The Year That Was 2016

THE YEAR THAT WAS Celebrating local education in 2016

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LITERACY TUTORING OPENS NEW DOORS FOR EMPLOYEES JNL has always placed an importance on developing its staff through further training. One of the ways it does this is through its English literacy courses which are held at the wood processing mill just south of Masterton every Thursday and tutored by Lynley Tuck of Literacy Wairarapa.

understanding of work processes.”

Adrian Greig, a Competenz Forest & Wood Training Leader of the Year Award winner, oversees this and other training at the mill.

While participants are usually recommended for the course by their team leaders, some have been motivated to take part by themselves, Adrian says.

The programme was originally started as an English as a Second Language programme targeting employees for whom English is not their native tongue, Adrian says.

But over time it evolved into a course to help any employee with learning, reading or writing difficulties.

The one hour tutorials teach general literacy skills but are also used to help employees gain unit standards in wood processing.

“The tutorials help them understand the practices and properties of wood and timber machinery. Anything that they don’t understand, they can ask about it.

“Our team leaders have found the tutorials have improved the trainees

Lynley Tuck (Literacy Wairarapa Tutor) Kueva Ioane, Dean Curtis, Adrian Greig (Training Co-Ordinator) and Willie Warns at Adult Learners week where three JNL Employees received certificates. Kueva Ioane for Adult learner commendation, Dean Curtis for outstanding Adult Learner and Willie Warns for Adult Learner commendation.

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It’s not all just about work either - the programme has had a flow-on effects to home life as well, Adrian says.

“Some participants have used the course to get their drivers licence and for other purposes.”

“One employee who couldn’t read or write but had managed to get through life as best as he could. He had seen other people do it and thought he would give it a try.”

There are currently eight employees on the programme this year with a total of 21 employees having been on the programme who have obtained 57 National Certificates in Wood Processing between them through it.

Adrian says the programme is one way JNL can give back to the community.

“It’s a win/win situation. If we can improve the skill level of employees, we get a benefit and they get the benefit.”

LITERACY WAIRARAPA MANAGER BETH TAYLOR, TUTOR LYNLEY TUCK, ALATAUA WILSON, GRANT INGRAM, KUEVA IOANE, WILLIE WARNS, SEILALA MALATAI, SIONE PULE AND ADRIAN GREIG

THE YEAR THAT WAS

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FERNRIDGE SCHOOL

CARTERTON SCHOOL

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GREYTOWN SCHOOL

GOOD BEGINNINGS EDUCARE & TODDLERS

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MAKOURA COLLEGE

MASTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

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RATHKEALE COLLEGE

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE

ST MATTHEW’S COLLEGIATE

FEATHERSTON SCHOOL

KAHUTARA SCHOOL

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LITERACY WAIRARAPA

LAKEVIEW SCHOOL

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MASTERTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

MAURICEVILLE SCHOOL

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ST PATRICK’S SCHOOL

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GREYTOWN EARLY YEARS

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OPAKI SCHOOL

DOUGLAS PARK SCHOOL

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SOLWAY COLLEGE

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ST TERESA’S SCHOOL

WAINUIORU SCHOOL

HADLOW PRESCHOOL

WHAREAMA SCHOOL

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SOUTH END SCHOOL

HADLOW SCHOOL

WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016

Our school’s youngest hockey team for 2016

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Five trophy winners for Pets Day

As always we have our children reflect on our year. Here is a selection of their thoughts and recounts. We hope you enjoy reading them.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE ANITA PHILLIPS

2016 has been an incredibly productive and busy year for our wonderful little school.

Ground has just been broken on the construction of our brand new classroom which is something our community has worked incredibly hard to get for our school. We continue to experience excellent support through our ASCA fundraising team, board, students, parents and community. Our staff have remained consistent and remarkably dedicated to our school. This year we have achieved so much from high academic results through to the completion of our Native Planting Area. Our student council has fundraised a substantial amount for charity and have had a positive impact in our school with their focus and dedication to the well-being of all. Alfredton School really does show what you can achieve when everyone works together!

Athletics We have been practising doing hurdles, high jump, long jump, sprints, discus and shotput.

My favourite was high jump because it felt like you were flying.

By Angus Year 2

Moon Room’s trip to Pukaha / Mt Bruce Two of our boys working on our Native Planting project

Yesterday the whole school went to the Cultural Festival and we sang songs and Pahiatua School did the haka. The haka was taringa whakarongo karate karate kaumau hi.

Mangatainoka did ukulele. Papatawa sang a funny song.

By Mac Year 2 Pets Day At Pets Day I saw a calf and some lambs. I smelt wool and cake. I heard moo, woof, baa and lots of talking.

By Hunter Year 2 Pukaha Mount Bruce One rainy and cold day Moon class went to Mount Bruce for our class trip. It took a little while to get there. At last we got there! But it was raining so we raced inside. Our ranger leader was Chloe. She led us around the visitor centre. In one room there was a movie, when we had watched it Chloe asked some questions about it. We saw four tuatara but there were actually five. The fifth one is blind so we didn’t get to see it, but we did see the mother, brother and sister tuatara. There was a little movie about the kokako and how they became extinct. In the room next door there was a little table that had buttons on it. If you touch it the button will show you all about it.

In the same room there is a little tree that has torches and you had to find all of the animals.

When Miss Hawke called us in we went outside for a tour. First we went to the birds in the cages, some weren’t there because they were in the Free Flight Aviary. In the aviary the door talks to you. Some of the birds in the aviary were Kereru, Fantail, Blue Duck and Bell Bird. After we had done everything we went

back to the Visitor Centre and back to school.

By Madison Year 3 Native Planting Crunch as the spade slides in the ground.

“Blair, can you please put the Rata in the hole?” “OK!” We fill the hole up.

We look for the next tree.

“Blair take the tree out of the pot please!”

We had to dig the biggest hole in the world.

Blair and I had a break and had a drink. We helped people put bark around the plants. I went and helped Dad trim the hedge. I put branches in a sack and took them to the rubbish pile. I helped build and cut branches.

What a big day!!

By Aston Year 5

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What has been happening this year at Carterton School? Too much to tell you everything, but here are a few of the opportunities our school students have had in 2016 …

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

The Rio Olympics inspired us all to great heights in ‘athletics’ when we had a fun Carterton School Olympics day taking part in crazy events devised by the teachers. Groups of children from across the school came together as a country – lots of medals were awarded.

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This year we have been involved in a large number of events and experiences in and around our community, as the students undertake their learning in wide range of contexts. Being situated in a beautiful green environment means our students are often active around the grounds developing our gardens and landscape. We are a country school right in the heart of Carterton.

Top Yr 5/6 Mathematicians.

Leo Buttar, Rebecca Johnson and Cyrus Dale.

First Pet Day on a horse.

Pet Day is always great fun

The year has flown by and a lot has been achieved. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every person who has contributed to our students learning in any way in 2016.

Whānau, family, community members, teachers, support staff, specialists in art or wildlife or maths, friends, neighbours and anyone who has shared a positive word or experience with our students. We could not manage without your support!

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Three of our Year 5/6 students were the top performers in this year’s ‘Matharapa’ competition, demonstrating their fantastic problem solving and mathematical skills. Well done Rebecca Johnson, Cyrus Dale and Leo Buttar!

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We try to get out and about for as much of our learning as we can. A highlight in 2016 was the Junior classes investigation into where our poos and wees go, while they were studying an inquiry on ‘change’! They went to the local water treatment plant to answer their questions!

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Our kapahaka tuakana were a key part of the welcome ceremony when Prime Minister John Key unveiled the Charles Rooking Carter statue. As always, they performed with great pride. Our students also powhiri new citizens at the Carterton Council rooms through the year.

A very special feature of our school are our ‘Ākonga Māori’ classes. These provide learning based on strong links to te reo and tikanga māori. We are the only school in the Wairarapa with this opportunity.

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‘Education Outside the Classroom’ forms part of our curriculum throughout the year.

The Prime Minister, John Key, meets some famous Carterton School students

Answering the question ‘Where DO our poos and wees go to?!’ The local water treatment plant.

The students who attended the Bio Blitz at Pukaha with Ruud Kleinpaste had a fabulous time, finding some rare flora and fauna. All learning teams have a big focus on Enviro matters and children are often seen out gardening and beautifying the school, or tidying the local area.

Further afield, our older students take part in tramping, caving, rafting and survival activities. The Wairarapa has so much to offer.

The annual challenge for our Year 8s to reach Powell Hut was a success again this year. The students all supported each other so well to make sure everyone achieved the goal.

Our Inquiry into ‘Change’ early in the year culminated with Team Kowhai setting up a fascinating museum in the school hall. It was great to see so many community members there.

Two of our senior rooms were refurbished at the start of the year and are now beautiful, light and airy spaces for learning. Working collaboratively is now much easier for our seniors.

Jack Hunter, a Year 6 student, has had a successful year. He has represented New Zealand at international running events. He was awarded a Charles Rooking Carter award for his dedication to his sport.

Lots of our students take part in a wide range of sports, including netball, hockey, miniball, and softball. School and inter school events provide fitness, competition and fun.

Being near several busy roads we are always aware of the importance of road safety and offer a range of courses for children. This year we took part in Pedal Ready, a cycle safety initiative.

Our links with Hurunui O Rangi Marae have continued to strengthen over the year, with several visits to the marae and work alongside Ra Smith around the Wairarapa. Staff and students have grown in their understanding of our area this year.

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When the PTA sold Pies as a fundraiser we have a very messy ‘Pie Throwing’ day to remind everyone to order their pies. What a mess! Our traditional Pet Day is always a highlight and this year was no exception.

The ‘dress as your pet’ competition was very difficult to judge!

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There are a large number of leadership opportunities across the school. Groups have attended the National Young Leaders Day, and the GRIP Leadership Conference.

Closer to home was the Kidz Conference in Masterton. Our older students support the rest of the school and have a range of roles which they fulfil with enthusiasm and commitment.

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016 Valadislav Morozov (Joseph Croskery) contacts Demetry while Melissa shows complete disinterest from the school play I Spy

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE GRANT MILES

Our school motto is: “All through Christ” We are a Catholic co-educational College with a set of values which come from our founding orders the Brigidine Sisters and the Marist Brothers. Established in 1978, Chanel College is a school with a tradition of Excellence, catering for students from Year 7 to Year 13. We offer a broad curriculum and a wide variety of subjects are available.

The aim of all education at Chanel is to develop potential and educate the ‘whole person’ according to the student’s abilities and needs. The College seeks to build and develop a warm and caring community spirit among its students, staff, Board of Trustees, parents, former students and the wider Catholic community. This embraces the idea of treating others as we would like to be treated ourselves.

One of the most important things a school does is to provide a wide range of opportunities for students to develop new skills and to improve their personal level of excellence.

In 2016 our students and staff have given us a great deal to be very proud of. Over the weekend of May 14-15 we competed against the other 17 Catholic Colleges from the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses.

While not winning a category all our results were merits or distinctions. This represents a very consistent team result and puts us in a great position for 2017. Luke Hempleman’s oratory at O’Shea Shield was a particular highlight for which he received a high distinction grade.

Luke has had a very good year culminating in him being named in the Shelia Wynn Shakespeare troupe of 23 students chosen from across the country to travel to the Globe theatre in London in July next year. While there the students will attend a range of workshops aimed at developing their skills.

Samoa Trip In July our Cultural Group travelled to Samoan on a cultural exchange. This was a very successful trip coming at the end of a lot of hard work raising the funds to go. The trip was enjoyed by all with the most valuable part being the visits to the Colleges, the villages and families of our students.

Stage Challenge This was a particular highlight with the cast and crew winning 6 awards including the highly prized People’s Choice Award.

A great effort especially as it was our first time competing.

Sport The year began well with the school Athletic Sports at which Andriette Erasmus broke the U14 Discus record. Andriette went on to win the Wairarapa U14 Girls Athletics Championship and has begun this season strongly. The school Swimming sports followed with no less than 24 records begin broken. Emma Samuel, Samantha Duthie and John Rogan all broke multiple records.

