1992 SMC Yearbook

ST MARGARET'S

COLLEGE

MAGAZINE

1992

ST MARGARET'S COLLEGE

MAGAZINE 1992

MAGAZINE PRODUCTION 1992 Editor: Mrs S. Masters with editorial assistancefrom Mrs M. McKay, Mrs] Shand.

Photos Supplied by : Mr L. Hallum, Mrs] Todd, Mrs A. Coates.

Designed and Typeset by : Brett Computer Graphics, Christchurch.

Mauy thanks to all the students who contributed to this magazine.

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CONTENTS TRUST BOARD Page 4 PRINCIPAL'S COMMENTS Page5 CHANGE OF PRINCIPAL Page 6 STAFF 1992 Page 7 NOTES FROM THE STAFFROOM

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HEAD PREFECT'S REPORT Pages10-11 BOARDING HOUSE REPORTS Page 12 P.T.A. REPORT Page 13 SACRISTAN'S REPORT Pages14-15 SPORT & ARTS COUNCIL REPORT Page 16 OLD GIRLS REPORT Page 17 ESSAYCONTEST Pages18-19 ART Pages20-21 MUSIC Pages22-23 LIBRARY Page24 MATHEMATICS HAPPENINGS

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PUBLIC SPEAKING Pages26-27 FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING Page28 SPEECH & DRAMA Page29 OUTDOOR EDUCATION

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HOUSE REPORTS Pages34-35 FORM REPORTS Pages36-57 ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

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SPORT Pages64-80

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TRUST BOARD 1992 1992 has seen a number of changes, including a change of Principal and a change of Chairman.

Mrs Susan Gardiner retired at the end of Term I and I record the Board's appreciation of the contributions that she made to the school during her five years as Head.

Her initiative saw the reestablishment of the Junior School, the rebuilding and refurbishment of the boarding houses and the introduction of extension and enrichment learning programmes.

The Board was very pleased to be able to appoint Miss Claudia Wysocki as Principal from May 1992. Her experience, enthusiasm and commitment to the school were soon evident and the ready support of her husband, Mr Jim Scanlon, is appreciated.

Mrs Therese Miller retired from her position as Hostel Administrator in August 1992 after a number of years' dedicated service and I record our gratitude for her care of the girls in her charge and for her contributions

to the life and community of the school.

As an independent Anglican school for girls in an increasingly ~ompetitive market, we want not merely to survive but to survive well.

The school is soundly based and I believe we have the potential to strengthen our place in the market.

Almost all of the school's revenue comes from fees. It is therefore critical that parents feel that they are getting good value for their money and that the girls enjoy and make the most of their time at St. Margaret's.

We must continually try to improve the quality of what we are doing as a school founded in the Anglican tradition.

I want to ensure that we are turning out a good product - young women who can think for themselves and who will be able to cope with life's challenges. In this respect I want them to have a well developed sense of self-esteem, to be self reliant, able to make their own decisions and to contribute as good members of their communities. I want them to have a good chance of gaining employment once they leave school. Academically I would like to see the girls achieving as highly as possible so that they may also have the widest choice of where they study and of the courses they may take at tertiary level.

Angela Williams

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES WARDEN: Bishop David Coles. MA ,BD, MTh. Dip REd. PhD CHAIRMAN Miss A B Williams, LLB (Hons).

ACA MEMBERS Mr P C Champion, BA, LLB Mr N G Clark, LLB Mrs J Close, BA, DipTchg Mrs S Couper, BA, DipTchg Mrs J Hartshorn, BSc, MSc Mr D J Hargreaves, BCom, ACA Miss J Kerr, LTCL, LRSM, A Cert, CM, AIRMT(NZ) Ms J Miller, BSc (Hons), DipBusStud (CFP) Mrs J Murray, CertEd Mr H J D Rolleston Mrs P Stewart Mr GA Thompson, OBE, FNZIM. DipAg Mr M FVernon

PRINCIPALS COMMENTS

The School Magazine gives an overview of the activities during a school year. This St. Margaret's College magazine shows a wide variety of activities which are available to the girls. Parents will know too from the weekly newsletters how much success our students experience both within and outside of the school in many and varied activities.

As a new Principal to St. Margaret's several aspects have impressed me about the school. The first point I noticed was the really caring nature of the school, staff to girls and girls to each other. There is a strong sense of caring of concern and interest and, on the part of the staff, a keenly expressed desire to give each girl the personal attention, encouragement, academic stimulation and extra curricular opportunity that will bring out her potential and enable her to develop her gifts and her talents .

The other aspect that really impressed me was the warm open friendly nature of the girls. St. Margaret's girls are very special young women, quietly confident,

friendly, open ; they are clearly keen to make the most of their opportunities. They are, for me, already a pleasure to be with.

The debate on the advan_tageof a single sex education for girls continues. Clearly research shows that girls do better academically in a girls' school. However, we must make sure that the rigorous academic standards are in place, that the range of subjects available is wide and that there is frequent and varied contact with boys. St. Margaret's continues to do this and is constantly reviewing and evaluating its programmes to make sure that these needs are being met. New ways of extending contact with our brother school, Christ's College, are being explored.

St. Margaret's girls receive many special opportunities, but where I meet the end product of the school, as I have been able to do on a number of occasions over the last few months, it is clear that the school has prepared its pupils well to face the demanding challenges of being a successful, professional or business woman in the 1990' s, but as well as

that, of being a happy wife and mother. The future of New Zealand lies very much in the hands of its young women; for the stability of New Zealand's next generation rests there. Perhaps the strong moral values, unselfishness and a Christian faith with what that can bring to business and family life has been rather lacking in New Zealand in the last decade. An Anglican school with its tradition of worship, religious education and value education may help in some small to redress that balance.

Clearly the school and its staff have a challenge ahead of them to ensure that the traditions and values of St. Margaret's are continued and we give that education which is appropriate for young women who are facing the 21st Century. It is my pledge that, with the staff, we will work to continue and enhance the standards already set and ensure that the youn$ women, currently being educated in this school, are well prepared for every demand for their future life.

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CHANGE OF PRINCIPAL

MISS CLAUDIA WYSOCKIM.A. (Hons. )

Asany institution does, St. Margaret's College waited with intense interest and perhaps trepidation for the arrival of our new chief executive and Principal in May of this year. We were very favourably impressed by Miss Wysocki' s calm, wise, positive impact upon us all girls, parents and staff.

Two terms further on the favourable impression has been strengthened and consolidated. I think we have discovered other attributes too: an enormous capacity for sheer hard work and an enormous store of

kindliness and Christian charity.

Miss Wysocki is committed to clear and open communication and the most constant and visible symbol of that is her very popular newsl tter.

We have now all become much more aware of the variety and excellence of our students' achievements.

In these days of rapid change in education it is essential to ha ea person of vision and enterprise heading a school management team and I think that we are all very fortunate to have secured Miss Wysocki to lead St. Margaret s through the remainder of this century.

Margo McKay

MISS CLAUDIA WYSOCKI

MRS SUSAN GARDINER

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The school community said farewell to the departing Headmistress, Mrs Gardiner, in May of this year. She came to the school from W o dford House in May 1987 and immediately stamped her own style and personality on the college. Some of her innovations included the new Junior School, new Julius House and the Classical Studies trip for senior girls. Subjects such as Classical Studies and Art History were of special interest to Mrs Gardiner, and they were developed and strengthened during her time as Headmistress. Perhaps other Tuscan influences may be perceived in the recently painted exteriors of most of the school buildings - certainly a welcome change from unadorned grey concrete block !

Mrs Gardiner was a lively and enthusiastic Head, and in many ways was a revolutionary one. She was not content to continue with subjects, structures or teaching practices simply because they were established, but was keen to innovate and reward new initiatives. The present school programme of extension for gifted children arose from that philosophy.

Many of us, staff, students and parents had our attitudes and beliefs significantly changed by Mrs Gardiner and I am sure that many of us were saddened that so much vitality should pass from our midst.

We wish her well in her new business venture.

Margo McKay

STAFF1992 PRINCIPAL:

Miss C Wysocki, MA (Hons), DipTchg DEPUTY PRINCIPALS:

Mrs M H McKay,MA (Hons), DipTchg, DipEd.Admin Miss L Atkinson, BA, DipTchg: Head ofJunior School CO-ORDINATOR

OF CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT:

Mrs H Forgie,BEd, DipTchg CHAPLAIN: Rev F Nelson, BA, B Th, DipTh STAFF: Miss V Ayson, TTC; Std. 3 Mrs R Baigent, TTC; Homecrafc, Careers Advisor, HOD Home Economics Mrs B Barker, BA, DipTchg, HOD History/Geography/Social Studies Ms S Begg, BHSc, DipTchg; Science/Chemistry Mrs C Berry, BComm (Hons), BEd; Form 2 Mr D Childs, MA (Hons), MA (Hons) Oxon, FRCO, LRSM, Cert d'Etudes (Grenoble); French Mrs A Coates, BA, DipTchg, DipEd: English Mrs R Fraser, BA; Form I Mr L Hallum, DipFA; DipTchg: Art Mrs I RJones, MA (Hons), DipTchg: Mathematics Mrs W Kaser, RSA, Cert TELFA,TTC; ESOL Mrs L Kennedy, BA, DipTchg: HOD English Miss J Kerr, LTCL, LRSM, ACertCM, AIRMT; HOD Music Mrs L Lightfoot, Comm Teachers Cert, DipTchg; HOD Business Studies Mr S McKelvey, B Comm ; Japanese Miss F Mangos, TTC Phys Ed; HOD Physical Education Dr B Mann, BA, BSc (Hons), PhD, FNZIP; HOD Science Mrs S Masters, BA, DipTchg; English Miss J Miller, BSc (Hons), DipTchg; Science/Chemistry Mrs A Monks, MA (Hons), DipTchg; French Mrs H Newman, BA, DipTchg; Classical Studies, History of Art Mrs N Nicholls, TTC: Std. 2 Mrs B O'Brien, MA ( Hons); History, History of Art Mrs S Oliver, BEd, ITC; Head of Intermediate Ms A Price, B Sc, DipTchg; HOD Mathematics Miss F Reeves, B PhEd ; Physical Education Mrs D Robilliard , T T C; Form 1 Mrs J Shand, BA, ITC; English Mrs J Slocombe, BA, Cert Advanced Japanese, DipTchg; Japanese Mr M Summerlee, BSc (Hons), DipTchg; Science/Biology Mrs J Todd, B FA; Art Mrs N Tomlinson, NZCS, NZCPS; Laboratory Technician Mrs D White, ALAA; Librarian Miss S Wilson, BEd, DipTchg; Std. 4 Miss J Webby, BPhEd; Physical Education Mrs C Wyeth, BSc, DipTchg; Mathematics/Science

SPEECH AND DRAMA: Mrs V Milsom, BA (Hons) ASB, LSB Mrs T Minns, LT CL

MUSIC STAFF: Piano: Mrs J Ashton, LTCL, AIRMT Mrs F Harman, LTCL, AIRMT Mrs M Lovell, LTCL, AIRMT Mrs J Rolofsma, LTCL, AIRMT Mrs K Tucker, LTCL, AIRMT Guitar:: Mrs M Shearing Flute: Mrs D Russell, BA, LTCL, Dip.Lib.Sch. AIRMT Clarinet:: Mr G de Lacey, BMus, LTCL, DipTchg, AIRMT Violin: Ms C Foote, BA, ATCL Cello: Mrs C Dench, Mus.B (Hons. Perf. ), LRSM Voice: Mrs J Hewson, MA (Hons), LTCL, LRSM, DipTchg BURSAR: Mrs G Dawson Mrs P Whetnall -Assistant

COLLEGE OFFICE: Mrs M Burgess Mrs N Ritchie

HOSTEL STAFF: Mrs J Goodall Qulius) Mrs J Berry (Kilburn) Mrs B Parker Mrs S Currie Mrs F Naylor Mrs J Russell

CARETAKER: Mr R E Seabourn GROUND STAFF: Mr P G Bradshaw Mr RDerry Mr D E R Harris

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NOTES FROM THE STAFFROOM Term 1 was flavoured by a sense of loss and change as we said farewell to Mrs Gardiner and readied ourselves for the arrival of Miss Wysocki.

Although this was the major influence on our lives, we also welcomed back Mr Hallum from the Fen country of England, and two new staff members joined the Maths and P .E . departments . Ms Price took over as H.O.D. Maths and Miss Reeves bounced onto the P .E. staff.

We have really enjoyed their contributions to the staffroom : positive, sensible and very amusing. A real breath of fresh air.

1992 saw two teachers marry and change their names. Mrs McDonald became Mrs Barker and Miss Donald turne_d into 'Bride of the Year' Mrs Nicholls. And the Junior School kept up this momentum when Miss Ayson announced her engagement at the beginning of Term 3. Mr 'Triathlon' Summerlee and Mr McKelvey both doubled the size of their families, having a second child each - which they insisted of naming themselves and ignoring the creative suggestions of the staff lunch-time club. We were really proud of Mr Summerlee' s self-

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discipline and toast consumption as he trained for the international Triathlon competition in Canada in September and were pleased to congratulate him on his good achievements there.

Terms 2 and 3 sped past this year, propelled by Miss Wysocki' s deceptively calm-looking perpetual motion. 'And this is only first gear' says Miss Wysocki, smiling kindly. 'Wait until I really get going.' During Term 2 Mrs Barker went off on a long honeymoon and Mrs Tuck did a very professional job as her reliever. We were sorry to see her go at the end of term, and also to farewell Mrs Miller, the cross-stitch expert of the South.

Her skilled tuition in eating bananas with a knife and fork will be hard to emulate, although they say that Mrs McKay is going to practise in secret.

Looking back, it appears that we have become much more sociable this year and invit~d other staffs to join us for drinks and nibbles. Christ's College, Rangi Ruru and St. Andrew's have all come and got to know us better on our home ground and reinforced our good professional relationships. I am sure that we have begun a very

pleasant and positive tradition. And speaking of traditions, it was good to see Ms Begg following in the footsteps of Hone Heke in Term 2 and destroying a symbol of servitude.

Very well done, I thought.

As the end of the year approaches, we farewell our chaplain, the Reverend Frank Nelson, and wish him and his family a successful life in Oamaru, far, far away from schoolgirl graffiti.

We are also very sorry to say goodbye to two staff members who have made a real impact on us all for the few short years they have been here. Mrs Monks is leaving full-time teaching to acquire some more qualifications in another profession and Mrs Berry has succumbed to the lure of her home country and decided to return to Canada with her husband and family. Bon voyage et bonne chance to both of them - we will really miss their energy and sheer had work for the good of their students.

This has been a year of change, but an exciting one too and I am sure that we are all facing 1993 with that little frisson of uncertainty, which keeps us growing as humanbeings.

Miss Miller, Mrs Slocombe,Mrs Masters,Mrs Fraser,Mr Summerlee,Miss Reeve,Mr McKelvey Mrs Berry,Mrs Tomlinson,Miss Webby,Miss Ayson,Mrs Shand, Mrs Nichol} Mrs Robilliard,MsBegg, Mrs Newman, Mrs O'Brien Mr Hallum, Mrs Baigent,Mrs Kennedy,Mrs Wyeth,Mrs Kaser,Mrs Coates,Mrs Jones,Miss Wilson, Dr Mann, Rev. Nelson,Mrs Monks Mrs Lightfoot,Miss Kerr,Mrs Oliver,Mrs Forgie,Mrs McKay, Miss Wysocki,MissAtkinson, Mrs Barker, Ms Price,Miss Mangos

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.And ,finally, we are losing Lyn Atkinson, Deputy Principal (Head of the Junior School), who has been here only a short time but who has become very closely identified with certain aspects of the College. Originally appointed to Head of the Junior School, Lyn has combined that role with an interest in the extension programmes, future problem solving and staff development in the Intermediate and Senior schools. Her input and enthusiasm will be missed and we wish her a happy and successful future.

MRS THERESE MILLER-BEUDAERT Mrs Miller has been at the school

boarding house since 1981 as Hostel Administrator. During this time our boarding houses acquired a truly multi-national flavour with the introduction of some Asian boarders

and Mrs Miller' s French flair and cuisine . I think that there can be no higher praise of a boarding house than the frequent comments of our girls that 'the food is yummy'. Mrs Miller made frequent efforts over the years to educate her boarders in the niceties of dining in the French way and serving and presenting food with international panache.

Many of us knew that Mrs Miller did not enjoy robust health and marvelled at how she managed her very demanding job when she was unwell.

It seems that New Zealand teenage behaviour is becoming less considerate of the rights of others and this ethos puts a pressure on schools such as ours, and boarding institutions especially. Really successful administrators need a certain tolerance and warmth of heart, as well as high disciplinary standards. 'Beat the matrons' is a boarding house game played all over the country, and

Our school community was deeply affected by the tragic accidental death of Nicola, on October 2, just a week before her twentieth birthday . Many staff and students knew Nicola well during her years at school and were impressed with her calm efficiency and charming courtesy. Nicola was blessed with many talents and gave them generously to the school: in singing, sport, debating, social committees and many, many more.

She had the rare ability to inspire

triumphs are relived at every school reunion. I don't think many of our girls ever beat Mrs Miller's vigilant eye.

We wish you 'Au Revoir', Therese, and a happy future in your seaside cottage with Angus. You will be long remembered at St. Margaret's.

MARGO McKAY

OBITUARY

NICOLA DODWELL DEPUTY HEAD PREFECT1990

MRS THERESE MILLER-BEUDAERT

other girls to work with her - in the choir, her sports teams and her dance committees, and to bring all the efforts to a successful and polished conclusion.

We sincerely mourn for Nicola, who was one of our finest and best Old Girls and sympathise deeply with Amanda, her twin, another of our finest and best Old Girls. Both sisters exemplified our school motto: "Blessed are the pure in heart"

MMcKAY IRENE MITCHELL We were saddened to hear of the death of Mrs Irene Mitchell at Labour Weekend this year. Irene or 'Mrs M', as she was fondly known to many generations of girls, had been on our staff for 26 years, most of them as Head of the Junior school.

Irene and her small students survived the move to Springfield Road and eventually on to various parts of the

Shrewsbury Street site with fun and good humour.

Irene was very kind to everyone, and especially to me when I first joined the staff, but had a sparkly little wit and gentle way of deflating pretension which earned the respect of all who knew her. I remember what a gap she left in the staffroom when she retired in 1983 and how we missed the sight of her hobbling about the grounds like a determined little bird.

She suffered much pain and illness in her life and triumphed over them with bravery and cheerful dedication.

What more appropriate verse for her than James K Baxter's 'High Country Weather' recalling the hills and mountains she loved so much: 'Alone we are born And die alom!; Yet see the red-gold cirrus Over snow-mountain shine .'

MMcKAY ST MARGARET'S COLLEGE 1992

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HEAD PREFECT'S REPORT

How can I begin to sum up 1992 at St. Margaret's for me? 1992 can best be described as the tip of an iceberg (this also being a rather apt description of this year's weather). I found the base of this iceberg at our tentative entry into the third form in 1988. I look back to that year and my most vivid memory is of very adult looking girls with red ties.

Perhaps the most frightening thing when thinking about 1992 is the fact that we are those red tied

authoritarians and that maybe some third former is thinking that we look old and intimidating when I feel no older, no different than the day I came. Yet we have all changed so much over the past five years. So many events, friends and faces of St. Margaret's College have helped us to grow from nervous third formers to women ready to cope with the 'real' world and what it has to offer. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have been

fundamental to that development, those who have helped us reach this peak.

Firstly to the staff, without their commitment to every girl much of our success would not be achieved.

Thank you for what can only be described as immense patience throughout our years at St. Margaret's, particularly this year. I know we have, at times, not shown our appreciation for all the work you do in and out of the school time - so

Nicola Oakley,Deputy Head Prefectand Abigail Rainey,Head Prefect

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thank you.

My largest thanks goes to the Seventh Form of 1992 - you are the best.

Without your support this year would not have been as successful nor as enjoyable as it has been. Great improvements have been made in Tonbridge House and thanks to those 7th form girls who gave up their weekends to make a common room for us to enjoy. I hope all the work we have put into the house is respected and appreciated by future

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7th formers, and it is in the future of this college where I would like to give my final message.

I would like to thank Miss Wysocki for her support over the past 2 terms.

This year has not been easy for myself nor for many in our form. We have all found her supportive - she has managed to make so many positive changes run as smoothly as possible.

We have so many opportunities at St. Margaret's, both new and old, which should be used to their full potential.

I have found this year very rewarding and I will remember it always. I wish everyone all the best for their future at this College, especially next year's seventh form. All the best.

Abigail Rainey Head Prefect

MargaretFraser,Nicola Shand, Nicola McGoverne,Kate Thompson,Kirsty Wear,Anna Wilkes,Kate Brazier, RebeccaRock-Evans EleanorCottle,Abigail Rainey ( Head Girl), Miss Wysocki,Nicola Oakley (DeputyHead Girl),Anna Hiatt

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BOARDING HOUSE REPORT My year as Head of House has been a very busy and challenging one and I have enjoyed just about every minute of it. It has been a year of mainly ups and some downs with several changes in authority affecting the Boarding House.

Forms 1-4 arrived back to find a barely recognizable Kilburn which had been completely renovated, providing everyone with their own study as well as new carpet and curtains throughout and lots of natural wood featured ·downstairs.The 7th Form has been very small this year, dropping to 12 in Term 3, but this hasn't been a problem, although the usual difficulties when it comes to duties and responsibilities have been encountered. The format of the annual picnic changed again this year as we finally said goodbye to Orton Bradley Park and went to Jelly Park instead. Luckily the weather was fine.

Wendy provided a lovely lunch and a great time was had by all.

A farewell function was held at the end of Term 1 for Mrs Gardiner, who played a significant role in the lives of the Boarders throughout her five year term at St. Margaret's. In Term 2 Miss Wysocki and Mr Scanlon were warmly welcomed and each form, in turn, enjoyed a delightful supper and chat in their home. I think the number of sausage rolls and chocolate biscuits consumed over those evenings must have easily reached three figures, not to mention the sponge cakes and other yummies which greeted us .

At the end of a cold, wet and very wintry Term 2, we sadly farewelled Mrs Miller who had been the Hostel Administrator for eleven years. She will be missed but I'm sure her influence will live on for years to come. We wish her well in her retirement and hope she enjoys some quiet, peaceful days. Mrs Walker,

BOARDER PREFECTS RebeccaGraham,Melanie Hawker, RachelMcKenzie, Back Row: Kristin Stewart,SelinaHandyside,RebeccaSteel,Elanor Baldwin Front Row: JosephineLee,Anna Wilkes,Miss Wysocki,CharlotteHilgendorf, Tae lzumiya (Absent: Nanami Kasasaki)

who had been the relieving matron in Kilburn for the past year, also left and the senior girls will remember her from several years before. Mrs Russell has taken her place and I hope she settles in well but I'm sure St. Margaret's girls will be a far cry from Nelson College boys!

