2007 SMC Yearbook

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PRIMARY, MIDDLE & SENIOR SCHOOL

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ct9rfhn1J, Executive Principal Report

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Primary School

Chairman's Report

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Habits of Mind

2007 Staff Photo

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Performing Arts in Primary School

Staff Notes

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Creative Writing

Staff List 2007

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P.T.A. President's Report/ Business Office

Middle School 28-29

Middle School Prize List

47

30

Middle School Classes

48

31-32

Middle School Competition Winners

49

Primary Council

32-33

?SM Creative Writing

50-55

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Sports Reports

33-36

?FR Creative Writing

55-60

Development Office I Cleaning

12

Year One Photographers

37

8LN Creative Writing

60-67

Grounds & Maintenance / Catering

13

Years 2-3 Celebrates "Diwali"

38

8WH Creative Writing

67-74

Pop Corn Pizzas by Year 4

39

Middle School Sports Groups

75-77

Year 5 Newspaper

40

Daughters, Granddaughters and Great Granddaughters Old Girls' Association Sacristans Committee Reports

14 14-17

41-42

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Primary School Prize List

43

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Primary School Classes

44

Primary School Sports Groups

45

Boarders 2007

23

The New Cranmer House

24

Technology Education

25

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Memories of St. Margaret's Year 6

Senior School

Library Report 2007 / Arts Assembly

94

Year 13 Photo

138

95

Leavers' Ball Photo

139

Senior School Academic Committee Reports

79

Model United Nations/ Music Notes 2007

Year 12 IB Camp 2007 / IB Tree Planting

80

Music Notes

96-97

Tutor Group Photos

140-145

Debating Team Report

81

Music Groups

98-101

Tribute to Hannah Rossiter

146-147

House Reports Amnesty International / Cultural Festival

82-84 85

Music groups/ Prefects and Deputies

102

Year 13 Profiles

148-154

Prefects and Deputies Photo

103

Autographs

155-156

Japan Trip

86-87

Senior School Prize List

China Trip

88-91

ICAS Results

Myer's Cup Speech Competition /

104-107 108

Sports Council and Groups

109-131

Press Debating Victory

92

Dance and Response

132-133

Dance Club 2007

93

Senior School Art

134-137

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School magazines act not only as a record of the life of the school during a particular year, but also give the Principal an opportunity to thank publicly and in writing, all those who have contributed towards the life of the school during this year.

They also give an opportunity to reflect on the school year and what has happened, the changes that have been made, the successes that have been achieved and to set the scene for future development. This year it also gives me the opportunity to reflect on 29 years of Principalship in Independent education, 13 of them at Kristin School in Auckland and almost 16 of them here at St Margaret's College and the changes that I have seen in education.

Before doing this I do want to take the opportunity of thanking very sincerely members of the Trust Board and former Trust Boards of the school who work so hard, unselfishly and with huge commitment to ensure the very best for the school and that the decisions that they are entrusted with making are in the very best interests of the whole school, not determined by certain interest groups within the school. This is a difficult task for any Board and one which those who have never been Board Members do not always understand. An Independent School

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is very much a business (much more so than it was 29 years ago) and therefore the responsibility on the Board individually and collectively is indeed very grave. While some parents may not agree with decisions made by our Board in the past, and especially this year, I know that in the future they will look and see that, as a result of those decisions, further growth and development has been assured for the overall good of St Margaret's and all those associated with it.

I have frequently stated my belief that the school is as good as its staff. A passion for learning and the opportunity to learn how to learn is not innate in young people. They catch that passion from enthusiastic, dedicated, truly professional and very knowledgeable teachers. The art of teaching is not about imbuing young people's minds with knowledge. It is about lighting the flame and setting the young person on the path to be a lifelong learner. Whenever I talk to the girls or to prospective students about their favourite subjects I find that always their choice is connected to their love of the teacher and that teacher's ability to communicate, not only his or her passion for the subject, but absolute commitment to and love of young people. One cannot be in the teaching profession without those qualities and we are indeed fortunate in this school to have a staff, not only passionate about their subject, but committed to the overall needs and development of young people.

This year we have set up a new structure of pastoral care. The Deans are an extra level between the Tutor and Mrs Wyeth as Associate Principal responsible for Pastoral Care. I have been enormously impressed by

the huge commitment that the Deans have shown to each girl and the way in which their real concern for each and every girl, both individually and collectively, has been so evident. I know that the introduction of Deans has gone to strengthen our pastoral care system even more.

This has also been a year of growth in the boarding school with the introduction of Cranmer House and, the subsequent restructuring of the way in which our boarding house is organised. It is good to know that there, too, our girls are being given not only a home away from home, but also the loving care and guidance that is necessary for young people when they are away from the day to day care and guidance of their parents.

Schools cannot exist solely with boarding and teaching staff. We are again extremely fortunate in the wonderful ancillary staff that we have in the school. Our catering staff, our maintenance and grounds staff, our cleaners and the people in our development, business and administration Offices are often our unsung heroes and without their commitment so much that we take for granted within the school community would not happen.

Schools, especially boarding schools, are complex organisations. Many cogs in the wheel are needed to make the school go forward smoothly. My very sincere thanks to all staff. It has indeed been a pleasure and a privilege to work with you. Over my many years in education I have seen great changes.

Many of these are obvious changes like the development of technology which we now embrace

to improve teaching and learning and the changes in curriculum.

I think that there are more subtle changes, some of which can be applauded and others to be treated with caution. More and more the school has become the panacea for society's weaknesses and ills. We are increasingly expected to educate young people not only in the academic and co-curriculum areas but also in how to live a healthy lifestyle, how to handle relationships, how to become resilient in the face of constant change and how to be, in some cases, the providers of those things which families, unlike the extended family of former generations, now no longer give. This places huge pressure on teachers and schools increasingly have very strong pastoral care strategies to ensure the emotional and physical wellbeing of the young people in their care.

When I first started teaching we never spoke of pastoral care. Counsellors, careers advisors and such people were unheard of. Now they are a necessary and important aspect of the life of every school in New Zealand.

The other major change is in the role of Principal visa-vis the Board and the complexities of his or her responsibilities. Once upon a time a Principal was an educator, now he or she must be not only a leader in education, but a public relations expert. One must have a sound financial background, and be able to charter the unsure waters of legislation as the world in which we operate becomes more and more litigious. The school has requirements placed upon it that sometimes can be totally unrealistic, yet failure to satisfy those requirements can end in litigation.

The Principal must also be a leader of staff, able to

inspire and motivate them to embrace and develop the special character of the school, its vision and its culture. The Principal must be discerning in selecting staff who will fit into this vision and culture and whose commitment to the special character of the school goes beyond mere words.

There is no doubt that the role of the Principal has changed markedly in the last few decades and yet one thing that has not changed is the joy young people can bring. I believe that today's youth are outstanding. They are not the self-centred "the world owes me a living" children of the 70s or the "what's in this for me" young people of the 80s. While there is much written about Generation Z, young people today constantly inspire and humble me by their energy and enthusiasm, their concern and care for one another, their ability to set goals, to time manage and to ensure that they make the most of the many opportunities presented to them. Life for teenagers today is probably much more difficult than it was in the 70s. There are more temptations, there are harder things for them to contemplate, there is much more pressure on them and yet the opportunities, especially for young women, are greater than they have ever been. I see a generation which embraces these opportunities, but does so without the same selfishness that I have seen in previous generations.

The pendulum is swinging back.

to bring new life into this world of ours and to ensure that the strong values society needs are passed on.

And so I have great hope for the future. I see a wonderful new generation of young teachers coming into education, not falling into it as has happened in the past but choosing positively that they want to be teachers. They are young men and women with ambition, with a real passion and commitment for their chosen profession. As I leave education after more than 40 years I have more hope for the future for schools such as St Margaret's than I would have had 20 years ago.

So, as we reflect through this magazine on 2007 with its challenges, its joys, it sadness, we know that life goes on, that our young people have grown through this year. They have shown enormous courage in the face of difficulties, celebrated success and learnt to cope with disappointment and they have further developed the very special qualities and resilience that they need in life.

The staff and I are all proud to have been part of their journey during 2007.

Claudia Wysocki Executive Principal

I also believe the pendulum of the feminist movement is swinging towards the middle and young women today are realizing that motherhood is their greatest vocation. While they want to have careers and be successful in whatever they undertake, they also know that their greatest privilege and responsibility is

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2007 has been a very pivotal year for St Margaret's. As we were warned well in advance, one of the most important and crucial jobs the Trust Board ever has to do is to select a new Principal. In our case, we felt the task was so very important given the enormous respect and affection enjoyed by Miss Wysocki who has been such a superb Principal.

I thought it may be interesting for you to read about the process the Board has gone through, not only so you can appreciate that we have worked carefully and diligently, but so you can appreciate that we feel the appointment of Mrs Gillian Simpson is, without doubt, the right decision for the school.

Realising the enormity of the task, we in fact started out over two years ago. We appointed a special sub-committee, chaired by Dr Richard Acland and assisted by Ms Gill Burrell and Mrs Bridget Thomas. Sheffields were recruited to assist with initial advertising and worked with the sub-committee to short-list candidates. At that point, the sub-committee was expanded to include our own Bishop, Dr David Coles and Peter Allan, who is a recent board appointee and former secondary school principal. At this point our independent educational consultant was also recruited. This particular individual is herself an experienced head of an Independent school.

The final short-listed candidates were then presented to the full Board for their consideration, and the Board has been delighted to be able to appoint Mrs Gillian Simpson to the

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role. Mrs Simpson has all of the key criteria that the Board felt were important. She is an experienced Principal, having spent the last four years leading the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls in Hamilton. She has had extensive experience in the Independent school sector and in boarding, through her time at Kings College in Auckland. We felt she had a particular understanding of the culture of our school and the values espoused in the vision and mission statement. Mrs Simpson has spent time in the school, meeting the staff and girls. Some of you would also have attended the function where Mrs Simpson was able to meet with parents.

I would particularly like to thank Miss Wysocki who has made every effort to ensure that no stone has been left unturned in ensuring a smooth transition and we look forward to Mrs Simpson and her husband David taking up residence in Winchester Street in late January next year.

Of course, over the last month or so there has been special focus on celebrating the extraordinary contribution made to St Margaret's by Miss Wysocki and also by her husband, Jim. Jim Scanlon has provided unrelenting and dedicated support, both to Miss Wysocki and to the school as a whole and we are hugely grateful for his contribution.

As I look around the school today I see the successes celebrated by our girls in the variety of sports on offer. I see the Dance Academy, unique to our school. I see a new rise in the visibility of the performing arts and in our music.

As a Board we are excited about the renewed focus on our property and facilities.

Mrs Thomas, Chair of the Property Committee, has just unveiled the plans for the area from the Molly Mullan Wing across to the school office down beside Stephanie Young to the Winchester Street entrance. This area is to be completely revamped following the relocation of all parking to a dedicated car parking area created off Andover Street.

All this, along with the new Arts and Music development, will greatly enhance the functionality and appearance of the school. The Board firmly feels that what's going on inside our buildings should also be matched by how they appear on the outside. Excellent!

Miss Wysocki's greatest legacy will be the introduction of the 18 programme into St Margaret's College. I have written before on the merits of the programme and its emphasis on an holistic education that fits so well with our culture.

Miss Wysocki had the vision and determination to see that programme pioneered by us in the South Island. At the last Independent Schools Conference I was delighted that the following schools are now either already offering both NCEA and 18or, are shortly to be accredited to do so - St Cuthbert's College, Diocesan School for Girls, St Kentigern School, Kristin School (Auckland), Queen Margaret College, Scots College and Chilton Saint James School (Wellington).

Personally, I would like to say how much I have enjoyed working with Miss Wysocki in my role as Chair of the Board. Her experience, wisdom and determination have been invaluable and we look forward to hearing how 2008 and onwards will unfold for both Miss Wysocki and Mr Scanlon, whom we will always hold close in our thoughts and prayers.

Our school community continues to flourish in every aspect and we thank all of you- PTA, Old Girls, staff and parents and, of course, my Board colleagues, for your dedication and support of our very special school.

Sarah Templeton Chairman, St Margaret's Trust Board

Back Row

Brian Woods, Zoltan Boros, Michael Sharp, Kalina Harmer, Carolyn Mutch, Alison Seeney, Chris Long, Rae Fraser, Hilary Scandrett, Ngaire Carson, Sally Mene, Bob Maryatt, Jenni McLaughlin

Fifth Row

Beth Steven, Catalina Dardaiac, Deb Scott, Mike Summerlee, Anne Archer, Keith McDonnell, Heather Khan, Andrew Fear, Trudy Keys, Deb Lean, Paula Sheldon, Toni Taylor, Yvonne Gallagher, Sue Flewellen, Kathy Anderson, Jo Allen

Fourth Row

Lyn Kennedy, Michele Callaghan, Jill Kerr, Sarah Smallman, Kristina Dodd, David Long, Sam Fazio-Smith, Stacey Rod, Sandy Schott,

Third Row

Trish Minns, Heather Gibbons, Matyas Bidnay, Chris Lindsay, Paula Moore, Kirsty Tulloch, Nadine Allen, Chris Rayward, Ray Derry,

Second Row

Shirley Smith, Geraldine Pickles, Maureen Titheridge, Jo Clarke, Paulette Double, Margaret Weiss, Pauline Henriksen, Linda Lightfoot,

Robin Tiffen, Hana Newman, Sue Ashton, Julie Ardagh, Hiroe Kobayashi, Maria Buhrkuhl Chris Chambers, Sue Ellis, Andrea Stewart, Tracy Fleete, Wendy McPhail, Janine Clarkson, Janet Todd, Pam Harvey Jo Isles, Anne-marie Plummer, Yolanda Wedlake, Luba Roth, Fran Gebbie, Jennifer Sutton, Linda Chong Front Row

Nicky Dunlop, Deb McFadyen, Janette Strang, Jenny Laney, Jo Morrow, Marilyn Copland, Claudia Wysocki, Chris Wyeth, Grant Belcher, Peter Welham, Peg Riley, Sue Harlow, Angela White

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What makes a good school?

It is a question in the minds of all parents as they navigate the educational waters in their neighbourhood schools and beyond. They are looking for the best ship for their children to carry them safely and successfully in fair weather and in foul. As with all schools you entrust your children to, we take this responsibility very seriously.

As interviews take place with the Year 9 candidates for the Exchange Programme next year, we have been asking them what is special about St Margaret's. Common themes and words are listed: " a great community", "so many different opportunities", "the Tutor Group", "the caring staff".

Similarly at the Year 12 Camp, girls identified key aspects that were important for them as senior students and special about St Margaret's. In spite of the age difference, their ideas were almost identical to Year 9, but they were more specific and elaborated on the staff, in particular their Principal, one who cared about each girl, one who knew her name, one who could recognise her individual talents, one who made her feel valued and one who enabled many different opportunities to be available.

Niall Dinning, Project Manager and National Coordinator for Technology Education, addressed assembly this week, thanking the school and the technology staff for their tremendous work with the Beacon Practice Project over the last three years. He thanked Claudia in particular for the opportunity "to work with a leading New Zealand Principal who was passionate about student learning and innovative teaching programmes". He commented on the

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strong support and enthusiasm he had received for the work being done in the technology field, and the willingness to embrace new ideas. Time and again I have heard similar remarks from so many different people. There are amazingly uniform comments about our community and the person who leads it. One could sometimes be accused of taking this for granted with an "of course this is who we are and what we do" attitude as these things are embedded in our practice and our expectations.

But where did it come from?

As Claudia's principalship draws to a close there is much to reflect on.

St Margaret's was not always like this. Sixteen years ago we were not at all confident in who we were and what we were doing, we could not identify what made us different or special; the boat was at half-speed and direction doubtful, in need of repair or a total refit in some areas. In fact, if the life boats had needed to be launched we would most likely have rowed out of time and in different directions!

And our students believed in themselves and flourished.

Old traditions, such as the Founders' Day service, silver tie and House Day were continued and new ones such as the red rose for excellence, Leavers' Dinner and Camps at all levels, were begun. New philosophies and research about thinking and learning contributed to the Middle School concept and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, first introduced into New Zealand by Claudia when she was Principal at Kristin in 1987, also proved a good 'fit' for our community alongside NCEA. And our students continued to flourish and strive for new horizons.

We are all privileged to have been on this incredible journey with a remarkable woman - a person with vision and energy, a person with courage and conviction, a person with a deep love of young people and a passion for educating them, a person who is caring and compassionate, a person who sees the potential in individuals and instills the desire to be the best they can be, someone who has been involved in all aspects of school life. It has been a very special time in our history.

And so the voyage began.

It began with seemingly small things such as resurfacing the furniture and painting over the graffiti but very soon there were bigger changes - the Tutor Group system, a new uniform appeared and a building programme got underway; sport continued to grow from strength to strength and the arts opportunities broadened and deepened. We began to understand who we were and the compass bearing was set.

Claudia has always said, " A school is as good as its staff" but she has had the insight and foresight to appoint the wonderful staff we have. Staff came on board with innovative initiatives, often entering uncharted waters where new bearings were set; new staff brought special skills to the growing, dynamic staff room and we had fun. Holistic education was embraced and we shared common values.

During this time, Claudia has had the total support of the special person in her life, her husband, Jim. We thank him most sincerely for all he has given to the school in his own right, in so many different ways.

So, we thank Claudia from the bottom of our hearts for all that she has given St Margaret's and each of us in her unique and special way. She had been a true leader, a servant, a mentor, a colleague and a friend. We wish her and Jim every joy, good health and happiness as they embark on their new lifestyle. They can be assured that they leave the ship in excellent heart, that their legacy will live on in this community and help us keep an even keel as we continue to navigate new waters.

Chris Wyeth Associate Principal

Executive Principal

Staff

Miss C Wysocki; MA (Hons), Dip Tchg

Mrs J Allan; BHSc, B Theol, English Miss N Allen; BA, Dip Tchg; History Ms K Anderson; BA, BFA, Dip Tchg; HOD Art, MT Ch Ln Mrs J Ardagh; BA, ATCL, Dip Tchg; Social Sciences/English Miss S Ashton, BA, Dip Tchg Mr Z Boros , Sports Administrator, Coaching Co-ordinator Mrs M Brennan, BSc, BComm, Dip Tchg, Mathematics Ms M Buhrkuhl, MFA, Dip Tchg, Photography and Art Mrs M Callaghan; Adv. Dip Tchg; ATCL, LTCL, Primary Year 3 Mrs N Carson; BSc, Dip Tchg; Science, Chemistry, Associate HOD Science Ms L Chambers, B Ed Physical Education Ms L Chong; B PhEd, Dip Tchg; HOD Physical Education Mrs J Clarke; BEd, Dip Tchg; Primary Year 2/3 Mrs C Dardaiac, Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Post Grad Diploma Tchg and Learning, Technology Ms J Ditfort; BA, Dip Tchg;Japanese Mrs P Double; Dip Tchg;Primary Year 5 Mrs S Ellis; Dip Tchg; Middle School Science, Mathematics Mrs S Fazio-Smith; BSc, Dip Tchg; Geography, Social Sciences Mrs S Fisher; Dip Tchg; Primary Year 1 Mrs S Flewellen; BA, LTCL, Dip Tchg Mathematics Mrs R Fraser;BA, Dip Tchg; Middle School Year 7, Science Y7 Ms F Gebbie, Junior Sports Assistant Miss H Gibbon, BA ED (Human Movement Science and Geography), Biotechology and Social Studies Ms P Harvey; BA, Dip Tchg, Learning Support Co-ordinator Ms P Henriksen; Dip Tchg, HOD Food Technology, Dip Home Economics Mr Miles Kau Kau, Kaumatua (Maori Adviser) Mrs L Kennedy; BA, Dip Tchg, HOD English Miss J Kerr; MusB, LTCL, LRSM, Acert CM, Hon GCM, Dip Tchg, AIRMT, HOD Music Mrs T Keys; NDBE, Dip Tchg, Dip Business Studies, Economics, Information Management, Accounting, Technology, Accounting Mrs H Kobayashi; BA in Japanese Literature, Diploma teaching and Marketing, Senior teacher, Japanese Miss D Lean; B. Tchg (Hons), Middle School Year 8, Technology Mrs A Lidstone, BSc (Hons), Dip Tchg Mrs L Lightfoot; Comm Teachers Cert, Dip Tchg, Dip Info Tech in Ed, HOD Business Studies Mrs C Long, BA (Massey), Dip Tchg, Health Mr D Long, BSc, Dip Tchg, CAS Dr B Mann; BA, BSc (Hons), PhD, FNZIP, Physics Mr B Marryatt, BA, S.F.Fin,Dip Tchg, Accounting Mme M Marshall-Durieux, BA, CAP, France; French Mr K McDonnell, BSc (Hons), PGCE, Mathematics Ms J McLaughlin, BA, Dip Tchg; English

Associate Principal Mrs C Wyeth; BSc, Dip Tchg Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care

Leadership Team Ms M Copland; MA, Dip Tchg, LTCL, C.O.P. Psychology Academic Co-ordinator Mr G Belcher; BA (Hons), Dip Tchg Staff Co-ordinator

Head of Primary School Ms N Dunlop; B Ed, Dip Tchg Primary School Co-ordinator

Head of Middle School Ms A White, Dip Tchg, BEd

Bursar Mr Peter Welham, B. Com (Hons), B Compt. C./\

Development Director Mrs Deborah James

Chaplain Rev. P Riley; BA, Dip Tchg

Counsellor Ms Deborah McFadyen, MA Psyc (Hons), NZPsS

Deans Mrs S Harlow; BT ChLn, Dip Tchg, HOD Health Dean - Years 12 and 13 Mrs J Laney; BA, Dip PE, PG Dip ViVOen, Fitness Co-ordinator Dean - Years 10 and 11 Mrs J Strang; BA, Dip Tchg; Mathematics Dean of Middle School

Careers Advisor Ms A Archer, MA (Hons), Dip Tchg, Careers and Religious Education

Dean of International Students Miss C Chambers; BA, CELTA, Dip Tchg

Mrs S Mene, Comm Teachers Cert. Dip Tchg, Director of Sport Ms T Minns; LTCL, HOD Drama Mrs C Mutch, BSc, Dip Tchg, Director of Teaching and Learning, Associate HOD Mathematics Mrs H Newman; BA, Dip Tchg, HOD Classical Studies and History of Art Miss A Plummer, Gmus (dist), PGCE Ms H Prior, BA, BT chg (Sec) Ms C Rayward; BA (Hons), MEd (with Distinction) Dip Tchg, English, Integrated Studies Ms S Rod, BSc, Dip Tchg Ms A Rossiter; Dip Tchg, TIC Dance Mrs L Roth; BA, Dip Tchg; Senior Teacher Chinese Ms Beth Rouse, BA (University of California), Maths and Anthropology, MSC in Maths, Statistics and Computer Education, MSc (University of London), Dip Tchg Ms J Sadler, Dance Mrs H Scandrett; Dip Hsc, Dip Tchg; Science, Ms D Scott,BSc, Dip Tchg, Postgrad Dip Science Mr M Sharp, Dip Tchg, HOD; Performing Arts Mrs P Sheldon; Dip Tchg;Primary Year 6 Mrs A Sibson, B Ed, Dip Tchg and Learning, English Mrs S Smallman, BSc, MSc, Pg, Dip Tchg and Learning, Science Mrs S Smith; B Ed; TTC, Dip Tchg; Middle School Year 7, Middle School Physical Education, FPS Mrs R Spiers; Dip Tchg; RAD Teachers; Drama Mr M Summerlee; BSc (Hons), Dip Tchg; Biology, Science Mrs T Taylor; B PhEd (Otago), Dip Tchg, Physical Education Dr A Taylor; BSc (Hons), PHO, Dip Tchg, LTCL, Geography, Physics, Social Science, Technology Mrs R Tiffen; BE (Hons), Dip Tchg; HOD Mathematics Mrs J Todd; BFA, Dip Tchg; Art Mrs P Vesty, B PhEd, Dip Tchg, Physical Education Mrs Y Wedlake; BA, Dip Tchg, MA Linguistics Mme M Weiss; MA, Dip Tchg, Dip Theo(Hons) Strasbourg; Senior Teacher French Ms L Williams; B PhEd (Otago), Dip Tchg Dr D Winter; BSc (Hons), PhD, Dip Tchg; Chemistry, Science Mrs C Wood; HOD Technology, NZCE (Mechanical), Cert in Fashion Tech and Design, Dip Tchg, Technology, Graphics Mr T Wood; ATC, Dip Tchg, NZCB; HOD Graphics, Technology Mr B Woods; NZCB, NDip Bus, DBEd, Dip Tchg; Cert Mgt; Economics, Information Technology

Computer/ Technology Technician Mr L Keane, MA Mr H Shustak, BSc

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Science Technician

Cello

Mrs J Isles; NZCS, Qualified Technician's Certificate

Mrs J Davey; Mus B, LRSM, AIRMT

Mrs J Morrow Mrs A Beeney

Learning Support

Trumpet & Trombone

Catering

Mrs C Lindsay Mrs B Steven, Higher Dip Tchg, Dip STN

Mr T Eves; LTCL Mr D Gallaher; BA, LTCL, FTCL, Dip Tchg

ESOL Ms Mary Dollin, Dip Tchg, TRINITY

Voice Mrs J Hewson; MA(Hons), LTCL, LRSM, Dip Tchg

Library Mrs D White; ALM; Librarian Miss J Borkus; Library Assistant

Guitar Mrs M Wells; Dip. Bus. Studies, Dip NZMSM

After School Care / Holiday Programme

Drums

Kirsty Tulloch, LLB (Hons) and PGCE (Primary)

MrT King

Mrs G Pickles, BA, Archivist

Mrs T Minns; LTCL Mrs R Spiers; ATCL

Maintenance Staff Administration

Piano

Miss W McPhail Mrs Y Gallagher Miss J Sutton Mrs T Fleete Mrs S Gandy

Mrs M Barrell; BA, BTheo, LTCL, AMusTCL, AIRMT Miss K Bijl; ATCL, (piano), ATCL (Speech & Drama) ARAD. Mrs J Crucian; MFA, BM, Cert. Kindermusik (USA) Ms S Spang; Mus B, LTCL (piano), LTCL (vocal), AIRMT, RMTh, (London), CPSM, (London) SRATh (London) NZSMT Mrs K. Sturrock; LTCL FIRMTNZ

Mrs A Boyce Mrs C Laughton Mrs J Clarkson

Instrumental Music Staff (All Part-Time)

PA to Executive Principal Office Manager School Secretary Receptionist Secretary to Management Team / Attendance Registrar

Business/ Accounts Office

Piano and Keyboard

Financial Assistant Financial Assistant Assistant to Bursar and Board Secretary, Adv. Dip Business (Mktg)

Mrs D Tovey

Flute

Development Office MrT Nash

Mrs D Russell; BA, LTCL, DiplibSch, AIRMT

Oboe

Mrs T O'Sullivan

Graphic Artist Adv Dip Graphic Design Secretary to Old Girls

Mrs W S Coxon; GWCMD, Dip Mus, LTCL, PGCE

Clarinet & Saxophone Mr G de Lacey; BMus, LTCL, Dip Tchg, AIRMT Mrs C Oliver; LTCL, Cert. Jazz(Polytechnic)

Violin & Viola Mrs L Shelley; AIRMT

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Catering Manager

Archives

Speech and Drama

Music Staff

Mrs P Moore Heather Khan Kristina Dodd Kath Drost Andrew Fear Tracey Bain Heather Adcock Matyas Bidnay Paula Whanau

Director of Boarding School Nurse

Boarding School Staff Mrs C Long Mrs B Parker Miss A Barbara Mrs L Paul

Manager, Kilburn House Manager, Julius House Winchester Street Boarding House Weekend Manager, Kilburn House

Mr R Derry Mr A Badger Mr P Carroll Mr S Lavill Mr A Douglas

Cleaning Staff Sharon Harman Tuupo Scarlett Michelle Fotheringham Sandra Purdon Caroline Cotton Jenny Lord Owen Lord Betsie van der Par Karen Kelly Paula Walker Yvonne Brown Lisa Brown Peter Jarvis

Cleaning Supervisor Assistant to Supervisor

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p. to.,. p!LUiliuitt> M,p<91tt 2007 has been a great year for St Margaret's PTA. Our primary focus, as always, has been the fostering of interaction among parents and teachers. To this end we have been able to ensure that there has been at least one function organised by the PTA for each year group.

At the beginning of 2007, there were several functions organised as a means of giving new parents the opportunity to come to the school to meet other parents and teachers. We have also organised father/ daughter breakfasts. Until 2007, the PTA had two such occasions, one for years 9 and 10, and one for years 12 and 13. This year, however, demand warranted a separate breakfast for each year group. The PTA is most appreciative of the fantastic effort made by the cafeteria staff on these occasions.

In November, we were delighted to be involved with the Board in the farewell function for Miss Wysocki.

It was a great success and the PTA is particularly grateful for the contribution made by PTA volunteers who were involved with the catering.

Planning for parent and teacher focused activities for 2008 is also well underway.

A secondary focus for the PTA has been assisting the school in providing items that would contribute to the better the functioning of the school. To this end, and in consultation with the Executive Principal, we have donated data projectors and instrumental music equipment. Perhaps the highlight has been the presentation of the St Margaret's statue. It is presently in front of Miss Wysocki's office however, it is likely to

be in pride of place in the new landscaping which will be undertaken in 2008.

Volunteers operate the PTA'S second hand clothing shop. In response to increasing demand from parents, we have recently started opening it once a week. This move has been met with a positive response and the shop continues to be very busy. It is also a major source of funds.

It is appropriate that we acknowledge Miss Wysocki's contribution to the PTA. Despite her myriad commitments, Claudia has been an enthusiastic contributor at our monthly meetings for which we are most grateful. We wish her and Jim a wonderful and productive retirement.

To those parents and teachers who have volunteered both time and effort, I would like to extend the PTA's most sincere appreciation. We look forward to seeing more parents involved with the PTA in 2008.

primary function is the administration of the school financial operations, which include data processing, invoicing, payroll, payments to creditors and sundry administration and secretarial tasks. We have a staff compliment, including myself, of four.

Janine Clarkson is the Assistant to the Bursar and processes the monthly payroll, performs credit control as well as a raft of other day to day tasks. She is also the Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Christine Laughton is primarily involved with the invoicing and receipting functions, while Anne Boyce is responsible for the payment of creditors. Our office hours during term are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm and 9.00am to 4.00pm during school holidays. We would be happy to assist you or answer any queries.

Peter We/ham Bursar

Peter Blacklaws President of St Margaret's College Parent Teachers Association Incorporated

Business Office I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year as Bursar and member of the business office team. It has been a busy time and I am grateful for the support that I have received, especially from the hardworking and able finance staff. For those who don't know, we occupy the villa at 28 Winchester Street, easily recognisable by the black wrought iron gate and green sign. Our

BUSINESS OFFICE STAFF Christine Laughton, Peter Weltham, Janine Clarkson, Anne Boyce

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d,e,u ll~ pnillntC<9m.mLt'te,rt This year the Development Committee has been a very active one, taking on challenges and working together to see growth of development within St Margaret's. We knew at the beginning of the year we wanted to have a big one, and looking back now, we can most definitely say that this is exactly what we have had.

organising the event was not as simple as we thought it would be, however with the outstanding support from the community, we managed to raise approximately $25 000.

Our school gym was transformed for the night into an elegant venue where many parents and friends enjoyed a nice glass of wine, while bidding for the diverse range of items we had available for auction. These included; a Crusaders training session, travel vouchers, a catered meal, an evening in the Diamond Bar, rounds of golf, holidays and much, much more. All items were hotly contested, providing much entertainment for the many onlookers (including ourselves).

First and foremost (and I'm sure for many, the most important!), was the St Margaret's College Ball. This has been one of the most successful balls in recent years. Upon popular demand, the night saw 200 girls line up to board their flight to destination 'Hollywood'.

The airport theme proved fun and original, with signs and elaborate decorations to direct the passengers. As all ladies and gents departed the venue, they took with them their personalised St Margaret's socks along with many good memories. As a committee, it was great to see our creativity and organisation enjoyed by so many people, so thanks to everyone who helped out to create such an awesome event.

As a group, the lessons we have learnt are invaluable skills, which the committee will hold for many years to come. It is not often that a group of schoolgirls get the opportunities to implement their ideas and watch them grow and develop. The success from this has showed the dedication, commitment and passion the girls have displayed and we thank the Development Committee who have been a wonderful support.

Georgina Borowczyk Head of Development

The ball came and went, and we didn't want to sit back and let the rest of 2007 pass without making one more mark on behalf of Year 13. So we put on our business hats and endeavoured to implement philanthropy and the art of giving within St Margaret's and the wider community. Our aims were to educate the girls as to the importance of giving, and how to reach out to those less fortunate than ourselves.

In term one we had already presented a business plan to Miss Wysocki of our proposed ideas for Philanthropy Week, (held in August) which included the St Margaret's College Philanthropy Auction.

Initially our target of raising $10,000 for the Family Help Trust (a local charity), seemed rather ambitious. Our journey

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We must extend our gratitude to Deborah James the Development Director, who has been our guidance, mentor, teacher, 'solutions finder', and an outstanding support throughout the year. She has taught us the 'art of business' (or something of the sort!) and we cannot thank her enough for this. We have been so lucky to be able to work beside (and even sit in "the" chair of ) someone who is so skilled and professional. Good luck to the Development leaders for 2008 - seriously, anything is possible!

when finished. In addition the cleaning staff did a wonderful job cleaning and setting up our Andover St property when it was converted into the new home of the uniform and sport shops.

In March we farewelled one of our team, Margaret Fraser, a truly dedicated staff member who gave 32 years of loyal service to the College. We wish her well in her retirement.

The cleaning team not only keeps the College and Boarding Houses clean and tidy, but also takes care of the girls washing and drying which can be a huge job! We know our girls appreciate being able to drop their dirty washing off and return after school to find it washed and dried for them.

The cleaning staff are a wonderful team who put 110% into their work. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for the hard work they do behind the scenes to keep the College looking great and running smoothly. All the staff at St Margaret's are incredibly appreciative and supportive of the work we do, which makes it a wonderful environment to work in.

Sharon Harman, Cleaning Supervisor

Georgina Borowczyk

Cleaning Department Hello from the Cleaning Department. It doesn't seem that long ago I was writing for the 2006 magazine. The Cleaning Staff have been very busy this year with the setting up of Cranmer House, which came together and looked superb

CLEANING STAFF

~ Wlm The Catering team leapt into 2007 head first and what an amazing year it has been.

Grounds This year brought lots of challenges for the grounds staff.

The weather permitted Aaron and me to renovate the Winchester Street Boarding House front garden. Most of the cottage style garden has been turned into a larger lawn, making it more useful for our year 7 and 8 girls .. The borders have also been replanted with a variety of rhododendrons and natives. The outdated strip along the northern boundary will be turned into lawn and possibly planted with olive trees, making a much tidier and more formal look. The staff garden continues to flourish with the flowering cherry 'shirotae' looking fabulous, its blossom peaking on the return of pupils and staff on October the 8th. The staff carpark reopened on 8th October and cars are no longer allowed to park outside the administration block. This has much improved the aesthetics of the main entrance to the college and made for a much safer environment for all.

The College's foundation stone has been brought out of storage and will be relocated in the grounds as soon as an appropriate site has been decided. This stone is dated 16th October 1913, and is the original stone from the then new day school which was located in Cranmer Square.

It commerates the opening on a Thursday, at 2.30pm by Bishop Julius The foundation stone is in excellent condition and must be considered as one of the treasures of St Margaret's College. The upcoming Christmas break will provide a time to renovate some of the lawns and also some of the existing gardens, weather permitting.

Ray Derry Groundsman

Maintenance This year we welcomed to our department our new carpenter, Stephen Lavill. Stephen comes to us with many years of experience working in maintenance teams in educational facilities, and in a short time he has become a very valuable member of our team.

Other than catering for our boarders, the cafeteria function catering has increased steadily this year. It is great for our team to be able to supply catering for such a large part of the school.

There will be some changes in our cafeteria in 2008 as we work with all schools in New Zealand and the Ministry of Health to provide food to meet their required new standards.

GROUNDS & MAINTENANCE STAFF It has been another busy year for the Maintenance department. As well as being responsible for the general maintenance of the College and its grounds, we have carried out work on several key projects. Early in the year we undertook a major refurbishment of the Archive room in Molly Mullan block. The transformation of the Andover St property from rental accommodation to the new home for the sports and uniforms shops was our next challenge.

Then, in October, we completed the new staff car park, which was a huge undertaking and a credit to my hardworking team. Other keys jobs included the installation of data projectors throughout the whole of the College and the total revamp of the Year 13 Common Room. Our focus now shifts to the Tonbridge St property. Once the re-levelling has been completed we will begin renovations to convert the cottage into a new home for our Boarding Manager. In addition we are planning an upgrade of our swimming pool area and the painting of our Kilburn Boarding House.

Some of the Catering Team have completed professional development courses this year, to further their skills and knowledge.This included fire safety training, First Aid and Health and Safety training.

Paula Moore Catering Manager

Peter Carroll Property Foreman

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Emilie Simpson (Louise Yeoman), Lucinda Dewhirst (Catherine Robinson), Elise Rutherford (Anne Clifford), Mariah Turnbull (Helen Stringer), Catherine Mallon (Debbie Thomas,) Emma Symon (Jo West), Megan Vincent (Valerie Winter), Phillipa Smith, Suzannah Vink (Jane Meikle), Erin Benyon (Mandy Woods), Annabelle Pierce (Suzanne Stephenson, Daphne Robinson), Virginia Barnett (Rebecca Pears), Joanna Costello (Katherine Page) Danielle Buckley (Elizabeth Watkins, Lois Wisdom), Kristie Benyon (Mandy Woods), Rachel Robilliard (Julie Brown), Bridget Robilliard (Julie Brown), Laura-Beth Feary (DOROTHY DALGETY), Kate Tothill (Rose Chapman, Jimmo McAlpine, Tom Tothill), Isobel Manson (Juliet Ackroyd, Nancy Price}, Charlotte Baddeley (Rewa Steere), Vanessa Ott (Jocelyn Dowland}, Louisa Leathart (Pippa MacKay), Katie Thomas (Bridget Larnder), Nicola Shaw (Marie Morris}, Katie Vilsbaek (Sally Elder, Joan Chapman), Caitlin Craigie (June Pallot) Madeline Baird (Julia MacKenzie), Rebecca Wadworth (Katherine Burgin) Phoebe Morris (Kathleen Hawkins-Kay), Bridget Hazeldine (Roma Northcote), Madeline Morris (Kathleen Hawkins-Kay), Phillipa Dyer (Sally Beaven, Barbara Gadd}, Roslyn Stokes (Erica Jones, JOY WOOLF), Anna Mclachlan (Deborah Chambers, Betty Croft), Sarah Stewart, Emma Dewhirst (Catherine Robinson), Emily Hayman (Frances Walker}, Emilie Batt (Angela Kerr), Emma Fechney (Annabelle Hobbs, Margaret Sladen), Alison Stokes (Erica Jones) Ella Marks (Susan Louisson), Rebecca Ardagh (Julie Muir), Harriet Smith (Karen Davison), Cuillin McKay (Mary Gerrard, Gwylfa Owen), Madeline Ashton-Martyn (Jo Ashton), Juliette Sewell (Robyn Perkins), Hanah Rutherford (Margaret Dickel), Bridget Cowles (Sue Vickery, Jennifer Jones, FREDA COOPER), Alex Archibald (Belinda Fahey), Georgina Wilding (Katie Heyward), Johanna King (Rachel Burt, Eleanor Coe), Alice Wright (Angela Copland), Hannah RetallickBrown (Kathryn Retallick), Charlotte Henley (Jackie Mercer), Olivia Brooks (Priscilla Sparks) Georgia Francis (Mandy Foster), Sophie Bonnington (Mildred Easterbrook), Samantha McKellar (Amanda Haslett, Ann Todd), Kristina Russell (Ngaire Blank), Aiden Verity (Gillian Edwards), Georgina Abbott (Louise Whyte, Ann Plimmer), Paris Frost (Shelley Pannell), Claudia Leathart (Pippa MacKay), Rachel Gardner (Jennifer Bird), Amelia Dalman (Sarah Hannah), Maddie Hayman (Frances Walker), Sarah Feary (DOROTHY DALGETY), Lavinia Shanks (Dinah Anderson) Phoebe McGowan(Jocelyn Dowland}, Charlotte Wigley (Kathryn Hunt), Hannah Kyle (Penny Ferguson, Jane Penny), Helen Vincent (Valerie Winter), Margot Gibson (Sue Williams), Charlotte Gardner (Jennifer Bird), Vanessa Shanks (Dinah Anderson), Amanda Ott, Maria van Kuijk (Juliet Sanders), Julia Bullen (Tonia Spang, Anna Luisetti}, Lucy Peebles (Kathryn Hunt, Barbara Todd), Kate ldiens (Susan Mohammed), Kate Johnstone (Di Carson) Ellie Hegarty (Priscilla Winder), Rebecca Manning (Juliet Utley), Amelia Aitken (Penny Harris), Anna Marshall (Diana de Lambert), Pippa Thomas (Bridget Larnder), Hailey Williams (Clare Wagner, Margaret Jarman), Emily Diack (Wendy Morris, Kathleen Hawkins), Anna Bremner (Carol Franklin), Jayne Stewart (Sandra Stewart), Clara Wells (Karen Chandler), Stephanie Henderson (Rebecca Moreton-Smith), Rosie Studholme (Jan Suckling), Bridget Rutherford (Margaret Dickel)

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both after short illnesses, Elspeth (Jimmo) Tothill on 29 June 2007 and Rosemary Binnie on 13 July 2007 The first function of a new President is to take part in the Founders Day / Candle Lighting Service in Christ Church Cathedral. This is a wonderfully traditional, nostalgic and beautiful service, which has changed little since my days as a pupil but which reinforces the values which St Margaret's College was founded upon and which are the corner stones and building blocks of the school today. This is followed by the wonderful Year 13 Leavers' Ball which the Old Girls host to welcome the leavers to the Old Girls' Association. It was held on Friday 8th December 2006, in the Christchurch Convention Centre. An annual event, it is an eagerly anticipated and wonderful, formal family occasion and a special end for the girls as they complete their schooling at St Margaret's College. The commencement of 2007 saw us setting in motion our plans for the year ahead, with the first major task to be finalizing the printing and distribution of our annual publication - The Evergreen. This was mailed in early May to all members of the Association and was full of news and information of Old Girls, here and abroad. It outlines the Old Girl's events for the coming year and helps to keep the Association alive as it keeps us up to date with each other.

Back Row Third Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Beryl Viser, Elizabeth Davie, Glen Joyce, Enid Roysmith Bernadetta Rowntree, Elizabeth Macfarlane, Pam Watson, Judy Walker, Jeanette Cree, Heather Dougall Jenny Gardiner, Jan Robilliard, Joan Ballantyne, Valerie Feast, Jacqueline La Roche Nedra Myers, Margaret Boleyn, Gabrielle Moor, Marie Ashby, Gay Barlass, Betty Morrow Ursula Richards

I commenced my two years as President of the Old Girls' Association on 29 October 2006 and what a busy and interesting year it has been.

The Association continues to grow and develop and this year, in particular, it has been a comfort to be part of such a caring and supportive wider school community. We were able to offer our when the school community suffered the tragic loss of Hannah Rossiter and later in the year we were supported when two of our past presidents passed away unexpectedly,

In February we have two Tennis tournaments. The Janet Starry, is held with St Margaret's College, Rangi Ruru, Christ's College and St Andrew's College Old Girls and Old Boys. This is held at Elmwood Tennis Club followed by a barbeque supper and presentation - SMCOG won in 2007. Unfortunately, in 2007 the Noeline Mcllroy Bowls Tournament, which is held on the same evening, was unable to be played, however, we are hopeful that it will occur in 2008. The Betty Thomas Tennis Tournament is a more relaxed occasion when the top eight of the present pupils play an Old Girls Team and this is followed by a light supper in the staffroom and presentation of a trophy. The Old Girls have not fared well over the past few years but we are ever hopeful of redeeming ourselves, soon!!! Our annual Cranmer Square's luncheon was well attended and much enjoyed by 132 attendees, all of whom attended SMC when the school was in Cranmer Square. We were treated to a most enlightening address from Miss Wysocki about her 44 years in Education. This event was closely followed by the bridge luncheon, also well attended by both SMC and Rangi Ruru Old Girls.

Our annual golf tournament with RROGA is always well supported and a highly successful event. It was played at Waitikiri Golf Club on a glorious late March day with much competitive spirit from all the Old Girls attending, including some from St Hilda's and Craighead as well.

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On Sunday 14 October, for the second year, we supported the Family Help Trust in their fund raising, when they held their heART Auction in the school gymnasium. This event was well patronised and a large amount of money was raised for a well deserving charity.

