga are just some of the practical experiences that the class enjoyed.

For NCEA standard 1.3, students' practical performance was tested in Badminton and they were able to enhance their skills through specialist coaching, rehearsal and feedback.

Tchoukball was provided as an additional opportunity to demonstrate expertise and development of skills.

We were fortunate enough to be minimally impacted by the lockdowns and we were still able to engage our planned range of outdoor experiences. The focus of the 1.7 NCEA standard allowed our students to address and implement responsible behaviours to enhance safety. Highlights for this included paddle boarding in Okahu Bay and rock climbing at ‘Clip and Climb’.

The theoretical learning continued over the remote learning period where students developed their understanding of anatomical, biomechanical and exercise physiological principles. They were then able to apply their theoretical knowledge to a skill or sport of their choice.

To wrap up the year, students took on a leadership role within the St Cuthbert’s community. The 1.5 NCEA standard gave the students an opportunity to develop their personal leadership characteristics and interpersonal skills through coaching a group of Year 6 students in Football.

NCEA Level 2 PE 2020, what a year! The Level 2 Physical Education class showed incredible resilience and persistence in a year of ever-changing plans. “Third time” was the charm for our camp, finally completing three daytrips in June

instead of our original plan for a Rotorua camp in March. Students used their experiences of Mountain Biking, Kayaking and Rogaine to effectively demonstrate leadership and risk management.

Understanding and experimenting with biomechanical principles was the focus for year 12 remote learning. Students worked hard to maintain focus and progress while working from home and achieved pleasing grades as a result of their efforts.

We were lucky enough to complete our offsite Trampoline trips to Tri Star Gymnastics, in Term 3. Students showed persistence and bravery as they pushed themselves outside of the comfort zones to improve their performances.

NCEA Level 3 PE Year 13 Physical Education this year has had a large focus on learning through movement. The students have had a variety of opportunities to develop a range of skills and to try new sports and activities. The students undertook these activities both in school time and at home throughout lockdown.

In Term 1, we focused on developing safety around water activities. Unfortunately this year our students weren’t able to make it out to Wero White Water rafting due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, they did have the opportunity to experience their amazing race around Auckland. During this they completed an escape room, biking around Devonport and traveling around Auckland City and Mission Bay to complete their challenges.

In Term 2, the students had an amazing experience at trying a variety of activities for NCEA standard 3.1, including golf, trampolining at “Jump!”, Mountain Biking, Dodgeball, Waterpolo, Boxing, Pilates and more!

Our final trip for the year was spent during a two-day camp at AUT Millennium, to further their understanding of how to effectively train for their sport. The students got to see how New Zealand's top athletes train and used equipment and instructors helped further their knowledge of how to become better athletes themselves.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

NCEA Level 1 PE

SENIOR SCHOOL Science Years 5-10 Science While the year was disrupted by COVID-19, the girls still had the chance to complete plenty of practical work. During both lockdowns, teachers were creative with delivering the curriculum and the students worked hard to produce some amazing projects. This ranged from cooking classes, catapult building, bird watching and counts.

The Year 5 girls have planted and harvested vegetables throughout the year. For many students, this was the first opportunity to care for a garden bed. The students and teachers harvested a large amount of vegetables and made large pots of soup for everyone to enjoy.

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Next year we hope to look at different ways through which we can share the produce with more people.

We were lucky enough to have the Sir Peter Blake Trust visit us at school.

All Year 7 students were given the opportunity to use the virtual reality headsets and view the underwater life of Marine reserves. This incorporated well with the Biodiversity topic we were studying in class.

Science Fair changed from its usual format to online due to the COVID-19 restrictions.

Some Year 8 students completed Science Fair projects and had great success this year.

1st - Year 8 Living World category Grace Meredith 2nd - Year 8 Physical world category Samantha Bradley Special Prize Libby Jackson A large number of Year 5-10 students have assisted with Trees for Survival. Students have been involved in either potting, maintenance or planting. Mrs Nourish’s Year 10 class planted 570 native plants, alongside a stream running through a farm in Hunua.

Students were able to see the planting results of the previous year and observe how it prevents soil erosion.

SENIOR SCHOOL SCIENCE

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Biology had a bountiful year of activities and successes, even with two lockdowns!

Chemistry Olympiad

The New Zealand Young Physicists' Tournament is a competition that offers a challenge for teams of students interested in physics and debating.

The tournament comprises of rounds called “Physics Fights” were one team is challenged to present its pre-prepared solution to one of the physics problems by another team. A jury panel then questions both the presenter and opponent before individually grading their performance.

This year our teams placed 10th and 5th, at the Auckland regionals. Our team which placed 5th was invited to compete at the National Final held in Auckland. Sadly, the final was unable to go ahead due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Zoe Robinson gained a silver certificate for her efforts in the Biology Olympiad and without lockdown would have attended the week-long live-in Auckland training camp.

Year 12 enjoyed their trip to Long Bay to study the Rocky Shore for their Zonation internal at the start of the year. Year 13 went back in time to create stone (soap/potato) tools and recreated cave art using natural pigments in the ‘Rhodes building’ cave for their Human Evolution topic.

Our Brainbee students were able to complete Round 1 of the national competition. Charlotte Wen was placed 1st equal with 2 other students in the North Island and Emma Qiu was 3rd equal (with 2 others). Silei Wang was 4th equal (with 6 others), Julie Li and Grace Pui, 5th equal (with 8 others) and Ella Liang, 6th equal with 9 others out of 349 students.

We are very proud of their performance and it was unfortunate that the Round 2 competition was cancelled.

Two of our IB Biology senior students entered the Auckland Science Fair this year with their fascinating projects. Dawn Zhang’s ‘Mussels, Watch Out For Acid!’ gained highly commended and received the NIWA platinum award for best exhibit in Atmospheric and Water Science.

Rosie Wang’s ‘Saving Our Moth-erland’ gained highly commended and received a special prize from the Department of Conservation.

Twelve of our Year 12 NCEA and IB Chemistry students sat a Chemistry Olympiad selection exam in the final week of Term 3, 2020. Congratulations to Brena Merz, Jessica Gong, Ashley Ganda and Jenny Yuan for gaining Silver certificates and Amy Huxford, Aaliya Ramanathan and Georgia Gao for gaining Bronze certificates.

All seven students have been offered places into the National training group for the NZ Chemistry Olympiad Team and will continue weekly tutorials with Mr Torrie until the end of Term 1, 2021. They will also undertake extension assignment work on-line in preparation for another exam at the end of Term 1 to select a final group for a week long live in training camp.

Chemistry Science Fair results A number of Year 13 IB Chemistry students used their individual investigations carried out earlier this year to enter the Auckland Science Fair. Belinda Hu came first overall in the Senior Science Category, received the NIWA premier platinum award for Best Overall Exhibit in the Fair and she has also been nominated for the Prime Minister’s National Science award. Her investigation that she carried out as part of her IB program used a sophisticated analytical technique to compare the anti-oxidant potential of red and white wines.

Another event that took place this year was the University of Auckland’s Engineering Science competition. This competition is a problemsolving event for small teams of Year 12 or 13 students. Teams met at school on a Saturday and were sent the competition question via email. The question this year was “How many satellites can be launched into orbit before astronomers on Earth can no longer observe the night's sky without interruption?” Each team interprets the meaning of the question and writes a report detailing their solution.

I’ve really enjoyed Physics because I love how it explains the world around us using Mathematics.

What we learn in Physics ranges from light/ waves, mechanics and electricity, to modern physics where we learn amount nuclear fission, fusion and even special relativity. Everything we learn about is so interesting and it is awesome to see how it relates to our everyday life.

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SENIOR SCHOOL Social Sciences Geography In most years, Geography students get out and about, exploring our city and beyond, but with field trips being restricted in 2020 our students adapted to exploration through their “at home” learning.

Level one students did manage to explore the different types of restaurants in selected suburbs of Auckland. Students investigated the different restaurants and matched this up with the ethnicities of different suburbs. The students enjoyed this ‘eating-based’ field trip especially!

Level two students also enjoyed a field trip across the city to look at how the housing styles had changed depending on location. It was a hot day and the girls enjoyed an ice cream and drinks to celebrate their hard work in what was a busy day of data collecting.

Other topics investigated in Level one included an examination of whether or not Auckland needs a new stadium, how people in Puerto Rico responded to Hurricane Maria and how the population of India is constantly changing.

The classes reported that they loved the guest speaker on the proposed waterfront stadium, making tropical cyclones out of cotton wool and coat hangers, learning to use ARCGisOnline (a very sophisticated software program) and finding out about places across the globe that they may one day put on their ‘bucket list’.

Level Two students describe Geography as a “fun course to do with a range of fascinating

topics”. During 2020, students enjoyed investigating different conflicts that arise over various proposals for new marine reserves in the Bay of Islands and finding out why different places across the globe are “rich” or “poor”. Vanessa Chen reported that “Although studying for externals requires hard work, the knowledge we learnt during this course has taught us important knowledge about our world and society which we tend to ignore in daily life. The quality and interesting dimensions of the course makes Geography one of the most valuable courses to study.”