Sky TV was installed into the 7th Form common room at the start of Term 3 a very generous gift from Sky, but I can't help thinking what a lot of thought went into their advertising pitches.

A round of 'thank yous' must go firstly to Mrs Goodall and Mrs Currie who have been of great help and support to me during the year and also to Mrs Berry. All the matrons have done a wonderful job running the houses this year. Thanks also to Wendy and the kitchen staff, the cleaners, the laundry ladies and the workmen for all their hard work in keeping the boarding house in tiptop condition and its residents well fed and clean clothed ! We are all quick to complain when things are not right but unfortunately most haven't learnt the art of

complementing, especially when it is so well deserved. Thank you.

As I come to the end of eight years at boarding school, five at St. Margaret's, I often think what a valuable experience it has been for me. I have learnt so much about other people, other cultures and made friends I hope to keep.

I hope that as the other 7th formers end their time here they too will realise that they have been fortunate in being able to spend their school years at St. Margaret's, living in a community where girls come from all sorts of different backgrounds - a boarding house is such a good learning environment.

Although both my deputies have left during the year, Bridget Macdonald in Term 1 and Elanor Baldwin in Term 2, I would like to thank them both for their help and support as things tend to get a bit hectic at times and they were usually there when I needed help.

Finally, the best of luck to the 7th formers for the future and good luck to the 1993 Head of House.

Anna Wilkes, Head of House

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PTA REPORT The year 1992 has been another busy and constructive year for the PT A committee.

To date our only fund-raising activity has been the hiring of the Court Theatre in August for a performance of the musical, "A day in Hollywood; a night in the Ukraine". As always, the Court presented a polished and thoroughly enjoyable show which was enjoyed by a full house. This evening swelled our coffers by over $1500.

In the third term, we organised an exhibition of art from private collections which was shown at the C. S. A. Gallery from 9th-15th November, combining our annual Show Week cocktail party with the exhibition preview on the opening night. We have also organised a country garden day on 19th November which incorporated visits to six gardens in the O hoka and Amberley districts, with lunch at the home of Mr & Mrs J.B.L. Savill of "Lindfield", Amberley.

Our committee recently purchased a number of items for various departments within the school, including a synthesizer for Miss Kerr's music department, a cassette recorder for the intermediate school, various musical instruments for the junior school, a projector each for the History and English departments, equipment for the Mathematics department, and a $3000 grant to the school library.

During the latter half of the second term, the P.T.A. organised several working bees to paint and re-furbish Ton bridge House, the seventh form common room. This was a big undertaking, but a wonderful response from committee members and parents enabled us to paint the entire interior (with the exception of the ablution block). We have approved the purchase of six new two-seater sofas for Ton bridge House, and volunteers will make

curtains when the fabric arrives in October. This will complete the much-needed transformation of Tonbridge, and we trust this year's seventh form, and those to follow, will enjoy the fruits of our labours' Many thanks to all those parents who so generously gave of their time, especially Lyall Simpson, who coordinated the project, and Miss Wysocki, for the most welcome and delicious sustenance she provided for the workers.

Sadly, due to inclement conditions, our planned open day at the school hut at Mt. White in March had to be cancelled. We hope for better luck with the weather next year.

Members of the PT A were on deck at the 3rd/4th form dance in March and the 6th/7th form ball in September. Both these occasions were most successful and greatly enjoyed by the young revellers.

Judith Mackenzie, the Social Committee Convenor, has done a sterling job providing refreshments at numerous school functions throughout the year, as has Helen Butterfield, who is most ably running

the second-hand clothes shop.

Thanks, too, are due to Rosemary McBeath for her always efficient and cheerful assistance as secretary, and to Martin Hadfield, our very competent treasurer.

Our committee has been pleasantly and helpfully assisted by Barbara Barker and Anne Coates, as staff representatives. Lucy Cartwright and Pam Rundle represent the Old Girls' Association and keep us informed of their activities.

Members of last year's committee not seeking re-election include Ian Graham, Nick Williams, Peter Paterson and Heather Millyard.

Thanks are due to these people for their time and energy, particularly to Ian Graham whose efforts for the committee, especially during his term as president, were considerable.

Lastly, it has been our great pleasure to welcome Miss Claudia Wysocki and her husband, Jim Scanlon, into our midst. We are enjoying their unstinting support and sound advice, and trust that their years at St. Margaret's College will be happy and rewarding.

K. Hartnell

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SACRISTAN'SREPORT This year several changes have been made to the running of the chapel and its services in an attempt to involve more girls in services and interest them more in the chapel.

Seventh Formers reading in assemblies has been met with mixed responses but most have taken the opportunity and seen it as a challenge. Thank you to everyone who had the courage to read - you all did a good job.

During the year 24 girls were Admitted to Communion and 23 were Confirmed .

Music has helped the chapel services come alive and thanks must go to Miss Kerr for the time that she has

put into rehearsing the Chamber Choir and Senior Choir for services.

Also to Mr Nelson and his wife who provided an informal musical evening of worship, especially enjoyed by the boarders. We wish Mr Nelson and his family all the beat as he leaves St. Margaret's at the end of this year to take up a position as vicar in Oamaru.

Special thanks to Mrs Todd who designed the 'hand' mural which graced the back wall of the chapel in the months following Easter. It was most effective and gave some interest to what is otherwise a blank wall.

As the year draws to a close with

services such as the Candlelighting and Carol Service, special to those leaving, we would like to wish the 1993 Head Sacristan and her team good luck for what is a rewarding responsibility -but remember, the Gospel candle (one by the lectern) never shines alone !

SACRISTANS: RachelMcPherson,Anna Wilkes,Rev. F Nelson,RebeccaGilroy

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Anna Wilkes Elanor Baldwin

St Margaret's College, Confirmation Candidates, 1992.

Back row ( left to right): ChloeSanders,Sarah Bruce,Abigail Rainey,JosephineTalbot,MichelleHulena, Sarah Pearse,Lucy Simpson, Nicola Hindmarsh, CarolineShand, The Rev FNelson, Philippa Douglas,Anna Hiatt, ClareRundle Front row ( left to right): LouiseNewton, CarolineCambridge,Angela Collett,SharleenHole, Bridget Giblin, CharlotteSevier, Alexandra O'Brien,Nicola Oakley,Nicola Shand, KristenStewart

CONCEPTUAL ART PIECES The above photographs shows the installation piece which was placed in St. Margaret's College Chapel at Easter. The work is the laying down of hands in clay and printing on cloth. The Senior School printed the large cross and Junior School hands printed the smaller crosses. Art teacher, Mrs Janet Todd, said that 'Conceptual Art Pieces' consist of statements only in which movements of the mind alone constitute the art experience.

JANET TODD

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SPORTS & ARTS COUNCIL REPORTS SPORTS COUNCIL The year 1992 has been an extremely busy year for the Sports Council. St. Margaret's hosted the Canterbury Inter-Secondary School Swimming Sports which involved a preliminary day and an evening for the finals. The Sports Council and the P . E . Department appreciated the co-operation of the whole school and members of the P.T.A. We also hosted the summer Quadrangular tournament and organised our annual school swimming and athletic sports. Thanks very much to Mrs Judith Mackenzie who assisted us once again and prepared all the morning and afternoon teas for all of our major events.

The Sports Council members give up a lot of their spare time assisting with the running of the heats and general organising of sports events. The Council set a good example to others by their commitment and willingness to achieve the high goals that we set as a school. Because of the high standard of organising it is not always obvious how much effort has gone

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Hannah Blakely, Kirsty Wear, Kate Thompson, Rachel Talbot Anna Hiatt ( Captain of Sport), Stephanie Mainprize, Caroline Cambridge ,Josephine Talbot, Margaret Fraser

ARTS COUNCIL into it.

A very special thanks to Miss Mangos, Miss Reeves and Miss Webby for all the devoted work they do for the P . E . Department in our school . I wish the Sports Council the best of luck for next year.

Anna Hiatt

Fiona Maitland, Clare McKenzie, Mrs McKay, Abigail Rainey, Vivienne Wood Shelley Morris, Anne Graham, LucyPaterson, Eleanor Cottle, Sara Bruce

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Unfortunately this year the Art's Council has not been able to hold many meetings due to busy schedules for our members. Although we have no chairman, our meetings have run well with many suggestions relating to the arts in the school being offered.

At mid-term break we had our usual awards ceremony. With not much activity in the fields of chess, debating, and drama, the only honours sashes awarded were those for music. Hopefully with drama, chess and debating occurring mainly after these awards, we may see some more sashes being awarded at our end-of-year awards ceremony.

With the arrival of our new principal, Miss Wysocki, there seems to be quiet anticipation of some improvements and inspiration in the promotion of the arts in the school.

With help from the school, we may see the arts blooming in a few years.

HONOURS SASHES Awareded at mid term break MUSIC: Eleanor Cottle, Anna Hiatt, Juliet Koopman, Shelley Morris, Nicola Thompson

OLD GIRLS REPORT PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

AsI write this report, my two years as your President is at an end. It has been a privilege and an honour to have been able to give back to St. Margaret's, through the Old Girls' Association, something of the benefits of the education I received and experience I have gained. I have been humbled and heartened to see the aims of our Association, promoting interest among you for the welfare of our School, in the local Branches all over the country, and individually, alive and well.

One of the most tangible results of interest in the School is our ability to fund scholarships and make donations to the School, as well as charitable donations to organisations for those less fortunate than

ourselves. Although we are just holding our own financially, the raising of Membership fees only partly solves our problem. We need a major injection of capital to provide income specifically for our scholarships. To this end the Committee are considering at least two major fundraising ideas. I hope when these are launched that you will all be able to give as much support as possible.

This year is the third "40 Years On" Reunion which has been as successful as the first two. Old Girls are keen to travel from all over to attend which is really encouraging.

I know St. Margaret's College Old Girls' Association will continue to achieve our aims under the able leadership of your new President, Helen McCaul, and her Committee.

I wish them, and you all, my very best wishes.

JOANNE DACRE President

BLINDNESS Fifteen minutes was as long as I experienced it.

For fifteen minutes my world became a world of distant noises.

The feel of hard ground on my feet and only being able to feel the flowers I longed to see.

My world suddenly changed from the bright colours I could only feel, and noises I could once see, to a small bubble in which I was trapped.

Everything, that I touched or heard I became suddenly afraid of.

For those fifteen minutes I won't forget what some people experience for a life time.

By Nadine Wilson

OVERSEAS STUDENTS

Arthe beginning of Term Two, 14 overseas students from F3-7, accompanied by Mrs Newman and Mrs Kaser spent an exciting weekend at Hanmer Springs.

The weather wasn't particularly kind to us but that didn't stop us from having a wonderful time.

Between our regular ice-cream stops we managed to fit in a magnificent multicultural meal prepared by the girls, an evening soak in the hot pools and a very exciting jet boat ride accompanied by the loudest imaginable screaming. This was followed by even more screams as Mineko lunged off the Waiau bridge with only a bungy rope between her and a certain death! ! !

Unfortunately it was too wet to go horseriding so we ended our weekend with a quiet, gentle walk through the Hanmer forest.

THE TURTLE The turtle is like two dinner plates tied together It's a slimy dinner, trapped there in between.

Floating like a sunken treasure in a freshwater pond.

Hiding in the pondweed it could be a mossy stone.

It comes up to the surface for a breath of fresh air.

Out jumps a hunter.

Now the turtle will lie like fried chicken on a woven reed plate.

But eggs at the bottom of the pond will hatch.

And turtles will swim through the pondweed again.

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ESSAYCONTEST ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY ESSAY COMPETITION In June Belinda Thompson of Form 7 won first place in the Canterbury Branch section of the Royal Commonwealth Society 1991/92 Essay contest.

Belinda' s essay 'Where Do All the Dead People Go' was the winner because of its excellent expression, detailed description, poetic quality, depth and emotion, continuity and development and near-perfect grammar.

Nearly fifty schools in the Canterbury area competed in the local section of the competition.

Belinda' s essay has been sent to London to the Commonwealth-wide competition.

Belinda, accompanied by her father, and two St. Margaret's teachers, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Masters, was guest

Belinda Thompson of honour at the Royal Commonwealth Society Queen's Birthday dinner in early June where she read her essay to a most appreciative audience. Later in June,

at a school assembly, Mr James Bacon, chief judge of the essay contest presented Belinda with a book token and she received, for the school, the Flower Cup.

play; Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus'?

It's my Grandad's funeral, for god's sake! And I wouldn't play the violin; the instrument he had loved above all others. But it wasn't that simple.

They always made me feel like some sort of tacky show-piece. You name the occasion and Nicola would always be wound up like a clockwork toy, ready to amuse the onlookers, supposedly sharing her 'talent' with all the other jealous mums and dads whose children are not so 'lucky'. I had refused. I wasn't a hyprocrite.

glad he died. Glad. What is life for someone who can't even recognise his own family, let alone feed himself or go to the toilet unaided? Grandad' s death was really more of a relief than anything else. So I was glad.

Well, why shouldn't I be glad?

People die all the time, especially old people, and the world soon forgets .

The sky was still blue, the sun still shone, the birds still sung. And the trees were still green. For the first time I realised where I had come, and the irony of the situation immediately struck me. I was beneath the boughs of the beautiful old walnut tree.

'WHERE DO ALL THE DEAD PEOPLE GO?'

by Belinda Thompson

"No it'sjust not right!"

I surprised even myself with the vehemence in the words and, slightly embarrassed, lowered my violin back into its case and fastened the brass buckles. Raising my head I caught a glimpse of the row upon row (there must have been hundreds), of horrified mourners. Their shining eyes seemed to bore millions of tiny holes through my skull as I ran down the aisle with the violin hitched up under my arm. Under the crushing weight of all those eyes I managed to stumble into the vestibule and escape through a side door.

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Sure, I was sad he was sick, sad he was in such pain. However, I was

My grandfather had told me many times how he had stood on this spot as a little boy and watched his grandfather plant the tree as a young sapling. Then he and the tree had grown up, tall and strong, together.

Now one of them was dead. And it was not the walnut tree.

I wanted to feel angry. I wanted to feel sad. But the stately structure had a calming effect on me, and I easily slid down against the rough bark with my head stretched out on the rich carpet of velvety grass below.

The layers of green on heavy boughs cast a deep cool shade on the grass beneath, but even at the base of the trunk in the umbra of the shadow the grass was pleasantly warm and had that freshly mown 'summer smell'.

Today was one of those mid-summer days when families go to the beach and people walk their dog. A day when you could smile at a complete stranger, and he would smile back. It wasn't funeral weather; in fact it would have been a perfect day for a wedding.

If.the sky couldn't cry how could I be expected to? But I wanted to. I felt guilty. The sun was mocking me as it smiled down through the tall, green darkness broken only by a speckled patchwork of the cerulean blue sky.

The dappled ground seemed to move as the laughing rays of the sun were reflected off the wavering leaves. It suddenly seemed too bright. I turned and gazed into the magnificent trunk with its massive girth. All at once, the memories flowed through my mind like a mountain river, dormant until brought to life by the melting snows of spring.

Years ago, before Grandad got sick, I remembered sitting under this tree together. This was our secret place.

Here, I could ask many questions, as young children are apt to do. To my

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delight, he always listened carefully, leaning his head back into the gnarled wood of the walnut tree as he explained the answer. The deep-set wrinkles on his face and the richbrown of his skin blended into the trunk so well that he and 'his' tree almost seemed to be one. The rest of the world didn't seem to exist - it was just me, Grandad and the tree.

This image of my childhood was as clear in my mind as if it were yesterday, but the conversations we had were just a blur. That is, all but one ...

"Grandad, where do all the dead people go?"

He lifted his brown arthritic hand onto my chest.

"They don't go anywhere. They live here. In your heart."

"But what about heaven?" I persisted.

His eyes clouded over.

"What better heaven is there than

love?"

The little five-year-old next to him didn't understand. But, for once she didn't press him.

That was then. Now I understood.

My heart felt lighter as, for the second time that day, I clicked open the brass buckles of my violin case and lifted the instrument from the soft interior. I cradled the cool wood of the instrument under my chin as a slight tension in my wrist caused it to utter a few soft notes of a Mozart sonata. Then I poured out all my stored-up emotions into the bow and the music came to life. The clean, crisp note seemed to dance on the summer breeze as, tears freely rollidg down my cheeks, I next launched into Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

Perhaps I should have played after all, because the dead people don't go anywhere.

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ART

BEARS AT THE HOSPITAL Late last year St. Margaret's Junior School was asked to provide some art work for the new Children's Ward at Christchurch Hospital. The result was the Bears - a three-dimensional experience depicting the emotions that a child goes through when entering hospital.

The mural consists of six panels carved in clay from which plaster casts were made. Then the final fibre glass relief was cast. The hand-crafted rimu frames are also three-dimensial following the contour of the relief.

It was a good experience for the girls to bring Art out of the classroom and into a real world situation.

JANET TODD

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MUSIC

THE SENIOR CHOIR:

The year 1992 has been another eventful year for the Music Department. Numbers in the Senior Choir have remained stable, with about eighty members. A Chamber Choir of twenty-two girls has replaced the A Cappella Choir, the increased size producing a fuller tone in part-singing and putting less strain on the group when the inevitable 'flue viruses appear in the winter term .

In the first term there were three Choral Eucharists, including a service of farewell to Mrs Gardiner. On Palm Sunday both choirs contributed to a service of music and readings for Holy Week. The week after Easter they combined with Christ's College in a Cathedral Service of Easter music, readings and drama.

In the second term the Senior Choir sang at the Confirmation and Miss Wysocki' s Induction Service as well as a Choral Evensong. In the third term they sang Evensong at Christ's College and at the memorial service for Nicola Dodwell as well as at the Founders' Day, Carol and Leavers' Services. In October the Christ's College Chapel Choir made a reciprocal visit to our Chapel to sing Evensong.

Thirty girls from the Senior Choir auditioned successfully for the joint production of 'Cabaret' with Christ's College. This involved many hours of hard work in weekends and evenings and they all performed with credit.

Chloe Sanders and Juliet Blair had leading roles and the production was well reviewed in 'The Press'.

A small group of girls enjoyed the experience of travelling to Glenmark Church to sing at the country

wedding of an old girl, Jane Cartridge.

THE CHAMBER CHOIR: The Chamber Choir did everything that the Senior Choir did and a great deal more. At the Harvest Festival in the first term they sang Handel's 'O Lovely Peace', accompanied by Anne Graham (flute), Diana Perry (Oboe) ·and Claire Matheson (cello). In June they performed at the Secondary Schools' Choral Festival in the Town Hall. For the compulsory choice of a New Zealand work they sang 'The Song of Solomon' by Eleanor Cottle of Form Seven.

As part of our continuing programme of outreach into the community they braved the freezing cold of a winter's

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morning to sing the morning service at Holy Trinity, Avonside, wishing that they had taken Miss Wysocki's advice of thermal underwear. They also sang two week-day Evensongs at Christchurch Cathedral and at Nicola Dodwell's funeral at St. Barnabas as well as making a significant contribution to the Carol Service.

Honours in music this year were awarded to: Eleanor Cottle, Anna Hiatt, Juliet Koopman ( Head Chorister), Shelley Morris and Nicola Thompson .

THE ORCHESTRA: The Combined Colleges' Orchestra practised at Christ's College on Friday afternoons and performed

Lyn Graham, Nicola Hindmarsh, Abigail Rainey, Kate Brazier, Sarah Pearse, Chloe Sanders,Jodi White Nicola Oakley, Louise Hall, Anna Adair, RebeccaScott, Sarah White, Vivienne Wood, Miss Kerr, Hannah Blackmore ShelleyMorris, Anna Thomas, Eleanor Cottle, Angela Kearns, Juliet Koopman ( Head o/Choir), Sara Bruce, Anna Hiatt

concerts at both schools. Lyn Graham not only played in the first violins but she also played the saxophone in the Christ's College Stage Band, touring with them on their trip to Blenheim. Anne Graham went to Hawaii as a flautist with the CSIM Wind Band and both Lyn and Anne were in the band for ' Cabaret'.

Our versatile leading first violinist, Nicola Thompson, deserves our congratulations for gaining her Grade 8 Piano examination with distinction.

OTHER MUSICAL ACTMTIES: After a slow start the Third Form Choir produced some lively sounds, particularly in 'The Rhythm of Life'.

Next year's Senior Choir should

benefit from some of the good voices in this group.

The Intermediate Department and Standards Three and Four took part in the Schools' Music Festival in the Town Hall. Laura Reeve, Amy Hadfield and Claire van Beek were in Special Choirs, Jessica van Schreven and Nicola Dewhurst played in the orchestra and Jane McDonald, Amy Hill and Elizabeth Davies were in the recorder ensemble.

Form II presented 'Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo' as their end of year production .

The Fourth Form Elective Music group again rang handbells at the Carol Service and shared some enterprise as performers on a variety of instruments .

This year's concert for solo performers was the most successful ever, and showed chat there is a great deal of musical talent in the school.

The girls are to be congratulated on some fine individual performances.

The major event of the year in the music room was the arrival of a long awaited synthesiser. Not only does it provide conventional instrumental sounds but a certain fourth form group has discovered chat it will make screams, gunshots and helicopter noises. The rest of the school probably chinks chat murder, not music, goes on in Room 27.

However, we are very graceful to the P. T. A. for their generosity.

ORCHESTRA Back Row: KateMcGowan,Joanna Peat, FionaBryce Middle Row: RebeccaPeate,Lyn Graham, ClaireMatheson,AlexandraPettit, Anne Hassan,Miss KerrFrontRow : EleanorCottle, VirginiaChristie, JustineBradley,ShelleyMorris,Diana Perry

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LIBRARY

The year 1992 has been one of the most successful years we have ever had in the library. Our borrowing has increased dramatically and lots have been done to improve the facilities there for students to study. Almost all of our books have been entered on the new computer and soon, with the arrival of the rest of our computer package, we will be able to dispose of our present, old-fashioned card catalogue. Many of our books have had attractive new covers made and various laminated posters also help to brighten up the library.

In July we had a special poster display on loan from Linwood High School in our Reference Room. It was in conjunction with the exhibition of the Globe Hangings at the Canter-

bury Museum which many students visited. The 30 posters celebrated the life and work of William Shakespeare.

Major changes to the lighting have made a tremendous improvement to the library environment and many girls, from all levels, use the library during the day and after sch ol.