Over the duration of the last weekend in October, 26 - 28, we had our Annual Reunion Weekend gatherings, when the year groups of 20,30,40,50,60 &70 years on from 3 rd Form Yr 9 gathered in the school, from all over New Zealand and many from overseas. The weekend commenced on the Friday evening, with drinks in the school gym for all Old Girls and at this occasion Miss Plummer and the Jazz Ensemble provided our excellent, early evening musical entertainment. Morning teas, school tours and photographs took up Saturday morning and the groups were then left to their own devices for the rest of the day. The "Hospitality" girls' services, manners and charming demeanors where much appreciated. The weekend finished with our Old Girl's Chapel service where we remembered all those who have died, particularly in the previous year. The cabinet for the memorial books, kindly donated by Suzanne and Ian Bell of Bell, Lamb and Trotter, was dedicated. Chapel was followed by morning tea in the "Dining Hall" and our AGM. The more functions that we are able to have to bring Old Girls back into the College, the better and all these occasions are having a positive effect on the profile of the s~hool, as w~II as our Association, within the school community. The tennis in particular is encouraging many of our younger Old Girls back and we, of course, continue to be keen to support the school wherever possible. As you see, we do not "let the grass grow under our feet" - nor do the Branches, with successful gatherings being held in Marlborough and Sydney during this year. I move into year two of my Presidency with exciting times ahead, changes to adjust to and plans to develop and bring to fruition - another challenging and exciting year ahead.

Rebecca Barnett President SMCOGA

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Sacristan Report

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This year has flown by bringing with it a number of delights.

This year's Lent appeal went to help CanT~e_n.T~is foundation was created so that no young person living with cancer in New Zealand should ever feel alone and with the money raised by the girls and staff in their tutor groups, hopefully these teenagers can enjoy life to the full. As the website says "CanTeen's foundation was built upon the fundamental belief that young people - through meeting, talking and sharing their experiences - would be better able to cope with the uncertainties of living with cancer". It is always lovely to see the initiative taken to raise funds in fun and profitable ways- thank you also to all the parents who, no doubt, help a great deal in raising this money also!

Mark Inglis delivered an inspiring speech on his trip up Mt Everest and his quest to raise money for those who are deprived of limbs in Nepal. This year we have also been privileged to raise money for Mark's Sherpa's daughter, Ang Chutin. This will continue, with all collection money in terms 2 and 3 going towards her education. This joint adventure with Mark and Anne promises to be a rewarding experience as we see Ang Chutin grow and learn, giving all the St Margaret's community a unique connection with Nepal.

to gather becomes so vital in our hectic world.

This year saw the introduction of projectors in the chapel, which have helped immensely in the organization of the chapel services. Thank you to the girls who are instrumental in operating these and the continued dedication of Peg Riley and Miles Kau Kau. A big part of each service is student participation and having girls of every age group reading prayers an~ p~ss~ges, lighting candles, operating sound, and simply Joining, In. by coming. Thank you to each and every one of you for being there'.

Hannah Reta/lick-Brown Head Sacristan

Student led services were a goal this year and were achieved fantastically with a variety of different sermons presented in each girl's unique style. Coming from members in the school community, these messages of choice, hope, and acceptance had a strong impact, as personal messages often do.

During a very trying time in the middle of the year surrounding the death of a bright and bubbly student, the chapel became a light in the darkness. There was a unity created through this tragedy as we all gathered together to mourn and celebrate Hannah Rossiter as the amazing girl she was.

Even those who did not know her well, were connected through the communal gathering at the chapel. It is _inth~se times the importance of having a faith and a chapel in which

SACRISTANS Back Row: Absent:

Julianne Shields, Hannah Retallick-Brown, Alexandra Bond Rev Peg Riley, Willow Dyer, Alice Williams, Rose Balderston

C<9rrunLllie, 1te,p<91Lfi, Middle School Committee 2007 has been another fantastic fun filled year for the Middle School. We started the year getting to know the year nine girls through a peer support programme where every student was introduced to their senior school buddy. The day was filled with character building activities and concluded with an extremely noisy, but exciting afternoon of ten-pin bowling.

PRIMARY SCHOOL COMMITTEE(tromlefttoright) Back Row: Phillipa Dyer, Danielle Bowden, Katie Thomas, Harriet Harper Front Row: Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Marcy Banbury, Sophie Davies, Hannah Rutherford, Catherine Snowden

MIDDLE SCHOOL COMMITTEE(tromlefttoright) Back Row: Melanie Green, Lucy Garvin, Julia Currie, Nicola Shaw Caryn Yap Front Row: Rachel Gardner, Caitlin Habgood, Jessica Reihana Kimberley Smith, Melissa Wong, Sighle lllston

Also this year we have organised weekly events for the year seven and eight girls. Ice cream day was a huge success with girls outrageously decorating their sundaes with a variety of toppings. Games such as soccer and dodgeball bought out the girls more competitive side while the academic quiz gave rise to their inner nerd. In term three the girls participated in an awesome art activity. This would have to be a highlight, with each class painting part of a mural of Mickey Mouse, which combined to produce a work for the senior art auction. The introduction of the year nine leaders has allowed us to gain a better perspective of the things they like and want, for example a movie night with the Christ College boys! The work they do in the Middle School is a great introduction to the many leadership opportunities available at St. Margaret's.

We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all the girls in the Middle School with their individual quirks and talents. We would like to say a big thank you to Ms White, the Head of the Middle School, and Mrs Strang, the Middle School Dean, as well as all the class teachers. We have really appreciated your support and the way you kept us involved.

Our luck and best wishes go to 2008's Head and

Deputy. This has been a fantastic role and we hope you enjoy working with the year seven to nine girls as much as we have.

Kimberley Smith and Jess Reihana Head and Deputy Head of the Middle School

Community Committee 2007 has proved a very rewarding year in developments in the community, with a number of new ideas and new approaches to existing annual activities.

We kick started the year with an enthusiastic committee, dedicated to challenging existing ideas and helping improve the school environment. We wished to address the issue of body image within the school and undertook a survey of around 100 girls from years nine to thirteen on their perspective towards "What is Beauty?". Instead of preaching we asked people to question their values on what makes someone beautiful and ponder the changing 'perfect' image. After all, Marilyn Monroe was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and she was a size 16! This was followed up with a chapel service, which saw the interior decorated with photos of simple but beautiful things such as a flower or, the unconventional image of beauty, a spider's web.

As a committee we wanted to address certain issues in chapel so we also looked into the idea of forgivenessnot just forgiving others but also forgiving yourself, and the importance of helping others. The latter idea fitted into the theme of "Smiley Face Counseling" which was introduced in term three of this year from the vision of Sammy Robinson and myself and, with fantastic support of Deb, the school counselor, and

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C<9tnmL'ttee, Jte.pen:tA Charlotte from Youth Line. The Smiley face counselors are a trained bunch of students committed to helping girls of any year who are in trouble, want to talk, or need direction in any area of life. All girls have to do is spot the smiley face badge on the blazer and ask to chat. I sincerely hope this new innovation of peer counseling will continue to grow in future years.

Thanks to the wonderful leadership of Aimee Borlase, this year's SADD (Students Against Driving Drunk) week took a new direction. We wished to focus on 'What To Do', not 'Not What To Do' in regards to drink driving. Posters for safe party tips, contracts to prevent drunk driving, and a mocktail competition were organized in an effort to spread a positive light on how to keep safe when drinking or when choosing to get into the car with a drunk driver, because it comes down to the fact that we all do have a choice.

International Club 2007 The highlights of International Club this year have been three special outings, as well as our annual International Week near the end of term 2.

Our first outing, on Saturday 3 March, was an opportunity to celebrate the 16th birthday of Rina Takahashi, our Japanese exchange student, as well as experience the thrills and spills of ice skating. We travelled in school vans to the skating rink, where we had lots of fun on the ice, and then to Ms. Archer's house nearby for cake, candles, singing and, of course, plenty of photos.

At the end of term 1 our club leaders, Michelle Tan

and Sylvia Park, with other senior students, organised a very successful combined outing with international students from our brother school, Christ's College. We met up at Laser Strike in the late afternoon and while the young ones threw themselves into the game, Ms Archer and Miss Chambers enjoyed a quiet coffee at a nearby cafe.

Afterwards we shared a delicious meal at a Japanese restaurant before the seniors went off for a few games of pool, while the juniors were escorted safely back to the boarding house.

The focus in term 2 was planning and preparing for International Week in week 8. This was launched

A new idea of paper recycling was introduced under the enthusiastic vision of Elizabeth Guthrey. I am happy to say that there are paper-recycling trays in the entire Science and Technology block and in the Jean Crasher Wing- next year under the new Community Committee this will hopefully spread to other areas of the school.

It has been a great year and a big thank you must be mentioned to the committee and staff for everything that has been achieved!

Hannah Reta/lick-Brown Head of Community

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COMMUNITY COMMITTEE(tromlefttoright)

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (from left to right)

Back Row: Aimee Borlase, Rebecca Gates, Alana Bowden, Toyah Hicks, Samantha Robinson Front Row: Freya Morrison, Alice Cohen, Hannah Retallick-Brown, Ming On-Sri, Elizabeth Guthrey

Back Row: Alice Cohen, Anna Mclachlan, Annabelle Pierce, Rebecca Mehrtens, Samantha Robinson Front Row: Amelia Aitken, Katie Thomas, Georgina Borowczyk, Isabelle Manson, Samantha Bagrie

C,(9,nm,l,tte,e, 1Le,p<91t~ with an international assembly on Tuesday morning followed by the boarders' international dinner that evening. Every girl, and the staff as well, dressed up in an international costume of some description, while the cafe staff provided a selection of tasty food from countries around the world. On Wednesday we ran our senior quiz and on Thursday an international chapel service, plus the junior quiz.

On Friday, as usual, we finished our week with an international concert during lunchtime. Special thanks go to Rina Soetanto for her help in organising and running the quizzes, as well as the many other girls, and also some staff members, who contributed in various ways to another interesting, colourful and fun International Week at St. Margaret's.

The highlight of term 3 was a day trip to Akaroa organised by Miss Chris Chambers, our Dean of International Students. On a beautiful sunny Saturday in early August, Miss Chambers, along with ESOL teachers Debbie McGrath and Mary Dollin, took 14 girls on the picturesque drive across Banks Peninsula to enjoy lunch on the seafront before boarding the launch to travel to the head of the harbour and view the dolphins. This was a uniquely Kiwi experience for the girls involved and one they will treasure in their memories of New Zealand.

As several of this year's Year 13 girls are International Baccalaureate students who commence study leave early, we needed to have our farewell party for them soon after returning to school in term 4.

We thanked them for their contribution during 2007 and sent them off with fortune chocolates and all our

best wishes for the future. Now we look forward to hearing of their successes beyond St. Margaret's, as we welcome new girls and plan new adventures in 2008.

Anne Archer T.I.C. International Club

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Panita Tangthanasup Caryn Yap, Katrina Wang, Sophie Dowson, Salinee Sae-Lim, Melissa Wong Ms D McGrath, Ms H Kobayashi, Siriluck Second Row: Dejthamrong, Muan On-Sri, Amy Lee, Rina Soetanto Sarah Mokrusch, Rina Takahashi, Miss C Chambers Ms A Archer Front Row: Seong-Ha Joo, Thitikarn Tangthanasup, Sirapat Tarab, Michelle Tan, Mariko Harada, Ming On-Sri, Cindy Yang

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Boarding Committee 2007 has been both a very rewarding and exciting year in the boarding houses, and I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the kitchen staff who seem to come up with new and exciting meals weekly.

We kick started the year with a BBQ for all Year 13 boarders with Miss Wysocki and Jim. This signified the start of an unknowingly brief year for the Year 13 girls. With new boarders coming into the houses as nervous Year 9,s, we used a buddy system to help them settle into a new environment and adapt to their home away from home.

At the end of term two the boarding houses had an exciting road trip to Hanmer Springs for the day.

The Year 13 girls also enjoyed an exciting Valentines breakfast with Christ's College boarders, where the food was superb and the decorations done by the boarders council were amazing and added to the atmosphere of this social event.

Year 11 participated in cooking with College throughout the second and third term. This enabled girls to develop new friendships in a laid back environment, and gain a few cooking skills along the way. I must admit, however the cooking skills were definitely very limited! Now we have to extend thanks to Mrs Morrow (Director of Boarding) who made this event possible by giving up her time to supervise some of the cooking, along with the 7th formers who also came down and helped with this event.

We have also brought back birthday tables this year.

This is where all those who have had a birthday within

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a certain timeframe, sit at the same table and receive 'special treatment' as they get a few birthday goodies.

This is a time for us as a boarding community to acknowledge those who have had a birthday.

a highlight for many of the boarders. This year was no exception as I was astounded at the effort girls put into their costumes.

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International dinner along with theme dinners is also

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Virginia Mason, Ngaio Hughey-Cockerell, Bridget Robilliard, Emma Costello, Jessica Horne, Clare Ryan, Bonnie Murray, Charlotte Timperley, Josie Copland, Charlotte Evans, Stephanie Harkers, Martina Maxwell, Suzanne Zeestraten, Emilie Noire, Gwendolen Jackson, Georgina Shillito, Madeline Morris, Joesphine Maher, Phoebe Morris, Sophie Fraser, Ruth Winstanley, Dayle Gibson, Emily Farquhar, Francesca Henry, Elise Rutherford Philippa Smith, Rosa Thomas, Rachel Best, Allison Stokes, Amy Gardiner, Lydia Thomson, Lauren Thomas, Philippa Benton, Johanna King, Amy Stockley-Smith, Rozlyn Smith, Sarah Timperley, Amy Duckworth, Emily Murray, Sara Satterthwaite, Zoe McCoy, Elora Kay, Tylah Fitzgerald, Gemma Hogg, Phillipa Dyer, Toyah Hicks, Jemma Opie, Emma Booth, Natasha Frost Jessica Loe

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Annabel Fraser, Emma Gardiner, Marie Macfarlane, Fiona Winskill, Belinda Ferguson, Alice Wright, Rina Soetanto, Katrina Wang, Kwan Sae-Lim, Emma Fechney, Rebecca Wadworth, Panita Tangthanasup, Zoe Higgins, Sophie Blair, Bridget Hazledine, Harriet Harper, Philippa Goslin, Rachel Robilliard, Sarah Vickers, Henrietta Hazlett, Joanna Costello Amuri Hughey-Cockerell, Lucy Porteous, Sarah Bush, Mariko Harada, Megan Aitchison, Charlotte Jackson, Hannah Checkley, Bridget Rutherford, Olivia Jarvis, Monica Buhler, Olivia Checkley, Danielle Buckley, Rachel Gill, Georgina Wilding, Emily Hayman, Emma Dewhirst, Anna Mclachlan, Courtney Paterson, Hannah Bradley, Katie Vickers Samantha Williams, Lucinda Dewhirst, Helen Abbey, Pippa Atkinson, Kate Feary, So-jin Lee, Sirapat Tarab, Siriluck Dejthamrong, Siramol On-Sri, Jane Pankhurst, Anna Redmond, Penny Costello, Alice

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Technology Education 2007 For the past three years, the Technology Department has been part of the Beacon Practice Technology Project. Beacon Practice is a major project within the GIF Technology Education Initiative, part of the Government's Growth and Innovation Framework (GIF) strategy that aims to deliver long-term sustainable growth to improve the living standards of New Zealanders. Over the years we have been working with Cliff Harwood, a facilitator and mentor, to produce case studies that are now on the techlink. org.nz website. The aim of the case studies is to inform schools around NZ about effective technology teaching. The case studies cover peer teaching, team teaching and the Technology Market Day that the Primary school held to raise money for World Vision.

There are further case studies being written and these will appear on the website soon.

The initial focus in 2005 was to develop a strategic plan for Technology Education from Years 7 to 13.

The initiative was soon widened to include Years 1 to 6, with the aim of developing a seamless Technology Education programme from Years 1 to 13. A school-wide strategic plan for Technology Education has now been developed. Several key pieces of information have influenced the strategic plan development: the school's vision, the curriculum statement, key competencies, Habits of Minds and senior qualifications (NCEA and International Baccalaureate).

Beacon Practice is proving to be an excellent model for reflective professional development of staff within a department, so much so that it is now being trialed by the Physical Education Department in the school.

The enthusiasm of the Technology staff involved has been tremendous and the project was celebrated at a special assembly where the staff received certificates for taking part in the project. Over the years many students have also been involved, either as part of Technology research or by being interviewed for the case studies.

BEACON PRACTICE TECHNOLOGY STAFF (from left to right} Back Row : Jo Clarke, Trudy Keys, Nicky Dunlop, Deborah Lean Front Row : Terry Wood, Claire Wood, Brian Woods

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2007 has been a wonderful year of great learning and exciting experiences in the primary school. Throughout the year the girls have applied their Habits of Mind to get the most out of learning opportunities.

Remaining focused and sticking to the task was a challenge when the heavens opened and the rain poured down at the start of our Primary School Cross Country. Persistence was seen in bucket-loads that day as the girls braved the elements and gave of their best.

The Year Four girls took great care, listened and thought before sewing the seams on their placemats. By managing their impulsivity they created attractive and well constructed placemats.

These have had lots of use at class parties throughout the year.

Getting to be the big girls is a rare experience for our Year Ones. They loved the day that the preschool children from Mt Pleasant visited.

Each girl had a special buddy who was treated with great kindness and understanding. We were so impressed by how well the Year One girls listened with empathy and understanding that morning.

- A science and technology study on the conduction of heat and how heat can change objects had an exciting conclusion in Year Four. The girls needed to think flexibly as they designed popcorn containers for their

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Year Six friends who joined them for an end of term movie afternoon.

Year Two and Three won't let a day go by without their Morningside. Striving for accuracy with basic maths facts has never been so much fun. The girls thrive on the challenge and have made wonderful progress.

Energy, creativity and teamwork thrived during the Primary Aeroboquest. The success of this event was a credit to Kimberley Wood, Head of Culture. By thinking and communicating with clarity and precision Kimberley ensured the competitors were well prepared.

We were treated to some great aerobic routines.

'Specifications, modifications ... yes we remember, we learnt about those last year.

Now how will we use what we learnt when designing and making wrapping paper to help us design and make a toy for a pet?'

Year Two and Three applied their past knowledge to great effect when they created mock ups of scratching posts for cats this year.

A fantastic research project starts with fantastic fat questions. When completing their ANZAC Day multimedia presentation Year Six discovered that questioning and posing problems was a vital step to success.

Enthusiasm for learning is never in short supply in the primary school. Our girls' minds are always open to continuous learning. They learn in so many ways.

Here the Medbury boys are teaching our girls a new folk dance.

Understanding how our cultural experiences impact on who we are 0 and what we do was an interesting study for Year Four. By thinking about their thinking the girls were able to share with their peers what makes ·•llll.!i_u._,,.1mclE them unique and special.

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Seeing our top hockey players compete in their national competition, the Federation Cup, was inspiring and exciting for our young hockey players. They responded with wonderment and awe and took the passion back to apply in their own game.

The Year Five and Six camp to Living Springs provided many opportunities to take responsible risks. Having faith in your team and courage in your own abilities enabled the girls to scale heights, squeeze through tight holes, balance precariously on small objects and feel that warm glow of accomplishment.

h.o.,bt~<9~ mLrui Our dress up days have provided lots of opportunity to find humour. The girls have approached these days with enthusiasm. From being an animal to having wacky hair to becoming a favourite book character, fun and laughter have been abundant.

Looking at an old favourite in a new way, the Year Five girls created their own 'Mr' and 'Miss' books. Creating, imagining and innovating led to publications that the junior authors took great pride in.

Opportunities for working -- with others are a regular occurrence in our primary classrooms.

A new challenge for the Year Five girls was working closely with someone they had just met to produce a combined art work. By thinking interdependently the students from St Margaret's and Medbury produced impressive collages on the topic of 'school'.

By using the senses of touch, smell and sight the Year Five girls gathered lots of information to help them with identification challenges at the Travis Wetland. Using all senses to gather data is a useful habit to apply in science studies.

The relationship between the older girls and the younger girls at St Margaret's is a very special feature of our school.

The primary girls (little girls) love working with the senior girls (big girls). Both parties gain so much from this relationship.

In 2007 we have done lots with the big girls ...

Our primary triathlon simply could not have taken place without the support of up to 30 senior girls from the . Primary Committee and Sports Council. They made ' sure warm clothing was waiting at the end of the 1 course, showed us which way to go, cheered us on with great enthusiasm, took awesome photos that we used in class work, helped if the chain came off our bikes and presented us with our medals and certificates.

Buddy swimming in term one saw our Year One to Five girls working in small groups with Year 12 Swimsafe tutors.

Positive relationships developed, confidence levels grew, new skills were learnt and lots of progress was made.

The Primary Committee girls help us out in so many ways throughout the year.

On Animal Dress-up Day they donned their animal costumes and organized lunchtime craft activities for the girls.

The Year 12 Lifeskills girls organized a number of fun activities for the primary girls in order to raise money for Women's Refuge. Early in term two the girls enjoyed a very well organized Teddy Bears picnic in the gym. There were lots of yummy treats

to eat, fun games and a room full of furry friends to enjoy it all with.

The big girls are very involved in primary school sport, coaching netball and hockey teams.

Coaching at weekly practices and from the sideline at the games, as well as refereeing - this is a big commitment from the senior girls and one which the primary girls and staff greatly appreciate.

Through this weekly association the little girls form solid friendships with their big girl coaches and love being able to call out a friendly hello as they see them around the school.

We had so much fun at our 'bring a friend' disco in September. The big girls .; decorated the gym with fairy lights, arranged some hip music, fun activities and yummy prizes. We all had a great time dancing the night away together.

Mega Day was organized by our Year 6 student council with the help of the big girls. Our 'Band in a Bag' competition was judged by the Arts Council Girls. They gave us some very specific feedback and loved all of our routines. The Primary Committee girls helped with the sausage sizzle and jelly cups at lunchtime. After lunch the Sport Council girls ran the tabloid activities. We had an awesome day. A big thanks to the Year Six primary council and all of the big girls who helped to make it happen.

A huge thanks to all of the big girls who have worked with the little girls in 2007. You are wonderful role models, know just what we like and help to make our Primary school the special place that it is.

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Kapa Haka Excitement, enthusiasm and energy is what the Year Four - Six girls displayed during their first Kapa Haka session in term 1. The knowledge that they would perform in the town hall as part of the 2007 Cultural

Festival kept this energy alive right , up until the last note was sung. The girls have shown dedication and commitment to learning waiataringa ringa (action songs) and have moved me and others on numerous occasions with their inspirational performances. There is need for growth in Kapa Haka at St Margaret's and I know that 2008 will mean continued commitment to this wonderful art form. The girls got a great deal out of their performance in the town hall and also enjoyed watching other schools present their Kapa Haka groups. Kapa Haka is all about fun, enjoyment and being part of a wonderful performing group. Year 4 - 6 should feel very proud of their role in Kapa Haka this year. Kia Kaha Tamariki!

Instrumental Music What a superb year this has been for Primary Music.

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Girls in Year Six have had the opportunity to learn the trumpet. This has been a huge success. The following

four girls - Aida, Rachel, Kimberley and Shannon all now have regular weekly lessons and play in a trumpet quartet. This will lead to them performing with the Jazz Band at some stage in the next year or so. They are already working towards grade 3/4 and could audition for the Christchurch Primary Schools Concert Band which performs in the Annual Primary Schools Music Festival each year.

The recorder groups in Years, Four and Five have worked really hard and are becoming quite accomplished. Certainly some of the girls are ready to learn other instruments now such as flute or clarinet.

They have performed in various musical events throughout the year and have gained in confidence and musicianship as a result.

Tangaroa's Gift Tangaroa's Gift, the Year 1- 6 musical written by Mr Michael Sharp with original composition and arrangements by Miss Anne-Marie Plummer, is based on the book of the same name and tells the story of Paua's pursuit for inner beauty. Observed by an eager class of pupils and their eccentric

teacher, Mrs Gorgeous, Paua is struggling with her plight of being ugly. Faced with daily ridicule from a taunting snapper, sly stingray, slippery sea weed and spikey kina, Paua needs help.

Tangaroa, the Sea God has plans for Paua, but requires Paua to do some soul searching for herself. She must go and find the Wise Old Wheki, an octopus with the answers she needs. Through tropical waters filled with self-indulgent surfers and shark infested waters, Paua travels on the backs of eels and is eventually delivered to the Wise Old Wheki. In spite of what the Wise Old Wheki has inspired in Paua, she still requires the help of Tangaroa, who fashions for her a shell of the deepest blues and greens and a blush of pink from the dawn.

Paua eventually, after continual ridicule from the other sea creatures, has developed a hard shell exterior but has realized that beauty is reflected on the inside rather than on the outside. With the strength that comes from self-discovery and the help from Tangaroa, Paua is, and feels, beautiful.

With a talented cast of starfish, seahorses, tropical fish, eels and other sea life, Tangaroa's Gift was a spell binding production that kept the audience enthralled.

Huge support was given by parents and staff to bring this creation to life. This will be a show that the children will remember for many years to come.

Horse Riding I went to horse riding. I went on a pony. His name is Crown. He is the best boy I have ever met. Crown was a white pony. When I kicked his leg he went fast and it was a bumpy ride. It was fun, fun, fun.

Samara Ajjam Year 1

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Triathlon Stepping on a slippery floor I then enter the pool.

Excitement floating around my body. SPLASH I jumped racing towards the wall. Cold water streaming past my body. I was nearly there .... and JUMP out I went as fast as the wind, running out of the pool.

The sweet smell of flowers floating by my side, "you can do it" I encouraged myself. Jumping onto my

bike WHIZZ I went looking at all the noisy parents.

I felt very exhausted and I felt boiling hot, the sweat running down my cheeks. Touching the boiling hot bike, feeling strong. Off my bike and RUN!!! My legs are the most tired but not giving up, the sun streaming onto me. Hearing the crowd made me feel happy. The sound of the excited crowd reminded me of a heard of elephants. Running like the wind, heart beating fast. Believing in myself. Feeling encouraged, "GO YOU CAN DO IT!" I heard the parents shouting to their children. I could see the finish line, aiming, for the target. My legs as tired as ever. Then, yay I passed.

I was really proud, I could not stop smiling, oh the joy running through my body. Drinking Just Juice and eating chocolate YUM! That was my stupendous first triathlon.

ArynAzlan Year4

The Willow, the stream and the seed.

The willow in a little forest with great sunken roots and delicate leaves was, is and will stand by the gentle stream hunching over it protectively.

In spring it would blossom and stand out between the apple blossom and bluebells and daffodils.

In autumn, still standing small, would let the delicate leaves drop into the clean pool below.

In the winter the tips of the willow would be stuck in the thin layer of ice and in summer it would enjoy the glorious heat.

Yes the willow had been there a great deal.

Lizzie, a young girl at school, loved to visit this tree.

A great lot of memories and stories he would tell Lizzie ....

Of the foolish preachers son who swung on the vines.

Little pretty Penny, she dropped her doll in the stream.

Lizzie's father was a builder/architect and didn't seem to like the tree one bit. He said it was in a prime building area.

In fact he must have utterly loathed the tree because he said that on Tuesday it would be cut down.

Lizzie rushed down to willow and told him the news.

The tree merely whispered, alas maybe I shall feel no pain.

That Tuesday Lizzie hugged the tree and cried. Her father came and with a click the electric chain saw was on fire. Minutes later with another click the chain saw stopped.

During spring Lizzie came with a small seed. Her father decided that the stream was in the way and there was no way of getting rid of that. So Lizzie bent down and patted it in the soil.

To grow through many seasons, to be one day as tall as the willow once was. Because even a great willow needed to have started out as a seed.

Kate Chapman Year Five

The Accidental Medallion I hurry through the dense fog in the forest, breathless and scared. The trees and bushes flash past in a misty whirl. I need to stop and catch my breath so I halt by a large oak in a hazy clearing. I stare at the ground and wonder how much distance I've crossed in my

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ruotLve, wJu,'f:uua haste to escape. I open my sweaty palm that had been clenched tightly for the last hour. I stare down at the captivating gold coin with the twisting patterns on the smooth, shiny surface. I had found it on the way to the old shack, my number one hideout. It was lying on the gravelly path leading up to the grandest mansion in the town. You can't really call that stealing, can you? Anyway, I run for my life. I hear a stream in the distance, so I decide to follow the sound. I have nothing to lose. The stream has little blue and white fish in it, so I sit and watch them for a while. Again I stare down at the golden medallion in my hand. With light dancing on its face, it seems to be laughing at me, at all I've been through. At that thought I feel angry, so angry and scared that I jump up and run some more, despite my aching chest and legs. I leap over fallen logs and branches but when I try to vault a broken fence, my toe catches on a sharp plank and I tumble down into a thorn bush. Pain surges through my leg as I try to stand, and I collapse back to the ground. I tear a strip off my grey shirt and tie it round my ankle. I crawl to a tree and use that to help me up.

My hands grab at the branches and I pull myself up to a deep hollow in the tree. I suddenly realize that my hands are empty. Where has the coin gone? Oh well, I suppose it dropped when I fell and is now lost. Well it's no big loss to me. From out between the leaves I can see lights coming from windows! It's my village, and it's not far! I can easily crawl there in 5 minutes! I start on my way. It seemed to take 2 minutes because of my excitement. I lean on a billboard and stare at it.

My mouth drops straight open. Lost: Gold Medallion Please Return to: 58 Cambridge Ave. Reward: $5,000.

Lauren Duke Year6

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Primary Council 2007

by Rosie Balderston

What an awesome student council we have had in 2007! Alex, Kimberley, Phoebe, Philippa and Rachel have never been short of great ideas. Lots of events have been planned and implemented with enthusiasm and efficiency. Our Primary Council has brought our Primary School together on numerous occasions to develop skills, care for our environment, share talents, show appreciation, and most importantly to have lots of fun with each other. A few of the highlights have included ...

I trace lines over youyour face, your arms, your legs. the strokes are fine pencil, sharpened, the eraser is chewed from the end they are my own longitude and latitude references to find your heart according to these measurements it is roughly one hundred and twenty degrees east.

Line up the crosshairs, lift the anchor I will guide my ship from the coastline (not even the tide could change my course) navigate me safely into your arms, I will head for you on the horizon.

Rosie is the WINNER of the Junior Poetry section of the Peter Smart Writing Competition for 2007. Her collection of poems entitled Cartography impressed the judges. She writes with confidence and originality using an extended metaphor to explore a journey of love and discovery. Her poems provide challenges to the reader and have an intriguing, surreal element to them.

The first project for our council was thinking of a way to celebrate the arrival of Mr Sharp's baby daughter, Coco.

We had lots of fun selecting gifts that represented our council; something sporty, something artsy, something environmental, something about community spirit and something fun and girly. Coco was thrilled with her gifts!

This year the Community Student Council has been great. In the first term we raised money for the R.S.P.C.A and Barbara came and spoke to us about her job. She thought our animal costumes were great.

In term two we had a wacky hair day raising money for Child Cancer. I must say we have some hairdressers amongst our group. Finally in term three it was Mega

pJtlmo.Jti C<9UJtCu?Day where each House battled out the challenges laid down. The winning House decided to give the money to Cholmondeley Children's Home. This was followed by a gastronomic extravaganza of sausages and desserts.

This year has been great!! We have thoroughly enjoyed our time on the Primary Council and Miss Dunlop was a huge inspiration to us all.

Philippa Cross (Head of Community)

a fundraiser for Ronald MacDonald House. We raised $184. Thanks to everyone who contributed. It was great to see lots of teamwork, enthusiasm and effort.

Well done.

Kimberley Wood (Head of Culture)

This year in sport we had mini-coaching groups for a variety of sports. These ~~-....----took place in term two for Year One - Three girls during lunchtimes. We also got a whole new sports shed situated directly across from the cloakroom.

I hope that next year will be as successful as this year.

Phoebe Steele (Head of Sport)

In the environment section we have done heaps of things like finish the butterfly mosaics.

This picture is of the c environment competition from Mega Day where we collected 900 bits of rubbish from around the school. We have just put in some paving stones for the garden that Year 6 made. We had a recycling competition to learn more about recycling and what you can do to help the environment. We have also have been recycling paper every week for the last 2 years.

Rachel Miller (Head of Environment)

A couple of weeks into Jump Jam, an exercise programme for children, everyone was getting really good so I thought about an aerobic exercise competition to keep everybody fit. The Aeroboquest was a perfect activity for fitness. A big thanks to the big girls and the teachers for judging, we couldn't have done it without you. The cool costumes made a big spark along with music from frogs to jazz. The parents' support was great, thank you. The Aeroboquest was

In the last week of term 3 we organized our Primary Mega Day. On thi~ day we had heaps of competitions to do working in our House groups. For the environment competition we had to go around the school and pick up rubbish with our Houses. 'Band in a Bag' was the cultural competition where each House was given a song and they had to learn the song, design and a make costume for the performers to wear, create a colourful banner and perform their song. In the last

competition we had to do some House sport skills, for example shooting hoops, dribbling balls, throwing frogs and kicking soccer balls into goals. At lunchtime we had a sausage sizzle and yummy desserts. We raised $320 which Kowhai girls, who won the day's competition, decided to give to Cholmondeley Children's Home. The other prizes that we gave out to every place-getting House were, a teddy bear, monkey, cow, lion and dog cuddly mascot. Everyone was included in this day and had a great time. Thank you to the big girls for helping out during the day.

Thanks to the teachers who gave us extra points throughout the day for displaying great virtues.

Alex Leck (Head of Houses)

The Primary School sports philosophy "playing competitive sport and having fun doing it" Sport in the Primary school provides an opportunity for skills coaching and showing the flag in the community but as just importantly, it encourages team spirit and camaraderie. There is nothing better than getting out on a turf, field or court with your friends, playing competitively and striving for a win. Each year there are people behind the scenes making this happen. The Primary staff, sports department, outside coaches and secondary students are vital to the smooth running of sports teams and events. A special thank you to the primary girls for giving us so much pleasure and their parents for the much-appreciated support.

Swimming This year's Independent Swimming Sports ·was an opportunity for Primary School girls to show their prowess in a number of disciplines. Success for Alice

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Barnett, first in breaststroke, Anna Robertson, first in freestyle and backstroke, and Phoebe Steele first in freestyle and backstroke and butterfly were highlights. The nine years relay team of Alex Leck, Anna Robertson, Alice Barnett and Lucy Dallyn also achieved first place.

Lotto Swim programme This year's Lotto Swim display was held in perfect weather; no shivering in the pool as in previous years. The girls were buddied up, two primary girls to one secondary student.

Lisa Williams and the Year 12 students had the Years One, Two and Three girls participating inwateraerobics and confidence exercises.

Many jumped and dived off the side. Races and leaping off the side were a thrill for some. Confidence and buddy friendship are what Lotto Swim sessions are all about. Parents join in the enthusiasm for a wonderful big girl, little girl experience.

Summer Hockey The value of fast and furious summer hockey as preparation for the winter code was again proved this year. The Primary A squad benefited enormously, as, under the coaching of Michelle Baird, they prepared for their Australian tour in the Easter holidays. In term four, 2007, four teams were entered in the Nunweek competition, the most teams entered in a season to date. Primary A and teams from Years Four, Seven and Eight played with determination and flair.

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Winter Hockey The Primary teams (Years One to Six) continued to maintain their impressive reputation in the local ' competition.

The highlight for some Year Six girls was the Primary A pre-season training trip to Australia. Phoebe Steele, Bella Forbes, Philippa Cross, Kimberley Wood and Alex Leck proved they were up to the challenge and on their return played against older girls to help the Primary A team to third place in the grade first division. These girls were rewarded for their talent with representative honours, Phoebe playing in the Canterbury Collier Cup team which won the National tournament.

Junior teams continued to fly the flag for the healthy future of hockey at St Margaret's. Six aside, Junior Eights, Intermediate Eights and Super Eights teams played with enormous enthusiasm and commitment.

Their coaches ensured they had excellent skills.

Their attitude and behaviour on and off the turf was exemplary. Thank you to Primary staff - Jo Clarke, Michele Callaghan, Susan Fisher, Paulette Double and to the secondary school students, outside coaches Michelle Baird (Primary A) and Margaret Stuart (Junior Eights) and to Shirley Smith -and Fran Gebbie for their support.

fourth term, 2007, numbers were reduced to one team (six girls, four boys).

Robbie Benton had given the children a wonderful start to their touch adventure.

In term four 2007 St Margaret's parents Jill and Grant Forbes took over. We thank Robbie for his enthusiasm and commitment to the teams playing winning touch. Jill and Grant are touch players of many years standing and the team is developing nicely under their experienced and encouraging coaching and refereeing styles.

Indoor Netball Since 2006 a number of Year Six girls have been playing indoor netball as well as the outdoor game. They were keen to play all year round and in the summer terms seven girls play. Primary parent Mary Miller coaches the team at school and games are played at Howzat indoor netball courts. The game is free flowing and fast; nets on the side (no outs) ensure this. Kiwi netball rules of rotating position do not apply so girls usually play the position best suited to them. Indoor netball is a great opportunity to keep up enthusiasm and momentum for the winter season and gives girls another sporting string to their bow.

Touch The "Margburys" teams played with flair and great camaraderie again this year. The 2006/2007 season finished with "Margburys" 1 third equal and "Margburys" 2 fourth in their sections of fourteen teams. In the

Cross Country This year the heavens opened as the Year One to Three girls set off on their race at Hagley Park, but bright sunlight greeted the Years Four, Five and Six girls when

they crossed the line. The staff are committed to making the races interesting and girls persevered on a course that was a challenge to all. Two teams of six nine year aids and six ten year aids represented St Margaret's at the Independent Zone Cross Country. The nine years team (Lucy Dallyn, Sabrina Lee, Ivana Moreton, Olivia Berger and Ni-Sha Ho) was placed fourth and the ten years team (Phoebe Steele, Victoria Williamson, Rhiannon Churchwood, Philippa Cross, Aida Azlan and Terian le Compte) came second. Phoebe was first in the race.

Basketball After a slow start to the season the Years Five and Six basketball team impressed, with skill and teamwork, to meet with considerable success. In a competition where most teams are 75% boys the girls proved that girl power is alive and well with gutsy play and focus. Basketball is now a high profile sport in the Primary School as a result of Nicky Dunlop's coaching and her enthusiastic commitment to practices and games.

you Phoebe for giving them a great learning and fun filled experience.

Marafun Held each year in conjunction with the Christchurch Marathon, the "Marafun" is a great opportunity for junior runners to experience and compete in a public event recognized by running clubs in Christchurch.

Pre season training, registration, an official pack and wearing the red and white striped singlets are motivation for the Primary girls to join in the fun. This year 32 girls impressed with their determination and enthusiasm for the run. Competitive medals were worn with pride and delight at the end of the race.

Thank you to Jo Clarke for making the Marafun an increasingly popular event in our sporting calendar.

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Sports Coaching Initiative: A new initiative from the Primary Council got underway in the winter. Phoebe Steele (Head of Sport) offered coaching for Years One to Three girls during Tuesday lunch times for four weeks. The junior girls loved and benefited from the coaching in soccer, hockey and basketball. Thank

In the April holidays 15 Year Six, Seven and Eight girls, and 20 family members, trailed to the Gold Coast for games against Labrador club teams. Coach Michelle

Baird's aim was to have intense training games and self-analysis before the Christchurch winter competition. Focus on the above resulted in the team winning all games, 6-0, 7-0, and 8-0. Of course no trip to the Gold Coast would be complete without sun, surf, "Wet n Wild" and outlet stores shopping.

All of the above was enjoyed with huge enthusiasm.

Congratulations to Alex Leck, Belle Forbes, Kimberley Wood, Phoebe Steele and Philippa Cross. They were a credit to the Primary School, off and on the turf.

The perfect balance between hardwork and fun paid off when the team gained a place in the Christchurch Primary A first division grade (second division last year) and achieved third place overall for the season.

Netball The beginning of the netball season is always greeted with great excitement and with a sense of anticipation.

Practices are well attended, skills taught and practised culminating in the games on Friday at the Hagley Park courts. Positions are learnt and the girls are eager to demonstrate their competency in their favourite places.

This year two teams hit the courts; a Year 6 team (the Red team) and a combined Year 5 and 4 team (the Blue team.) The new Year 4 players were literally thrown in the deep end as they worked with and played against the older and much more experienced year 5 girls.

Hannah Rutherford and Katie Thomas did a wonderful job coaching the Red team, whilst Helene Cox took up the reins to coach the Blue team. The Red team finished fourth in the top section of the Year 6 grade, a great achievement. A number of these girls are so enthused and passionate about netball that they play through the hot summer months as well. Parents not only supported the girls but also willingly provided the transport to the games each Friday. Can't wait for the 2008 season!

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Triathlon

Intense training at home and school was evident in the weeks leading up to the triathlon. Running, swimming and biking practice dominated spare time and there was a concerted effort to get the trainer wheels off small pink bikes. Each year preparation for the event is meticulous and some minor fine tuning this year resulted in another inspiring Primary School occasion.

Their peers and a great band of supporting families cheered participants on. Problems of getting wet feet into trainers and manoeuvering bikes on to the track were tackled with perseverance and enthusiasm.

Secondary student input is vital for the success of the day; the older girls always come up trumps. Jo Clarke and the PE department must be thanked for their efforts in making the triathlon a truly memorable occasion.

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Loveday MossmanCatchpole This is an Azalea bush. I love the white flowers with the pale pink in the middle. This was my favourite photo of all the ones I took in the Gardens. I think of spring when I look at my photo. Spring is pretty.

The flowers look like clouds and snow. I love the bright green leaves.

I was pleased with this photo.

Amy Eveleigh

Natalie Hutton I took the photo of the duck because I loved the blue feather. Blue is my favourite colour. The duck looks as if he has a Mohawk. He looks cute.

He wasn't scared of me.

He looks happy sitting in the garden. I love the plant at the side of the photo. It reminds me of toothpicks. I tried to take other photos but the

Samara Ajjam We went to the Gardens to take photos and have lunch. This was my favourite photo. I loved the pink of it. The pink flowers look lovely with all the green leaves. They are pale pink, Barbie pink and reddish pink. They are sitting in the middle of the leaves. I love the long green grassy leaves at the front.

I saw some purple stuff in the corner of my eye. I turned around and looked and it was really, really pretty. It was a humungous flower tree. The flowers were purple and like little balls, just like the yellow flowers outside our classroom. There were so many flowers. The purple flowers looked fabulous against the green leaves. I wanted to take a photo straight away. This is a beautiful photo. I love it.

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During Diwali houses are filled with light. We painted divas in bright colours and decorated them with glitter. We took them to the Himalayas Restaurant to put on the tables for our guests.

Year 2/3 Celebrate 'Diwali' Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights and celebrates the beginning of the Indian New Year. It is held in late October or early November and lasts for five days.

Diwali is the festival of sweets.

Days before the festival, the ladies of the family start preparing traditional sweets for family and friends. We made barfi for our guests.

We learnt how to write invitations and made beautiful Diwali cards, inviting our families to share in our celebration.

We enjoyed sharing the yummy Indian meal with our friends and families. We really loved the sparklers at the end. It was so much fun celebrating Diwali!

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During Diwali, the entrances to homes are decorated with colourful rangoli patterns. We designed and constructed our own rangoli patterns with coloured salt. We took them to the Himalayas Restaurant to welcome our guests.

For important occasions, women have beautiful designs painted on their hands or feet with Mehndi, a paste made from the henna plant. We had our hands decorated with Mehndi for the occasion.

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Popcorn Pizzazz by Year 4 1. Learning About and Making the Net. As part of our integrated unit and technology focus we decided to make popcorn containers. The first step was learning how to make a net. We had to measure accurately and cut and fold along the lines. We made a functional model to see if a Year 6's hand could fit in the container as the Year 6 class were going to share our popcorn. We had to do lots of testing for the size. We worked fantastically in a group. We used the Habits of Mind of persistence and accuracy to make the nets perfectly.

By Aimee and Brooke

2.Designing the Popcorn Containers We chose two different background colours to paint the net.. We worked with our buddies on the computer to create a logo and find some interesting images from the movie ' Night at the Museum' as we were all going to watch the movie together.

We designed our title using WordArt and once we had all our images we laid them out on the net ensuring they were positioned correctly and then glued them on.

By Aryn and Hannah

3.Putting it All Together We folded the tabs down firmly and then we used tape to stick them down.

We taped the bottom of the package so the

popcorn wouldn't fall out. Then we cut the top of the container with decorative scissors to make a wavy edge. Our 2D net was now a 3D popcorn container.

By Georgia and Maria

4. Filling the Containers Pop, pop went the popcorn right in front of our faces! Our flavouring choices were butter, icing sugar, plain, half butter and half icing sugar. We asked the Year 6 and Year 4 girls what flavour they wanted.

After the popcorn had popped we started to fill the 31 containers, according to the girls' choices. It was hard work filling all those containers but we enjoyed it as we felt like we were at the movie theatre!!

By Alisha and Tay/a

5.Sharing Our Learning At last it was time to test out the popcorn containers and celebrate with a movie and popcorn party with Year 6 .The movie we watched was 'Night at the Museum'.

For the second half of the movie we had an icecream.

Over all we all felt happy and enjoyed this experience because we learnt how to make nets, titles on WordArt, getting images off the internet and how to make logos. But best of all we learnt how to make popcorn and popcorn containers.

By Isabella and Sophia

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2007 Special Edition

Bill Who? Our author study is Bill Peet. He usually writes about animals.

My favourite is Big Bad Bruce.

He has very clever drawings.

We have a checklist of 23 books to read.

Once we've read them we tick them off.

He is very clever and often writes a lesson as part of his stories.

Reporler Kate Chapman

Clowning Around The Year 5 girls have been drawing clown pictures. We first drew them in our sketch books and then onto a piece of sugar paper. We coloured them with pastels.

We had to paint the clowns black and then carved patterns into the black paint to embellish the clowns.

Our clowns look great.

Reporlers Sabrina Lee and Sophie McCracken.

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Lets Learn Japanese!