Millie Caughey reported that like every aspect of our lives, our learning in Geography had to radically shift with COVID-19 lockdowns.

While the virus provided the evidence for a very interesting internal about disease transmission, it also cancelled all the class trips we were waiting for and, in particular, the camp in Roturua was missed. But with every challenge the Department was able to adapt, and, in 2020, we studied geographic skills, disease transmission, migration and climate change refugees. In particular, the study of climate refugees opened our eyes to the scale of harm that will come if we do not take urgent action to protect our planet and the most vulnerable. No matter the topic, Geography provided us a way to look at some of our planet’s biggest problems from a multiplicity of perspectives. Whether we have studied Geography for one year or three, it is clear that this understanding has made us more caring, understanding people.

History 2020 has been a year that History students in the future will definitely be learning about.

The History courses have been of immense relevance to what has happened around the world and provided context for it. The ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement really linked to our Level 1 topic of ‘Black Civil Rights’ to provide background as to why people were protesting.

We had also learnt about how the Spanish Flu spread due to the returning of soldiers from World War One and saw parallels with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Level 2 History, we examined protests that have helped shaped New Zealand and we also looked at ‘Herstory’ and how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the right to vote. We also learnt about Russia, the Romanovs, Revolution and, of course, Rasputin.

Level 3 History had a good focus on New Zealand history with examining the Early Contact period and the Treaty of Waitangi. It was interesting to examine how the impact of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement in New Zealand with the examination of our own past and the use of statutes to commemorate the New Zealand Wars, as well as James Cook. We were seeing revisionist history in action. We also looked at the Holocaust and some inspiring stories of survivors as well as how democracy was manipulated to create a dictatorship for Adolf Hitler.

We finished the course by examining the 1948 War – the War of Independence for Israelis, the War of Catastrophe for Palestinians. It was interesting to examine at this war through the lenses of different historians and how they interpreted the same event so differently.

2020 will be a year we will definitely remember.

Some History students have created vlogs about their time in lockdown, knowing how important primary source evidence is. Others felt sorry for future History students having to learn about all the things that happened this year with a question of ‘has there ever been such an eventful year in history before this one?’.

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SENIOR SCHOOL SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social Studies Despite learning online for a large part of 2020, students from Years 7-10 have had a lot of fun learning new skills and accumulating knowledge about our city, Aotearoa, the Pacific and the World.

The Year 7 students have investigated our volcanic environment, how our city was established by early Māori and latterly by other different groups. They have also looked back in the past to life in Ancient Egypt. The highlights for the girls and staff alike, included creating Māori artifacts and making a Museum of these; producing posters that compared use of our volcanic cones in Auckland now and in the past and speed dating at the start of the year – where the students met important staff across the school.

The Year 8 students expanded their horizons by looking at endangered environments in New Zealand, different ways people have responded to NZ disasters such as the Napier earthquake and the issues surrounding farming and food waste.

A highlight topic for many has been the ‘Food for Thought’ unit, in which we focussed on helping a fictitious family wishing to buy a farm to consider the many issues they faced. The students evaluated the climate, topography, animal and crop choices and considered the new possibilities that regenerative farming offered. The girls have loved writing diary entries, learning about how different migrant cultures keep their traditions, creating board games, writing short books for younger students and watching movies that examine how we can make the world more sustainable. The last unit included an examination of life in Ancient Greece.

In Year 9, we studied many important topics that brought light to the world we live in today. 2020 was an extremely eventful year with a global pandemic and notable social movements. This year has given us a deeper understanding of the world and more confidence in our knowledge during times of confusion and ignorance. What we learnt was so relevant because we were able to study about the Black Death and the Spanish

Flu whilst living in the middle of a pandemic.

We could follow live elections results and watch as politicians campaigned in both New Zealand and the United States. The girls voted in mock elections, wrote letters to Jacinda Ardern urging her to reduce the voting age, made pomanders to protect themselves from disease (as they did in the time of the Plague), and enjoyed a visit to the school from David Seymour who spoke to them about the ‘End of Life’ Bill.

The Year 10 programme focussed on current global issues and forecasting the future. Students found out about “Fake News”, looked at issues around trade and inequality, climate change and the threat of war. The start of the year saw students looking at how New Zealand emerged as a nation with an emphasis on Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The students across all classes all enjoyed the annual Tea Party, where they represented women who were considering migrating to New Zealand in the early 1800s – there was much fun to be had!

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SENIOR SCHOOL Technology Down in the basement of the Information Centre building lurk some creative minds and talented hands. And while 2020 had its challenges, the year was no different when it came to the fantastic things being created and churned out by St Cuthbert’s Technology students across the year levels. Not all ambitious plans came to fruition but regardless of the outcome, students pushed their ideas, challenged their thinking and learned lots of skills along the way.

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Looking to the future The Technology programme always aims to be future-focussed, from the resources and equipment we offer, to the themes we explore with our students. We were excited about playing with some new toys in 2020 such as a digital sublimation printer and we have added to our family of laser cutters with our new Glowforge cutter.

Of course, we can’t think about the future without considering Sustainability. In 2020 students explored food waste, fabric upcycling, zero-waste furniture, and communicating sustainable lifestyles via apps and websites. Year

10 Food Technology students developed some fascinating concoctions using some of the ‘most commonly wasted foods’, lots of yummy muffins, and a couple of ‘interesting’ lettuce smoothies.

With the introduction of the new Senior Academy uniform, upcycling of the previous school uniform items became a popular and topical context for many Textiles students. Year 13 student, India Swney, created a patchwork dress for Ms Mahon to don at more casual School events, while Brookelyn Muir from Year 10, used five of the previous blue shirts to make her shirred puff-sleeve top.

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Life in lockdown Trying to check construction or correct a sketching technique via distance learning was a real challenge. And yet, the uniqueness of 2020 and its lockdowns also brought to light the importance of Technology subjects and the skills and outcomes they can provide. As the pace of many families' lives were forced to slow down, many began to see the value in forgotten pastimes. We relied on skills in the kitchen as shops ran out of our favourite foods and our local takeaways were closed; and we turned to sewing when we scrambled to source a face covering for our commute back to school. Year 10 Textiles students tested and reviewed different face mask tutorials and examined how our perceptions change with time and context. Throughout the

world we saw 3D printing enthusiasts using their printers to make parts for ventilators, a skill our students learn in the classroom also.

Fortunately, our Digital Technology students had everything they needed at home to continue with their learning and were able to put their independence and initiative to the test as they worked in isolation.

It goes without saying that our digital devices became a crucial part of daily life during lockdowns, and our tech-savvy students adapted to the changes with ease.

Students under the spotlight A Technology Exhibition evening to showcase the successes of our Senior students perfectly culminated at the end of the year and provided a wonderful opportunity for the St Cuthbert’s

community to see what the girls had been working on. From the minute displays went up, there was a buzz in the Atrium as younger girls looked in awe at what our Senior students had been able to produce. Some standouts were the epic model made by Year 12 DVC student, Emma Akeroyd, and the stunning ball gown by fellow Year 12 student, Fiona Wu. Parents loved engaging with student-made apps on the iPads, and were impressed by 3D sketches of perfume bottles, and architectural spaces.

The night, and indeed the year, was a huge success and Technology students should be very proud of all that they achieved. We look forward to something even bigger and better for 2021.

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SENIOR SCHOOL Visual Arts Teaching Art in lockdown What a year 2020 has been for everyone!

Tuesday 24th March was when the College trialed an online learning practice for Years 10 – 13 from home. And then, as quickly as that, we were in lockdown. It was impressive to experience the many ways that Art staff prepared and ran their classes during those weeks, the teamwork involved and the inventive ways staff overcame the challenges that lockdown presented. For standards in the Visual Arts, students needed access to basic art-making materials (paper, pens, pencils, paint) and internet access for artist research.

Despite those basics not always being available, students researched, and developed ideas in the visual arts, explored drawing in its many forms, developed ideas and media, and critiqued work with the help of their teachers.

So what does E-learning look like in a paint class, a printmaking class or photography class? Below is one example from a Year 9 option class.

Year 9 Art Students create ‘Miniature Worlds’ in lockdown.

Students who take year 9 option art took up the challenge of shooting an alternative version of photographed ‘Miniature worlds’ with their phones, or cameras available at home.

Usually these small worlds are shot with school cameras, tripods and a range of tiny figures and props that allow comparison to the photographic artists they have researched.

The challenge for students over the weeks away from school was to be inventive, resourceful, and demonstrate risk-taking, while making witty, fun and unusual contrasts between real-life objects and areas in their ‘bubbles,’ using their own small props, toys, figurines and homemade objects. The subjects explored took inspiration from the artists studied, often using food and work as themes.

Some students broadened the parameters to include re-enactments of movies, fairy tales and sports.

The resulting images are a few that have been submitted, and range in subject from the iconic Lego figures and movies, to outdoor rock walls, breakfast tables and more.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Milla Parore, Ariella Grant, Layla Woodland, Emily Chapman, Briony Doo, Sophia Harris, Emily Chapman

Artist’s Visit - Artist Xiangzhou Tai Before lockdown, on March 12th, the Artist Xiangzhou Tai, father of Xiangru Tai in year 8, visited our Visual Arts Department at lunchtime. He spoke to us about his background and his art practice. All senior art students were encouraged to attend and were thrilled to learn about Mr. Tai’s art and to see images of these very large works.