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Our 1st XV Rugby team developed further this year recording a good win over St Peters College. Our Netball teams did well especially the Yr7&8 A team who won their grade and as a result had 3 players selected in the Wairarapa representative team, Sian Wheeler, Taylor Riwai-Couch and Kairi Waiai. The Yr7&8 Hockey team finished 2nd in their grade backing up on the win from last year. Our 1st XI Boys Football team won Division A of the Secondary Football Boys’ competition.

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Education outside the classroom: Students at Camp Kaitoke in the bi annual year 5/6 EOTC experience.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE DICK BROWN We celebrate 2016 as a year of continuous progress. Students have been at the cutting edge with development in independence, agency, digital technology and new ideas. Every student brings their own needs, strengths and interests to shape their learning.

They have increased opportunity to craft and shape their own learning which has resulted in high engagement levels and powerful reasons for learning. Students have seized the digital opportuities to research and show their learning. Cyber safety has been a vital component in accessing the internet world.

Our PRIDE values of Peace, Respect, Independence, Dare to Dream and Excellence are deeply interwoven into our social fabric, everyday behaviour, work ethic and how we learn. DPS students continue to reach for learning, make the most of opportuninties for self leadership and contribute richly as citizens.

Collaborative teaching has been taken to new levels where teachers work in pairs to promote learning and pastoral care with a shared group of students. Our Modern Learning Environment is a global, wall-less experience bringing the world into the classroom and taking the learning into the world.

Learning In The Fast Lane The future is now as both adults and students learn in the digital age. Technology continues to evolve and provide opportunities for all learners. DPS has been working towards providing the physical spaces to accommodate collaborative teaching and learning and cater for the diverse needs of learners.

Over the year we have been supporting learners to be self-managers, to determine what they need to learn, develop the skills of self assessment and work competently with technology and computers. This is ongoing growth towards being better learners and creators of knowledge that is meaningful to them. This is a journey and challenge we willingly accept and rise to meet.

Engaging With Our Community Working in tandem with our community is an essential part of our learning journey.

Our community has embraced the notion of growing learners through participation in specially designed parent workshops to grow their knowledge of 21st Century learning. We take great pride in working closely with our school community to create a welcoming environment and share the skills and joy of learning with parents. Reading Together is a powerful programme sharing the skills of learning to read and the integral part parents play in this. This one single programme makes a significant difference to learning and home and the fun relationships to be had in doing so. We look forward to another year of working with our parents as allies in the learning process.

Wilderness Learning Living a balanced life and acknowledging the world around us is a platform to whole learning. The Friends of DPS have made it possible financially for every student to explore the great outdoors. The Kahikatea Team (year 5 and 6) enjoyed a week long ‘roughing’ it experience at Camp Kaitoke early in the school year. Outdoor experiences create an authentic context for learning and adventures bringing parents and students together in the real world learning. The continuing development of experiences in the outdoors builds an appreciation of the forces at play in the environment around us to grow greater resilience and strength in life.

It’s all about the fun: Students enjoying the DPS pool.

Arts School: Year 4 student Emily from Room 11 showing off her artistic ability.

Discovery based learning: Students from Kahikatea syndicate who researched and made lip balms as part of the “Click, Make, Build” learning they participated in.

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Kia ora koutou. Nau mai haere mai te kura o Paetumokai o Tauira. Welcome to Featherston School.

2016 has seen Featherston School grow and as a result we have welcomed two new teachers to our staff. We also welcomed many new whānau who have fitted in quickly to our amazingly supportive school community.

Together we are teaching our students to be proud of who they are and where they come from.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE GINA SMITH

As a school we have been through a great deal of change so that became our focus for this year’s learning. In term two we looked at seasonal change and changes in the ways we use materials. To celebrate our learning we held WOW Featherston, a whanau night where our students modelled their up-cycled fashions to their parents. The highlight was the Puna Kainga tamariki in their gorgeous creations.

I am privileged to be part of an enthusiastic team who are focused on providing our students with as many qualitylearning opportunities as they can.

Our core values of being respectful, responsible and resourceful, underpin all of what we do and have helped us build an environment where our students are comfortable in taking risks and feel confident as learners.

In Term 3 & 4 we are focusing on Hauora with an emphasis on Healthy Eating and building resilience in our students. We have taken part in the ‘What’s For Lunch?’ programme which has seen students trying different foods, some of which they grew themselves. We welcomed Constable Keely to present the Kia Kaha programme, which introduced the idea of keeping ourselves safe and pushing ourselves outside our comfort zones. We will continue to encourage our students to set high goals and strive to meet these. They are learning quickly that making mistakes is how we learn and the secret key is to keep trying.

With the support of amazing whanau and our wider community we are able to ensure that our students stand tall and are proud of who they are and where they come from.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Featherston Community and our whanau for the support they have given us this year. Our students’ have benefited from your willingness to share your knowledge and expertise.

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FERNRIDGE SCHOOL

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE JANINE DEVENPORT

WOW! 2016 has flown by and this year more so due to the fact that I was on leave for term 3 to undertake some study through a sabbatical award from TeachNZ. My replacement for term 3 was Frazer Mailman – a highly experienced and capable Acting Principal. The board, staff and I really appreciate all his hard work, dedication and commitment to the students of Fernridge School.

2016 was another amazing year working with outstanding teachers and students who have shown me that they love learning and are not afraid of having a growth mindset and learning by taking risks in their learning.

It is always my pleasure to be the principal of Fernridge School and I enjoy coming to work each day and interacting with our amazing community of people and especially love seeing all the success that they have.

Mahuri – The seedlings Poka Pu – The central hub or the middle Tini Whetu – Shining stars Our overall concept for learning this year was “Connections”. This is a terrific concept and meant that the students and teachers had agency to take their learning in a variety of directions.

We began the year with our personal connections and some created learning maps to show how their connections could support them in their learning. Collaboration was a key theme that ran through each team’s learning and with the introduction of KORU time each week students were able to build on their collaborative and problem solving skills.

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In term 2 each team took their own direction – some Our Own Backyard, others looked at our body connections and another global connections.

Term 3 was a focus on communication and how we connect to different groups of people in different ways Term 4 – How waterways connect people.

Along with this amazing learning we of course had other events to add to the flavour of the year.

Our senior students had worked with a local carver to upgrade the panels on our whare Te Hiringa and this was formally opened at the end of Term 1.

Our EOTC programmes began with tent city and ended with the Year 6 camp and the Year 5 EOTC activities. We had Pets Day and the Muddy Muster which were two outstanding events run in collaboration with our fundraising committee.

We have begun the reflection process of our Enviro School journey and hope to

The younger boys practising for the Ko Wairarapa World record challenge

reach Silver status in 2017. We have a great lead teacher for this and a fantastic bunch of students and parents who are actively involved in this programme.

At the end of the year we are losing a few key staff and so will be appointing new faces to the team. One of the staff leaving is Marion Gardner who has been a member of the Fernridge School team for many years – it will be sad to see her go but we wish her all the best for her next adventure.

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GREYTOWN SCHOOL

STAFF 37 STUDENTS 344

Grandparents Day was a huge success for everyone

Kowhai Syndicate In 2016 special things happened in Kowhai Syndicate. We celebrated our learning with families at Wheels Day, Grandparents Day and a Bangers and Maths Evening. On Wheels Day we brought our decorated bikes, scooters and skateboards and had a parade. When our Grandparents came to school they brought things they used in the olden days. They told us stories about these things and then we showed them our classrooms. We taught our families how to play maths games at Bangers and Maths and had a sausage and a drink. We went to the Featherston Fell Engine Museum where we got to ride the model train and have a picnic.

Totara Syndicate Every second year, a group of year 3-8 students get the opportunity to create and perform a dance for Art Splash at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This year at the rehearsal we got to see other fantastic schools from the region, visit Te Papa and have lunch at the waterfront. It was fascinating to discover what it is like to perform under spotlights in front of a huge audience of two thousand.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE KEVIN MACKAY

Bangers and Maths was a night of family fun maths

Dance Splash is a big night under the spotlights

This year it was decided that we needed a new school sign so an art competition took place and people were chosen to come up with designs and paint them on to the required letters. There was lots of fun and lots of paint but we managed to produce some pretty good letters and Greytown School now has a sign to be proud of - have you seen it?

This was written by the late Haddin Blair in 1978. Thanks Haddin for writing my piece for the Year That Was in 2016.

Some things don’t change as the same culture exists in our school today.

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GLADSTONE SCHOOL

STAFF 10 STUDENTS 130

Year 8s with RSA President, Bob Hill, showing respect for fallen soldiers on Anzac Day

The students restoring the old Tukutuku panels from the HurunuiO-Rangi Marae as part of our REAP program

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE MARGARET HYSLOP

It’s been another great year for Gladstone School with success and progress across many areas.

The theme for this year has been ‘connectedness’ and this has been demonstrated in a number of ways. At the start of the year Gladstone launched its school app which has helped families become much more connected to what is going on with regular updates coming through to their phones and tablets.

The students enjoy making scarecrows to put on the school fence for our Scarecrow Fair.

Year 5&6 team playing their hardest at the hockey tournament

In the classrooms the school has adopted the Universal Design for Learning model which is already showing positive outcomes in advancing student achievement in the early data. The school is introducing more collaborative practices between classes and this has helped support and grow the skills of all involved.

The Education Review Office conducted their review halfway through the year which showed how well the school is achieving its goals and the progress that has been made since the last review three years ago.

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Preparing the food for the school hangi in Term 1 with fantastic support from Hurunui-oRangi Marae and school whanau

The girls perform their dance at the Variety Show

Gladstone School children supporting the Cancer Society on wear a wig day.

The whole school taking part in pine cone collecting for the school fires

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GREYTOWN EARLY YEARS

STAFF 11 STUDENTS 44

CHAIR PERSON’S MESSAGE RACHEL BUTLER-PECK

We started the year with a very positive and affirming review from ERO; ” Respectful teaching and learning practices positively promote quality learning outcomes for children at Greytown Early Years. There is a calm, nurturing atmosphere where children, parents and families feel welcome and valued.”

We have a passionate teaching team and an enthusiastic board that work together to ‘Provide quality care and education for the children of our community aged 0-5, guided and supported by our community ‘- a vision that began in 1986 and continues to thrive today.

We continue to hold successful fundraising events throughout the year and I wish to thank the wider community for their continued support. This allows us to continually improve our environment and resources to support our children’s ongoing learning.

Our Creative Communities sponsored art exploration programme started with talented local artist Roze Doherty guiding our little learners in experimenting with many different art styles and mediums. Roze worked with our children to create a large mural for our entrance which reflects our local environment and the learning community here at Early Years.

Our ever popular Active Movement programme went from strength to strength this year. Critical areas of knowledge such as body mapping, body design and spatial awareness were supported with dance and yoga sessions.

Our community continued their fantastic support throughout 2016. We became the lucky owners of a fantastic mud kitchen courtesy of the Greytown MenzShed. The Greytown Community Board assisted us to purchase outdoor exploration overalls and the Greytown Country Market helped with the Explorer’s backpacks. The Greytown Trustlands Trust also supported us with grants. One of which we used to start our outdoor play area redevelopment project, guided by the crew from Childspace.

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Active Movement scooters session for our youngest learners.

Grandparents Day photo booth fun with Tilly, Keith and Carolyn.

The 3rd Annual Early Year’s Duathlon – go Maia!

We celebrated Matariki with a shared lunch and once again welcomed a performance from the Greytown School Kapa Haka group.

We strengthened our relationship with local iwi with a visit to Papawai Marae. We continued with our successful annual events such as Grandparents Day and our Duathlon in 2016 – both events serving to remind us of the importance of family and community.

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Children working alongside each other as they investigate shapes.