This year,Year5 is learning Japanese. From term1 to term 4 we have learnt greetings, how to make hats, write numbers and learn classroom instructions. In Japan they have a lot of ceremonies like the bean throwing festival, the doll festival, children's day and the star festival. In the photo Miki's dad has arrived from Nagoya in Japan. He visited our class to see the paper cranes we had made.

Reporlers Millie Bremner and Miki Yamaoka

Science is Alive !

On the 3rd and 17th August we went to Science Alive. In the first lesson we went around the classroom testing 'fantastic forces' experiments. Our favourite was the blowing bernoulli because when you blow between the balls they go together. After that we went down the vertical slide. It was as steep as Mt Everest! Your whole body went to the top of your head it was FREAKY! We went down the slide tons of times and some didn't. I don't blame them. On our second trip we made mechanisms. We made a merry-go-round and a boat lifter It was really exciting and interesting. This photo shows Lucy's brother's machines. They use force and motion.

Reporlers Lucy Dallyn and Ni-Sha Ho.

Books, Books, Books Our author study in term 2 was Roger Hargreaves. We went to the computer and made a Little Miss and Mr Men character.

Then we did a draft copy of our character's story in our writing journal. Then we typed out our story on the computer. After that we drew our pictures in our art book. Then we drew them nicely and glued them in our books. Finally we finished and showed them to the Year 1 class.

Reporlers Ella Stokes and Neve Duston.

Popping Up Puppets.

Our art topic In term 2 was 'fabric and fibre' and we learnt a lot about different fabrics. To put this knowledge into practise we made our own soft puppets. Everyone had to learn blanket stitch and practise their sewing skills. We now have amazing puppets and we have written plays for them. Our puppets have different personalities and the girls had fun making clothes for their puppets and are looking forward to performing their puppet plays. We wrote our plays as a narrative by setting a problem and then writing a solution. Emma's puppet is called Dan Carter and lvana's puppet is called Bridget. Reporlers Ivana Moreton and Emma Alderlon

Jump with Year 5 After morning tea Year 5 have been jumping for our heart. This is to keep ourselves fit. Here are some of our moves: we do the cancan, the twist, the crossover and the toe tap. We are also skipping in a routine with a friend.We are also trying to skip altogether in a long rope. Reporler Samantha Blair

m£,m<9Jtl.U(9~ ~ t ~OJ[,e,t the trumpet! Now I am quite good at it. There are fun, special days at St Margaret's too. I love my teacher, she has taught me a lot of different things. I love my friends and the teachers here at St Margaret's. - Aida Azlan

2007 Special Edition

The Deans History comes ALIVE We have been learning about the Deans family. The Deans were the first European settlers to live in Christchurch. They built two little cottages next to the Avon River. We found out that the cottage is the oldest building on the Canterbury Plains. Lots of tragedies occurred in their family, but with hard work they survived. The Deans built Riccarton House and the class visited the house on 7th September. Riccarton house was amazing, with fifteen rooms to see. We saw the children's bedrooms, the kitchen, the dining room, the study and lots more. Catherine Deans's room was very special and all twelve children were born in that room. After our tour we had a walk in Deans Bush and we saw the tall trees. These trees were protected by Jane Dean, she wanted them to remain forever. Reporter Laura Faulkner.

Memories Of St Margaret's Year 6 Starting at St Margaret's in Year 5 was scary at first because it was an all girls' school and I had been to a co-ed school. When I entered the classroom, I saw unusual faces and people. No one knew me and I didn't know anyone. It has been a while now and I have started to fit in and I had new teachers and new friends who helped me get used to the school. Now I have a group of friends who are just awesome and teachers for music, performing arts and PE! There are a variety of instruments I have never played before; I took up

Butterflies whizzing around in my tummy, flipping. The bell rings. I go into the classroom with different faces looking at me. Ms Lean greets me with a smile. I go and sit next to Shannon, she smiles and says hello. At morning tea I play on the bars, swinging like a monkey. Girls come up to me and ask me questions. I go to PE. excited and jumpy like a playful puppy. The class is going to the pool to practise for the triathlon. Year 5 is around the corner and Mrs. Double is ready for a new year. I get a homework sheet and I have to prepare a Myers Cup speech. In the fourth term I go to Kaikoura on camp. The best memory is watching the dolphins diving. It is now Year 6, my last year. Athletics Day is here, Tangaroa's Gift is coming. I will leave the primary school with many memories. - Renee Messervy Some people think school is like a prison, but not to me. It's not! It's more like ....... swimming free or springing on a trampoline. My St Margaret's experience started in Year 5. It was odd coming from a co ed school, but was a nice change. I will always remember writing a ten-page story about Bill and Ben getting up to "no good". Coming into Mrs. Sheldon's class I was worried about the workload, but it turned out not too bad. I will never forget Health; interesting yes, disgusting definitely! I will never forget my primary school years at St Margaret's. - Rhiannon Churchward I started St Margaret's College in Year 2, 2003.

When I started I was very shy, I didn't like to talk to many people. Everyone was so nice and caring. Kate Saunders was really kind to me and she invited me to her birthday party before I had even started school! I made a little blue teddy bear and a paper mache pig in Year 2. In Year 3 I made a cushion and

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I got to choose my own pattern. One of my best memories is going on camp to Kaikoura in Year 5 and watching the dolphins. - Claudia Mills When I was in Year 1 one of my favourite things was playing in the tunnel. We all lined up and crawled through it. We coloured in and had lots of fun. One memory is Fairy Day, eating fairy bread. On other days we brought our baby toys. In the other years I got smarter and better at all my subjects. - Alex Leck.

I started off at St Margaret's in Year 6. I was nervous that I would not make friends. I had come from a co-ed school so it was quite different. Rhiannon showed me around and so I got used to the school. I knew how to order my lunch. I had new subjects; Kapa Haka and Performing Arts. I am loving St Margaret's. I think I will miss the primary school, but I am looking forward to starting a new year in Year 7. - Bianca lggo I started in Year 5, but visited in Year 4. I was really nervous, but Shannon was waiting for me and helped me feel comfortable in the classroom. I was shown around and introduced to new people. I couldn't wait to come back in Year 5. When that day came I wasn't nervous at all. I really liked St Margaret's. When that year was over I went onto Year 6 and it has been the best year of my life. I have learnt a lot of things. -Anna Robertson I sat on Mrs. Fisher's lap, unfamiliar with the surroundings. Year 1 was spent learning about school, the next one was awesome with Mrs. Clark doing fun things: drawing self portraits, learning how to tie your tie and getting into Intermediate 8, a competitive hockey team. Mrs. Callaghan was so lovely helping us to be the best friends we could be.

Ms Lean was such a cool teacher, letting us perform a play

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Years 5 and 6 learning the times tables. St Margaret's has taught me lots of things but the best memory is that friendships never end. - Philippa Cross I started St Margaret's in Year 5, scared but also excited. I made heaps of new friends, but I missed my old ones in Amberley. On the way to school on my first day I didn't think I would fit in but I did! Scary but great! - Rachel Basher

My first impressions of St Margaret's were really good ones as everyone was really nice to me.

Now I am in Year 6 and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I learnt netball and I don't think I want to stop!

I'm in Rimu House, the best! I have learnt many things in the primary school, but the most important thing is you never have enough friends. - Alice Barnett tried hard in Year One. I remember my favorite subject was the study of the moon. So proud to get my first work bar in Year Two. Working well and even going back in time to the 1900s in Year Three.

Having fun with a play wedding and class prize in Year Four. In Year Five my teacher loved art so I learnt how to do lots of prints and paintings. I won the Literacy Cup. Year Six is fun with reading, drawing, creating and learning. Everyone at St Margaret's has made me feel very welcome. - Lauren Duke St Margaret's isn't really a school. It's one of the enjoyments of life. It was when I started I realized this new feeling. The selection of friends at school is endless so I know I'm not going to be left out. The teachers are so loving and you feel like you are at home. The sporting excellence I have achieved would not have happened without the incredible coaching of Michelle Baird who has taught me well! It's all been great. Bella Forbes

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Standing at the gate wishing I was still three.

"Hurry up Phoebe, you don't want to be late on your first day at school!" Mum shouted. The words murmured through my head. "What if I don't fit in? What if I don't have anyone to sit with at lunch? What if I don't get nap time? "Lots more "what ifs?" I was wrong! Lots of friends! Nap time! A wonderful time!

- Phoebe Steele First day! One word! Freaky! New surroundings make it hard to settle, but a best friend makes it easy. A new best friend in Year 5. Cool. In Years 1 and 2 I thought I was so cool, in Years 3 and 4 I had a big Year 6 buddy to look after me and in Years 5 and 6 friends have really mattered to me. I'm going to miss the primary school and everyone in it. Heading into Year 7 and I have that sinking feeling again ............. freaky!

- Kimberley Wood When I started at St Margaret's I was in Year 1.

I enjoyed my first day at school and made lots of new friends. The teachers have been great, I have really enjoyed my time in the primary school. I have done fun things, especially getting into the Super 8 hockey team this year. The best memory is having lots of friends. - Terian Le Compte In Year 4 I came to St Margaret's and was one of three new girls to the class. One I already knew, Alice, the others were Renee and Autumn. Now I fit in with all the funny, awesome, nice girls. A funny thing with most of the class was having a wedding, but I forgot my dress. My favourite sport is netball.

I have been playing for three years. Now I'm not the new girl.

- Rachel Miller In Year 4 I started off with Renee, Rachel M and Alice.

Someone so kind was waiting to show me around St Margaret's. Having fun through the years, being with all my friends. Having good times and bad times all year round.

The wedding in Year 4, creating the Christmas DVD in Year 5, the Kapa Haka performance in the Town Hall in Year 6 have been the most fun things to do. I've had teachers who have taught me well and I have supportive friends. I have been to four other schools and this is the BEST one I have ever been to. - Autumn Bleeker My friend hates school, but I don't. For me, school is something I look forward to every morning when I wake up. There is freedom to explore and enjoy every day. Learning the trumpet, being awarded a Red workbar, performing in the Cultural Festival and making fantastic friends is part of having a tremendous time at school. St Margaret's is the best school in the world. I am very proud to wear the uniform and say, "I am from St Margaret's College."

- Shannon Brien I remember the fun times in the playground, climbing on the monkey bars and playing "jail" with the girls. I really loved the fun days at school, Market Day and Wearable Arts-especially when I was the model. Our Red Carpet evening was awesome! The girls in my class are kind and helpful, always remembering to include me. When I was in hospital many came to visit me. The school camps were awesome, bouncing on the trampoline, all the fun and delicious food.

The teachers are really cool, I will miss the primary school very much. - Kate Kemp

SPORT

ACADEMIC

SERVICE/ SPIRITUAL

Year 6 Years Runner Up Champion

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Natalie Hutton

Spirit of St Margaret's

Emma Alderton

6 Years Champion

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Alessandra Demarchi

Spirit of St Margaret's

Lauren Duke

7 Years Runner Up Champion

4

Aryn Azlan

Academic Excellence

7 Years Champion

4

Maria van Kuijk

Spirit of St Margaret's

8 Years Runner Up Champion

5

Lucy Dallyn

Spirit of St Margaret's

Alisha Duncan

8 Years Champion

5

Ni-Sha Ho

Academic Excellence

Ivana Moreton

9 Years Runner Up Champion

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Isabella Forbes

Academic Excellence

Emma Alderton

9 Years Champion

6

Anna Robertson

Academic Effort

Anna Robertson

10 Years Runner Up Champion

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Alice Barnett

Loveday Mossman-Catchpole Pollly Forbes Jessica Williamson Charlotte McGill Brooke Pope-McCaw

Spirit of St Margaret's

Service to the Library Pru Watson Cup for Excellence in Literacy

Phoebe Steele

Primary Sports Participant of the Year

Alice Barnett

Special Prize - Performing Arts

Aida Azlan

Friendship Cup

Shannon Brien Outstanding Service to Music

Lucy Dallyn

10 Years Champion

Kimberley Wood

St Margaret's Cup Ooint)

Ivana Moreton

Shirlene Lamb Cup for

Phoebe Steele

St Margaret's Cup Ooint)

Most points not a champion

Kate Kemp

Kia Manawanui Trophy Strong of Heart

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YEAR 2-3 Mrs S Fisher Natalie Hutton, Loveday Mossman-Catchpole Amy Eveleigh, Ella Guillemot-Mene, Samara Ajjam

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YEAR4 Jessica Williamson, Olivia-Rose Cooke, Poppy Prentice Mrs J Clarke, Teesha Bhasin, Charlotte McGill, Sophia Hodge, Isobel Rutherford Alessandra Demarchi, lndianna Scott, Kirsten Blair, Nishtha Denya, Polly Forbes

YEAR 5 Back Row Second Row Front Row

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Mrs M Callaghan, Maria van Kuijk, Brooke Pope-McCaw, Samsara Guillemot-Mene, Sophia Chen, Isabella Storer Aimee Williamson, Tayla Messervy, Aryn Azlan, Alisha Duncan, Georgia Voice Hannah Chamberlain

YEAR6 Mrs P Double, Miki Yamaoki, Olivia Berger, Ni-Sha Ho, Lucy Dallyn Sophie McCracken, Neve Duston, Millie Bremner, Emma Alderton, Samantha Blair Laura Faulkner, Sabrina Lee, Ivana Moreton, Ella Stokes, Michaela Strongman, Kate Chapman

Back Row

Second Row Front Row

Ms P Sheldon, Phoebe Steele, Renee Messervy, Rachel Miller, Lauren Duke, Bianca lggo, Autumn Howse-Bleeker Kate Kemp, Alexandra Leck, Alice Barnett, Anna Robertson, Isabella Forbes, Rachel Basher Aida Azlan, Claudia Mills, Rhiannon Churchward, Shannon Brien, Kimberley Wood, Philippa Cross, Terian Le Compte

YEAR 5-6 BASKETBALL

YEAR 4-6 TOUCH

FUTURE FERNS NETBALL RED

Back Row

Back Row Front Row

Back Row

Front Row

Autumn Howse-Bleeker, Phoebe Steele, Lauren Duke, Anna Robertson, Kate Kemp Aida Azlan, Alex Leck, Kimberley Wood, Olivia Berger, Ella Stokes

Lauren Duke, Renee Messervey, Phoebe Steele Shannon Brien, Kimberley Wood, Isabella Forbes, Olivia Berger, Ivana Moreton

Front Row

Hannah Rutherford (Coach), Lauren Duke, Autumn Howse-Bleeker, Rachel Miller, Bianca lggo, Katie Thomas (Coach) Kate Kemp, Alice Barnett, Rachel Basher, Anna Robertson, Rhiannon Churchward

YEAR 4-6 TRIATHLON

PRIMARY HOCKEY

FUTURE FERNS NETBALL BLUE

Back Row Front Row

Back Row

Back Row

Bianca lggo, Phoebe Steele Emma Alderton, Alice Barnett, Lucy Dallyn, Ivana Moreton

Second Row Front Row

Samantha McKellar, Sophie Cocks, Emily Street, Rosy Hogben Sian Fremaux (Coach), Mackenzie Keenan, Leah Butt, Alex Leck, Tilly Dunn, Helen Vincent Georgia Blacklaws, Isabella vanWoerkom, Phoebe Steele, Arabella Bonifant, Isabella Forbes, Philippa Cross

Front Row

Mrs P Sheldon (Coach), Emma Alderton, Olivia Berger, Ni-Sha Ho, Lucy Dallyn, Samsara Guillemot-Mene Ivana Moreton, Sophie McCracken, Samantha Blair, Brooke Pope-McCaw, Sophia Chen, Kate Chapman

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Year 7 Prizes 2007

Caroline Turnbull

Savannah Adams

Kimberley Twine

Progress in Science Achievement in Technology Progress in Art Brittany Arthur Progress in Integrated Studies Leah Butt Achievementin PhysicalEducationand Health Achievement in Art Juliet Frost Achievement in Integrated Studies Achievement in Music Progress in Integrated Studies Ashley Hyland Katherine Johnstone Progress in Performing Arts Jessica Land Progress in Music Grace Olliver Achievement in Science Dana Thomson Achievement in Mathematics Isabella vanWoerkom Progress in Physical Education and Health Progress in Mathematics Achievement in Performing Arts Helen Vincent Achievement in Integrated Studies Progress in Technology Caitlin Yee

Year 8 Prizes 2007 Cassidy Andrews Cara Askew Gabrielle Becket

Progress in Integrated Studies Progress in Music Achievement in Physical Education and Health Casey Carsel Achievement in Art Diana Chen Progress in Art Jessica Fitzjohn Achievement in Technology Achievement in Mathematics Kate ldiens Progress in Technology Progress in Integrated Studies Mackenzie Keenan Achievement in Performing Arts Sharina Lopez Progress in Physical Education and Health Kirsten Miller Achievement in Music Amanda Ott Progress in Science Abby Silva Progress in Performing Arts Kate Suter Progress in Mathematics

Achievement in Integrated Studies Achievement in Science Achievement in Integrated Studies

Year 9 Prizes 2007 Olivia Batt Progress in Technology Annalise Brown Achievementin PhysicalEducationand Health Megan Chu Achievement in French Joanna Costello Progress in Physical Education and Health Joanna Duncan Progress in Music Sarah Feary Achievement in Dance Alexandra Fretter Achievement in Integrated Studies Achievement in French Zoe Higgins Achievement in Integrated Studies Achievement in Science Achievement in Drama Kirsty Hogg Progress in Integrated Studies Progress in Science Seong-Ha Joo Progress in Integrated Studies Brittany Pooley Progress in Drama Erica Robertson Progress in Art Kristina Russell Progress in Japanese Eileen Skinley Achievement in Art Hannah Stanford Achievement in Technology Aidan Verity Achievement in Music Achievement in Mathematics Achievement in Japanese Progress in Dance Kaece Wright

Sophie Cocks Mackenzie Keenan Annabelle Wright Mackenzie Keenan Margot Gibson Jessica O'Halloran Sophie Cocks Mackenzie Keenan Annalise Brown

Athletics 13 yrs Athletics Runner-up 13yrs Athletics U14 Cross Country Year 7/8 Cross Country U14 Sportsmanship Year 7/8 Sports Participation Sports Participation Sportsmanship Year 9

House Relay 2007

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Boarding Prizes 2007 Sophie Blair Kirsty Hogg

Wilson Cup Best Boarder Year 7/8 Morris Cup Best Boarder Year 9

Academic Prizes 2007 Ballantyne Essay Year 7/8 Juliet Frost Sam Henderson Best Science Fair Investigation Uoint) Caroline Turnbull Best Science Fair Investigation Uoint) Zoe Higgins Watson Girls' Cup for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Year 9 Zoe Higgins Toomer Trophy for Public Speakng Caroline Turnbull Friendship Cup Year 7/8 Caroline Turnbull Best All Round Year 7/8 Zoe Higgins Best All Round Year 9

Sports Prizes 2007 Madelaine Parker Emily Erickson Aimee Browne Rosy Hogben Victoria Williamson Olivia Grenfell Tilly Dunn

Swimming 11yrs Swimming 12 yrs Uoint) Swimming U14 Athletics 11yrs Athletics Runner-up 11yrs Athletics 12 yrs Athletics Runner-up 12yrs

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8LN Moira Mackenzie, Samantha McKellar, Elise McLeod, Deborah Chen-Green, Lucy Peebles, Rosy Hogben, Tilly Dunn Mrs S Smith, Hannah Kyle, Victoria Williamson, Georgia Francis, Juliet Frost, Jessica Land, Isabella van Woerkom Nicola Wright, Brittany Arthur, Savannah Adams, Harriet Lange, Kirsten Corbett, Claudia Selwood, Charlotte Colgan

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8WH Paris Marshall, Sophie Bennington, Philippa Gates, Evangelyn Edilson, Kate Johnstone, Grace Olliver, Ashley Hyland Mrs R Fraser, Sarah Duff, Caitlin Yee, Georgia Morton, Leah Butt, Helen Vincent, Erin Harrison, Madelaine Parker Charlotte Wigley, Julia Bullen, Sarah Weddell, Phoebe McGowan, Polly Gilroy, Georgia Blacklaws, Dana Thomson

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Gabrielle Beckett, Ella Stoner, Emily Street, Christina Greenwood, Kate Suter, Caroline Turnbull Samantha Strongman, Anna Sands, Cara Askew, Rebekah Kim, Casey Carse!, Amanda Ott Kate ldiens, Clare Fairgray, Sophie Hammond, Lily Cain, Emily Erickson, Holly Faulkner, Miss D Lean Jessica Campbell, Katherine Pearse, Jessica Ottawa, Laura McKay, Kirsten Miller, Megan McKay, Arabella Bonifant

Leah Newbigging, Sophie Cocks, Sophie Blair, Jessica Smail!, Marcella Zeestraten, Eliza Eldred Courtney Milner, Claudia Oswald, Olivia Grenfell, Sarah Churchward, Abby Silva Ms A White, Kimberley Twine, Diana Chen, Nina Murnane, Hillary Westbury, Beth Brodie, Sharina Lopez Samantha Henderson, Leigh Blair, Mackenzie Keenan, Cassidy Andrews, Zoe Boyce, Jessica O'Halloran, Jessica Fitzjohn Jessica Bremner

micM,& t>Ch<9<9~ C,<9mpe,t,ti,(9rL WLl'UWtl> ICAS SPELLING COMPETITION 2007 Years 5-8 High Distinction: Ni-Sha Ho Distinction: Lauren Duke Juliet Frost Credit: Aida Azlan Sophie Blair Arabella Bonifant Leah Butt Casey Carsel Deborah Chen-Green Charlotte Colgan Jessica Fitzjohn Samantha Henderson Moira MacKenzie Kirsten Miller Leah Newbigging Jessica O'Halloran Grace Olliver Katherine Pearse Caroline Turnbull Hillary Westbury Caitlin Yee

Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 6 Year 8 Year 8 Year 7 Year 8 Year 7 Year 7 Year 8 Year 8 Year 7 Year 8 Year 8 Year 8 Year 7 Year 8 Year 8 Year 8 Year 7

ICAS ENGLISH 2007 Years 5-8 High Distinction: Juliet Frost Distinction: Savannah Adams Shannon Brien Leah Butt Sarah Churchward Lauren Duke

Jessica Fitzjohn Samantha Henderson Kate ldiens Paris Marshall Elise McLeod Leah Newbigging Dana Thomson Helen Vincent

Credit: Emma Alderton Brittany Arthur Gabrielle Beckett Sophie Blair Arabella Bonifant Lily Cain Casey Carsel

Kate Chapman Kirsten Corbett Tilly Dunn Eliza Eldred Holly Faulkner Ni-Sha Ho Jessica Land Harriet Lange

Kirsten Miller Jessica O'Halloran Grace Olliver Katherine Pearse Caroline Turnbull Kimberley Twine Caitlin Yee

ICAS MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT Year 5-8 2007 Distinction: Emma Alderton Leah Butt Jessica Fitzjohn Dana Thomson Kimberley Twine Helen Vincent

Credit: Savannah Adams Cara Askew Deborah Chen-Green Sarah Churchward Juliet Frost Harriet Lange

Phoebe McGowan Leah Newbigging Grace Olliver Jessica Ottowa Abby Silva Caroline Turnbull

ICAS SCIENCE ASSESSMENT 2007 YEARS 5-8 High Distinction: Grace Olliver Leah Newbigging

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Distinction: Emma Alderton Shannon Brien Juliet Frost Harriet Lange Elise McLeod Sarah Churchward Jessica Fitzjohn Jessica Ottawa Caroline Turnbull Kimberley Twine

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Credit: Ella Stokes Leah Butt Dana Thomson Helen Vincent

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Leigh Blair Sophie Blair Casey Carsel Samantha Henderson Mackenzie Keenan Jessica O'Halloran Katherine Pearse Ella Stoner

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ICAS Writing Competition 2007 Years 5-8 High Distinction: Jessica Fitzjohn Caroline Turnbull Distinction:

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Jessica Bremner Beth Brodie Leah Butt Deborah Chen-Green Sarah Churchward Kirsten Corbett Lauren Duke Juliet Frost Kate ldiens Bianca lggo Paris Marshall Elise McLeod Sophie McCracken Leah Newbigging Jessica O' Halloran Grace Olliver

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Credit: Savannah Adams Year 7 Sophie Blair Year 8 Charlotte Colgan Year 7 Sarah Duff Year 7 Pippa Gates Year 7 Erin Harrison Year 7 SamanthaHenderson Year 8 Ashley Hyland Year 7 Moira MacKenzie Year 7 Lucy Peebles Year 7 Claudia Selwood Year 7

Phoebe Steele Year 6 Ella Stokes Year 5 Dana Thomson Year 7 Kimberley Twine Year 8 Sarah Weddell Year 7 Victoria Williamson Year 7 Isabellavan Woerkom Year 7 Helen Vincent Year 7 Caitlin Yee Year 7

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~ m., CNloii.ue, WJfl~ Mountain Biking The dark heavy mud clouds dragged themselves over the grey mournful sky. It seemed to cry out in pain as the clouds pushed themselves in front of the sky hiding its beautiful glistening golden sun.

myself being gently lifted out of the water before I blacked out.

But perhaps it was only an echo ...

By Brittany Arthur

Beware Up, down, up, down a great dark tree loomed over me its rusty grey bark frowned at me and its stretched quivering branches reached out and tried to snatch me from my bike. I swerved to the side, mud spun through the air and trickled down my face. I was thrown from my bike. I clenched my hand, bit my lip, smack, I tumbled to the ground.

I opened my eyes. Where was I? This wasn't the track I was on. Fiery red autumn leaves padded the damp mossy ground. I stared up into the swift shade canopy. A stain glass raindrop fell from heaven and danced through the air before colliding with the rugged track. It sped down passing a tree spider spinning its sticky grey cotton web. I got up then stopped and listened. The giggling and laughter of a creek gurgling in the cool breeze caught my ears and pulled me over to see its crystal clear waters dancing to the music of the leaves rustling and the birds singing softly to themselves as the sun dried their wings.

After playing with the stream's joyful waves washing against the bank. I bent down and swept my hand across the ice-cold water that suddenly turned to a vast everlasting black. I pulled my shaking hand back but it was to late, my foot slipped and I tumbled into the creek. I began gasping for air and the creek suddenly felt a lot stronger and deeper. The waves were throwing me against the bank. I cried a high-pitched help and felt

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Epilogue

Tiny drops of tears rolled down my cheeks and off the tip of my nose. Sweat poured down my face; my heart thumping like a drum. I stretched my trembling legs out as far as I could, touching the seat in front of me with the tip of my flip-flops. Birds chirped and sang, the sun glowing with butter yellow. That was the world I wanted to be in. Outside of the stained glass window, outside this room. Flies jumped and dived as though the air was material and they were stitching it up with thread. My gaze turned downward towards a piece of white paper. But this was no ordinary paper. This was my ticket out of here. Breathing heavily, I picked up my pencil and slowly turned to the last page. Scanning my eyes down the page I quickly realized that I only had one question left to answer. Then I would walk out of this room, out of this life! Question 1. How many beats is a demisemiquaver? Aggggggh!, this was exactly the question Mum told me to beware of!

Why do I have to do piano theory? How does it help my well being? Focusing and willing, I quickly forgot about all the trouble I had been through when trying to revise everything through my head. I jumped with excitement.

I know the answer!

Walking to the desk, I handed my paper to the plump lady and ran to the door. I'm not afraid any more. Mum doesn't need to tell me to beware. I know it!!

By Kirsten Corbett

Cradling Gabriel in his arms, Jonas lay at the bottom of the hill. The sled, now broken lay to his left, to the right his backpack. Holding Gabe's body tighter Jonas tried to preserve what little body heat they both had, but as he did so he felt that something was wrong.

Gabriel was stone cold, pale and not breathing. " No ", whispered Jonas. " No, No, NO! " Whispers turning to shouts, Jonas's body convulsed with sobs.

'All that suffering, all that pain, hunger and cold was all for nothing' thought Jonas. 'If anything it would have been better if Gabriel had been released, then at least he wouldn't have had to go through what no baby should have to, what nobody should go through.'

Furious with himself, Jonas punched the ground, a dull throbbing sensation rushed throughout his body from his fist. He punched the ground again and again, over and over, welcoming the pain.

With tear stained cheeks and a heavy heart, Jonas was starting to feel colder. If anything, whatever warmth he had was leaving him, like it was being drained. But his heat wasn't the only thing being drained, his energy was too, making him drowsy. Ceasing his punching his arms gave way, fists raw and bloody.

SNAP! Jonas's head shot up 'What's that?' He thought in bewilderment. 'Huh?' But it was just a goat (for that

fi>niCNla:ti.u~ to/tL~ was what the animal was, as Jonas had indeed seen a whole flock in a memory) trotting around. It had just stepped on a twig and was currently looking around in alarm. Though to Jonas the goat looked like a large blob with sticks for legs. Blinking he realized that he couldn't see properly, he was losing focus. At the same time he was getting colder and his sight was darkening, getting colder and darker, colder and darker.

"Well you know what they say" Jonas said to himself, the words foreign on his tongue. "Death is but the next great adventure"

nonetheless. It was junk food heaven. Hot chips, candyfloss, hot dogs, mango juice, doughnuts, you name it, and we ate it. The rides were also entertaining, especially the bumper boats, as Sarah came out soaking. We also quite enjoyed the Log ride, where we screamed at every movement inside the caves, even the singing elves.

Arriving at the campsite in Henderson Valley we went straight into our first activity. Flag making was fun, we messed up constantly, but still managed to win! The prize was a box of chocolates, which suspiciously disappeared after Sam's encounter with it. She was on a sugar high all night.

Future Problem Solving How nerdy. But, do nerds get to run around Sylvia Park, the biggest mall in NZ? Do they drop off the Fearfall at Rainbows End? Do they see tigers hiss at elephants at Auckland Zoo? Do they bring home a trophy and name it Douglas? I think not. Jealous?

Well you should be!

At the prize giving we did very well, Mrs. Oliver also got a prize, for outstanding leadership and service to FPSNZ. Overall we had a successful and fun time and can't wait till next year.

Future Problem Solving. Still nerdy now?

Sam, Abby, Sarah and Casey.

Little did he know that those words would be his last.

By Deborah Chen-Green

for us, as we had to sing, dance and make a fool of ourselves in front of numerous people. Our performance included famous songs from musicals such as Annie and Grease, modified to fit our topic, caring for the elderly. There were many high-quality performances, but ours won 1st in the end.

That night we had a pizza party. In this one and only instance, boys were smarter than girls and stole whole boxes of pizza and ran outside as girls starved on one piece at a time. That's what you get for being polite.

The party soon escalated into an epic battle, where scavengers raced for the remaining crumbs.

It all began on a crisp Friday morning, while our classmates were in school (who are the nerds now?!) we were at the airport, dragging our luggage, which contained our whole wardrobes, to the gate. On various seats around us sat our competition, Cobham and Selwyn House, but we weren't intimidated.

Well just a bit, they had matching tee shirts.

On Saturday morning we woke anxiously, today was booklet day. I would have to say, the cold toast for breakfast didn't help our butterflies, but the milos were quite soothing. The booklet was interesting, and we were quite glad to get out of the stuffy room and head to the zoo for an afternoon out. At the zoo we ate more junk. Sam and Sarah managed to eat three ice-creams that day, as Abby quietly consumed her fruit salad and banoffee pie. We watched in awe as the elephants were washed, and as the sea lions dived and flipped and the tiger fed.

Our plane was late, later than Abby. But it didn't matter because we still had time for Rainbow's End

On Sunday morning we had an hour till dramatic presentation, this was quite a frightening prospect

If I could be ...

When I was three I was pursuing the dream of being the fairy princess. Posing my best faces in the mirrors, endless dancing practices for my handsome Prince who would marry me at the ball and we would live happily ever after, wearing my gorgeous fairy wings and fluffy tutu. I knew I was going to be queen of Fairyland.

When I was five I got a little more realistic and was wishing to be a ballerina. I started training and spent hours doing fish and chips legs just waiting to conquer the world. My poor friends and family had to watch my endless "made on the spot" routines. I knew I was going to be a ballerina.

When I was eight I wanted an average kid's job. wanted to be a vet. I got out all my animal toys and when I put them away you couldn't see their band aid covered hair. Screwing off and on my innocent

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Macdonald's toy's head was everlasting. I was certain my destiny was to be a vet.

When I was ten I spent all my waking hours on the ski field. It dominated my life. You guessed it, I wanted to be a professional skier. I knew I did because of all the effort I put into it and the love of skiing, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic skier.

Now I am eleven. I still want to be a skier, an animal helper, a good dancer, and a grand person, but if I could be anyone or anything I want with all my heart to be... ME!!!!

Harriet Lange

Making a difference I remember when I was younger I would yell at my parents or call them names just because they made me go to bed early or made me eat my vegetables, or tidy my room and do all the stuff that I never wanted to do. I always thought that they hated me and loved my other brothers and sisters more. I thought that no one in the world loved me and that I was all alone.

One night I went to bed crying because mum didn't let me watch my favourite T.V. programme even though I wasn't tired. So while I was trying to get to sleep I thought there must be a reason for all this. I had that on my mind all though the week and I didn't concentrate on things we were doing at school until I heard the conversation in R.E. I don't know what brought up the topic but we were having one of those days where we just talk about things and don't exactly do the things that we were

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going to do. My R.E. teacher was talking about when your parents yell at you, or when they don't let you go to parties that it's for your own good and that they are doing what's best for you. They're doing those things because they love you.

That afternoon when I got home from school I went into the kitchen to talk to my mum. I asked her whether it was true or not that when she tells me to go to bed or when she yells at me, that she was doing it because she loved me. Mum told me it was and so I thought about it that day and the next and the next and I finally decided that whatever is best for me is what I want.

So I was going to eat my vegetables without being asked. I would not yell at my parents when they told me to go to bed and I would even tidy my room days before they noticed it was messy. I would not yell at them. I would not fight with my brothers and sisters and get them upset. I would do what they asked me to do when they asked me because to me that was making a difference in both my life and theirs. That was what I wanted to do. I would make a difference.

Victoria Williamson

If I could be a water snake I would slither all the way down stream and relax with a perfect life, it would seem.

If I could be a dancer I would leap across the floor and like a bird spread my wings and soar!!!

If I could be a cat I would be patted and I would be pampered, my owners wouldn't know with what things I've tampered!!

If I could be a field mouse I would scatter, dance and play and my coat would shimmer in the bright sunrays.

If I could be me this is what I'd choose, have my own personality, be unique, what have I got to lose!

Claudia Se/wood

Pacifica Dance Working towards the Pacifica evening was hard but worthwhile. It was fun creating and developing our own Pacific dance moves and everyone got imaginative.

If I could Be ...... .

If I could be a dolphin I would surf the waves, in and out, up and down, with all the turtles I wouldn't have a frown!

If I could be an archaeologist I would dig up the treasures of kings. Necklaces, limestone and other tiny little things!!!

If I could be a flamingo I would show off all day long and while flying I would sing a lovely song!

Mrs. Smith's Year 7 did the sasa, a sitting dance with flowing moves and percussion of the body.

Mrs. Fraser's class, with the help of "Uncle Sticks", performed a Samoan dance with various dance moves.

Ms. White's class in Year 8 did a dancing sasa and created a great effect. Then Ms Lean's class did a Polynesian dance in groups to the well known tune "Slice of Heaven".

am, Finally it came time for the year group items and Year sevens sang the sad song "E Papa" about a man who leaves his village to go a new land, perhaps never to return. Its lively tune and various instruments gave the song an optimistic side. Year eights sang the song "Tihore Mai" which was a slow song and had a flowing tune to it.

"Children of New Zealand" composed by Michael Sharp, our Performing Arts teacher, was the grand finale. A magnificent, moving experience, to complete a truly great night.

Harriet, Juliet and Savannah

Queen Margaret Exchange Wednesday 25th of July, the day had finally come, 40 girls, one plane and no parents for three days, freedom at last! We were boarding the plane, our hearts were racing with excitement not knowing what was in store for us. Half asleep, the sun was rising, but those lollies, they really got us going when they were getting passed around the plane.

When we arrived in the windy capital of Wellington businessmen stared at us in awe as we scuttled off the plane with cheeping voices. We hopped on our personal bus and headed for the Museum of City and Sea to learn about the fascinating Wahine story.

Soon after we went to the great and wonderful Parliament and got a personal talk from Gerry Brownlee, one of Christchurch's MPs. As we left, we got a free pen to remember our tour.

Next we traveled to the Wellington Zoo. There we discovered lions and tigers and ... Winnie the Pooh!

A Sun Bear that looked remarkably similar. We also got to see the blistering butts of the baboons, the cheekiness of the chimpanzees and got soggy wet hands from feeding the giraffes.

Nerves started to swell in our stomachs as we headed off to meet our billets from Queen Margaret College that we would be staying with for the next two nights.

We all nervously gathered into the Hall, as one by one we got picked out of the crowd and farewells were being shouted out to one another. We headed home with our billets for the long night, everyone feeling very welcome and at home.

Day two, the tournament. As we got welcomed into the school people stared at us with their glowing, Wellington eyes. We loaded on to the very cramped bus and drove off to Fraser Park and Walter Nash Stadium to begin our sport. When we got there our nerves were doing loop de loops and backwards flips. Walking through the door was nerve racking.

The games began. Throwing, catching, hitting and shooting balls flew everywhere. We put our hearts into every move. At the end of the day we were all very exhausted but came a solid 2nd after all our effort.

Friday dawned and we stumbled to school to go to our billets first two classes. These included, R.E, art, maths, technology, P.E. French and science. After our classes we said our final goodbyes over some delicious morning tea that included savories and slices. While we loaded the bus, Queen Margaret girls did a Mexican wave along the footpath, and we roared one back to them down the bus. Next we headed for

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Te Papa National Museum, spending most of our time in the shop buying ridiculous and silly badges saying things like 'I love kiwi boys', 'check it out, a badge with a goat on it' and 'I'm a Jenius'.

Then, the time had come, it was time to leave windy Wellington and head for our hometown Christchurch.

Hugs were flying everywhere as parents were reunited with their daughters. We made life long friendships and this will be a trip we will never forget.

By Lily Cain and Kate Suter

The Apple Green, with a splash of red. That apple must have been the nicest, juiciest apple in the whole wide world.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to eat all of it. I just knew some thing else was going to try and pinch it from my small, stubby five-year-old hands.

Glittering sunrays strayed down onto the flowering garden bouncing back from the shiny rusted silver watering can on to my apple as I sat on the tiled porch savouring my apple. It was a perfect day, fantails fluttered, the river was trickling gently, willows were blowing.

To make that beautiful day all that much better my gorgeous dog came running along with the terrible stench of wet black wraggly fur, which I didn't like. Reassuringly he gave me a cheerful bark like a child laughing to let me know he was there. His sparkling eyes gleamed on me like the burning sun. There was something he wanted from me. Was it my golden hair so he could have a new coat of fur I wondered?

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It couldn't be. Noooooooooo! Not my apple, my golden apple. Within seconds my apple was gone!

It had been sucked into the wormhole. There was no way I could ever get it back! I screamed with HORROR. The perpetrator ran away and yelped with fear of not having dinner! That night the criminal was not allowed to sleep in his luxurious basket. Instead, in the mucky dirt he snored and snoozed like a sleepy giant!

Savannah Adams

Swimming Sports Colourful, crazy and creative costumes everywhere I look. Nervous faces are disguised with smiles as everyone piles into the school pool. We all sit in our houses waiting for the 2007 year 4-8 swimming sports to begin. Banners and posters surround the school pool with house colours and chants on them. Loud yelling and chanting begins as the year fours start their first race. Every single person races their heart out in their events. Gradually it gets up to lunchtime; the freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke are over.

Everyone is tired from swimming and shouting but it's not quite over yet.

I rush back to my seat in the second row of Matipo. I still have my backstroke event. Once everyone is back in the mood of swimming we start. I score second in backstroke and then get ready to watch the tricks done off the diving board. Everyone gives a big cheer for every jump. There are daring dives and outrageous back-flips done. Once every single event is over we have our house relays and egg and spoon races. We chat while we wait for our scores to be read out and

to get our certificates. To occupy us Ms Lean starts the house cheers. Everybody is part of this event.

Chanting, yelling, screaming one by one every house has a go at their best chant. The prize giving starts and people who have swum exceptionally well go up to claim their prize. Even though not all people got 1st in their events we still had the time of our lives.

Elise McLeod

The Warrior Task - This piece of writing won the Ballantyne Writing Cup for Years 7-8 Ever since I made my first leaf levitate in the air (only two years old at the time) I had been in training for many more, just for one task. Having spent fourteen years of my life in training, I was next to go. If this went wrong even a fraction of a second wrong, then I, Elizabeth Rose Summers, would be a mass murderer, having killed over a million innocent children. Doubting my teachers' promises that I was ready, I secretly laughed; me! A sixteen year-old girl would defeat the army? Pigs would fly first! Sometimes I wish I had been born a serious person without an imagination so I couldn't be a Greenla warrior, controlling objects with my mind but then I wouldn't have the adventure of a lifetime and become a heroine. For this is my story.

Tiptoeing past the dorm of sleeping children who sometimes moaned, I almost wept knowing that to them, I was-and still am-the enemy-the hated Greenla warrior.

Hitting an unseen sharp stone with my soft, muffled shoes, silently swearing at myself, I spun around on the spot but no one appeared to wake except-out of the corner of my eye I noticed her-a little girl who

observed me from her bed with the look of utmost sorrow on her small pinched face with hollow, empty cheeks.

"Who wants me this time?" She murmured, a sigh escaping from her pale lips, her limp, platinum blonde hair falling over her electric blue eyes that had seen far too much. Beckoning her over, I noticed a blue, green and purple rainbow on her stomach where the small, greasy and muddy soldier top finished. This girl, six years younger than myself and just ten years into her life, was being abused every night by her teachers and thought I was taking her to them! I couldn't believe it!

"My name is Eliza and I am one of the Greenla, here to destroy this place!" I whispered harshly, showing her the Goddess's sign on my silvery necklace as I began to stride ahead using my long skinny legs. Pulling my long sleeve while trotting along, the child shoved the twin of my moonlit necklace into my hand and IT HAD THE GODDESS'S SIGN! Half a moon with a spring tulip and a bitter chilled snowflake was attached to a slinky chain. Stopping in my tracks as my short, black, bouncy hair landed in my chocolate eyes, I stared at her. Then shook my head in disbelief and then carried on to the end of my journey at the metal thick door.

Motioning the girl to stay there, I promised to try and take her back to her Greenla community.

"The name is Janza, just so you know. Goodbye Eliza, until we next meet," Eyes sparkled with the chance of a new freedom and I smiled. Taking a deep breath, I burst through the door, screaming a battle cry a female Amazon warrior would be proud of, took out my gun and started shooting as all hell broke loose Juliet Frost

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If I could be....

Tips of my brightly coloured and feathered wings would brush against the top of the trees of the Amazon forest as I soar through breath taking air. I would nestle my baby birds away from the carnivores waiting for their prey, up in the top of the canopy. A parrot bird I would be.

The tall spotted lean neck of mine would let my purple tongue wrap its self around the green luscious leaves.

I would be able to get the first glimpse of the golden sunrise before any of the other African animals did. An African giraffe I would be.

My speckled shell would reflect off the sun onto the ocean roof with my paddles gliding me through the water. A speckled back turtle I would be.

Tilly Dunn

Year 7 And 8 Basketball On Wednesday in term two all of the keen basketball players from Years 7 and 8 met in the gym for the trial to determine the A, B and C teams for the season.

When we were all sorted and put into our teams we had practices every Tuesday and a Monday night game at Pioneer Stadium.

All the girls in the teams have learnt a lot over the season about how to play the game. I'm sure they have enjoyed themselves as thoroughly as I did.

It was also great to watch all the games of the other girls, as they were normally really close and very exciting, with the odd biting of the nails from the sideline. At the end of the season the C and B team improved immensely from when they started and it

was a real thrill for me, as Captain of the A team to win the whole grade and get a trophy. It was a great season of basketball for all teams of year 7 and 8! We Rocked!

Jessica Smail/

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In the day light all these nocturnal creatures go back to sleep. Different species are awake, sunlight seeping through the trees. My favourite birds of this day are calling my name: the tufted tui with its beautiful teal, black and white breast, cheeky fantails, their large tails spread up like Japanese fans and pretty bellbirds with their tuneful song.

Hope they all return tomorrow!

By Phoebe McGowan

Rock Climbing I stared, I felt and looked tiny next to the daunting wall.

You mean to tell me, that I had to trust someone with my life and my only survival was a piece of string??

Now I'm not that scared but I do love climbing to the top then gently flying down.

I recommend rock climbing for anyone who wants a challenge or to develop some hand strength. Rock climbing is a great way to have fun with friends and to try out the boulder room.

By Pippa Gates

Bird Song On a walk through the native bush, birds are calling, the river is flowing. So peaceful in the night - moreporks and kakapos are echoing their shrill voices across the valley. I wish everybody could hear the wonderful sounds of the beech forest.

The most delightful sound of all is the kiwi. Wish I could see them in the wild with out them being killed by stoats, rats, dogs, ferrets and possums.

Cantamath 2007 I squeezed the piece of blutack between my hands as I fought the swarm of butterflies that were zipping around in my tummy. As I saw the car that was arriving to take us pull into the park outside Kilburn, my tummy did a flip. With a deep breath I straightened out my blazer. During the ride to the town hall my head felt like it was in a blender. Where would we sit, what was 13 times 12, and would everyone turn up to compete?

Before I knew it we were listening to the host up on stage. Six words he said echoed around my head.

Are you ready for Cantamath 2007? Are you ready for Cantamath 2007?