Xiangzhou Tai explained that he works on silk-derived paper with both traditional Chinese ink and watercolour He exhibits his work internationally and has pieces in major galleries like the Art Institute of Chicago and the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.

Tai’s work dates back to the 17th-century Chinese tradition of painting rocks as a means of self-expression. Trained in calligraphy as a child, Tai continues this

tradition while connecting it to astronomy and science. He now works around the idea of “Speculative Cosmologies”, or more simply, how he sees the universe.

Both students and staff were delighted by his lecture and thrilled to have had this opportunity.

We would love to repeat this experience for our younger students and there was even discussion about Tai taking a workshop with the girls, if time permitted.

SENIOR SCHOOL Professional Practice / Design as part of AUTs DesignEx Programme

Professional Practice is part of AUT's DesignEx Programme and is a vital part of their students’ educational experience. This year, the Art Faculty supported Jennia Deng who is interested in becoming an art teacher. Jennia Deng is an old girl of the College from 2011 to 2015, and is currently a third-year student at AUT University studying Digital Design.

Together, we wrote a Design brief for Jennia.

She was to make a short video that showcased the Art Faculty and would work as both a record of the range of activities undertaken in term 3 and as a promotional product for the faculty. We gave Jennia complete artistic ownership, access to all studios and to all year

Workshops & Visiting Tutors Scholarship Workshops taken by Deb Smith Deb Smith is a Photographer who, at one time, taught at St Cuthbert’s College and later taught at Unitec (Tertiary). She has several photographic clients and each year, she is involved in innovative creative projects which she shares with our students. Most noteably, she is the brains and heart behind Cloud Workshop, an art programme for young people dealing with the death of someone in their immediate family.

Deb has taken workshops with our Year 13 students for well over a decade.

As in past years, the Workshops in 2020 ran across two nights and were a great way to kick start the year.

Visual Arts Scholarship students and the Year 13 IB students were given a Brief and in response did some ‘making’. The sessions are always creative and fun and a very rich learning task. Outcomes often develop new ideas to be explored in later work.

New artistic models extend students’ ideas.

Students learn to take risks in their work, to experiment and to share their findings.

levels. After some discussion with staff, Jennia formulated an approach, undertook the filming, and then used Premier Pro to edit the footage.

Jennia enjoyed being back at the College and described the experience as a very positive one. The faculty is delighted by her results.

They now have a digital record that showcases art activities and lessons and celebrates the classes working at all levels.

Term 4 Secondary Schools Wallace Art Awards 2020 On the 7th of October, Ms Cullinane and Ms Mihaljevich accompanied Caitlin Taylor-Maddock to the ninth Secondary Schools Wallace Art Awards 2020 at the Pah Homestead. The awards ceremony consisted

of exhibition viewing, acknowledgment of all participants and finalists, and the presentation of prizes to the top 3 winners. This year, the competition had over 400 entries from around New Zealand, and two students from St Cuthbert’s College were selected as finalists – year 12 student Amanda Tao and year 13 student Caitlin Taylor-Maddock.

Caitlin received Highly Commended and prize money of $200. Sir James Wallace later purchased Caitin’s artwork ‘’Lorem Academy’’ for the Wallace Arts Trust collection.

Well done Caitlin!

Painting Workshops taken by Heather Mandeno

Art and Design Workshops taken by Simon Ogden

At level 1 NCEA Art and at Year 13 IB Art, a watercolour workshop with tutor, Heather Mandeno, added another direction in subject matter – landscape. This element was explored with outstanding integration in the second internal and further lifted student performance and original outcomes in paint.

Another artist who has a long association with St Cuthbert’s College is Simon Ogden.

Workshops with Simon have always been an integral part of the Level 3 and Scholarship courses and of the IB Programme. This year was no exception. Simon is a senior Artist and between lockdowns, Simon took workshops across all disciplines. In his own work, Simon moves across painting, object-making, design, printmaking, photography and drawing.

We value the way in which he works in our studios, extending the students’ learning by developing the communication of their ideas and by asking the students about the intentions behind their work. He pushes their ideas and imagery through critiques and through the introduction of new artistic models. Below we can see Simon working with the students in the Printmaking studio.

Heather taught art at the College for many years and it is a great thrill for staff and students when she is able to return to take workshops.

In her classes, the students receive expert tuition and produce folio works suitable for their external folios and exhibitions. The students’ skills and knowledge of watercolour painting are both developed and extended from both Heather’s own practice and her masterful teaching.

Deb Smith

Heather Mandeno

Simon Ogden

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The photography artist Hendrik Kersten (also Dutch) was the inspiration for the photography shoot, following his portraits of his daughter in 1995, that create a humorous dialogue between past and present art and the re-purpose, recycle and remaking, with found objects against a world gone mad in the manufacture of clothing and accessories.

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The Sustainable build The overall theme that underpins Year 10 Option art, acknowledges our need to look at sustainable materials and concepts that consider our impact on our environment. The maquette structures made, required students to work from a design brief, constructing an architectural habitable home for one, that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings on our ever-changing environment changes.

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SENIOR SCHOOL Sport

Senior School Athletics Champions Year 7 Champions 1st = Scarlett Robb and Zari Lindsay 3rd Jetta McKenzie

Year 8 Champions

1st Francesca Wright 2nd = Samantha Bradley and Grace Meredith

Junior Champions

1st Charlotte Goldsmith 2nd Lily Allen 3rd Zara Ford

Intermediate Champions 1st Olivia Power 2nd Sonya Ha 3rd Abbey Moody

Senior Champions 1st = Isabel Allen and Peyton Leigh 3rd Violette Perry

Athletics Charlotte Goldsmith broke two College Sport records at the AKSS Central Zone Athletics Champs in Triple Jump and Long Jump; Charlotte also won the Junior Girls' 100m

and Junior Girls' 200m. Sophie Robb won the Junior Girls' 1500m and 3000m. Lily Allen was 2nd in the Junior Girls' 200m and 300m.

Sonya Ha placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' Long Jump, 2nd in the intermediate Girls' 100m and 2nd in the Intermediate Girls' 200m.

Olivia Power placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' High Jump and 3rd in the intermediate Girls' Long jump, while Katherine Fanelli placed 1st in the intermediate Girls' 80m Hurdles and 2nd in the intermediate Girls' Triple jump.

Abbey Moody placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' Javelin and 2nd in the intermediate Girls' discus. Violette Perry won the intermediate Girls' Discus, Shotput and Javelin events. Bella Browne was 2nd place in the Senior Women’s 1500m and Chloe Browne 3rd place in the Senior Women’s 1500m. Isabel Allen won the 100m, 200m and 400m Senior Girls' races.

Sonya Ha, Isabel Allen, Hannah Stewart and Ella Greenwood came 1st in the Senior Girls' 4x100m Relay. Olivia Power, Peyton Leigh, Chloe Browne and Isabel Allen came 1st in the Open Girls' 4x400m relay.

2nd in the 200m, 2nd in the 800m and 3rd in the High Jump and Sophie Yeoman placed 2nd in the Discus in the Year 7 Girls' category.

At the Year 7 and 8 Central Zone Athletics Champs, Scarlett Robb won the 1500m and 800m for Year 7 Girls. Zari Lindsay placed

We had a truly amazing weekend at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics and Road Race Champs, collecting a total of 12 medals across the weekend.

Our Year 8 students had some stand out performances as well. Grace Meredith placed 1st in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m. Samantha Bradley placed 3rd in the 1500m and 1st in the 800m. Nuria Hocken Cubi placed 3rd in the 100m and Jemma Nesdale placed 3rd in the High Jump.

Jemma Nesdale, Francesca Wright, Nuria Hocken Cubi and Lois Wolfgramm came 3rd in the Year 8 4x100m relay.

These students then went on to attend the Inter-Zone Athletics competition. There was amazing athletes from Auckland and the wider-Auckland region, creating a great experience for our girls to compete against the top schools.

Congratulations to Scarlett Robb who achieved 2 fantastic results coming 2nd in both the Year 7 Girls 1500m and 800m.

Junior Girls: Olivia Power: 2nd High Jump

Charlotte Goldsmith: 2nd 100m, 2nd Long Jump, 1st Triple Jump

Senior Girls: Peyton Leigh: 3rd 1500m

Chloe Browne: 1st 3000m, 2nd 2000m Steeplechase Bella Browne: 3rd 3000m, 1st 2000m Steeplechase

Relays: 1st Senior Girls 4x100m: Isabel Allen, Sonya Ha, Lily Allen, Charlotte Goldsmith 3rd Junior Girls 4x400m: Lily Allen, Olivia Power, Charlotte Greenwood, Zara Ford 1st Senior Girls 4x400m: Peyton Leigh, Chloe Browne, Bella Browne, Isabel Allen 120

SENIOR SCHOOL St Cuthbert’s had superb results at the annual Central Zone Badminton Tournament with Helen Liu placing 3rd in the Year 7 Singles and April Li and Yiwen Pan winning the Doubles title. As the winner of the Auckland and New Zealand Under 15 title this year, Lillian Cao was a favourite to win Year 8 Singles, and she didn’t disappoint.