Microfiche facilities have helped people working on projects and the requests for information are readily increasing.

General gifts of pre-owned magazines and a new library buying policy has meant there is plenty of attractive leisure reading material now available.

We are glad to have some new Form

3 librarians in the team, and it is good to be able to acknowledge the various people who all pull together to make the library an excellent school resource. The willing mother and grandfather helps, our Ferndale friend, various book and magazine donors, the volunteer student librarians all deserve our thanks for the contribution they make in the library. Last, but not least, we would like to offer a very big thank you to Mrs White (a specialist librarian) and Mrs Kennedy (the teacher with Library responsibility). Together, they are planning to make our library an even better place.

YVONNE YEO

LIBRARIANS Ruth Halliday,Sue Park, ChloeKinajil, VirginiaChristie Back Row: Middle Row: Mrs Kennedy,Smita Paul Angela Whale,SuryaKinajil, CourtenaySuppinger,Mrs White Front Row: JosephineYeo,RosalynCooper,Kylie White, Yvonne Yeo,ElizabethDavies

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MATHEMATICSHAPPENINGS

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Margaret's College has maintained its proud record of involvement and success in both local and International Mathematics Competitions.

In the National Bank Mathematics Competition Virginia Christie of Form 3, Rachel McPherson and Lynn Graham of Form 5 gained Top 100 Awards and Justine Bradley, Sarah Stewart, Amber Topschij and Nicola Thompson gained Certificates of Merit.

In the Australian Mathematics Competition, Certificates of Distinction were gained by

Selena Croft, Rebecca O'Connor, Elizabeth Davies, Smita Paul, Virginia Christie, Charlotte Cottrell, Kate Chaston, Lucy Curtis, Joanne Harwood, Tina-Anne Pooley, Bridget McLister, Claire Sullivan, Hannah Maling,·Amber Topschij, Maya Macfarlane, Lynn Graham, Diana Perry, Caroline Brodie, Natasha Bowden, Louise Nichols, Kate Thomson, Hester Hamilton, Eleanor Cottle, Belinda Thompson and Yvonne Yeo. Twenty five girls gained Certificates of Credit.

This year was the inaugural year for the Fourth Form Mathematical Investigation Competition. Our girls were awarded one of the five runnerup pnzes.

The members of the successful team were: Deanna Campbell, Sarah Hampton, Anna Mason, Maya Macfarlane, Tina-Anne Pooley and Amber Topschij.

FORM 4 CANTAMATHS Award of Excellencein Caxton Mathematical Investigation Competition Standing: Amber Topschij,Maya Macfarlane, Deanna Campbell Seated· Sarah Hampton, Anna Mason Absent: Tina-Anne Pooley

FORMS 1 and 2 CANTAMATHS PRIZE WINNERS Back Row : Kate Saunders, Marissa Brandram-Adams, Amy Mill Middle Row : Kim lacBrayne,Elizabeth Robinson, Selina Hr1lliday,Margo Neame, Davinia Ballin, Kim Atkinson Front Row : Olivia Gerve,Nanako Mizuno, Cinnamon Miles, Elizabeth Davies,Julia Chen, Emily Beadon, Amie Marett

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PUBLIC SPEAKING MYERS CUP SPEECH COMPETITION 1992: Everyone, staff and students alike, dreads the annual, compulsory public speaking competition. But every year, and I have now witnessed and been a party to four such extravaganzas, proves better than the last. I am continually amazed and impressed by the goodwill and the quality of our girls' efforts to speak effectively.

People from Std. 2 to Form 7 somehow overcome their natural nervousness. They write, practise and present their speeches. And we are all entertained, informed, persuaded, challenged, shocked ... Whatever topics are wheeled up, our students manage to perform with great credit on the public stage - in classrooms, in semi finals or on the grand night itself.

Our regular judge, Grant Mangin, himself a talented public speaker, has continued to enthuse over the quality of our speakers. His daunting task is to listen to the competition's finalists and award the appropriate prizes. His own recipe for public speaking success includes basic ingredients like matter and method mixed with a sprinkle of spicy magic.

That magic was certainly evident in our Chapel late in April this year. At the Grand Final when first we were delighted by the demonstration speeches given by: Lucy Philips of Standard 3, Caroline Stanton of Standard 2 and further challenged by the fourteen Fl-7 finalists.

The 1992 winners were: Senior - Myers' Cup Rebecca Rock Evans F7 'All Men should learn to Cook' Intermediate - Gosset Cup Emily Harris 4Ms 'Fitness is a Health Hazard' Junior - Toomer Trophy Virginia Christie 3My 'Praise' Special thanks to Abigail Rainey, who not only spoke in the senior section, but also compered our lively programme effectively. Mrs Milsom and Mrs Minns, along with the Speech and Drama students, again provided a steady stream of witty and amusing interludes.

The evening proved once again that public speaking is very much 'alive and well' at St. Margaret's College.

LYN KENNEDY Co-ordinator

Andrea Forbes, Winner of the English Speaking Union Speech Competition

ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION COMPETITION: In July Amber T opschij and Andrea Forbes competed against 21 other fourth form students in Christchurch in the English Speaking Union's speech competition. Against very strong competition Andrea Forbes gained first place. The topic was 'Why is English the most important language in the W odd today'.

ROTARY SPEECH COMPETITIONS: Virginia Christie and Heather McKenzie are taking part in the Rotary Speech competitions in November. The first round, where the topic is of their own choice, involves delivering their speech rather early in the morning at a breakfast meeting. In the second round, where the speech is presented at an evening meeting, the topic is 'Real Happiness in Helping Others' .

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DEBATING Debating this year took off with an enthusiastic flurry when we hosted the Summer Quadrangular Tournament in March. Our senior team - Nicola McGoverne Abigail Rainey and Rebecca Rock-Evans debated with a great burst of wit and humour and amused the audience mightily. Unfortunately we came third owing to a certain lack of argument to support the witticisms, After that we launched into the Canterbury Speaking Union lnterschool contests with enthusiasm and all our teams did very well indeed.

The Fifth Form debaters this year have been Angela Kearns, Diana Perry, Amber Burt, Charlotte Walker and Rebekah Yock. They won all their CSU debates and represented us at Winter Tournament at Columba College in July. They debated 'That

we prefer style to sincerity' very competently with sound irrefutable argument. Their arguments were so sound we are not sure why we came third again. Perhaps it was because they were much shorter than the opposition. We are quite confident that next year our Form Six debaters will sweep all before them.

A Third Form team was formed in the second term and has gained greatly from the experience of debating against other schools. These enthusiastic debaters were Virginia Christie, Louisa Champion, Joanne Harwood, Heather McKenzie and Chloe Kinaj il.

The Fourth Form team showed great flair as well as sound debating skills; they won every one of their debates.

Teams were made up from Andrea Forbes, Amber Topschij, Alexandra Pettit, Emily Harris and Bridget

McLister.

Both Third and Fourth Form teams entertained the Royal Commonwealth Society at their October meeting. Debating against teams from Christchurch Girls' High School and St. Bede's both St. Margaret's teams provided a top class performance, as well as winning a book token for the school.

The enthusiasm and high standard shown by these junior teams augurs well for the future of debating at St. Margaret's.

DEBATING Back Row:

Andrea Forbes,Abigail Rainey,Amber Topschij, NicolaMcGoverne,Emily Harris Middle Row: Mrs Masters,HeatherMcKenzie,RebeccaRock-Evans,Mrs Coates, RebekahYock,C'nrlotte Walker,AngelaKearns,Mrs McKay FrontRow: BridgetMclister, Amber Burt, Diana Perry,JoanneHarwood, ChloeKinajil, Virginia Christie,AlexandraPettit Absent: LouisaChampion

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FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING Future Problem Solving was introduced this year as part of our extension programme in Forms 1 to 3. We are the first school in Christchurch to take up this programme. Future Problem Solving is a year long, school-based programme which teaches students a problem solving process which they apply to situations which may occur in the future. The students research a topic and then brainstorm possible problems that could occur in a given situation. They then choose an underlying problem which, if solved, will resolve many of the other problems as well. Possible solutions are then brainstormed and analysed so that the best solution is found.

TALE OF MOZAMBIQUE SHOCKS SCHOOL The Form I team is: Jessica van Schreven, Anna Saunders, Gabrielle Wall, Elizabeth Wylie.

The Form 2 team is: Margo Neame, Rebecca O'Connor, Emily Palmer, Stephanie Radford The Form 3 team is: Virginia Christie, Charlotte Cottrell, Joanne Harwood, Heather McKenzie

The Form 2 and 3 teams have been invited to Melbourne to corn ere in the Australasian Final. This i a great honour for them, and we wish them every success in this event.

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING Back Row: Mrs C Wyeth,HeatherMcKenzie, CharlotteCottrellStephanieRadford, Joanne Harwood,Mrs S Oliver Front Row: RebeccaO'Connor, VirginiaChristie,Emily Palmer,MargoNeame

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On Monday, 10 August, Angela Kearney, of Save The Children Fund came to St. Margaret's College to speak of her five-year work as nurse and midwife in Mozambique. She told us of the horrors of living in the poorest country in the world, whose population has been decimated and traumatized by Civil War, drought and famine.

Ms Kearney worked as a midwife in a village in Mozambique, helping to train the traditional midwives in more hygienic and healthy ways to birth children. The midwives had many good traditions which were encouraged -the squatting position for birth, eating high-vitamin foods, walking about while in labour, but also many unhealthy customs, such as cutting the umbilical cord with sugar cane and putting goat-dung on the wound.

The midwives were given a 6-week training course and when returned to their villages, were left with a medical kit, replenished every six months, containing gloves, scissors, gentian violet, bowls and a mackintosh.

The Civil War in Mozambique has caused massive trauma to a large number of the children. They have been taught to enter villages in early morning, murder children and their parents and maim villagers. Social workers are employed treating these traumatized children, under the funding of Save the Children. This fund also does much more for the people of Mozambique - providing trucks and engineers, seeds, and teachers for the children.

Ms Kearney is travelling to Papua, New Guinea, on Monday to continue her work for Save The Children, there.

Melanie Atkinson

SPEECH AND DRAMA SPEECH AND DRAMA Speech and Drama has continued to flourish this year with most girls opting for group rather than private lessons. Mrs Milsom has again been responsible for the secondary school and Mrs Minns for the intermediate and junior schools. Speech and Drama aims to develop girls' oral skills on a broad front; confidencebuilding and general communication skills are covered as well as the specialist skills needed for acting, poetry-speaking, reading aloud, improvisation, impromptu speaking and public speaking. The theory of voice production is also covered. In Term One the emphasis was on drama and Speech and Drama students again provided humorous sketches and poems for the Myers Cup Speech finals. A number of Speech and Drama students were also finalists with Selina Croft winning the junior section and Emily Harris the intermediate section. At the end of Term One third form students performed "Fairytales Re-visited" for the junior school, while junior students presented improvised stories and sketches to their classmates, and the intermediate students put

together and improvised programme for their camp concert. During the May school holidays Mrs Minns entered two of her girls in the Christchurch competitions.

Congratulations to Kathryn Van Beek and Bianca Hurrell who were awarded 2nd place in the drama duologue section. In Term Two preparation for exams began and in October over 50 girls sat N.Z. Speech Board exams. All passed successfully, many with excellent marks. Congratulations to them all, especially though to Michelle Ineson, Emma Hodgson, Charlene Tennison and Lara Rennie who gained Honours in their grades. A number of girls have yet to sit N.Z. Speech Board and Trinity exams in December. The year will end with a fun theatresports competition and the usual lunch.

'TOO MUCH PUNCH FOR JUDY'

'Too much punch for Judy' was a dramatic presentation targeted at young drivers and teenagers exposed to alcohol, and designed to create a greater awareness about drunk driving - the consequences and the alternatives.

The basic story was about two sisters who went out drinking. The younger sister who was marginally less drunk drove home but crashed straight into a bridge parapet - the older sister, Joanna, was killed but Judy, the driver, survived.

Everything in the act was true; this was an incident that really happened.

The incident has been fully researched and the actual dialogue, music and thoughts of those involved were used. This made the play much more realistic and very frightening.

We were also shown a number of slides of the real girls and the car as it crashed. As the car crashed the tape deck had been playing 'We've only just begun' by the Carpenters and this exact music, which suddenly sounded too poignant, was played during the play.

The actors used minimal props but managed to produce a profound presentation. They were very professional and able to evoke deep emotions from both themselves and the audience. At one stage they used wooden blocks banged together and repetitive phrasing that really penetrated my mind, emphasising the point and making it seem extremely powerful and frightening .

I appreciated the fact that the play was not judgemental. It accepted the fact that our age group does drink and often too much. It aimed at dissuading us from driving or being drunk-driven by showing us the consequences, the alternatives and evoking an increased level of self responsibility .

My overall impression was firstly 'wow' - what amazing acting, and secondly I felt frightened by the message being given. I was also angry that so many people continue to drink-drive - as can be seen by the Lewis Pass incident, but I believe that shows such as thfse go a long way in the fight to eliminate drink-driving.

Diana Perry

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OUTDOOR EDUCATION OUTDOOR EDUCATION REPORT During Term One, the third form camps were held at the Rangitata Rafts' Lodge at Mt. Peel, with four action-packed days for each class.

The girls particularly enjoyed the rafting, the kayak lessons and leaping off rocks into the Rangitata river. An interesting experience for many was being alone in the bush for a short nme.

Also in Term One, a small group of fifth form girls joined the Venture Club of Christ's College. For most home-away-from home, but even so, some girls were tempted away from its warmth to sleep in the snow caves they had built.

We are very appreciative of the good work that David Erikson and the other Rangitata Rafts instruccors have put into making the Third and Fourth Form camps very successful and happy trips for the girls.

Thanks also to the Third and Fourth Form Form Teachers for their help and for accompanying their classes.

Shona Begg

SPIRITS

weeks of the term, they met several times and were challenged by a wide variety of outdoor activities including a weekend camp.

During Term Two, each fourth form class went away for four days in the mountains, and were extremely lucky to experience brilliant weather between the snow storms. Snow there was in abundance, and the ski day at Porter Heights was a highlight for each group. The Porter Heights Ski Club lodge was a very comfortable

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You're swimming the waves at forty knots with the wind in your sails and a pool of sixty dolphins on the starboard side, when suddenly from the crow's nest someone yells "Whale at port". Everyone rushes to the left of the boat. Sounds like a novel? Well it's real and happens on the boats nicknamed "The Spirits".

Earlier this year St. Margaret' College 7th form students, Hannah Blackmore, Fiona Maitland, Louse Hall and Prudence Fulton each took ten days of their normal routine on land to set sail on the high seas.

With the constantly changing

environment it is necessary to learn the ship you're on ( Spirit of Adventure or Spirit of New Zealand) really well . In fact, if you learn it well enough, you can sail the whole boat yourself from Captain through to crew!

Weather is prone to change and from the sunny bliss of watching whales and dolphins, you' re suddenly having to dip your harness to a rail as you square the yard arms, haul in a sail or hoist one up, needing to cover your face with your arm as a wave crashes down on deck.

Sailing is not all that is learnt on these voyages. Everyone must learn to live with a large group of people in a fairly small space. You must get on with them and there's no room for squabblers. You learn to do things for other people without being asked.

Everyone docks feeling a better person than the day they left. It's a real learning experience - to help those up the mast who are scared or weak; to keep those who are sick entertained so that they forget their queasiness; and to work as a team.

Everyone leaves with a spirit of adventure and a pride in New Zealand.

Fiona Maitland Hannah Blackmore

THIRD FORM SKI DAY

THIRD FORM SKIDAY Ring - ring, ring - ring . 'Hello seekers snowphone, how may I help you?' 'Um, could I please have the conditions at Mt Hutt today?'

'Yes, just a moment please. Mt Hutt is open with clear skies, a 1 . 5 metre base, all main trails groomed and vibrated, all lifts operating, chains to be carried. ' 'Thank you. ' I hung up the receiver, breathed a sigh of relief and geared myself up for a great day on the slopes at Mr Hutt .

At 7 . 30 when I arrived at school the carpark was buzzing with activities. It was Friday 31 July and the long awaited 3rd Form ski day had come.

We were bundled into two Mount

Cook Line buses for our trip to the mountain, along with skis, boots, poles, daypacks and much more. As we approached the mountain we could tell it was going to be a magic day - one indication of this was the weather!!

When we arrived at the field we obtained our ski passes and set off for our group lessons. These were not only a great way to improve your skiing, but for those not familiar with Mt Hutt, it was a great way to get to know the mountain. After the two hour lesson we headed off with our friends for the real fun to begin. As most of the lifts were open we had a

wide variety of slopes to ski on. For some, a highlight was climbing up to the top of the ski field and looking down the other side onto the Southern Alps .

All who skied enjoyed this day and were reluctant to go home again. I, for one, am hoping that next year we will be faced with a similar opportunity and I'm sure many others are too.

H McKenzie 3My

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THIRD FORM CAMPS

THIRD FORM CAMPS It was during March and April that the Third Formers went on their class camps to Rangitata Rafts.

The theme of the camps was Outdoor Education and boy did we get a lot of that. The first day found U!i getting orientated with the camp buildings and also going to learn the basics of kayaking ( which involved us being tipped into icy cold water from our kayaks) and rafting. All survived this activity but we were not too keen to do it again! The rafting was a highlight for many people mainly because it was done in teams of 8 or so of your friends. That night we slept in an old barn and we were up to all hours discussing the day's activities.

On the second day we went for a day trip in the rafts. For many people this was their favourite day. We brought a packed lunch with us and we learnt a lot about water skills. We were in the river quite a lot of time learning skills such as floating down rapids safely.

That night we awoke to the sound of the fire alarm at 12 . 00 am and less

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than 45 minutes later we found ourselves alone in the forest, trying to get sleep, accompanied only by the howls of wild animals. I, for one, didn't get much sleep chat night.

We went for a long walk to the legendary jump rock on the third day. This was about 30 feet above the water and was a fun and exhilerating experience enjoyed by most. On this day we also looked at some dangerous rafting waters and I imagine that many could see themselves riding chose rapids ! That night we made our own shelters to sleep in and we sat around a campfire talking.

On the fourth and final day we cleaned up and went abseiling. I think that the leaders, Tussock, Wayne and Southy, were pleased this day had come. The bus trip home was a time for some to catch up on lost sleep, but for many an opportunity to test their singing abilities !

All who went on camp enjoyed it and we all eagerly anticipate our camp next year.

H McKe zie 3My

THE FUN I HAD I went to the camp.

I liked jumping from the rock It was a lot of fun The first time I was scared but I wanted to try because many people could do it.

I liked rafting It is easier than kayaking The second day I didn't know I had to make a sandwich but my friends give me one I didn't like water because it was very cold, but I like it because it was very clean I could see under the water I didn't like climbing the hill it was very hard because I was wet and when I climbed I felt very heavy.

Jitjan Montriwat

RAFTING

Ooohhh disgusting squashed sandwiches for lunch - 'I bet you guys did this on purpose. ' Ya know after all that hard floating down the river we need a decent lunch!

Especially when we' re going white water rafting straight afterwards.

Ahh, white water rafting that horrific unforgettable dangerous experience.

Huge white waves splashing everywhere, going sideways, hitting rocks and getting stuck, falling out and not being able to get back in, getting dunked over and over again and just about drowning. That was my opinion of rafting the Rangitata before I went, but in fact I'm sorry to say it's nothing like that !

'Woohh, ahh, Yikes - Splat, Splat, Splat. You guessed it we had jumped into the raft forgetting that we were still practically on the bank. Suddenly we were flung into the air. You didn't guess it did you - Wayne climbed in.

Smash. We all landed with a bump.

Almost straight away we attempted our first rapid only knowing a few instructions. 'Hold on', Wayne yelled.

RAYAKING We ducked down and held on.

W oooosh, water sprayed everywhere.

A few screams were let out only to find they were too late - we were already back on calm water.

A short time later we had learned all the instructions and had practised them over and over again. Suddenly someone yelled 'raaapid'. Oh boy we were going down backwards. I'm sure the thought of tipping out crossed everyone's mind but, next thing you knew, we were on calm water again.

After that we didn't really care which way we went down, whether it was sideways, backwards or forwards.

The rest of the trip was quite slow but it was still excellent fun. The end was the worst part because we had to flip the extremely heavy raft and empty out the water then lift it above our heads and carry it without dropping it up a steep sandy hill. If we dropped it, we had to put it back in the river and wash the sand off it .

But good old us didn't drop it! And the others dropped their rafts so na na na na na !

Geraldine Riddle

Kayaking, in my point of view was probably the hardest thing on camp.

The first day, we just figured out how to use the kayaks and went down our first rapid. On Thursday, we, well most of us anyway, went for a four hour long kayak down the backwaters of the Rangitata River. It was very, very tiring with the current and the wind stronger than us. There were only a few who didn't fall, (I was one of them) but the people who did were very calm and collected about it. About 9 or I O of us went the whole way in the kayaks ( most of the others had been in the raft ) .

Southy and Wayne just kept on saying: ' Come on, only a little bit further . ' Three hours later we were still going.

As I said before, the current, the freezing cold water and wind and sometimes rain didn't exactly make a perfect day for us but we made it.

Trudi Rowe

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HOUSE REPORTS

House Capt. Charlotte Hilgendo,f & Dep. House Capt. - Kristen Stewart

House Capt. - Nicola Hindmarsh & Dep. House Capt. - Philippa Douglas

House Capt. - Charlotte Rehheck & Dep. House Capt. -Anna Adair

KOWHAI HOUSE

MANUKA HOUSE

KONINI HOUSE

This year I have really enjoyed being the captain of an enthusiastic, high spirited house.

Ac the swimming sports we did very well, coming third overall, thanks co our competitive swimmers. However, in the house crocodile we didn't go so well but never the less, the spirit was there. Athletics turned out to be a great success and we came third again. A GRAND effort, Kowhai.

House Day bounced off to a wonderful start when the Kowhai B Net ball team won their first game. Thanks to the expertise in the Kowhai A N ecball team, we got third.

The Basketball team dribbled off to a great start, as none of our team had played before, but did well considering. The Badminton team finished in a fine first place, which made Kowhai proud. As for the Hockey team, they hicoffwith a fantastic performance, winning their first couple of games. A great day was had by all and it concluded the year on a successful note.

I'd like to thank Kristen Stewart very much for her great support and for her contribution to the smooth operating of the house. Also thank you to everyone who made Kowhai such a BRILLIANT house.

Good luck for next year and the years to come.