When we sat down our runner brought back the envelope with the first question in it. Then the practice question came and went. I came back to my senses.

On your marks get set GO!!

A huge bat of pressure whacked down on me as soon as we started. I hunched over the paper thinking, always thinking. But it seemed so much harder. What was 9 times 12? Through the fog that was clogging

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my brain, 108 faintly appeared. It went on, the noise bouncing through my ears.

lot. Even though, it was a little hard to get to sleep that night.

Towards the end the thick blanket had cleared. I was problem solving at full speed, trying to overcome the fact that two teams already had made it to one hundred and that 25 was a long way off. Finally we finished. I clapped as hard as I could for the winning team because the questions were difficult and they had done very well indeed.

The next morning, I was so excited about meeting the girls at school; I tried to get there as early as I could.

Everyone was really kind and I could hardly sit still in class. Getting my lunch was a bit scary, having all the tall Seniors standing around me in the line and I could hardly choose what to have for lunch, but the Year Eights showed us what to do.

Walking back to the boarding house I felt proud of our efforts, first time up. I can't wait till Year 8. You watch out pressure, noise and brain fog, because next year St Margaret's is going to be the first team to 100. I'll make sure of that!

Every now and then during the year Amy, our lovely young Matron, organised fun activities for us to do as a Boarding House.

Dana Thomson

Boarding at St Margaret's Winchester House, Years 7 & 8, 2007 This year has been full of excitement, change, laughing and all round fun, especially on the first day. There were cars parked all the way up the driveway, with their doors and boots wide open. All the girls were dragging in almost their whole bedrooms, along with the help of the rest of the family.

When inside there were people everywhere, Mums helping to make beds, little brothers and sisters putting up posters and Dads bringing bags up the stairs. As this was happening, I was all the time thinking about how my first day of school would go. When I was finished and my Mum, Dad and sister had to go home, there were a few tears, but to know that I could call them every night helped a

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We went to QEII Pool, horse riding, to Hanmer Springs, Ice skating and Paintballing, which I didn't really want to do, but I was out voted and it ended up being lots of fun.

One thing that I have to say, I would never give up anything that I have learned or experienced in my first year boarding for the world!! It's been so much fun, a great experience and I can't wait until next year!!!!!

This year we competed at the Super Six Primary tournament at the Nunweek Turf, playing teams such as Selwyn House/Rangi, Harewood, Carlton Redcliffs and more. Our team made it to the finals winning basically all games. Unfortunately we lost to Harewood gaining a 2nd placing. We were the first St Margaret's team to reach the finals. Isabella Van Woekorm and Sophie Cocks made the Super Six tournament team.

Before competing at the Christchurch tournament St Margarets took a trip over to Australia to play 3 Labrador teams. Having a great time after beating the teams 7-0, 6-0 and 8-0 the team decided to visit Wet'n'Wild. The team is hoping we can travel over again next year.

After all the pre-season trainings and games our team was finally ready to start in the Christchurch Tournament held at Porrit Park. Beginning in a lower division, the team soon moved up to the secondhighest pool, after winning around 7 games unbeaten.

The competition soon heated up as we lost our first game against Selwyn. One game after we were moved up to division 1 (the highest pool)

Charlotte Wigley

Primary A Hockey The Primary A Hockey team 2007 consists of Sophie Cocks (C), Bella Bonifant, Emily Street, Mackenzie Keenen, Isabella Van Woekorm, Leah Butt, Tilly Dunn, Georgia Blacklaws, Sam McKellar, Helen Vincent, Rosy Hogben, Alex Leck, Isabella Forbes, Phoebe Steele and Phillipa Cross and our coach, Michelle Baird.

After the year had passed the team was among the top 4 teams and was playing for a spot in the final against Hornby. We unfortunately lost and went on to play Selwyn for 3rd or 4th place.

Our team also went to Welllington to have a sports exchange with Queen Margaret College. The team was billeted out and explored places like the Museum and the Zoo. In the hockey St Margaret's beat Queen Margaret easily and then went on to beat St Oran's as

well. Coming back on the plane our team was excited because they had one last game to play as a team, Selwyn. St Margaret's scored first then scored again and again gaining a 3rd place.

Ten of our players got into Canterbury representative teams: Collier Trophy- Sophie Cocks (c), Isabella Van Woerkom, Leah Butt and Phoebe Steele Canterbury Development- Tilly Dunn (C), Isabella Forbes, Rosy Hogben Canterbury Development Training Squad - Alex Leck, Phillipa Cross, Helen Vincent The St Margaret's Primary A team improved a lot during the season and we can't wait until next year.Thanks so much to Michelle Baird, our fantastic coach.

Leah Butt

Krakatoa Emotive Recount The worst day of my life began so quietly. At midday there was no indication of the horror that would await our island soon. From our house you could see the top of Krakatoa volcano clearly. It rose up from the dense humid jungle as a clear landmark, strong and defiant as if warning you to stay away.

On Sunday afternoon black curling smoke started to pour out of the volcano. Some people were worried but most ignored the smoke as it didn't seem very dangerous. Father and Mother said we would all be fine. I thought, however, that they were just saying that for my two little brothers.

A feeling in the pit of my stomach told me that tomorrow something very bad would happen. I was awoken with a sharp jolt and I felt a shrill pain in my head as it cracked against the wall. Father sprinted in from the beach and said we all must leave at once to stay with Uncle in Java. We had been to stay with Uncle before but there was something about the way he said it that sent a pang of fear spiraling into me.

We all gathered up our belongings and sped down to the beach, my head still throbbing as I cradled my youngest brother in my arms. Mother and my brothers bundled into the boat and we started off.

My eyes started to droop closed and my mind found peace for a few seconds when an earsplitting boom rocketed into my ears. Eyes clicking open, my head spun round, only to witness my beloved island's demise. A column of rocks and ash found my eyes and balls of fire and rocks flew into the air. Where the island had been only moments before there was now only a huge burning ball of fire and smoke. Suddenly a giant wave came rushing towards our boat and my head was spinning as it plunged into murky water and my eyes caught one last glimpse of Father throwing my oldest brother under the waves. My lungs were straining and muscles aching when my head found the surface. I caught a piece of driftwood floating nearby and pulled myself onto it.

Two minutes ago around fifty boats had been headed for Java, now there were none. In the distance I could here someone calling. Spinning around I saw to my wonder my oldest brother. Unfortunately my parents or youngest brother were never found but everything turned out all right.

Helen Vincent

Narnia We remember ...... .

The enchanted wardrobe leading into a mysterious world, bleak mist settling along the forest.

The look of utter mystery as Lucy first saw in the distance a bright light flickering lamppost.

Bells are jingling, the sorceress is coming, one evil white witch whose wand cast doom upon its innocent victim.

The wrath of the witch's power, the frozen faces, the stone statues.

Mr Tumnus the welcoming, joyful faun, with his roaring fire, sardines, scrumptious cake and beautiful music.

He turned over a new leaf - we will never forget.

Asian, kind, strong and fearless, his claws sharp, mane fluffy, tail long.

He is not a traitor, for he gave his life for us on the stone table.

That castle where we rejoiced after the battle, the mark of peace and reason to be glad That was Narnia

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Our Visit to Dunedin

Persuasive Writing - Junk food

Junk Food.

In the holidays my Mum, brother and I drove down to Dunedin to see our grandparents and relatives. We did lots of things down there, but what was especially fun was going to the Albatross Colony and also to Larnarch's Castle where we went with my grandmother.

Do your children go off to Mc Donald's every other day with their friends? If they do, this is a serious sign that they need more healthy food. If all they eat is junk food, then they will become very sick and overweight, even if they do a lot of exercise. Also the parents are worrying more about their happiness rather than health and letting them go. It is my belief that we should break this chain before it gets too long.

Fat and overweight, getting teased and teased, eating more and more junk food, feeling sad? There is only one way to stop it. Quit the addiction of junk food.

Selling junk food to kids without an adult is not cool.

Who wants to be fat???

While we were at the Albatross Colony and down near the barriers, there were lots of adults swooping down with their long wide wings, but we did not spot any nests; quite far away on the rocks were some fur seals, which were quite hard to see; luckily we had binoculars in the car. A thing got quiet we walked down to the beach area and we were lucky enough to spot a fur seal up close since it had swum out to bask in the sun.

After taking many photos we went to Larnach's castle, where we perused most of the gardens, ponds and the stables, imagining how difficult it must have been to bring all the building materials to the steep, bush clad site way back in the 1850s.

Larnach's is a local stone built castle, right out on the tip of the wind swept Otago Peninsula. In most parts of the mansion you could learn a lot, but it might take a while to read EVERYTHING! There were heaps of rooms all fully restored with furniture of the times, some for the maids, servants and nannies.

The ballroom which was beautifully redecorated and had elegant fireplaces, had been turned into a thriving cafe.

Junk food is a very addictive meal, if you can call it that.

Many children adore this fat drenched delicacy but is that what you want? To have your children consuming food that will result in them being so over weight, that it is unhealthy? If that was what my children were like, I would put a stop to it right away.

Loving parents are all for the best, but many have false views of their children. They expect them to take one cookie from the tray, or buy chips for all their friends, if at all. They care more for the happiness of the child rather than the health. If you could choose one future for all the children who consume KFC or McDonald's, what would it be?

I feel that parents and other family members think "Oh one burger won't hurt him!"

It was really fun in Dunedin and if I could I would return to the Albatross Colony and Larnarch's Castle again.

In actual fact, it could do more harm than imaginable! I believe that they also have thoughts that go something like "A little fat will do her some good." If you think that you are definitely in need of a doctor. You make the decision. Do you want your children to be healthy or happy?

Polly Gilroy

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I strongly feel that gorging junk food should be stopped.

Being overweight as a child leads to an overweight adult. What about the child's health? Being overweight causes the risk of cancers such as that of the heart, to be increased. Muscles and bones become hurt.

Depression sometimes happens. Who wants this?

Certainly not me!

Does junk food hurt the environment? Yes it does.

More junk food, more wrappers, bottles and glass is being chucked around. Less junk food results in less wrappers, bottles and glass. Who wants to be stuck in a community filled with rubbish! Certainly not me!

Another reason I strongly agree in limiting junk food is that parents or guardians should be allowed to know what their child is eating.

I certainly want the rule to be put in place. Firstly it will help the community, secondly it will help overweight children become healthy, thirdly it will stop children from getting overweight and lastly adults will feel happy becau$e their children are eating nuitritious meals but are still having junk food once in a while.

If you have read this article and thought you or your child needs to shape up, great! But do it safely.

Leah Butt

Rest In Peace A faint flicker The candle goes out.

I'm in darkness I wander about.

A sliver of brightness Cuts into my mind.

I'm pulled, I can't help it What will I find?

A bright light I'm nearly there.

A few more steps Then, clear, fresh air!

My spirit soars, Zooming fast!

No more pain Peace at last.

Grace Olliver

Shark Slowly the giant fish glided through the vast motionless ocean, its dorsal fin breaking the smooth, glassy surface. Its mind was filled with the thoughts of what had just happened.

It had begun like any other day; a grey nurse shark was lying motionless on the seabed waiting for one of the fish frolicking nearby to swim right into her trap.

Suddenly the happy frolicking turned into a frenzy of panic; something was coming! The thing was huge at least so it seemed to the small shark, just as the trawler net loomed over her she thought all hope was lost.

Scooped up by the giant net, Shark started thrashing around furiously, then relaxed, knowing she might not make it out alive.

The net was dragged along for another ten metres and then slowly brought up to the surface. She was fighting for breath about to die of suffocation just as humans on board yelled something she couldn't understand.

The net was brought aboard and dropped with a loud "THUMP!" The fish were taken and Shark was left dying in the net. The man yelled something again, then suddenly she was dropped with great force into the depths of the deep blue ocean ...

Paris Marshall

Tangiwai Disaster Emotive Recount I will never forget the date, 24th December 1953, the day of the Tangiwai disaster. We were aboard the train, in the evening, travelling between Auckland and Wellington, on our way south for Christmas with our families. It all seemed very pleasant and exciting as my friend and I were chatting away about the gifts we had bought for everyone.

But all of a sudden something was not quite right; we heard a big clank and then screams. We started to panic and clung onto each other like never before.

When I looked out of the window, in the near darkness, carriages were beginning to go off the end of the rail bridge into the river far below. I thought that there was no time to save myself - I just had to cross my fingers and hope it would be over with fast.

Then it was our turn, our carriage paused before taking its deathly plunge into the swirling currents. Our

compartment fell on its side, then we started rolling over and over downstream, being tossed around like corks.

It felt like we were on a never ending rollercoaster.

Finally we stopped; luckily our carriage landed on its wheels so we were upright, at the fierce river's edge.

But it was very dark, apart from the odd faint torchlight shining down from above.

When I came to, people were either trapped under their seats, gasping for breath or motionless or screaming for help. My friend, now over in the far corner, was hurt, whimpering with fear, blood running down her face. I was hurt too, my head had hit something hard when we were rolling over and down the river; I could feel the lump, it was bleeding and painful.

Our carriage started filling up with water, past my kneecaps. I heard a man shout "Over here!" He smashed a window and carefully pulled me out.

The current was strong; it pushed me back and forth,to the left and right. I couldn't breathe because I had just swallowed a whole heap of silt. Just as I thought I was going to die I felt this kind, total stranger push me up above the water and then over to the bank. I heaved myself up and just lay there to catch my breath back, so thankful and relieved I had survived.

I said thank you and then a Civil Defence officer came over, placed me gently onto a stretcher and took me to the same ambulance, where my friend had been taken.

We were forever grateful for surviving the Tangiwai train disaster, although we had to spend that Christmas in hospital, far away from our families.

Ashley Hyland

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7~ ruatiu ~ wl(ltwa It was September 11th 2001, my 9th birthday. I followed Mum in to work that day in New York City. She worked on the 88th floor of the North World Trade Center Building. We arrived at 8:30am. Mum told me to play on her computer, while she did some work. Fifteen minutes had passed.

thinking about what had happened to their loved ones.

Burly, strong firemen pushed and shoved until the door swung dangerously open. We all rushed out to safety, searching for our families who were anxiously waiting to see if anyone they knew had survived. Mum and I saw Dad and Andrew through the crowds and debris.

Cautiously we pushed our way over to them, big hugs all around.

I gazed out of her office window, standing in shock as a large passenger plane was zooming right for us and our building. I screamed, then Mum and I hurried to the hallway. As we did there was a huge BANG! An aeroplane had crashed into the World Trade Center fifteen floors above us!

Seconds later the South Tower of the World Trade Centre collapsed taking many, many innocent lives with it. Screams came from every direction, people had been hurling themselves out of the windows from the very top floors trying to save themselves.

We sat still, in a corner stunned and shocked. I smelt petrol, heard anguished screams and cries for help, all around. When I looked at Mum, she turned to me with terror in her eyes.

Suddenly about twenty seconds later the North Tower Mum and I had escaped from was falling to the ground, amidst the smashing of glass, flying of sheets of iron and twisting of metal girders.

Everything above us burned into flames, but I saw something through the thick, black smoke that shortened my vision. A fireman grabbed Mum and me and led us to the stairs. There was pushing, shoving and yelling but Mum and I made sure we were close together. I clenched her hand as tightly as I could. All of a sudden, I felt a big push on my back. I tumbled down, down, down like a sack of potatoes, lying still on the stairs as people rushed past. We were now on the 10th floor but our journey was not yet over. Mum came and picked me up, my ankle throbbing with pain.

I dared not look out the windows and I closed my ears to the horrific screams all around.

This had all happened so quickly. Our jaws had dropped to the ground in shock. The remains of the Twin Towers lay smashed and broken on the ground like the hearts of all those families who lost someone special in this devastating disaster. This is the one birthday that I will never ever forget.

Twin Towers Emotive Recount

Caitlin Yee Year

Delilah, Poker and Chips Finally we made it to the bottom floor. Everyone was puffing from exhaustion. People were crying and

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The hot air hit me like a furnace as I stepped off the plane and onto the runway. I have to admit Malolo

Island in Fiji is a tropical paradise. My private limousine was waiting for me. "Good day Mrs Swine, we will be arriving at your suite in ten minutes." The chauffeur's voice was low and he had ugly scars on his face. That's the price you pay for dealing with criminals.

My air conditioned room was hidden away from the public by a small forest of palm trees. The room had clean mosaic walls and a lilac velvet bed. I wish I could live here for the rest of my days!

An unpleasant odour drew me to the bathroom door. I could hear something dripping. It was probably nothing but I could hear the "Jaws" theme music booming in my head. The door creaked open and as I poked my head in I screamed with horror!

A bright red substance was splattered everywhere! The toilet, bath and walls were covered in it. I was shaking uncontrollably and my stomach was in a tight knot. I wanted to run away but my feet were glued to the spot.

I looked at the sink and gagged. Blood was dripping down into it. I looked up and saw three words clearly written on the mirror.

"Lose or else" I screamed again, louder this time and ran away. I was still shaking an hour later and had definitely got the message. But there was no way I was going to lose on purpose, no matter what.

A cheque was written out to me, Delilah Swine in sparkling gold. But I was more interested in the amount. $10,000,000 was mine for the game tomorrow.

SQn CNlotlue, wtl~ It was 10:45a.m. One hour till the poker game started.

Butterflies were fluttering around in my stomach already. $10,000,000 was a lot after all, and I would have to pay it all back if I lost. Good thing I wasn't planning to lose!

The final woman was the most glamorous. She wore a v-necked black dress and her chocolate hair tumbled past her shoulders as she pulled it out of a bun.

We all forced smiles at each other as if trying to prove something. It was time. The game was about to begin.

casually walked back to their hotel chatting along the way.

The sun gleamed at me as I walked along the beach.

I slid off my sandals and the burning sensation tickled my toes. My footprints were embedded in the white sand like fingerprints in wet concrete.

Hours later it was lunchtime and my stomach was begging me to feed it. I got up from the table and walked over to the bar. Even though I was 29, my childish cravings tempted me.

Kirsten Miller

The water sloshed around my ankles and as I looked up there was a man. He was tall and brown skinned.

His face was mysterious and looked as though it had seen too much. His small lips seemed to be forever in the shape of a grimace. I quickly turned around so I couldn't see him. He made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I don't know why but he chilled me to the core. As I quickly walked away I could feel my curly bronze hair swaying behind me in the light wind.

"Can I have a bowl of hot chips?"

"Certainly ..."

"Me too!" said the woman with the villainous eyes.

He had found her, the one with the bold features. She had stared at him with her hazel eyes. Their eyes had met for a brief moment before she had slowly walked away. He always had that effect on women. His heart was torn between love and loyalty. He knew he couldn't have both, but how was he meant to decide? If he picked the wrong one he would be a dead man.

I sat down at the beautifully crafted oak table. It was filled with poker chips and cards. The other three empty chairs would soon be filled by three other women, my challengers.

One woman had mousy brown hair. Her pained smile scared me. The second had long blonde locks. Her eyes were full of hatred.

I sat back down. I was coming second, but I would be winning if nerves hadn't gotten the better of me.

Looking up I saw that man again! I grabbed a steaming chip and popped it into my mouth. My gut suddenly lurched. Why had the man been looking at the chip when I ate it? My body began to shake. I had violent fits. I tried to speak but couldn't. My eyes felt like they were popping out of their sockets!

The last thing I saw was the other woman with hot chips doing the same. I blacked out, never to breathe or see the light of day again.

He seized the moment and ran, nearly doubling up with pain as he winded himself on the corner of the table. He felt his heart rip in two when he saw the sad beautiful face of Delilah. Pain was etched on every line of her face. He whispered "You should've listened to the message." He grabbed the money and ran. Never to see his lovers face again.

The other women didn't protest. They smiled and

He knew that he'd made the right decision for himself, but obviously not for Delilah.

Three Wishes I put my hot, sweaty feet up on the stool, sinking my body into the leather couch. I reached for the remote, turned the TV on, and put the remote back down again.

Suddenly, the lights started flickering; the radio went on and off. What was happening I asked myself in panic?

My heart jumped out of my chest, Then BOOM! The light bulbs burst and the radio remained off; the only thing still remaining on, was the TV. I looked around astonished.

All of a sudden the TV started flashing, big, black and bold words were set up in the middle of the screen saying this ....

'3 wishes, use them wisely!'

I was shocked, 'What should I wish for?' I asked myself quietly. I would have to give one wish to each of my sisters, as they would do for me.

Another tiring day passed and I hadn't yet had time to think about my wish. As I walked in the door, the phone started ringing, mum picked it up so I went and unpacked the groceries. A good ten minutes later, mum

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solemnly walked into the kitchen, with light tears trailing down her pale face.

'Mum, are you ok?' I asked.

Her reply was not immediate. As she caught her breath, she stood between the trench doors, drew her breath and said ' Your father's presentation today turned out to be a disaster, if you father doesn't get the job we will have to go on a very strict family budget, which could possibly mean moving you to a public school.'

I didn't want to move schools; I needed to help my dad, somehow.

That night at the dinner table, no one spoke; all that was heard was the clattering of knives and forks. I had to say something ... ' How was your day Dad?' I quietly said. ' I don't want to talk about it, please excuse me!' Dad slowly walked out of the door with his head drooping down, he got his coat and hat, and walked out the front door.

That night, Mum and Dad had gone to bed, and my sisters were in their rooms reading. So I went and lay on the tiger fur. Then all of a sudden, once again the lights turned off, the heater and the stereo turned off.

Though this time it wasn't as such a shock. This time on the TV it said ...

PLEASE ENTER YOUR 3 WISHES! First I said Clare's wish, I went up close to the screen and said 'A castle'

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The ground then started shaking and moving under my feet. I tried to grab hold of something, but there was nothing around me. The house shook for about 3 minutes then BOOM! I no longer stood in a grotty old house, now I stood in a 3 storey castle! ' Your second wish please!'

'A pony' 'And your last?'

I had not yet decided on a wish for me, with moments to spare, I drew closer to the TV ' I wish .... I wish that my Dad will get the job' I started crying. I was in a pool of tears!

The next day, the phone rang, 'Hello!' ' Hello Hun its Dad, I got the job! I'm taking the family out for dinner to celebrate.'

His voice sounded so happy. I don't think I will tell Dad about the wish, not at the moment anyway!

Emily Street

Skiing .... Extravaganza?

Well, it started off as a simple ski trip. We woke up at 6.30am, had a quick breakfast, rushed on our ski gear and sped off to Cardrona. It was a predictable Wanaka winter day. The sun shone brightly, reflecting off the lake but the air was crisp and fresh. Mum had decided to skip this ski day. "The Wanaka shops are calling me," she said. So it was just me, my Dad, my two brothers and of course Brett. He always has to come.

We reached the top of Cardrona and started to unload our skis, snowboards and whatever else my Dad had packed. It was a heavy lot but we were parked in the front car park. Already I could feel people staring at us. Sometimes I get really sick of it. One of my brothers, Will, slipped on his brand new sunnies and strolled along as casual as he could. Charlie on the other hand was already chatting to a group of girls.

This is how all of our holidays are. Everyone wants a glimpse of our black Hummer Limo and us. So I just flicked my wavy blonde hair, batted my eyelashes and strolled swiftly to the edge of the snow. The sun was just rising up over the mountaintop. An array of colours shone on the white snow, causing everyone to squint and quickly shove on their ski goggles.

Dad and I clipped on our skis and Will and Charlie attached their snowboards. Brett was instructed to keep an eye on us. "Everybody, meet at the cafe at 12.30pm for lunch," Dad said. So we all set off.

The soft snow guided my skis across the mountain tracks. I moved swiftly over moguls and landed awkwardly over jumps. My new Vokel skis were a light pink with lime green polka dots. "The only pair of these in the world," the shopkeeper had said. It was almost 12.30 and I decided to take the hard way down. It was covered in hard ice and it was a very skinny trail. "Ahhhhhh!" I screamed and I plunged off the side of the track and over the edge of the ski field. Thump! Thump! Was all I could hear as I rolled down over rocks and hard ice. Finally, I stopped just before a sheer cliff. My head was thumping and my bones rattled as much as an earthquake. "Help!

Help!" I yelled with all of my energy. As if anyone would hear me from down here. Big fat tears rolled down my cheeks and onto my Gucci ski jacket. There

iertCJteoiw e, toJtl~ was absolutely no way I could climb up there unless I had a harness. I lay down and closed my eyes, thinking about my family that I probably wouldn't see again.

My teeth started to chatter and a cool wind was picking up. I looked at my shiny watch. It had almost been 2 hours since I was supposed to meet my Dad. Surely someone would be looking for me. My blonde hair was almost as frosty as the pink frosting on Grandma's Christmas cakes! I longed to jump in my fluffy pyjamas and slide into the warmth of my snugly bed. But I knew I couldn't give up. "Help!

Help! Help!" As I was shouting, something gleamed in the corner of my eye. It was an old ski pole. And about 5 metres away was a long rope. A light clicked in my brain. I had an idea.

I puffed and puffed and puffed as I pulled my exhausted body up the mountain. The rocks were sharp and every inch I moved a pain echoed throughout my body. I had tied the rope around my body and attached it to the ski pole. Then I stuck the pole in the side of the mountain above me and climbed to it. It worked well and I felt safe. I repeated this until I finally reached the top. Every inch of my body ached as I slowly made my way past all the skiers who glanced at me strangely, past the jumps, past the bumps, past my Dad and brothers who were shouting "Are you all right? Answer us!" and into our shiny black Hummer Limo with the comfy leather seats. "This is the life," I thought as I softly closed my sky blue eyes, dreaming about hot sand between my toes. I can't wait until my next holiday!

Gabrielle Beckett

Hanmer Camp 2007 We all arrived at school at 8.30am with bags the size of elephants, everyone gathered outside raring to go. By 9.00am we had all our bags stowed on the buses and we were on our way.

When about half the road trip was over we stopped at Culverden domain to have a bite to eat and burn off some energy. We then set back on our way. After not much time had passed we were finally in Hanmer. Camp had begun! We all rushed to our bunkrooms and found which bed took our fancy. After a talk from the managers we had lunch under the trees. At around 1.00pm we left for our first activity.

There were eight different activities we did during the camp. Mountain biking where we each got a mountain bike and helmet and biked round the Hanmer forest. The instructors taught us how to properly use all the gears and ride safely on a mountain bike.

Orienteering was amazing. This had teams running round Hanmer forest using a map to find plastic white cylinders with a letter and a number on them. Math lessons were at the Hanmer Hot Pools. Here we calculated the volume of water in the pools and solved other problems. We got to swim there as well. The Hanmer Cemetery was interesting. We walked around trying to find the youngest person who was buried and the oldest person. The cemetery was fun but we were all happy to be out of there.

We all looked forward to jet boating. We were all given life jackets and then set off for an amazing trip down the Waiau River including many 360s and fast sprints with our hair blowing in the wind.

In Mission Impossible we had many team building activities where we all had to work together to, in the end unlock a cabinet with the New Zealand flag in it then at the end we all got to hoist the flag!

During the Survival Skills we learnt what to do if someone gets hypothermia and how to make hot chocolates on a mini camp pot and pan. We also had a look through the museum and did a quiz on all the items in the museum.

This activity also included a look through the town looking at all the tourist activities that you are able to do in Hanmer to help us with our project work.

Later we met up with everyone back at camp and had a big barbecue dinner. We then went to bed but sure enough no one went to sleep. The next morning we all had breakfast then met up at the meeting - under the big tree. Suddenly it started to rain, but that wasn't going to stop us. We parted our own ways with our activity groups.

At 12.30pm we came back for a quick lunch and then later at 1.30pm we set off again for activity number 3. Soon it was dinnertime and later we went to the hot pools and hydro slides for some thrilling rides down the black hole!

Later we came back and hopped into bed all exhausted after a jam-packed day of fun and excitement.

On day 3 we started at 9.00am with our 4th activity.Again at 1.30pm after a quick lunch we started out on our sixth activity.

Camp went really quickly and before we knew it we were on our way home. The bus home was a lot quieter than on the way to Hanmer with many people asleep or dozing off in their seats. When we got to school we were united with our parents and got our bags and went home after an amazing, fun-filled four days at Hanmer camp!

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gen, CJlflo:iLue, to/tL~ Life Saving Experience Boom! Waves heaved down and water sprayed up over my whole body. The cold sea water tingled my feet. My eyes focused on the first yellow buoy. It was all I could see. My knees were whacking my hands, as I jumped over the white foam bubbling at the sea's surface, like a fizzy can of lemonade.

My eyes started to sting in pain from the fresh sea salt.

I could no longer see the first buoy. I was one of the three blind mice swimming, but not getting anywhere, as my arms flung about and made big splashes in the water. I had to follow my senses. Everything was blurry.

Waves smashed and pounded over my head, I struggled to see the surface. With a splutter I coughed, spitting out the salty water taste left in my mouth.

Still I carried on. Frantically I rubbed my eyes and my vision came back. Now I could see the second buoy. Brightly it bobbed up and down. I went around it scraping the side of the round, smooth, plastic. The calmness of the buoy made me relax.

Very soon I tensed up again as a monstrous wave rose over me smashing over my body. It pushed me under with its thunderous power. Sea water trickled down my throat, making my mouth taste like a salty sardine. I waved my hands trying to pull myself to the surface.

All of a sudden I heard the roaring motor of the rubber dinghy. All I could feel was an arm grasp mine and I was heaved into the boat. I landed on the floor with a great big thump. Again I spluttered, and coughed to get my breath back. The taste of salt still mingled

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in with my saliva making me spit and gag. The man driving the boat asked in a gruff voice, that sounded like he had been at sea to long, "Are you ok?"

I answered with a croak, "I'm ok thanks."

He headed for the shore where I saw that many of the other swimmers had been rescued. They had their towels wrapped around them, with hot chocolate shaking in their hands, like the pinball at lotto getting ready to drop. I wished I was there doing the same, but I knew I would be there soon.

All at once the boat motor conked out and the boat turned side ways. It was then that I saw a huge wave coming for us, but that wasn't all I was worried about.

The man shouted to get out of the boat. We both jumped out just in time as the boat flipped and a big bang screamed in my ears. Looking behind me as I swam, I knew I wasn't imagining what I had seen. A dark grey shadow was swimming towards us like a torpedo. The shark fin poked up out of the water.

The thought of life and death went through my mind.

I swam for my life stroke after stroke puffing and panting for breath. Waves pounded over me and pushed me down slowing my speed, but I carried on swimming for my life.

The people on the beach screamed in horror covering their children's eyes. I was aware the shark was getting closer, but I kept on going and going. Thoughts went through my mind. I had to try to get to the shore.

All at once I could feel the soft silky sand beneath my feet. I ran with all the energy I had left. My hands covered my tummy. It was in pain from the sea salt I had swallowed. My rash top sagged down and water dripped from it. My hands clasped the bright blue goggles that I had held on to the whole way. My mouth was wide open with exhaustion and pain. My hair was soaking wet tickling me in the face. My rosy cheeks were puffing out. The string of my hat was clasping around my neck so tight I was struggling to breath.

I ran onto the beach. My mum hugged me and wrapped a towel around my shoulders. Very soon my breath started to slow down and a huge relief went through my mind. I was glad to be alive. Suddenly I saw a hand and a large cup settled into my hands. I sipped the hot gooey substance and the chocolate taste settled in my mouth. It was as hot as a bubbling spa on a cold winter's night.

My wish had come true. At last I could relax.

Kate Suter

Runaway Experiment The air was hot, with only a few exhausted puffs of wind blowing the surrounding palm trees lazily. The crystal blue tide was out for the time being buying Lucciana more time. The scorching bright sand was soaking up the sun's warmth like a greedy child eating lollies. On it, fresh footprints were engraved.

"Such a shame, thought Lucciana, pausing for a few precious moments to catch her breath, "There is just no time to enjoy this gorgeous place."

Lucciana was unsure as to how long her legs could keep up with this dreadful chase. Her dark brown hair was matted with sticky sweat and her ankle was steadily oozing bright red blood. Luce felt a powerful swipe on top of her head. She reached her hand up to the pain but quickly took it away because the pain was intense. It was like nothing she had felt before. Limping with all her little energy left, Lucciana struggled to a sheltered patch of sand surrounded by lush bushes. She knew it was only a matter of time before ......... Her head was swirling. She was losing her sense of which way was up or down. "I think that's up." Muttered Lucciana. BANG!!

Darkness blacker than black enclosed Lucciana, pressing against her, trying to squash her into nothing. Lucciana was panting and finding it difficult to breathe .......... .

With a huge effort, she opened her terrified eyes, her lungs screaming for air. Cautiously Lucciana looked around. "It's not night time yet?" Said Luc puzzled.

"Or is it?" Replied a gruff voice.

The voice moved into the light just enough to show gleaming emerald green eyes and wolf like teeth.

"So, you thought you could run away, did you, Lucciana clone 3XY?" "What you do is wrong!" Cried Lucciana. "People are unique, different and meant to be ONE OF A KIND!" "Well then, I see you've made your decision. You are one of my best clones. I'm sorry it has to end this way." Lucciana felt a small prick to her neck and then the world went into eternal darkness.

Kate ldiens

My Journey Across the Ice A huge grin stretched across my icy face as I saw the flagpole dig deep into the thick ice below. We had made it, the first girls to the North Pole. Chuffed as we were, I couldn't help but worry about the trip back.

As I put one of my arms around one of my colleagues, out of the corner of my eye, I could see some playful penguins. Confused by all the commotion we were making, they were sliding down all the ice slopes. Their fluffy fur looked so warm and cuddly, that I couldn't help but feel a shiver down my spine. I quickly took a few photos and then gestured to the others, that it was time to set up camp. I couldn't do this quickly enough, my big red coat just wasn't cutting the mustard! I needed to get into my cosy sleeping bag.

As I awoke to another day, the bright sun blinded my eyes, as we started to get ready for the day ahead.

My dark brown hair was in knots and my tired green eyes could barely stay awake. When I looked up at Hannah, one of my colleagues, she looked like a dogs breakfast. Her blonde hair all greasy and knotty, her blushed red cheeks and pale lips. The only nice thing about her was her bright blue eyes. I could see nerves wash over her worried face about the journey we were going to take. I gave her a wink of reassurance, she smiled at me and I could see she was saying thank you. We glanced back at each other and we knew it was time to go.

As we trudged through the ice, I almost collapsed with exhaustion, we'd been traveling for two hours.

I couldn't even make the most of what felt like the best place on earth. My optimistic attitude went out the window. I did not know that the next step in front of me, could be my last. As I saw my chunky boot

step on the ice, I heard a number of cracks, I then felt my body plunge into the freezing water below.

Panic swept over me, my temperature was dropping, I didn't know what to do. Darkness surrounded me like a blanket, as I desperately tried to pull myself up.

I couldn't feel my toes or fingers any more, my eyes closed. It was all over.

My eyes stretched open as I awoke to a small and shabby tent. I was alive, that was my first thought, but where was I? "Hello anyone there?" I gasped. "You're awake, you're awake," some blurry figures shouted, "We didn't know if you'd wake up." Frustration entered me, I didn't know who these people were? I rubbed my eyes carelessly, when suddenly I saw some blonde hair, red cheeks, pale lips and bright blue eyes, it was Hannah.

Arabella Bonifant

Netball Season!

We had all been practising for weeks now. The time had come. It was trial day, our hearts were racing as we were anxious about what team we would get into.

There was an A, B, C and D team, we gave it our all, passing, shooting and jumping. We had to be performing at our highest level if we had any hope of beating our year 7 and 8 competitors.

A few weeks later they put out the results. All of us were jumping with joy at our results; we had all got into the C team! We were so happy, the competition had been fierce.

Being in section three was good for us as we were at the top of the list. The problem was that there were

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twelve of us, nearly two teams, so most of us only got half games each time!

Our team was thrilled when we found out that we were getting moved up to section two. Guess what?

We were the only middle school team who did!

Then the competition got harder and we only won a few games, but we still played our hearts out.

Our B team managed to get into the semi finals for the 13 years plate but lost to a really tough team.

We couldn't have done it without our magnificent coach Melissa, thanks for being so great!!!!

We all enjoyed the season and can't wait till the next one!!

Casey Carse/, Kirsten Miller and Jess Campbell

Tired Tired. Tired was the only word I could use to describe how I felt at this moment. Returning from such a tiring and long journey, from sharing rooms with other people and going outside to get to the toilet. This was camp!

I had been so excitied about camp but I was more excitied about getting home, because there was going to be a surprise when I got there. Driving home felt like years were passing. Looking out the window everything looked the same, blue skies and green grass. We pulled up my drive. I could feel the butterflies flapping in my stomach. The closer we got the more anxious I felt. I ran inside and dropped my bags on the

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floor. I searched the house for my surprise. I couldn't see it. Dad pointed his finger at my bed. I ran into my bedroom and pulled my blankets down.

There she was, so beautiful and so small. I could fit her in my hand. I felt a slight vibration through my fingers as she purred. She knew this was her home and I knew she was mine. I slowly lifted her from my bed and I stared at her with love in my eyes. She looked at me too; I knew she was thinking the same thing. I carried her out to the lounge and she touched my face with her small paw, just playfully not putting her claws out. She looked at me in a playful way. Her giant green eyes shined. How could I resist squeezing the life out of her with a huge hug?

car. As we drove there I looked at Bella and she looked at me, innocently, like nothing was wrong.

We arrived at the vet's and the vet examined Bella and took x-rays. After a while she came to tell us the results. I stood there with my heart pumping waiting to hear the bad news.

The vet told us that she was going to be ok! She did not have the deformity! My heart started to beat faster in joy. We returned home and the happy skip returned to our voices. We knew that Bella was going to be ok and we al o knew that we would never forget that day.

Laura McKay

Time passed and we had found a name for her, Bella, we got to know her more and more. A few weeks had passed and our new family member had settled in well. The phone rang, I ran to answer it. I answered hello with a happy skip in my voice. The lady asked for my mum I thought that it must be one of my mum's friends wanting to talk to her, but it wasn't. Bella's life depended on this phone call.

I passed the telephone to mum slowly. Mum snatched it from me and said hello. I saw mum's smile turn into sadness. I heard the name Bella mentioned in the conversation and that's when I knew it was bad. Mum hung up the phone slowly and told me that Bella's breeder said she might have some deformity. I looked at Bella, she was perfect in my eyes.

The breeder had said this deformity could be life threatening. Mum and I decided to take a trip to the vet. We put Bella in her carry cage and put her in the

Lit Quiz Some call us nerds, our parents get sick of the antisocial blob that lies on the couch absorbed within the words of literature. But in my opinion? We just enjoy reading books.

There are not many kids our age who know what famous classic starts with ' It was the best' or which famous Kiwi author was born in 1942. But the Lit quiz is designed for those of us who do.

In our team this year we had 4 girls from St Margaret's yr 7 and 8 with one thing in common. We all loved books. With this drive at the back of our minds we gave endless time and effort into training for the 2007 Lit Quiz.

The Lit Quiz is a quiz about books. Questions can range from fairy tales to classics to modern fiction.

8wh w.,oi:Lu e wtilLtuJ You don't know the questions until the day or indeed which books to read.

The quiz is especially designed for kids our age and has now spread to be a world wide event.

So off we pottered to the Canterbury regional finals.

For two of us this wasn't a first time event. Last year St Margaret's had won the international final so the pressure was on. Also with a sponsored trip to England on the line we were not taking it lightly.

In the Canterbury Regionals we came a close 2nd which meant we were able to compete in Auckland for the national title. So after fundraising we flew up north.

The standard of the competition had definitely grown with the chance of a sponsored trip to England. But after a nail biting, nervous, suspenseful hour we had come in fourth equal at the New Zealand Nationals.

Although we did not win this year, the quiz was a great experience to be part of. We met authors such as Tessa Duder in person and have learned so much about literature.

house. It was exciting to be in New Zealand and to be able to make new friends. When I first arrived at the boarding house I was amazed to see that it was not like most boarding houses as it looked just like a normal house both inside and out.

I was introduced to Amy Barbara the boarding manager, she was so nice to me and she showed me how the house worked. I was taught about the duties and about the rules. I soon found that I could get a sleep in, compared to my old school in Korea!

At 5:30pm on the dot everybody in the boarding house rushes to the television to watch "Home and Away". Then at 10 to 6 we go up to the cafe for dinner to start at 6pm until 6:30pm. Then we have prep time from 6:30 until 7:30. We are not allowed our cell phone at that time and we need to do our homework or reading books or writing a letter. It has all been such a wonderful experience for me to be in the boarding house at St Margaret's.

Desi Soetanto

Caroline Turnbull

Canterbury Basketball Tournament

Y7/8 Boarding House 2007 It all started when I arrived from Indonesia. There were 11 people and 4 bedrooms in the boarding

We all meet up on Papanui road outside St Andrew's College on a Thursday morning ready for our drive to a three-day tournament of basketball. After four hours in a van with lots of singing and laughing we arrived at our destination, Blenheim. From there we went to our hotel and split into rooms, five in each. We all got together for our tea then had some relaxing time watching television before we went to bed.

Next morning we were up, had breakfast and off in the van down to the stadium all nervous but pumped to play our first game against South Canterbury. To our disappointment we lost! We all went back pretty down but we decided to blame some of it on where we parked. So next time we knew not to park there. When we came back in the afternoon to play Otago we made sure we parked in a different spot. But we lost again!

So our team was a little sad that night but we just prepared ourselves for the next two games tomorrow. When we got up the next morning the routine was the same. We were also all ready to beat the team we were going to play! Yes we won at last, our team was so happy and we had found our lucky park so now we knew where to park every time.

We came back in the afternoon and parked in our lucky spot. This game was quite a fun one as it was back and forward like a seesaw and we won! Since it was the last night I produced my big block of dairy milk chocolate and most of our team played and it was the best night there!

After that we went to bed for our final game of the tournament.

Next morning we were so sure we were going to win! We headed off to the stadium and made sure we had our lucky car park then went in. From our determination and teamwork we won big time and were so happy having won three games.

That was a great way to end the U15 Canterbury premierships basketball in Blenheim!

Jessica Smail/

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Climbing Every Tuesday and/or Thursday some SMC girls go to the YMCA to climb after school, with Peg and Ms Rod. Here are some handy tips to get started.

5. When reaching for a higher hold, straighten your legs for better height.

Diana Chen and Sam Henderson HAVE FUN!

How To Climb 10 easy steps for preparing and climbing

Collier Cup Hockey How To Get Ready 1.Either get shoes from the counter or just wear sneakers. (WARNING: Shoes from the counter (if in red stain your socks.)

2. Get a harness from the counter, put your legs in each loop and tighten, make sure it is above your hips, and that you double back on the loops (C for closed, 0 for open) 3. Pair up in threes or twos, and choose your wall.

4. Make sure you and your partner/belayer are clipped in tight and the caribena is locked. If you are climbing make sure you have a figure of eight knot for extra security.

5. Twisted ropes can make letting you down harder and strains the ropes, make sure they are untangled before you climb.

Climbing Tips 1. Tell your belayer when you start to climb so that she/he knows when to start belaying.

2. Never put your finger in the silver lead rope hooks, if you were to fall your finger will get ripped off.

3. It's handy to have a chalk bag clipped to your harness in case the holds become slippery.

4. When lead roping it is easier to clip with a straight arm.

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Six girls from the St Margaret's primary A hockey team were selected to trial for the A and B Canterbury U13 Hockey teams.They were Sophie Cocks, Isabella van Woerkom, Tilly Dunn, Bella Bonifant, Phoebe Steele and Leah Butt Four of those girls were lucky enough to be selected for the Canterbury A Collier team. They were Sophie Cocks (Captain), Isabella van Woerkom, Leah Butt and Phoebe Steele.

The Collier Trophy was held in Dunedin with 26 teams competing from throughout New Zealand. The coaches were Mushy (Michelle Baird, SMC primary A Hockey coach) and Chris Edwards. They trained twice a week leading up to Collier, also having mini tournaments in Blenhiem, Timaru, Ashburton and Christchurch, winning each game comfortably.

Unbeaten thoughout the representative season they went to Dunedin confident of a good showing.

They stayed at the John McGlashen Boys' Hostel.

Their minds were set on being national champions.

They beat Otago, Hawkes Bay, North Otago and Manawatu 4-0 to come out of top of their pool. They won the quarter final 2-0 against a very physical Waikato team and and beat Taranaki 3-0. They had a place in the final against Auckland!

The Final!

As they stepped on to the turf the only thing on their minds was "to win Collier". The first goal was in the net just 1 minute 52 seconds into the game. They were 2-0 up at half time having enjoyed a dominant 25 minutes of composed and organised hockey. In the second half Auckland scored a goal bringing the score back to 2-1, that goal being the first goal of the tournament scored against us. Canterbury put the game out of reach for Auckland when they scored the third goal. When the final whistle went everyone was hugely excited as winning was the goal for the whole season. hey will never forget the fantastic time had by all at Collier trophy 2007!

Sophie Cocks and Isabella Vanwoerkom

Kids in Town In term 3, the Christchurch Art Gallery was filled with music. Schools from all over Christchurch had practiced for months on end to have their chance at publicly performing. Now it was St Margaret's turn to shine. The years 4 to 6 choir showed what they were made of in the proud and enthusiastic Kapa Haka display of Ta eka a Maui, followed by a heart aching melody about the plight of the whales. They then picked up the pace with a bouncy number from Grease. The applause was deafening but it wasn't over yet.

As the cheers died down, the orchestra stepped onto the stage with their many varieties of instruments.

The wonderful Miss Plummer conducted them through the dynamic song Hava Nagela that fascinated the crowd. Next was the recorder group who played 3 short songs fantastically.