Emily Luo placed 2nd in the Year 8 singles, while Chloe Li and Maria Yuan combined to win the Year 8 Doubles Final. Badminton still proves to be a popular sport with 18 teams signing up for the weekly school competition this year.

Our school Badminton team won the Northern Region Junior School Badminton tournament held in Tauranga. We won a close final 4-2 against Westlake Girls High School with our star player Lillian Cao anchoring our champion team. As a Year 8 student, plus being the current Auckland and NZ Under 15 champion, she has a big future in this sport. Our other players were Lily Yuan, Jessie Yan, Emily Li (all Year 10’s).

Basketball We had a total of three Senior teams playing in the Auckland Competition. We had a U15, U17 and U19 teams playing in mid-week games during across Auckland. Our Year 7&8 team gained some pleasing results in their Eastern League games, and had a strong showing at the Year 7&8 Central Zone Day where it gained 7th position.

Cricket The year was the first time in a while that St Cuthbert’s had a senior Cricket team. The girls started in term 1 and, not knowing their ability, were entered into the 1B Grade. The girls won the grade with ease and so for Term 4 were put into the Open T-20 grade against the best teams in Auckland. The girls trained hard and improved immensely throughout the season. The team ended up beating St Kentigern’s College in the semi-final and playing EGGS in the final.

EGGS batted first and our girls fielded well gaining 5 wickets and keeping EGGS to an achievable score of 120 runs.

St Cuthbert’s then went into bat with Emma Irwin and Kate Craig opening; the strong bowlers from Epsom Girls proved too fierce dismissing our opening batters within the first couple of overs. The girls fought hard but, at the end of the day, were outclassed by a very strong Epsom team!

The girls were still stoked to take away the silver medal and being with a team of mostly year 11s, are looking forward to getting back into it in term 1.

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Senior School Cross Country Champions Year 7 Champions 1st Scarlett Robb 2nd Zari Lindsay 3rd Ellie Siu

Year 8 Champions 1st Grace Meredith 2nd Samantha Bradley 3rd Madeline Vinall

Junior Champions 1st Sophie Robb 2nd Renee Zhang 3rd Hannah Piper

Intermediate Champions 1st Charlotte Greenwood 2nd Jaime Lewis 3rd Zara Stewart

Senior Champions 1st Peyton Leigh 2nd Chloe Browne 3rd Bella Browne

Cycling Unfortunately most of the cycling calendar was cancelled this year, but Kate Waters was lucky enough to get to compete the Auckland Schools Championship Series at the Pukekohe Car Racing Track in a composite team.

This year we had a new coach, Liam Bird who is a semi-professional Triathlete with a wealth of experience. Liam’s passion is to grow confident cyclists from beginners to experienced. We look forward to seeing this sport grow over the coming years.

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Senior School Sport (Continued) Dragon Boating We had 23 Year 12 and 13 students compete at the Regional Dragon Boating Championships, at Lake Pupuke this year.

The team was impressive in its attitude and competitive spirit achieving a Bronze medal in the 500m race. The girls were just out of the medals gaining 4th place by seconds in the 200m race, however the highlight of the day was a Bronze medal in the 2km race, as this was against 12 other schools including boys and mixed teams.

We were very excited about having 6 of our students named in the Auckland Representative squad: Lola Cox, Olivia Haskell, Molly Kaye, Maia Landell-Blair, Sofia Limbrick-Jones, Niamh Orr-Walker.

Duke of Edinburgh Numbers for Duke of Edinburgh participation are still growing with over 200 St Cuthbert’s students busy working through either their Bronze, Silver or Gold level. Congratulations to all of our Gold Award recipients. 2020 has set the bar high with the largest number of Gold Awards achieved so far.

Equestrian The highlight of the Equestrian year was the master class day in the art of Show-Jumping from NZ Olympic legend Blyth Tait. Our expert coach, Jacque Williams holds regular training sessions offering specialist advice to our riders in their various disciplines. College competitions are held during the year with the Ribbon Day specifically aimed at Year 7 and 8 riders. The stand out performance for the year was from Charlotte Penny who placed 2nd in the NZ Junior Eventing Championships

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by gaining top results in her Dressage, Show-Jumping and Cross Country disciplines.

Other riders have also had success winning regional competitions where they sometimes compete with adult riders. Congratulations to Morgan Abel-Pattinson, Jessica Sutherland and Sophia Hall.

Football The Year 7 and 8 team played in the 9-aside league after school, on Wednesdays, during the shortened term 2 season. Many of them have joined the term 4 coaching or are playing futsal to keep improving their skills ready for next year. We were lucky enough to have Mark Thompson and able assistant Callum McKenzie take over the reins of our 1st XI this season. They introduced new training ideas and match tactics, which our girls responded to with renewed confidence and a fresh approach. The highlight of the short season was a gritty away win versus Westlake Girls High School qualifying us for the top 6 playoffs. The team was led by captain Ruby Sussock while we also farewell fellow Year 13 players Jess Bessy and goalkeeper Brianna Hyland.

Futsal Futsal is a fast-growing sport at St Cuthbert’s as playing numbers have trebled during the year. With just 5 players per team on an indoor court, players need to have quick reactions and be creative. This local school competition is hosted by St Cuthbert’s after-school on Wednesdays.

Gym Sports The Year 7 and 8 gymnasts had a great year.

They practised with coaches from Tristar gym.

At the Central Zone Competition, we had some fantastic results. In the Year 7 Individual

competition, Samiya Cavney placed 1st. In the open Girls competition Esmee Boyes placed 2nd and in the Year 8 team competition, our girls placed 2nd. The Year 8 team members where Bella Fairbairn, Natalia Wilcox, Libby Jackson and Rebekah Breed.

Hockey Hockey was strong in Year 7 and Year 8 with four teams participating in their local competition. We saw a huge improvement in their skills over the course of the season, especially with the extra time for training and their lunch-time hitting practices. The girls continued to train rain or shine and constantly showed up for every training sessions despite the season they had. Their positivity to learn, excel and show resilience was truly remarkable.

We had 7 teams from Year 9-13 from the U15s right through to our Social 5th XI. The teams got in as many games as they could and improved a lot in the small time they were able to compete.

The 1st and 2nd XI teams were lucky enough to play out a full Auckland competition round this year. Both teams qualified for the A1 grade and did amazingly, the 2nd XI came away with the 5th place and our 1st XI won the grade for the sixth year straight. Both teams then got to compete at a tournament in the October holidays with teams from around the Upper North Island. The two teams stayed together and were fortunate to still have a tournament experience, even more special was that we had 13 siblings involved.

The 2nd XI gained a bronze medal in Division 2 beating Orewa College in shootout in their final. The 1xt XI won Gold in Division 1 beating Whangarei Girls in the final 3-0.

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Lacrosse Lacrosse is continuing to gain traction at St Cuthbert’s with numbers steadily on the rise. The girls played in the weekly College Sport competition against various schools from the greater Auckland region. This year, they were very fortunate to have Korenza Heath coach. Korenza is a representative player, who was able to pass on her knowledge and skills to the girls. Thanks also to the team Manager, Martin Lee.

Multisport We had some great results at the start of the year in the AKSS Multisport events. Samantha Bradley won the AKSS U14 Girls Individual Triathlon Champs. At AKSS Aquathon Champs, Sophie Robb won the U14 race, followed by Hannah Piper in 3rd and Samantha Bradley in 4th. Some of our senior Athletes competed in the U19 Teams event. Peyton Leigh and Hannah Milne won the Girls team event, followed by Chloe Browne and Grace Li in 2nd and Bella Browne and Amelia Wilby in 3rd.

Netball Netball continues to be St Cuthbert’s largest participation sporting code. We have students developing as players, coaches, managers and umpires throughout the season. Our Year 7&8 students participated in Tuesday night netball again this season, with 9 teams involved. The season finished on a high with the College running two weekend Netball

tournaments on site for the teams to play off against each other and our senior teams. Our top Year 7&8 teams both competed in the Central Zone Competition in August and had some great games against other top schools in the central Auckland region.

Our Premier team secured a place in the highly contested Premier 1 division after attending grading early on in the season. Led by Ruby Sussock, this team comprised a number of Year 9&10 athletes, which bodes well for future seasons. Our top Year 9&10 teams competed in the combined points tournament in August and all of our senior teams finished up the shortened season with two competitive tournaments run on site.

A special mention to Claudia English and Anna Hill who turned out week after week supporting the Netball programme in various roles.

Orienteering The challenge of quick map reading combined with varied running are elements of orienteering that hold appeal for our students. This year Orienteering was able to enjoy two short ‘seasons’; the FebruaryMarch Auckland Sprint Series and, in October-November, the North Island School Championships and Auckland Schools Rogaine. Congratulations to Rebecca Greenwood and Zara Stewart for selection to the New Zealand Secondary Schools Team for the Senior Girls.