Charlotte Hilgendorf

We had a good start to the year as everyone retained their enthusiasm throughout the preparation of the Swimming Sports, cheerfully volunteering for the House Relays. However, when the day came our enthusiasm underwent a tragic blow and we failed co gain a posici n worth mentioning. Great talent was shown in the House Croc. by Manuka 7th Formers, clad in the symbolic white attire, who achieved a fantastic second place. What a marvellous effort!

Our next real challenge was t e athletic sports. Consistent effort and enthusiasm was present, but unfortunately we didn't do half as well as we did in the swimming sports! ! Better luck next year Manuka.

Although we didn't gain any top placing in the House Day we did not come last on our own. The position was shared with Matipo.

Despite this we had an exceedingly enjoyable day, excluding the raw sausage rolls and absence of cups and places. I'm p sitive chat if we had had the chance at Houseplays we would have stunned the school with our incredible talent, and won House Day hands down.

I'd like to give a special 'thank you' ·co the Juniors and the Intermediate de artment, whose enthusiasm and willingnes outshone chat of the seniors, who I hope will adopt their attitude in 93.

Also a special thanks to my very supportive and enthusiastic vice-captai , Nicola Hindmarsh,-whom I couldn't have done without.I wish Manuka the best ofluck for 1993.

Philippa Douglas

the sporting field Konini excelled by first winning the swimming sports. Forms 1, 2, 3 and 4 won the house relay and the seniors came 3rd.

Ac the Athletic Sports we won overall, with house members gaining considerable success. Penelope Munns was Under 14 Champion, Rachel Talbot runner-up in the Under 16 age group and Margaret Fraser was runner-up to the Senior Champion. Konini won the Junior house relay and was placed second in the senior relay.

House Day was again successful. We began by winning the A and B N ecball and the Hockey, although Badminton and Basketball were less successful.

There has been great support and enthusiasm in the House all year. Anna Adair, my vice-captain, has been especially helpful.

Good luck for next year. Keep that purple power streaking ahead.

Charlotte Rebbeck

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House Capt. - Angela Stock (R) & Dep. House Capt. - Nicola Sutton (L)

House Capt. - Sara Bruce & Dep. House Capt. - Kate Mowat

House Capt. - Georgia Smith & Dep. House Capt. -Reh ecca Graham

MATIPOHOUSE

RATA HOUSE

RIMU HOUSE

MA TIPO IS THE BEST ! ! !

The year started with the swimming sports;

Rimu had a very interesting year. 1992 started off with high hopes, certainty and enthusiasm from Georgia and myself.

First on the agenda was swimming. This wasn't too much of a success, even though our top swimmers tried their best. I would like to congratulate chem. The Seventh Formers of Rimu did very well with the House Crocodile, coming first again for the second time in two years. I was very pleased and impressed with the co-operation and organization of all the forms.

In the Athletic Sports we had a lot of fun.

The whole house relay was a major event for us Rimuarians as it always is because it includes all of us athletes to compete with 'chem'!!!

Then came House Day. We managed to sort out our Hockey, Netball, Basketball and Badminton teams. Everyone performed their best and we came first overall. A big disappointment for Rimu was not having any House plays. With the support of next year, I'm sure and hope Rimu will be able to keep this house spirit.

In conclusion I would like to say that Rimu has many talents and it must try twice as hard next year because we have all types of competitors and successors .

Lastly, I would like to thank my Vice Captain, Georgia Smith, who couldn't have been more helpful and supportive towards me.

Although this year has not been as successful as all of us in Matipo would have hoped, I am pleased to say that the house spirit was fantastic.

The swimming sports were our first challenge, and although we came 5th. we had some excellent efforts, gaining both Senior ·Champion, Angela Collett and runner-up Stephanie Mainprize. Well done both of you. For the forthcoming years there seems to be a great deal of swimming talent shining through from Forms 1-4.

Next came the athletic sports in which we were also placed 5th. However, we did not do too badly ! Many of the girls excelled themselves, especially Sarah Pearse and Natasha Denny who won most of their events, and the Under 162 house relay gained 2nd place. Congratulations. Here again we have great potential.

House Day was also a success except that I feel that the cancellation of the house plays took some of the excitement away. The sports side of the day went well and we were placed regularly.

I would like to thank Nicki (my deputy), Matipo 7th formers and the rest of my House for making this a fun and enjoyable year. Good luck for the future .

Angela Stock

our first opportunity to reveal the power of RED. The house Croc. plunged confidently through the rapid white water of the pool to gain a distinguished third place. Well done, guys ! Overall, Rata came a close second - a brilliant effort .

The house again showed its ability at the Athletic Sports where we easily won the whole house relay ( thanks Kirst ) as well as the junior and senior relays. We gained second place overall once again, but only because we felt sorry for Konini. Thank you so much to everyone who took part.

Although we didn't have the opportunity to delight the school with our dramatic superiority in house plays, we had a fun afternoon playing sports in which we achieved second place after Rimu. Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially to those in Forms 1 and 2 who brought much yummy drink. We hope that teachers will get plates next year.

Finally I would like to wish Rata lots ofluck for the future, and also to thank my vicecaptain, Kate Mowat, for her brilliant organization and support. Keep up that house spirit and thanks to everyone who participated this year. Nice work, Ratarians !

Sara Bruce

RGraham

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FORM REPORTS

SEVENTH FORM Back Row : Lisa McFarlane, VanessaSimpson, GeorgiaSmith, Kate Thompson, Rachel MacKenzie, Kirsty Wear, Kristen Stewart, Nicola Oakley, Anna Wilkes, Hannah Blackmore, Selina Handyside, Kate Mowat Third Row : Diana Lill, Nicola Sutton, Fiona Maitland, Charlotte Rebbeck, Angela Stock, Kate Brazier, Juliette Alsop, Abigail Rainey, Claire Rundle, Nicola Hindmarsh, Nicola McGoverne, Lanie Astley, Anna Adair Second Row: Mr L Hallum, Lucy Paterson, Kylie Eisman, RebeccaRock-Evans, Rebecca Steel, Kathy Wong, Nicola Shand, Melanie Hawker, Philippa Douglas, Rebecca Graham, Megan Greenwood, Margaret Fraser, Miss F Mangos Front Row: Yvonne Yeo, Anna Hiatt, Sara Bruce, Tae lzumiya, Amy Wong, Eleanor Cottle, Juliet Koopman, Louise Hall, Janna Fitzsimmons, Nanami Kasasaki, Belinda Thompson, Nicola Hindmarsh, Victoria Taylor

THE STATIONARY TRAVELLER Sitting lazily on the verandah, warm and comfortable under the sun's strong winter light, my eyes travel slowly over the mass of grey stretched out beneath me. The city looks dark and hazy, the tiny cars reflect the sun like specks of tinfoil. The hum of the city can scarcely be heard as the birds' and crickets' chorus of shrill, clear notes resound above it. The only thing that disturbs my peace is the occasional droning of an aeroplane, circling above. The lawn stretched out around me is still coated with a frosting of morning dew. The leaves of the trees shine red and gold. Other trees have cast aside their leaves and are stretching their naked tips to the sun.

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the sun, a large purring mass of soft black fur. On my other side is a book, its cover spread out, steadily absorbing the sun's warmth.

Everything about me is shining and warm, their colours looking falsely bright under the sun's deep glare.

I am content. I feel no need to move.

Yet my mind is restless in the perfection. It wants to travel, to learn, to know, to explore. It wants to know why. Why I am sitting here?

Why I am content? Why should I be so privileged that I can idly sit in this beauty?

These questions cannot be a swered simply. My mind must journey to try to find the answers. The que tions must be turn~d over, looked at from all sides, slowly taken apart, so that in the end we are left with the eternal why? There is an answer, but man

cannot find it. Yet we must still think about the question, although we know the search for an answer is fruitless. If we forget there is a question we become no more than the simplest animal, content in the sun. Humans are set aside from animals because of their capacity to ask WHY? The simplest animals know instinctively what to do, where to go, when to go and who to go to, yet they do not ask WHY? If we leave this question our lives become meaningless, we are then no more than insects working for our existence.

My mind has had its travels and returned with a sense of restlessness. I now must stretch like the cat, and move on.

Antonia Horrocks

FORM 6Su THE DEBT We were told by many that Sixth Form would be a challenging year, but discovering that we were under the caring wings of Mr Summerlee for a whole year, was more than a challenge.

Being the smallest of the 6th Form classes, we found it easy to knit together as a family with Mr Summerlee as our Great Provider (of work! ) who, like most parents, strived to teach us manners and class etiquette?

As far as our successes, we are not the swimming champs of '92, or the athletic champs either, but unlike other 6th Form classes, we have spirit! In fact so much, that Mr Summerlee had to take a break from us for 4 weeks, leaving us to fend for

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ourselves. However, a refreshed man returned and this showed at the ball when members of our class got Mr Summerlee to shake, rattle and almost roll !

We trust that 1992 has been a valuable experience for newcomers, Caroline Shand and Emma Meredyth-Young, and for those of us who were here last year. Especially for the likes of Juliet Blair; first attending a Christ's College bio. camp, then playing the lead prostitute in the production, 'Cabaret'. A versatile girl, Juliet.

Oh well, that's 6Su's year. A very good preparation for the challenges of Form 7, we feel.

Alexandra O'Brien, Juliet Blair, Zakiya Orbell, Claire McKenzie, Makayla Barnes Middle Row : Jennifer Ravenscroft,Stephanie Mainprize, Lucy Simpson, Caroline Shand, Joanne Donnelly, Emma Meredyth-Young First Row : Belinda Butterfield, Sophie Hartnell, Josephine Talbot, Vivienne Wood, Megan Armstrong, Molly Savill,Sarah Head

The debt I owed my brother ten cents, and I couldn't pay him back.

The world was about to end, and all for the sake of a ten cent piece !

My snotty-nosed, spoilt, teenage mutant-ninja-turtle -mad brother was having a tantrum. But this wasn't just any tantrum, this was a particularly frightening tantrum because through a combination of world_-shattering coincidences, I had ended up in the middle of it.

Books were flying, doors slamming, arms flailing, windows shattering and tears streaming. One could hardly believe that this was the same child who diligently read one page of 'Peter and Jane' to Mummy every night, ate all his vegetables and cried if he stood on a fly. My little brother had a splitpersonality. Firstly there was adorable, perfect, kind, lovable little boy, (and this was the child my parents knew) and secondly there was spoilt, arrogant, lazy, noisy little boy, and this was the child I was privileged enough to know. Brothers will be brothers - I guess.

Rodney's littl~ tantrum was beginning to lo"oklike W odd War II, he was America and I was Ja pan, experiencing the effects of an atomic bomb! Interesting red, blue, black, yellow. All the colours of rainbow, assorted bruises were appearing on my face, legs, neck and back. For a child half my size, he had an incredible strength. Suddenly I felt a strange tingling at the base of my spine, a tingling that was spreading fast - so this, I thought, is what they mean when they talk about bl6oq boiling. I grabbed the nearest weapon, Rodney's latest ninja-turtleLeonardo and using all the force I could muster I brought it crashing down on Rodney's backside.

The dinosaur was silenced, but I still had a ten cent debt to pay.

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FORM 6Mn

6Mn is mainly Dr Mann's physics class which is reflected in our results from this year.

Antonia Horrocks gained Distinction in the Australian Science Competition while Catalina Wong and Kirsty Innes gained Merit Awards.

Also recognition may be noted in the arts with Shelley Morris receiving a Silver Sash for music - maybe an up and coming Nigel Kennedy?! Anne Graham also has excelled in music, with her best achievement recalled at the Pacific Basin Band Camp in Hawaii earlier this year where her band gained Gold Medals. Antonia' s excellence in speech and drama will soon be examined when she sits Grade 8.

The sporting successes include - a

Gold Medal for Sharleen Hole when she, along with Vanessa CameronLewis, won the U 17 double scull at Nationals. Rachel and Kate also gained a few medals and Kate Thomson was selected for the New Zealand Junior rowing team which competed against Australia earlier this year. Rachel and Kate also played i.n the South Island Netball Tournament in the August holidays, in the 'A' netball team, where they enjoyed many tough games and they lost them all but one!

We were sad to see Riley SigglekowGourlie leave recently to go to French-Canada on a A. F. S. exchange for a year but welcome our lovely new A. F. S . student, Sussan Aitken, from Boliva. She is staying with Bianca Nielson's family as

Bianca is presently in Bolivia, also on an A. F. S. exchange.

Jo Johnson came to St. Margaret's in the second term from Nelson. We have enjoyed her contributions both in and out of school after she quickly settled in to school and the boarding house.

Everyone tells me that I must mention one more outstanding performance -this time Chizuru Suzuki. Right on your bungy jump, Chiz!

Dr Mann has been a wonderful form teacher, taking care of all our problems, both as a form and as his physics class. Thank-you for your time and effort. It is much appreciated although it must be an easy task as we are the best form in the whole school.

RachelTalbot

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FORM 6Mi

We started off well, winning the Senior relay at the Swimming Sports and coming second in the relay at the Athletics Sports. Since then we have had class members in both sporting teams and cultural groups but special attention has to be brought to Angela Collett' s brilliant efforts in the New Zealand Open Winter Championships. We wish her success overseas next year. Vanessa CameronLewis had a very successful rowing season, winning a Gold at Maadi Cup. Hannah Blakeley, Caroline Cambridge, Rosemary T rolove and Sarah Pearse were 6Mi's representatives in top sporting teams this winter.

Although 6Mi has only spent Form Times together this year, we have had lots of fun and thank Miss Miller for being such a capable Form Teacher.

FORM6Mi Back Row :

Emma Irving, Hannah Blakely, Claire Newcombe, Charlotte Sevier, Angela Collett, Hester Hamilton Middle Row : Michelle Hulena, Victoria Steele, Amanda McBeath, Sarah Pearse, Sophie Tripp, Chloe Sanders, LousiseNewton, Miss Miller Front Row : Vivian Tan, Nicola Fairbrass,Niranjina Fakir, Rosemary Trolove, Caroline Cambridge, Celine Prewer,TessaBonifant Absent: VanessCameron-Lewis

BALLOON RIDE

Dusk was fast approaching as the last rays of a glorious sunset descended the sky, sinking behind the hills, covered by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches. Their upper verge formed a crest fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane. Nights creatures were abounding in the fields and marshes, frogs, crickets, dragonflies, fireflies and field m'ice, all out to play.

In the middle of a field bordered by poplars, was tethered a large hot air balloon which swayed and strained against its ties. Red, but in the fading rays, on fire with a red hot enough to burn your eyes. Beside its wicker basket stood a woman still and silent staring unseeing into the fading light.

The only sound to be heard was the wind which smote the beeches and poured through the poplars in a

weakened moan. The Autumn leaves in the ditches, simmered and boiled as tongues of air ferreted them out and sent them spinning across the grass.

All of a sudden the wind died down and leaves lay still.

The woman snapped out of her reverie, clambered into the basket releasing the bonds which held the balloon a prisoner against its will.

Ascending to a grand height, it hovered briefly before rising over the half-naked hills towards the evermoving horizon.

Where they were going nobody knew. The night sky was clear, peppered with stars which pulsated, not as individuals, but as one, led by the North Star.

The woman was blind to her surroundings, dreamwrapt, she cared

not where she went as the balloon rose with the hot air and sank with the cool. Sometimes the balloon descended so low she could have reached out and snapped a twig from a lofty tree, or have seen the wind air - brushing the grasses like a soft broom. As it was her only movement was to feed the balloon its fiery nourishment as it sank, and to remove sandbags. And so the two in silent companionship drifted on, led by the spectrum of starlight, blues, yellows, silvers and golds carried aloft by the wind, serenaded by the windswept trees, a multitude of voices in a nocturnal choir .

Vivienne Wood

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FORM 5Bt We had a truly bodacious year, we rode the wave oflife and we surfed it into shore.

5Bt is a truly excellent class ; Kylie, Carrie, Carly, Rebekah, Angela and Nicky all represented an 'A' team for their particular sport, and with surprising mondoness they excelled.

SBt really outshone themselves in the C. P.R. test. We pumped, straddled and huffed until we could huff no more.

The most outrageous sounds drifted from the instruments the orchestra tamed. Fiona, Claire and Diana made a good job of it.

The locker bays have been an arena for truly heated discussions, hysterical sessions of snap, and musical encores.

Whilst all along Jen and Mel were Star Romping across the universe to S.T.A.C. We acquired another Californian raisin due to surf the Sumner Seas with us. Welcome Jill.

Big Dog set our charcoal alight with mondo entertainment during many a lunch session. Many gnarly class members joined the Touch ranks'.

Many of our most brainy dudettes entered the mathematic, scientific and linguistic race for success. Well done Lynn, Rach, Ange, and Diana.

Most impressive. Rachel was one of the most highest and was occasionally holier than thou.

The debating team was truly outrageous with Angela, Amber, Diana, Charlotte and Rebekah all surpassing themselves with talents they didn't know they had.

Every member of our totally mondo class has excelled in their particular field be it Sumo Wrestling, Hockey, Golf, Equestrian, or even Cartoon Watching.

We have truly mastered the Fifth Form wave and surfed the rough waters of St. Margaret's during 1992.

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FORM 5Bt Back Row: Third Row : Second Row: Front Row : Absent:

Kylie Smith, Lynn Graham, Katherine Simpson, Caroline Everest, Claire Matheson Melanie Atkinson, Fiona Bryce,Jillian Drake, Aneleise Saunders, Rachel McPherson, Belinda Cartwright Mrs Baigent,Jodi White ,Rebekah Yock, Caroline Lee, Caroline Borrie, Kathryn Milfyard, Nicola Thompson Natasha Denny, Diana Perry, Charlotte Walker, Jennifer Barker, Angela Kearns, Amber Burt Olivia Sinclair-Thomson

TRAVELOG How I would love to place my feet in the footsteps of my forebears.

To stand tall on a hill where once a Roman garrison camped.

To dig up the past in the sands of Egypt or to scale Mt. Everest in the heart of Nepal.

How I would love to sip cafe au lait on the banks of the Seine.

To eat 'flied lice' with chopsticks or perhaps a fork, To eat seaweed and raw fish while crouched without shoes Or to sample hot-dogs with ketchup at a live baseball game.

How I would love to round up a 'roo' or pat a koala.

To ride loftily atop a very large elephant To wonder at a turtle as Darwin once did.

Or to soar with the eagles far and beyond.

But I can place my feet on the path of my forebears.

To eat shellfish and kumara and the freshest of greens.

To swim with the dolphins in their translucent world.

In this, my land Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Vivienne Wood

FORM SPr HONGKONG THE TEST OF TIME It was all over. It was time to go home. And amazingly enough the time had gone quickly. The words had seemed to poke out of the page at me, like needles. All .... two and a half hours of them . Never again would I have to sit School Cert.

Science. All those long hours of swot and suddenly not remembering or understanding anything I had learnt the night before. As I entered the room of horror, I sat down at the desk memorising and going over everything in my head about the dreaded beasts, the science teacher calls chemical equations.

I gazed down at the paper, squinting as my eyes, so used to dark shades, hit the bright white paper almost

bringing tears to my eyes, dreading what lay beyond that innocent looking page of instructions.

One hour had passed and I had tackled the many beasts of nitrogen and rhe wild physics formula which longed to escape my brain. Oh what was rhe formula for distance. My silence was broken by the sound of the chalk as it screeched over the blackboard, crossing out the two and a quarter hour mark. The dreaded last quarter of an hour lay ahead. I fought my way through jungle mushrooms and athletes foot, not to mention sulphurized sea slugs and every element under the sun. But finally it was all over. It was time to go home.

CharlotteSuckling SPr

Stepping out of the plane a hot, wet blanket of air smorhers me, drowning my lungs with humidity.

The tarmac stays soft into the night here.

The crowded, clammy bus dumps us, its parcels, at arrivals.

We surge inside.

Cool, bright-white light.

Open check-in counters stretch to infinity.

Stilted but perfect English- smooth proceedure.

Laden, we exit the inner airport sanctuary.

A sea of faces watch, wave, shout.

The heat descends again.

We are spotted. We follow.

Journey retold and family reunited we leave the airport.

Chilled, excited; shiny eyes record the city neons from the bus.

We climb down. Heat. Hotel Cool.

Hot. Cold. Hot. Cold.

A waterfall of lights cascade from five storeys, cameras flash.

Sparkling brillance.

Sleep. Toss. It's too hot. It's too ccld.

Too strange.

Morning. We' re eager to go.

The shops! The markets! The goods, the clothes.

Everyone everywhere. Everything.

Ferret-eyed vendors hawk their goods, babbling what seems to be an unstoppable flow.

FORM5Pr Back Row: Third Row: SecondRow: FrontRow:

CharlotteSuckling,Michal Dillon, CatherineLaugesen Kate Barber,Fiona Rainey,Karyn Leask,RachelChen, CharlotteBlair, Natasha Burrell Miranda Astley,Nadine Wilson, GabhrielPatterson,Olivia Townley, Nathalie Tallott,MichelleClarke SarahJordan,Anna Thomas,Sara Sutnerland,Anna Guthrey, Mineko Koike, Dayna Eggeling

Then later, the bank. Cool, refreshing.

Four race for two chairs and collapse.

Sorry not here. Feet drag.

Another bank.

And another.

Finally the right place and a five minute transaction wait.

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FORM SLF

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Lf has lots of abilities and talents such as the results achieved in sports.

The girls who represented our class in the swimming relay did a tremendous effort by gaining first place, which was followed by the Athletic sports where we gained 2nd place.

A number of girls travelled to Australia to give the Ockas a taste of Kiwi sports talents.

We had Colours awarded and rewarded to successful sports people.

A lot of girls have been rewarded in out-of-school activities where major successes have been achieved .

We had some girls showing their great acting talents in ' Cabaret' and a number of them were in the choir.

As well as these great achievements everyone has been working extra hard for the dreaded School Certificate.

Mrs Lightfoot has been a great attribute to 5Lf ! ! !

SMALL TOWN

AsI walk down the main street I realise I am alone.

The two dairies .

Both ahead of me now.

Remind me of my days here When I was little, And did not know That life got any bigger than this.

With the farm far away to my left, And the drapers to my right, I am without the rest of the world.

I can see the hills If I Look, And I can see our house too, in the distance.

The place is serenity, It provides me with my needs, So why should I want more?

They say the post office might be closing, A shame, I like it.

Everybody is distant, Meaningless .

It's not raining, Not like the Northlanders say.

Nana' s at home now .

She's not too happy, Hasn't been since Pop died.

Mum says it takes time.