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KAHUTARA SCHOOL

STAFF 14 STUDENTS 111 Hau Ariki Marae Martinborough

2016 Senior Camp: Biannually the senior school plans a camp to suit the current year 7&8 students. In the past students have visited Gannet colonies, been skiing, gone surfing and this year we have experienced the amazing stories of the Marlborough Sounds as we cruise on the Tūtanekai. It is a chance for students to experience activities and learning outside the classroom that they may not have a chance to do.

Kapa Haka / Noho Marae: Both our junior and senior groups performed at the 2016 Wairarapa REAP Kapa Haka festival. A highlight this year has been learning the Ko Wairarapa haka so we can all perform this haka together for the world record.

Kahutara School also experienced wonderful hospitality from Martinborough Hau Ariki Marae whānau at the school’s noho marae.

We were fortunate to have local knowledge shared with us and did a variety of activities including learning traditional Māori games and creating art.

Upgrades: We have completed a refurbish of our senior classes which now allows the Y5- Y8 Ngātahi Hub to be a fully operational ‘Innovative Learning Environment’ with the flexibility to become separate rooms when required.

We have been fortunate this year to have completed and opened our upgraded BMX track. This is used in school time for bike skills, confidence and recreation plus is available for any visitors to use.

Opportunities: 90 percent of our students are involved in a variety of sports. Our students individually and with their teams constantly shine in these areas.

The past two years we have had students compete in the E Pro8 Technology and Science competition with teams making it to the Regional finals.

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE CLARE CRAWFORD

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We are proud to say that the year has again been filled with lots of learning opportunities for all students in all curriculum areas.

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Speeches - Connor Hislop (Y7) and Griffin Pillar (Y8) were successful in making it through to the finals of the Wairarapa Primary Schools Speech Competitions and Griffin Pillar was placed 3rd with his ‘Big Foot’ presentation.

Connor Hislop, Griffin Pillar

Ben Gillett with his lamb ‘Cookie’

Pest Control - A small group of students are part of a pilot programme where they monitor and eradicate pests through A24 humane traps. The plan is to rid our school of pests and then extend out to our farms in our community.

Our beautiful, physically active country school supports the tuakana / teina philosophy where young and old support each other with their learning both inside and outside the classroom.

Together with my staff and the school community, we work hard to create the best learning environment and opportunities for all our students. I am honoured to be the Principal of this wonderful school and invite you to visit any time .

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Pet Day: Pet Day is run by the Kahutara Parents Committee each year. As part of the Health and Well-being programme we encourage our students to care for their pets.

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GOOD BEGINNINGS INFANTS & TODDLERS STAFF 7 STUDENTS 21

SUPERVISOR’S MESSAGE EMMA DEAN

Another busy and successful year for us here at Good Beginnings Infants & Toddlers. We have continued to extend and support children’s interest and make links within the community by many different local outings including trips to the library, supermarket, pet shop and to post letters home.

Within the centre we have also been busy baking, exploring different art media and the great outdoors. Early literacy has also become a big part of our curriculum with an ever expanding love of books.

We continue to delight in the wonder of seeing the world through a young child’s eyes, as they discover many new and exciting things. It is such a privilege to be able to share so many special memories with both the children and our parents and whanau.

How high can Courtney stack the blocks

Good Beginnings Infants & Toddlers opened approximately 5 years ago in a former villa.

The environment has been developed to cater specifically for children less than 3 years of age.

The Centre is open Monday to Friday between the hours of 7.00am to 5.30pm.

Teachers believe continuity between the home and the Centre is paramount. Each child is allocated a primary caregiver to ensure strong relationships are formed so children and parents feel a sense of belonging.

Individual charts support communication between the home and Centre and teachers take great pride in providing informative portfolios of each child’s learning journey.

Our latest ERO review found “Children learn in a calm, happy atmosphere…each teacher is familiar with the specific needs and interests of the children in their care…interactions between children and teachers are highly responsive…teachers talk with children in a positive, respectful and sensitive manner.

They are skilled at acknowledging children’s non-verbal gestures and supporting language development. They regularly engage with children on a one-one basis and extend their thinking…children are comfortable and secure in the environment. They freely explore at their own pace.” The report can be found at www.ero.govt.nz.

Enjoying some quiet time with a good book

Transition from the Infants & Toddlers Centre to our Educare Centre is developed in consultation with parents and is dependent on the needs of individual children. Teachers from both Centres work closely together to ensure a smooth transition.

If you would like to learn more about the Centre please visit our website www. goodbeginnings.co.nz or contact Nicola on 06 377 0949 or email gbec@xtra.co.nz.

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GOOD BEGINNINGS EDUCARE CENTRE

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Good Beginnings Educare Centre was established approximately 23 years ago and is open Monday to Friday 7.00am to 5.30pm.

The Centre is housed in a former villa, which is spacious, homely and the inviting environment supports child initiated play, catering uniquely for children aged 2 to 5 years of age.

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OWNER’S MESSAGE NICOLA BURLING

The Centre’s programme is developed in consultation with parents and children and based strongly on children’s individual needs and interests.

It is my pleasure to manage both Good Beginnings Centres. We have a team of qualified and specialised teachers who have a passion for working with children under the age of five. Teachers work alongside the children to install a love of learning. Our curriculum is based on children’s interests and during 2016 we have been on many learning journeys. We are excited about the upcoming redevelopment of our outdoor playground.

Throughout the day children can chose from a range of learning experiences in a carefully prepared environment. Teachers and children interact in responsive reciprocal ways to support learning experiences that are meaningful to all.

Our latest ERO review found “Teachers know children well… Warm, mutually respectful relationships are evident… Teachers regularly ask parents about their views and ideas, and the aspirations they have for their children… Teachers notice, recognise and respond to children’s emerging interests and plan appropriate learning experiences which integrate literacy, mathematics, science, technology and art… Positive outcomes for children are promoted by teachers working collaboratively… Teachers role model te reo Maori and integrate it authentically throughout the programme. ” The report can be found at www.ero.govt.nz.

As you can imagine each day brings delight as a child develops a new skill or discovers something for the first time. The teaching team looks forward to continuing our support for families and whanau in helping their children to become confident competent learners.

Teachers are committed to supporting children and families in their transition to school. Our transition policy incorporates maintaining links with local schools to ensure children have the appropriate skills for the best possible start at school.

If you would like further information about our Centre please visit www.goodbeginings. co.nz or contact Nicola on 06 378 9969 or gbec@xtra.co.nz.

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KURANUI COLLEGE

STAFF 65 STUDENTS 450

We started off the year with the longawaited demolition of B-Block, which had stood since 1959, and ended with the opening of our brand new visual art studios.

Our girls’ football team won the Division 1 grade with no points against them for a second year in a row and senior footballer Emily Morison was awarded Wairarapa Secondary Schools Outstanding Sportswoman of the Year.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE GEOFF SHEPHERD

From cultural success on the stage, sporting success on the field to academic success in the classroom, when I look back over 2016 I can see that it has been an incredibly busy but incredibly successful year for the college, the staff and most importantly for our students. The success of our students and the efficient operation of our college is no accident – there are a large number of very committed and caring people who work very hard throughout the year to ensure our students achieve at the highest level and can be the best that they can be. We are always striving to improve our students’ level of achievement and continue to look at new and innovative ways to deliver our programmes of learning. Our involvement in the Kia Eke Panuku professional learning programme contributed to the outstanding 2015 NCEA results, and it continues to increase achievement across all of our year groups. I would like to thank our dedicated staff and the wider community who have supported our students throughout the year.

We received a letter from the Minister of Education, the Honorable Hekia Parata, congratulating us on outstanding NCEA results in 2015 and in particular praising us for the significant lift in the NCEA results for Māori students.

Our girls’ 1st XI Hockey team made the finals of the Rosie O’Brien national hockey tournament and our Junior Boys Basketball won the Wairarapa competition, the Junior Netball team also won the Wairarapa B grade competition, and our 1st and 2nd XI Boys football teams made the finals of their Wairarapa competitions.

Kuranui mathematicians continue to shine and our students were once again crowned Year 10 Matharapa champions and our Year 9 students came second.

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LITERACY WAIRARAPA

STAFF 18 STUDENTS 200

In 2016 Literacy Wairarapa has continued to assist Adults to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. Literacy Wairarapa is a member of Literacy Aotearoa, a leading provider of literacy and numeracy assistance to adult learners in New Zealand - Aotearoa.

MANAGER’S MESSAGE

We have continued the collaboration with Te Wananga o Aotearoa to deliver three foundation level programmes and this year 40 of our learners were enrolled in these programmes. The resources provided are superb and a “drop in” support centre is held twice a week.

In September we celebrated International Literacy Day and Adult Learners’ week / He Tangata Mātauranga by taking part in the Ace “Have a Go” Taster sessions. Learners, Tutors and Providers were recognised at the Awards Ceremony held in both Masterton and Featherston. Tutor Rachael was awarded an Excellent Adult Tutor Award as part of the work she does tutoring Intensive Literacy & Numeracy classes, Road Code and Pathways programmes at Literacy Wairarapa. Rachael also tutors workplace learners who this year were working towards completing their apprenticeships. Three of our learners also received Outstanding Adult Learner awards for the hard work and dedication to learning.

In addition Literacy Wairarapa received an Innovative Provider Award.

BETH TAYLOR

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We also provide Workplace Literacy programmes tailored to individual and/or work place requirements. We have small class sizes - usually up to 8 per group and some learners work individually with tutors.

We are now offering literacy & numeracy tuition to the people of Southern Wairarapa with classes running at the Featherston Community Centre on Wednesday mornings.

With the changes in technology there are many ways we can work with learners who live away from the main areas – it doesn’t always mean a trip to Masterton.

Annually around 200 learners access services through Literacy Wairarapa. We aim to help learners gain confidence and skills so that they move on to other courses or gain employment. This year we held sessions in Featherston on a Wednesday morning and ran tutor training in Masterton.

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LAKEVIEW SCHOOL

STAFF 55 STUDENTS 460

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School Motto Engaged and Empowered to Achieve Excellence

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE ED HODGKINSON

Lakeview is a fantastic full primary school. Our school community is very proud of our diversity and believe that this is one of our strengths. Education is ever changing, but Lakeview endeavours to be at the forefront of these changes.

Our staff are committed, focused and have a high degree of professionalism that welcomes all students, parents and friends. I want to share with you what has been happening in 2016.

Principal’s Day Out This is a special day which happens once a term where children whose behaviour has been exceptional are selected. The students get to spend a day with our Principal – sometimes it’s enjoying a swim in the town pool and movie, other times it’s playing mini putt or travelling on the train to Featherston for a fun activity day.

Enviro Group Students have continued to tend to our school garden which has proven popular. This group of avid gardeners are learning skills to produce an array of wonderful vegetables which many of our families have enjoyed.

Along with last year’s initiative of the new hydroponic garden producing bok choy, lettuces, silverbeet, etc, we are developing glass houses to produce more veges which in turn will be used for soups and school lunches.

All our organic waste is recycled and we are producing worm wee from our worm farm in Room 17.

As part of Conservation Week students planted out areas around our school. The highlight of this is our new Rongoā garden.

Bikes in Schools Programme This programme was completed this year with the grand opening in April. The children enjoy the loop track and skills track. The bikes are available every lunch time weather permitting. The principal also uses the bikes for one of the senior electives on a Friday where he takes a small group on small expeditions.

Polar Bear Swim Children braved the elements and jumped into our pool mid-winter – warming up with a hot chocolate afterwards. We are fortunate to have our own wonderful pool facility to enjoy in the summer months.

Ella and Jayden - buddy reading.

Sports Sport is big at Lakeview. Children have the opportunity to be involved in an array of sporting codes and competitions throughout the year. A highlight was a special Whole School Olympic Day where children competed and dressed in their country colours.

Kapa Haka/Poly Groups An experienced teacher with Te Reo is released weekly to take our Kapa Haka group and Maori Extension. This year we have created a Poly Group who have been learning Samoan, Maori and Tokelauan items.

Both groups participated in the annual Kapa Haka Festival which was a wonderful spectacle.

developed at Lakeview. The group attended an overnight camp at Kaitoke in March and were part of the National Leaders Day held in Wellington.