Stand out performances were had by multiple students across the various events this year. At the Auckland Schools' Sprint Zones - Rebecca Greenwood placed 1st in the Senior Girls, Zara Stewart placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls, Grace McGregor-Macdonald 1st in the Junior Girls and Katelin Toes 2nd in the Junior Girls.

Biba Hermann placed 2nd in the Year 8, with Alicia Wu in 3rd and Zara Toes placed 1st in the Year 7.

At the North Island School Championships in the Long Distance Championship Event, Zara Stewart placed 1st in the Intermediate girls with Eliza Went 2nd in the Junior Girls, and Alicia Wu 3rd in the Year 7&8 section.

Zara Stewart also won the sprint event for Intermediate Girls. St Cuthbert’s Orienteering placed 1st in the Top School Competition for Year 7 and 8 Girls and 2nd in the Secondary School division for the Year 9-13 team.

The Year 9-13 girls were also 2nd in the Premier School Award, which recognises the achievement of the top orienteers in each school age grade. The Premier Team consisted of Rebecca Greenwood, Zara Stewart, Eliza Went and Grace McGregor-Macdonald.

For the Auckland Schools Rogaine, St Cuthbert’s Intermediate Girls Team came 1st, Sofia Toes and Zara Stewart, and 2nd, Grace Merrilees and Alisa Rao with our Junior Girls Team placing 2nd, Grace McGregor-Macdonald and Katelin Toes.

In the Individual Rogaine, Grace Liang placed 2nd in the Intermediate Girls.

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Senior School Sport (Continued) Rock Climbing Rock climbing is a club where students' physical strength and endurance are paired with their ability to problem solve.

This year’s Climbing Camp was more of a challenge than usual. On the first day out, climbing at Castle Rock in the Waikato, climbers were met with heavy rains and had to cut their climbs short (even after some attempts at climbing while it poured.)

Despite the mad dash back to the school van, the rest of the afternoon was filled with games and snacks, followed by an amazing dinner.

Luckily, the next day’s weather was rain-free and students were all able to enjoy more outdoor climbing and abseiling as well.

Rock Climbing Club is such an amazing opportunity, which is run by Ms Owens and Mr Howard who do a fantastic job, making it inclusive, challenging, and an all-around good time. We can’t wait to see what rock climbing has in store for students next year.

Rowing This year St Cuthbert’s took on the venture of putting together our own rowing team.

It started off small with Molly Cardwell-Dray and Nieve Campbell racing at the Aon Junior Regatta and North Island Secondary School Championships earlier in the year. After the 2019-2020 season was cut short, a Winter Learn to Row program was put together with the Waitemata Rowing Club. Expecting around 10 girls to sign up, we were ecstatic about the 31 girls we had join the program. The learn to row program was a great success; the girls had an amazing time and 20 of them moved on to become St Cuthbert’s first rowing squad! Over the past few months, the girls have been training hard, racing in their first official regatta on

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the 7th of November under Waitemata colours. The girls raced hard and achieved some fantastic results. We have an amazing group of girls rowing and we are so excited about seeing what we can do this season and where the programme will go next year.

Skiing In 2020, we had a team of students compete at the Auckland Primary and Intermediate School Ski Champs at Snowplanet.

Sophia Starrenburg won gold in both the slalom and slopestyle events for the Intermediate Snowboarding competition and Dina Ehsankya was awarded bronze in the Intermediate Ski category. In the 365 Schools Challenger Cup, Diana Ehsankya won all 3 events in the Year 7 and 8 girls' category and Hana Ehsankya won 2 of the events in the Year 9+ category and came 2nd in the 3rd event. Genevieve Lyne attended the Coronet Peak and Cardrona races this year and she really enjoyed her first season of Super G and SL full gates. Sophia Starrenburg competed at the SSNZ Junior National Snowboard Champs this season and placed 3rd overall in New Zealand for U14 girls.

Sophia also placed 2nd in NZ in boardercross and 2nd in the Jones banked slalom. Amélie Stow participated in the New Zealand Alpine Youth Championships at Cardrona. Amélie placed 5th in the U19 Slalom and 6th in the U19 Giant Slalom.

beach on Wednesdays after-school – weather and wave conditions permitting. The expert coaches from RAPU Adventures demonstrate all the skills required in an approved and safe environment.

Senior School Swimming Champions Year 7 Champions 1st Isabella Lambie 2nd Sophie Yeoman 3rd Scarlett George

Year 8 Champions 1st Mia Kelliher 2nd Daniella Van Delden 3rd Amy Su

Junior Champions 1st Hannah Piper 2nd Elisha Lam 3rd Islay Boyes

Intermediate Champions 1st Grace Li 2nd Abbey Moody 3rd Sofia Kelliher

Senior Champions 1st Hannah Milne 2nd Ruby Sussock 3rd Georgia Milne

Surfing

Swimming

Surfing is a great opportunity for students to learn a new skill and experience the exhilarating thrill of catching a wave. With equipment supplied, return van transport plus supervision from our keen surfer teachers Ms McMahon and Ms Crabbe, these weekly sessions are popular. They usually visit Piha

Our Year 7&8 Swimming team had a strong showing at the Central Zone Championships with both our Year 8 4x25m Freestyle Relay team consisting of Mia Kelliher, Amy Su, Isobel Denton and Daniella Van Delden and our Year 7&8 4x50m Open Medley relay team consisting of Isabella Lambie, Daniella Van

SENIOR SCHOOL SPORT Delden, Isobel Denton and Amy Su winning Gold. Isabella Lambie won the Year 7 50m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke and 50m Breaststroke at the Zone Championships in the individual events.

St Cuthbert’s had a 8 person strong team attend the New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships in Hamilton. Elisha Lam gained 3rd place in the 13 Under 200m Breaststroke, 2nd place in the 13 Under 50m Breaststroke and 2nd place in the 13 Under 100m Breaststroke.

represented the Northern regional team at the same event where it placed 3rd. Mei Ling Joensen-Lee and Xin- Xin Zhu gained 2nd place in the AKSS U14 Doubles.

Touch Rugby

Senior School Table Tennis comprised of 5 teams who took part in Friday afternoon matches in the Winter and Spring Table Tennis competitions. Unfortunately they were unable to get many weeks of competition done, but the students are looking forward to a better season next year.

Term 1 saw our Premier Touch Team competing in the College Sport One Day Tournament at Cox's Bay Reserve.

With the opportunity to play a number of games over one day, players fitness and game understanding improved immensely.

Our Year 7 and 8 Cavers Team played weekly competition games against other local schools on Friday evenings, at College Rifles. This is always a great competition with strong rivalries among schools. The girls also competed in the Central Zone tournament at Cox's Bay Reserve. With seven games played over the day, the girls skills and understanding of the game improved immensely.

Tennis

Tramping

Fantastic progress is being made by our Tennis students as they continue to train with the Sparta Academy on skill development and tactics at the weekly practice. The popular new ‘’coaching only’’ option is ideal for beginners. We had our usual strong results at the annual Year 7 and 8 Central Zone tournament with Xin-Xin Zhu placing 2nd in the Year 8 Singles, Charlie Bamford placing 2nd in the Year 7 Singles with Emma Zhao and Selina Zhou winning the Year 7 Doubles title. This year we had 12 teams compete in the Term 1 and 4 AKSS, Saturday Tennis Competition. Highlights this year include our Premier Grade team placing 4th and Renee Zhang finishing 4th in the NZ U16 Singles. Mei Ling Joensen-Lee helped her Auckland team win the 2020 National Junior U14 teams title, while Mala Krzanic-Sullivan

The tramping club has done three trips this year. In February, we took 20 girls to Waitawheta Valley in the Kaimai.

The girls walked in to an informal campsite in the forest, set up camp and then had a swim before dinner.

The second day involved a longer walk with a bit more uphill walking. In September, 20 girls went to the Pinnacles hut in the Coromandel. The morning involved a big uphill climb to the hut and then, in the afternoon, we climbed to the summit of the Pinnacles. In December, a group of fit, adventurous girls went down to Tongariro National Park to walk the Northern Circuit.

This is a fairly strenuous three day walk and includes the Tongariro Alpine Crossing on the second day. The trips are run by Mr and Mrs Bryden and Mr Howard

Table Tennis

These tramps are open to any student and some girls are using them to help qualify for the Duke of Edinburgh Hillary award.

Water Polo It was another strong year for our Water Polo programme in the Senior School.

We had a total of 16 teams across Years 7 to 13, gaining some great results in school competitions.

The year began with an incredible trip to the USA, where our Premier team toured California for 3 weeks, visiting several top universities such as Stanford, UCLA and USC and playing several top ranked high schools and in various high school tournaments. In a COVID-19 impacted year, our Premier Team managed to gain a silver medal in the Auckland Secondary Schools' Championships and a bronze medal in the Chris Hayward Invitational Tournament. Our Year 7 and 8 programme had a great year with many of our teams gaining pleasing results and showing some promising development for the future. Our Year 7 and 8 Blue team gained a bronze medal at the Winter Fest Year 7 and 8 Tournament and a bronze medal at the North Island Year 7 and 8 Championships in Tauranga. Our Year 9 and 10 program continues to grow, with 3 teams participating in the Auckland competition. Our Junior A team reached the final of the Auckland Junior Secondary School Competition.