Finally it was the years 7 and 8 choir, led by the talented Miss Kerr. Their first song was the New Zealand song, a beautifully sung tribute to our magical land. Next was Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, a lively song complete with a well-rehearsed descant.

Johnny Todd was next, and he taught us a lesson about if we leave our love behind, we could lose it. Last but not least was Stepping Out, an upbeat tune about a man who's going to propose to his girlfriend. With that, St Margaret's finished their performance, and we would have to say, it was a great experience for both the amazed audience and us.

Cassidy Andrews and Sarah Churchward

Little Laura Little Laura-Jane played happily in her front yard with her favourite toy Milly the bear and her friend Jenny. As the glowing mid-day sun disappeared behind a cloud so did little Laura-Jane. Left standing alone Jenny's body froze, her friend was gone. Tiny tears rolled down her now white face as she began to cry and scream. Laura-Jane's father, Mark heard the screams and ran out to their yard to find Jenny crying and his daughter gone.

He turned to Jenny "Where's Laura-Jane?" he whispered. Jenny just pointed at the road and said to him "gone."

Mark's quivering legs carried him as fast as they could to the nearest phone where he stood motionless apart from his stone cold hand slowly dialing 1, 1, 1. Within minutes the police arrived to

talk to Mark, Jenny and neighbours and look for evidence. As the police worked a little girl only 6 years of age was being taken further and further away from home. After hours of questioning and searching, the police had nothing. As word spread of Laura-Jane's disappearance hundreds of tips flooded into police but all of the possible leads led to dead-ends.

Days and weeks passed but still nothing so the police decided to return to the neighbourhood where Laura-Jane was last seen. They decided to requestion some of the residents and as they did a car pulled up in a driveway two houses from the one they were questioning. As the police began to approach the man getting out of the car, he ran into the house and locked the door. After a long negotiation with the man they gained entry to the house to question him.

The man seemed to have a solid alibi but the police were suspicious because of his actions. They gained a search warrant and searched his house the following day. There was nothing unusual in the house but he was very protective of his car. This provoked the police to take his car for inspection.

The car was thoroughly photographed and inspected so as not to miss anything. The car's interior showed no evidence of anyone else ever being in it. Yet when the boot of the car was searched, a single blonde hair and a group of fibres were found on one of the mats. They also noted his petrol tank was ¾ full.The hair and fibre was sent to the lab for testing. The hair was compared to one that belonged to LauraJane and was found on her pillow.

The DNA from the hairs was an exact match. The fiber was tested against many others but only matched the fibre from Laura-Jane's bear Milly.

With no other evidence to go by, the man who was now identified as Jake Dain was further questioned on his whereabouts the day of Laura-Jane's disappearance. Jake claimed to be shopping at the Warehouse for Christmas presents for his family and friends. When questioned about why there were no new Warehouse products or bags in his house, he explained that a shop beside the Warehouse was gift-wrapping them for him and they would be ready in a week's time as they were extremely busy.

Police then asked him when and where he last filled up his car. He said he had filled it up before going to the Warehouse at the BP station just down the road.

Police contacted the BP station only to find that they had no record of Jake Dain making a transaction on that day. So the police contacted the local Warehouse again, finding that Jake had not purchased anything form their store and there was no shop next to them that does gift-wrapping.

This made it clear that he was lying. The police contacted all the petrol stations in the area. They found that one way out in the country confirmed Jake Dain's transaction on that day and many others over the last 6 weeks. The store-keeper also added that on one occasion,( his very first transaction) he had bought 2 ice-creams.

He kept one with him and put the other in the boot. Then he sped off down a road directly opposite the station that leads to a group

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of batches spread along a beach. This may be the break the police had been waiting for. They traveled to the petrol station then down the road that led to the batches. All but one of the batches had no lights on. This is the one they inspected first. When they knocked a little girl came to the window. She frantically used hand gestures to let the officers know that she was locked in.

After breaking down the door like two ferocious bulls, they immediately identified the girl as Laura-Jane.

She explained to them as best she could what had happened and gave them a brief description of the man. She also added he was coming back to the batch to deliver her food, like he did every other day.

Just as she said this, Jake Dain stumbled in the door holding an armful of groceries. The police waited till he had put down the groceries, then pounced on him and hand-cuffed his hands behind his back.

Mr Dain and Laura-Jane were then escorted back to head-quarters where Jake was arrested and LauraJane was reunited with her overjoyed parents and Laura-Jane, her family and Milly the bear lived happily ever after.

Kimberley Twine

practising with us. A conductor came out onto the centre of the stage and went over a few fun warm ups, and then we soon began singing the songs such as: God Of Nations, Clowns and Ode to Joy, which was our main theme song.

After weeks of practice our second practice came and it was the day of the real performance. Patiently we waited to be seated. Miss Kerr took our books if we had them because she had given them to us a few weeks before to practice with.

Finally we were seated, with around nine other schools surrounding us.

Yet again the conductor came out to give us some warm ups but this time the orchestra was sitting on the centre of the stage and playing exhilarating music with our singing voices in the background.

A few hours later we were excused from the Town Hall. The hours passed like a turtle at full speed as the time of waiting came to a close. We were finally standing singing God Of Nations. The orchestra was playing their music beautifully and our voices were singing loudly and almost lifting the roof off. Luckily it didn't lift off, or some serious damage could have happened.

One Day Event It was a cold, early morning in May as the horse floats and trucks trundled into Halswell grounds. Jumps could be seen in the distance covered with a thick layer of frost and the grass was frozen under our feet.

Horses could be heard whinnying all around and seen warming up near the dressage arenas.

Towards the afternoon, the first bit of sunlight started to creep up and the shivering riders headed out to walk the cross-country. The ice began to melt and the ground became squelchy and soggy. From drops to water, uprights to spreads, roll-tops and corners; there was lots of variety in the course. The first riders began to get ready and race off into the distance at a good gallop! Horses were raring to go (literally!)

Thundering hooves hit the dirt at a great pace as riders took off with speed.

Show jumping was a bit less wild and more elegant with horses prancing over the jumps in the well-built round. The energetic horses sped round leaping over the jumps in style.

The day concluded with many well earned placings and exhausted riders.

Jessie, Olivia and Abby

Music Festival 2007 It was early Wednesday morning when the whole of year 7 and 8 gathered in the Little Theatre for Choir practice. Miss Kerr passed out the green booklet, which instantly told us the Music Festival was coming even though it was written in bold letters on the front.

We were taken to our first practice at Christ's College where there were around another 700 children

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A range of conductors came out to lead us in the songs we sang. The crowd clapped excitedly after each song and in Ode to Joy, which we sang last, we even had a 'Standing Ovation'. The Christchurch School's Music Festival was a great success and will never be forgotten.

Courtney Milner and Marcella Zeestraten

Mountain Biking Whizzing down the bumpy, forest track with the wind blowing in your face is the most wonderful feeling.

Listening to the rustle of the leaves and the chattering of the birds as you bike through the cool, relaxed bush is also very satisfying. "Stopping!" The girl pulled the brake hard with her right hand high in the air. I

8whCAWtiu~ WJtL~ frantically squeezed down on the brakes as well as howling out to the person behind to stop quick! We all creaked to a halt just in time.

We walked our bikes into a long thin line behind Amy, our instructor. Staring nervously at our path, thin and small, we watched it trickle a short way before throwing itself over a long, steep drop.

that it was big), and bounced off with a 'I am so scared I'm happy' grin on my face. Skidding full speed towards the river, I just remembered my brakes. They screeched in protest to my frantic squeezing. I then twisted around to join the group.

"That was really scary ... but can I do it again?"

Sarah Churchward

"Okay everybody!" said Amy, frightfully enthusiastic, "make a sound, a yell or anything, as you bike down here. Also, keep your feet on the pedal and DON'T use those brakes!"

I stared at her in horror as she asked "who's first?"

With no reply, she nominated Beth, who had done it before. She rode down with a pitiful scream, but it still chilled me to the bone.

Soon it was the next person, the next. An array of yells and screams filled the air, and with each one, my heart leapt higher and higher into my throat. Just as I was about to choke, the call I had been dreading arrived.

"Who's next?" Amy called.

"Me!" I squeaked, sounding rather like a frightened mouse crawling towards a mousetrap. I wheeled to the beginning of the slope and narrowed my eyes at it. "I'm not scared of you!" I thought, silently yelling at the cruel, dirt track before me. Then, mustering up all the will power I had, I pushed off. "Yee-arrrRRRrrr!!"

I shrieked as I hurtled down, jumping insanely with every bump. I swerved right to avoid the jump (not

The grass would be much greener, Without footprints on the ground.

So look after our beauty, We want it to stay forever.

So we can still call it our cutey, At any time of the day.

Leigh Blair

Rhyming Poem

Sophie's Story

Nature is a curious thing, With all the different plants.

All day you hear birds sing, Enjoying their day in the sun.

"Quick, hurry" came an urgent whisper from the other side of the door. Freddy flicked vigorously through the filing cabinet. He was trying as hard as he could but his fingers were trembling with excitement. This could be his only chance to discover who he really is.

A place where we can shout Or dance and play all day.

Some times there could be drought, Where there is no rain around.

It is amazing In the night When you are star gazing.

But in the morning It's just as cool to see the sun Through the curtains you are drawing.

Without the earth We wouldn't be here.

There would be no birth.

Maybe the world would be happier, If no human walked the earth.

The world would be much cleaner, With no rubbish around.

Freddy is a poor, innocent child, trapped in a neverending hell, commonly known as an orphanage, but this is an orphanage like no other. It is no picnic in the park, with detention rooms filled with rats and spiders, and beds as hard as rock. It is a hard life.

Freddy is a typical 10yr old boy who loves adventures and sailing. Although he has never been sailing before, he dreams of sailing the seas, along with his best friend Tim. Every day Freddy covers up his sandy blonde bowl cut with an oversized sailor,s cap, and clothes his tanned body with a navy blue top and white pants to resemble a sailor's outfit.

"Got it" Freddy yelled, a little too loudly.

"What are you hooligans doing in the filing room?" it yelled angrily at the two boys.

"No-no-nothing Miss Haggis" squeaked tiny Tim

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"How dare you go in there without my permission?

Detention, both of you" she screeched. With that, she picked them up by the scruff of their necks, and threw them in the detention room. As they landed, rats scurried away with fear. Tiny Tim sat sulking in the corner till supper was served. Like most nights it was a cabbage soup which only consisted of cabbage and hot water and if they were lucky, they would get half a piece of bread as well. As they ate, rats scavenged left over crumbs from around them.

"Is it time yet?" whispered Tiny Tim. "Not yet wait til I can hear it snoring," replied Freddy.

"Zzzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzzzzzz" "It's time let's go" Together Freddy and Tiny Tim set too tying up the bed sheets to create a sturdy rope that would hold their weight long enough for the two boys to escape out the window.

After what seemed like years of walking on the rough concrete, they came to grass as soft as silk.

Then, to their disappointment, they came across rocky traintracks. They sat down with their heads in their hands, unsure of what to do next. Then came a rattling from behind. The two boys looked up just in time to see a taxi train, powered by a sail, jolting along towards them. Freddy stuck out his hand with his thumb up, hoping it was the right thing to do. Just as he had hoped, the taxi train stopped, the two boys jumped on and they rattled off into the distance.

The sea was calm and the mist was settling around the taxi train. It was so heavy they could barely see the outline of the castle in the distance.

Freddy and Tim had ants in their pants. They couldn't

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sit still, they were so excited to be nearly at the train station.

The sight was not as they had imagined but the two hopped off anyway. The two boys were starving and had no money for food, so they picked berries off a nearby tree and headed off into the distance.

Freddy could see the castle more clearly now and knew, if there was an answer, he would find it there.

1sts, 2nds (sopranos) and 3rds (altos). I am a second soprano and sometimes an alto. They taught us our notes and how to hit them properly, to annunciate and tricks to make the words of the songs sound better such as singing tea instead of tear.

During the holiday course we were voice matched.

This means you are placed in your row according to your voice so when someone is listening to you they will only hear one voice as apposed to lots of individual voices.

Sophie Blair and Abby Silva

Special Choir During term three I auditioned for the Senior Representative Choir for the Lions Christchurch Schools Music Festival. Later that term I received a call from Ms Kerr telling me I was successful.

My first rehearsal was on a Saturday only a few weeks after I found I had gained a place in the choir, many other Saturday rehearsals followed. This choir is a huge commitment as if you miss one rehearsal you are out .......... No Exceptions!

Each rehearsal lasted for an hour and a half as we learnt the harmonies to the massed choir songs with the Junior Choir.

When the second week of the holidays arrived so did the three-day holiday course. This meant 18 hours of singing. During the three days we learnt and memorized our three Senior Choir songs - Dies lrae, Weep No More and Hail Holy Queen.

Andrew Withington, Richard Oswin and Mrs. Charlton worked with us on our parts in each of our sections

By the end of the three days we knew all the songs (ours and the massed choirs), had learnt so much, had lots of fun and made heaps of new friends. There was only one more Saturday practice before the opening night.

On the opening night we anxiously waited for our warm-ups to end so we could walk onto the stage and sing our songs to an audience in the Town Hall for the very first time. Everything went really well and before we knew it we were saying good-bye and see you tomorrow.

All the performances went really fast and before I knew it, it was St Margaret's night. That morning we had a dress rehearsal so the massed choirs knew were to sit and what was going to happen that night.

We went through the songs and were briefed on what to do and when to arrive that night.

I was more excited that night than any of the other nights and couldn't wait to get on-stage. As I sat down in my place all of my St Margaret's friends started waving to me. The sound in the town hall grew quiet as the lights dimmed and Richard Oswin introduced

the schools participating that night and got everyone to stand for the singing of our national anthem.

During the evening everything ran very smoothly. In the first half the massed choirs, junior choir, recorder ensemble, senior choir and concert band performed.

In the second half the orchestra performed three pieces and accompanied the massed choirs in singing a final bracket to end the show. St Margaret's night had come to an end but one last night awaited me the following day.

them and why we were planting the trees. Soon it was time to get started. Some of us planted 5 trees. The ground was hard to dig but we all managed somehow.

Before we knew it, it was lunchtime. We were hungry and tired, but it was worth it and we were all glad we were doing it for the environment!

We kept on planting, planting and planting and soon it was time to pack up our spades, daypacks and water bottles and walk the two kilmetre walk back to the bus.

The last performance was the hardest as we knew we were singing these songs for the very last time. As the show ended many tearful good-byes were exchanged and we left the Town Hall, some of us for the first time and others for the last.

We were all so glad that we had spent the day doing this and can't wait until we are in Yr 12 and we can come back to see how big our trees have grown.

Singing in the Senior Representative Choir was an amazing experience but sadly my first and last time.

I would encourage anyone with an interest in singing to audition and experience this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Under The Rug

Kimberley Twine

Tree Planting On Wednesday the 12 of September, the year seven and eight girls lined up outside the school equipped with spades, day packs and water bottles not knowing what to expect.

After a long, hot, noisy bus ride and a two kilometre walk we were ready to get planting. We partnered up with the year 12 IB girls while the rangers gave us a talk about the trees on Banks Peninsula, how to plant

Dave was a stubby man and looked quite out of place with his towering furniture. Because of his size clothes were always a big dilemma for Dave, and he was often seen making minor adjustments on his rickety sewing machine.

Lecturing physics has been a passion of Daves for a long time. Even when he was five he would waltz around with his father's pointing stick making up formulas for tying his shoelaces. Dave had never considered his job as a boring one, or any of his hobbies for that matter, which included gardening his prize winning roses (which always won at the local Flower Fest), golfing and knitting sweaters for Mr. Tinkles, his fabled soft toy and companion.

He knew it would come to this in the end, leaning so near to his golden-laced mirror that his wrinkled brow was flattened against it. "Your time has come," Dave cackled to himself, and with that he held his forefinger and thumb close to his nose and tightly clasped them around the single protruding nose hair. Many highpitched squeals later, Dave stepped back from the mirror admiring his work.

Dave let out a sigh of contentment as he propped himself on his pillow and studied his cosy room. He could not help but congratulate himself on his stunning interior design, from the floral wallpaper to the white, pristine carpet. "Good night Mr. Tinkles," and with that he snuggled down and turned off the light.

Darkness encased the fifty-six year-old 's house, as the bellowing window battered against the aging walls, and shook the foundations of the ancient cottage. The midnight storm grew wilder and Dave was awakened by the thrashing of rain on the old tin roof.

Dave was always a well-groomed man, although his hairline was receding, the precious little hair he had was constantly gelled back in a flattering fashion.

People often remembered him by his large egg-like head adorned with bushy eyebrows, which were magnified by his thick, blue specs. Whenever a smile escaped Dave's lips his chestnut eyes creased with pleasure as he showed off his few remaining teeth.

Dave gasped and sat up in bed, sweaty hands shaking on his lap. "Great Scott!" He exclaimed in horror, his bottom lip trembling. "I forgot to brush my teeth!"

And with that, he leapt up, and sprinted as fast as his stubby legs could manage to the bathroom and got to work immediately. Ten minutes later he heaved a huge sigh of relief and stumbled back towards his bed. It was then that he heard it.

Nina Murnane and Sharina Lopez

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It began as a small drip, and then some gurgles, which soon escalated into horrendous slurping suction noises coming from the study. Dave tried to calm his nerves by telling himself that it was physically impossible for an intruder to break in with his hi-tech alarm systems.

But that didn't stop the noise. Gathering his willpower, and slipping his feet into his grandpa slippers, he slowly turned the doorknob. Dave struggled to push out the childish monsters his imagination formed and with a shaky finger he turned the light on. It revealed nothing, at first, but as his eyes reached the floor he saw the most peculiar thing.

There was a moment of tension, broken by Dave's laughs.

How silly he had been, it was probably just some what'sa-ma-doodle that got pushed under his Persian rug. But then reason punched him in the face. Dave laughed no longer. As his feet reluctantly drew him nearer, the daunting noises went through a series of crescendos, it was then that he realised this was no ordinary bump, Retreating a few steps, he whisked his polished rimu chair high above his head and waited anxiously for it to make the first move. It did. Bursting from its finely woven cover it hit the ceiling with surprising speed, and landed with a thud at Dave's feet.

Jessie Fitzjohn and Samantha Henderson

Water Polo Every Thursday years 7 and 8 water polo team go to QE2 pool. Amy Barbara and some senior girls are the current coaches for our team. Our first game was on the first Thursday back of term 4. As the majority of the players had not played before we had a hard time getting the feel of the game! But in the end we got three goals and the

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opposition had 5. It was a good result, for a first game, in the end. We have training on Monday lunch times in the school pool. We are planning to go to Dunedin for a water polo tournament on the last weekend before the holidays. We have our fingers crossed for a good result, since our abilities in the water have improved so much already.

Beth Brodie and Sophie Blair

Cross Country It all started off at the St Margaret's school cross country.

It was a warm and sunny day and we were ready to race, so we walked over to Hagley Park and started the warm up. We started with the years 1, 2 and 3 cross country, Charlotte McGill won this. Next we went on to the years 4, 5, and 6 cross country which was won by Phoebe Steele.

Then, finally, it was time for the intermediate cross-country which I won. This was a great event and it was good to see more people running and making a real effort. Now we had a few weeks to train for the zones. We all trained hard and it paidoff as at the zones we got great results with Yr 9 Lucy Dallyn 4th with the team placing of 4th, Yr 10 Phoebe Steele 1st with a team placing of 2nd, Yr 11 Tilly Dunn 2nd with a team placing of 1st, and in the 12yrs I was 1st with the team placing of 3rd. These are only the first place getters for St Margaret's girls from each age group, but we also gained a lot of good places. Now it got on to the serious stuff where we would have to train hard for the upcoming event, the primary Canterbury's. We got there early morning pumped and ready, it was a cold day and where ever we stepped we would hear the crunching of the frosted grass, but that didn't put us off. There were a few nerves rolling, but we went through with it having some wicked results. Bang the Yr 6s were off with Phoebe Steele in this race Phoebe missed out by only 3 places to get into

the Canterbury team as she came 13th but this was still an amazing achievement. Next there was the 11yrs with Tilly Dunn who came 22nd and the 12yrs was 1st and Olivia Grenfell in the 20s. Next only I went on to the Intermediates vs. primaries for St Margaret's. If I was in the top 10 of this event, I would be selected to go on to the Canterbury team and be racing at Hanmer springs for the shield. It was yet again a cold and rainy day with mud already oozing from my shoes and the race hadn't even started. The nerves were high but I was filled with adrenaline and rewing to go.

Bang off I went the hills were my strength so that's when I made my moves and passed people. Just as I hit the last hill, very relieved it was nearly over, I found I was wining then, before I could think any more I collapsed over the line. I had won. It didn't stop there, now we had training for Car.iterburyreps. After about 4 training runs our coach Paul Norton announced that I was the captain of the team from yr. 4 to 8. A month later and we were still training hard we knew it would be the hardest race in our lives. Two days before the race we hopped on our five star bus and were off to Hanmer. The nerves were already flying but we were ready to race. The day of the race was filled with excitement and it was not long before it was my turn to race. It had only been 2mins, yet it felt like a lifetime's long run. I was doing well keeping my place, 4th then about half way through I passed 4th and was coming 3rd then the race finished. I heard cheers form my Canterbury friends and took a sigh of relief, it was over. When all the races were finished I had to do a speech because I was the captain and hand over the shield, as Wellington had beaten us by only 2 points.

Then it was the ceremony , I was given a bronze medal for 3rd and a silver for my team. We then went to the Hanmer hot pools to celebrate the great results and then left to go back home in the bus. It was a great experience and real fun.

Mackenzie Keenan

6 A SIDE HOCKEY Back Row Front Row

Annabelle Wright (Coach), Natalie Hutton, Nishtha Denya, Poppy Prentice, Jessica Williamson, LJzzieRedwood (Coach) Alessandra Demarchi, Loveday Mossman-Catchpole, Polly Forbes, Ella Guillemot-Mene, Amy Everleigh

YEAR 1-8 ATHLETICS Back Row Third Row Second Row Front Row

Gabrielle Beckett, Deborah Chen-Green, Emily Street, Sophie Cocks, Ella Stoner Sophie Bennington, Megan McKay, Lily Cain, Rosy Hogben, Abby Silva Alice Barnett, Jessica Ottawa, Jessica O'Halloran, Mackenzie Keenan, Phoebe Steele, Isabella vanWoerkom Rhiannon Churchward, Isabella Forbes, Harriet Lange, Anna Robertson, Julia Bullen, Lucy Dallyn, Terian Le Compte

INTERMEDIATE 8 HOCKEY Back Row Front Row

Michaela Strongman, Neve Dunstan, Renee Messervey, Ella Stokes, Sabrina Lee Aida Azlan, Millie Bremner, Anna Robertson, Shannon Brien, Claudia Mills

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INTERMEDIATE A NETBALL

INTERMEDIATE C NETBALL

SUPER 8

Back Row Second Row

Back Row Second Row

Back Row

Front Row

Eliza Eldred, Jessica Smaill, Sophie Blair Hannah Jarrold (Coach), Caroline Turnbull, Elise McLeod Rebecca Lough (Coach) Jessica Fitzjohn, Jessica O'Halloran, Lily Cain, Emily Erickson, Abby Silva

Front Row

Sophie Bonnington, Kate Johnstone, Annabelle Benton Melissa Cochrane (Coach), Amanda Ott, Sarah Churchward, Casey Carsel Jessica Campbell, Kirsten Miller, Zoe Boyce, Sarah Duff, Hannah Kyle

INTERMEDIATE B NETBALL

INTERMEDIATE D NETBALL

Back Row Second Row

Back Row

Front Row Absent

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Ella Stoner, Beth Brodie Jordan Tomkins (Coach), Sophie Hammond, Kimberley Twine, Clare Fairgray Caitlin Yee, Grace Olliver, Olivia Grenfell, Courtney Milner Leigh Blair Jessica Bremner

Front Row

Kimberley Smith (Coach), Georgia Morton, Philippa Gates, Paris Marshall, Ashley Hyland Charlotte Colgan, Julia Bullen, Erin Harrison, Sarah Weddell, Polly Gilroy, Kirsten Corbett

Second Row Front Row

Hannah Brown (Coach), Georgia Francis, Lucy Peebles, Juliet Frost, Amelia McKay (Coach) Ms H Gibbon (Coach), Charlotte Wigley, Jessica Land, Mrs P Double (Manager) Phoebe McGowan, Emma Alderton, Kimberley Wood, Nicola Wright, Terian Le Compte

JUNIOR 8 Back Row

Front Row

Elise Rutherford (Coach), Isabella Storer, Olivia Rose, Maria van Kuijk, Tayla Messervey, Alisha Duncan, Rosie Studholme (Coach) Aimee Williamson, Charlotte McGill, Sophia Hodge, Georgia Voice, Teesha Basin, Aryn Azlan

YEAR 7-8 BASKETBALL A

INTERSCHOOL SWIMMING

YEAR 7 TOUCH

Back Row

Back Row

Back Row

Front Row

Samantha McKellar, Kate Suter, Jessica Smaill, Sophie Blair, Caroline Turnbull Isabella vanWoerkom, Jessica O'Halloran, Rosy Hogben Caitlin Yee, Georgia Blacklaws

Second Row Front Row Absent

YEAR 7-8 BASKETBALL B Back Row Front Row

Hannah Jarrold (Coach), Beth Brodie, Marcella Zeestraten, Kate Johnstone, Grace Olliver Jessica Fitzjohn, Amanda Ott, Leah Butt, Helen Vincent Arabella Bonifant

Megan McKay, Kimberley Twine, Kate Suter, Elise McLeod, Ella Stoner, Kate Johnstone, Emily Erickson Madelaine Parker, Jessica O'Halloran, Grace Olliver, Claire Fairgray, Claudia Oswald, Abby Silva, Phoebe Steele Aida Azlan, Alex Leck, Anna Robertson, Lucy Dallyn, Alice Barnett, Harriet Lange, Isabella Forbes Rachel Miller, Victoria Williamson, Beth Brodie

Second Row Front Row

Hannah Brown (Coach), Georgia Francis, Lucy Peebles, Juliet Frost, Amelia McKay (Coach) Ms H Gibbon (Coach), Charlotte Wigley, Jessica Land, Mrs P Double (Manager) Phoebe McGowan, Emma Alderton, Kimberley Wood, Nicola Wright, Terian Le Compte

YEAR 7-8 BASKETBALL C

YEAR 8 TOUCH

Back Row

Back Row

Front Row

Emma Symon (Coach), Moira Mackenzie, Emily Street, Nina Murnane, Courtney Milner Charlotte Colgan, Ashley Hyland, Georgia Morton, Harriet Lange, Katherine Pearse

Front Row

Elise Rutherford (Coach), Isabella Van Woerkom, Olivia Rose, Maria van Kuijk, Tayla Messervey, Alisha Duncan, Rosie Studholme (Coach) Aimee Williamson, Charlotte McGill, Sophia Hodge, Georgia Voice, Teesha Basin, Aryn Azlan

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Academic pursuits in 2007 have been something spectacular. We have really enjoyed our positions as heads, and hope that somehow we have passed our passion for acadremia onto others. Acadremia is about the pursuit of knowledge in all forms. It's not just about intelligence or doing all your homework (although we strongly recommend that course of action), but also about developing the desire to learn new things. We wanted to encourage you to learn how to paint, to dance, to sing, to play sport, to enrich your mind with any kind of knowledge possible. Albert Einstein, in physics a super-hero and in physicality a hobbit, said, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

The implication - you too can be as talented as Einstein!

We decided that we needed to raise the profile of academic learning within the school, and endeavoured to do this through a series of 'campaigns'. Take for example our nuts campaign

- "we're nuts about learning - you should be too!", followed up by "academics get the cash(ew)". Then there were various other manifestations of impassioned learning. Academic Week was the ultimate display of our school's intelligentsia.

We managed to organise a book quiz that was enthusiastically received by a very wide range of talented individuals, ranging from years seven to thirteen.

The spelling bee, to our delight, attracted a huge number of participants at all levels and abilities. It was so popular that we staged a spelling bee grand final. It was great to see so many supporters - those who couldn't spell were equally welcome and participated fully (basically,to get the chocolate.) But we are into that - embracing what you've got. Our last extravaganza was the St Margaret's Brainiest House Competition. This event went really well and it was great to see the vast amount of knowledge that the girls displayed in their respective teams.

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE Back Row Second Row Front Row

Emma Costello, Jessica Loe, Georgina Archibald Annabelle Cross, Philippa Goslin, Sophie Dowson Georgia Brownlee, Erin Heasley, Sara Satterthwaite Lucy Macfarlane, Ming On-Sri, Anna Farquhar, Brynlea Collin, Kimberlee Smith, Morag McDonald, Harriet Smith

Congratulations must go to Konini - St Margaret's Brainiest House - who wowed us with their superior know-how. There were several exciting new academic awards this year which we'd also like to mention. Firstly,there was the awarding of the first silver tie to a year thirteen. Well done Hahna! Then there is the upcoming academic red blazer,so come on girlies start working! There is so much that you can work for academically in the school - so take up the challenge and make us proud!

Life is one phat opportunity- so make the most of it. Cliched, but a good plan. In the finest tradition of heads of academic past, we will leave you with a fascinating, awe-inspiring, and above all thought-provoking quote: "Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion." So don't let your disillusionment disillusion you!

Bryn/ea Collin (Head) and Kimberlee Smith (Deputy)

SCHOOL COUNCIL Back Row Second Row Front Row

Kate Mccoubrey, Georgina Archibald, Courtney Paterson, Lucy Pankhurst Caitlin Craigie, Danielle Bowden, Stephanie Gates, Penelope Bundy Samantha Henderson, Caroline Turnbull, Rebecca Ardagh, Alice Williams, Louise Daprini

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Although it's been labelled the ultimate nerd camp, our time spent in Hanmer Springs at the start the year was almost the complete opposite of this. From yoga to raving in the hallway it was a great opportunity to get to know the other girls who would be embarking on the same journey for the next two years. However, there was a small amount of time spent carrying out a variety of slightly nerdy activities and rummaging about in the Hanmer stream attempting to find the most peculiar creatures was actually a lot of fun. We had a much-needed talk about the various requirements, like CAS and group 4, that would be looming over us for the next two years. We spent some time getting to understand and practise the Unseen Written Commentaries that would take up a fair portion of our English course. We also were introduced to the Socratic method that would aid in many of our future TOK debates.

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It was a relaxed environment with time to chill out between activities (some chose not to, opting to go for a 6km run instead ... ). Having to prep and cook our own meals was fantastic because we weren't stuck with usual mass-produced camp food, quite the relief for the boarders. The 5 star accommodation was a little disappointing as some of us were directed to the two-man shacks that were on the brink of falling down.

This, however, didn't dampen our spirits, as everyone was stoked to have two days off school and a trip to the hot pools. Overall, it was a relatively relaxing few days and a great way to settle into the 1Bprogramme.

A huge thanks to all the teachers who accompanied us on the camp making it the wonderful experience that it was.

On Wednesday 12th September 18 Yr 121Bgirls went with the Yrs 7 and 8 to plant trees in the Bowenvale valley. We set off in the van with Ms Rod and Ms Scott, (which was entertaining as Lavinia and Fran had very interesting conversations with Ms Rod and Ms Scott about things such as music, whether you should marry for love or money and whether the concept of romantic love was an invention). When we got to Bowenvale we set off on a walk, which looked to be rather leisurely at the beginning but was actually a determined trek straight up a hill, which was looking increasingly like a mountain. Those of us who were not as fit as we would have liked and were forced to watch those speedy Yr 7 and 8 stroll past us, were beginning to have second thoughts about signing up in the first place. However, once we got to the top of the hill, lay down in the tussocks and listened to an interesting presentation by the Park Ranger (with picture cards) and Ms Rod's instructions for private school girls on how to go to the toilet in the bush, we were ready for some tree planting! The actual tree planting was really good. We were in groups with three or four year seven and eights with one year twelve providing supervision.

One of the most important things we learnt was how to work in a team and delegate responsibility so that everyone was doing something. I found it really good to work with the younger girls because it isn't something that we do often. The girls that I worked with were really good tree planters, although most of the younger girls began to get a bit distracted after the discovery of worms! Overall, we had a great time, we did something to benefit the environment and we all learnt some valuable skills outside the classroom.

Hannah Howard and Anna Marshall

Emma Symon

DEBATING Back Row Second Row

Front Row

Caitlin Craigie, Miriam Black, Rebecca Gates, Francesca Henry Mrs L Kennedy, Ms J McLaughlin, Sarah Faulkner, Ruchika Tandon, Kate Tothill, Anna Brankin, Rina Soetanto, Ms M Titheridge Emma Price, Marcelle Murdoch, Zoe Redwood, Rebecca Ardagh, Philippa Benton, Claire Martin

Another fantastic year for the 'art of arguing' with girls competing in intermediate and senior interschool rounds, juniors competing in intra-school rounds and girls of all ages competing for titles in both Junior and Senior Press, Winter and Summer Quad and soon enough, the Nga Kete competition!

At the Summer Quad tournament in Dunedin, the team of Claire Martin, Becky Ardagh and Miriam Black was reunited, winning three debates, the tournament and the respect of all of their sporting equals when a debater represented the school as the Head of Sport!

The Senior Press competition was hosted by St Margaret's College this year and with a huge organizational effort on Mrs Kennedy's part (and

valued help from other staff and junior debaters) the weekend was a huge success.

The St Margaret's team was Claire Martin, Becky Ardagh and Becky Gates, who after an intense two days of newspaper reading, carboloading and debating met St Bede's College in the finals in the Canterbury Provincial Chambers. St Margaret's won the debate with a split panel and won the Press Debating Championships for the first time since 1990! Becky Ardagh was awarded Best Speaker of the tournament and Claire and Becky both got into the Canterbury Debating teams and went to the Russel McVeagh National Debating Championships in Wellington in August to represent St Margaret's College and Canterbury. It is the third year in a row there have been two St Margaret's College girls in the squad of six. I would like to thank Becky Gates for helping us that weekend on such short notice. Your support, enthusiasm and knowledge really helped and your ability to always come to the rescue when we were in trouble, often without much warning, is amazing.

Thank you for everything and congratulations on receiving the Dedication and Commitment award this year because of this. Claire Martin, Anna Brankin and Caitlin Craigie went to Timaru to participate in Winter Quad and won two out of three debates, narrowly missing out on winning the whole debating tournament.

St Margaret's College was represented extremely well, with two teams in the Junior Press Tournament this year including Francesca Henry, Kate Tothill,

Philippa Benton, Sarah Faulkner, Ruchika Tandon and Emma Price. Both teams won two debates, narrowly missing out on a semi-final round. A year 9 debating tournament was organised by Ms Rayward and two year 12 girls, Anna Brankin and Caitlin Craigie, to provide opportunities for junior girls to learn to debate by competing against each other in rounds held at school on Thursdays. This was extremely well organised and the talent seen already at this year 9 level is incredible. The girls are very enthusiastic and it will be great watching this round robin continue next year as these girls continue with their debating! On the 29th of November Nga Kete will take place with teams from years 9 and 10 competing, so good luck!

I'm sure you will do us proud. A thank you must go to all our teachers and coaches; Ms Rayward, Mrs Ardagh, Ms McLaughlin and Mrs Allan.

I would also like to thank the coaches of the senior team, Mrs Titheridge and Ms Copland who were amazing in providing support, information and advice!

Thank you so much for all of your help, we have had an extremely successful year this year as a team and owe it all to you. To Mrs Kennedy, who puts so much work and time into running debating at St Margaret's, we really appreciate everything you have done for us.

And finally to Claire, thank you for all your commitment, your organization and for putting up with me. Your support both with organizing debating and participating in it has been irreplaceable and you will be amazing next year!

Becky Ardagh Head of Debating 2007

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Konini House Report Wow, this has been another great year for Konini.

This amazing house full of brilliantly dressed purple girls has shone like the stars they are. Starting the year with a bang at swimming sports, as this year Konini was victorious, with age group wi~ners and great participation. Next up were the athletic sports.

Another awesome result had us in second place, once again having numerous year group victories and outstanding involvement from the entire house. House tennis and rowing were a great opportunity for Konini to demonstrate our enthusiasm and commitment (even though those erg machines were a bit of a challenge!!!) Our stunning house was out in true form when they hit the slopes at house skiing with another victory from our skiing team.

Although house day was cut short this year, the involvement from each year group was amazing with some stunning dances and some great acting especially from our theatre sports team. To me, Konini is with out a doubt the greatest house in the school and leading all you bright and shinning Konini girls has been a wonderful experience. I would like to thank so many people this year. Firstly to Georgia, whose commitment and animated approach to Konini has made this year great for our house.

Also to all of year 13, your involvement has been crucial in making this year so superb. Finally to all of Konini: it has been fantastic for me to represent and lead such an amazing group of talented girls. You have all proved how wonderful you are at both the arts and sport this year with your fantastic participation and amazing results and we could not have been such a successful house without you!!!

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Good luck for next year and keep letting the purple of Konini shine throughout the school.

Anna Farquhar Head of Konini

Kowhai House Report Support, spirit and strength were the three values that our year nines decided that us Kowhai girls showed.

True to these values Kowhai's spirit never failed to amaze me throughout the year. We may not be the fastest swimmers, the highest jumpers or the most talented girls with racquets, but boy do we know how to cheer. In all house events our house shone, not only due to all the wonderfully bright costumes, but also because our house spirit drowned out the other houses.

This year, thanks to Ming, the 7th formers looked especially hot in their Kowhai Krew outfits. If only there were prizes for best dressed!!

The year began with the famous swimming sports, were we splashed our way to a credible first place ....

At the wrong end, whoops! House play this year was enjoyed by all with little fairies to orphans as well as our own Kowhai emos. Thank you to everyone for all your amazing acting and effort!

Some highlights of 2007 have been the brainiest house competition, COMING SECOND ON HOUSE DAY,our amazingly talented and amusing house theatre sports team - Hahna, Georgia, Quim and Mim, hanging out with the year nines for peer support, our chapel service and of course winning the skipping race.

Thanks must go to Mrs Faz for her continued support and enthusiasm as well as all her help with peer support. Mrs Harlow for her wonderful acting abilities and to the rest of our 7th formers, thank you for always helping out and for all your super loud cheering. Finally to Mim, thank you for your enthusiasm and support.

The house wouldn't be as cool without you! To the leaders of Kowhai in 2008, good luck and remember, Kowhai is coming ...

Katie Thomas and Miriam Black Head and Deputy Head of Kowhai

Manuka House Report Wow, oh how time does fly! The year of 007 has been jam packed full of extreme sporting activity, dramatic artistic performances, and fantastic Manaka house spirit. The year kicked off with an enthusiastic display of sporting activity at the school swimming sports.

The 7th formers teamed with the little year 9s proved a very successful team winning many of the new competitions in our swimming sports day.

These relationships were continually built upon throughout the year with our wonderful team of peer support leaders. I hope this made those scary first few weeks of third form easier and on behalf of the whole 7th form year we'd like to say thanks for that awesome trip bowling and all the meetings we had.

You girls are great!

Athletics is always a good way to get a suntan! The Manakian athletes made our house proud with many great placing through all ages. We then hit the slopes for the school skiing and snowboarding races where

to be quite honest we cleaned up, taking out first place in the end. Next up was by far the most highly regarded house event of the year, House Day. Due to the uncontrollable weather conditions, we were unable to strut our stuff on the sports field. However our theatre sports team did a good job of uplifting our dampened spirits and entertained us for our long awaited house play performance. We gathered together in the chapel for a service of 'purity' on one Sunday evening, and as a house , reflected on the year and the qualities of our white house. Last, but most definitely not least, Jess took charge and with the help of all our rising house rowing stars we dominated the erg room, walking away with the first place certificate!

And that's it. The whole year in just a few written lines.

It has been a year of fun, enthusiasm and achievement.

Jess and I wish to thank not only our year 13 leaders but also the great support we have received from the whole house. We wish the year 13s of 2008 all the very best! Go hard girls!

Yours, Bee Mehrtens and Jess Loe

Matipo House Report I think saying that Matipo has had an awesome year would be an understatement. Not only have we shown our enthusiasm and house spirit continuously through the year, but we haven't done too badly putting the points on the board either!!

This was evident in our first taste of house competition for the year at Swimming Sports, where we gained

a fantastic 2nd place! You guys made me so proud swimming your little hearts out!

Even though we managed to get shafted yet again to the end of the pool (and therefore the least amount of room), this only gave us a better view of the competition and allowed for full on team support. So next year don't be disappointed if we get the same spot guys, make the most of it! We didn't want to be on the side anyway ....

Athletics Day. What can I say?

We have such fantastic skills, we made others head for the hills.

Although we didn't come out on top, we went down in history as we were the first house ever to win the newly introduced tug of war (meaning we are officially the strongest house!).

Not everything in the house involves competition however. Peer support was a very entertaining and beneficial experience involving the year 13's getting to know the new bunch of year 9's and teaching them the dos and don'ts of the school - and even the don'ts that you do anyway!

House Day is always the highlight of the year and high spirits, competition and just being plain crazy are all factors that make it an awesome day.

Unfortunately for our keen athletes, the inter-house sports were cancelled due to abhorrent weather conditions, but this did not hinder the Matipo spirits!

We had a delicious house lunch (which involved a guest appearance from Miss Wysocki), and then headed to the chapel for the highly anticipated house

play! The organization of this involved huge amounts of time and effort, and I'd like to thank Lizzie Guthrey for her efforts with costuming and choreography, and all the year 13's for helping out with the house.

We did a fantastic job! Our interpretation of the Wizard of Oz was a huge success, even with Mr McDonnell in his Austin Powers outfit and Courtney Patterson's brave party boy act! The brown was over-powering and it was great to see everyone's spiffing costumes, interesting as they were!

It has been awesome leading the brown house this year, oh so rewarding, and I have grown immensely from the experience. I definitely encourage all this year's sixth form, and in fact the whole house to strive for the best, because being in Matipo gives you such a huge head start!

As I always say, 'when you mix all the other colours together, you get BROWN!!!!'

Harriet Harper

Rata House Report Rata House has had a fantastic year!!! After creating a new Rata mascot, Ronnie the Rata Rhino, at the marae with the year 9s,our year began well. We started off strongly with a good performance swimming, which was a fun and exciting day for all. Athletics Day was a great success, with everyone turning up and trying their hardest. It all paid off as we won, especially after top performances by our year group relay teams. After winning Athletics Day, we felt we had a good chance of taking the cup. Then came House Day, but sadly the rain caused us to miss out on our strong point,

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House Day Sports. We had fun doing the House Play, Theatre Sports and a yummy shared lunch. We performed a fantastic house play, Lord of The Rings inspired. We had good participation and results in House Rowing and House Tennis and a good turnout to House Skiing and Snowboarding. Wicked job guys!!!!

From your House Captains

Morag and Millie

Rimu House Report What a great year Rimu has had! Yet again we have proved that as a house we can run, swim, dance, ski and most of all show great house spirit.

First up we hit the pool and what a fantastic way to start the year! Balloons were blown and banners were prepared which involved us painting a green sheet with lime green paint saying GO RIMU GO. Unfortunately the paint went through onto the concrete and these words can now be seen between the chapel and the seventh form common room. As we entered the pool it was clear to see that our house showed true house spirit through our incredible chants. RIMU RIMU RIMU 01 01 01. It was great to see everyone getting involved in and out of the water. The support we received from other house members helped us through our first official house activity.

As the term continued Athletics Day arrived with a 'bang'! Our house colours covered the stands at QE2 stadium and we made a striking statement with our green face paint. Our house made the most of the

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sun and many of the relays were a great success.

The major event of the year was the traditional House Day competition. Due to weather conditions affecting sport, we as a house entered the chapel loud and ready for a fierce battle. With the house play under control, we began theatre sports where our team began to shine creating laughter amongst the house and crowd. With first place in theatre sports under our belt, it was time to pull together as a house and perform our CSI themed house play. Everything ran smoothly but as a house we were unsure about the outcome, although we were thoroughly rewarded when we gained first place. Winning both house play and theatre sports we achieved the ultimate prize of 2007 House Day champions.

As leaders of Rimu house 2007 we are proud to have worked together with the many talented girls and we wish our house the very best of luck in the years to come.

Freya Morrison & Erin Benyon

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ta,~ nd The sponsors of these girls gave generously enabling us to send funds to Amnesty International New Zealand so they can continue their work.

Another feature of the week was our chapel service, to celebrate the work of Amnesty International and bring further awareness to the general student body.

This included a speech on internet repression, the lighting of the Amnesty candle and prayers for people who face a breach of their human rights.

On Wednesday many girls took the opportunity to light a candle and sign a letter asking for the release of Kareem Amir, an Egyptian prisoner of conscience.

We also held chalk writing.

Unfortunately Monday's session was washed out by rain but Thursday saw an overwhelming enthusiasm from the students to express their ideas. The end product could be seen as you walked down the chalkclad concrete.

Amnesty International group has seen a record number of students join us for a super successful year of fighting for freedom! Again the group focussed on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan as well as looking at internet repression in China and Egypt. Freedom Week was the focus, with lots of girls involved organising various activities.

A highlight was no-speaking day when several students were denied the basic right of freedom of speech. The impact of this action really bought home the fact that many people across the world don't have a voice, and emphasised the work of Amnesty International.

The number of girls with ribbon around their wrist was testament to the number of signatures on our petitions. We wrapped up the week with a yummy and well received bake sale. Over the week we managed to raise $550, which was an awesome result.

We would like to thank everyone for taking part and supporting Amnesty International throughout the year.