Performing Arts Each year a syndicate holds a Production where children can ‘shine’. This year the Junior Middle syndicate are putting on a show called ‘The Arts Celebration’.

Music We have a music tutor who provides tuition to individual students and groups of students in guitar, keyboard, drums and vocal lessons.

The band also have an opportunity to perform in Wellington band competitions.

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I-Pads All students in year 7 and 8 are given an Ipad to use for the entire year. This programme has been running for three years now and the results are very positive. We are now extending the extensive use of Ipads in our other syndicates to support teaching and learning.

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Another highlight is Book Week where we celebrate reading with fun activities throughout the week and culminate with a dress up as a Book Character Day on the Friday.

There are so many activities and things going on at Lakeview I wanted to share but have run out of room. 2016 has been a wonderful year.

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Makoura College Services Academy preparing to leave for Induction at Waiouru.

Makoura College BCITO students assisting with the River Road Enhancement Programme.

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Makoura College Senior Ball 2016 – “The Great Gatsby”.

From left: Samantha Batt, Taara Jenkins, Bailee Awa.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE PAUL GREEN

It’s been a privilege and a joy to lead Makoura College through a year that has brought change, consolidation of momentum, and pursuit of new ways forward.

April’s visit from the Education Review Office recognised our school’s high expectations, inclusiveness, and community connectedness, and confirmed confidence in our work by endorsement with a three year return visit.

Year 10 students participated in two days of work experience.

Pictured here is Jinaya BlundellHarmon who spent two days on Tora Farm.

Stage Challenge 2016. Theme – “The Four Horseman”. Makoura College bought home the “School Initiative Award”, “Visual Enhancement Award” and the “Set Crew Award”.

Makoura College student Rosalea Tait-Rowe taking part in the Long Jump competition during Athletics. Makoura College students participated in a range of sporting events throughout 2016 including Swimming Sports, Cross-Country, Sporting Tournaments and Sports Exchanges with other Colleges.

Since then, we’ve been focused on our core business of developing our students academically, socially and personally, along with sustaining our well above average NCEA pass rates.

Broadening and deepening engagement in learning is a current key target for us and consultation with our school community has given us plenty of inspiration to design interesting and, hopefully, exciting change for the coming year.

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Our wonderfully dedicated teaching team in partnership with our centre Whānau, continue to enjoy and deliver our high quality programme. Our community focus has seen us out and about engaging in nature, especially as we embark on our journey to become an Enviroschool. Our tamariki are learning the importance of caring for our environment including our own recycling stations in the dining room and joining “Keep NZ Beautiful” where children and teachers collected litter at Garlands Bush.

We are often out and about going on adventures to reserves and parks including McJorrow Park, Mt Holdsworth, Carters Scenic Reserve, Fensham Reserve and more, as well as our weekly Gym sessions.

Atutahi, our Infant and toddler room have had many children turn two this year, and enjoyed the wonderful essence and experiences that this age group bring, before supporting them in their transition to the over-twos. Recently we have welcomed new babies into our Whānau roopu and are supporting these tamariki and their Whānau on this new journey, developing a close sense of whanaungatanga.

MANAGER’S MESSAGE WENDY RUTHERFURD

Kia Ora Koutou Sonny and Jake at Garlands Bush “Keeping NZ Beautiful”

Makoura Community Early Childhood Centre is all about the people who are involved within it, with the tamariki being at the heart of everything we do.

Skyla and Leita out and about in the community

We have an amazing community of people engaged with the centre. Passionate and committed teachers, supportive and willing Whānau, and a positive and dedicated Management Committee all working in partnership with the Wairarapa Teen Parent Unit to meet our combined Philosophies.

Our relationships with Whānau saw us enjoy our biggest ever turn out to our Matatiki Evening in June, where we decorated our room with tealights and fairylights and children presented their pepeha and waiata, before a feast of NZ inspired kai.

A full centre self review on Outdoor Environments has seen deck transformations and planning is under way for an upgrade of our centre playground. Fundraising is a huge part of this, so in July we ran a very successful and delicious hangi that our Whānau and community thoroughly enjoyed.

Three and four year old tamariki in Takurua roopu continue to enjoy Takurua Time, and Tamariki Toa programmes, focusing on early literacy, numeracy, social interactions, and participation in a variety of nature

Nikau and Sheryl giving our Matariki celebrations the big thumbs up

Tamariki Toa trip to Mt Holdsworth

experiences and challenges. Rehua teachers of our two-to three-year-olds, have welcomed our transitioning children and are enjoying their focus on relationships and making connections with our local community and environment. They also enjoy lots of hands

on inspiring activities.

Other events this year included a fun Rippa Rugby tournament and preparing to join the Ko Wairarapa Challenge in November.

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Students working together to put up a tent at our Mt Holdsworth camp.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE REBECCA STEVENS

Kia ora.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Mauriceville and wider community for your support of our school.

Some of our senior students cooking dinner on our overnighter.

Without you our school would not be able to offer our students as many opportunities for engaging learning in real life and relevant contexts.

Students having fun in the river after learning about river safety.

We are really fortunate to have so many parents and community members help with individual learners and classroom learning programmes - we appreciate your dedication and support.

Because of you we have been able to run camps and overnighters, trips to support classroom learning, cooking, kapa haka, gardening, art lessons at King Street, rear pet lambs and make student learning more purposeful and engaging.

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2016 Highlights Kapa Haka Festival All of our students participated fully in our Kapa Haka performance at the Wairarapa Schools Kapa Haka Festival. We also had adults in our group who were either school staff or community members. All group members had learnt the routine together a prime example of “Learning together - Learning forever”.

For many of our students it was a challenge getting on the stage, but they all did it! Kapa Haka has been an opportunity to identify challenges, set goals, use perseverance, work together on a project and bond.

Fair Go Ad Competition We learnt about advertising strategies and techniques during integrated unit time and literacy. We wrote an ad using features that we had learned about, filmed it and have entered it in the Fair Go Ad Awards, which gave our learning a real life context. We also produced an ad for a pet product as one of our Pet Day exhibits. We were lucky to be selected as one of three schools in the country (out of 40 that indicated their interest) for Fair Go to come out and film in relation to their annual ad awards show. We were chosen because of our school dynamics and community involvement.

Enviroschools Bronze Decision-Making Day We held our Bronze Award Decision making day which involved a team of students and adults who worked with Gill (our Enviroschools Facilitator) to identify current sustainable environmental practices within our school and assess them against the Bronze criteria.

We passed the Bronze criteria with flying colours and are well on our way towards silver.

Congratulations to all staff, students and community members who have made this possible.

Wairarapa Schools Photography Competition Congratulations to Izaiah Sutton who is our very first place getter ever in this competition.

Izaiah’s photo was second in his age group category.

Proud designers and builders of the schools new Bottlehouse!

Trevor Thompson and Hazel Corlett planting Olearia gardneri at Hidden Lakes.

We are an Enviroschool. The Enviroschools programme supports children and young people to plan, design and implement sustainability actions that are important to them and their communities. Environmental sustainability is who we are as a school. We learn about, in, and actions we can do for our environment as part of our integrated units. The five guiding principles of the Enviroschools programme are empowered students, learning for sustainability, Maori perspectives, respect for the diversity of people and cultures and sustainable communities.

This year one of our main projects was making a greenhouse out of plastic fizzy drink bottles, it was a good opportunity to work with our local community on a long term project, teaching our students problem solving, perseverance and leadership skills in a meaningful context. A big thank you to Earthcare Wairarapa for providing us with the 1500 bottles that we needed, Pencarrow Construction and TUMU ITM for supporting our project.

We were very fortunate to be able to start up a native nursery this year, with the support of Trevor Thompson of the Wairarapa Forest and Bird Society. We have learnt how to grow plants from seeds, forest litter and seedlings and will be able to plant native trees around our school, the Mauriceville Reserve and community in years to come. We have also learnt to identify some native species and how they can be used to help us. We know Kawakawa can be made into a tonic and Rangiora can be used as a clotting agent for example. A huge thank you to Douglas Park School for giving us their nursery, and to our school and community members who helped to move it to our site.

Ailec Matthews showing the dinosaur carnivore tooth he made.

Weigh in day, Mauriceville Family Hunt

Students and community members working in our vegetable garden

One of the highlights of our year was going to Hidden Lakes and planting a rare native tree daisy olearia gardneri. This species is only found in Wairarapa and it was a privilege to be involved in planting 30 plants at Hidden Lakes to ensure the continuity of the species.

Ryan Stammers participates in our bronze award evaluation

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016

MASTERTON

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE RUSSELL THOMPSON

Ka nui nga mihi ki a koutou.

Kei te tino koa te ngakau ki te whakamaumahara nga mahi o te kura taka waenga o Whakaoriori i tenei tau.

“E matahi ana, e mataara!” (Work together and be on to it!)

Masterton Intermediate first opened in 1960 and the school’s staff, with support from parents and the wider community, have always taken great pride in providing a very wide range of high quality opportunities for students over the previous 55 years.

2016 has been no different and the enthusiastic way in which this year’s students have taken on the opportunities available to them has been a key reason for our many successes.

The right tools for the job Chromebooks for collaborative work and research

Our bannerwinning students at this year’s Super Sport Softball

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JANUARY Seven piglets were added to our school roll in mid-January. Their mother, Piggles, did a great job of looking after her babies, with support from their Aunty, Miss Piggy, and father, Taz. Unfortunately, they became far too eager to explore the streets and private gardens surrounding MIS so they had to move to a more suitable residence near Tinui later in the year.

Once again our school grounds and rooms were in excellent condition for the arrival of our classes for 2016.

FEBRUARY The school year commenced on Monday, February 1 with our students looking very smart in their new uniforms, past uniforms and a mixture of both. This year, an increased school roll meant we moved from 12 to 14 classes.

At the first Super Sport Softball tournament in Palmerston North on Wednesday, February 17 our MIS. Boys and Girls teams both received the banners as 2016 Champions. These competitions involve 10 Intermediate Schools from Horowhenua, Manawatu, Wairarapa and Whanganui. In very few of the tournaments each year does the same school win both banners so this made the achievement even more memorable.

The Boys Cricket team also won the banner at their Super Sport tournament on Wednesday, February 24.

MARCH The annual Fun Run took place on Tuesday, March 8 and raised more than $32 000 in sponsorship which is the highest amount by any school in the 5 years that this event has been held. Each class received a flat screen television for their keen efforts.

APRIL Waingawa syndicate were the winners of a very closely contested Haka competition held as a culmination to the first term on Friday afternoon, April 15.

MAY Room 10 students, Millie Matthews and Leila Ward organised CAN DRIVE when they heard the Masterton Food Bank was running out of supplies and MIS responded with a total of 170 food items donated.

The Super Sport Boys Volleyball team, under the coaching guidance of Ben Molesi, won the banner in their tournament at Palmerston North on Wednesday, May 11.

JUNE Siena Cockburn, a Year 8 student, won the Junior Sports Personality of the Year at the Wairarapa Times-Age Sports Awards on Wednesday, June 1, for the second year in a row.

We were also named Junior Sports Team of the Year through last year’s First XV Boys Rugby squad.

A new Honours Board was unveiled in the school foyer on Thursday, June 2.

The list of all previous winners of the Brewster Shield (Girls) and McCormick Cup (Boys) for the Most Outstanding Contribution over two years at MIS now serves as an incentive for our students to strive even harder to have their name added in December each year. The very kind donation of this taonga from Kim Olson (carving) and Jason Ngatuere (lettering) was another special highlight of 2016.

We hosted more than 100 students from Havelock North Intermediate on June 12 and 13 for the annual winter sports exchange.

The performance of our teams was extremely pleasing and we took the trophy for the first time since 2012 in convincing fashion with 10 wins and a draw from the 16 events.

Our newly-elected Board of Trustees attended their first meeting on Monday, June 20. As was the case with our previous BOT, all members are strongly committed towards enabling Masterton Intermediate to continue to move forward in 2016 and beyond.