Finally, we had several girls selected for the New Zealand Water Polo Premier League, which is a collection of the country’s top players; these players were Violette Perry, Ella Palmer, Georgia Milne, Chloe Tattersfield and Jessica Ingram. It has been a difficult year, but it was extremely rewarding to see so many teams get to play and gain such great results.

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Life Skills Experience Our Year 10 girls have shown great resilience this year with many interruptions to their Kahunui Life Skills programme due to COVID-19 restrictions. We are proud to say that despite the disruptions, we have been able to ensure that all Year 10s have been able to participate in the transformative Kahunui experience.

Now into our second decade, the campus is evolving with a spotlight on making the most of the amazing location in which the campus is based. Students have created and deepened connections with each other, themselves and the land. Our girls have focused on living in the moment, coming together as a team, and facing challenges with a positive mindset.

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Our 2020 intakes have had a fabulous time developing many new skills and trying new experiences such as Blokarting, wharf jumping, tramping, planting, cooking both indoors and outdoors, tenting and gaining huge confidence in their abilities.

‘Pay it Forward’ is an integral part of the programme, understanding Kaitiakitanga / guardianship and how students can contribute to the future sustainability of Kahunui.

Many trees have been planted by the 2020 intakes to protect the waterways and increase the native bush area.

The focus has been to look at ways of reducing waste and this included strategies such as improving the recycling process, minimising plastic waste by adapting the food

programme and taking action by successfully managing the reduction of food waste in their houses. All girls leave Kahunui with an greater understanding of why a trapping programme is so important. They develop an understanding of what a bait station is, learn how to set a stoat trap, check for vermin when walking the trapping lines and enjoy the Kahunui native bush.

Our Year 10 girls have taken Kahunui in their stride with positive attitudes, relishing the routines and the opportunity to develop new skill sets. They take away many happy and formative memories and it has been lovely to observe them taking time to enjoy this wonderful place.

—Gail Morrison, Acting Head of Campus

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CULTURAL Groups

Little did we know what was in store for New Zealand and the rest of the world when we learnt that Polyfest would be cancelled the day before it was due to go ahead, back in March 2020. This also meant Po Fiafia, our much-loved and hugely popular Cultural Showcase could not happen due to COVID-19 restrictions. The girls worked so hard on their Cultural dances and perfected their moves ready for the exciting week of performances and competition. Almost 200 students from Years 9 to 13 take part in Cultural groups each year. At Polyfest, kapa haka, Samoan, Tongan and Cook Islands groups have separate stages and groups can

choose to enter either competitive or noncompetitive. Meanwhile Turkish, Tibetan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Indian, Thai and Korean groups all perform on the Diversity Stage. The practice schedule for the lead up to Po Fiafia and Polyfest is intense, starting as soon as we start back at school in each new year through to the end of March. Performing in Cultural groups is not only beneficial for students to showcase their own culture or learn about and embrace a new culture, it also provides an opportunity for students to practise their skills in being reliable, performing, being a team player, having a positive attitude and being resilient. Before the full lockdown was

announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, we had a day to turn around a handful of amateur video performances for posterity; which were filmed in the Clouston Hall. Once we returned from our first lockdown, some groups also performed in assembly. There’s nothing like performing at Po Fiafia though and we look forward to having Po Fiafia in March 2021. Thank you to all the group leaders who work so hard organising everyone and keep the spirits and high ensuring there were smiles on the faces of the students, Thank you, too, for being amazing role models.

—Issy Coleman, Dean of Durham

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SENIOR SCHOOL Prize Giving Cups and Trophies 2020 Junior Champions Junior Badminton Champion Yi Jia Chen Junior Cross Country Champion Sophie Robb Most Improved Runner Zara Ford Junior Water Polo Most Valuable Players Bianca Pennington, Emison Styris Mackenzie Cup for Swimming Hannah Piper Phillippa Joyce Cup for Athletics Charlotte Goldsmith

Intermediate Champions Intermediate Badminton Champion Lily Yuan Intermediate Cross Country Champion Charlotte Greenwood Rebecca Lawson Cup for Tennis Imogen Weenink Sandra Robinson Intermediate Memorial Cup for Swimming Grace Ma Li Susan Oliver Cup for Athletics Olivia Power

Senior Champions Anne Curtis Trophy for Tennis Sylvie Ruahe Betty Barclay Trophy for Tennis Open Doubles Sylvie Ruahe, Emmeline Duncan Fyfe Netball Trophy for Sportsmanship Ayja Shaw, Ruby Shaw Games Committee Cup for Service to Sports Keita Elliott Games Committee Cup for Athletics Isabel Allen Josie Sinclair Cup for Cross Country, Games Committee Cup for Athletics Peyton Leigh Nancy Anderson Cup for Best All Round Sportsperson Chloe Browne One Tree Hill Memorial Cup for Netball Player of the Year Ruby Sussock Senior Badminton Champion Jennifer Zhang Senior Water Polo MVP Cup Georgia Milne, Jessica Ingram Service and Involvement in Winter Ball Sports Anna Hill, Claudia English

Betty Glanville Memorial Cup for Swimming Open Medley, Candy Filters Cup for Swimming Hannah Milne John Wigglesworth Trophy for Involvement in the Sports Centre Kate Craig Gwen Spencer Memorial Prize for Leader of the Games Committee Charlotte Penny Gwen Spencer Memorial Prize for Leader of the Games Committee, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Rachel Denny The Nicky Bason Braveheart Cup Ella Greenwood Wilcox Cup for Soccer Player of the Year Jessica Bessey Alf Postles Memorial Prize for Cricket Emma Irwin Hockey Player of the Year Hannah Stewart Sherilyn White Scholarship, Nancy Anderson Cup for Best All Round Sportsperson Violette Perry

Athletics NZ Track and Field Championship – 1st U18 3000m, 1st U18 1500m Peyton Leigh NZ Track and Field Championship – 1st U18 Javelin Abbey Moody Oceania Track and Field Championship – 1st 3000m Isabella Richardson

Badminton NZ U15 Singles Champion and Nationals Doubles Champion Lillian Cao

Hockey North Island Hockey Tournament Winners 1st XI Hockey U18 New Zealand Hockey Squad Hannah Stewart, Brodie Cochrane U21 New Zealand Māori Hockey Team Jaime Lewis, Brodie Cochrane

Orienteering NZSS Orienteering Championship Team Zara Stewart, Rebecca Greenwood NZISS Orienteering Championship – 1st Intermediate Sprint and Long Championship Zara Stewart

Water Polo New Zealand U20 Women’s Water Polo Team Jessica Ingram, Georgia Milne, Ella Palmer, Chloe Tattersfield, Violette Perry NISS Junior Water Polo Championship – 1st Junior A Water Polo 129

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International, National & North Island Trophies

House Awards

Prize List 2020

2020

Year 7

Elizabeth Caughey Cup for House Flowers Lindisfarne

Top Academic Achievement Bianca Brdanovic

Sports Cup for House Sports Elgin Beverley Parkinson Cup for House Performance Lindisfarne Black Watch Cup for Champion House Elgin, Lindisfarne

Top Academic Achievement Emily Cheng Top Academic Achievement Georgiana McGregor-Macdonald Top Academic Achievement Claire Shen Top Academic Achievement Ellie Siu Top Academic Achievement Zara Toes Certificate of Achievement Zana Levett-McSkimming Certificate of Achievement Freya Mei Certificate of Achievement Arya Naidu Certificate of Achievement Scarlett Robb Certificate of Achievement Eveleen Tan Certificate of Achievement Eassin Wang

Year 8 Top Academic Achievement Victoria Cole Top Academic Achievement Ava Dilly Top Academic Achievement Priyanka Gai Top Academic Achievement Alicia Wu Top Academic Achievement Xin-Xin Zhu Certificate of Achievement Freya Reid Certificate of Achievement Julia Sung Certificate of Achievement Bonnie Wang Certificate of Achievement Mischa Weenink Certificate of Achievement Olivia Wei

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Certificate of Achievement Helena Wong Certificate of Achievement Ciara Wynn Trust Board Scholars' Award Winner Ava Dilly Top Academic Achievement, The Sydney Old Girls' Association Award for Citizenship and All Round Excellence Isobel Denton

Year 9 Top Academic Achievement Zoe Clacher Top Academic Achievement Xuanjing Li Top Academic Achievement Grace McGregor-Macdonald Top Academic Achievement Aanya Naidu Top Academic Achievement Sophie Robb Top Academic Achievement Madeleine Proctor Top Academic Achievement Elizabeth Zhang Certificate of Achievement Estelle Lee Certificate of Achievement Olivia Merrilees Certificate of Achievement Anushka Ram Certificate of Achievement Katelin Toes Certificate of Achievement Angel Wan Certificate of Achievement Belle Yin Certificate of Achievement Ena Yin Certificate of Achievement Kelly Zeng English Department Spelling Cup Teresa Yu