FORM5Lf Front Row:

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ShiaraMutukisma, Natasha Bowden,KatherineBruce, Thanta Manklang,Amarisa Sangsawasdikul,Henrietta Hilgendorf, SylviaMander Middle Row: Amanda Mitchell,MelissaQuaife,Julia Elworthy,April Maclaren, Nicole Butterfield,SarahKyle,Sarah White,Mrs Linda Lightfoot Third Row: RebeccaGilroy,RebeccaDonovan,Annabel Gudsell,Melanie Brown, BelindaForbes,Joanna Rutherford,MichelleSmith Back Row: Natalie Gerve,LouiseNicholls,Nicola Pemberton,KarinaJenkins, Olivia Radford,Jenny Grigg

I don't wish for people, Or noise, I don't like the city.

"Not enough paddocks."

That's what Pop used to say.

Better go home.

Mum won't like it if I'm late.

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FORM 4Ms

4Ms, the amazing class The most amazing in the school Mrs Monks would say 'it's wicked' Other people would say 'it's cool'.

Most of us do geography And nearly all are in the choir There are lots of wonderful people But the only one who rhymes is Maya.

Camp was up at Porter Heights We went skiing and built a snowcave fu well as sliding down the hills.

Our instructors' names were Charlie and Dave.

Anna got a lot of phone calls And she got a fright From a raincoat hanging from the ceiling That fell down, like a ghost at night.

We did well in Cantamaths Our debaters haven't lost one yet All the teachers say our class Is the best one they have ever met.

Bridget's new, she's from Australia We wish she had come sooner.

Sachiko' s from Singapore And someone else is from Kaituna.

FORM4Ms Back Row : Second Row : Third Row : Fron Row :

Caroline Pavey, Sarah Egden, Amber Topschij Hannah Maling, Andrea Forbes,Katherine Archbold, Emily Harris, Philippa Watson, Melissa Warrington Bridget Mclister, Leigh Braidwood, RebeccaMarshall, Sarah Hampton, Anna Mason, Bronwen Davies, Mrs Monks Ann Hassan, Alexandra Pettit, Deanna Campbell, Maya McFarlane, Sachiko Shinri, Claire Sullivan

RUSH HOUR

The small clock hand reaches five; Lots of the class play touch rugby They're all in St. Margaret's A team.

Tina-Anne got her Colours for gym But some only fall off the beam.

Parking meters click Briefcases snap shut Businessmen and women anticipating quiet family dinners Eager to get home.

Rush hour begins.

The gentle city hum increases People everywhere, clambering for seats on buses and trains Shouting down taxis Lights flashing Yellow, red, then green Cars stalling Engines sputtering Inevitable traffic jams Like ants in an anthill

People chasing bu_ses The hum reaches an irritating peak Chaos.

6 o'clock approaches Confusion dies down Soon, only Beggars Streetkids The Homeless remain Another day has passed 15 hours 'till tomorrow's Rush hour Little has changed since yesterday; The starving still starve The homeless still homeless Tomorrow is a new day.

BridgetGiblin

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FORM 4Bg

The year 1992 started out as a great year for 4Bg. Ms Begg was our Form Teacher with 22 members of our class. We have had a couple of new girls in our class this year.

We excelled ourselves at the Athletics Sports by beating the form relay record. Also our class won the form swimming relay.

Rebecca Tapley was the Champion for Athletics and Susan Mackenzie was the runner-up Champion. Susan Mackenzie was awarded her Colours for gym.

4Bg were busy in the second term selling soaps to raise money for Joanna Peat's trip to Japan for two weeks.

Well, then came the best part of the year ; those few days of wonderful, fun-filled, wicked adventures of camp. With two instructors, old Dave and young Dave, and ten layers of clothes on, we waddled away to go abseiling, snow caving, skiing, walking, snow fighting, tobogganing and we were the first girls' team to get over the 10 foot wall. In doing so, Anneke revealed all.

Our class had a great Fourth Form year and now we are getting ready for the Fifth Form . The Form Orderlies this year were: Rebecca Peat, Odette Eaves and Rebecca Tapley, and they really kept us in order !

Odette Eaves

FORM4Bg Back Row: Third Row: Second Row: Front Row:

Sarah Drake, Tara Brady, Kelly Hines, Anna Baker, Joanna Peat Ayako Nagano, Susan Mackenzie, Emily Stockton, Michelle King-Turner, Kate McGowan, Charlotte Morgan Anneke Stwart, Rebecca Tapley, Anna Shen, Rebecca Peate, Wendy Roberts,Courtenay Suppinger, Odette Eaves, Ms S Begg Vicki Moore, Penny Dombroski, Helen Sullivan, Grace Lam, Natasha Fergus, usan Clibborn

TRAVEL

The suitcases sit Mouths open wide Awaiting to fill their empty stomachs.

Slowly their hunger is satisfied As they gobble a tonne of clothes.

When as bloated as ever, The Suitcases' mouths are closed.

The sui teases ride In the taxi with their owners At the airport, the wait begins.

The suitcases are weighed on the scales.

Too much dinner they've had today.

But no-one minds because although fat The suitcases love to travel.

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The suitcases fly High in the clouds.

They go to sleep in the dark Only to come out again To see the sights of the airport.

Then they are taken to customs And their privacy invaded.

The suitcases sit.

Mouths open wide Waiting to empty their stomachs Their hunger has been satisfied They've ridden and flown But now its time they went back Into their home in the cupboard.

Kate Thomson

FORM 4Rv

I came to this school at the start of the year along with seven other new faces. During this past year, the new girls have settled into the environment of St. Margaret's College well and our class has learnt to accept each others' differences and learnt a lot about people's lifestyles and their cultures.

The highlight of our year was our school camp up at Porters Heights Ski Club Lodge. We learnt about surviving in the snow. I think the best part of our camp was the day we went skiing. Four of us had never skied before but we soon learnt after a lot of falls. Also, on camp we built a snow-cave which some girls slept in and we did some orienteering too.

We all enjoyed camp greatly and it was especially enjoyable for the girls who hadn't experienced much snow before.

In Term 2, most of us made it

through exams with some good results. We entered the Geography Poster Competition where we came both first and second, first place going to Jeab, Tineke, Rachael and Jade, second place going to Lydia, Vikki and Tiffany. We all enjoyed our prize, which was a voucher to MacDonalds.

The overseas students have achieved well, especially in English. Jeab Thongvanit, Amy Wong and Yoshiko Matsumoto all passed their Pitmans English exam with good results. They have all settled in well and we have learnt a lot about their lifestyles and cultures and they have learnt a lot about our culture and way of living.

Our class has achieved well in many different activities. Deanne Carter and Victoria Knight have done very well in horse-riding where Deanne

got into the lnterschool Cross Country.

We have also achieved well in a variety of other sports. In the school swimming sports we came third against the other fourth form classes the winning team consisting of Tiffany Anderson, Deanne Carter, Rachael Birch and Jeab Thongvanit.

At our school's athletics day we also came third and that team consisted of Tiffany Anderson, Deanne Carter, Alice Coates and Rachael Birch. In Netball the girls who played got into some good teams with three girls, Tiffany Anderson, Alice Coates and Jade Murray, getting into the 4th Form 'A' team and even though the results weren't that great we all had a lot of fun.

I think that our class has been great and we have all had an enjoyable year and great fun.

Jade Murray

FORM4Rv Back Row :

LeighStevens,TinekeFoley,Alice Coates,Frith Williams, Deanne Carter Middle Row : Jade Murray, CeirosBegg,VictoriaKnight, YoshikoMatsumoto, Vikki George, TiffanyAnderson,Miss FionaReeves FrontRow : DebbieRutherford,Amy Wong,Kylie White, RachaelBirch, Lydia McFarlane,RebeccaFerrar,WaroonwanThongvanit

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FORM 3Nn There's nothing so great as starting the year off on an outdoor education camp. It was heaps of fun and everybody got along brilliantly - do I hear a groan there - well we had a few not so great moments but overall we all got to know the people that were going to be in our class, and discovered our real selves too !

Then later this year we had our Third Form ski trip - can't we all still feel our cuts and bruises! - and we had a really fun day. It was great to see classmates whizzing past and everyone joining in together to have a brilliant time . There were a few accidents, like somebody - I won't say who ! - who fell down the first poma backwards without gloves and another nameless person whofell off the side of a slope and sprained her ankle and had to get zoomed off to the first-aid room. On the way back

FORM3Nn Back Row :

on the bus there were contented smiles on everybody's faces and the bus was slightly more quiet than on the way there as everybody was falling asleep and lying across the seats, totally exhausted from the long day on the slopes.

Over this year I think we have all become friends and have been a great class to belong to - though some teachers may have different views about that ! And I think we are all proud to say we belong to 3Nn - the best class in the school! !

Katherine Wilkinson

WEALTH MEANS HAPPINESS Happiness and wealth. Do rhey always go hand in hand? Many people believe that if you are wealthy you are automatically happy. In more than some cases l'm sure ma y

Sue Park, Geraldine Riddle VictoriaLee, Katherine Wilkinson, Amber Dillon Third Row : Caitlin Armstrong, Sacha McIntosh, GeorginaPinckney,Jill Ferguson, Cushla Girdlestone,Anna Wills Second Row : Angelique Powell, Trudy-Anne Rowe, Catherine Cox, Amanda Barker, Kathleen Nolan, Emily Bowker, Mrs Newman Front Row : Philippa Sinclair-Thomson, Melaine Cummings, Anna Morgan, Melanie Doak,Kristie Richards,Jitjan Montriwat

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wealthy people are happy, probably because they have friends and family that love them and because they like and feel content with themselves and their life. Some people may have everything in the world they can buy but this may not make them happy.

If they had true friends and loving family to share these things with them maybe they would be happy. So in a way wealth doesn't immediately mean happiness.

Many may argue, though, that money problems can cause a lot of arguments and tension. Also envy when you see wealthy people buying expensive things that you've always wanted but could never afford. Many money disasters ( such as the Wall Street crash) can change a person who was content with their life into a depressed almost suicidal person as they have lost everything they owned, their house, cars and other materialistic items of great value. But if they sat down and thought about it they would realise that they had not lost everything, they still have their health and family that would support and love them. Unfortunately though in today's society money is slowly over-ruling happiness.

In my opinion wealth does not necessarily mean happiness. To me happiness means a lot more than just money and other materialistic things.

It means being with people you love and having people that love you back. I think that people who think wealth will automatically bring you happiness should try being wealthy, Sure, for the first couple of days it's good but soon the novelty will wear off. You'll still be wealthy but not happy if you spent more time thinking about how happy you would be if you were wealthy than being happy. You should stop and start to live your life to the best of your ability.

Bridget McLister

FORM 3Wb

This year 3Wb had a great year.

Camp was great. Everyone had a great time, especially jumping off a 30 foot cliff and rafting. We all got on well and it was a good start to the year.

We had a Dance later on in the second term and a chance to meet some nice boys .

After mid-term break all of the 3rd form got a chance to go on a ski trip at Mc. Hutt for the day. le was a bit windy, but chat didn't worry us.

After the ski trip we produced a play to present in the chapel in front of

the school. We chose the subject 'Peer Pressure'. Everyone was involved and we enjoyed performing which made it more fun for everybody.

Some achievements chat our class has gained this year: Bridgette Tapley, Annabel Newton, Prue Hilgendorf, Amanda Sutherland and Penny Phelan all took part in the Cross Country. Bridgette, Annabel, Prue and Amanda got into the lnterschool Championships. Annabel got third place in her grade.

Prue Macdonald won four Gold, one

Silver and one Bronze in a singing competition .

Veronica Baldwin has being doing very well in rowing and has got a Pocket for it.

Penny Phelan won some well deserved awards for Equestrian.

Everyone else in the class has achieved high standards in tests and exams and in being kind, friendly and caring for each other.

Rebecca Nicholson Georgie Kyle

MY LAND Scaring from my bedroom window, Across a corner of my world, I can see the sea.

Its boundary with the sky looks final It is the end of things I know.

Yet beyond are other places, Whose silhouettes are unfamiliar, And filled with unknown faces.

Beyond the sea is a world brimming with life, Which I may never know or see.

I may never cross·chat sea.

Yet each time I close my eyes My head is filled with spinning images Of what may be in chose faraway lands, And these are alive in my mind.

FORM3Wb Back Row: LeisaRopiha, FreyaShroeder,Annabel Newton, Bridgette Tapley Middle Row: Amanda Sutherland, GeorginaKyle,Miss Webby,RebeccaNicholson, Prue Hilgendorf Front Row: Lisa de Vere, Toni Potter,SophieAnderson,Kate Smith, PenelopePhelan, VeronicaBaldwin Emma Stewart, PrudenceMcDonald Absent:

I do not need to cross that sea.

My cosy world around me Is more beautiful than anything I can 1magme, And I am cold chat nowhere else is better All I could want is here.

Antonia Harrocks

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FORM 3My 3My started off the year well and we had success from nearly all the pupils during the year.

We discovered new achievements on our camp at Rangitata Rafts. We went white water rafting, abseiling, canoeing, shooting and slept solo in a forest ! Luckily we had great weather and everyone enjoyed it. Also in the first term we enjoyed peer support with the 7th Formers.

At the swimming sports Caroline was runner-up, and at the athletics sports Penny was an individual champion.

Lucy, Charlotte and Penny all went to Australia as part of the school 'A' hockey team and received Pockets in hockey. Virginia, Jo, Heather and Charlotte also went to Australia to represent St. Margaret's at the Future Problem solving finals. Melanie and

FORM3My Back Row: Munns Third Row:

Antonia had success in Equestrian and both went to the Springston Trophy in Oamaru. Melanie was also in the school's 'B' Equestrian team.

Rachel won some piano competitions and is sitting Grade 6 piano in Octo her. Jo has had success in her art work, being in the finals of the Christchurch telephone directory cover and runner-up in the school magazine cover.

In the second term we all loved the Third Form ski-day at Mt. Hutt.

Our skiing abilities ranged from beginner to experienced and we all had a wonderful day skiing.

We had four members in the Third form 'A' netball team - Rachel, Jo, Antonia and Annabel. Penny was in the Third Form 'A' tennis team.

Louisa had a wonderful holiday

RachelPerret,RachaelInnes,Angela Whale,Lucy Curtis,Penelope

Rachel Townley, ChloeKinajil, Antonia Davison, Lucy Keegan, CharlotteCottrell,]oanneHarwood SecondRow: RosalynCooper,Virginia Christie,Hilary Marett, HeatherMcKenzie, Sarah Stewart,Annabel Cambridge,Mr McKelvey CarolineBelcher,Kate Reynish,Kate Chaston,Melanie Morris, Front Row: JacquelineLaney,JosephineYeo Louisa Champion Absent:

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during which she spent six weeks in England. Virginia achieved some tremendous academic results through the year.

So overall we've had a wonderful time and are looking forward to our Fourth Form at St. Margaret's .

WAKEUP AND

SMELLTHE CHEESE:

I

don't know when to cross the road Maybe I'll cross too soon and get over run By a successful passing car.

Maybe ifl wait and see Wait and wait and wait It maybe too late.

They tell me anything is possible later on in life Decisions, decisions, decisions Risks, risks, risks Watch your step as the saying goes.

Keep an eye on your back People can be parasites Who cling on to the next passing person Like leap frog.

Watching, seeing, stealing, copying, printing patterns Flash by.

I don't know what direction to move.

After crossing the busy intersection I've come across some crashes and collisions.

It may be just luck That you got off at the right stop Or caught the right bus.

Signposts flash 'Money Money Money' 'I want I want I want' But Maybe you should just wait Wait for all the busy traffic to go Then quickly and quietly Slip in.

No problems at all.

Ceiros Begg

JERRY Jerry swam out to the big barrier rock, adjusted his goggles and dived.

Jerry was much taller than me, he had blond hair, blue eyes and a big smile. Everyone who knew him grew to love him. I loved him. Sometimes I thought about changing my image.

I could do it. I could be just like Jerry. I would mull it over in my mind at night and everything seemed to fit. It seemed reasonable at night, in bed. But in the morning I'd think how stupid of me, thinking I could be like Jerry - how stupid.

I remember one time at school Jerry fell and had grazed his knee. There was blood everywhere, but it really wasn't that bad a cut. Everyone was in a frenzy going around like headless chickens, saying 'Jerry are you ok, is there anything I can get you'. Even weeks after the incident people were still talking about it - 'do you remember the time Jerry grazed his knee - poor Jerry'.

I, on the other hand, see myself as being a friendly person, but obviously that's just not enough - I mean, if I grazed my knee, I'd probably get a kind word or two, like 'are you all right Sam' but that's about as far as it gets.

I'm amazed that Jerry actually had the time to come out here with me, he always knew I loved this place and it makes me feel quite special that he wanted me to go and not one of his best mates. Suddenly there was this violent splashing in the water next to the rock. I was in a daydream, I realised it was happening, but I never thought it could be Jerry, even though he and I were the only people at the beach. I came back to reality and that's when it hit me - Jerry wasn't in the water and there was no more splashing - he was in trouble, I could feel it. I was nervous and terrified at the same time. Everything

was going in slow motion and I couldn't get there fast enough . I yelled out Jerry' s name a few times but there was no answer; all I saw was a blurt of airbubbles appearing at the surface of the water, next to the big rock. I waited for about half a minute, but no more airbubbles came up. My mind was in shambles and couldn't think of what to do - should I help him myself - what if he was playing a joke, should I go and get help. I gathered myself up, took a few deep breaths, I'd decided to go and get help. I ran as fast as I could and even over the jagged rocks, I could feel no pain in my bare feet, all the pain had gone to my heart. I felt like sitting down and bursting into tears, but I knew I couldn't do that. Jerry's life was in my hands.

This can't be happening to me, before everything was perfect. This doesn't seem real - this can't be real.

They were the thoughts coming into my mind - I felt so many emotions. I was angry at Jerry for getting me into this situation and I felt guilty for not watching over him. He might have been splashing about for minutes before I noticed him - but I was in a daydream. Suddenly a house appeared from around the corner. I ran up the path and knocked on the door frantically. 'All right, all right, I'm coming' said the person stumbling to the door. 'My brother, my brother is under the water, I think he's drowning - he was swimming, but I think he's drowning. 'I said this so fast that I don't think she understood. 'All right, calm down and tell me slowly where he is and what's wrong with him.'

I couldn't believe it, here's this woman and she wants me to have a detailed conversation with her, while Jerry's probably dying out there why wasn't she frantic, why wasn't

she calling the Ambulance. Now I told her again what had happened to Jerry and where he was. She left and I could hear her using the phone.

I was very frustrated, moving side to side, then going half way down the path then back again. I desperately wanted to go and see ifJ erry was all right. I waited until she got back.

'Get in the car, we're going to the beach' she demanded. The trip there was terrible. The closer we got to the beach the more I wanted to go back.

I knew I wouldn't be able to cope with bad news.

We arrived just before the ambulance. I ran down to the rock before anyone else could get there. I stood over the rock almost not breathing so that I could hear any noise. There was no noise, or airbubbles. All I saw was a yellow object sticking out from the dark blue water. I couldn't reach it, but I already knew what it was - Jerry's goggles. I hated the thought of Jerry's body being somewhere underneath them. All of a sudden all the emotions I'd experienced during the day came to one terrible thought which I knew was true. Jerry was dead. I started to cry uncontrollably.

The Paramedics took me back to the car while they searched for Jerry's body.

No one in our family had ever died. I was not used to death. We'd never even had any animals that had died or any relatives that were close. I was not prepared for death - especially not my brother Jerry's.

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INTERMEDIATE REPORT

The year 1992 has proved to be a most exciting one for members of the Intermediate Department. About thirty nervous new students started on the first day of school, but by the end of the first week you couldn't tell them apart from the old hands.

During the first week girls and their parents joined together with the Junior School for our annual barbecue. This is a great opportunity for parents to meet us and each other.

The Form 1 and 2 girls stayed behind and 'slept' the night in the school hall -just for fun.

After this start the girls at least were looking forward eagerly to the camp at Glentui in early March. Many challenges were met there; the long climb up Mt Richardson and the scary abseiling were among the most dreaded but the most satisfying when completed.

In between, we took advantage of the absence of the Senior School to indulge in a whole day of puppet making and play producing. The end results were varied, but lots of problems were faced and skills

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acquired.

We settled down to some serious work, to be interrupted, for a few keen ones, by the Australian Science Quiz. Rebecca O'Connor gained Distinction and Jane McDonald, Selina Holliday, Elizabeth Wylie, Hayley Brown, Stephanie Radford and Jessica van Schreven gained Credit.

Term 2 saw a lot of involvement outside the classroom in many areas.

Four teams entered in the Canterbury Computer Competitions where a Form 2 team consisting of Rebecca O'Connor, Margo Neame, Jane McDonald and Selina Holliday won third place in the Logo comnpetition. Later in the year these same groups worked with the Computer Adviser learning about an exciting new version of Logo called Logowriter. They are now our school experts who can share their knowledge with the rest of the students.

We participated in the local Science Scene from where Gabrielle Wall, Marissa Brandram Adams, Olivia

Gerve, Pieta Astley and Rebecca O'Connor's displays were selected to go through to the Canterbury Science Fair.

Our teams as always acquitted themselves well at the Cantamath Teams competition, and in the displays Excellence awards were won

by Form 20L, Davinia Ballin, Amie Marett, Kim Atkinson, Julia Chen, Olivia Gerve and Selina Holliday and Highly Commended awards were won by Emily Beadon, Julia Chen, Marissa Brandram Adams, Lizzie Robinson, Kate Saunders, Margo N eame, Cinnamon Miles, Amie Marett, Kim MacBrayne, Nanako Mizuno and Elizabeth Davies.

Another keen group entered the Australian Maths Competition, Distinctions being won by Selena Croft, Rebecca O'Connor, Smita Paul and Elizabeth Davies, and Credits being awarded to Jana Newman, Emily Palmer, Beverley Freeman, Jane Park, Margo Neame, Stephanie Radford, Jessica van Schreven, Elizabeth Wylie, Anna Saunders, Gabrielle Wall, Amie

Marett, Olivia Gerve, Hayley Brown, Selina Holliday, and Kim Mac Brayne.

Selena Croft represented us at the Royal Overseas League's inaugural speech competition and became a finalist for this. Her speech on Cycle Helmets was very well written and confidently presented.

The beginning of the third term saw new successes for our students.

Following a detailed study of the Olympic Games, we entered some of our scrapbooks in The Press <Great Olympic Scrapbook Competition.'

Out of only eight Form 1 and 2 finalists, there were four St Margaret's students - and they all received awards. Gabrielle Wall won herself a printer as first placegetter in the Form 1 section, Rebecca O'Connor won a software package for third place in Form 2, and Olivia Gerve and Olivia East were both highly commended.