JULY The school’s own beehive was set up with students putting on protective clothing to get up close to see how they were doing.

Waingawa made it two-from-two with their victory in the syndicate Dance competition on July 8.

AUGUST On Thursday, August 4, we held a very enjoyable and successful second winter sports exchange with Fergusson Intermediate from Upper Hutt.

We managed 5 wins and a draw from seven events to win the trophy and we look forward to many more years of this valuable exchange.

On August 10th our 1st XV boys rugby team won the Super Sport rugby competition at Wairarapa College, the second time in a row they have won the competition.

Kasey Cox, Nahum McPhee and Tom Williams won the Year 8 section of the Matharapa competition held at Wairarapa College on Thursday, August 18.

The Super Sport Soccer Boys team won the banner at their tournament at Wembley Park in Whanganui on Wednesday, August 24, to bring our total for this year to six.

SEPTEMBER On Friday, September 2, Amanda Jolliffe and Cam Maunder presented our Accelerated Learning in Literacy report to the Ministry of Education. The 56 target students and their teachers worked extremely hard over the 15-week programme with 82% of the students making accelerated progress of two years or more in their writing and 93% of the students making measurable progress. We feel extremely proud of the success that has been achieved through this ALL intervention.

Six Year 8 students competed at the AIMS Games in Tauranga from September 3 to 6.

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Kapa Haka roopu performing at the Wellington regional competition ‘Te Awakairangi ki Wairarapa.

against top quality opposition from within New Zealand and beyond. The Cross-Country team finished 12th overall with Kosta Mills our best performer in 15th Siena Cockburn won the silver medal in the 50 metres freestyle final while Sam Dale had his best result with a fourth placing in the 200 metres breast stroke final.

Waiohine took out the syndicate singing competition on Friday, September 23.

OCTOBER On Wednesday, October 19, Ruby Liardet was the first and highest scoring Wairarapa Junior at the annual Inter School Dressage event held at the Solway Showgrounds.

Aimee Clouston won the Year 7 & 8 NonLiving section of the Wairarapa Schools Digital Photography competition which was held in our school hall on Thursday evening, October 27.

In the ICAS Mathematics competition results, Kasey Cox received a Distinction Award for the top 1% of participants throughout, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

Five students competed in the chess nationals held at Newlands College in Wellington.

Sam Fletcher, Kian Jones, Connor Pogson, Jade Alves and Craig Oliver performed very creditably, finishing third in the Year 7 and 8 section.

Mrs Irene McKinstry deservedly gained recognition as an Advanced Classroom Expert Teacher this month.

NOVEMBER On Wednesday, November 2, our school proudly led the world record Haka challenge at Memorial Park in Masterton along with 34 other schools from throughout Wairarapa. While the record attempt of 6,035 participants, in excess of 2,000 more than the previous record, is still to be verified by the Guinness Book of Records organisation, this was a truly memorable occasion for all

Our Super Sport Soccer champions.

MIS 1st XI boys. They scored 18 goals and conceded 0.

involved.

We extend huge thanks to Trudy Sears from Wairarapa REAP whose co-ordination was an outstanding feature of this event.

Elton Halford did an outstanding job of coordinating the Wellington Regional Battle of the Bands competition held at The Little Theatre in Lower Hutt on Tuesday, November 8. Our MIS representative band “The Ground Shakers” finished a very close second, with their rendition of “Hotel California” being a real highlight.

DECEMBER We will once again acknowledge the outstanding efforts and results from many Masterton Intermediate students on these dates:

Our Wellington region grand finalist group taking part in the ePro8 Challenge.

Sports Awards in the school hall starting at 7pm on Wednesday evening, December 7 Service Awards assembly at 9.30am on Friday morning, December 9 Emma and Lachie learning how to maintain our hives on the MIS farm

Curriculum Awards assembly at 9.30am on Tuesday morning, December 13 Our Final Assembly to be held in the Wairarapa College hall from 11am to 12.45pm on Wednesday, December 14.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2017 The 2017 school year will see a continuation of changes and improvements to our school.

In January the first stage of an adventure playground will be erected and while this will be a small area to start with, we hope to increase the equipment available for students and our community to use through future fundraising.

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Priorities next year will include our Bring Your Own Device policy in terms of Chrome books, a school production in term 3 and further efforts to increase the academic progress for all students in line with the National Standards.

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In our enviro gardens this year we grew pumpkins as one of the crops.

Mrs Ammundsen and her garden helpers made pumpkin soup on a cold wet lunchtime in winter. It was delicious!

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Masterton Primary School is a Year 1 to Year 6 contributing school in South Road, near the Kuripuni shopping area.

Our EOTC week in Term 1 had the whole school working outside their classrooms doing a range of neat activities that involved problem solving and working as members of a team.

Getting some life-saving skills at the pools during EOTC week.

Our students enjoy an attractive environment with many native plants and trees, hard courts, an adventure playground, a large playing field and classrooms set around a central grassed area with shade sails.

Our modern classrooms are colourful and inviting and students are offered many opportunities to work collaboratively with their peers and with buddy classes to build positive relationships.

We have sports, kapa haka, choir groups and art programmes.

The large, well-stocked library and enviro-kitchen are well used and popular with students. An increasing number of modern technology devices are being made available in classes as tools for learning and every class has a flat screen TV monitor for large screen display.

Our students have developed raised bed gardens and a lunchtime garden club is attended by many budding young gardeners who are learning skills for life.

At MPS we have special programmes for our ESOL students. These are students who speak English as a second language. Lots of hard work making scones in our Enviro Kitchen and lots of fun eating it as well!

Our senior classes stayed overnight at school in Tent City after the Family Picnic in Term 1 and had a great time!

We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) school with good systems in place to prevent bullying and help students develop positive social relationships.

We are also a Silver Enviroschool with many practices in place to encourage students to care for their environment.

Each week a different class is in charge of Friday assembly. They decide on the songs and show the rest of the school some of the things they have been doing in class time.

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Every term we have a “Whanau Day” at MPS. In Term 3 it was a mystery art activity that everyone (and their families) took part in.

All of the classes got mixed up and so each group of students had different ages all working together.

Pet’s Day fun with the Sponge Bob sponge throw.

Pet’s Day face painting.

Our “Money on Your Mind” production in full swing.

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OPAKI SCHOOL

STAFF 14 STUDENTS 200 Opaki students, staff and community have all been part of another busy year, full of opportunities and events to remember.

Students have taken part in a wide range of activities, crossing academic, sporting and cultural fields.

Our Year 7 and 8 students started the year with their bi-annual, week-long trip to Abel Tasman National Park to experience an amazing part of New Zealand, while our Year 5 and 6 students spent 3 days exploring Wellington and its surrounds.

Highlights throughout the year include our Te Ore Ore Marae trip, Greytown Marae visit, trips to Te Awaiti, Matiu/Somes Island and Mt Bruce, as well as participation in Have a Go Sports Day. On the sporting front, we have been pleased again to see the number of students participating in sport, from swimming and tennis, right through to touch rugby, winter sports codes (netball, soccer, hockey) and T-Ball and Mod-ball. Seeing the successes of past students within the Wairarapa sporting fraternity has brought us immense pride also.

On the cultural scene, we have had a productive year, participating in Dancesplash, Artsplash the Kapa Haka festival, Choir visits, as well as our recent whole school production – “Money on Your Mind?” Let us also not forget our annual Pet’s Day celebrations. We are continually amazed at the creativeness of our students and the enjoyment they get from our stalls morning, where a host of activities run by our senior students provide lots of fun for all. To top things off, we also still have our recently instigated Tough Guy/Gal event to look forward to.

As Term 4 progresses towards the end of the school year, we find ourselves reflecting on a year that has seen a lot achieved, as well as putting steps in place to continue evolving and furthering our learning into the future.

To the Opaki community, thank you for your continued support and input into making our school what it is today.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE DAVE FINLAYSON

When I look back over the year it’s amazing to see what the children of Opaki have achieved.

Year ¾ trip to the Tinui Cross for Anzac Day.

Opaki Kapa Haka group.

The children of Opaki are very lucky that they have a staff who go beyond the call of duty to develop programmes that will inspire children to want to learn.

Once again we have had tremendous support from the community, as a lot of what we do at Opaki is reliant on that support and children and staff are very appreciative of this.

Congratulations to all those ex Opaki pupils that have done so well in their respective schools.

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PIRINOA SCHOOL

STAFF 7 STUDENTS 44

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It takes a community to raise a child and that is what happens here at Pirinoa School.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE TROY ANDERSON

2016 has been an amazing year for Pirinoa School. The inside of the school has had a well overdue facelift, we have lights on our Astro Turf and school funded 1:1 Chromebooks. Our roll has continued to grow from 29 students at the start of 2015 to currently having 44 students.

This has enabled us to have three full-time teachers, which has meant small classroom sizes where the students are getting a better education. Our data is amazing with 88% to 96% of our students “AT” or “ABOVE” for National Standards, which is well above the National average.

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Pirinoa School has a very bright and successful future.

We have a great community that works very hard to help the school wherever or whenever we need them. The community is a big part of creating an environment that enables us to create programmes that foster adventure, creativity and inspire the next generation. Pirinoa School has a great team: Teachers - Sissy Pickering, Tara Woodhouse; Support Staff – Lynette Batty, Angela Aburn, Janie Malton and many volunteers who really do make a difference to our students’ learning.

This year Pirinoa School is well on its way to fostering a localised curriculum. A curriculum that looks beyond just Literacy and Numeracy. The students of Pirinoa School have actively been involved in being leaders of Pest Control, the students are working on behalf of the community to be ambassadors in implementing the goal of a Pest Free New Zealand by 2050. The school is working with the community to grow and plant native seedlings, creating a school vegetable garden and orchard.

Pirinoa School is a PB4L school and this year the PB4L team got together and looked at rewards for all students and at the end of Term 2, we, as a school, had a trip to Wellington Zoo and Trampoline World. It was a great day had by all and it looks like at the end of Term 4 we will be having a school trip to the Movies or a Water Afternoon.

For a small rural school, Pirinoa is a school that is on the move. The classrooms are at a standard that you will find in big city schools, we offer chromebooks 1:1 funded by the community, TVs in every class to add to the already excellent teaching, breakout spaces and small class sizes for more 1:1 time, which sees our student’s Achievement Data soaring above their peers.

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SOLWAY SCHOOL

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Solway School Vision Principles: Children are at the centre of everything we do at Solway. We have:

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

 High Expectations: empower all students to achieve personal excellence.  Future Focus: learning experiences are relevant to the changing world in which we live. Our children develop skills related to effective communication, creative and critical thinking and work collaboratively to contribute to their own success at school.

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Solway Primary School is a state funded contributing school situated in Masterton. It caters for between 200 and 250 Year 1 to 6 students. The school has continued to expand over recent years due to housing growth.

 Authentic Learning: engaged in active and authentic learning, creating, imagining and innovating.  Perseverance: children are encouraged to persevere through to task completion  Treaty of Waitangi: we embrace the diverse cultures and histories of our community and acknowledge the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by nurturing Te Reo, tikanga and our bicultural heritage  Inclusion: staff and children recognise and support individual differences  Community Engagement: it truly “takes a whole village to raise a child”.  Fun: children enjoy learning and have fun.

Solway School Values: We encourage, model and explore’ these values and the importance of them being expressed in everyday actions and interactions within the school and when representing the school.  Respect: for self, for others, our environment, animals, rules and laws.

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easily to misfortune or change.  Honesty: to have integrity and to be truthful, fair and just.

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Solway is a semi-rural community situated at the southern end of Masterton. We have had an active Enrolment Scheme in place since 2006. A number of families have a long association with the school, and community groups use school facilities.

The school is well resourced and appointed. In addition to the 9 classrooms and other associated buildings there is a hall, swimming pool, a library, a digital suite and a various storage and withdrawal rooms.