Ethel Thatcher Memorial Cup for Diligence Jennifer Liu Ida Gray Cup for Oratory Layla Woodland Certificate of Achievement, Junior Science Writing Hershal Randhawa Certificate of Achievement, Junior Music Composition Prize Jifei Shao Year 9 Literature Prize Fiona He Year 9 Writing Award Dilani Dinesh Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Dawn Chen Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Mei Ling Joensen-Lee Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Jessie Ju Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Lavinia Mahadevan Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Emily Robinson Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Georgia Wilcox Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Sienna Williams

Year 10 Top Academic Achievement Fiona Chen Top Academic Achievement Georgie Huxford Top Academic Achievement Dian Kun Yin Top Academic Achievement Grace Liang Top Academic Achievement Grace Merrilees

Certificate of Achievement Alexandra Bow Certificate of Achievement Rebekah Hall Certificate of Achievement Elizabeth Hardiman Certificate of Achievement Natalia Pretscherer Certificate of Achievement Olivia Smith Certificate of Achievement Charlotte Wren

Business Studies Zoe Shand Business Studies Hannah Williams Chemistry and Physics Grace Pui Chemistry and Physics Charlotte Wen Chinese Ella Qiao Core Science Poppy Paterson-Boock Dance Charlotte Ng Waishing

Certificate of Achievement Grace Wu

Design and Visual Communication Bhavleen Kaur

Year 10 Photo Life Studios Award Debbie Zhang

Digital Media Technology Amélie Stow

Taylor Cup for Oratory, Year 10 Literature Prize Kenisha Sarda

Drama Jessica Went

Taylor Cup for Oratory, Year1 0 Writing Award Faith Chadha Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Tiama Bennett Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Lucy Chaddock Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Brookelyn Muir Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Angelina Pang Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Cindy Zhao Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Cate Denny Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Natalie Lamb

Economics Brooke Wong French Mirabelle Williams Geography Maria Gong History Emma McGeorge Latin Ishannita Chaudhuri Mathematics Ena Yin Mathematics Belle Yin Mathematics Fiona He Mathematics Fiona Chen Mathematics Dian Kun Yin Mathematical Studies Isabel Chaplin Music Jaclyn Wang

Production Science Cayla Huang Science with Biology Tingmeng Wang Spanish Julie Li

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Top Academic Achievement Imogen Weenink

Year 11

Year 12 Business Studies Anna McKenzie Classical Studies Sarah Boswell

Spanish Romy Lee

Design and Visual Communication Sofia Barron

Te Reo Māori Lylah Va’a

French Victoria Ryan

Textiles Technology Vera Wang

French Brea Bertram

Visual Arts Jennifer Wang

Latin Brena Merz

Accounting, Physical Education Emma Irwin

Mathematics with Calculus Sophie Robb

English, Hewitt Cup for Top English Scholar Rosa Hollister Asian Friendship Group Prize in Chinese Matilde Cullen

Mathematics with Calculus Georgie Huxford Mathematics with Calculus Romy Lee Mathematics with Calculus Julie Li

Nairn Prize for Mathematics Brena Merz

Photography Amanda Tao

Year 11 Reading Award Zoe Fischer

Physical Education Chloe Browne

Year 11 Science Writing Prize Faenza Hiroti

Spanish Olivia Lawgun

Anne Clark Cup for Public Speaking, Year 11 Writing Award Meagan Tupuola-Faalogo

Te Reo Māori Maioha Holmes

Sally Jamieson Visual Arts Scholarship Tania Lin Parents and Friends’ Silver Award MacKenzie Glover Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Juliana Guanhe Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Sarah Lock Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Eden Stowers Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Sydney Yang

Business Studies, Mae Lovie Speech and Drama Memorial Trophy Arabella Patrick Chinese, Asian Friendship Group Prize in Chinese Taelim Kim English Writing, Printmaking Sophia Wood Art Design, Geography, Painting Vanessa Chen Dance, Film and Media Studies, Mathematics with Statistics Cushla Hemingway Digital Media Technology, Mathematical Studies, Visual English Fern Webster

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Top Academic Achievement Alisa Rao

Prize List 2020 Year 12 (continued) Economics, Physics, NZIP Physics Prize Amy Huxford Biology, Chemistry, Physics, NZIP Physics Prize Ashley Ganda Classical Studies, Drama,Film and Media Studies, Bews Prize for Literature Helena Haldane Production Science, Textiles Technology, Argyle Schoolwear Prize for Textiles, The Clayton Charitable Trust Scholarship for Horticultural Science Henrietta Mackie Accounting, Chemistry, English, History, Music Demira Singh Carr Cup for Oratory Jennifer Zhang Faculty of Arts Award for Social Science Bella Wright Senior Science Writing Emma Akeroyd Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Katya De Silva Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Felcia Fong Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Grace Qin Top Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate, Fay Pearce Scholarship for English Phoebe Jones Top Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate, NZIP Physics Prize Jenny Yuan Hanna Cup for Service in the Boarding House, Senior Writing Scholarship Charlotte Berry Duke of Edinburgh Gold 132

Award Hayley Minturn Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Riley Atkinson Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Brodie Cochrane Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Sinaitakala Langi Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Nikeisha Parsot Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Fiona Wu Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Nieve Campbell Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Lucinda Cullen Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Mathilda Howson

Year 13 Calculus Silei Wang Chinese Helen Liu Music Chloe Chen Photography Connie Wing Physical Education Miranda Rex Te Reo Māori Faenza Hiroti Drama, Student Council Award for Support of and Dedication to the College Madeline Lamb Textiles Technology, Claudia Clatworthy Technology Award Gabriele von Wallmoden Mathematical Studies, DGE Brown Commerce Prize, Senior Prose Prize Maxie de Man

Art History, Printmaking, Art Cup for Overall Top Achiever in Visual Arts, NZIP Physics Prize, Qureshi Family Prize in Physics – Top Academic Award Yi Ran Zhang Art Cup for Most Dedicated Art Student Jingwen Zheng Asian Friendship Group Prize in Chinese Bi Lin Zhu Cup for Excellence in Dance Performance Brianna Dixon Judy Walsby Science Award Briar Amos Music Cup for Classical Performance, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Sophie Li Netta Simich Prize for Music Zoe Robinson Senior Music Composition Prize Grace Mora Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Bianca Roberts Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Sophie Henwood Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Yolanda Huo Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Charlotte Matthews Leader of Junior School Committee Natania Thomas Leader of Service Committee Anna Hill Leader of Visual Arts Committee Jeri Misa Leader of Visual Arts Committee Starr Zhang

Leader of Year 7 and 8 Committee Alayna Willis-Baker Leader of Communications Committee, English Literature with Writing, Printmaking, The Art+Object Award for Visual Arts Willow Handy Leader of Junior School Committee, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Olivia Haskell Leader of Service Committee, Accounting, DGE Brown Commerce Prize Sarah White Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Wenqing Nan The University of Auckland Faculty of Arts Entry Level Undergraduate Scholarship Maia Landall-Blair The University of Auckland Top Achiever Scholarship, Latin, Old Girls' Association, Kathleen Goulding Prize for Latin Sophie Paine Auckland University of Technology School Leaver Scholarship – Significant Student Autumn Brown University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, House Leader of Lindisfarne, Chemistry, Statistics Arabella Cryer University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, Leader of Development Committee, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Chloe Tattersfield University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, Leader of Global Citizenship Committee, Parents and Friends’ Silver Award Olivia Thompson

University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, University of Canterbury Engineering Top Scholars' Award, Edna Waddell Scholarship for Women in Technology and Engineering, Leader of Global Citizenship Committee, English Literature, Physics, Old Girls' Association Ruth Owen Prize for History Amber Waymouth

Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Leader of Performing Arts Committee, Dance, Eve Brown Achievement Award Eva Matheson

Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Charlotte Bolton Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Head Librarian Sammy Cole Victoria University of Wellington, Tangiwai Scholarship, House Leader of Dunblane, Biology, French Hannah Fan Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Georgia Fyfe Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Head Librarian, Biology, Mathematics, Joan Holland Poetry Award Rebecca Greenwood Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Amanda Huang Victoria University of Wellington Totoweka Scholarship Molly Kaye Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Rhea Lakhdhir

Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Leader of Communications Committee Rosalind McCallum Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Brijana Shao Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Leader of Performing Arts Committee, Pippa Sinclair Cup for Leadership in Music Cate Sharma Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Olivia Skegg Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship Caitlin Taylor-Maddock Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Lead Academic Mentor, Parents and Friends’ Gold Award, Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Carlie Yung Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Dawn Zhang University of Otago Leaders of Tomorrow Entrance Scholarship Allegra Bruce

University of Otago New Frontiers Entrance Scholarship, Leader of Year 7 and 8 Committee, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Anna Harrison University of Otago Academic Excellence Entrance Scholarship, Leader of Development Committee, Classical Studies, Spanish Lola Cox University of Otago 150th Entrance Scholarship, Film and Media Studies, Production Science Hannah Harris University of Otago New Frontiers Entrance Scholarship, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Sophie Monks University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship Georgia Milne University of Otago Leaders of Tomorrow Entrance Scholarship, House Leader of Elgin, Old Girls’ Association Award for Citizenship Hannah Went University of Otago Leaders of Tomorrow Entrance Scholarship, Parents and Friends’ Gold Award Giulliana Winter University Scholarship Marist College New York Jessica Ingram Yale University Scholarship, Chemistry Violette Perry Lead Academic Mentor, Student Council Award for Support of and Dedication to the College Isabella Wright