All this happened on the same day that we found out that our Form 2 team were invited to fly to

Melbourne for the Australasian Final of the Future Problem Solving Scheme. Emily Palmer, Margo Neame, Stephanie Radford and Rebecca O'Connor were delighted to find out they were off to Melbourne, even though they only had three weeks to research their topic and raise some funds. The FPS programme is a new programme introduced this year, and has been a great learning experience for the teams. The school's third form team were also invited.

On the sporting side we had lots of fun taking part in swimming, athletics, cross country, netball and hockey tournaments. We also spent a few hours on a sponsored skipathon to raise money during Lent.

The cultural side has not been neglected. Form 1 performed a brilliant play called Ticket to Hitsville' during Term 2. We had visiting performances by an original puppet company, a modern day version of Twelfth Night' and a Sydney school orchestra. We

performed at the Christchurch School's Music Festival, where the posters were the work of Form Two's Lizzie Robinson, and the programme cover the work of Elizabeth Davies.

Apart from all of these activities the students worked well all year on their classroom work and own activities.

Classes often combined for topics or to share ideas which meant that students made friends with many others. The four staff worked hard to provide stimulating classroom programmes, but were always rewarded with enthusiasm from their students. The staff hope that student's moving on will remem~r them with affection, and continue to keep contact with us, and that those returning next year have a great holiday - they will need it to cope with another year as exciting as this.

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FORM 2By

The class has had its ups and downs But on the whole there've been few frowns It has been a year to remember From February to December With discos, camps and barbecues too We've had a good time through the year '92 Sarah and Stephanie are the best swimmers in the class They are so extremely fast.

Sarah-Jane and Olivia can run for ages But when it comes to acting on stages Our talented Speech and Drama clan Always manage to pass their exams.

They include Lizzie, Seonaid, Jorge and Rebecca And also Kate, Steph, Smita and Sarah.

Other events that have occurred

FORM2By Back Row:

through the year Have been quite exciting as you will hear.

Such as Music Festivals and things alike Including the great Mt. Richardson hike.

Our number one gymnast is Amy by far Who does loop de loop on the uneven bars And then when it comes to athletic prowess Martha Ackroyd is for sure the best.

Anna and Emma are our horse riding champs; They have heaps of fun at cool Kowhai camps.

At the Hockey Tournament Amanda was really good followed up by Bev who played as she should.

Elizabeth Davies is so wonderfully neat When it comes to writing she's got us all beat.

Jean is our friendly Korean gal Olivia would have to be her best pal.

It's definitely been a year to remember From February to December.

With role plays, sleepovers and swimming sports too We've had a fab time through the year '92.

Amanda Cartwright,Martha Ackroyd, StephanieRadford, Sarah Macdonald, Emma Warrington,Smita Paul Middle Row: Jean Shim, Anna Oborne,RebeccaDoyle,Kate Saunders,Sarah-JaneHarris, SeonaidBradshaw,Mrs Berry Front Row: JorgetteMaaka, Elizabeth Davies,Elizabeth Robinson,Amy Smith, Olivia East, BeverleyFreeman

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FORM 201 & FORM lFr FORM 2OL

Shinobu ( Shin): a quiet kind tennis player Selena ( Sweena): a budding Pavlova Nicole ( Cole): 'Where are the Sailor Boys?'

Kate G (Ribbon): Into Labels and Skiing Chanel ( Channel): Giggle Cough and Run Kelly ( Kel): Sound F .X. Selina (Mouse): A giggling ballerina Kate H ( K. T . ): A long jumping artist Anji (Anj): 'Can horses_swim?'

Jane Mc (George): High Jumping Human Hoover Nanako (Musume): A pretty runner Emma (Moo): 'But I can't' Margo (Margie): Bold, brave and a budding Bogart Jana Ganie): Climbing to the top Rebecca ( Deka): a fishy mathematician Emily (teapot): In search of a boyfriend! ! !

Jane P ( Shark): A human Calculator Laura (Lu): Baked Baked Bean

FORM 201 Back Row:

Jane Park,Jana Newman, Anjilina Langham, KirstenSill, Jane McDonald, Laura Reeve,Emily Palmer Middle Row: Sele1JaCroft, Chanel Grainer,Selina Holliday,Margo Neame, RebeccaO'Connor,Kate Gibbon,Mrs S Oliver Front Row: Kelly Hitchins, Nanako Mizuno, Shinobu Baba, CharleneTennison, Nicole Freer,Kate Hunter, Emma Moore

Kirsten ( Creebie): Teehee hee SLAM DUNK Charlene ( Char): Official Secretary of20L

FORM/Fr Kathryn van Beek, Ruth Haliday, Davina Ballin, Kirsty Yuill Proctor Back Row: Middle Row: HayleyBrown, Emily Beadon,LouiseStevenson,Kim Atkinson, Bianca Hurrell, Mrs Fraser Front Row: Olivia Gerve,Amie Marett,Julia Chen,Jessicavan Schreven,PietaAstley

FORM 1 Fr We've had a most eventful, funfilled year, taking part in many different activities from abseiling and mountain climbing at Camp, to enjoing Puppet Day, Form One Drama production, Science field trips, Cantamaths ( where our class won five Gold Medals), a Cultural Differences Day, where we dressed up, ate food from other countries and organised a concert, Formwunvia Olympic Games, which was a real buzz.

When we began Form One we noticed lots of changes. The day was longer and more was done in class time. This year, for the first time we had more than one teacher. We'.ve had the chance to play many different sports. Some of us go to Speech and Drama while others have taken up musical instruments such as violin, piano and flute. We are certainly very busy, but it's fun.

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FORMIRB

Sonia and Marissa are giddy up and go, Gary and Fi are great bunnies though.

Anna's trying to put her play into gear, With darling old Lizzy playing kitty all year.

With Lorry hooning round the cross country track, Amy does the 60m in 20 seconds flat.

While Bridget and Kim sit not making a sound, Amy P swings her long green ribbon around.

When Nikki and Cin are hitting a ball, Mrs Robilliard stands pretty and tall.

At our great summer camp the bees were where you sit, 1992 has been a very big hit!

WOMEN IN THE HOME Some people think that women should stay home and look after the children and do the housework. This is because from early childhood people have been shown that Dad is always working and when he comes home Mum has cooked dinner and made things comfortable for him.

Children notice that the females do all the housework while men are fixits . Also on the T.V. men's sports, where you have to be big and strong, are popular. For so long women have been considered inferior. It was only about 100 years ago women were first given the vote in New Zealand. Some males still have the old ways stuck in them and so this is taught to the children by the way these men treat their wives.

I can see though why at present some

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FORMlRB Back Row: Middle Row: Seated:

Bridget Solomon, Amy Poelman, Marissa Brandram-Adams Anna Saunders, Fiona Paterson, Kim MacBrayne, Mrs Robilliard, Gabrielle Wall, Amy Mill Elizabeth Wylie, Charlotte East, Cinnamon Miles, Nicola Hopkins, Sonia Smith

people believe a woman should stay home. After all even though most of the workforce are women, the men take up about two thirds of the highest paid jobs. Men get more money for the same jobs that women do even with the equal pay rights. If someone should go to work the man should as he would earn more money. This could be argued against because if women do stay home who is going to fight for these jobs and that equal pay. The more women get better jobs, the more they will succeed in getting equal rights and showing the men they can do just as well or better at the jobs than men.

Women seem to have a maternal instinct. Children run to Mummy with their s~re knees or problems and women seem to understand the children better. Women seem to be better at housework too, knowing

just how to wash this jersey and how to make the kitchen sparkling clean. I think though this has got a lot to do with experience. Of course if you spend a long time with a person they will trust you and go to you whether you are mother, father or good friend. If you are experienced with something you will know how to do it just right so if men spent more time doing housework they would be good at it too.

I totally disagree that women belong in the house looking after the kids and housework. I think women should do what they want to do and fight for it. We live in a day and age where sexism doesn't belong. They have managed to do away with racism and sexism is just as bad. After all women are half the population and we can't afford to have that many brains wasted .

Maya Macfarlane

STANDARD4

My year in Standard 4 has been Fun and I guess, a bit of a scream With crying, laughing, working too, This class is just the thing for you.

With kind, friendly old Rebekah We'll have to be careful or we'll wreck her.

Claire' s a delightful, friendly girl, With freckles, red hair, no sign of a curl.

Chanelle is giggly, and sometimes quiet But when you get used to it, she'll create a riot.

Emma- Kate's a good friend, very canng But at her best, she can be quite daring.

Emma is friendly, and talks a lot But sometimes she can get a bit over the top Nicola's reliable, and trustworthy too,

She can always find something to do.

Kate is funny, with 'her life in her desk', She's bold and daring but not much of a pest.

Emma is always good in class But when she comes out, it's all a mask.

Amy has a great sense of humour Everyone knows it's all a rumour.

Michelle and Amanda are a great pair, They play together, I hope they're fair.

Kirstin's the star of the sporty crew, But that doesn't mean there aren't others too.

Desiree' s the lucky one, she owns a horse We moan - and groan, we' re envious of course.

Alaina' s artistic, to me it's a mystery,

She depicts in her art, the future and history.

I'm the one with all the thick hair I don't mind if people stand and stare.

We must never forget the lovely Miss Gee, Who's bubbly, exciting and very chatty.

Miss Wilson makes up our happy team, She always comes up with a smile or a beam.

Justine Bradley

STANDARD4 BACK Alaina Rhind, Rebekah Lucas, Emma Paynter, Michelle lnesori,.

MIDDLE Amy Newman, DesireeHanson, Amanda Hanafin, Emma Hodgson, Miss Wilson.

FRONT Kate Brabant, ChanelleHubert, Justine Bradley, Claire van Beek, Emma-Kate Fa!!oon,Nicola Dewhurst.

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STANDARD3 LIFE IN STANDARD 3 Standard 3 at St. Margaret's is really excellent. We've got a super teacher called Miss Ayson, who makes school and learning lots of fun - even sub jects like Maths !

We did a play in the first tern~ called 'Where The Wild Things Are', and in the second term we did a production on Animals, which we had been learning about in class - and even visited Orana Park. It was so exciting dressing up, rehearsing and making props with Mrs Todd, our Art Teacher, before performing it to all our parents.

This term we are studying scientific things and we've already been to 'Science Alive' and the engineering department at the University.

It's not all learning though - we do lots of P .E. and soon we'll be starting to do athletics. AND ... we've had two musical performances, one a classical duet and the other some children from Sydney playing in an orchestra.

So, as you can see, and so do we, that life is GREAT in Standard 3!

STANDARD] BACK: Lucy Phillips,Emma Kennedy, GretaBumann, Helen Parfitt, Nicola Warsaw,Lara Rennie.

MIDDLE: ElizabethMoyle,Annabel McPhail, Miss Ayson, KimberleyHillier,Julia Paynter.

Lucy Elder, GenevieveBuckett, Kirsty Wallace, FRONT Emma McKay, PenelopeConaghan,Amy Hadfield ABSENT: MarissaJohnpillai

Lucy Phillips MEMORIES

The wind pulled at my hair, grabbing at my clothes, it whistled mournfully through the cracks in the wall, I remember ...

The sun shone on the fields of happiness, left in the past.

But still the wind breaks through, and I remember. ..

Gazing at the fluffy clouds, the colours of the rainbow above them, giving out rays of peace.

Locked in the past, I remember ...

But not all the memories are happy, some show darkness,

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a shiver of thunder in my life, I remember ...

The rain falls pitifully, shedding my tears for me.

It seeps through to my skin, soaking me.

I remember ...

A fire of emotion blazes, in the centre a cold blue, but the outside flames are red with warmth.

I remember ...

Suddenly a blast of wind shatters the past, and I come back to reality ... to the present.

Emily Beadon

NO ANSWER Her eyes shone like a lantern,

The light was as starry as the moon, She looked as pretty as a peach in a fruitbasket, Her hair was golden in the reflection, A braid of flax in the garden.

The night was a slow moving thought forming a dream-like vision.

No answer from the airy poolsite, He must have forgotten, it seems, Like an old man and his glasses, Or a girl with horrid dreams.

Penny Munns

STANDARD2 MY YEARIN STANDARD 2

Onmy first day at St. Margaret's

STANDARD2 Mrs Nicholls, Eliwbeth Bailey,Justine Guy, Tamsyn Kinchant, BA CK Kelly Sanders MIDDLE: Catherine Brittenden, Phoebe Gibbons, Charlotte Laney, Caroline Stanton.

Michelle Snape, Kimberley Mather, Olivia Hannah, FRONT: Rebecca Whiteside,JessicaPercaskey

MISSION INTOLERABLE Yesterday - and today, tomorrow and probably from there after. Back and forth ... slop. Back and forth ... slop. Little dribbles of cold wet paint crept down my aching arm mixing with the beads of sweat under my arms. Slop, slurp, slop, the paint brush wacked across the fence in a haphazard fashion. For ages I had put up with the evil smelling fumes burning out my nostrils, burning my eyeballs and encouraging the constant flow of weepy tears.

All for three dollars an hour. The hot sun burnt down on my shoulders and white speckled arms and face. The

infuriating splashes and squeals of fun coming from next door's swimming pool had tortured me for too long. Slap, slop, slurp. Five past three, six past three, seven past three.

One cent, two cents, three cents.

I was going into a dream. I was a mindless being with nothing but a paintbrush to defend myself. Pow! wham! bang! My mission: to eradicate all surviving brown fence posts . ' Take that, you stupid naked, deaf dumb and blind post. You are now tainted by the brush branding battle king.'

Fifty eight past four, fifty nine past four. ..

'Dinnertime !'

Fiona Bryce

College I wondered what it was going to be like. The Standard 2 teacher was called Miss Donald. She took us for a tour around the school and we drew portraits of ourselves.

Everything was new and exciting, even what would happen if our desks were very untidy. This was called the Grand Tip or the Buckingham Tip. Miss Donald promised us an ice cream if we made it to the end of the year without one. Then one Saturday we put on our uniforms and went to St. Barnabas Church. We made a Guard of Honour for Miss Donald who had now turned into Mrs Nicholls. Since then a lot more interesting things have happened to Standard 2. We had swimming sports and we were all proud ofTamsyn who qualified for the finals with Standard 3 and Standard 4 girls. Our Term 1 topic was Fairy Tales. Our classroom became a Fairy-Tale land and we all constructed a presentation for our parents. We came to school in fancy dress. Some of us had the flu but we wouldn't stay home and miss all the action. Another good day was when we made gingerbread men.

There was a big mess and everyone ate the leftovers. Our production in Term 2 was a success. It was called 'A Wild Herd of Animania, Songs and Antics'. Kelly was the Animuddle.

Mrs Todd helped us make fantastic masks and we all loved taking part in the performance. I really like St. Margaret's.

Phoebe Gibbons

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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS THE 21st CENTURY

I

looked at the views of what had once been my hometown. Buildings lay, fallen. Out of every second file, pecked a hand or leg, disconnected from the sockets of their bodies. The misty fog echoed all the trees around and the clouds hanging over the island of Borneo, were dark, grey and lifeless.

I wanted to rip open the radio-active suit I wore, throw it to the ground and beat the life I once had been proud of. Nothing mattered anymore. Not when my family and memories were gone. Not even the fact that I was officially the fastest woman in the world. I remembered the glory I felt when receiving my medal, hearing my national anthem being played at the 2026 San Diego Olympic Games, and I remembered the grief I felt when receiving the news that my home country had a nuclear bomb dropped on it by a maniac called Yassaf Hassim.

The tears burnt behind my eyes and I dr:opped to my knees, allowing the tears to come rushing. My shoulders felt heavy as did my heart. I hoped the tears would wash away the emptiness in me ... but it stayed.

8 months later, the world was at war.

Hassim had declared war and had the full support of other fellow Arab leaders. Hope became an important factor in the struggle to stay alive.

The quiet, peaceful tranquillity of Christchurch was comforting compared to the emptiness I'd felt eight months earlier. Now all I had left was my 9-year-old daughter, 0 livia. Together maybe we can pull it through.

New Zealand was one of the few countries still untouched by Hassim . . . yet. And hopefully, it never will be like.

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thrown from my bed. I felt dazed at first. Then it hit me. Please God, not here. I pleaded with God only to be answered by another force, this time hurtling me down the stairs. My heart racing, my head dazed I made my way to find Olivia. I found her crying and confused. Quickly I explained that we were only going to a place where no-one would hurt us.

I drove to where I knew half of Christchurch must have been heading - the nuclear-proof dome that took the place of Cathedral Square.

Chaos was all around me. Running out of the car I saw that people were running around, screaming. Keeping a tight hold on Olivia, I rushed to the dome. The doors were just closing. I got in just in time, but felt my grip on Olivia loosen.

'No'! I screamed. The next moment, my ears were roaring, and I was thrown to the ground with a force that left me dazed. My head hit something and everything went black.

I first heard voices and distant shouts and roars. I opened my eyes, seeing people around feeling just the same as me. Hurt, frightened and dazed, I suddenly had a feeling that something was wrong. Then it hit me Olivia! I looked at my hand to find that, there, mixed with blood, was a

piece of Olivia's dress. I heard screaming and realised it was my own. A roar hit me and once again I was thrown to the ground. The room started spinning, like a merry-goround out of control. The last thing I saw was Olivia's face before everything, again, went black.

The war was over. The President of the U.N. Mikel Yalouch, was telling us about the glory of winning. But we had much more. We survived the third World War. Almost all of us.

Although, I had started over again, although I was reasonably happy, I still could hear a little voice crying, 'Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.'

Chloe Kinajil

AN AEROPLANE PHOBIA

She replaced the receiver with mixed feelings. Her only son had been transferred to Napier two years ago and had since returned to Christchurch on three occasions to visit his mother. Now it was her turn.

She had churned over the idea of taking a bus to Picton, catching the Ferry to Wellington and again continuing to Napier on a bus. But this transport took time, precious time that she could be spending with her son. He had finally managed to persuade her to fly, so with

trepidation she had dialled Air New Zealand and booked a one-way ilight to Napier for one senior citizen. She wasn't going to fly back as well, she didn't have much to hurry back to in Christchurch and it wasn't worth the stress.

Pleased that she had finally been able to make the decision, yet quivering at the thought of flying, she began to pack her suitcase. She would need a woolly coat, her son had advised, winter in Napier could be chilly; several pairs of shoes, some good walking shoes, she would bound to be wanting to explore all the Napier malls. She tried as hard as she could to prevent herself from thinking about the aeroplane.

Ever since her husband had been killed in a plane crash eight years ago, she had been terrified of them, but now, at the age of sixty-three she was determined to overcome the fear. She had to do it.

The days before her trip went by far too quickly. Soon it was time to order a taxi to the airport. On approaching the departure terminal a feeling of nausea crept over her. She had not slept a wink the previous night, but tried to put the fear out of her mind by making herself excited about seeing her son.

It was time to board the plane, she passed over the ticket and stepped onto the plane. Suddenly her legs were no longer able to support her shaking body, they gave way underneath her and she collapsed to the floor.

She had blacked out for a few seconds but came to, being helped up by two very friendly, caring air hostesses, she assured them she was fine and found her seat, sat down, and tried to preoccupy her mind. But thoughts of planes crashing, burning, and exploding crept into her mind.

She was slightly relieved when an air hostess arrived to instruct them all on

how to use their oxygen masks and other safety paraphenalia. The pilot then announced that they were ready for take-off. She gripped the arms of the seat until her knuckles were white, beads of perspiration on her forehead, certain that she was going to die.

The plane took off. She fainted.

She awoke to find herself in a firstaid cabin of the aeroplane. They were to land at the apier Airport in a few minutes. She felt a little weak, but incredulous that she was still amongst the living. She peered out the tiny window, and found herself marvelling at the spectacular view.

She still felt a little shaky, and started when the plane hit the runway. But she was over it and could now put her feet firmly on the ground. As she stepped off the plane she glimpsed her son's face beaming at her from the crowd of people. Maybe she thought she ought to book a flight back to Christchurch .

Bridget Giblin

AN EXPERIENCE The sun sat comfortably on the outside hills, the clear, powder blue roof over the area was enough to make anyone feel safe and secure.

I sat on the seat, I was trembling

inside like a fretting cat, but my face held cheerful. 'You look pretty confident, you can go first'.

This young man spoke in a gleeful serious tone, his face looked like he has been doing this for a life-time.

I stood up, I took an enhancing deep breath. I glanced at the people alongside me, all squashed up just to watch me? ? They were packed along there like lions around a deceased prey - the disappointment if I didn't go? '3, 2, I'. I fell into thin air, crisp air pushing, circling, rushing past me.

I screamed, it felt though as no one could hear me, the yell seemed to echo all around.

The water below me was incredibly transparent and the snow that fed into it told me it was a low temperature. I quickly bounced ·up again, 1uckily missing the cold river below me. The blood in my body was going straight to my head as I jerked around.

The swinging slowly started to halt, and I just hung there like a lifeless object, that had been there for a long time. I tumbled into the raft confidently, and joyful.

I looked above me like a curious creature, the feeling had been an experience that felt free and abundant. I had just survived bunjy jumping and I felt terrific.

Olivia Radford

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"APPEARANCES"

The dog had always been Isobel's best excuse. No-one could fault her for exercising the dog, could they?

And sometimes she really did need to escape the confines of the house. Of course, in Isobel' s mind, she did really think of using the dog as an excuse, more of a very good reason.

Still, she did always feel happier about leaving the children when she was comfortable in the knowledge that no-one could look at her and silently accuse her of "shirking her responsibilities". That was Isobel' s main fear in life, to be seen to be doing the wrong thing. It was very important to her that others thought well of her. Of course, sometimes she did carry it a bit far, but it seemed to be ingrained, worked into her mind, and she couldn't really help it, could she?

Isobel debated it back and forth in her mind. She had already escaped the house once that morning with the dog, should she chance a second walk? Actually, she preferred to think of it as a journey. Her own journey.

Her only bit of travelling. In her youth, Isobel had longed to visit faroff half-imagined exotic locations, but she had also always known that she would never do this: that it would seem extravagant and irresponsible. Once, 'travel' had meant overseas excitement, today it meant walking the dog in order to escape her own home. Isobel laughed without humour at the thought.

Isobel found it quite strange that she actually felt the need to leave her own home. Escape. She was not quite sure why it seemed to be so important. It was not that she was discontent with her lot in life, at all. She had two children - two boys - true, she felt that she would have coped better with girls, but with so many childless couples around you could not really be choosy, could you? Yes - two 60

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children and a husband who made her happy. Isobel knew that she was really very fortunate. A husband who could never be faulted by strangers.

Why then, she wondered, did she crave the freedom outside her home?

Freedom. She decided that she would go - the day was improving all the time, and the dog was looking gratifyingly enthusiastic.

Isobel opened the door, and whistled to the dog. She began her walk briskly. Her journey. She breathed the crisp winter air deeply, and watched as her breath turned the air white. Lovely clean air.