 Tolerance: willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own  Diversity: acceptance and respect, understanding that each individual is unique, and recognising our individual differences.

Solway is a school with a caring, friendly, nurturing environment and high expectations for learning and behaviour. Exciting programmes are developed and attractive classrooms are filled with happy faces and reflect the learning taking place.

 Inclusiveness: feeling respected, valued for who you are and feeling supported  Compassion/Caring: for self, others, the environment animals.

 Responsibility: to come to school ready to learn, engage and achieve success at individual levels of attainment.  Resilience: to recover from or adjust

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SOLWAY COLLEGE

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STAFF 18 STUDENTS 137

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE BETH ROGERSON

At Solway the year that was has been another year of achievements and successes. We started the year by confirming that our NCEA results were again outstanding. Our successes kept coming from Years 7 to 13 in interschool and intercollegiate music, Shakespeare, creative writing, swimming and athletics among others and with Solway students being selected to represent us at local, provincial and national levels over a range of sports, activities and events.

Solway, with its small number of students, has shown that when every student counts as they do at Solway, we succeed.

As a leading girls’ college with a strong academic history, Solway has much to offer and this year we have celebrated our 100th birthday with yet another year of excellence in girls’ education. www.solwaycollege.school.nz

2016 began for Solway College with its centennial celebrations over Waitangi weekend. The centennial activities which involved current students, staff and members of our school community, were also attended by local dignitaries and friends of the college and over 350 old girls who registered along with hundreds of other old girls and former staff and board members who came to enjoy the various celebratory events.

The school rockband “Retenu” were placed third in the Manawatu Rockquest competition

The celebrations culminated in a reenactment of the college’s opening ceremony one hundred years to the day from the original formal opening on February 8, 1916. At the opening ceremony in 1916 the founders of the college established the principles and values on which the college was to be based. It was to be a boarding and day school with a family and Christian environment, inclusive, liberal and forward thinking which focused on the needs and development of individual girls and was committed to making a positive contribution to the community.

Students relax during a Duke of Edinburgh tramp

The success of this formula is evident at Solway College today where the students achieve at the highest levels across academic, sports, cultural and service spheres of school life.

Noemi Leinfellner and Amy Rossiter-Stead were finalists in the‘Junior Sportsperson the Year’

Solway is a school where every student counts. The small size of the college enables it to create a strong family environment and to focus on meeting the individual needs of its students with its flexible timetabling and innovative teaching programmes.

The college continues to be forward thinking in the flexible ways it meets the needs of students and families through a variety of boarding arrangements, in its use of information technology and in its introduction of innovative programmes such as its 2017 Equestrian academy which will give another opportunity to meet a growing demand and contribute to the Wairarapa community that way Solway has always done.

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SOUTH END SCHOOL

STAFF 21 STUDENTS 160

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At South End School, there is a deliberate focus on the pursuit of excellent achievement and effort, and positive behaviour.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE ALASTAIR KAY

Attributes, based on our “Four Rs” of being Respectful, Responsible, Resourceful and Resilient are strongly encouraged and nurtured.

The school includes seven classes. In three of our classes, the teaching is based on the Montessori method.

Our enrolment has continued to grow. For much of the year, we have used our Library for a classroom, in order to accommodate the growth in enrolment and staffing.

School Motto: The Four Rs Respectful

During the 2016 school year, many exciting, positive and enriching events have occurred.

Responsible Resourceful

All students participate in our regular Values Groups meetings which continue to be linked closely with our Four Rs, as older students carry out the role of Values Group leaders supporting the younger students in various activities.

Resilient

The continuing emphasis on activities linked to our involvement in the Enviroschools programme, such as the classroom gardens and the Food Forest concept, has contributed to our successful attainment of Enviro Silver level. The students are very proud of this achievement.

Our Enviroschools group has planned several additional features in our school environment, such as a new pathway and potting shed.

Much of this has been made possible with grant funding from Fonterra and the Maara Kai programme. We are very grateful to these organisations for their support.

We continued to strengthen our connection with local marae, with a visit to Papawai marae, including a sleepover and a range of rich learning activities for all of our Years 5-8 students.

During the year, the students enjoyed participation in interschool swimming, crosscountry events, sevens rugby, Rippa Rugby at all levels, soccer, athletics, mini ball, hockey and chess.

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During the year, several schoolwide events have included a very successful Matariki celebration, during which another eight native trees were planted in our native tree “reserve”, and the students participated in a range of activities.

The school community joined together in the evening part of the celebration in a “candle walk”. Our performance in the Wairarapa Kapahaka Festival was stunning and received many positive comments from those watching.

Our annual Pet Day was another successful and enjoyable day. A number of students had their art work displayed in the Breadcraft Wairarapa Schools Art Exhibition, and at the Wairarapa A and P Show. Our students were involved in the world record Kapahaka event. Other highlights for our students included participation in the Top Team competition at the Clareville A and P Show.

CrossCountry.

Throughout the year, the school’s students have been wonderfully supported by the school’s teachers and support staff, by parent participation including the Board of Trustees, the Parent Support Group and the newly formed Friends of South End School group, and the Whanau Support Group, as well as benefiting from ongoing support from our “Granny Readers” and a number of community groups. Building on last year’s very successful Food Fest, a similar event is planned for Term Four this year.

While we farewell our Year 8 students and wish them the very best, we eagerly look forward to a successful and action packed 2017 year.

As is evident from the year’s highlights above, we aim to educate the “whole child” and this is underpinned by our goal of developing, across the curriculum, well-educated children who exhibit self-confidence, a sense of self-worth, and pride in themselves and their school, and in their community.

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ST MARY’S SCHOOL

STAFF 7 STUDENTS 130

Kapa Haka This year St Mary’s hosted the REAP Kapa Haka Festival at the Carterton Events Centre. We led the way with the haka powhiri to start the occasion. So much work went into preparing the children in the junior and senior groups for their performances, and it was great seeing this all pay off with wonderful performances from our two groups, with every child at St Mary’s taking part. Tikanga and Te Reo Maori continues to be something that we take a huge amount of pride in at St Mary’s School, with kapa haka being an integral part of who we are.

Mini Mary’s One of the reasons why our students arrive so well prepared and ready for school as new entrants is our Mini Mary’s programme. Four-year-olds are able to come to weekly sessions in our junior class, helping them to socialise and learn school routines.

By the time the children arrive when they turn five, fitting in is a breeze!

New Buildings We are excited to have new buildings on site that will be up and running in 2017. These have been provided for us by the Catholic Archdiocese because of the rapid growth that we have experienced in recent times; we have doubled in size, with the growth only stopping because of the maximum roll restrictions placed upon us. With the new buildings we are looking forward to setting up what we hope to be the best-resourced school library in Wairarapa; a goal that has been supported with the funding necessary from our Board of Trustees.

This will be so very beneficial to improving literacy standards at school.

Rarotonga 15 of our senior students, along with 11 adults made up of staff and parents, had an incredible experience in Rarotonga in 2016. We have now developed a wonderful relationship with Nukutere Catholic College (Year 7-12) that we are hoping to see flourish in the years to come with a biannual visit, and having students from Nukutere college visiting us in the years we don’t travel to Rarotonga.

We are grateful to be able to make this

The senior class outside St Mary’s Parish Church in Rarotonga

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE TIM NELSON

Father Stefano at a school mass

2016 has been a year full of highlights at St Mary’s School, with every highlight being part of the day-to-day positivity that surrounds all that we do at St Mary’s School.

Principal Award winners sharing their fabulous work

Our children continue to represent their God, their families, their school, and, most importantly, themselves in a way that makes me so very proud.

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opportunity available to every St Mary’s child in Year 7 and 8; there is no selection process, students just need to desire to be involved and a willingness to take part in fundraising, an integral part of the trip itself.

School Successes We take great pride in our students partaking in all manner of interschool events. Participation is important, and so is success; we have seen our students achieve at a high level in hockey, Matharapa, cross-country, rippa rugby, cricket, ICAS exams, and so much more. The level of success that we have goes far beyond what could reasonably be expected from a school of our size.

Rippa Rugby Rippa rugby deserves a mention of it’s own in this article of highlights.

Our Year 5-6 team won the Wairarapa competition, before taking part and winning in a play-off against the Horowhenua-Kapiti

This makes being part of our school community especially rewarding as ultimately we are here for our children, and if they are thriving in the positive environment that St Mary’s is, then we have met our obligations as a school.

champions to see who would be one of only 20 teams taking part in the New Zealand national event. Our group of students, led by coach Willy Jephson, travelled to Wellington to take part in a national tournament where they represented our school with such pride.

It was also great mixing and mingling with the All Blacks, who showed up for the twoday event!

Academic Programmes A lot of highlights have been shared in this article, but what we are ultimately here for is to provide our students a rich academic programme in a Catholic school environment. Every child is taught to his or her needs, and a huge amount of effort from our wonderful teachers goes into tailoring learning experiences across the curriculum to meet that learning needs of all 130 students. We want our parents and caregivers to know that every child at St Mary’s School is a priority student!

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Members of the school Choir performing at Art Splash in Wellington

Student Environ leaders updating our school sign to show we are now Green/ Gold school.

ST. PATRICK’S SCHOOL

STAFF 14 STUDENTS 270

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE STEVE WHEELER

‘Preparing for the future in a Catholic environment’ We are a Catholic Integrated School catering for children from new entrants through to year six.

We aim to provide every child with a high quality education within a caring, respectful and Catholic environment. At the heart of everything we do is our school motto ‘Strength & Kindness’. Our school curriculum gives opportunities and experiences for all children to meet the ever-changing future with resilience and confidence.

We highly value and promote all aspects of school life including sport, culture, environmental issues, performing arts and academic success.

“We are always keen to hear from families with a Catholic connection to join our amazing school community.”

Daily life at St. Patrick’s School brings many varied opportunities for our wonderful children to learn and grow in themselves and in learning. Some of the main highlights this year have been: Updated school vision This year we have spent time updating our school vision with input from all parts of our school community. We believe our vision now fully matches the direction we as a school are headed and what we want our children to aspire to.

Love - each other and all of God’s creations Aspire - be the best we can be in everything we do Create - explore and develop new ideas for learning Enviro Green/ Gold Award At the end of term 3 we received EnviroSchools Green/ Gold recognition. This has been a journey over a 10-year period in which staff, students and many other members of our community have worked incredibly hard to get to. It is fantastic to be able to say that St Patrick’s School is now a ‘Green Gold Enviro School’ and that caring for our environment is one of the key elements of being a member of our school community.

Sport Sport is a huge part of what we do. Children have participated in many different sports including soccer, hockey, netball, basketball, cross-country, rippa and touch rugby, swimming and athletics. Major highlights have been the school cross-country as well as netball and hockey teams winning their grades.

Environ student leaders at our Environ Green/Gold reflection day.

Special Character As a Catholic school we enjoy being able to celebrate our unique special character. This includes daily classroom prayer as well as an ever growing Baptismal and First Communion programme. We take pride in our Patron Saint Patrick, as well as recognising the work of the Brigidine Sisters in the history of our school. We also take great delight in watching our children develop and live our motto ‘Strength & Kindness’ through their daily interactions. We are also supporters of Operation Christmas Child, CARITAS and food bank appeals.

Annual school cross-country at Solway Showgrounds

The school radio show in conjunction with Arrow FM.

Performing Arts Children have always enjoyed taking part in a wide range of opportunities and this year has been no different. These have included Kapa Haka festival, Art Splash in Wellington, Choir performances, Arrow FM radio shows, Musical Soiree & St Pat’s Got Talent performances as well as opportunities for brass, guitar and piano tuition.

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At St Teresa’s School we have high expectations for academic achievement and appropriate behaviour. We use our On-TRACK keys to describe the behaviours which help students to put our values in place – Think, Responsible, Achieve, Courageous, Kind. We aim to support each child to be the best that they can be by educating the whole child and giving every student a chance to shine.