House Leader of Melrose India Swney House Leader of York, Waikato Old Girls’ Association Cup for Service in the Boarding House, Development Cup for the Year 13 Student Most Respected by her Year Group Caitlin Reelick College Prefect Keita Elliott College Prefect Paloma Nicholls College Prefect, Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Flora Pang College Prefect, University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship Roisin Buckley College Prefect, University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Ella Greenwood College Prefect, University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, Visual English Amelia Barrett College Prefect, Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Music Cup for Jazz Performance, Music Cup for Vocal Performance Keying Huo-Smith College Prefect, Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, PWC Mentor Scholarship, Carr Cup for Oratory, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Noor Randhawa House Prefect of Kelso Hannah Stewart House Prefect of Melrose Mel Nosseir

House Leader of Durham Shania Sami

House Prefect of York Bella McDonald

House Leader of Iona Zoe Perkins

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University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, House Leader of Kelso, Statistics Molly Want

Prize List 2020

External Awards 2020

House Prefect of Dunblane, University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship Niamh Orr-Walker

Auckland Science Fair

House Prefect of Iona, University of Canterbury Hiranga Scholarship, Art Design, Qureshi Family Prize in Physics – Top Contribution Award Stella Stiven

Physical World - 2nd Samantha Bradley

House Prefect of Durham, Massey University Business School Future Leaders Scholarship, Business Studies Leilani Fa’aiuaso House Prefect of Lindisfarne, The University of Auckland Top Achiever Scholarship, The Egmont Trust Trophy for Music Leadership, Top Academic Excellence in International Baccalaureate Belinda Hu Head of Boarding Tulyahna Pulotu McCarthy Deputy Head Girl, University of Auckland Top Achiever Scholarship, Economics, Old Girls' Association Irene Fife Prize for Geography Millie Caughey Deputy Head Girl, Victoria University of Wellington Tangiwai Scholarship, Film and Media Studies, Amess Cup for Excellence in Drama Performance Nellie McKegg Head Girl, University of Otago Academic Excellence Entrance Scholarship, Special Award from the Old Girls’ Association for Head Girl Ruby Sussock Dux Belinda Hu Proxime Accessit Amber Waymouth

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Living World - 1st Grace Meredith

Drama Shakespeare Competition Winners 2020

The Comedy of Errors - Best Comedy Duo Madeline Lamb, Hannah Fan

Senior Science - 1st Belinda Hu

Romeo and Juliet - 1st Geneva Ryan

The Comedy of Errors - Best Ensemble Madeline Lamb, Hannah Fan, Nellie McKegg, Sarah White, Arabella Cryer, Hannah Went, Amelia Barrett

Special Prizes

Macbeth - 2nd Amelia Barrett

Commerce

SGCNZ/Adam Foundation Shakespeare Static Image Competition

Auckland Accounting Case Competition - 1st Noor Randhawa, Sarah White, Stella Stiven

NZ Coastal Society Prize Silver, NIWA Auckland Prize, Best Atmospheric and Water Science - Platinum Dawn Zhang The University of Auckland Faculty Award - Gold, NIWA Best Overall Exhibit in the Fair - Premier Platinum, Nomination for the Prime Minister's Science Award Belinda Hu

Biology Silver Certificate Biology Olympiad Zoe Robinson

Chemistry Silver Certificate in Chemistry Olympiad National Training Group Brena Merz Silver Certificate in Chemistry Olympiad National Training Group Jessica Gong Silver Certificate in Chemistry Olympiad National Training Group Ashley Ganda Silver Certificate in Chemistry Olympiad National Training Group Jenny Yuan

SGCNZ/Adam Foundation Shakespeare Poster Competition

Macbeth - 2nd Connie Wing

Young Enterprise

SGCNZ/Adam Foundation Shakespeare Video Title Card Competition - 1st Yi Ran Zhang

You and ï 1st and Paying it Forward Excellence Award, Auckland Central Company of the Year

SGCNZ/Morrison Music Trust Shakespeare Music Composition Competition – two sections

Koa & Co 2nd and Excellence in Promotion, Auckland Central Company of the Year

Music composition inspired by a Shakespeare play - 1st, Supreme winner over both sections Grace Mora

Auckland Central Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand University of Otago, Sheilah Winn Festival in 2020 Twelfth Night- Best Communication with the Audience Eva Matheson, Nellie McKegg, Helena Haldane, Cate Sharma, Jeri Misa Measure for Measure - Best Adult Director Stella Cossey, Renee Cossey, Madeline Lamb, Megan Hails, Noor Randhawa, Mel Nossier, Hannah Fan

Talsh Hoodies Excellence in Communication

English United Nations Association of New Zealand Speech Awards 2020 - 2nd Demira Singh

Languages American National Latin Exam

Gold summa cum laude Phoebe Jones Silver maxima cum laude Keying Huo-Smith Auckland Junior French Speech Competition 2020 - 1st Ciara Wynn National Spanish Speech Competition Level 1 - 1st Julie Li

University of Otago Junior Mathematics Competition Year 9 - 1st in NZ Ena Yin

The Glad Thomas ‘By Love Serve’ Award Intake 8, 2019 Florence Cook

Year 9 - 2nd equal in NZ Belle Yin

Intake 1 Grace Merrilees, Maataua Tanielu-Seve

Year 10 - 1st in NZ Grace Wu

Intake 2 Not awarded in 2020 due to lockdown

Australian Mathematics Competition

Intake 3 Rose Aleksich, Ellen Lucas

Year 9 - 100 Percentile Rank Belle Yin

Intake 4 Scarlett Featherstone

Year 10 - 100 Percentile Rank Grace Wu

Intake 5 Irina Wong

New Zealand Mathematics Olympiad Team, Silver Award and selected for the Training Camp Brena Merz

Intake 6 Natalie Lamb

Silver Award and selected for the Training Camp Ena Yin

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Kahunui Awards 2020

Intake 7 Charlotte Greenwood Intake 8 Isabelle Stewart

Visual Arts The Trust Board Art Award Rosa Yan, Sofia Limbrick-Jones

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Merril Stewart, Kristin Inglis, Pam Hutton, Kirsten Donovan, Preeti Kahloon, Sam Meagher, Sena Choi, Sarah Talaic, LinErn Goh, Judy Watt, Anna Ready, Joanna Zoricich, Alana-Rose Miller, Emma Luxton-Reilly

Ian Torrie, Sandra Glanville, Kristen Slade, Michael Zhang, Max Hewett, Buino Vink, Erin Johnston, Oliver Gilmour, Alex Smith, Mark Dikstaal, Chris Way, Leon Birt, Francis Bryden, David Howard, David Thrasher, Anna Heale, Jane Atterbury-Leaf, Kate Hunt, Terry Price

Jarvie Tunnicliffe, Susan Tee, Rob Griffiths, Jill Morrison, Suzanne Joyce, Nicola Boyens, Sue Elgar, Peter Nouwens, Thomas Curtis, Kerry Oldman, Justine Mahon, Fiona Cottam, Judi Paape, Libby Giles, Mason Spiers, Francois Joubert, Julie Hogg, Ann Louise Jordan, Andy Parker, Holly Palmer, Jo Palmer

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3rd Row: Margaret Olsen, Michele McMahon, Florent Pieri, Helen Withy, Jessica Perkins, Heather Roberts, Rachel Walsh, Victoria Mauala, Estelle Muller, Jamie Lloyd, Katrina White, Taeho Lee, Nina Seja, Rita Stone, Angie Tipping, Natasha McAnearney, Liz Stevens, Judy McIntosh, Melissa Dyer-Causton, Des Knight, Melinda Crookenden

4th Row: Reena Raphael, Deb Cullinane, Amy Blanchard, George Bowen, Tracey Derbyshire, Sylvia Chen, Suzanne Disbrowe, Jeanine McCaig, Robyn Larsen, Sharma Nand, Dragana Yelavich, Jonathan van Campen, Rosie Remmerswaal, Joanna Wells, Rebecca Fowler, Lisa Brown, Emily Fisher, Victoria Elisara, Michelle Wheeler, Virginia Burns

5th Row: Aditi Singh, Andrew Stewart, Elizabeth Parsons, Helen Dallaston, Shelley Ireton, Sarah Stevens, Ros Ali, Judith McWilliams, Jack Payne, Hapreet Kaur, Susan Jackson, Lynda Harris, Emily Heather, Odette Mihaljevich, Josephine Pavlovich, Julie Mahoney, Jennifer Hobbs, Kate Brown, Jan Walls

6th Row: Vanessa Fork, Melissa Hayes, Helga Burns, Alison Galloway, Jessica Thwaites, Kylie Middleton, Leah Johnson, Leigh Knight, Susan Downes, Connie McArdle, Linda Ward, Jessica Sheng, Shona Trass, Robin Wall, Michelle Colyer, Ritu Rajan, Terry Sanders

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