Congratulations to Rina and Nicole who are the new head and deputy of Amnesty International. Hope next year is as good as this!

Sara Satterthwaite and Kimberley Smith Co-heads of Amnesty International 2007

This year the new Year 4 to 6 Kapa Haka group took part in the Annual Cultural Festival, "Telling Our Stories" ... "A Tatau Purakau E Manu Nei", where they performed in the Multicultural Performance in Friday's Matinee, held at the Christchurch Town Hall on 31 August. They performed alongside eight other groups from the Canterbury region and certainly did us very proud. They performed three wonderfully rehearsed and choreographed songs, 'Hinemoana', 'Te lka' and 'Children of Aotearoa'. Both 'Te lka' and 'Children of Aotearoa' were written especially by Mr Michael Sharp, HOD Performing Arts. The girls performed brilliantly, as though they had done this all before.

They were also lucky enough to grab the crowd's attention from their precise and distinct movements in 'Te lka' that portrayed the meaning of the words sung.

This was followed by a flawless solo at the beginning of 'Children of Aotearoa' sung by Kimberly Wood.

Rebekah Masterton

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Ja,pa,n,tliip At 5am on the first Monday of the holidays, 27 half asleep St Margaret girls, along with Miss Kob, Ms Ditfort, Mrs Faz and Mrs Wyeth farewelled our families at Christchurch Airport, and boarded a flight to Auckland, where we would then transfer to our flight bound for Kansai Airport in Osaka. 12 hours after boarding in Auckland, we landed in a very hazy Osaka afternoon. The first thing that shocked many of us was the border control, or rather lack of it when we entered Japan. I'm not sure whether it was the sight of a large group of excited Kiwi schoolgirls or not, but we were ushered straight through customs without a thought that some of us might have had things to declare. For the duration of our three-night stay in Osaka, a city of more than 10 million people, we stayed in a business hotel, where, coupled with tiny rooms, we gained our first experience of toileting, Japanese style! The toilets not only had heated seats and a sensored flush, but also bidet spray settings. We visited many amazing sights during our time in Osaka, one of these being Himeji Castle, where as it was spring, the grounds were covered in the famous Japanese cherry blossom trees. At Himeji we had a picnic under these trees and then walked through the 8-storey tall castle, which is one of the oldest remaining structures in all of Japan. Another highlight of our time in Osaka was riding on the Hep 5 ferris wheel. Hep 5 is a 9-storey shopping mall and the ferris wheel perches precariously on the roof of this mall.

The views from the top of the wheel were amazing. There were skyscrapers and apartment buildings stretching to the horizon in all directions!

One of the many ways we travelled throughout Japan was by bullet train, or Shinkansen as they are called in Japanese.

The experience of riding one of these trains is indescribable.

You are travelling along tracks at over 260km per hour but inside the carriages it is perfectly quiet and smooth. We travelled by bullet train from Osaka to our second destination

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Hiroshima, location of the atom bomb dropped by America during World War 2. In Hiroshima we experienced first hand daily life in a Japanese family, as we were each billeted with a girl from Suzigamine Girls'High School. On arriving in Hiroshima we visited their school, which turned out to be a lot different from school in New Zealand. The classrooms were very basic, containing only a blackboard, desks and chairs.

Also the playing fields did not contain a blade of grass, and were instead made of sand. A highlight of the school visit was the traditional Japanese tea ceremony run by some of the students. We were also treated to a performance by the school's orchestra. At Suzugamine it is compulsory to play an instrument, and with their orchestra being the second best in all of Japan, the performance was truly amazing.

During our stay in Hirosl1ima we vi iled lhe Peace Park and Memorial Museum. These places commemorate the lives lost when the atomic bomb was dropped at 8.15am on August 6th, 1945. The park has been constructed in the exact place where the bomb was dropped, and contains the only building left standing at the bomb's epicentre. We were fortunate enough to have a guide showing us around the park who was a second-generation survivor of the bomb.

He told us many heart-wrenching stories, in the hope that we will pass on the importance of peace. We placed the cranes we had brought over from New Zealand under the statue of Sadako, the young girl who died of leukaemia as a result of the atom bomb. There is also a plaque on which all those who have died as a result of the atom bomb have their names engraved. Currently it contains over 181,000 names. This was the most emotionally demanding day of the Japan trip, and I am sure I can speak for everyone in saying a day that we will remember for a very long time.

From Hiroshima we farewelled our fantastic host families and travelled on to Kyoto, the cultural capital of Japan. In Kyoto we stayed in a traditional Japanese inn, or Ryokan.

This meant we slept on thin matresses rolled out on the floor, and were able to get a small taste of what olden day Japan was like. We visited many amazing temples in and around Kyoto. Kinkakuji, or the Golden Pavillion, is a temple covered entirely in gold leaf. Todaiji Temple is a huge temple housing Japan's largest Buddha statue, which stands 15 metres tall!! Ryonanji, the zen rock garden, where you sit and stare at rocks, was made of nothing but clay walls, raked sand and 15 rocks. We were assured that if you were able to find the 15 rocks then you were .... , however I don't think any of us could find the 15th, it must have been rigged!

We also visited Gion, Kyoto's Geisha, or Maiko district, where we went to a traditional Japanese concert. Several of us were lucky enough to see and even get photos with the Geisha leaving their homes and heading to work for the night. Possibly the most enjoyable night of the whole trip took place while we were in Kyoto. Who ever knew that Mrs Wyeth has a voice that would give even Miss Kerr a run for her money, or that Miss Faz is really black at heart?!!! Well , karaoke was a chance for us to let loose and unleash our musical talent, and for some, to prove that we really should just stick to singing in the shower. Miss Faz's stunning rendition of In Da' Club by 50 Cent is certainly something I will not forget in a hurry!!!

Our final destination was Japan's capital , Tokyo. This was the place many of us had been waiting for. The research we did before leaving New Zealand had built up our anticipation, and we were not disappointed!! During our 4-day whirlwind tour of Tokyo we managed to cram in a lot of sights and sounds. Ueno Zoo where we saw polar bears and patted elephants; Akihabara, Japan's electronic central, where cameras and ipods were ridiculously cheap and every second person was a computer geek; Kamakura, where we climbed inside the giant Buddha; and finally Harajuku, Tokyo's teenage hangout, where pink hair and outrageous

clothes were practically uniform. However the highlight of many girls' trip was the day we spent at Tokyo Disneyland. Arriving before the gates opened at 9am and not leaving until 7pm, we spent the entire day in a place where it is impossible not to be happy.

With so many rides to go on, so much food to try and presents to buy, everyone had a brilliant day.

"Pooh's Hunny Hunt' gave us all a chance to relive our childhood and Splash Mountain let everyone cool off whether they liked it or not. I must admit curry flavoured popcorn didn't really tempt me, but churros and Mickey Mouse shaped pizzas and waffles certainly did. At the end of the day it was impossible to leave without buying something to take back to New Zealand. However some people hadn't considered how they intended to transport their Pooh shaped helium balloons!!

With great reluctance we reached the end of our stay in Japan, and boarded the plane in Tokyo, weary after an action packed 2 weeks!! For any of those girls studying or thinking of studying Japanese, go for it!! It is becoming an increasingly useful language to have, as it opens up so many career opportunities. While we were in Japan, we met up with Miss Faz's cousin, who is teaching English in Tokyo and absolutely loving it. The Japan Trip 07 has been an amazing experience, not only with the time we spent overseas, but also getting to know girls from other years and fundraising together. Japan is an amazing country with a rich history but also an incredible eye for the future. I hope that everyone, if given the opportunity to travel there, will take it as, like me, you will have the time of your life and will come back with memories you will never forget!!

Hannah Brown

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Grant Belcher for being my right hand person: His hilarious sense of humour kept us entertained throughout the trip; his even temperament gave the group a vital balance.

Richard Bell for being my left hand person: His practical assistance made our trip memorable. Thank you for taking care of our photos and dealing with our luggage.

Dr. Annie Chen-Green: Her professional advice and care was very much in demand during the entire three-week tour in China. Thank you for sacrificing your time and energy.

Mike Trengrove (Holiday Shoppe, Riccarton Branch) for being there at all times to negotiate for us with Hong Kong and for being flexible and understanding.

Most of all for giving us the best deal for travelling to China.

Jim Scanlon for his fund raising efforts.

Luba Roth SMC Head of Chinese Tour Leader

SMC & CGHS April 2007 China Educational & Cultural Tour There is no doubt that the SMC & CGHS 2007 China Tour was exhilarating, educational, and highly enjoyable. Students and adults alike came

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back revitalized, informed and appreciative of the opportunity of visiting China and experiencing its progress, people, food, daily life and school life for themselves.

On behalf of the group I would like to thank the following people:

As we folded ourselves into the seats of the big winged waiting room in the sky, thirty-four voyages of discovery were about to start. We were all excited with anticipation and we were never disappointed.

In Singapore we enjoyed the older buildings of the Muslim Quarter, but the history lesson really started in Beijing where we came to understand just how ancient and sophisticated China's past really was. The Forbidden City and Summer Palace were magnificent - colourful, ornate and built on a grand scale. They

ch.Ln.o., ~&~ n.o.Q © cuQtww.Q t9 WL came alive through the words of our guide, who described what life would have been like for the Emperors and those scurrying around after them.

The rich diversity of Chinese culture was evident at the Ethnic Village, which is a museum with recreations of villages from around China, and further revealed at Shaanxi and Banpo museums in Xian, where, amongst other things, we saw the remains of a 6000 year old village. The Shanghai Museum, with its displays of masks, clothing, artwork, calligraphy and coinage, was equally memorable.

Chinese theatre is spectacular and we were treated to a stunning variety. In Beijing we were intrigued by the high pitch of the Peking Opera, while in Xian the Tang Dynasty Dance Show was rich with colour and traditional Chinese instruments and in Yangshuo the "Liu San Jie River Concert" was an audio-visual feast of light, music and movement. In Shanghai we marveled at the agility and balance of the acrobats and soaked up the opportunity to watch Chinese, jasmine and lychee tea being prepared.

As if this wasn't glorious enough, each day was punctuated by the most delicious of meals. The Peking Duck was succulent, the dumplings and noodles entertaining and the vegetables exciting (I am now addicted to peppered green beans and suffering withdrawal symptoms since my return home). The soups were often a mystery, but usually a pleasant one. I can't wait to get back!

It is, of course, the people who make a place and the Chinese looked after us well. Well up in the cuteness stakes were the students at the Children's Palace.

As young as five or six, they were learning traditional

Chinese arts such as opera, and both traditional and modern musical instruments. Our guides were always knowledgeable, entertaining and accommodating.

Roger, our Beijing guide will be remembered by all of us for his cry of "Luba's grrooouuuuppp!" whenever we needed reassembling. The students at the school in Guilin welcomed us like long lost friends and the people in the markets were always friendly, even when being bargained down.

For many in the group going to China was the realization of a long standing ambition and so we're very grateful to Mrs Roth for the considerable amount of time and energy she devoted to organizing the trip and to Mrs Chen- Green, who sacrificed much of her own time to make sure we kept good health and could enjoy the trip to the max.

Grant Belcher Deputy Principal

One of the most exciting parts of the trip was our visit to the school in Guilin. When we arrived, we were invited to do our 'performance' in front of the whole school. This was the part we had been practicing for.

We stood in our formation and sang "Get On Up" by Five (with some incredibly bad actions). It was highly embarrassing. Then we were split into groups and spread around different classes throughout the school.

In my class, we were lucky enough to do role-plays.

Their English was amazing, and their plays included highly useful English words such as 'bellboy,' 'salad' and 'guitar'. It was really interesting to hear them say "We support you opinion" when I said what I thought about their play.

Next stop in the huge school was a senior's class, which was full of students who laughed at everything and asked us to "go talk with them". They were all so excited to have a class of English speakers in the room.

Mikaela sang "My Heart Will Go On", so I decided that it would be easy to stand up and do a speech (in Chinese) about my life. I got a bit nervous, and ended up saying "Ni hao, zheshi wode bize" which translates to "Hello, this is my nose." Very classy.

Now we were onto the 'formal' part of the school visit.

We went to talk to the Principal of the school. We discussed everything, from what our school was like, and how setting up an exchange would be very cool.

I, personally, found the most interesting part of the meeting was when the seniors came in with parts of their lunch, chips in wacky shapes and flavors.

Then, we got given two hours to walk around the school joining in whatever class we wanted. We got a lot of weird looks when we walked into classes, said hello, then carried on into the next class.

The school trip would have to be one of the biggest highlights of the trip. The Great Wall on which I got chased by a lady selling 'Magic Circles' and the historical Terracotta Warriors are both places you have to visit if you go to China, but visiting a school showed us the lives of real people of our age.

Helen Abbey (Year 10)

Nimen hao, The absolute highlights in Beijing were visiting the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, The Temple of Heaven, and Tiananmen Square. All of these places are of such great significance to China, and were a

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n.afl© ctdtwuJ.Qte WL sixteen hands grabbed anxiously at the plate as if it was giving out free fake L.V handbags! It was all too much! My right hand was stuck in the mass, it was time to call for back up ... my left hand dived into the pile retrieving a piece of that golden duck. My right however fell behind; it eventually got free when the plate was cleared. I must say, everyone was a fan of the duck, and those wary of it to begin with, soon became addicted to its duck fragrance.

In Xian, we met the Terracotta Warriors, and in Guilin we visited the Reed Flute Cave. Please note that all places that I mention come with a bonus tribe of travelling salesmen! We had great fun walking around China with about ten salesmen with fifty fake Rolex watches and countless Gucci sunglasses. The only reasonable things that they offered were umbrellas.

One full sized umbrella for two New Zealand dollars, now that's a deal! They opened out beautifully, closed smoothly, and broke the next time you tried to open them.

major influence to an cultural experience. My favourite dining experience in Beijing was Beijing Duck. A golden duck came floating out, swan-like on the metal trolley, followed by two chefs with those cool hats. In a flash!

That duck was carved faster than it could have ever

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flown! Our bread pancakes were at the ready. Three, the duck was lifted off the trolley, two the duck edged closer to the table, one .... a gentle sound of a plate being place on the table. THE MAD RUSH! The lazy Susan was yanked and twisted, pulled and shoved,

In Yangshuo they had us on bikes! We biked out into the countryside, past rice paddies and buffalo, until we reached Moon Hill. About fifteen ladies came dashing out into the car park, their chilly bins full of cool drinks and postcards. A woman wandered behind me as I followed the group; fourteen of the others soon realized that they too had a lady behind them. I thought it hilarious so I zipped around people quickly, 'yeah I lost her' I thought. Little did I know, this lady was good. She was trained to never lose sight of me, and she was standing behind me again!

I looked at her and smiled; she looked at my hand and grabbed it! Five minutes up the mountain track I was growing tired. It was lucky that she was with me,

holding my hand. From the start she pulled me up the side of the mountain. I took several breaks. During my rests she pulled out a fan and started fanning me. It was unbelievable, though it did made me feel kind of guilty, so I took the fan from her hands and fanned her myself. Before I knew it, we were walking. Well she was, and I was dragged!

The tour also ventured to Hangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Over all our cultural experience had been very successful. I have kept contact with the friends that I have made from Girls'High, and have benefited from the trip with my interest in Chinese. I would like to Xiexie Roth Laoshi who made this trip possible for the girls of 2007! If you would like to know more about the China trip, why not take up Chinese and experience it for yourself? After all, Chinese is a beneficial language to know, and China is simply tai meili le! (Beautiful).

Zoe McCoy (Year 11)

In 2005 I thought I was lucky enough to be given a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to China for three weeks with my family and classmates. In April 2007, I was given the chance to travel again. Now some of you would wonder why go on the same trip twice, but the things I got out of the trip both times, I will never forget. I have made lifelong friends from Christchurch Girls' High School and I now have a feel for a different culture, allowing me to truly appreciate living in New Zealand. Chinese people are extremely friendly. By making conversations with people on the streets my Chinese was definitely improving, the feeling of satisfaction of being able to understand someone talking to you in a different language is immense. The five years of doing Chinese are finally

becoming useful. My favourite places on the whole were the Great Wall, because it's just unbelievable, and Guilin, because the scenery is gorgeous. It is beautiful in rain or sun. Over all, my time in China was fantastic and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

I have a new sense of culture and memories that will last forever.

Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts (Year 13)

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Every year we marvel at the panache, polish and perfection of our finalists in this much-respected, in-house competition! And this year, 2007, was no exception.

From the usual classroom rounds, about one hundred semi-finalists came representing every level from Year 5 to Year 13. The range of topics allowed girls of all ages to persuade, inform and entertain us as they explored their chosen themes. Then the numbers were further whittled down to the prestigious few who spoke in the Chapel on Thursday 24 May. A warm, appreciative audience was first delighted by the Demonstration Speeches presented by Phoebe Steele and Bianca lggo, the year 6 co-winners of the Primary School section of the competition.

Then the real battle began! Thirteen wonderful wowfactor speeches were delivered, one after the other, with convincing passions, huge energy and total commitment. Our judge, Ms Lee Ball, commented on the power of the spoken word and how our speakers were able to make connections with us, the audience.

She referred to that special stillness that sweeps across the listeners, when the speaker leaves her message-gift with all those present in the room. The winning speakers all had that special quality in their presentations.

Congratulations particularly to

to all of the Grand-finalists

Zoe Higgins Annabella Harlor Eve Palmer

Year 9 Toomer Trophy Year 11 Gosset Cup Year 13 Myer'sCup

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The evening's programme was ably conducted by Georgina Archibald whose spontaneous generosity ensured some comfort for the competitors!

Thanks also to Julianne Shields (piano) and Annabella Harlor (monologue) who so beautifully gave us two very entertaining interludes in the course of the evening.

To be able to speak so well, and convey one's meaning so clearly is indeed a gift. To know so many of our students speak so well is very heartening! Long may public speaking be upheld!

Lyn Kennedy HOD English

"Press" Debating Victory!

On the weekend of May 19 - 20, our senior debating team, Rebecca Ardagh ( Leader), Claire Martin and Rebecca Gates, represented St. Margaret's College in the annual "Press" competition with great success.

Moots required our girls to have informed opinions on topics like genetic screening of embryos with disabilities, boycotting Beijing in 2008, increasing taxes for the greatest users and televising criminal trials.

Most adults would quail at the prospect of spending one short hour in preparation and then delivering a six minute speech to convince the adjudicators on any one of these topics, let alone all four!

and Winning three of the four debates on Saturday meant our team entered the semi finals as second seed.

There were 18 schools from Tasman to Timaru and the West Coast as well as Christchurch schools, so the competition was fierce!

We met St Bede's College in the Grand Final held on Sunday night in the august setting of the Provincial Chambers, where all six competitors debated with great skill, passion and purpose. We are proud to be the 2007 winners of 'The Press Debating Competition' and congratulate our team members wholeheartedly.

Rebecca Ardagh was named as Best Speaker, and she, along with Claire Martin, has been selected to represent Canterbury at the National Championships later in the year.

Sincere thanks to the many teachers who have contributed to the shaping of these young women as polished, powerful speakers, and to everyone else who helped to make the whole weekend the wonderful success that it turned out to be!! We were glad to have hosted the competition and we are thrilled by the glittering prizes our girls have won. It is great to have our name on the cup and to have the trophy in our school again.

Lyn Kennedy. HOD English

Being involved with dance this year has been such an eventful, exciting and challenging time for St Margaret's College students. The Dance Production 'RESPONSE' reopened performance opportunities for all age groups.

A large number of the wider school community were once again involved in dance club this year. Classes ranged from Contemporary to Hip Hop, Salsa to Break-dancing. These opportunities gave the students a taste of the many varied aspects of dance genre around the world and in cultural dance. Students showed a great amount of enthusiasm, commitment and promising talent for dance.

For over the last five years at school, our 7th form girls have patiently waited for our chance to perform in a St Margaret's College Dance Production. It has been a long time coming, but the wait was definitely worth it. Coming up with an appropriate yet original name for the production, which also had meaning and purpose for the choreographers to base their dances around, seemed to be extremely difficult. However once that was sorted, we came to find everything else that followed was just as challenging. The opportunity to dance for and learn works from prominent New Zealand and local choreographers was both an honour and a challenge.

Students from years 9-13, ranging in experience and ability, came together during Term 2, with the desire for the opportunity to dance and be involved in the school performance. Over 8 weeks with 9 professional choreographers (Andrew Shepard, Sheryl Robinson, Megan Platt, Julia Sadler, Alison Rossiter, Fleur de Their, Josh Dickson, Amy-Leigh Broadstock, Karen Rusk) as well as our student choreographer

Beck Wadworth, the production became a work of art in the making! From making sure people were turning up to rehearsals to recounting how many people wanted size 8s in the dance production gear we managed to pull through as a team to make an awesome production. Each piece was unique in its choreographic style and flair and brought inspiration to the audience as well as the dancers.

Response left the audiences in awe with what was delivered, and the people involved left with an unforgettable experience. In participating in this dance production our dance skill levels and performance have improved and continue to grow immensely.

Everyone has become so much closer and they all performed to their fullest giving the audience a fantastic and enjoyable show. Thank you for your continuous energy and support you have shown one another, it was greatly appreciated.

Later in the year we also saw the completion of another highly successful dance show, our NCEA Evening of Dance. Staged at Elmwood Theatre, audiences were treated to a showing of choreographic works created by our Years 11 , 12 and 13 NCEA Dance classes.

It was both rewarding and nerve-wracking to finally view our choreography on stage after many months of composition, creating new movement, teaching our dancers, designing the lighting, costume and make up for our pieces. Thank you to all involved and to the

many students who agreed to perform in our pieces!

The standard was incredibly high.

Our talented Hip Hop Crew 'Diced Out' performed at the 'Arisen, Stage Break' Show on November 12th . After weeks of preparation and many holiday rehearsals the crew comprising Ella Marks, Muan Onsri, Olivia Brooks, Thitikarn Tangthanasup, Leeah Sulusulumavasa, Kristy Benyon and Georgia McMeeking performed amongst many ChCh Secondary schools in the presentation of Hip Hop Genre. 'Diced Out' were most definitely a crowd favourite and performed with huge energy and passion! Well-done team. It has certainly been a busy and rewarding year for dance at St Margaret's and we look forward to much more next year. Keep dancing!!

Beck Wadworth, Millie Aitken Student Heads of Dance Alison Rossiter - TIC Dance

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event and many new books were added to our stock as a result. It is also extremely pleasing to note the nationwide success of New Zealand Book Month (September) and the critical acclaim being given to our local writers as they compete on the worldwide stage for the Booker Prize. The entrants in our Jacqueline Wilson competition, held in October, had the opportunity to win a personally autographed copy of 'Starring Tracy Beaker' and several girls have had their entries sent to the author for her to enjoy.

LIBRARIANS Back Row Third Row Second Row

Front Row

Cara Askew, Kimberley Twine, Christina Greenwood, Kate Suter, Kate ldiens, Moira Mackenzie Alice Barnett, Lauren Duke, Rachel Miller, Renee Messervey, Bianco lggo Mrs D White, Kate Kemp, Isabella Forbes, Anna Roberston, Alex Leck, Rachel Basher, Shannon Brien, Ms J Borkus Rhiannon Churchward, Emma Alderton, Kimberley Wood, Aida Azlan, Olivia Berger, Philippa Cross, Terian Le Compte

We have just had a very busy year in the school library and have issued more books and magazines than ever before. It is so reassuring to know that, whilst having access to the latest advances in technology, St Margaret's College students still recognise the importance and relevance of books for information, education and recreation.

In February we held our Valentine's Day competitions and Miss Wysocki presented the prizes in the school assembly. Book Week was held in June with plenty of great books and toys to buy as well as guest performers to enjoy. The support of so many parents as well as girls meant that this was a very successful

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I would like to express my sincere thanks to those staff, parents and girls who have donated books, magazines and newspapers to us this year. Special mention must go to Mr and Mrs Twine who have once again been so generous. Our wonderful school librarians have worked very hard on our circulation desk - it has been a privilege having you in the library and we hope you will all be librarians again next year.

Sincere thanks must also go to Miss Barkus for her support yet again.

We look forward to an even busier 2008.

Mrs Diana H. White Librarian

Arts Assembly 2007 started with a creative bang as the youth of our school passionately performed their Kapa Haka performance. We were by Mr. Sharp, or should I say Gandalf. Various performances erupted over the next hour and a half with the jazz band playing the ever so upbeat Moondance by Van Morrison followed by the choregraphy of the barbershop group, the funkadalic hip hop group and finally the theatrical genius of Molly Ferguson.

These were all blessings to our ears and to our eyes but the real entertainment was the legend from Weta Workshop, Bill Hunt, who wisely stated "We may not remember what is said, or how it was said, but what we do remember is how it makes us feel".

My details of what he said are a little fuzzy, aside from hearing how he terrorised the neighbourhood children with monster make-up, but I remember that he was short and sweet and added comic relief as the intensity of award giving approached.

Girls everywhere were crossing their fingers desperately hoping for their chance of a pocket or a more flamboyant blazer. The quantity of prizes given out was reflective of how the SMC arts talent is certainly growing. Congratulations to the singers, actors, dancers, painters and debaters (although that is really a sport) out there who got prizes and even to those who didn't - Good on you for getting involved.

In the words of the great Oscar Wilde "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

Caitlin Craigie

nt(9&e,[ UlU,te,& rt1XtL<9 nl, In Term One of this year, around seven IB students represented St. Margaret's at the Canterbury regional Model United Nations. The Model United Nations provides students from around New Zealand with the opportunity to learn about nations other than our own and debate topical political, environmental and social issues affecting the world today. It also gives students the opportunity to improve their reasoning and problem solving skills and occasionally pass notes such as "If you were a resolution, I wouldn't amend you" and "I can't wait for you to invade my country". Fun was had by all - except perhaps the conference assistants, who seemed to be abused and overworked! At the start of the July holidays, three students - Anna Brankin, Megan Aitchison and myself - were selected to venture to Wellington to participate in the National Model United Nations. This year the popular event attracted 192 students from around the country, who arrived equipped with name tags, briefcases, categorised clear files and blingy blazers. The debates were educational but I do have to conclude some people take these things far, far too seriously. As Raybon Kan, our keynote speaker at the end-of-conference ball pointed out, Wellington had never seen such a big group of "Hermione Granger"students who were so nerdy that even the holidays were spent learning! But in all fairness I enjoyed the conference more than watching infomercials and bad TV. I encourage all students to get involved in Model UN events and enjoy the challenge that comes with debating and forming opinions of the world around us.

Model UN, letting average-looking people become models!

Caitlin Craigie

The Music Department has continued to lend an essential dimension to the practice of the Arts at St Margaret's College. There is something for everybody and large numbers of girls are involved in a myriad of activities from Jazz Band to Barbershop Choir to Chamber Music.

The Chamber Choir had a particularly successful year which started with a workshop before the beginning of Term One. Their first public performance was at the February wedding of former Chamber Choir girl Anna Mason, an occasion which seemed to be a happy reunion of former choristers. In Chapel the choir sang at the Ash Wednesday service, on Palm Sunday and on Maundy Thursday. They also sang at the Confirmation, the Combined Colleges' Concert, on Open Day and at the School Choral and Instrumental Evening in August.

This choir's presence at the funeral of Hannah Rossiter in the school chapel in May and at Mrs Rosemary Binnie's funeral at St Mary's Merivale in July was a source of strength and comfort to many. They sang with sensitivity and dignity. The highlight of the year for the Chamber Choir was their selection and participation in the finals of the Big Sing where they earned a bronze award. This was an opportunity to compete as one of the top twenty secondary school choirs in the country and the choir learnt a great deal from listening to the other groups as well as enjoying the experience of competition at the highest level. In the latter part of the year they performed at the Old Girls' Eucharist, the Founders' Day and Carol services and the Prizegiving. Although they rehearsed for their annual Cathedral Evensong this was cancelled at the last minute because the Cathedral was closed for renovations.

The Senior Choir also performed creditably at the Big Sing and ably participated in school chapel services on

Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and at the Leavers' Eucharist. They sang at the Confirmation, the Combined Colleges' concert at Christ's College in May,at the school Concert in August and performed "I have dream" at the Arts' Service in September. Their presence at the Old Girls' Eucharist is always much appreciated by the Old Girls. This year's Cathedral rehearsal for the Founders' Day service was undertaken to the accompaniment of sawing and hammering and the sounds of a building site as the Cathedral was prepared for the new lighting system. Preparation for the Carol service was somewhat easier and they especially enjoyed the Mendelssohn anthem "Say, where is he born?"

The Year Nine Choir was a very enthusiastic and dynamic group who laid the foundations for their future choral careers with a delightful performance in the Big Sing of a choreographed jazz version of "Mary had a little Lamb". They performed again at the School Concert, the Arts'Chapel, a Middle School Chapel and their Prizegiving.

This year barbershop singing in the school expanded and for the first time a quartet took part in the local secondary schools' barbershop workshop and subsequently a competition. They also performed at the School Concert. The larger Barbershop Choir made its debut during Arts' Week with "The Locomotion".

All students in Years 7 & 8 are members of the choir and they took part in the Pacifica evening in June and "Kids in Town" in August. They participated in the Schools' Music Festival in October, the End of Term 3 Eucharist and the Middle School prizegiving. We congratulate Kimberley Twine who was chosen for the Festival Senior choir and Leah Newbigging who played in the concert band.

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Any visitor to the music department at any time will hear the building resounding with instrumental activity as Miss Plummer and her groups engage in both euphonious and experimental sounds.

The jazz band has had a number of successful engagements both within and outside the school in which they have played with enthusiasm and increasing confidence. A special thank you must go to our saxophone teacher, Mrs Claire Oliver, who coaches the saxophone quartet and, as well as Mr David Gallaher, teaches many of the jazz musicians.

There were four groups in the Secondary Schools' Chamber Music competition and Rebekah Masterton was chosen to play in the New Zealand Secondary Students' orchestral course.

With a shortage of string players available, the school orchestra operated as a concert band although a separate string group was coached by Ms Lucienne Shelley. A number of primary students have started to play the trumpet and they are making excellent progress. Although severely hampered by lack of space we have managed to squeeze in a visiting drum tutor this year and it is hoped that as these students progress they may take part in the jazz band.

School students took part in a jazz workshop at Cashmere High School. The Combined Colleges' Orchestra again participated with distinction at the Secondary Schools' Orchestral festival, an event more enjoyable because it is not a competition. The massed item in which all players from the school orchestras involved fill the stage and ground floor of the Town Hall is a magnificent sight and sound.

Congratulations to the many instrumental and voice students who passed music exams during the year and also to the girls who took part in the Junior and Senior solo performance events.

A big thank you too to the visiting tutors who are often unseen but who make such a significant contribution to the success of music in the school.

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Our year together as Prefects and Deputies began with an interesting combo - Spice Girls, Bomfunk MC, Napoleon Dynamite and paint. Lots of paint. At the beginning of Term 1, thirty-two Prefects and Deputies converged upon Living Springs to "learn how to be leaders". Obviously, this involved endless rides on the monorail, an intense danceoff, and getting covered head to toe in paint. Needless to say the teachers were very impressed with our obvious leadership talents.

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Madeleine Baird, Sophie Hendren, Georgina Shillito, Ella Hawthorne, Marcella Zeestraten, Caroline Turnbull, Aiko Robinson Briar McKenzie, Sharina Lopez, Leah Newbigging, Kate Suter, Cara Askew, Kirsten Miller, Katherine Pearse, Miss A Plummer Kimberley Wood, Cassidy Andrews, Rebekah Kim, Aida Azlan, Rachel Basher, Gabrielle Beckett, Anna Robertson

Amongst all the fun we began to prepare for the year ahead.

Learning about ourselves through different leadership activities, we also focussed on the idea of working as a team. As the camp progressed, it soon became apparent that working together was of strong importance to all of us. We jointly decided that our objective this year was to promote 'The Three I's' amongst our year group - to include, to involve and to inspire. From this, Emma dreamed up the idea of 'Bond' - the message for the rest of our school for '007.

To begin the year of '007 and introduce the Bond theme to the rest of the school, we held the annual Prefects' Assembly.

With messages addressing issues of yellow cards, rubbish, uniform, mobile phones, red and green blazers, teacher/ student respect, and the possible event of natural disasters occurring while at school, the Bond Team in black suits and dark glasses created an action-packed stage. The social and eco-friendly messages were aided with the help of guest stars Gandalf, Lou and Andy from Little Britain, and a graceful and surprising entrance on stage from the rubbish bin by the slinky Halle Harper.

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Throughout the year we have enjoyed many of the traditional Prefect Activities. Prefect Valentines was a great success.

The boys from College absolutely loved receiving leopardspotted underwear and pink fluffy handcuffs, while we girls

were delighted with our many chocolates and beautiful love poems. At Prefect Touch against College we were in fine form, winning 3 tries to 1 through sheer athleticism mixed with shameless cheating tactics. Another event we much enjoyed was our annual Founders' Day, where the wimples caused many a laugh. Luckily during the candle lighting ceremony no one was set on fire, and Miss Kerr did not have to smother the unlucky soul using the blanket she was anxiously holding behind a pillar. Our thanks go to Miss Kerr for her time and effort she spent in working with us to make sure our virtues were perfected.

As well as undertaking their usual responsibilities this year, many of the Prefects and Deputies have introduced new projects and activities in their respective areas for the school to participate in. The Sports Council initiated activities such as The House Tug of War and The Underwater Puzzle Find at Athletics and Swimming Sports, and this year the Arts has seen hundreds of girls involved in Stage Challenge and the Dance Production 'Response'. A Film Fest was introduced, the Community Committee began Smiley Face Counselling, and Development undertook the highly successful Family Help Trust Auction. The Boarding House re-instated Birthday Tables and Boarding Staff Afternoon Tea, and this year the Academic Committee created extreme 'Acadaemia' posters, and included a large Spelling Bee in Academic Week. Primary school girls were in for a treat with fun activities such as Animal Day, and the Middle School had initiatives such as Ice Cream Day and Art Morning. Our House Captains and Deputies were also superb, leading their houses with enthusiasm and energy.

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

We would like to thank all of the Prefects and Deputies, who have put so much effort into our school this year. You guys have been absolutely fantastic!

Georgina Archibald and Rebecca Ardagh

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Year 10 Prizes 2007 Sorcha Peren

Hannah Ashmore-Price

Achievement in Health Achievement in Food Technology

Alexandra Batt

Progress in English

Georgia Pinckney

Achievement in Mathematics Goint)

Emma Silva

Progress in Graphics

Emilie Simpson

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Rose Bolderston

Achievement in Economics Achievement in Information and

Rebecca Skjellerup Rebecca Stoop

Mlievernent in ScienceNCEALevel1 from Year10 (joint) Progress in Art

Melissa Chester

Achievement in French

Jamie de Jong

Achievement in Japanese

Maximiliane Diesenberg Dylan Dunn

Achievement in. Chinese Achievement in Biotechnology

Achievement in Mathematics 119 NCEA

Margot Gibson

Achievement in English Achievement in Physical Education

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Progress in Dance

Harriet Ingham

Achievement in Graphics

Michelle Kendall

Progress in Biotechnology Achievement In Mathematics Goint)

Progress in Drama

Kariba McGinn

Achievement in Science

Laura Page

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Charlotte Gardner

Progress in Science

Jess Gibson

Achievement in Science

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Emma Hammond

Progress in French

Progress in Health

Annabella Horlor

Gosset Cup for Public Speaking

Level 1 from Year 1O

Jessica Horne

Achievement in Mathematics 112

Achievement in Visual Arts

Melissa Jacks

Progress in History

Kate Kilpatrick

Achievement in Physical Education

Sirapat Tarab

Acl1ievement in A1t Achievement in Dance

Rebecca Lough

Progress in Physical Education with Health

Progress in Mathematics

Olivia Marchand

Achievement in Ballet Goint)

Charlotte Tomkins Zoe Topp Jordan Vanderkle

Achievement in Technology

Progress in Food Technology

Progress in Business Introduction

Achievement in Information and

Achievement in Dance

Communication Technology Goint)

Zoe McCoy

Achievement in Chinese Achievement in Human Biology

Year 11 Prizes 2007 Hannah Anderson Anna Ascott

Sophie Mitchell-Findlater Achievement in Ballet Goint)

Achievementin DanceNCEALevel2 from Year11

Sophie Bennett

Achievement in Mathematics 119

Haidee Brown

Achievement in Teaching Ballet

Kate Brown

Achievement in English 101

Progress in Chemistry Progress in Technology

Marcelle Murdoch

Achievement in French

Emily Murray

Progress in Geography Achievement in Mathematics 115

Alyson O'Malley

Progress in English

Progress in Home Economics

Achievement in Graphics

Penelope Bundy

Major Levy Cup for Achievement in History

Elizabeth Potts

Achievement in Home Economics

Harriet Campbell

Progress in Information Management

Emily Reynolds

Achievement in Business Introduction

Achievement in Music

Chelsea Richdale

Progress in Mathematics 115

Penny Costello

Mlievernent in PhysicalEducationwithHealth

Elise Rutherford

Progress in Dance

Achievement in EAP

Julianne Shields

NZ Institute of Physics Prize for

Progress in Music Amy Mackenzie

Achievement in Japanese

Progress in Chinese

Progress in Japanese Olivia Jarvis

Progress in Mathematics 119

Achievement in Music

Achievement in Drama Progress in Materials Technology

Lucy Dickie Sarah Faulkner

Panita Tangthanasup

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Achievement in Drama Progress in Human Biology

Progress in Mathematics 119 NCEA

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Alexandra Bond

Emily Diack

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(English for Academic Purposes)

Achievement in Physics

Progress in Music Belinda Thompson Cup for

Achievement in Mathematics - Statistics and Modelling

Achievement in IB Geography

Achievement in Chemistry (Joint)

NCEA Level 3 from Year 12 (Joint)

Achievement In IB Theory of Knowledge

Raissa Sidhu

Achievement in English Achievement in Geography

Penney Cup for Achievement in History

Emma Gardiner

Achievement in Mathematics 125

Sarah Gunn

Achievement in Physical Education Uoint)

Joanna Peat Memorial Cup

Hannah Steenson

Rozlyn Stokes

for Improvement in Japanese

Jennifer Hanan

Achievement in IB Spanish ab in1t10

Progress in Mathematics 112

Mariko Harada

Achievement In English 201

Rosie Studholme

Progress in Visual Arts

Ruchika Tandon

Fiona Dowie Cup

Bridget Hazledine

Mariah Turnbull

Progress in Graphics

Nicole Wheeler

New Zealand China Friendship Society

Kate Langer

Lauren Thomas

Achievement in IB Maths Studies

Sarah Timperley

Achievement In Mathematics 122

Achievement in IB Japanese

for Achievement in Creative Writing

Jessica Wilcox Hailey Williams

Rebekah Masterton

Fiona Millar

Eric Wills Memorial Prize Catriona Murray

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Achievement in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Achievement In Mathematics 129

in a Global Society

Achievement in Physics

Achievement in IB English HL

Alabaster Cup for Achievement in Home Economics

Achievement in IB Theatre Arts

Caitlin Craigie

Achievement in IB Chinese

Nicole Crequer

Achievement in IB French Mills Cup for Achievementin Geography Achievement in IB History of Art Hallum Cup for Individual Excellence in Art

Achievement in IB Chemistry Achievement in IB Design Technology Achievement in IB Mathematics Higher Level

Perilla Peter Zoe Redwood Bridget Robilliard Helena Schwertheim

Achievement in Graphics Laura Martin Cup for Achievement in Chemistry

Han Yang

Achievement in Drama

Achievement in IB History

Annelise Oorschot

Achievement in Health Education

Achievement in IB Information Technology

Lincoln University Prize for Achievement in Accounting

Dorothy Robinson Cup

Achievement In IB Economics

Katrina Wang

Storry Essay Cup

for Achievement in Computer Technology

Alice Faull

Achievement in French

Miss Edward's Cup for Achievement in English

for Achievement in Accounting

Achievement in Chinese

Achievement in IB Biology Uoint) Achievement in IE3Mathematics Standard Level

Claire Martin

Georgia McMeeking

Jessica Cunnold

Taylor Prize for Achievement in Commerce Thitikarn Tangthanasup

Academic Prize

Year 12 Prizes 2007

Eric Wills Memorial Prize for

Maria Sulusulumaivasa

Achievement in Information Management Progress in Physics

Olivia Brooks

Dr Mann Prize for Achievement in IB Physics

Achievement in Economics

Achievement in Technology

Anna Marshall

Achievement in IB Chemistry Uoint)

Rina Soetanto

Lincoln University Prize for Achievement in Economics

for Achievement in Photography

Progress in Drama

Achievement in Physical Education Uo1nt)

Sarah Fell Cup

Belinda Thompson Cup for Achievement in Chemistry (Joint)

Achievement in IB Visual Arts

Lavinia Shanks Abby Shaw

Achievement in Practical Art

for Most Improvement in Debating

Tegan Timperley

Emma Banks

Achievement in IB English SL

Achievement in Japanese

Annabel Fraser

Year 13 Prizes 2007 Georgina Archibald Rebecca Ardagh

Miss Edgar'sCup for Achievementin VisualArts

Cooper Cup for Debating Larcombe Cup for Achievement in French

Aimee Borlase Alexandra Callaghan

Achievement in Classical Studies

Achievement in IB MathematicsStudies

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Brynlea Collin

Achievement in IB History of Art

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Emma Dewhirst

Austin Cup for Achievement In Biology Qoint)

Sophie Dowson

Achievement in Chinese

Anna Farquhar Rachel Gardner

Austin Cup for Achievement in Biology Ooint)

Achievement in Dance

Hoy Pnze for Achievement in Mathematics with Calculus

Achievement in 18 Chemistry

Achievement in Painting

Achievement in Mathematics - Statistics and

Jemma Opie

Achievement in Technology Ooint)

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Olivia Orange

Achievement in English 301

Achievement In Physics Lucy Garvin

Achievement in Classical Studies Anna Mclachlan

Eve Palmer

Myer's Cup for Public Speaking

Old Girls' Association Prize for Achievement in Art

Hahna Retallick-Brown

Achievement in Drama Ooint)

Achievement in 18 Physics

Samantha Robinson

Achievement in Design

Shanae Glassey

Achievement In Home Economics

Hannah Rutherford

Achievement in Photography

Shona Begg Cup for ExcP.llencp,in DP.sign

Achievement in Technology Ooint) Nicola Shaw

Achievement in Graphics

Year 13 Science Student The Class of 1961 Environmental Initiative Award

Caitlin Habgood

Stock Cup for Achievement in Geography

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Erin Heasley

Achievement in Computer Technology

Charlotte Henley

Toyah Hicks Sighle lllston

Kimberlee Smith

Achievement in 18 Economics

Achievement in Accounting

Achievement in 18 Mathematics Higher Level Kimberley Smith

Catherine Snowden

Lucy Macfarlane

Morag McDonald

Achievement in Printmaking

Corsb1e Cup for Achievement in Chemistry

Lincoln University Prize for Achievement in Economics Wellington Old Girls' Association Cup for Achievement in English

Julius Cup for a Positive Contribution to the Boarding House in Year 11

Courtney Paterson

Wendy Nicholls Memorial Trophy for a Positive Contribution to the Boarding House in Year 12

Anna Farquhar

Bradley/Zina Cup for a Positive Contribution to the Boarding House in Year 13

Art Prizes 2007 Rachel Gardner

Rachel Gardner Cup for Service to Technical Drama (new cup)

Elizabeth Guthrey & Elora Kay

Minns Prize

for Initiative and Leadership in Drama Ooint) Hahna Retallick-Brown

Corder Cup for Achievement in Drama

Laura-Beth Feary

Matson Family Cup for the Most Promising Emerging Dancer

Rebecca Wadworth

Dance Trophy

Georgina Borowczyk

Martin Cup for Musical Performance

Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts

Nicola Dodwell Cup

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Enc Wills Memorial Prize for Achievement in Economics

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Achievement in Sculpture

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Achievement in History of Art Qoint)

Melissa Wong

Achievementin 18InformationTechnologyin a GlobalSociety Amanda Inglis

Achievement in 18 History

Achievement in 18 Theory of Knowledge

Waltenburg Cup for Languages for

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Inglis Family Cup for a Positive Contribution

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Achievement in Health Education

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to the Boarding House in Year 10 Francesca Henry

Achievement in IB Chinese

Eric Wills Memorial Prize for

Achievement in Physical Education

Sutherland Cup for a Positive Contribution

Dr Mary Tolley Prize for the Highest Achieving

Achievement in Japanese

Elizabeth Guthrey

Rachel Best

Achievement in Drama Ooint)

Rebecca Gates

Philippa Goslin

Boarding House Prizes 2007

Catriona Murray

Character Awards 2007 Elizabeth Guthrey

The Alexandra Pettit Memorial Prize for the Most Promising Chorister

Browning Memorial Cup for Perseverance

Sophie Dowson

Ngaio Marsh Prize for Outstanding Promise in the Arts

Eve Palmer

"Poutama lt1a Hato Makere" - the Artistic Trophy for Ability, Performance, Leadership and Spirituality in the Arts

Sport Prizes 2007

The Bates House Cup 2007 Konini

Head of House - Anna Farquhar

University Scholarship Awards 2007

Margot Gibson

St Margaret's Cup for Outstanding Junior Sporting Achievement

Sian Fremaux

St Margaret's Cup for Junior Sportswoman of the Year

Major Awards 2007 Presented by: Bishop David Coles Marlene Bell Cup for Best All-round Year 12 Student

Alice Faull

Hurunui District Council Young Achievers Scholarship Rachel Gardner Dayle Gibson Anna Farquhar

Watson Salver for Dedication and Commitment to the IB Programme

Freya Morrison

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Jessica Loe

Lincoln University Scholarship for Future Leaders

Rowing 4 and Double Scull of thP.YP.c1r Chris Arthur Cup for the St Margaret'sCollP.geSrorts Tec1m Emma Fechney

Jocelyn Freeman Rose Bowl for Leadership in and Dedication to Sport Hiatt Cupfor the Most Outstanding Sporting

Abby Shaw

Achievement & Reeves Trophy for Sportswoman of the Year

Service Awards 2007 Hahna Retallick-Brown

Rebecca Ardagh

University of Canterbury College of Business and Economics Presented by: Mr Steve Agnew

for Service Uoint)

Mollie Copper Cup

Otago University Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Presented by: Dr Lois Surgenor Georgina Archibald

Ashburton Old Girls' Prize

The Best Family Cup for Head Boarder (new cup)

Otago Maori & Pacific Island Entrance Scholarship

St Margaret'sCollege Award for Head Girl

MacBrayne Cup for Proxime Accessit (runner-up) to Dux Uoint)

Kimberlee Smith & Kimberley Smith Virginia Christie Cup for Dux of St Margaret's College Uoint)

Brynlea Collin & Lucy Macfarlane

St Margaret's Cup for The Senior Student who, in all aspects of school life, most clearly expresses the spirit of St Margaret's College {joint)

Presented by: Dr Lois Surgenor Georgina Archibald

St Margaret's College Award for Commitment and Service to the College

Georgina Archibald

Elizabeth Guthrey

Sara Satterthwaite

for Support of the Head Boarder

Isabelle Manson

Presented by: Fiona Hartland

Chorister's Prize

for Sportsmanship and Service to School Sport Uoint)

Hannah Rutherford

Massey University High Achiever Scholarship for the Arts

Stokes Cup for Service to School Music

Georgina Borowczyk & Erin Heasley

Amanda Inglis

Emma Costello

Professor John Bell Condliffe Scholarship for Economics from

Thacker Sacristan'sCup for Service

Rebecca Gates & Hailey Williams

Presented by: Jaime Bowman

University of Auckland Entry Scholarship Georgina Borowczyk

Georgina Archibald & Georgina Borowczyk

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It's always exciting to open the results package from any competition and it is even more exciting when we discover how well we have done. We had great results in 2006, and, 2007 has proved even better. It is also wonderful to see a number of sisters who have achieved highly. Perhaps there is a gene for spelling after all!