Our parents tell us: What attracted us to the school was the Catholic Charter. The Catholic character is very evident and the school fosters a caring and nonbullying environment.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE JENNIFER MUTH

Sharing our eel stories

“To develop confident, life-long learners within the Catholic faith.”

We thought the school was caring, welcoming, friendly and we just loved it and the staff are really helpful. We thought it fitted well with our family. We liked the school keys out the front of the school and the values.

Testing for water clarity

Highlights of the year include: Our local curriculum: Our Year 7 & 8 students have tested the local streams as they learnt about long-fin eels.

Thanks to a Beyer Science Award we will continue this work by growing the plants to protect the banks of a local stream. A highlight of this work was the picture books of the life-cycle of the eels that students wrote and shared with the junior classes.

Innovative Learning Environment: Our Years 1, 2 and 3 students work in two parallel classes. They readily move between the classes for reading, writing and mathematics, allowing greater flexibility in grouping students to meet their needs. The junior students have continued to benefit from specialised programmes such as PMP and from parent help during Discovery Time.

Digital Technology Students across all levels of the school use ICT. The juniors use iPads. From year 4-8 students use Chromebooks, progressing to 1-1 in year 7 & 8. Students loved the

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Discovery Time for Junior Classes

We have had an amazing year at St Teresa’s School. Our small class sizes have allowed us to get to know our students well and provide the support that allows each student to be nurtured towards achieving across the curriculum.

opportunity to design objects for the 3D printers and laser cutters at FabLab. At school, they have continued this work and explored coding, computer art and collaborative writing.

Kapa Haka The Kapa Haka group of 72 pupils has had many opportunities to perform this year. A highlight was performing for the GovernorGeneral and other dignitaries at the 100 years celebration for the ANZAC Hall.

We are an Integrated Catholic School for students from new entrants to year eight. We have a very dedicated staff whose hard work provides a range of exciting learning opportunities within a caring environment.

We are well supported by our Board of Trustees whose vision for equity and inclusiveness ensures all students have the opportunities to succeed. Our parent community supports us in all aspects of school life, culture, sport, the arts, academic learning and environmental studies.

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HADLOW PRE-SCHOOL

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SENIOR TEACHER’S MESSAGE ANNABEL DODGSHUN

I am excited to introduce myself as the new senior teacher of Hadlow Pre-School. 2016 has been an exciting year with some new changes happening. Our hours have extended from 8.30am to 2.30pm every day with an option of shorter days finishing at 12.45pm. We now have a new and exciting logo and webpage.

We have enjoyed sharing sports day and Matariki celebrations with our whanau/families and hosting a morning tea for our grandparents. We had a big interest in families this year where we enjoyed our parents coming into pre-school to teach everyone about the work they do. We enjoyed attending a show in Carterton followed by a bus trip around Masterton. Visits to hub one at Hadlow School and nature walks around the school playground are also very popular.

For further information on our preschool please contact us. Our hours are 8.30am-2.30pm every day.

Hadlow Pre-school is situated on the grounds of Hadlow School. We are a part of the Trinity School network and although we aim to create pathways into the Trinity School system, we also welcome preschoolers who will be moving on to alternative schools.

We offer pre-school education to all children between the ages of 3 and 5.

At Hadlow Pre-school we prepare children for a lifetime of learning by providing a balanced learning programme in which children actively participate in a range of planned and spontaneous experiences. The development of literacy and mathematical skills is an integral part of our programme along with the virtues which forms the back bone of our programme.

We utilise an eportfolio system called Storypark. It allows for parents, grandparents and extended family to be kept informed of their child’s progress instantly and to become more involved in their child’s learning.

Parent testimonials Chris Dornan – Father of Alana Dornan “We have experienced other ECE options and there is no better preparation for school than Hadlow Pre-school. It is the benchmark for ECE.” “We would be happy to recommend Hadlow Preschool to any family who wants the best start for their children.”

Kara McKelvey – Grandparent of Jayziah Terry “We chose Hadlow Pre-school for Jayziah as we love the structure, balance and the whole philosophy Hadlow Pre-school has to offer.”

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016

TRINITY SCHOOLS HADLOW

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One of the reasons for Hadlow’s popularity is that Hadlow is the only Anglican special character primary school in Wairarapa and there is growing demand for education with a special character. A second significant factor is our teaching and learning philosophy.

We are a future-focused teaching and learning school with hubs rather than single classrooms, where teachers work collaboratively in the same space rather than in isolation, where the learners are able to take greater responsibility for their learning and task completion, and where learning is personalised to meet the needs of each learner. Our learners are encouraged to be literate, self-motivated, self-managing, confident, responsible and respectful. We are also part of a family of schools that starts with the preschool and then after Hadlow, on to the secondary level at St Matthew’s Collegiate School and Rathkeale College.

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Anyone who archives The Year That Was each year would note that the school roll never changes from two hundred. That is the maximum roll allowed for the school, under the integration agreement with the Crown, and each year since integration we have achieved that roll number.

For a number of years, we have been over-subscribed for places, and that continues to be the situation this year and for next year. The only level where we have places available for 2017 is Year Three, and they are very limited.

Another change in the roll has been the lack of places at the Year Seven level. In the past a number of our Year Six girls opted to transfer to St Matthew’s at the Year Seven level but this trend has all but stopped. Next year there were only two places available at the Year seven level.

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ANZAC COMMEMORATIONS This was a significant anniversary year for the commemoration of Anzac Day. The school is always represented at the dawn service by staff-members and our head-prefects, who lay a wreath at the cenotaph at the dawn service on Anzac Day in Masterton. Special mention also needs to be made of one of our senior pupils, Linda Morgan, who played The Last Post atop an armoured vehicle at the Tinui Anzac Service. Linda impressed all present with her selfless act of service and was reported in the local and national newspapers, and on the television news. In fact, to use the vernacular, the images went viral! Such was the appreciation of the Tinui community that Linda is to be presented with

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WATER FIGHTS The school had a busy morning at the St Matthew’s pool in early March for the annual school swimming sports. There was still much excitement on the buses as we returned to school as the children anticipated the water fight that was to occur. The staff felt it was appropriate to allow the children to refuel before they ventured into battle, so everyone had lunch and a little bit of down-time until they assembled on the main playing field with their armaments at the ready. I did anticipate tears and carnage, but in reality, it was a very happy and exciting time. Everyone joined in the fun of the moment and there were no accidents or injuries. I wandered (fully-clothed) through the mayhem and chaos of water bombs and blasts as an observer and came away totally unscathed.

I was both pleased and impressed. Pleased because everyone had entered into the activity with such enthusiasm and fair-play, and impressed because the children still maintained their respect and obviously felt the principal was not a target. I hope this may become an annual event coinciding with the swimming sports.

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP A feature of a full-primary school like Hadlow is that in their final year the pupils have the opportunity to be selected for positions of responsibility and to become servant-leaders for the other children. The leadership positions are not ones of power over others, but of exemplary role-models who are there to support and help the pupils through pastoral-care, and to support the teachers through assisting with organisation and co-ordination of activities. Our school prefects are selected by the entire school, and are identified as being exemplary, looked up to, displayers of the virtues, decisionmakers, positive and themselves. The criteria were developed some years ago with the senior hub children from an extensive list of preferred attributes. The teachers each year discuss these attributes with their children and then give the children an opportunity to identify the following year’s Year Eights who display them. The teachers also complete an assessment of the next year’s Year Eights, and then the lists are collated and names shortlisted. The school has a variety of leaderships

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Featherston Camp exhibition at Aratoi.

the Independent Peoples’ Republic of Tinui passport which certifies that she is a free citizen of the independent peoples’ republic of Tinui with the privilege, honour and prestige that status endows.

As well, Aratoi had a special exhibition about the Featherston camp and Hub 4 visited the exhibition to learn more about the significance of the camp and of the ‘stones’. The school had two stone pictures or symbols as part of the official Featherston Camp Stones Project, in support of the current exhibition at Aratoi. Hub 3 & 4 pupils created large images with the river-stones as part of this term’s art programme with Mrs Hoogsteden-Roberts, and these were installed in the section beside the gallery on the corner of Queen and Bruce Streets. The school entry-path across the lawn in front of the administration block was also framed by painted stones of Anzac poppies, completed by the children to create an avenue of remembrance.

WAIRARAPA MATHS COMPETITION SUCCESS The successful Year 7 team at the Wairarapa Mathematics competition this year has been a force to be reckoned with for three years since it first competed as the Y5&6 team in 2014. That year the team was made up of two of the current team members, Flynn Register and Angus Smith (both Year 5s then), and Hunter Kendall who was in Year 6. The team was placed first in the Y5&6 competition that year. The following year, Hunter was a Year 7 team member, and Flynn and Angus were joined by Jack Sorrell, who had started at the school. The trio came first again in the Y5&6 competition in 2015. This year, the same three boys made up one of the three Year 7 Hadlow teams in the competition, and were the winners of the Year 7 competition. Jack Sorrell was also the highest scoring Year 7 competitor. We also note the Year 9 winning team this year was Rathkeale and two of the team members, Sebastian Smith (brother of Angus) and Anthony Voice are Hadlow past

pupils. Not only that, but Sebastian was a member of the Hadlow team that won the Year 8 competition last year.

MANAWATU SCIENCE FAIR SUCCESS Greta McGrath, one of our Year Six girls, was the only entrant from Wairarapa in the Manawatu Science & Technology Fair this year. Greta investigated different methods to minimise the damage of bee stings and came up with a natural product that had very positive outcomes – a commercially viable pharmaceutical solution. She arrived at my office laden with certificates which she had been presented with at the prize-giving. She was awarded the Fonterra Junior Prize for first place in the Science Fair, the Fonterra Prize for High Distinction, the Dr Gregor Yeates Memorial Prize, and highly commended in the Massey IFS Chemistry section and commended in the Massey IFS section. She also won a total of three hundred dollars.

EPRO8 On Thursday evening, October 13 the EPro8 Challenge was held at Masterton Intermediate school. EPro8 is an engineering and problem-solving competition for Years 5&6 and Years 7&8. In 2016 over four thousand pupils from nearly four-hundred schools are taking place. On Thursday night the schools represented were Chanel, Hadlow, Lakeview, Masterton Intermediate, and Wainuioru. Hadlow was represented by four teams made up of the following: Holly Hancox, Bella Milne, Teagan Abbott, Genevieve Nightingale, Oliver Vincent, Jack O’Hara, Hunter Kendall, Ben John, Nicholas Hume, Xavier White, Jack Sorrell, Walter Gooding, Joshan Maisuria, Jack Robson, Finn Roberts and Oliver Pyatt

The Year Seven winning team at the Wairarapa Mathematics Competition

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The school’s two stone creations as part of the Featherston Camp exhibition at Aratoi: the school crest and a poppy.

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The Houses prepare for the water battle

motors, gears and axles, invent machines to complete tasks, and construct electronic circuits. For three hours each of the teams decided which task to complete to ensure they were able to maximise their points. At the end of the evening, Hadlow teams had been placed third and first. Congratulations to the X-RECT made up of Holly Hancox, Jack Sorrell, Walter Gooding and Xavier White, and to WHIZZ TECHS made up of Bella Milne, Oliver Pyatt, Finn Roberts and Jack Robson.

The two teams now go forward to the regional final to be held in Lower Hutt.

GRANDPARENTS’ MORNING Each year the school holds a morning specially for our grandparents. With the threat of rain ever-present this year, I had doubts that we would have a very good turn-out of grandparents this year, but I was proved to be quite wrong! By nine o’clock there wasn’t a park to be had in the school

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grounds or on High Street within walking distance of the school. The hubs were awash with grandparents attending instructional groups with their grandchildren, and then working collaboratively with them to complete tasks and independent learning. If the learners had played their cards right, they should have a head-start on the completion of the task-sheet for the week.