Tessa Bonifant THE MONSTER MUNCH Jet-black sky loomed overhead the cave, with the grotesque creature in it. He had just come back from a deadly kill. Blood was smothered round his mouth. The ghastly brute was huge - and red. His oozy scaly back reached the length of almost 50 yards. His deadly teeth were like needles, sticking abruptly, up below his ugly beak, as sharp as an eagles.

What looked like a red flame on top of his head danced evilly. Below, furious dark eyes peered out from disgusting flesh. His heavy tail flickered from side to side as he squirmed along. His home - a cave

was surrounded with bare, empty, desolate land. There was no vegetation at all.

Twice a day he would slither 10 km, leaving the awful wasteland to beautiful green forests where happy people lived - well, used to be happy.

Every day they would mourn for their family, before it was their turn to slide down the diabolical stomach.

Unless more people arrived at the small village, 'The Terror', as he was known by the village, would eat everyone . Once everyone was eaten, 'The Terror' would then die because of course he wouldn't have anything left to eat. 'The Terror' thought back to his last bloody kill, when he had entered the village it had been unusually quiet. He had only broken one house down, that day, to get at two people. His stomach rumbled.

He was already eager to go back to the village for his supper. He started off but stopped. He was drowsy. 'The Terror' made a huge effort and finally lay still on the rocky ground. Time passed. It was getting dark. It was time for ' The Terror' to make his final trip for the day. Slightly suspicious of the villagers quiet behaviour that day, 'The Terror' approached silently. He entered the village, choosing a house to break down. Suddenly, right when 'The Terror' was in the middle of the

village all windows opened. Chains and rope flew out, catching hold of 'The Terror', fastening him so he couldn't move. Only his head remained chainless. 'The Terror's' neck squirmed round. He dug his needle sharp teeth into the chains.

One by one the chains fell off his body. Shocked and unprepared the villagers stood motionless. One by one 'The Terror' gobbled up all the people. They knew they couldn't get away. 'The Terror' didn't think of his stomach, just evilness. So when he had eaten everyone and had gone home, he had an awful stomach ache.

It was so bad, he had to lie down.

But it got worse. So 'The Terror' tried to get up but failed. He lay there for days on end, and then one day he peacefully died of starvation.

Lucy Phillips

"WINDS OF CHANGE"

I was drowning in a sea of darkskinned people. The situation was made worse by the unbearable heat and the stench which hung in the air.

I felt suffocated. Bombay airport was far from what I had conceived it to be. After clearing the customs, I was introduced to relations whom I had never encountered previously. With time on our hands, it was decided that we would have refreshment at a shop outside the train station.

I looked at the scrumptious Mint Trumpet. The cool refreshing mint ice-cream was scooped into a crisp wafer cone and generously topped with chunky flakes of milk chocolate.

My mouth watered. I ravenously took an oversized bite. I was refreshed from head to toe instantly as the chocolate melted and the mint ice-cream tingled in my mouth paradise ! At last, escape from the sweltering heat, the dirt and the dust.

Above our low table, a tree gently

swayed guarding us from the scorching rays of the sun. From the distant shade, a figure drooped over a stick dragged himself towards us at a painfully slow pace. My mouth dropped. The Trumpet became tasteless - I felt nauseous. Burnt almond-coloured skin clung tightly to his bones. Sweat dripped down the side of his face leaving smears on his gaunt face. His mouth hung desperate for water. The deep pain he had suffered was boldly expressed in his longing brown eyes. Filthy white hair made a knotty frame around his head. His lanky wrists appeared to be drained of blood. His clothes were nothing but mere rags which hung randomly over his weak and frail body. Half of his right leg was missing. It seemed to have been neglectfully amputated and remissly wrapped in an old cloth which was tattered and stained with blood.

I shivered and looked into his eyes.

But the longing desperate face was blurred as my own eyes filled with water. I looked down, why were his eyes riveted on me? I tried to defend myself - it wasn't my fault. Oh God! Is he really a human? Where have they brought me for a holiday? I want to go back home. Once again I briefly glanced up to find that his gaze was still intently fixed on me; his

eyes caught mine. With divided attention, I stood up and drifted towards him and offered him my half eaten Trumpet. His shivering bony hand took it and he hastily started to devour it. I looked in his eyes again to see a faint sparkle and the world of thanks.

Eight weeks had swiftly passed by and now was the time to return home. The wind was in my face as it transfused through the barred window of the train carriage. My thoughts reflected back on to my trip - I had become accustomed to the different style of life and did not want to depart from my friends and relations. We squeezed our way through the cluster of people to the door of the train as it ground to a halt. We were ahead of schedule, so briefly stopped again at the same shop outside ~he station. With eccentric coincidence the same old man was present. But this time there was something exceptionally different. He hobbled up to me again and in his eyes was the bright light of hope. But my eyes had become callous after frequently being exposed to poverty. I looked at my ice-cream and then the man.

I stood up and walked away.

Nina Fakir

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A FRIEND FOR LIFE ! !

Light was streaming in through the windows.

Joan stirred, realizing that the night was over and a new day had dawned.

A day which she could enjoy with her friends at school. A day which would be ruined because of work at school.

She dreamed of staying in her cosy patchwork covered bed, but the sweet smell of hot chocolate that drifted through the passageway and into Joan's beautiful painted room was too much. She stretched her tanned legs and changed into her denim dungarees, her red tarten patterned socks and her Reebok sports shoes.

Joan skipped into the tiled kitchen, where her esculent hot chocolate awaited her. At the dining table she remembered her teacher, Miss Thompson, telling the class that someone was joining them. Someone 'Special'. Remembering this stunning news, she slurped her drink down in a most 'unlady like' fashion, picked up her purple school bag and rushed out the door and into the sunlight of the day. At school, Joan unpacked and sat down quietly. She looked around and right there in the desk beside her was a girl. She must be the new girl. But something was wrong, this girl was different. Joan was about to ask her her name when the 8.45 bell rang. School had started.

Miss Thompson looked joyfully excited.

"Good morning class", she said in her warm comforting voice. "Children, last week I told you someone would be joining us, and as you see she has arrived. Her name is Caroline Hodson and I hope you will be kind and loving to her and make her feel at home". Caroline was not exactly pretty for she had long, tangly hazeloak hair, and green eyes that shone like a cat' s . The clothes she wore were reasonably nice, except the

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colours didn't go together at all. She was wearing a pink shirt, red skirt, orange stockings and muddy green shoes. "But you should not judge a book by it's cover", Joan thought.

"But", Miss Thompson went on, "there is something about Caroline; she's mentally retarded. This means her mind is delayed and needs extra help with work. But that does not change how you treat Caroline, for she is special and just as capable as you and I". The class gasped and started to whisper quietly between themselves -everyone except Joan.

She was already trying to get Caroline's attention Caroline turned, her face was pale and her gaze, stared right through Joan, as if she wasn't there." Caroline, Caroline", Joan whispered sweetly "How old are you?" She pronounced slowly.

Caroline murmured something and then said "Twelve". Twelve, Joan thought, she's a year older then myself. "Excuse me Joan, you seem to be getting on rather well with Caroline, so at play, would you mind taking her on a tour around our school? Miss Thompson asked. "No Mam, I wouldn't mind, " Joan answered in her polite voice. She could not wait until the loud clangy bell rang for break . " Caroline, the bells rung . That means I can now tell you where things are in the school", Joan explained. 'Mummy

home, Daddy home?'' Caroline moaned blankly. "Yes my mothers home but my fathers at work, Joan told Caroline with exasperation. But Caroline was just dawdling in the other direction mindlessly. Joan decided to follow the girl and tell her about things as they came. Soon Joan was aware of a nasty tune. She was also aware of eyes staring at her and her new friend. She was trying to ignore it, but the words were cruel and harsh. Words that no one deserved to be jeered about. Joan felt angry pressure build up inside her.

She didn't often loose her temper, but this time was different. "How dare you say that in front of a handicapped girl like Caroline. How would you like it if you had a disability like her? How about being in the same place that Caroline is in and being teased and humiliated!"

There was a stunned silence . Joan had never talked to anyone in this manner. Even Joan was rather surprised at how she expressed herself. She looked at Caroline. You could see how down she was. That mournful expression, a tear in her eye. Suddenly Caroline ran over to Joan, and threw herself over the startled girl.

Caroline felt so happy. "Joan" Caroline whispered. "This is the favourite time of my life . You are my best friend !

Claire van Beek

THE BIG SNOW

THE BIG SNOW

(Since 1945, if any one cares. )

A few flakes of snow drifted silently

'Don't go out in the snow unless you have to!'

All the people were told what exactly to do.

'Stay home in your beds, it's an emergency!'

Cried the Civil Defense, 'And there's nothing to see!'

down, Slowly, gently, over the town.

They tarried not, by the empty streets, But melted away beneath people's feet.

Yet worse was to come as the night drew near.

Suddenly snow drifts began to appear.

When people awoke the very next morn, They found there was snow all over their lawn, 'Twas eight inches deep, (twenty centimetres,) But after barely a look their vision blurs, For more snow comes down, comes thick and comes fast, Forget any snow that has been in the past.

This is the worst in fifty odd years,

Yet in speaking of sea, I must tell you how, The snow was still melting, both near and both far, And though it was falling, it melted away, And flooded the rivers and their shorelines that day.

Then the army came in with their trucks and their jeeps, And rescued the people where waters were deep. ( And far, far away, with their ummog, They rescued a school group, who

were all agog, That the snow was still falling, and snowing them in, And the only food they had was all in a tin.)

But back to our city where the snow eased to rain, And melted more snow back to water agam, And as the group came, back to school in the town, There was only rain that was still falling down.

And they came back home safely and forgot their worries, And all went back home to eat up their teas.

And the time and the place you are thinking of true, Was Christchurch, New Zealand, August '92.

Virginia Christie

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ATHLETICS

KIRS1Y WEAR (CAPTAIN) MARGARET FRASER (VICE CAPTAIN) The year 1992 was a fairly uninspiring year for Athletics. It is all too obvious that effort is only being put into the sport by those at the top and not by a wider spectrum of girls in the school. However, I hope that this will change, with the possible introduction of an Athletics Club in 1993, which will, hopefully, create more interest.

COLOURS AWARDED TO: KIRS1YWEAR POCKET RE-AWARDED TO: SARAH PEARSE JOANNA RUTHERFORD POCKET AWARDED TO: PENELOPE MUNNS SUSAN MACKENZIE

This year we had four girls competing in the South island Championships. They were: Sarah Pearse KirstyWear Joanne Rutherford Susan Mackenzie all of whom performed well.

My thanks to my Vice Captain, Margaret, for her support and to the Sports Council for their help with the smooth running of Athletics Sports Day. Good luck everyone for 1993.

JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE ATHLETIC CHAMPIONS L TO R Michelle Ineson, Anna Saunders, Martha Ackroyd, Lisa de Vere, Kirsten Ash

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JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE ATHLETIC CHAMPIONS 1991 Back Row : Georgina Kyle, Ange/,a Whale, RebeccaNicholson, Sarah Macdonald, Katherine Wilkinson, Marissa Brandram-Adams Third Row: Chanel Grainer, Emily Palmer, Jane Park, Sacha McIntosh, Emma Warrington, Gabrielle Wall, Virginia Christie, Hi/,ary Marett, Sarah Stewart 2nd Row : Anjilina Langham, Rachel Perret, Kathleen Nolan, Anna Saunders, Cush/a Girdlestone,Amanda Barker, Catherine Cox, Jana Newman, Martha Ackroyd, Chloe Kinajil, Charlotte Cottrell, Amanda Hanjin 1st Row : Lucy Phillips, Emma Hodgson, Charlotte East, Kate Hunter, Veronica Baldwin, Selina Croft, Caroline Belcher, Me/,aine Cummings,Lisa de Vere, Clarie van Beek, Kirstin Ash

SENIOR ATHLETICS TEAM Kylie Smith, Joanna Peat, Annabel Gudsell, Belinda Forbes; Olivia Radford, Claire McKenzie Back Row: Middle Row: Kirsty Wear, Caroline Lee, Lucy Simpson, Bridgette Tapley, Margaret Fraser, Emily Harris, Nicola Shand, Sarah Pearse, Joanna Rutherford, Rachel Talbot Kate Chaston, Rebecca Tapley, Penny Munns, Susan Mackenzie, Sacha McIntosh, Bronwen Davies, Front Row: Natasha Denny ST MARGARET'S COLLEGE 1992

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BARCELONA LOOKING BACK ON BARCELONA

0 n the 30 May I left New Zealand on the first leg of my trip to Barcelona. It has been a long time coming - as far back as I can remember. I always knew one day I would be there.

The last fifteen years have been a natural progression from age-group carnivals as a five year old, through the ranks to international meets such as the Commonwealth Games and World Championships. Even so, the Olympics will always remain the pinnacle of achievement for most athletes.

The ten days before Barcelona were spent training and acclimatising in a small village in the South of France.

The people were absolutely fantastic and decided to adopt us for the Games. Apart from training, we managed to spend some time visiting wineries and exploring 12thCentury and 13th Century villages .

We finally arrived in Barcelona on the 20 July, after an exhausting 8 hour train journey. As soon as we moved into the Games Village we all just clicked into racing mode and used the atmosphere to prepare ourselves mentally.

The village itself was huge - the dining hall seated 3, 500; there were four movie theatres in five different languages; and a number of bowling alleys and amusement centres to keep us entertained. We even had our own private beach, although the canoeists were the only ones willing to brave the polluted waters. Security at the venues and in the village was relatively tight - we had to be screened at a number of checkpoints around the village.

We often had a few hassles getting to the training and competition venues.

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insisted on taking us on a scenic tour of the inner city in rush hour traffic.

One day it took us 12 hours to get to the pool which was only 4 hour drive away!

I was really disappointed to miss the Opening Ceremony but I was competing first thing the next morning. As it turned out I was up half the night, worried because I didn't feel nervous ! Strange thing to happen at the Olympics.

We received literally thousands of postcards from school children and we had one room totally covered from ceiling to floor with good luck faxes from home .

Overall I was pleased with the way I

swam, although I was disappointed that my 800m freestyle wasn't a little faster.

It was strange to think that millions of people around the world were watching - a scary thought right before the biggest race of my life.

It was important to be able to control your emotions and concentrate on the race itself. There were a lot of upsets - the Olympics are notorious for the fact that 80% of all athletes do not perform up to the best on the day. Those that did succeed were the ones that channelled their energy in the right direction.

Another great moment was the Closing Ceremony. One of the theme songs was 'Amigos Para Siem pre', translated as 'friends for life'. It was quite emotional to see every person in the stadium joining hands and singing.

One of the highlights was getting to know all the other New Zealand athletes. Everyone is so 'normal' and down to earth. That reminds me of a quote I heard: "Champions are not extraordinary people - they are ordinary people who do extraordinary things." That was so true of the Olympic Gold Medallists I met.

I am often asked what it was really like in Barcelona. I guess it's one of those times you really had to be there.

PhillippaLangrell

BADMINTON & CRICKET BADMINTON CAPTAIN: Eleanor Cottle VICE CAPTAIN: Terry Manklang Badminton has had a very productive year with lots of new faces

joining us. In a few years we should have some very strong teams as these players move up the ranks. Our third-form team was very successful with a placing of third in their grade (before amalgamation).

BADMINTON Eleanor Cottle, Mrs R Jones, Susan Clibborn, Yvonne Yeo Front: Susan Mackenzie

The 'A' team has had a very enjoyable year with our trip to Dunedin for Quadrangular Tournament (held at Columba College) and, of course, the trip to Australia. It was great fun playing against the Australian teams and interesting to learn different rules !

Congratulations to all the teams. I hope that you have all enjoyed the year and will continue to play in the future.

Thanks must be conveyed to Ron Smith for giving his time to prepare us for competition and to Mrs Jones for organising us. Also a special thanks to all the teachers and parents who transported the teams. It was greatly appreciated .

We have enjoyed this year and wish good luck to the coming year's teams.

Pockets were awarded to: Susan Clibborn Eleanor Cottle Susan Mackenzie Yvonne Yeo.

CRICKET This year we are fielding one cricket team which is entered in the 'A' grade competition playing serious cricket. Less experienced teams may choose to play 'Average Cricket'. We are privileged to have Katrina Withers as our coach this season. She comes to us from the Canterbury Cricket Association and plays competition cricket at national level.

I am sure she has some great training sessions in store for us.

Although there are only twelve of us, our 1992 team is filled with enthusiastic players and we are glad to welcome some new up and coming cricketers .

Term 3 is a very short cricket season and we have three two-day games scheduled against Marion, Avonside and Villa Maria Girls' Colleges.

These all promise to be challenging matches.

We hope to update our gear this

season and the provision of a much needed helmet, new balls, gloves for batting and wicket keeping and thigh pads will be much appreciated.

I wish all the members of my team a very good safe cricket season and I

CRICKET Back Row: Front Row:

would like to thank both Lucy Paterson (my Vice captain) and Mrs Kennedy (our team manager) for all their efforts to support and improve our team.

Anna Hiatt

Clare McKenzie, Stephanie Mainprize, Anna Wilkes, Mrs Kennedy, Juliette Alsop, Joanna Peat Prudence Fulton, Kate McGowan, Sarah Jordan, Anna Hiatt (Captain) Angela Kearns, Diana Lill (Absent: Lucy Paterson, Vice Captain) ST MARGARET'S COLLEGE 1992

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EQUESTRIAN

Sr.

Margaret's College is one of the few schools that has a high number of students involved with horses, and this allows the school to hold its own One Day Event; a trend that many schools are following. With a high class of competitive riders we have been able to enter 2 teams of 4 into the Inter-Secondary Schools' One Day Event which, due to postponement, is now on November 8 at Rangiora. Our best wishes to those team members.

This year's School One Day Event was held at the Riccarton/Fendalton Pony Club grounds on July 13 and included students from Selwyn House.· This was a highly enjoyable

and successful day that could not have gone ahead without tremendous support from parents and students alike. Special thanks must go to Mrs Lightfoot for all her work and to the Old Girls who came to judge and give a helping hand.

Although only 56 riders competed, classes were highly competitive with the Novice Forms 6-7 and Old Girls' classes proving highly popular. It was pleasing to see so many of our Juniors and Selwyn House participants keen and dedicated. Congratulations to all riders, not only those who gained places on the day, but to those who competed and improved their performance .

Lucy Paterson

EQUESTRIAN Front Row: Natasha Bowden, Melanie Morris, Mrs Lightfoot, Helen Sullivan, Natasha Denny Middle Row : Caitlin Armstrong, Anna Adair ( Captain), Megan Armstrong, VictoriaKnight, Molly Savill, Nathalie Tallot Back Row : Fiona Rainey, Deanne Carter Absent: Lucy Paterson(Vice Captain)

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OVERALL RESULTS:

Novice Form 6-7 plus Old Girls Charlotte Rebbeck 1 st 2nd Anna Rainey 3rd Molly Savill 4th Megan Armstrong Introductory Form 3-7 plus Old Girls Fiona Rainey 1 st 2nd Natasha Bowden Novice Form 3-5 Nathalie T allot 1st 2nd Victoria Knight 3rd Caitlan Armstrong 4th Deanne Carter Novice Form 2 and Under Martha Paterson 1st 2nd Anna Oborne 3rd Angela Frewer 4th Lisa Stevens Introductory Form 2 and Under Lisa Stevens 1st 2nd Nicola Grigg Beginners combined Penny Phelan 1st 2nd April Maclaren Whatsui Cup for Horsemastership on the Day Victoria Knight

THE BAY HORSE Creeping across the paddock, like a buzzard on tip-toes.

Offering my carrot, he came attentively.

Sniffed like a mouse smelling cheese.

His soft breath warmed my hands.

His coat reflected the icy frosty mornmg Life a reflection in a mirror His eye innocent and caring.

Then suddenly, he galloped, like a bullet.

Then my animal-friend was on the horizon.

Antonia Davison

GYMNASTICS CAPTAIN :Hannah Blackmore VICE CAPTAIN: Louise Newton This year has been a hard year for some but successful and beneficial for most others. The competition on August 10th was held at Wharenui Stadium for the first time.

Results were: OPEN GRADE Tina-Anne Pooley 2nd on bar, 2nd on beam, 3rd equal on vault. Placed 3rd overall.

SENIOR GRADE Susan Mackenzie 1st on floor, 3rd on vault.

INTERMEDIATE GRADE Hannah Blackmore 2nd equal on vault.

ST MARGARET'S TEAM Hannah Blackmore, Louise Newton, Wendy Roberts, Antonia Davison.

Placed 3rd overall.

Well done to everyone who was placed and to those who tried their best and stuck with it.Just to compete at the competitions is an RHYTHMICAL GYMNASTICS This year Rhythmical Gymnastics has seen a surge of younger talent.

In August eight Fourth Formers competed in the Canterbury Secondary Schools' Rhythmical Gymnastic Championships gaining first and third place for the two teams - Susan Mackenzie, Claire Sullivan, Rachael Townley, Antonia Davison, Bridget Tapley, Anna Morgan, Jill Ferguson and Catherine Cox respectively.

At a senior level working around busy timetables and hall availability has been tough. A small group of girls from Std. 2, 3 and 4, have had the chance to be introduced to the sport and show potential for future years.

We would like to thank Megan Neil for her time coaching the Fourth Form teams and congratulate the girls on their success.

Anne Graham

achievement.

Special thanks to Louise who coached the sports group on Mondays after school. Thank you. You are a great help. Also a huge thank you to Nicola Mackenzie for coaching us all, and to Miss Mangos for all her encouragement, patience and time.

To all those who are thinking of trying gymnastics in the following years, I say " have a go and make the best of what you learn and achieve."

Good luck.

COLOURS AWARDED: Hannah Blackmore, Susan Mackenzie, Tina-Anne Pooley POCKET REAWARDED: Wendy Roberts POCKET: Antonia Davison SERVICE AWARD FOR COACHING: Louise Newton

SENIOR GYMNASTICS Back Row: Susan Mackenzie, Hannah Blackmore, Louise Newton Lucy Simpson, Amanda Barker, Wendy Roberts,Antonia Davison, Front Row : Sophie Hartnell

RYTHMICAL GYM Back Row : Rachel Townley, Bridgette Tapley, Antonia Davison,Susan Mackenzie Front Row : Anna Morgan, Jill Ferguson, Catherine Cox, Claire Sullivan

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HOCKEY CAPTAIN: Margret Fraser VICE CAPT.:Kate Thompson

The year 1992 proved to be a very successful year for the 'A' hockey team.

The team comprised a number of younger players, including 3 promising 3rd formers and this is good for the future of hockey at St. Margaret's.