Year9

This year about 300 students had a go at the English Competition and over half of them achieved Certificates of Credit, Distinction and High Distinction.

90 girls achieved credit.

Year 10

Year13

Georgina Abbot

Jessica Arthur

Olivia Batt

Annalise Brown

Cait Burke

Sarah Bush

Megan Chu

Hebe-Jane Haughey

Kimberley Mackay-Wallace

Kristina Russell

Aimee Borlase

We are also thrilled to congratulate 10 Red Rose winners, who have scored in that really high range of "top 1%" in the competition.

Juliet Frost

Year 7

Alexander Fretter

Year9

Helen Abbey

Hannah Ashmore-Price

Olivia Cowie

Ashley Crequer

Sophie Hendren

Year9

Jamie De Jong

Harriet Ingham

Zoe Salmond-Higgins

Year9

We are delighted to congratulate 59 girls from Years 6 - 13 who have gained Distinction awards.

Amy Mackenzie

Rachel Robilliard

Aidan Verity

Year9

Chelsea Robinson'

Juliet Sewell

Rose Bolderston

Year 10

DISTINCTION

Hannah Smith

Susie Stewart

Melissa Chester

Year10

Jordan Vanderklei

Hannah Wilson Raissa Siddhu

Year11

Francesca Allen

Year12

Brynlea Collin

Year13

Year 6 Year 11

Shannon Brien Lauren Duke

Year 7

Kaitlin Allan

Hannah Anderson

Anna Ascott

Sophia Bennetts

Alice Dunn

Sarah Faulkner

Leah Butt

Natasha Frost

Marcelle Murdoch

Paris Marshall

Elise Mcleod

Emma Price

Clare Ryan

Dana Thomson

Helen Vincent

Jordan Tomkins

Mariah Turnbull

Savannah Adams

Nicole Wheeler

Year 8 Sarah Churchward

Jessica Fitzjohn

Year 12

Samantha Henderson

Kate ldiens

Hannah Ashby

Anna Brankin

Nicole Crequer

Zoe Deans

Sarah Lewis

Anna Marshall

Emma Symon

Lauren Thomas

Leah Newbigging

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Remember girls, to record these special results. They count towards our new Academic Honours Blazers!

So whilst we congratulate our students for their stirling performances, I want also to acknowledge the enthusiastic and ongoing classroom work that teachers do in preparing their girls for the challenge!

Thank you, all.

Lyn Kennedy HOD English

SPORTS COUNCIL Back Row Second Row Front Row

Pippa Hayward, Jessica Loe, Erin Benyon, Rosa Thomas, Danielle Bowden Mrs S Mene, Jordan Grant, Emily Shearer, Alice Faull Emma Costello, Erin Heasley Sarah Gunn, Abby Shaw, Lizzie Rae, Emma Fechney, Charlotte Henley, Georgina Borowczyk

SPORTS COLOURS Back Row Second Row Front Row

Anna Marshall, Rochelle McGregor, Rosa Thomas, Eloise Hegarty, Emma Sim Rebecca Lough, Olivia Orange, Kate Kilpatrick, Georgina Borowczyk, Nicole Ruddiman Sarah Gunn, Ashleigh Johnson, Hannah Brown, Jayne Stewart, Sian Fremaux, Zoe Redwood

Once again it has been a very busy year for sport at St Margaret's College. As sport is such a big part of our culture, it was a seemingly daunting task for the Sports Council to run all the numerous sports events smoothly. However, the Council's continued efficiency showed with the organisation of the school sport events this year. Unfortunately, this year the weather dictated some of the school's events, with both the cross-country and house day sports being cancelled.

Cross country did go ahead but it was not a full school event. The swimming and athletics sports were not affected by adverse weather and they turned out to be very successful. Again a huge amount of organisation was needed for these events and the big effort from all of the house captains cannot be forgotten. There was strong competition across the board and records were broken in the swimming and athletic sports.

As the busy, but not so hectic, Term 2 began this was the beginning of winter sports. It was great to see the majority of the school involved as well as the enthusiasm and passion which is always associated with St Margaret's sport. We have had an outstanding year of sporting success which was highlighted at presentation ceremonies such as the Winter and Summer Sports Assembly and Sports Dinner. There were a number of highlights in different sporting codes including the Zonta sports awards which looks at the elite sporting talent in Canterbury. Abby Shaw was listed as a finalist and future champion in the category of 'Most outstanding individual achievement' for her swimming, and the double sculls rowing team which included Jessica Loe and Maddie Edmunds were named as a finalist and awarded a highly commended as well for 'The most outstanding team'. There were fourteen senior students selected in New Zealand

representative teams or squads this year, as well as promising talent coming through from the middle school.

It was fantastic to see a great participation in the Wednesday sports competition. A huge thank you to the sports department which consists of Francesca Gebbie, Zoltan Boros, Mrs Laney and Mrs Mene. Your continued support, encouragement and guidance has been fundamental to the sporting success of this year. We would also like thank the sports council for your continued enthusiasm and organisational efforts, you have made our job a lot easier. Good luck to the sports council for 2008, we wish you the best of luck and success for the future.

Lizzie Rae and Emma Fechney Joint Heads of Sport

DIVING Back Row Front Row

Jo King Helen Abbey, Lauren Thomas

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Gymnastics 2007 has been a successful year for the Gymnastics team at St Margaret's.

cut short this year due to the National Competition in Auckland being cancelled. Hopefully we will get another chance to compete in this competition next year and improve on our high placing.

Thank you very much to Sam Fazio-Smith for your help in coaching and managing the teams and to all the girls involved for all their effort in our early mornings and late nights training. Good luck for all the teams next year.

Captain: Amanda Inglis Deputy Captain: Shanae Glassey

Aerobics 2007

GYMNASTICS & TRAMPOLINING NZSS TEAM Back Row Front Row

Mrs S Fazio-Smith (Coach), Emma Sim, Hannah Milner, Emma Champ, Jamie de Jong, Amy Stockley-Smith Lauren Ching, Joanna King, Lauren Thomas, Amanda Inglis, Melanie Smith, Jessica Gibson

On 11 June seven of our gymnasts competed at the Canterbury Secondary Schools Gymnastics Competition, two teams were in Novice B and one competitor in Novice A. The day was very successful with the two Novice B teams gaining first and second.

The girls in these teams were, respectively, Johanna King (Yr12), Lauren Ching (Yr12), Amy Stockley-Smith (Yr12), and Jamie de Jong (Yr10), Melanie Smith (Yr11) and Emma Champ (Yr11). Due to injuries, Lauren Thomas (Yr12) was the only gymnast competing in the Novice A division. Lauren competed brilliantly gaining first overall, with firsts in Beam, Floor and Vault. Unfortunately the Gymnastics season has been

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Aerobics has had a very successful year for all involved. There was great enthusiasm at the start of the year, with a lot of students interested in doing

the sport. However, only three students went on to compete in the Canterbury Regional Competition in July. In this competition, Jennifer Arthur and Zoe Deans gaining second place in the Secondary Open Novice Teams, getting entry into the nationals, and Jessica Gibson gaining third in the Senior Secondary Individual Female Novice grade, being successful in obtaining a provisional entry to the nationals.

When nationals arrived in September, the girls travelled up to Hamilton. With two hard days of competition, all girls competed enthusiastically and did extremely well, with Jessica placing third, and Jennifer and Zoe also placing third in the teams. We hope for an even better year, next year, with lots of girls competing in the schools competitions.

Jennifer Arthur Acting Captain of Aerobics

Badminton This season we had 11 teams, turning out to be one of the biggest badminton years in the history of St Margaret's College. With many enthusiastic faces and quite a few newcomers, we all pulled together a pretty successful season over all.

AEROBICS Back Row Second Row Front Row

Sarah Mokrusch, Georgia McMeeking, Katrina Wang Jamel Barber, Jenny Arthur, Zoe Deans, Mariko Harada Olivia Esposito, Willow Dyer, Alex Filsell, Jessica Gibson Briar McKenzie

Our premier team improved immensely over the season, gaining 3rd place in the Wednesday competition, A grade Division 1, 5th at the Canterbury Secondary School Tournament, convincingly beating Marion 6-0 in the final and 3rd over all at the Winter Quadrangular Tournament in Timaru, with a narrow victory over Craighead, that came down to a point count back. All the St Margaret's teams proved their worth over Terms 2 and 3, many finishing in the top

half of their divisions. Our 81 team came third in the B Grade Division 1, the third highest division in the competition. The Black and White teams also did well, both gaining 2nd place, in the C Grade Divisions 2 and 4 respectively. This year proved to be a successful and fun season for all players. See you next year girls!

Johanna King and and Ming On-Sri Captain and Vice Captain of Badminton

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we achieved the top school placing, together with winning the award for both the Most Outstanding Junior and Senior Female Swimmers. In the term three holidays a small team of ten competed at the Secondary Schools South Island Champs at QE11.

With the poolside support of Zoli and Mrs Mene, the St Margaret's swim team made their mark competing strongly in both the junior and senior age groups and breaking various long standing records. St Margaret's A Team won both the Open 4 x 50mtr Medley Relay and the 4 x 50mtr Freestyle Relay and our B team were placed 3rd in the Medley. This was a truly outstanding result, and one for the record books!

It was encouraging to see the depth of talent we have in all age groups especially our very talented junior swimmers. The St Margaret's Swim Team will be a force to be reckoned with for many years to come.

Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Rina Soetanto Muan On-Sri, Johanna King, Ming On-Sri

I thank Danielle Bowden for her support as Deputy Head of Swimming this year and her contribution to swimming at St Margaret's College.

BADMINTON C Back Row Front Row

Abby Shaw Captain of Swimming

Shanelle Shields, Nicole Wheeler Ruchika Tandon, Emma Anderson, Rozlyn Stokes

Swimming

BADMINTON B Back Row Front Row Absent

Melissa Wong Sylvia Park, Michelle Tan, Salinee Sae-Lim Caryn Yap

Swimming at St Margaret's College has had yet another great year. The school swimming sports in the first term were just the beginning, where nine school records were broken together with numerous house records. A team of fifteen girls went on to compete at the Canterbury Secondary Schools Championships where we gained outstanding results. As a team,

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Tennis The 2007 season has been an enjoyable and successful year for all involved in Tennis at St Margaret's College with many individuals and teams earning amazing performances.

Firstly I would like to thank all the coaches, managers, teachers in charge and student coaches who have dedicated their time and efforts into helping all the teams perform so well throughout the season. A special thank you must also go to Matthew Meredith, who is coach of the Senior A and B teams for all the skill, guidance and knowledge he has contributed to our success this year which was much appreciated.

Thank you also to Fran, Zoli and Mrs Mene for all the fantastic help, commitment and support they have given tennis to ensure professionalism and enthusiasm within the young athletes.

In Term 1, we were able to enter seven teams into the Canterbury Secondary Schools Wednesday Competition. From this, the Senior B team gained a placing of 3rd in the Senior A grade, and in the same level the A team was able to gain a placing of 2nd behind Rangi Ruru qualifying them for the South Island tournament to be held in Blenheim.

Unfortunately we could only manage a close 3rd place in this tournament, which did not book us a spot at Nationals. However a huge highlight along the way came when we were able to get one back on our archrivals Rangi Ruru and beat them 4-2 convincingly to give us hope of qualifying. Even though some results did not go our way, I would like to say a thank you to the team for their passion throughout the season, and a large thank you to Mrs Sally Mene for being the teacher in charge of this trip and for all her

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encouragement throughout these tough times. The A team was also involved in Summer Quad where 3rd place was achieved down in Dunedin.

The annual event of Present Girls versus Old Girls was a pleasing experience for everyone. Members of the Senior A and B teams combined together to play well and take victory over the Old Girls. Well done and thank you to everyone who took part.

Also recognition must go to the Old Girls on behalf of their organization and enthusiasm, which was a joy to be involved with. Another highlight this year was the House Tennis which got underway involving great house spirit and a wonderful atmosphere.

Congratulations to all the doubles winners who gained maximum points for their houses, and a thank you to everyone who participated on the day and who helped with preparation.

TENNIS A Back Row Front Row

Fredericka Archibald, Jane Bellis Ashleigh Johnson, Charlotte Henley, Erin Heasley

One standout result achieved by an individual this year was gained by Jessica Ottawa who was selected to represent New Zealand in the Under 12's age group that toured Australia competing at the Victoria tournament, Frankston Tournament and finally the Australian Clay Court Nationals, where she made the final of a consolation draw in which she unfortunately had to withdraw due to an ankle injury.

Well done to all the girls who have competed in Tennis at St Margaret's College throughout this year. It has certainly been a successful year and good luck to all of you who will be participating in the near future.

Charlotte Henley Captain Tennis

TENNIS B Back Row Front Row

Aiko Robinson Emilie Batt, Amy Green, Fiona Winskill

Squash The 2007 St Margaret's College Squash has continued to maintain the remarkable standards of past seasons and even bring in a 'B' team, which participated in the Wednesday competition and entered in the Secondary Schools South Island tournament held in Christchurch.

A group of six girls stood on the side of the road determined to change the tyre with a 10cm high jack and no idea what they were doing. It took about an hour before someone decided to go into a nearby house and find a hot young man to do the job.

Unfortunately for us girls a mother help went to find the man of our dreams and came back with a man in his late 50s - ewwww!!!!

Luckily for us things improved and we went on to come 10th out of 39 girls' teams. Emma went on to be named as the 2nd team member in the New Zealand Secondary School team and Eliza named as 4th in the same team.

Over all a good squash season.

congratulate everyone on their awards. 2007 also saw further success in the Monica Thacker Lifesaving Competition.

This is a prestigious event, as the competitive teams in Canterbury are at national standards. For the second year in a row, St Margaret's gained 1st equal with Christchurch Girls' High School, and the 3 teams entered in the event showed outstanding commitment and determination to give 100% for their races.

We hope this enthusiasm will continue for many years to come so good luck to all who endeavour to complete their badges in 2008.

Georgina Borowczyk Captain Lifesaving

Emma Sim Captain of Squash

SQUASH A Back Row Front Row

Mariah Turnbull Eliza Sim, Emma Sim, Amy Stockley-Smith

The A team achieved highly at all levels, including at the NZSS Championships. The team, which consisted of Emma Sim, Eliza Sim, Mariah Turnbull, Amy Stockley-Smith and Samantha Williams, were named the Canterbury Champs receiving a badge at the Secondary Schools winter sports awards and then went on to win Secondary Schools South Islands.

Unfortunately with the departure of their coach, Nick Mita, things went down hill for a short time. In August we traveled to Nelson in a hired mini van and about an hour into the trip we lost a valuable asset - our back left tyre had exploded!

Lifesaving This year has been an active year for all the up and coming lifesavers. The outstanding participation has seen over 75 girls complete the requirements for their lifesaving badges; from beginner with the Bronze Star Award, to more advanced lifesaving of the Distinction Awards.

Each term the girls must attend a series of trainings either in the school pool in summer, or at Christ's College on a Tuesday and Thursday morning in the winter (there's no wonder life saving is more popular in the winter months!!). Then the girls must sit a series of exams, leaving as highly qualified lifesavers. St Margaret's has successfully seen all girls complete their exams with a high level of excellence and we

LIFE SAVING MONICA THACKER Back Row Front Row

Harriet Bowker, Emily Farquhar, Elise Rutherford, Anna Marshall, Hannah Steenson, Alice Faull Anna Redmond, Hannah Brown, Georgina Borowczyk, Nicole Ruddiman, Hannah Howard

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Athletics

300m Hurdles and was placed 2nd in the 100m Hurdles. She was also a member of the 4 x 400m relay team along with Erin Heasley, Sarah Gunn and Margot Gibson that won bronze. Margot had earlier won the Year 9 Road Race against the best junior distance runners in New Zealand.

Archery

Erin Heasley Captain of Athletics

Archery at St Margaret's involves a small group of committed students. Every Wednesday we travel to Aimtru Archery for coaching or competition. During Term One, many keen junior students took up the opportunity to try a new sport, learning a lot from the coaching and enjoying the mini competitions involving activities such as shooting balloons. On average four girls competed each week in the winter competition.

All were pleased with their improvement and progress and congratulations must go to Seong-Ha Joo, who came third in her age group in only her first year competing in the sport. With such a dedicated and enthusiastic group, this sport can only go from strength to strength over the next few years.

Our Open 4x400m relay team finished 4th in the final after all of our athletes had been competing all weekend.

ATHLETICS

ARCHERY

Back Row

Back Row Front Row

At the end of 2006 a small team competed at the NZSS Champs in Christchurch. Our Athletics Captain from last year, Fiona Morrison, won the

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Athletics Day was a huge success and the performances were as hot as the weather with two records being broken by Erin Heasley and Margot Gibson along with many other athletes standing out and moving on further to regional competitions.

We had an amazing turnout of 42 athletes at the Canterbury Championships taking out a number of the top placings and although only a small team traveled to the South Islands Champs in Dunedin, we came back with the following great results:

Haidee Brown

Charlotte Evans

2 nd U16 Long Jump 3 rd U16 High Jump 3 rd U16 Triple Jump

5th U14 Javelin

Good luck to all who are traveling up to Wanganui in December for Nationals and thanks to Mrs Mene, Fran, Zoli and Mr and Mrs Long who endured heat, sleet and rain to make sure everything ran smoothly.

Annabelle Wright gth U14 100m prelims

Sian Fremaux 6th U15 200m 3 rd U15 80m 2nd U15 Long Jump

Emilie Batt 11t h U14 1500m 10th U14 800m

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Margot Gibson 1st U14 1500m 1st U14 800m

Erin Heasley 1st Senior 1500m 1st Senior 800m

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Sorcha Peren, Haidee Brown, Pip Smith, Emilie Simpson, Phoebe Morris Emma Silva, Kate Kilpatrick, Abby Shaw, Hannah Jarrold, Melissa Chester Mrs S Mene, Jordan Grant, Sian Fremaux, Annabelle Wright, Emilie Batt, Laura-Beth Feary, Charlotte Henley, Emma Silva Olivia Batt, Hannah McLeod, Rebecca Lough, Erin Heasley, Sarah Gunn, Juliet Sewell, Margot Gibson

Nicola Cordell Georgina Shillito, Seong-Ha Joo, Zoe Higgins

Nadine Allen TIC Archery

Football The 2007 football season has been an incredible one, with an overwhelming number of girls signing up at the beginning of the season allowing us to have two teams. Both of our soccer teams this year were made up with players from all year groups participating, and all with varied levels of experience.

After a few trainings all together, the two teams set out on their Wednesday competitions.

The A team were placed in the Premier Reserve grade and finished 3rd in the Wednesday Competition, after wining their tough final against Villa Maria 2-1. The B team were placed in the Senior grade and finished 6th, narrowly missing the top four after a close game with Aranui.

Thank you to all our football players for showing great determination and commitment to football this season, and I would like to wish the girls the best of luck for the seasons ahead. I am sure the captain and vice of next year will do a fantastic job, and I look forward to hearing of the SMC football team's success in the future.

Marcy Banbury Captain of Football

Polo 2007 With a late start to the season in term four last year, the first tournament approached rather rapidly before riders had managed to reconnect with their skills.

We were lucky enough to attend the Satellite tournament again this season, and with our division being held in Christchurch we always had a lot of supporters at our games. With daily games and bonding activities, tournament was a great chance to get to know team-mates and improve our abilities.

Overall we came 16th in the tournament - however by going to penalty shoot out twice, this placing does not reflect our efforts.

McGregor, Susie Stewart, Martina Maxwell, Petrea Parkhill, Maddy Crowe, Lucy Pankhurst, Sam Read, Chloe Crowe competed well in other tournaments throughout the season.

Playing in the lnterschool's Polo Tournament at Waireka Farm in March, St Margaret's had two teams, both proving to be fit competition for teams from Christ's College, Rangiora High School, St Andrews, Ashburton College and guest players from around New Zealand. The A team managed to gain a 4th place in their grade carrying out each game with fierce speed and talent. Despite the score on the scoreboard, SMC had multiple successes with players learning new skills, tactics and rules. About to launch into the first practices for this season, we are looking forward to improving our skills and team successes this year. Our special thanks must go to Mr Roddy Wood for his help and assistance in upskilling us and also for the use of his property at Wireka in Lower Sefton Road. We also thank Linda Lightfoot for her support with our teams.

Susie Stewart

Congratulations to Georgia McMeeking for being awarded her football colours and to Melissa Parker and Marcy Banbury for gaining football pockets. As a team we would like to extend our thanks to our coach Craig McAllister. His support and enthusiasm towards the teams has been greatly appreciated and we wish him well for the future. Thanks must also go to our persistent manager Zoli, for his constant words of wisdom.

Equestrian

POLO Back Row Front Row

Mrs L Lightfoot, Harriet Bond, Susie Stewart Chloe Crowe, Madison Crowe, Rochelle McGregor, Martina Maxwell, Alice Cohen

However, this first competition proved to be the best warm up possible for future successes. Lacking wins but never lacking enthusiasm, the teams of Rochelle

St Margaret's College has had an extremely successful year on the Equestrian Scene. Our Equestrian teams have really excelled both in lnterschool Show Jumping, Horse Trial, Dressage and in individual competitions throughout the year. St Margaret's College Equestrian Team took the Canterbury Secondary School's Competitions by storm. Composed in various teams,

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selected in the NZ Talent ID Squad. Rochelle also finished on her Dressage Score for the Inter School Horse Trial Event and gained the Susan Mccaul Cup for her achievements. Georgie Pinkney and Olivia Orange excelling in the Show Jumping ring, Emily Farquhar in the Showing arena. Emily Reynolds came first equal in her class at Springston Trophy and her team came sixth over all - this was very important for their Pony Club as one of their riders had been killed in a road accident just prior to the event. Emily was awarded the Murdoch Cup this year for an Outstanding Performance.

EQUESTRIAN NZSS Back Row Second Row Front Row

Madison Crowe, Rochelle McGregor, Harriet Bond Mrs L Lightfoot (TIC), Susie Stewart, Emma Champ, Georgia Bonner, Emily Reynolds Chloe Crowe, Laura Page, Alice Cohen, Olivia Orange, Martina Maxwell

Rochelle McGregor, Emily Reynolds, Georgie Pinkney, Susie Stewart, Georgia Bonner, Emily Farquhar, Maddy Crowe, Martina Maxwell, performed beyond all expectations. At both the lnterschools' Show Jumping and the lnterschools' Horse Trial, despite a strong field of competition, St Margaret's College came out on top winning trophies in both events The Jane Sullivan Trophy for the Horse Trial and the Mitavite Cup for Show Jumping. Not only did we win these prestigious events, but our second teams in the Show Jumping and Horse Trial rode to third and fifth places respectively. Proving their versatility, the St Margaret's girls performed exceptionally at the Canterbury lnterschools' Dressage Day to take out third place.

Individually, the Equestrian girls had a number of successes, notably, Rochelle McGregor being

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Our Annual One Day Horse Trial, hosted by St Margaret's College students and neighbouring Independent schools was a day enjoyed by all. It was held at the Halswell Pony Club grounds this year. Although the numbers were not as large as we would have hoped for, the day ran very smoothly. A huge thank you for all the help provided to the girls by their parents, without them, the day would not be possible. Last but certainly not least, on behalf of all the Equestrian girls, I would like to sincerely thank Linda Lightfoot for her huge contribution and continued dedication to SMC Equestrian. She has unwavering commitment to organising the School One Day Event and managing the One Day Horse Trial and lnterschool competitions.

Without her support, SMC Equestrian would not have performed to such a high level. Thank you to all the girls involved in the sport, especially those who came along to support and help out on the days. We have had a wonderful season. All the best for the years to come.

Alice Cohen Captain

Volleyball The season began with a bang - Quad champions third time running, winners of the Christchurch elimination tournament (didn't drop a set!) and the promise of a magical season ahead. Everyone contributed to the team, with many outstanding performances and memorable games over the season. One of which was the outstanding win against the Canterbury number one team Cashmere and challenging the other top teams in the South Island.

Nationals came along and we traveled to Tauranga with high hopes of reaching our team goals - every game was a "Big Game Ladies." Despite several injuries we managed to gain 11th in Division Two, as well as having a heck of a good time being

VOLLEYBALL A Back Row Front Row

Emma Gardiner, Sophie Fraser, Lucy Halligan, Jessica Reihana, Annabelle Fraser Jane Pankhurst, Vanessa Ott, Louise Brazier, Fiona Winskill, Mariko Harada

on tournament.

The charismatic Nayland boys, Bohemian Rhapsody sing-a-longs, Prince Charming, and the wise words of Sisquo contributed to the teams experience throughout the season.

Vs Avonside won 15-7 Vs Otago Girls' won 17-3 Vs Rangi Ruru won 8-7 Semi-final Vs Villa Maria lost 7-12 Final

A huge thanks to Ms Chong, who was our personal taxi driver and courtside supporter. Also Vanessa Loe, who has committed herself to St Margaret's volleyball for the past five years and who will be sadly leaving us at the end of this year. Her passion for volleyball is apparent and has influenced our performance and love of the sport. She will be greatly missed. Thanks for everything girls and remember, "You've Been Pegged."

This was the second year in a row that the girls had been able to qualify for Secondary School Girls' Nationals, held in Wellington over the April holidays.

We represented the school well showing fair play and most importantly team spirit. After three group match losses and a loss to Villa 8-6 in the play off we won our final two games against St Catherine's 7-5 and Avondale 6-4. This was the direct result of hard work and determination throughout the tournament and it gave us a final placing of 13th in New Zealand. A big thank you to the coaches Ms Rebecca Stewart, Mr Zoltan Boros, Mr Hamish Cain and Ms Genevieve Hegarty.

WATER POLO A Louise Brazier and Sophie Fraser Volleyball Captain & Deputy

Back Row Second Row Front Row

Ruby Ashworth-Manning, Hannah Milner, Mariah Turnbull, Lucy Dewhirst Georgina Garrett, Francesca Henry, Kerry Thomson, Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts Lauren Ching, Elizabeth Olliver, Aimee Kenworthy, Sarah Feary, Bernice Lough

Water Polo It was another successful season for the water polo teams in 2007. We had two teams competing in both the A and B Grades in Terms 1 and 4. In Term 1 in the Wednesday competition the A team finished 2nd over all and the B's 3rd. Both teams improved over the season.

VOLLEYBALL YEAR 9 Back Row Second Row Front Row

Charlotte Evans, Joanna Costello, Fredericka Archibald Jane Pankhurst, Madeleine Ashton-Martyn, Janet Mackenzie, Allison Stokes, Elizabeth Ravn Erica Robertson, Annelise Bryant, Bailey Kennedy, Kate Mccoubrey, Amy McLeod

The A team had a tough task defending the South Island Secondary Schools' Championships title in lnvercargill.

Everyone competed well with some strong wins in all games leading to the final. However it wasn't enough to overcome a powerful Villa side in the final. Full results from the SI Tournament: Vs St Hildas won 19-0 Vs James Hargest College won 13-4

WATER POLO 8 Back Row Second Row Front Row

Charlotte Evans, Joanna Costello, Fredericka Archibald Jane Pankhurst, Madeleine Ashton-Martyn, Janet Mackenzie, Allison Stokes, Elizabeth Ravn Erica Robertson, Annelise Bryant, Bailey Kennedy, Kate Mccoubrey, Amy McLeod

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Canterbury representatives: Jayne Stewart (Senior and U18) Anna Marshall (Senior and U18) Hannah Brown (Senior and U18) Eloise Hegarty (Senior, U18 and U16) Annalise Brown (U16 and U14) South Island representatives: Eloise Hegarty (U16) Annalise Brown (U16) With no players leaving this year, the team is currently working towards improving their results in 2008.

Jayne Stewart Captain Water Polo

season, gained places in Regional RepresentativeTeams and even National and International Teams. These are outstanding achievements. Thanks must be extended to Mr Belcher our TIC of Basketball, the SMC Sports department for their support and encouragement and the numerous coaches, managers and spectators, for their time and energy.

Whether it is some light entertainment on those Friday afternoons or some intense tactical training Basketball has been a fantastic sport to be a part of this season.

Thanks a bunch Rebecca Mehrtens Captain of Basketball

BASKETBALL A Back Row Front Row

Kate Kilpatrick, Gemma Hazeldine, Madeline Morris, Alexia Mehrtens Hannah Jarrold, Emma Symon, Rebecca Mehrtens, Rebecca Lough, Bernice Lough

Basketball The 2006 season has been fantastic. Our basketball year was off to a great start with lots of enthusiastic girls ready to get into action. A special mention must go to the primary school girls here as their trials were outstanding and with their skill SMC basketball is going no where but up! The Year 9 girls proved they were a force to be reckoned with this season, showing their skills, sportsmanship and huge potential and finishing up a very close third in their competition.

Our leading senior team took up a great challenge this year competing in the premier grade of female basketball. This was an enriching experience and is just the beginning for this young and developing team.

Congratulations must go to all the talented players we have amongst our school community who, during the

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BASKETBALL JUNIOR

BASKETBALL BLUE

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Olivia Brook, Rachel Best, Rachel Robilliard Aiko Robinson, Bridget Robilliard, Jane Pankhurst, Helen Abbey, Kate Feary

Rosa Thomas, Susie Vink, Pip Smith, Pippa Hayward Sarah Gunn, Emily Shearer, Alice Faull, Abby Shaw, Bridget Hazledine

Dragon Boating The dragon boaters had another fantastic year with loads of laughs, spirit, enthusiasm, style and heart.

The season started in term four 2006 with a few poolside sessionstoworkontechnique, timing and teamwork. The real fun however started with action packed trainings out on Lyttelton Harbour.

For many girls this was their first time out on the water and so excitement was a plenty. It did not take long for the teams to develop a unique sense of style and start clocking some impressive times. Our first real challenge was the South Island's. Both teams did extremely well, with our senior white crew reaching the A grade final and our junior red crew sweeping a second place in B grade. The following weekend our white crew headed to the capital to compete in the Wellington regional festival.

We eventually arrived after dealing with a cancelled flight and misplaced wallet and headed straight for our "all you can eat" pancake breakfast. The rest of Saturday was spent quad-cycling, shopping and eating.

The following morning we braided our hair, painted our nails and headed down to the harbour for an exciting day of racing. The atmosphere in Wellington was just incredible, with some amazing team chants and so many people, both competitors and supporters. Everybody was pretty nervous heading into our first race as the choppy sea posed a difficult challenge. We almost lost our sweep, but managed to retain our composure, finish the race and focus on the semi finals. The girls showed their amazing heart and determination to come first and qualify for the B grade grand final. We paddled an

DRAGON BOATING 2007 Back Row Third Row Second Row Front Row Floor

SarahSattherthwaite,RosieMorrison, Nicola Shaw,Jessica Fibbes,GeorginaArchibald, Morag McDonald, KatieThomas, GeorgiaBrownlee PenelopeBundy, Belinda Ferguson,Caitlin Habgood, Amy Stockley-Smith,AshleighJohnson, Sarahlimperley, Casey Johnstone,Alice Wright, MichelleTan Mrs S Harlow (Coach),MelissaParker,Emma Banks, Marie Macfarlane,Emily Diack, Rina Soetanto, HannahMilner,Hannah Rutherford,Muan On-Sri, Jessica Wilcox, RinaTakahashi,Miss D Lean (Coach) CharlotteGardner,LaviniaShanks,AnnabelleCross, Ming On-Sri, RebeccaArdagh, KimberleySmith, RachelGardner,Thitikam Tangthanasup,HarrietMiller Emma Murray-Stevenson,HannahSteenson, EllaMarks, StephanieGates, HarrietBowker,Sophia Bennetts

awesome race in the final to come in a close second.

The Wellington trip was absolutely fantastic, but our major challenge was yet to come. Both crews were entered in the National Dragon Boating Championships, held at Lake Rotokohatu Kohatu. The competition was fierce with a record ten girls' crews entered. It was fantastic to have heaps of supporters on the edge of the lake cheering for us, not to mention the amazing spirit showed by all SMC dragon boaters! Our chant off, unique "spatchy" dance, beautifully braided hair and perfectly painted red and white nails set the scene for an

awesome day. Both crews paddled with style and spirit, with our white team placed a close second and our red crew an even closer fourth in the B grade final. Huge thanks must go to our legendary sweeps and coaches, Rick Smith and Mrs Harlow and the red crew's caller, Miss Wonder Woman Deb Lean. Dragon boating would be nothing without your continued support, enthusiasm and wisdom.

ST MARGARET'S ARE YOU READY, READY? Kimberley Smith

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Cricket Cricket this year has again been one of continued improvement and remarkable development.

In our first game it seemed that we would not be competitive with the top teams in the competition.

However that game ended up being the hardest challenge for the girls in the competition, and throughout the cricketing term our results steadily increased, coming 3rd equal at the end of the term.

Our results were due to the numerous practices that were held throughout the competition. The team exuded enthusiasm and were eager to try new skills. These qualities were evident on the field when we were playing other schools from around Canterbury. It was these attributes that defined us as a team, and although we were not the most experienced in the competition we still never gave up and fought hard to strive for our personal best every game.

I would like to mention the two most enthusiastic members of the team, Harriett Smith and Shanae Glassey for continually keeping the team's spirits high, as well as the added leadership coming from Becky Lough. The team would also like to thank Vicki Burtt for her invaluable coaching sessions which invariably helped the team's confidence on the cricket field. The season ended on a positive note and I thank all the girls who decided to give cricket a go. You all improved immensely and I hope that many will be back for another cricket season in 2008.

Lizzie Rae Cricket Captain

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Cross Country and Road Race St Margarets once again had a very convincing Cross Country and Road Racing season coming away with numerous titles and team placings. The school Cross Country in Hagley Park was a great success with excellent weather and participation by all. We had a fantastic turnout to the Canterbury Secondary Schools Road Championships held in Hagley Park with some top individual placings and also a few team titles being won.

A few weeks later the Canterbury Secondary Schools Cross Country at Halswell Quarry took place.

Although a change in the course was a concern, our athletes took on the challenge to once again produce excellent results.

The following places were gained by team members this season Under 14 3rd CSS Cross Country, 2nd CSS Road Race Junior 2 nd CSS Cross Country, 4th CSS Road Race Intermediate 3rd CSS Cross Country, 5th CSS Road Race Senior 1st CSS Cross Country, 1st CSS Road Race Erin Heasley had success as an individual in gaining 2nd placing in the Senior Grade in both the CSS and SISS Championships. Margot Gibson won the individual CSS Cross Country and Road Race in the Under 14 grade and also the NZSS Junior Cross Country championships. Thanks to Mrs Mene, Zoli and Fran for their superb organizational skills in pulling

CROSS COUNTRY Back Row Third Row

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Alice Faull, Emma Booth, Elise Rutherford, Rachel Best, Rosa Thomas, Pippa Hayward, Olivia Loe Kate Kilpatrick, Charlotte Tomkins, Jordan Tomkins, Georgina Borowczyk, Rosie Studholme, Bonnie Murray, Penny Buckley, Alexia Mehrtens Juliet Sewell, Annelise Brown, Emily Batt, Harriet Ingham, Hannah Brown, Aiko Robinson, Emma Silva, Alex Batt Olivia Batt, Hebe-Jane Haughey, Helen Abbey, Abby Shaw, Erin Heasley, Pippa Atkinson, Sarah Gunn, Margot Gibson

the team together so we could achieve the results we did and also a big 'thank you' to our teacher in charge Mr Summerlee. Without him yelling at us from the sidelines and supporting us, our success would not have been possible.

Thanks for being such a great team - you all put so much effort into not only racing but also supporting and encouraging each other - this is great to see.

Good Luck for next year!

Erin Heasley Captain Cross Country

Rugby We started the season with a large group of rugby rookies eager to get their knees dirty. After the first couple of training sessions some found that this 'hard woman' sport wasn't their calling and we were left with just 18 committed players, and to compete with the best we had to form an alliance with STAC. From there we became the mighty 'Shmack' team.

With a number of new players and some talented opposition , our season started off slowly, but as our skills improved so did the number of points that we put on the score board. We began winning games after having our fair share of losses.

The holidays came around and with a number of girls unavailable we decided to join forces with the rivals, Rangi Ruru, and we became Merivale combined.

We headed to the joyous town of Oamaru. When our game faces were off we got to know a bunch of new girls and really get dirty with a couple of days in torrential rain. When we pulled on our new blue and gold attire we ran onto the field and beat all the Canterbury teams. We were placed 10th over all in a tough South Island Secondary Schools' tournament.

Once back at school and into the swing of things again we were armed with a few more skills. After a tough first term we were placed in 2nd Division along with a few country schools. We won all of the round robin games and then met Ellesmere in the final. We dominated this game, winning 54-10.

Buzzing from the excitement of winning St Margaret's first rugby shield, we were ready to throw ourselves in the deep end and put our skills to the test in the Canterbury Tens tournament. We shocked everyone including ourselves by battling our way through to

RUGBY Back Row Amy Maxwell Emma Symon Emma Gardiner Emilie Noire Third Row Amy Duckworth Jessica Fibbes Olivia Loe Charlotte Evans Suzanne Zeestraten Second Row Sarah Allen Martina Maxwell Elora Kay Rachel Button Rachel Robilliard Kerry Thomson Front Row Brittany Ferandez Alice Harris Lydia Thomson Jessica Loe Laura-Beth Feary Erica Robertson Karen Board

the semi-finals. We faced a polished Avonside team.

Fired up, we rose to the occasion with the help of the two Jesses putting fire in our bellies. We came out on top and made a place for ourselves in the final.

CGHS and ourselves ran onto the Number One field to yells and screams from supporters. The girls battled it out right to the end and with the help of LauraBeth we got very close to picking up another piece of silverware for the cupboard. Unfortunately we were beaten 10-12. However our spirits soared high when we discovered Martina Maxwell and Olivia Loe got

runner-up MVP. Both girls, along with Jess Fibbes, Jess Loe and Emma Symon, were selected for the Canterbury Schoolgirls' Rugby team.

The season, which started off slowly, ended with a boom. The success that we achieved was brought about by the efforts of Kirsty Maxwell, Mr Eder, Mr Mills, Nick Maley and Richard Loe. A huge 'thank you' must go out for the time and support that they all gave us.

Jess Loe, Olivia Loe and Martina Maxwell

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Rowing The 2006/2007 Rowing season saw a young and enthusiastic squad of girls wearing their red and white stripes with pride and producing some fantastic results.

ROWING Back Row Katie Vickers, Henrietta Hazlett, Emma Symon, Rebecca Newman, Hope Westbury, Rachel Best, Rosa Thomas Third Row Charlotte Tompkins, Natasha Coffey, Jess Cunnold, Emma Booth, Sarah Vickers, Hannah Brown, Josie Maher, Olivia Loe, Bonnie Murray

As a new initiative, we took our team and our boats up to the Nelson Lakes for a four-day training camp to welcome the many novice girls and get the season up and running. This camp was a great success for everyone, although the blistered feet from 'marathon' runs may have said otherwise. It was at this camp that we began to look at what we wanted to achieve out of the rowing season and from there we continued to work away at our individual and team goals.

When it came to racing, St Margaret's did not fail to produce some outstanding results. Once again this year we found ourselves with a very strong team of girls who were determined to show they were not just turning up to eat lunch. Our newest rowers continuously performed to an impressive level and our more experienced girls really stepped up to any challenges that they faced. Gaining top places in several events at Canterbury, South Islands and Club Nationals, we seemed to be heading in the right direction for a very exciting Maadi Cup. Starting the regatta extremely well, the lightweight four grabbed a very commendable bronze, shortly before our Under 15 eight set a new record in blitzing all competition in their event. One of the most exciting races of the regatta proved to be the Under 18 four which saw our crew crawl back from behind and miss out on the gold by no more than half a canvas. On Saturday St Margaret's started off with a bang, with

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Second Row Mrs S Smallman, Emily Shearer, Bridget Rutherford, Harriet Ingham, Penny Buckley, Olivia, Brook, Emma Dewhirst, Courtney Paterson, Rachel Robilliard, Annabel Morris, Summar Connelly, Mrs T Keys Front Row Kate Feary, Pippa Atkinson, Taylah Williams-Hughes, Jessica Loe, Emma Fechney, Becky Woolman, Jordyn Yee, Johanna King, Helen Abbey Floor Rosie Balderston, Annie Davies, Lauren Thomas, Alice Harris

our Under 16 eight taking silver, followed by Jess Loe and our Australian Madeline Edmunds taking Gold in the Under 18 double. In a crew full of determination our Novice four placed third in their event to take the last St Margaret's medal for the regatta. Our Under 18 eight had a progressive season, and shows much promise for the future. Having such a young crew meant a challenging season for these girls but they must be commended on their commitment and passion for SMC rowing.

To cap off the season we had a very enjoyable dinner on the final night of Maadi. This was a very special evening as it would be the last rowing dinner

that Miss Wysocki would attend as principal of St Margaret's. Miss Wysocki has always played a huge role in the running and support of rowing. Both she and Mr Scanlon will surely be missed at the riverside.

However we are sure that they will not be able to hang up their red and white flags just yet.

Thank you to both Ms Wysocki and Mr Scanlon for everything that you have done for Rowing at St Margaret's and the enthusiasm, encouragement and pride that you have always shown to the girls.

Emma Fechney Rowing Captain

19 squad. Jordan Grant (Y12) and Rebecca Lough (Y11) were named in the Canterbury Under 17 team.

Kate Kilpatrick was named in this team as well as the Under 19 team. Sian Fremaux (Y10) was named in the Canterbury Under 15 team. Congratulations to Alice Faull (Y12) who received 'The most valuable SMC Touch player' award at the recent Sports Dinner.

Touch 2007 has been an amazing year for touch at St Margaret's College with many outstanding performances from teams and individuals.

I would firstly like to thank all the coaches and managers who have helped our touch teams perform so well throughout this fantastic year. Your dedication has been much appreciated. Thanks must go to Fran Gebbie, who has worked extremely hard to ensure that the Intermediate touch teams have successfully competed in their games at St Andrew's College. A huge 'thank you' must go to the parents who have coached these young enthusiastic athletes. Thank you also to Nick Maley who has coached the 'B' team for consecutive years. A special 'thank you' to the management crew of the Super Touch Team, Phil Pomana and Lisa Williams,

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Alice Dunn, Emilie Simpson, Emilie Noire Suzanne Zeestraten, Emily Hayman, Laura-Beth Feary, Lisa Hammond Margot Gibson, Monica Buhler, Hannah Jarrold, Claire Ruddenklau, Jessica Gibson

I further offer my congratulations to all the girls who have competed in touch at St Margaret's throughout the year. It has most certainly been a very successful year. Good luck to all the girls who become involved in this exciting sport in the future - we wish you well and encourage you to make the most of the great opportunities available.

Pippa Hayward Captain of Touch

who have worked so diligently together to ensure professionalism throughout the touch season. Thirty to forty girls have successfully competed in our school teams this year. For the first time in the history of touch at SMC the super Touch team won quad, were placed 2nd at the Canterbury Champs, 4th in the South Island Championships and therefore qualified for Nationals.

Amongst the Super Touch team individuals have had great success and have shown great promise for the future of the sport at St Margaret's.