We again competed in the Saturday inter-dub competition, in which we won 12 matches, lost 3 and drew 2, finishing second in the third grade, close behind Selwyn. In the Wednesday inter-secondary schools' competition for the Press Cup, we finished in a very commendable third equal with Rangi-Ruru 'A' team.

Other St. Margaret's hockey teams also had a very successful year. The 3rd and 4th form teams entered the 8th Grade on the Saturday competition and finished in 3rd position. In the Wednesday school competition, due to other

schools not entering the A Grade, our 3rd and 4th form teams were forced to play against them. They didn't lose a single game to the other teams that were in their age grade and even won against some school A teams. The B team showed great potential during the year and improved tremendously as a team as the season went on.

In.] uly we travelled to the Quadrangular Tournament in Dunedin, this year hosted by Columba. Very good matches were played there, and we finished in second equal position with Columba.

We were very fortunate to be invited to the St. Michael's Collegiate centenary celebrations in Hobart, Tasmania, in August, where we won 4 of our 6 matches.

We would like to especially thank our coach, Wendy Abbot. Much of our success this year can be attributed to her dedication and the time and effort she has spent with the team.

Her calls from the side-line were certainly very motivating ! We would also like to thank the large number of people who supported us at our games throughout the season. The team trained and worked well together, and this is reflected in our good results for the season.

I would like to thank Mr Cartwright for giving up his time to coach the 'B' team, and Miss Mangos for coaching the 3rd and 4th form teams, as well as being the 'A' team manager.

Finally, I would like to thank all members of the teams for their support and, in particular, my ViceCaptain, Kate, for both her support and assistance to me which was invaluable. I wish next year's teams the very best of luck.

COLOURS RE-AWARDED: Margaret Fraser, Kate Thomson COLOURS: Caroline Borrie, Annabel Gudsell, Anna Hiatt, Rosemary T rolove POCKETS: Charlotte Cottrell, Lucy Curtis, Prue Fulton, Penny M1.J.nns,Sarah Pierce, Lucy Simpson

SPRING

The scent of flowers is in the air.

SENIOR A HOCKEY TEAM Prue Fulton, Annabel Gudsell, Penelope Munns, Mrs Wendy Abbot Back Row: (Coach),Sarah Pearse, Rosemary Trolove, Kate Thompson (Vice Captain) Caroline Borrie, Charlotte Cottrell, Margaret Fraser (Captain), Seated: Lucy Curtis, Lucy Simpson, Anna Hiatt

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The birds are sweetly singing.

Trees are slowly blooming.

For spring is just beginning.

All around the daffodils Are growing. late at night, very bright, The moon is softly glowing.

Elizabeth Bailey

NETBALL NETBALL CAPTAIN: Nicola Shand VICE CAPTAIN: Rachel Talbot This sport has been extremely popular this year with thirteen teams entered in the Saturday competition, ten in the Wednesday competition and the starting of 'Kiwi' netball for the juniors.

The 'A' team played in the second grade, section A in the Saturday competition. The most successful team was the Senior 'B' team who played in the semi-finals of the Wednesday competition and were second in their section in the Saturday competition. The Saturday 7th form team also performed well in their grade.

In .July Geelong College from Melbourne visited St. Margaret's.

Although we lost the match, the team benefitted from playing such an experienced team. This year the South Island Tournament was held

in Nelson. Although it will not be remembered for successes on the court it was a great week and enjoyed by everyone. Congratulations to Kylie Smith who was selected for the Under 16 Canterbury team.

Many thanks to all parents and supporters and especially to Miss Reeves for all the support and encouragement. Thanks also to those who helped with coaching this year, especially to Julie Dawson who has coached the 'A' team .

Thank you to Mrs Leck who has been a regular umpire and a great supporter this year. Congratulations to Nicola McGoverne who passed her Provincial and to Angela Kearns who passed her senior umpiring exam.

Finally, thank you to Rachel Talbot for all her support this year as vicecaptain. I would like to wish the 'A' team good luck for next year.

COLOURS RE-AWRDED: Rachel Talbot COLOURS: Nicola Shand ,Kate Thomson POCKET RE-AWARDED: Kylie Smith POCKETS: Nicola McGoverne, Angela Kearns Caroline Cambdge ,Jenny Grigg

DMNG

A winter wonderland, Floating in eternity, As light as a feather, A particle of dust In the vastness of the sea, Just an observer, From another world, In a coral forest.

Rosalyn Cooper

A NETBALL TEAM Back Row : NicolaMcGoverne, RachelTalbot, jenny Grigg, Miss F Reeves(Manager),Kate Thomson,KylieSmith FrontRow: CarolineLee, Caroline Cambridge,Nicola Shand {Captain),AngelaKearns

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ROWING REPORT 1991/92 SEASON

Ourrowing team enthusiastically started our school's 4th rowing season beginning in the third term of 1991. It was our first season, combined with Christ's College, and we were very grateful for being welcomed to the club by everyone. It has been a great benefit to be able to share Christ's College's facilities and equipment. We are very fortunate to have had Trudy Keys coaching us.

She has put a lot of time and effort into helping us gain the best results possible.

We had an 'oarsome' training camp at Lake Ruataniwha in the last week of the Christmas holidays. We enjoyed activities such as waterskiing, diving off our boats for a refreshing dip in the lake and jumping off the 10 metre high bridge beside the canal and believe me, it is scary!

We competed in the Canterbury Clubs and the school gained recognition in the Under 19 8, 4, and double, in the Under 17 4, quad scull and double and in the Under 16 double. A latter trip to Lake Ruataniwha proved successful especially for our Under 17 4 who won two Gold Medals. At the South Island Schools' regatta at Ruataniwha our Under 17 4 came first. Our other crews made a good effort and several earned second place.

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energetic season we set off for the Nationals. We all set off determined to reach the top step of the dais and to earn Gold Medals. All our boats passed successfully to the semi-finals or finals and our success continued until the last day. We piled on thermal underwear to compete on the last day but after only a few hours the regatta was cancelled but not before our Under 19 double earned a Bronze and our Under 17 a Gold.

Kate Thomson was selected for the

New Zealand Juniors' double scull~ competing against Australian teams, and her crew gained third place. Very well done.

We would like to thank Bridget Macdonald for her great efforts as rowing captain, Mrs Berry for her tremendous help and enthusiasm in organising our teams, and also our parents for their support. We must not forget the coaching and assistance from our brother school - Christ's College.

Rachel Talbot Vice Captain 9 l /92 Season

ROWING Sharleen Hole, Trudy Keys (Coach), Zakiya Orbell Back Row: Middle Row .: Rachel Talbot, Vanessa Cameron-Lewis, Nicola Hindmarsh, Selina Handyside,Andrea Harper, Kate Thomson Front Row: RebeccaMarshall, Sarah Hampton, Diana Lill, Elanor Baldwin, Veronica Baldwin Bridget Macdonald Absent:

RUNNING CLUB & SOFTBALL RUNNING CLUB This year, the St. Margaret's running club started. Miss Webby organised a coach, Graeme Christie, from Papanui Toc-H running club.

When the club first started, there were only about ten girls but this has now increased to approximately

thirty. Training is every Monday and Thursday lunchtime. On Thursdays, Graeme comes along and helps with speed work and style. He also makes programmes for us to follow during the week, building up to race days.

For the first time for many years, St. Margaret's entered two teams in the New Zealand Cross Country

CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS Joanna Rutherford,RachelTalbot, Emily Harris

SENIOR CROSS COUNTRY TEAM Back Row : Kate Thompson,Kirsty Wear,Joanna Peat,Alice Keegan,RachelTalbot 3rd Row :JenniferBarker,Annabel Newton, Lucy Simpson,CarolineLee, SarahEgden,JoannaRutherford,SarahPearse,KirstyInnes 2nd Row : BridgetteTapley,CeirosBegg,MargaretFraser,PennyMunns, OdetteEaves, RebeccaTapley,CarolineCambridge,CarolineBorrie,Emily Harris, VanessaCameronLewis FrontRow : Susan Clibborn,PrueHilgendorf,RebeccaMarshall,Annabel Cambridge,Helen Sullivan,Amanda Sutherland,BridgetMcLister,CarolineBelcher

Nationals, and achieved very good results, with the help and advice from Graeme. In the Canterbury lnterschools Cross Country this year, the St. Margaret's Intermediate team achieved second in the teams race and the Senior and Junior teams came fourth. This is a major improvement on last year's places .

With the help of Miss Web by and Graeme, there is now a good base to running at St. Margaret's and we hope it will continue for the future.

Jo Rutherford SOFTBALL CAPTAIN:MargretFraser VICE CAPT.:Nicky Shand Due to the diversity of summer sports, the number of girls playing Softball over the last two years has decreased from 5 teams to 3 teams this year. This makes it difficult to maintain a high standard of play, without the numbers for selection.

However, we have managed to have A and B grade teams and also an enthusiastic 3rd form team.

This year the girls are keen and enthusiastic and we are all looking forward to the season ahead.

A SOFTBALL TEAM Back Row : Olivia Townley,FionaRainey,RebeccaGilroy, RosemaryTrolove,LouiseNewton, Miss Mangos( Coach) Front Row: ClaireSullivan, MargaretFraser Chizuru Suzuki, MargaretFraser( Captain),SarahHead, JoanneJohnson ST MARGARET'S COLLEGE 1992

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LIFESAVING& SQUASH LIFESAVING CAPTAIN:StephanieMainprize VICE CAPT.:ChizuruSuzuri This has been a very successful year for all involved in sitting the Life Saving awards. We had a very large number of higher awards gained, 10 Distinction and 18 Awards of Merit.

Thanks must go to Mrs Cartwright, Miss Mangos and the instructors who spend their spare time helping out at the pool side to make the awards possible.

This year 15 girls showed interest in the Monica Thacker competition making up 3 teams that worked extremely hard to gain excellent results. The 'A' team came first, the highest they have gained since St. Margaret's first entered the competition. The other two teams who had many first year competitors

did very well also, coming in fourth and ninth. These achievements would have been impossible without the invaluable training and sense of humour of Mr Neil Lanyon.

Finally - thank you to my Vice Captain, Chizuru, who has helped with the training of the teams. Good luck to the captain and the up and coming life savers next year.

COLOURS RE-AWARDED:

StephanieMainprize COLOURS:

ChizuruSuzuki POCKETS:

RebekahYock Olivia Radford LucySimpson

MONICA THACKER SHIELD WINNERS Standing: Rebekah Yock, Olivia Radford, Belinda Borrie Seated: Chizuru Suzuki, Stephanie Mainprize

SQUASH CAPTAIN:Hannah Blakely VICE CAPT.: BelindaThompson This year we had support from the Third Form so we were able to enter an A, B and Third Form team in the interschool competition. The 'A' team were successful in becoming third in this competition.

I would like to thank Mrs Berry for the organizing and assistance which was invaluable. Thank you also to Mrs Nielson for her many hours of conscientious coaching; without her Squash at St. Margaret's wouldn't be possible.

I also take this opportunity to thank Belinda, my Vice Captain, for stepping in for me when I couldn't carry out my duties due to injury.

This was very much appreciated.

Finally, thank you to all players who supported Squash this year and hope the game will continue in the years to come.

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SQUASH Nicola Fairbrass,Hannah Blackely, Mrs Berry, Belinda Thompson {seated) Absent: Varinpen Thongvanit

SPORTSTRIP

ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGIATE - HOBART

This year St. Michael's Collegiate, one of our sister schools, celebrated their centenary. St. Michael's was the first school in Australasia to be founded by the Kilburn Sisters.

As well as St. Margaret's, our other sister schools, Perth College, St. Michael's Grammar School from Melbourne and St. Peter' s Collegiate Girls' School from Adelaide, took part. All the five schools contained the same school crest so, as you can imagine, there was a lot of swapping of the different coloured badges going on all the time.

We left on 25 August and returned home on 31 August. During that time our sports teams, including hockey, volleyball and badminton, competed against other Hobart schools. All the teams competed very successfully against some very tough competition. The volleyball team were undefeated, winning 3 out of their 3 games. I believe that a mixture of their new uniforms and awesome skills really frightened the opposition.

Many of the members also tried their talents on the netball court but were unfortunately marginally defeated.

The hockey team won 4 out of their 6 matches. We were undoubtedly spurred on by Wendy Abbott leading the parents in yelling for us - but it sometimes wasn't too positive! We were very fortunate in being able to play on the water-based turf; a new experience for the teams.

The badminton team also competed very well, winning 2 out of their 4 matches. However, by New Zealand rules they won 3 out of the 4 matches but had to be content with 'Oz rules'.

We were surprised to find that when we arrived in Hobart we were, in fact, the only senior school that had brought sports teams. Other schools brought debaters, performed drama workshops, puppetry, story telling, as well as singing. St. Michael's from Melbourne had even travelled to Hobart just to be part of the celebrations and didn't compete in sport or arts.

On Saturday all the visiting schools and their billets hopped on four buses and travelled out to the old penal settlement at Port Arthur as well as seeing the famous Tasmanian Devil on the way. It made us all feel very emotional standing amongst the ruins of this settlement which was occupied by the convicts nearly 100

years ago. We all loved the day and all agreed that on our next trip to Hobart we'd all go there again.

I think what the 'school from New Zealand' will be remembered for is our 'dance thing' (in other words our haka). We felt that often the opposition didn't know how to react as we performed the haka ! It was so popular that at Collegiate' s end-ofterm Assembly, our whole school party was asked to perform the haka.

The celebrations concluded on Sunday with a service in Hobart Cathedral in which the two nuns were present. It was very moving to hear the history of the Kilburn sisters as to how they estabiished our sister schools. The service began and ended with representatives from each school carrying their school banner.

The celebration was formally closed

by Mr McN eill, the Collegiate' s Principal, after a delicious lunch put on by St. Michael's.

Over the week we had all formed many ties with the girls and boys from our sister schools, so it was very sad to say goodbye to everyone. The other schools left on the Sunday but we left on the Monday.

Margaret Fraser

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CAPTAIN: Hannah Blakely VICE-CAPT. Stephanie Mainprize Sports Day this year was a week earlier than usual but ran smoothly even though the weather was not totally in our favour.

This year the Quadrangular Tournament was held at St. Margaret's where the girls swam very well and gained a close second behind Rangi Ruru. The lnterschool Sports were run by us this year and, with the help of a large number of girls, the event ran smoothly and in a shorter time than has been the case for many years ! Nearly every girl made her final, and two team members were placed.

The standard of swimming in the school this year has greatly improved thanks to the heated pool, and also thanks to Katrina Mueller who coached the swimming club twice a week. This club was strongly supported by the younger girls in the College which is great to see . Keep it up!

The swimming uniform has been changed and the new red and green togs and the red caps printed with 'St. Margaret's College' are a great success. For making this possible our thanks go to the Doreen Brown Trust and to Mrs Clucas.

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school hours, that was put into organising the school sports, Quadrangular Tournament and the lnterschool Sports, which was a huge job most efficiently done. A big 'thank you' also to Stephanie, my Vice Captain, who was always there with the Sports Council to help with the running of heats and finals.

RESULTS: Senior Champion: Angela Collett Under 16 Champion: Louise Nlchols Under 15 Champion:

Anna Baker Under 14 Champion: Amanda Barker Forms I & II Champion: Stephanie Radford Colours Re-awarded : Hannah Blakely, Stephanie Mainprize, Rachel Talbot, Louise Nichols Colours Awarded: Angela Collett Pockets Re-awarded: Rebecca Yock Pockets Awarded: Kate Thomson

SWIMMING CHAMPIONS Standing: Angela Collett (Senior), Amanda Barker (Under 14) Seated: Louise Nichols (Under 16), Anna Baker (Under 15)

THE 1992 SWIMMING SPORTS BANG! The gun went. The tanned, stream-lined bodies hit the water and parted it, as if someone had come along with scissors and cut the pool into long strips.

The race was on. Their feet hit the water and seemed to break a skin off, at the same time fountains of water being spat out on to the crowds.

Their arms glided through the water as if they were skiis, and were specially made to motor through the water like it was only silk.

There was one though, and only one person who could win. She came to the end, tumble turned, and went back in her tracks. She pushed off the wall and just glided, parting the deep blue water as she went.

She began to slow down though, so did the others, like the water was no longer silk. It was becoming mud, so thick that they felt their arms were becoming rocks. She kept on pushing though.

Finally, she gave one last burst of energy, and hit the end wall with her hands. The race was over. The winner was rewarded, and they all shook each other's hands even though they were totally exhausted.

Natalie Gerve

JUNIOR AND INTERMEIDATE SWIMMING CHAMPIONS Michelle Ineson, Stephanie Radford

JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE SWIMMING TEAM BA CK Amy Mill, Sarah Macdonald, Stephanie Radford.

MIDDLE RebeccaO'Connor, Rebekah Lucas, Anna Saunders,Anjilina Langham, Martha Ackroyd, Amanda Cartwright,Jana Newman.

FRONT Kirsten Ash, Michelle Ineson, Louise Stevenson,Jessicavan Schreven, Nicola Hopkins, DesireeHanson.

SENIOR SWIMMING TEAM Back Row : Angela Collett, Karina Jenkins, Michal Dillon, Rachel Talbot, Anna Baker, Katrin Mulleur ( Coach), Hannah Blakeley { Captain) Second Row : Stephanie Mainprize ( Vice Captain), Kylie Smith, Joanna Peat, Charlotte Suckling, Kate Thomson, CarolineLee, RebeccaGilroy, Olivia Radford, Louise Nichols Front Row : Amber Burt, Sara Sutherland, Antonia Davison, Rebekah Yock, Susan Mackenzie, PenelopeMunns, Caroline Belcher,Amanda Barker

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TENNIS & TOUCH RUGBY TENNIS CAPTAIN: Kate Thompson VICE CAPTAIN: Molly Savill Tennis started this year with the summer Quadrangular Tournament which we hosted. With the added advantage of home support we were placed second after Rangi Ruru.

In the first term the A team were placed 1st in the inter-school competition after dropping only one singles match.

In the third term the season started with great enthusiasm, especially from the third forms who were always seen on the courts challenging and practising. We have entered eight Wednesday teams who will be playing against other Christchurch schools.

I would like to thank Miss Reeves for all her help and Mrs Jennings for all the time and effort she has put into coaching, both the A team and individuals. Thanks also to my vicecaptain, Molly Savill. Good luck for the years ahead.

Kate Thompson

A TENNIS TEAM Caroline Borrie, Amabel Gudsell, Nicola Thompson, Molly Savi!!, Kate Thompson

TOUCH RUGBY Back Row: Vivienne Wood, Melissa Warrington, Belinda Cartwright, Rebekah Yock, Kate Archbold, Mr McKelvey Front Row : Yvonne Yeo,Julia Elworthy, Eleanor Cottle, Anna Mason, Hannah Maling

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TOUCH RUGBY CAPTAIN: Eleanor Cottle Touch has had an enjoyable and encouraging year with lots of new faces joining us after a serious lack of players before the season started. We should have some very strong teams as these players form a firm foundation for the years to come.

There was one team entered in the competitions this year, although we had enough players for at least one other. Unfortunately we could not anticipate the demand when entering. We have coped well with the tough competition offered by our rival schools.

Our team has had the opportunity this year of the services of two coaches, Stewart and Alistair. Their encouragement both in training and on the sidelines has been greatly appreciated. Thank you also to Mr McKelvey for the organisation this year.

I hope that all our players have had an enjoyable season and will continue to play in the future with as much enthusiasm as this year.

TRAMPOLINING & VOLLEYBALL TRAMPOLINING CAPTAIN:HannahBlackmore VICE-CAPT.:ClaireMatheson The Intersecondary Schools' Competitions were held on the 10th August this year, at the Wharenui Stadium. All of us performed very well at the competitions with the training from our new Coach, David.

As Miss Mangos said, "We made it into print in Grade 1", when I was placed 3rd overall . This year only two trampoline badge groups were started as there was not as much interest as in past years. Some seniors also sat badges after their competitions. Thank you to Miss Mangos, Claire, David and the whole team. A reminder to the Senior T earn from me "As long as you are spotting, I don't mind if you talk QUIETLY.!!"

TRAMPOLINE Back Row: Jodi White, Claire Matheson, Hannah Blackmore, Tara Brady, RebeccaPeate Front Row: Susan Clibborn, CeirosBegg, Wendy Roberts, Sarah White

COLOURS AWARDED:

Hannah Blackmore VOLLEYBALL CAPTAIN: Hannah Blakeley VICE CAPT.: BelindaBorrie This year's Volleyball season didn't start off as successfully as planned and we were not placed as highly as we would have liked in the tournament.

Training carried on throughout the winter term when we prepared for the sports trip to Tasmania.

Throughout this term skills and confidence grew enormously. This was due to the coaching of Jo Johnson whose enthusiasm, skill and encouragement made every practice enjoyable and progressive. The incentive of a trip to Tasmania also made it easier to keep going on cold winter nights.

Our training efforts were worthwhile when we were undefeated in Hobart.

Thanks to fundraising efforts new shirts were purchased which gave us a

A VOLLEYBALL Back Row: Catherine Laugesen,Joanna Rutherford, jenny Grigg,Jo Johnson (Coach), Nicola Pemberton, Kylie Smith, Michal Dillon Front Row : Olivia Radford, Caroline Shand, Hannah Blakely ( Captain), Belinda Borrie,Janna Fitzsimmon_s

psychological advantage. Practice continues this term for the third term competition .

I would like to thank Jo Johnson for her fantastic coaching and support which is essential for our success.

Well done to all the girls who have put so much time and effort into the team. It would be great to see a few more fourth formers interested in Volleyball for the future success of the sport.

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SKIING SKIING This year the ski team consisted of Nicki Sutton (Captain), Josie Talbot, Nicky Shand and Charlotte Blair.

We competed in the Canterbury Secondary Schools' Ski Championships. The day was perfect and 10cm of snow had fallen overnight. The course was icy and became very rutted after 200 racers corn pleted the first run and this caused many racers not to finish. We lost Nicky Shand in the first run -she fell and hurt her thumb. Nicki Sutton also fell but managed to complete the course. Josie Talbot, who has been a member of the team since the third form, managed the conditions extremely well making her 3rd fastest girl. Charlotte Blair proved to be an experienced racer, finishing 9th . Overall we did not manage to keep our last year's title, after losing Annabel Tapley, Emily Rudkin and Gigi Kidney, but we did manage to get 6th . Best of luck for next year!!

Nicki Sutton

CLARE McKENZIE 6Su

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SKI TEAM Back Row: Mrs Newman, Nicola Shand, Nicola Sutton Front Row : Charlotte Blair, j osephine Talbot