TOUCH YEAR 9 Back Row Second Row Front Row

Megan O'Connell, Charlotte Evans, Annabelle Wright Pippa Hayward, Sarah Gunn, Amy Duckworth, Zasu Towle, Alice Faull Erica Robertson, Hannah McLeod, Kate Mccoubrey, Nicole Cousins, Lucy Pankhurst

Sarah Gunn and Alice Faull (both Y12) and Kate Kilpatrick (Y11) were invited to a National Touch Academy where Sarah and Kate were named in the Academy Paper Team (equivalent to the Secondary Schools National team). Sarah, Alice, Kate and Pip Smith (also Y12) were named in the Canterbury Under

SUPER TOUCH Back Row Second Row Front Row

Anna Mccoubrey, Pip Smith, Erin Benyon, Madeline Morris lexia Mehrtens, Phoebe Morris, Alice Faull, Kate Kilpatrick Hannah Bradley, Sarah Gunn, Pippa Hayward, Bridget Hazledine, Jordan Grant

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Netball 2007 has seen netball continue to thrive through all ages and all levels of the College. It is fantastic to see such hard work, commitment, dedication and team spirit displayed in every team and this has brought great success to many of our players. The Saturday Netball Competition is always one that sees most sideline cheer leaders wrap up in those winter woollies and head down to the Hagley Netball Courts. Although it is chilly, the action on court definitely heats things up and we must congratulate the 10A, 9A and B teams who managed to make the play-off round and in particular the B netball team who fought neck and neck to the last minute and only missed out on the semi-final by the scrape of a finger or 1 goal! A special mention must also go to the school B team, captained by Emily Shearer,who showed outstanding initiative in organising their own trip across the ditch to Australia. Their efforts in fundraising, and teamwork on court, brought them all together and they managed to gain runner up place in the Intermediate Grade against the Australian Competition. It is fantastic to see students strive to create their own success and the outstanding sports women have proven to us all that absolutely anything is possible!

A further congratulations goes to the A netball team who gained an honourable 17th place at the South Island Secondary Schools netball tournament held in Nelson.

As last seed (from being promoted from B Grade to A Grade in 2006), we faced one of the toughest pools. The first game saw us measured up against Verdon, who .... well, apart from being national champions, definitely beat us on leg length! But this didn't stop us. We managed to fight our way through the court and won the last quarter 13-12. This set the pace for the rest of tournament and it was onwards and upwards. Gathering momentum as

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the week went on, our team spirit lifted providing a funfilled experience with everyone coming together to form a strong unit. Returning to local Wednesday competition, our enthusiasm continued through into SuperNet (the top eight schools in Canterbury play in an elite indoor Wednesday competition) promotion relegation games.

Although we finished with a loss against Burnside, the progress made by each girl has been a reflection of the fun we have had. Good luck for the challenge next year! This year we have also had various girls selected in the Christchurch Netball Representative teams.

Congratulations to Kate Kilpatrick, Jordan Tomkins (U16 Representative) and Georgina Borowczyk (U17 Representative). Erin Benyon was also selected in the North Canterbury Under 19 team. Three Y9A players, Annalise Brown, Lucy Pankhurst and Annelise Bryant were named in the U14 development squad and there were many other girls who gained trials so watch out for 2008!

Lastly, we can't forget our wonderful support from above. All the coaches and managers, organisers and trainers who make our teams possible. In particular a special thanks Ms Chambers and to our teacher in Charge Ms Williams who have put in so much effort. We extend our thanks to Phil Tomkins and Sally Mene (Cocoaches senior A), Andrea Stewart (Coach Senior 8), Francesca Gebbie (Manager of Senior A) and Ms Laney who has been an outstanding support throughout the season, and, particularly at tournament in Nelson. There are many others who we wish to congratulate so thank you to everyone for your hard work. Good luck to all for 2008. We know you all will do St Margaret's proud!

Georgina Borowczyk Captain Netball

NETBALL 9A Back Row Front Row

Lucy Pankhurst, Amuri Hughey-Cockerell, Joanna Costello Madison Crowe, Annelise Bryant, Ms L Williams (Coach) Olivia Hammond, Annalise Brown, Bernice Lough, Kate Mccoubrey, Kaece Wright

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Brittany O'Donnell, Anna Latham, Caitlin Gardner Elizabeth Ravn, Annabel Ottawa, Elizabeth Olliver, Stephanie Harkerss Olivia Batt, Julia Hipango, Hannah Stanford, Cait Burke, Emma Hammond

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Sarah Vickers, Hannah Minty, Katie Vickers, Harriet Tomkins Holly Chapman, Emma Silva, Hannah Jarrold, Harriet Ingham, Olivia Jarvis

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Georgina Borowczyk, Alice Faull, Pip Smith, Natasha Coffey, Jordan Tomkins, Mrs S Mene (Coach) Sarah Gunn, Freya Morrison, Erin Benyon, Kate Kilpatrick, Rebecca Lough

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Sorcha Peren, Cate Mallon, Rachel Best, Henrietta Hazlett, Emma Booth Helen Abbey, Charlotte Tomkins, Emilie Simpson, Pippa Atkinson, Kristie Benyon

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Ms A Stewart (Coach), Madeline Morris, Suzie Vink, Phoebe Morris, Anna Mccoubrey Penny Buckley, Jane Pankhurst, Emily Shearer, Bridget Rutherford, Bridget Robilliard

Haidee Brown, Alana Bowden, Emma Costello Jordyn Yee, Amy Stockley-Smith, Alexia Mehrtens, Amy Green, Philippa Benton

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Hockey Yet again St Margaret's hockey has maintained its high standard at both a regional and national level. The 1st XI took the number one position in the Canterbury Secondary Schools competition, winning the Press Cup for five years in a row. An addition from last year was the fact that the team managed to be very competitive against older, more experienced teams in the Premier Women's division. Our final placing was 5th which is the best achievement in this grade to date. This result showed that we were a more consistent team and that we were always rising to a challenge. Unfortunately the team had a slightly disappointing result for our very high standards, finishing 3 rd at the National Secondary Schools Competition Federation Cup. However , despite not making the final at Federation cup, the team was committed through till the end of the tournament, showing St Margaret's determination and pride. Everyone made huge improvements from the start of the year. The dedication, commitment and passion from the girls was outstanding, as well as the added leadership from Charlotte Henley and many of the Year 12 players in the team. Being part of the 1st XI hockey team this year is something that I will never forget, for the grit, perseverance and the passion we shared as a team. It was a remarkable experience, hence a great way to finish my years with St Margaret's hockey, and I wish all the girls the best of luck for the future.

Both the 2 nd and 3 rd XI found the weekend club competition to be rather challenging. However both teams showed remarkable progress and steady improvement throughout the season. The 3 rd XI was placed 1st at Wednesday competition and 11th

in their national tournament, the Jenny McDonald trophy. The 2 nd XI was placed 12th in the Chica Gilmer Trophy competition - National tournament.

This was an impressive result considering that there were many 1st XI teams competing in the tournament. The highlight for the 2 nd XI was coming 1st equal in the Wednesday competition, a tremendous achievement. Also the Under 15 team was placed 3 rd equal in their grade, and the Under 18 team had three wins and two draws throughout their season. So over all it was another successful year for St Margaret's hockey.

Congratulations to all of those who have received a pocket or their hockey colours this year, you all deserve recognition for your outstanding contribution to St Margaret's hockey. Other congratulations must go to the number of girls who have represented hockey at both a Canterbury and New Zealand level. A big thank you to all of the teachers who were involved, as well as the coaches and managers, your efforts are always such an integral part of St Margaret's hockey. Thanks also to the head of hockey David Long, whose great passion and enthusiasm for St Margaret's hockey was evident throughout the season. Credit must be given to the parents whose continued support towards the players was great to see. To all the players involved in hockey this year, thank you for all your efforts and hard work, good luck to all of you who will be playing hockey next year.

Lizzie Rae Head of Hockey

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Amelia Gibson, Rosa Thomas, Rochelle McGregor, Pippa Hayward, Rosie Studholme Sian Fremaux, Nicole Ruddiman, Hannah Bradley, Jordan Grant, Mr D Long (Coach) Amelia Gibson, Annabelle Wright, Lizzie Rae, Charlotte Henley, Zoe Redwood

Harriet Bond, Alice Dunn, Elise Rutherford, Hannah Brown, Josie Copland Jordan Grant, Summar Connelly, Meg O'Connell, Melissa Chester, Hannah Brown, Monica Buhler, Charlotte Henley Laura Robertson, Bailey Kennedy, Georgina Archibald, Harriet Harper, Lizzy Redwood, Marie Macfarlane

Ski and Snowboarding It was an extra early morning on the first Sunday back of Term 3 as a bus load of anxious girls headed off to Mt Hutt for our annual Inter house skiing and snowboarding racing. The weather managed to hold up reasonably well in order for the girls to have their race on both the blue and red course. Everything went smoothly without any hiccups or injury. All back on board the bus by 4.00pm, Mr Woods set about ranking the race times and finding the teams who would continue on to race at Canterbury Secondary Schools. After the points tally, the house results were also revealed as:

SUMMER HOCKEY Back Row Front Row

Laura Page, Lucy Porteous, Jordan Vanderklei Emily Taylor, Olivia Cowie, Harriet Miller, Brydie Wolfe

Skiing: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 5th

HOCKEY 3RD X1 Back Row Second Row Front Row

Pippa Hayward, Katie Vilsbaek, Ruby Ashworth-Manning, Hannah Bradley Eileen Skinley, Emily Batt, Harriet Bowker, Michelle Kendall, Taylah Williams-Hughes Charlotte Gardner, Hannah McLeod, Emily Diack, Emily Reynolds, Annabelle Cohen, Penny Costello

Snowboarding: Konini Rimu Matipo Manuka Rata Kowhai

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th= 5th=

Manuka Rimu Kowhai Matipo Konini Rata

At an equally challenging time, the ski and snowboard teams took off for another day's racing at Mt Hutt. Up against schools from all over Christchurch, our girls raced well to gain respectable places of 5th for our ski team and 3rd for our snowboarders. Unfortunately they just missed out on securing a spot at South Island's competition but all girls must be commended on their efforts.

Virginia Orange was recognised as our top skier by being presented with Colours at the Sports Dinner.

Ginny had an excellent personal season competing

and achieving against national and international competition.

A thank you must also go to Mr Woods and Ms Newman for their continued commitment and organization within this sport at St Margaret's. With many young and talented students coming through the school, it is no doubt that the sport will continue to strive.

Emma Fechney Ski/Snowboard Captain

2007 Triathlon report Canterbury Secondary Schoool's Triathlon Championships

15 students involved 3 senior teams, Abby Shaw Emily Shearer Rosa Thomas (2nd)

1 intermediate Maddy Edmunds Olivia Loe Kate Kilpatrick (1st)

Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts Harriet Miller Rebekah Smith (3rd) Hannah Howard Courtney Paterson Josie Maher (8th) Individuals Eloise Hegarty 7th Georgina Borowczyk Erin Heasley

Intermediate 3rd Senior 5th

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Sport Climbing 2007 has been an outstanding year for Sport Climbing at St Margaret's College. The year began with a total 30 to 40 girls from Year 7 through to Year 12 'rocking' on down to the YMCA for two hours of fun every Tuesday afternoon with Peg Riley and Stacey Rod. We had a number of girls who have been climbing with the school in previous years but the majority of the group was made up of new and enthusiastic climbers from Years 7 to 9 who helped create a happy and positive atmosphere.

CLIMBING Back Row Diana Chen, Christina Greenwood, Hannah Stanford

We had great success in the following competitions: Canterbury Secondary Schools' Climbing Competition The St Margaret's College/Christ's College mixed team of Meisha Booth (Yr 9) Rebekah Masterton (Yr 12), and two guys from Christ's College placed first. Jennifer Arthur and Muan On Sri, (both Yr 12) were in a mixed team as well which came third. Jamel Barber, Olivia Esposito, Briar McKenzie, Hannah Stanford (all Yr 9) placed fourth in the female team section. Award for Best Effort Overall went to Briar McKenzie, Yr 9. Award for Best Female Climber went to Rebekah Masterton, Yr 12.

South Island Secondary Schools' Climbing Competition We entered two teams in the female section of this competition with the team of Jennifer Arthur, Rebekah Masterton (both Yr 12), Briar McKenzie and Meisha Booth (both Yr 9) being placed first.

The team of Emma Gardiner, Annabel Fraser, Amelie Baader (all Yr 12) and Lily Batt (Yr 9) came sixth. Award for Top Female Climber went to Rebekah Masterton. As you can imagine we were really buzzing after these competitions and can't wait to enter them

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Second Row Rebekah Masterton, Julia Hipango, Madeleine Ashton-Martyn, Jenny Arthur Front Row Briar McKenzie, Olivia Esposito, Samantha Henderson, Sharina Lopez, Olivia Batt

again next year. Look out 2008, here we come!!

Rebekah Masterton was also a member of the South Island Regional Development Squad and competed in the following Sport Climbing Competitions: NZ National Cup Series, Youth A Women 3rd place (overall ranking) NZ National Cup Series, Open Women 7th place (overall ranking) NZ National Championships, Youth A Women, Lead 2nd place NZ National Championships,Youth A Women, Speed 2nd place NZ National Championships, Open Women, Lead 9th place Oceania Lead Champs, Youth A Women 6th place Oceania Speed Champs, Youth A Women 3rd place

Oceania Lead Champs, Open Women 6th place

It has been a real joy to see the girls go from strength to strength in sport climbing this year. Their skills and technique have improved markedly and long may this continue! Many thanks to Peg Riley and Ms Stacey Rod for their support throughout the year, to the guys at the YMCA for their help, and a big 'thank you' to all the girls who have selected climbing as their 'sport' at St Margaret's this year. We hope you have enjoyed yourselves and we look forward to your continued involvement in this fantastic sport in 2008. Bring along your friends!!

Rebekah Masterton and Jennifer Arthur Captain and Vice-captain Of Climbing

AEROBICS Back Row Sarah Mokrusch, Georgia McMeeking, Katrina Wang Second Row J;:imel 8;:irher, Jenny Arthur, Zoe Deans, Mariko Harada

TABLE TENNIS Back Row Front Row

Madeleine Ashton-Martyn Zoe Higgins, Katrina Wang

Front Row Olivia Esposito, Willow Dyer, Alex Filsell, Jessica Gibson, Briar McKenzie

BOXING

SAILING

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Ye-rin Ju, Jayne Stewart, Allison Stokes Rosie Morrison, Claire Ruddenklau, Natalie Stagg, Alexandra Archibald

Isla McNeice Marie Macfarlane, Belinda Ferguson, Lavinia Shanks

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Abby Shaw, Erin Heasley, Rosa Thomas, Olivia Loe, Penny Buckley Anna Redmond, Ellie Hegarty, Georgina Borowczyk, Kate Kilpatrick, Emily Shearer Madeleine Edmunds, Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Harriet Miller, Rebekah Smith

DIVING Back Row Front Row

Jo King Helen Abbey, Lauren Thomas

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COLLEGE 2007 INDOORSOCCER

SURFING Back Row Front Row

Amy Stockley-Smith Alethea Lock, Nina Young

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Amelia Gibson, Annelise Oorschott, Kaitlin Allan, Ottilie Smith, Siana Fitzjohn Melanie Smith, Michelle Kendall, Emma Robson, Eliza Sim, Amelia Dalman, Amy Mackenzie Emma Anderson, Harriet Campbell, Dylan Dunn, Alex Bond, Rina Soetanto, Amy Lee

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Rebecca Mehrtens, Erin Benyon, Annabelle Pierce, Danielle Bowden, Dayle Gibson, Brynlea Collins, Esther Chen-Green, Jessica Reihana, Rebecca Gates, Louise Brazier, Charlotte Bell, Alana Bowden, Virginia Barnett, Jessica Loe, Megan Oliver Lucy Chapman, Claire Walters, Louisa Bradley, Charlotte Farthing, Sarah Skea, Kimberlee Smith, Michelle Tan, Eun Sol (Sylvia) Park, Melissa Wong, Caryn Yap, Amy Tappenden, Julia Currie, Rebekah Smith, Miriam Black, Rosa McGregor

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Nicola Shaw, Caitlin Habgood, Olivia Checkley, Georgina Borowczyk, Harriet Harper, Katie Thomas, Prudence Watson, Aimee Borlase, Toyah Hicks, Elora Kay, Alice Cohen, Emma Costello, Lizzie Rae Phillipa Dyer, Anna Mclachlan, Emma Dewhirst, Philippa Goslin, Morag McDonald, Sophie Dowson, Isabelle Manson, Emma Fechney, Rebecca Wadworth, Olivia Orange, Virginia Storrie, Hahna Retallick-Brown, Eve Palmer, Sireedhorn (Ming) On-Sri, Freya Morrison

Second Row

Front Row

Shanae Glassey, Samantha Bagrie, Kimberley Smith, Melanie Green, Erin Heasley, Samantha Robinson, Louise Daprini, Jessica-Anne Cathcart, Marcy Banbury, Charlotte Henley, Lucy Garvin, Sara Satterthwaite, Harriet Miller, Felicity Bishop, Sighle lllston.

Anna Farquhar, Amanda Inglis, Sophie Davies, Katey Chapman, Hannah Rutherford, Rebecca Ardagh, Georgina Archibald, Kirsty Trengrove, Samantha Read, Lucy Macfarlane, Annabel Cross, Harriet Smith, Rachel Gardner.

Amelia Aitken, Georgia Brownlee, Alexandra Callaghan, Katherine Collins, Elizabeth Guthrey, Tamsin Henley, Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Jemma Opie, Catherine Snowden, Amy Wei.

Back Row

Fifth Row

Rebecca Gates, Louise Brazier, Danielle Bowden, Erin Benyon, Charlotte Bell, Alana Bowden, Megan Oliver, Jessica Loe, Virginia Barnett, Annabelle Pierce, Rebecca Mehrtens, Brynlea Collin, Esther Chen-Green Emma Costello, Virginia Storrie, Tamsin Henley, Katie Thomas, Rebekah, Smith, Olivia Orange, Lucy Chapman, Julia Currie, Dayle Gibson, Claire Walters, Louisa Bradley, Prudence Watson, Jessica Reihana, Alice Cohen

Fourth Row

Third Row

Sara Satterthwaite, Anna Mclachlan, Georgina Borowczyk, Isabelle Manson, Morag McDonald, Georgia Brownlee, Philippa Goslin, Hannah Retallick-Brown, Sophie Dowson, Emma Fechney, Harriet Harper, Caitlin Hagbood, Nicola Shaw, Felicity Bishop Samantha Robinson, Elisabeth Guthrey, Catherine Snowden, Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Marcy Banbury, Louise Daprini, Charlotte Henley, Philippa Dyer, Eve Palmer, Jessica-Anne Catchcart, Hannah Rutherford, Kimberlee Smith, Freya Morrison, Kimberley Smith, Olivia Checkley

Second Row

Floor

Kirsty Trengrove, Amelia Aitken, Amanda Inglis, Miriam Black, Miss Claudia Wysocki (Executive Principal), Rebecca Ardagh (Deputy Head girl), Rt Rev David J Coles (Bishop of Christchurch), Mrs Rebecca Barnett (St Margaret's Old Girls' President), Georgina Archibald (Head Girl), Mrs Sue Harlow (Dean), Sophie Davies, Katherine Collins, Shanae Glassey, Harriet Smith Katey Chapman, Harriet Miller, Samantha Read, Samantha Bagrie, Rachel Gardner, Sireedhoron (Ming) On-Sri, Anna Farquhar, Lucy Macfarlane

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CN TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Alexandra Miles, Claudia Coates, Brynlea Collin, Rebekah Smith, Emily Farquhar Mrs N Carson, Anna Mclachlan, Susannah Stewart, Emma Robson, Hannah Stanford Rebecca Skjellerup, Emily Shearer, Kirsty Hogg, Emma Askew, Charlotte Dallison Hannah Brown, Jennifer Hanan, Georgia Brownlee

RD TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Alice Dunn, Amuri Hughey-Cockerell, Hannah Minty, Harriet Tomkins, Clara Wells Miss S Rod, Elizabeth Olliver, Nicole Ruddiman, Lucy Chapman, Latarsha Green Nikita Green-Lewis, Emma Anderson, Zoe Redwood, Alice Fairley, Claudia Leathart Chelsea Foley, Caitlin Roberts

EL TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Hannah Lee, Kate Tothill, Kirsten Brown, Emma Costello Cuillin Mackay, Abbey Donaldson, Emma Sim, Hailey Williams, Johanna King, Mrs S Ellis Muan On-Sri, Sophie Woods, Emma Price, Sarah Feary, Helen Abbey Miriam Black, Georgia Pinckney, Roisin Blake

WI TUTOR GROUP

DA TUTOR GROUP

FL TUTOR GROUP

Back Row Second Row Front Row

Back Row Second Row

Back Row

Absent

Amy Green, Natasha Coffey, Olivia Brooks, Kristie Benyon Zoe Deans, Sian Fremaux, Rebecca Wadworth, Rachel Gill Elizabeth Redwood, Annabelle Wright, Rebecca Lough, Charlotte Tomkins, Freya Morrison Katherine Collins, Jayne Stewart, Lucy Thomson, Alexandra Warren

Front Row Absent

Perilla Peter, Sarah Lewis, Eliza Sim Ms C Dardaiac, Rosa McGregor, Jessica Horne, Charlotte Timperley, Penny Costello Cindy Yang, Kimberley Smith, Lizzie Rae, Elly Fielder-Gill, Dearnna Keats Pippa Thomas, Monica Kenworthy

Second Row Front Row Absent

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Nicole Crequer, Holly Fletcher, Rebecca Manning, Jennifer Henderson Marissa Scott, Philippa Benton, Bailey Kennedy, Holly Erickson, Samantha Robinson, Mrs S Flewellen Jenny Tang, Alexandra Bond, Gennady Sharpe, Amelia Dalman, Sarah Whittall, Sasha Lopez Amy Wei

HK TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Phoebe Morris, Rochelle McGregor, Erin Benyon, Louise Brazier, Anna Latham Ms P Henriksen, Nicola Cordell, Halley Coulter, Penelope Buckley, Rowena Hughey Sophie Barnett, Caitlin Gardner, Hannah Anderson, Melissa Jacks, Teagan Killick Vanessa Shanks, Brooke Bishop, Natalie Stagg

KO TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Megan Aitchison, Jessica Fibbes, Rebecca Gates, Francesca Henry, Prudence Watson Mrs L Kennedy, Aimee Borlase, Anna Brankin, Penelope Bundy, Charlotte Jackson Jamel Barber, Amanda Howes, Jessica McConnell, Juliet Sewell, Sarah Bush Pippa Hayward, Tamsin Henley

LF TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Emma Silva, Martina Maxwell, Catherine Mallon, Rebecca Mehrtens, Emma Dewhirst Mrs L Lightfoot, Melissa Lee, Emily Reynolds, Gabrielle Cross, Annalise Haywood, Lauren Thomas Natalie Crowther, Annelise Bryant, Harriet Miller, Olivia Brown Annabelle Button Rachel Seay, Ella Storrie

KB TUTOR GROUP

KY TUTOR GROUP

LY TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Back Row

Back Row Second Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Molly Ferguson, Sophie Dowson, Aimee Mills, Petrea Parkhill, Rosemary Morrison Ms H Kobayashi, Jamie de Jong, Emilie Batt, Kimberlee Smith, Madeleine Ashton-Martyn Sacha-Marie Ritchie, Brittany Tyson, Samantha Murphy, Charlotte Gardner, Olivia Esposito Eloise Hegarty

Second Row Front Row Absent

Michelle Tan, Ella Marks, Olivia Quinn, Hannah Brown, Ruby Ashworth-Manning Mrs T Keys, Rina Soetanto, Alexandra Callaghan, Bridget Quartermain, Madeline Morris, Hannah Bradley, Georg_i_a Nash Anna-Redmond, Bernice Lough, Olivia Brook, Kate Mccoubrey, Monica Sunier Amy Ryan, Anna Collins, Taylah Williams-Hughes

Front Row Absent

Susanna Vink, Rosa Thomas, Kate Kilpatrick, Shanelle Shields Mrs J Laney, Chelsea Saunders, Brittany O'Donnell, Sarah Truscott, Shanae Glassey Jessica Arthur, Olivia Checkley, Amanda Inglis, Bridget Rutherford, Meisha Booth Gemma Hazeldine,Sophie Kelly,Summar Connelly,Emma Symon

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MD TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Harriet Harper, Alice Faull, Hope Westbury, Sarah Vickers Mr K McDonnell, Amy McLeod, Hannah Howard, Megan Chu, Sophie Mitchell-Findlater Lucy Macfarlane, Francesca Arthur, Amy Campbell, Elena Neill, Alexandra Fretter Jessica Cridlin , Elizabeth Guthery, Francessca Rose, Kate Vilsbaek

MG TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Georgina Du Val, Megan Oliver, Emma Gardiner, Emma Champ Ms J McLaughlin, Melanie Green, Penny Hurst, Panita Tangthanasup, So-jin Lee, Samantha Mcinnes Kristina Russell, Anna Rumbold, Amelia McKay, Samantha Read, Alice Harris Nicole Cousins, Renee Stewart

PL TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Olivia Loe, Lucy Dewhirst, Alana Bowden, Harriet Bowker Miss A Plummer, Emma Banks, Laura Suddens, Emma Fechney, Claire Walters, Michelle Kendall Claire Martin, Emily Taylor, Georgia Bonner, Siana Fitzjohn, Kate Currie, Kimberley MacKay-Wallace Emma Grey, Stephanie Gates

ME TUTOR GROUP

MU TUTOR GROUP

PR TUTOR GROUP

Back Row Second Row

Back Row

Back Row

Front Row Absent

MelissaChester,Caitlin Craigie,Charlotte Farthing,Keny Thomson Mrs S Mene, Holly Chapman, Amy Gardiner, Jordyn Yee, Isla Cross Erica Robertson, Lucy Pankhurst, Ji-Hae Choi, Amy Lee, Deborah Leong-lkin Rosie Studholme, Sarah Hammond, Hollie Walton, Harriet Fyfe

Second Row Front Row Absent

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Morag McDonald, Kariba-Lee McGinn, Henrietta Hazlett, Fredericka Archibald, Jordan Tomkins Mrs C Mutch, Hannah Rutherford, Jane Pankhurst Phillipa Dyer, Philippa Smith, Olivia Hammond, Melanie Smith Madeline Rogers, Pippa Atkinson, Rebekah Masterton, Hannah Checkley, Kirsty Trengrove Sophie Kerr

Second Row Front Row Absent

Elora Kay, Georgia McMeeking, Hannah Steenson, Hannah Smith, Gwendolen Jackson Miss H Prior, Amelia Thompson, Emily Wright, Rebecca Ardagh, Casey Johnstone, Kate Langer Joanna Duncan, Sirapat Tarab, Laney Mahuika-Willis, Genevieve Marshall, Rita Poad Emily Diack

RY TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Olivia Agar, Danielle Buckley, Sophie Fraser, Rachel Ball Virginia Orange, Bridget Hazledine, Jordan Grant, Siriluck Dejthamrong Annie Davies, Jessica Chamberlain, Rachel Gardner, Lauren Colgan, Olivia Batt Charlotte Bell, Emma Hammond, Xuelin Wang, Rev P Riley

SU TUTOR GROUP

Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Elise Rutherford, Mariah Turnbull, Stephanie Henderson Mr M Summerlee Amy Stockley-Smith Livia-Kate Pearce Nina Young Nicola Shaw Julia Noh, Alice Cohen, Zasu Towle, Brydie Wolfe, Sighle lllston Rose Pike, Francesca Allen, Anna Marshall

TF TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Courtney King, Annelise Oorschot, Clare Ryan Amy Duckworth, Stephanie Harkerss, Alexandra Archibald Caitlin Habgood Laura Robertson, Francesca Nossell, Louise Daprini, Jessica-Anne Cathcart, Katherine Todd Rachel Chester,Jessica Gibson, Harriet Ingham, BethanieWalton

SL TUTOR GROUP

TD TUTOR GROUP

TI TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Back Row

Back Row Second Row Front Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Jane Bellis, Annabelle Pierce, Lucy Dickie, Virginia Mason, Dayle Gibson Mrs S Smallman, Bridget Robilliard, Ye-rin Ju, Charlotte Evans, Alexandra Egnot Jessica Wedlake, Ashley Crequer, Ashleigh Johnson, Gabriella Finnis, Antonia Mannucci Holly Caird, Lucy Porteous

Second Row Front Row Absent

Aiko Robinson, Kaitlin Allan, Olivia Orange, Alexandra Valks, Alyson O'Malley Ms J Todd, Courtney Chamberlain, Emily Murray, Melissa Parker, Hebe-Jane Haughey, Caroline Rigby Katey Chapman, Madison Edilson, Emma Hipango, Felicity Bishop, Georgia Cockram Charlotte Baddeley

Absent

Joanna Costello, Jessica Loe, Emma Murray-Stevenson Mrs M Titheridge, Laura Page, Eve Palmer, Emily Hayman Briar McKenzie, Ella O'Neill, Virginia Barnett, Chloe Crowe, Hannah Ashmore-Price Ruth Winstanley, Lauren Ching, Alexia Mehrtens, Ashleigh Howell, Jessica Benton, Janet Mackenzie, Shannon Hegarty 143

AC TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row

Tegan Timperley, Hannah Milner, Emma McKay, Chelsea Richdale, Louisa Bradley Mrs A Archer, Marcy Banbury, Hannah Retallick-Brown, Margot Mills, Sarah Timperley Brittany Pooley, Kate Feary, Liberty Parsons, Rina Takahashi, Laura Tomlinson

AE TUTOR GROUP

AS TUTOR GROUP

Second Row

Second Row

Back Row

Front Row Absent

Rachel Robilliard, Esther Chen-Green, Sophie Hendren, Josephine Maher, Laura Holder Lucy Garvin, Eileen Skinley, Tylah Fitzgerald, Amanda Gardenbroek, Ms N Allen Seang-Ha Joo, Jennifer Arthur, Hannah Wilson, Olivia Hobson, Emily Mitchell-Findlater Tessa Schriek, Annabelle Cohen, Isla McNeice

Back Row

Front Row Absent

Madeleine Baird, Maximiliane Diesenberg, Anna Mccoubrey, Louisa Leathart Miss S Ashton, Raissa Sidhu, Lauren Smith, Sarah Mokrusch, Anna Ascott, Aidan Verity Caitlin Kennedy, Olivia Phillipson, Lavinia Shanks, Alice Williams, Rebecca Stoop, Gait Burke Josie Copland, Madeline Morris

AL TUTOR GROUP

AN TUTOR GROUP

BK TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Back Row

Back Row Second Row

Second Row Front Row

Virginia Storrie, Jessica Cunnold, Emma Booth, Amy Tappenden, Erin Heasley Mrs J Allan, Sarah Taylor, Zoe Higgins, Sarah Faulkner, Ella Hawthorne, Laura Haase Kathleen Zelter, Alice Wright, Chelsea Robinson, Georgina Wilding, Willow Dyer, Madeleine Hayman

Second Row Front Row Absent

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Catriona Murray, Georgina Archibald, Megan Vincent, Emilie Noire, Ellie McDonald Ms K Anderson, Thitikarn Tangthanasup, Zoe McCoy, Fern Douglas, Georgia Coffey Sarah Gibson, Annabel Cross, Amelia Aitken, Mikaela Lancaster-Weerts, Mariko Harada Ruby Hall, Georgia Wilcox

Front Row Absent

Kaitlyn Tyson, Gemma Hogg, Jessica Reihana, Caryn Yap Amy Mackenzie, Annabel Keys, Rozlyn Stokes, Georgina Garrett, Miss M Buhrkuhl Lisa Hammond, Alexandra Batt, Sophie Davies, Elizabeth McLean, Miranda Fraser Haidee Brown, Alethea Lock, Olivia Marchand

GI TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Jessica Wilcox, Madison Crowe, Lucy Halligan,SamanthaPexton Miss H Gibbon, Julia Currie, Emilie Simpson, Harriet Bond, Bridie Marlin Victoria Storrie, Meg O'Connell, Ruchika Tandon, Anna Bremner, Kate Brown Melissa Wong, Danielle Bowden, Olivia Jarvis

CO TUTOR GROUP

Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

Courtney Paterson, Katie Vickers, Olivia Cowie Sarah Skea, Isabelle Manson, Charlotte Henley, Kaece Wright Georgina Abbott, Hannah McLeod, Sarah Gunn, Harriet Campbell, Claire Ruddenklau Ms L Chong (Tutor), Aimee Browne, Catherine Snowden, Zoe Topp, Samantha Williams

WS TUTOR GROUP Back Row Second Row Front Row Absent

WO TUTOR GROUP

WN TUTOR GROUP

Back Row

Back Row Second Row Front Row

Second Row Front Row Absent

Dylan Dunn, Philippa Goslin, Rebecca Newman, Ottilie Smith, Bridget Cowles Mr T Wood, ElizabethPotts, Laura-Beth Feary, Georgina Borowczyk, Belinda Ferguson,SalineeSae-Lim Ming On-Sri, Madeline Morton, Emma Learey,Fiona Millar, Josephine Archer, Marcelle Murdoch Annabel Morris

Absent

Rebecca Woolman, Bonnie Murray, Annabel Fraser, Annalise Brown, Allison Stokes Amelia Gibson, Charlotte Bell, Rachel Best, Abby Shaw, Marie Macfarlane, Toyah Hicks, Mr B Woods Margot Gibson, Jessica Green, Anna Farquhar, Harriet Smith, Julia Hipango Sorcha Peren

Hannah Ashby, Jordan Vanderklei, Yoona Lee Dr D Winter, Paris Frost, Annabella Horlor, Sylvia Park Elizabeth Ravn, Fiona Winskill, Katie Thomas, Hannah Milner, Julianne Shields Aimee Kenworthy, Alexandra Filsell, Genevieve Du Val, Hannah Bradley, Laura Saunders, Sara Satterthwaite

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This is the Eulogy given by Miss Wysocki at Hannah 's funeral in the College Chapel on Friday 11 May 2007. We print it as our tribute to Hannah.

"In standing here I speak on behalf of all of Hannah's teachers and the staff whose lives have been touched by Hannah during her 5½ years in this school. What will they remember of the shy little girl who joined us in Year 7 and who grew into the warm, bubbly, confident 16 year old whom we celebrate today?

Three words were consistently used by all of Hannah's teachers as we talked about her - Self-contained, Caring, Spunky.

From the time Hannah came to St Margaret's she showed a remarkable self-containment. She was grounded, knew who she was and was very much her own person. Not one to be swayed by peer pressure she showed an inner strength that made her reflective. There was always a real peace and calm about her.

But Hannah's most evident personal quality was her caring and thoughtfulness for others. She hated conflict and was never one to engage in unkind or catty comments about others. Hannah wanted people to be friends. She was always the peace-maker who saw the good qualities of others in discerning way. It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Hannah had the most beautiful eyes, eyes that showed the beauty and depth of her care for others.

As Hannah grew and her confidence developed, the spunkiness, a quality of the true St Margaret's girl, emerged.

She was fun-loving, very social and ready to try us on - but in the nicest possible way. "Good morning Hannah - now take the gum out your mouth and let's get rid of the nose-stud - good, now we will start the day."

There was also a certain science teacher who called Hannah up to the front of the class each morning - "Right Hannah, open your mouth - tongue left, tongue right. Good no gum

- now we will start the class. Hannah's chewing gum was a mark of her, even visible in photographs and one of the first mementos that appeared here in this Chapel on her shrine was a packet of gum.

There were times when teachers had to speak to Hannah not only about the gum and the nose stud but also about her work.

For, apart from Art which was her passion, Hannah could be described as a pragmatic learner. She knew how much she needed to do to get by. Why spend time on study when one could be having fun? Never, as her tutor said, (and it was her job often to discuss academic progress), did Hannah show anything but respect and graciousness to these reprimand, although we don't think a great deal more work was actually done. Art was her passion and her talent and that was where she would spend extra time. Her fine results, especially her excellence for sculpture in Level 1 NCEA last year, showed that this would be where Hannah's future lay.

Dragon-boating is a popular sport in the summer term. It is social, a real team sport where camaraderie is high.

Having fun goes with the competition. Mrs Harlow, our Dragon-boating Queen, told me how, on the bus going to a competition, Hannah would move around handing out to everyone a piece of Berocca tablet for each girl to put on her tongue so that she would fizz in the boat.

Hannah's personality is a bit like a berocca tablet. Just a tablet until the right conditions and then how it can fizz. In the right social conditions Hannah fizzed. She was the life and soul of the party and what fun she had and how much living she did - a teenager who loved life and made the most of it.

In Year 10 one of her teachers had a custom of getting the girls at the end of the year to nominate and vote for class members for various awards. One of these awards was the person who best encapsulates the St Margaret's College girl.

The class, Hannah's peers, voted for her. Their reasons:because of her bubbly, friendly, caring nature, the fact that

she always looked good, even in school uniform. She was described by these girls as a true friend. I guess for me personally, especially over the last few days, our school motto has really expressed what Hannah was to me: - "Blessed are the pure of heart." Purity of heart is about unselfishness, putting others before yourself, being true to who you are and what you know is right, being without malice but with love and a real openness to others. That was Hannah - the girl we will always remember as a cherished member of St Margaret's College.

And how would she have us remember her? These words are for her Mum, her Dad, her brother and her very special friends.

Now I am gone, now I am lost to you Meet me again just as you used to do: Each morning - when the sky is still blue-black, You like to get up early: could I be back?

In the house - in every room you'll find The bits and pieces that I've left behind.

In the classroom - where I sat amongst you Hear me through the laughter and in silence too.

In the street - of course ... you stop to window-shop; Remember the fun we had when we shopped till we dropped.

At the beach, where sky and water meet, Feel my warmth in the sand on your naked feet.

In the sunshine - when you doze away the hours Dream of me then, my arms full of flowers.

Look at a painting, created by an artist's gift Remember the art I love and let your spirits lift."

Amelia Aitken

Marcy Banbury

Felicity Bishop

2003 - 2007

2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Design - Massey

2003 - 2007 Working 2008 - Hotel Management 2009

Hagley Dance Company

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Georgina Archibald

Virginia Barnett

Miriam Black

2003 - 2007 First Year Health Sciences - Otago

2003 - 2007 Design + Arts College - Interior Design

2000 - 2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

Rebecca Ardagh

Charlotte Bell

Aimee Borlase

2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Law /Bachelor of Arts - Canterbury

2003 - 2007 Canterbury

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts

Samantha Bagrie

Erin Benyon

Georgina Borowczyk

2001 - 2007 Bachelor of Law Canterbury

2002 - 2007 Gap Year Morton Hall England 2009 - Bachelor of Physical Education

2001 - 2007 Auckland or Victoria Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Law

Alana Bowden

Georgia Brownlee

Lucy Chapman

2003 - 2007 CPIT - Bachelor of Nursing

2002 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Commerce (Econ / Bachelor of Arts)

2003 - 2007 Victoria - Bachelor of Arts (Psych / Criminology)

Danielle Bowden

Alexandra Callaghan

Olivia Checkley

2003 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Physical Education

2000 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts (Classics)

2004 - 2007 Victoria. Bachelor of Arts

Louisa Bradley

Jessica Cathcart

Esther Chen-Green

2002 - 2007 CPIT - Bachelor of Nursing

2003 - 2007 Victoria - . Bachelor of Arts (Psych / Criminology)

1996 - 2007 CPIT - Bachelor of Nursing

Louise Brazier

Katey Chapman

Alice Cohen

2003 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Law

2003 - 2007 Working 2008

2003 - 2007 Otago -Bachelor of Law / Bachelor of Commerce

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BrynleaCollin

Julia Currie

Sophie Dowson

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Speech Language Therapy

2003 - 2007 Working 2008, Otago 2009

2005 - 2007 2008 Gap Yr (Wales) 2009 - Drama School

KatherineCollins

Louise Daprini

PhillipaDyer

2003 - 2007 Lincoln Bachelor Valuation + Property Management

2001 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts (Psychology + Anthropdogy)

2005 - 2007 2008 Gap Year - working 2009 Chef in Navy

Emma Costello

Sophie Davies

Anna Farquhar

2002 - 2007

2002 - 2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

2003 - 2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

Annabel Cross

Emma Dewhirst

Charlotte Farthing

2005 - 2007

2002 - 2007 Massey - Veterinary Science

2004 - 2007 CPIT - Chef Training

Emma Fechney

Dayle Gibson

Elizabeth Guthrey

2003 - 2007 2008 Gap Year Kings School - coach rowing. 2009 undecided

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Law / Bachelor of Arts

2003 - 2007 Massey - Environmental Planning

Rachel Gardner

Shanae Glassey

Caitlin Habgood

2003 - 2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

2003 - 2007 Working and travelling

2003 - 2007 Auckland - Bachelor of Arts (Geography)

Lucy Garvin

Philippa Goslin

Harriet Harper

1999 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Fine Arts or CPIT Bachelor of Design

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Engineering

2003 - 2007 GAP Year (Kent), 2009- UNI

Rebecca Gates

Melanie Green

Erin Heasley

2004 - 2007 Otago -Bachelor of Law/ Bachelor of Science

1999 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Science or CPIT - Veterinary Nurse

2005 - 2007 University of North Florida (Sports School), Journalism

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Charlotte Henley

Amanda Inglis

Lucy Macfarlane'

2001 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Physical Education/ Bachelor of Commerce

2003 - 2007 GAP Year (Norfolk) - 2009 Uni.

2003 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Physical Education/ Bachelor of Commerce

Tamsin Henley

Elora Kay

Isabelle Manson

2003 - 2007 Gap Year (Edinburgh) 2009 Fashion+ Marketing

2004 - 2007 Canterbury. Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Arts (Management / Sociology)

2005 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Commerce

Toyah Hicks

Mikaela Lancaster -Weerts

Morag McDonald

2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Social Work

1997-2007 NASDA - Bachelor of Performing Arts

2003 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Law

Sighle lllston

Jessica Loe

Rosa McGregor

2003-2007 CPIT - Fashion Design or Cant Bachelor of Arts - (French)

2001-2007 CPIT - Exercise and Sport Science

2001 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts

Samantha Read

Hannah Rutherford

Kimberley Smith

2003 - 2007 Lincoln - Bachelor of Science

2002 - 2007 Gap Year (Edinburgh), 2009 Massey Bachelor of Design or Otago Polytech

2001 - 2007 Otago - Bachelor of Consumer and Applied Sciences

Jessica Reihana

Sara Satterthwaite

Kimberlee Smith

2003 - 2007 Victoria - Bachelor of Science

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Commerce I Bachelor of Arts

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Law/ Bachelor of Arts

Hahna Retallick-Brown

Nicola Shaw

Rebekah Smith

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Arts (Psych)

2003-2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

2005 - 2007 Otago - First Year Health Sciences

Samantha Robinson

Harriet Smith

Catherine Snowden

2002-2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Fine Arts

2000-2007 Bachelor of Arts Mass Communications and English at Canterbury

2003 - 2007 Victoria - Bachelor of Arts /Bachelor of Law

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VirginiaStorrie

KirstyTrengrove

Amy Wei

2004 - 2007 D + A College - Interior Design

2003 - 2007 Working and Travelling

2002 - 2007 Architecture - overseas

Michelle Tan

Rebecca Wadworth

Melissa Wong

2006 - 2007 Law - NZ, Aust or UK

2003 - 2007 Victoria College of Arts - Dance / Design

2004 - 2007 Specialist Make up course

Amy Tappenden

Claire Walters

Caryn Yap

2003 - 2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Commerce I Bachelor of Arts

2008 Working and Travelling

2007 Canterbury - Bachelor of Commerce

Katie Thomas

Prudence Watson

2003-2007 Gap year (Edinburgh} 2009 Bachelor of Arts Otago (Psychology)

1995-2007 Queenstown Resort College - Hotel Management

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6 May 2009

Dear Leavers of 2007 As you are aware a page was omitted from the Year 13 Leavers' Profiles section of the 2007 School Magazine.

We were disappointed that this occurred and in order to remedy this we have re-created the missing page.

Please find enclosed the updated version for you to place with your magazine.

We trust that you are enjoying your chosen career path since leaving St Margaret's College.

Yours sincerely

Yvonne Gallagher Office Manager

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF NEW ZEALAND

12 WinchesterStreet, Merivale,POBox25 094, ChristchurchI Ph: (03)379 2000 I F: (03)365 5748 Email:adrnin@strnargarets.school.nzI Website:www.strnargarets.school.nz

~ tP,,i/11,een ~ 2003 - 2007 2008 Otago University Bachelor of Science (Human Nutrition)

2003 - 2007

2003 - 2007

Otago University Law and Commerce

Working in Sydney

Lizzie Rae

Freya Morrison

Anna Mclachlan 2001 - 2007 Super Yacht Crewing Course in Auckland 2008

AnnabellePierce

2003 - 2007

2004 - 2007

Otago University Health Science

Massey University Bachelor of Design

Megan Oliver

Harriet Miller

2004 - 2007

2003 - 2007

2001 - 2007

University.

Gap Year 2008

Canterbury University Languages Degree

Olivia Orange

Jemma Opie

Eun Sol Park 2003 - 2007 Gap Year Moreton Hall UK 2008

2003 - 2007

2003 - 2007

University - USA

Lincoln University Valuation & Property Management

• Eve Palmer

Sireedhorn(Ming) On-Sri

Rebecca Mehrtens

David, Karen and Georgina Archibald (Head Girl 2007), Alice (Head Girl 2008), Sarah, and Richard Faull