We hosted the grandparents to morningtea in the dining-room and there was a wonderful hum of conversation as people renewed acquaintances from last year or reminisced about their own school days, and how everything had changed for the better, in their opinion. After this short respite, the grandparents then went to the hall in an orderly and almost sedate manner for the concert. The concert began with a rousing haka and ended with the First Choir singing I See Fire, a very challenging but highly emotive song. In between, the grandparents had been entertained by groups of instrumentalists and singers, the junior choir, three of the hubs, the kapa haka group, and the choir. After the concert I gave the grandparents the option of returning to the hubs for the half-hour before lunch or sneaking off to a café for lunch and a glass of wine, and I did notice the carpark emptied quite quickly. It was a wonderfully busy and energetic morning for all of us and if they were anything like me they would have had an early night.

RADIO HADLOW 2016 gave us a chance to promote our pupils and school on the local Access Radio station Arrow FM. Each term we have involved each Hub in a small section of the hour show, as well as playing music that we all enjoy.

This term we have continued to highlight each hub’s achievements since the last broadcast by asking Hubs to perform songs, poetry, plays, sports reports and students writing.

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Greta McGrath with her science investigation which was judged first prize at the Manawatu Science & Technology Fair

Grandparents’ morning at the school

The head boy and head girl read the lesson at the Trinity Service

Over the year, the radio team has learned many skills including: sound manipulation, how to properly use the gear and how to insert sounds to enhance the quality. The team has evolved, with people coming and going, but everyone has been important to every show, turning out as they have. The main team has been built out of Year Eights.

Our hosts were William Clatworthy and Bella Milne, and behind the scenes, importantly, were Alfie McIntosh, Finn Roberts and Oliver Pyatt.

A new aspect to this term’s radio broadcast was an on-air play, performed by a group of Year Seven girls - Melissa Burns, Lou Lou McNelly, Sophie Hart, Rosie King and Charlize Baron. The play was called Stop That Punctuation! and all the girls enjoyed practising and also going to the recording studio to record the final take. This allowed us to use the soundproof room and also the full microphone. Michael Wilson, with all his experience, was a great help in developing our skills.

HUB ONE & TWO GET A NEW HOME In late July, after spending a term based in the school hall, the Year 3&4 children moved all their furniture and equipment back on the last day of Term Two and the teachers spent some of their time in the holidays reorganising their resources and setting up their new modern learning environment.

Both the teachers and the children are very happy to be back in their teaching and learning space, and are enjoying the warmth, colour and extra space available in the modified environment. Although this is only the first of three planned stages for this development, the difference that the architect has created has been noticeable on the teacher practice and the children’s use of spaces. Having a term in the hall, with the absence of any internal walls and barriers, has fostered the sense of one hub, rather than two base-classes of a hub, and this is more evident in the new modern learning environment. There seems to be much more

pupil interaction and collaboration, and the children have the opportunity to work independently in any space in the hub. The Y1&2 children returned from their threeyear, temporary home in the former library and moved to the redeveloped space at the western end of the building, so we have all our year-groups operating in modern learning environments.

There is no doubt that the decision made four years ago by the Y1&2 teachers to occupy the space that was formerly the school library has created and developed a single unit of collaborative teachers and a group of children who identify as a hub-group, rather than base-class groups with separate teachers.

Without exception, our new-entrants come to school ready to operate as self-motivated, self-managing, independent learners; early childhood education through the curriculum document, Te Whariki, is all about children making decisions about their learning and following their interests. In the past it was only when they encountered school and the traditional teaching methodology that the curriculum and teacher took over and the children became the receptors of assumed important knowledge and skills. These young enthusiastic learners had to unlearn everything they had learned at preschool so they could now be taught.

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The new modern learning environment for the junior school

With Hubs 1&2 finally in the same building, with the potential to share spaces and where there isn’t a physical barrier to demarcate ‘hub territory’, there are opportunities to create an open and seamless transition between the two hubs and even to cross-group wider than just between two year-levels. After all it is not necessarily the year-level that has to dictate the teaching and learning programme – it is the particular learning needs of the child. And, as an added bonus, with the construction of a glassed area in the centre of the building all the teachers will share a base.

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016 Archie & Callum Woodhouse – winners of the NZ Teen Ag Competition

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE WILLY KERSTEN The 2016 year has been one we can look back on with considerable pride.

Exciting initiatives allow us to continue to be at the forefront of developments in and outside the classroom. As a Microsoft Showcase School (one of eight in New Zealand) the ongoing development of E-Learning remains to the fore. The establishment of an active service programme and our selection into an International Boys’ Schools Character Education project provide exciting prospects for challenging and extending the boys in the future.

Great teaching, wide-spread staff involvement in all aspects of school life and strong student leadership has permeated the whole school and contributed immeasurably to the successes the boys and the girls in the Senior College enjoy. We congratulate those who have achieved to their potential and been proud to acknowledge the accomplishments of many individuals and groups.

The prospects for 2017 are very bright.

EXTRA CURRICULAR Will McMaster: selected as one of 40 participants world-wide to attend International Boys’ School Coalition Student Forum, Vancouver.

Matthew Furkert: Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award; Magnum Honorem Tie for 100 Games for 1st XI Hockey.

Michael Barrow, Callum Woodhouse and Ollie Lewis: Silver Duke of Edinburgh awards Archie and Callum Woodhouse: NZ Young Farmer Teen Ag competition winners.

Jon Barneveld: represented the school at ANZAC services in Belgium and France and laid a wreath at the NZ Memorial, Messen, France.

CULTURAL Judah Dabora: NZ Music Education Board Grade 6 Achievement (Piano).

Ben McCook Weir, Reinhard Schwanecke and Troy Etherington: The Sheilah Winn cast achieved NZ Theatrical Award for an Outstanding Production.

Viva Camerata – Adjudicator’s Award at Wellington Big Sing.

ACADEMIC Junior teams did well in Matharapa competition; Year 9 teams 1st and 3rd and Year 10 teams 2nd and 3rd. Sebastian Smith and Liam Gerritsen gained top individual places.

Tom Spencer, Anthony Voice, Euan Morgan, Jurgen Schwanecke, Ben Wakefield: Australian Science Competition Distinction.

Sebastian Smith and Aanirudh Kheterpal: Merit in the Otago University Junior Mathematics competition.

Jack Hopman and Reinhard Schwanecke: Merit in the Senior Science competition.

Ben McCook- Weir: selected into Otago University Humanities Workshop.

Gabe Jacobs-Corban: placed (final 13) in Victoria NZ Mathematics competition.

SPORTING Ben Renton: Wairarapa Schools’ Player of the Year.

Tom Renton: 50 matches for the 1st XV received his Magnum Honorem tie.

Ryan Nelson: Top Shooter in Lower Nth Is Clay Target Shooting Champs, 1st 3rd Round Lower North Island Secondary Shooting.

Wairarapa Times Age Sports Awards: • Secondary School of the Year: Rathkeale College • Youth Sports Personality: Vincent Capes • Coach of the Year: John Quinn (Parent) Wairarapa Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards: • Supreme Award and Sportsman of the Year: Max Spencer • Emerging Sport Award: Dylan Drysdale • Wairarapa Sports Education Trust Scholarships: Gerard Hickey and Vincent Cape Sam Callaghan: 3rd in the NZSS CrossCountry (motorbike riding) championships.

Matthew Pledger: Magnum Honorem tie (100 matches for the 1st XI Football team).

Mitchell Cockburn: outstanding athletics track and pool performances. PB in the 50m Freestyle and 3rd in a Wellington Zonal swim meet. First placing at the Wellington Regional athletics event.

Oliver Donaldson: Two gold, a silver and a bronze at the National Div. II Swimming Championships and two Silvers as a member of the Wellington Region Relay Team.

Kelsey Fahey and Quinn Childs: Central District’s U18 Cricket representatives.

Pranay Singh, Callam Elliot, Matthew Pledger and Tom Scott: selected into National U20 League Teams.

Gerard Hickey, Max Spencer and Nathan Whiteman: Finalists in the Junior section of the Wellington Region Athletics Awards.

Gerard won the Jumps and Sprint awards and Max the Long Distance and CrossCountry awards.

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School Prefects following their commissioning attended by Bishop Justin

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2016 started well; started hot but that is the Masterton norm. Spring is firmly in the air and the rain has been a very welcome meteorological occurrence for our dry land.

Both the Senior College Dux and Proxime Accessit were from St Matthew’s, as were all the Academic Scholars last year. In National Scholarship exams, St Matthew’s girls received six Scholarships and one Outstanding Scholarship. At this year’s Senior College Prizegiving, of the 77 awards, St Matthew’s girls were awarded 35 of them not including 5 girls who shared a prize. We are especially proud of the 2016 Dux Bryer Oden.

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St Matthew’s is a school of special character.

House Music oozed positive school Spirit from every pore. Each of the Houses chose difficult songs and it was with anticipation we awaited their performances on the night. We were not to be disappointed. Grey House were the victors with their fairytale theme.

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Our annual Sports Awards celebrated the sporting achievements of our girls through this year and heard the nominations for the school’s formal Prizegiving at the end of the year.

Other notable achievements were: Jacinta Ward was selected to participate in the NZCGS Global Citizenship Retreat.

Georgia Percy has been selected for the NZ under 14 Childrens’ show-jumping team.

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Caitlinn Perry travelled to Ireland in July to represent NZ at the International Pony Club Tetrathlon Champs.

Our 1st XI Football team came 4th in the Gary Snowden Tournament with a chance now to play off for a spot in the National Lotto Premier Women’s Tournament.

St Matthew’s Ski Team came 11th out of 128 Mixed Teams at the North Island Secondary School Championships.

Viva Camerata performed at the Big Sing 2016 - Wellington region, achieved Adjudicator’s choice for Category 2 and won the Festival Cup for the choir that best represents the spirit of the festival.

Chiara Haab achieved 6th place in Senior Girls at NISS Skiing

Ella Hume was awarded one of the Space Between Internships at the Oversew

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE KAREN GOODALL

Wainuioru School continues to be a little slice of paradise just fifteen minutes drive from Masterton.

We are blessed with wonderful students, supportive parents and a great local community.

This all comes together to help us provide our students with wonderful learning experiences at school and out in the wider Wairarapa area.

Our big teaching focus this year has been around the concepts of innovation and technology and we have worked hard to develop learners with a positive growth mindset.

This “can do” attitude really helps our students believe that ability can be improved over time with effort, hard work and dedication and of course, great teachers!

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We manage to have a lot of fun at school and this year our work around inventions and technology has hooked students into all sorts of exciting learning opportunities. They have worked hard in the second half of the year to design and create Wearable Arts projects and this led to a great performance at the end of the year.

Another highlight of the year was the Electives Programme where parents, grandparents and community members shared their hobbies with us and we were able to learn about things such as tramping, styling, farming, model aircraft, petcare, upcycling wooden objects, hairdressing and cooking.

We have had a great range of learning opportunities – Beach Education out at Riversdale, a trip to the Golden Shears, Kidz Conference, walking the Tinui Anzac Track, Maori Games Project, Wellington Orchestra Performance, World Record Haka Attempt, Have a Go Sports, Epro 8 challenge as well as a range of opportunities provided by REAP. Our small number of students means we are able to share out these opportunities and develop leadership skills in a range of students. This year we introduced the Year 8 ski trip and took the students to Tukino Ski field for four days of Outdoor Education learning.

We supported a range of charities this year – Westpac Rescue Helicopter, Daffodil Day, Wig Wednesday, Cans for Good and Operation Christmas Child Project.

We have made further progress with the school itself this year with the building of a huge new sandpit and had the school freshened up with a paint job as well as having a new toilet block built. We are looking forward to developing our flexible learning spaces next year.

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Football in schools programme was excellent fun for everyone.

Term 1 was an amazing start to the year and our theme for the year was “What If” with 4 topics including Personal Safety, Disasters, Future Issues and Community Support and these units were split up over the 4 terms. We all had to choose a question to do with one of our four topics and investigate and find our answers to our question. During week 6 Holly McGeorge from Road Safety came to school to play some road safety games with us. To end the term the three Year 8 girls were even lucky enough to be selected in a Leadership Camp at Mawley Park, we did lots of challenges and made many friends.

Term 2 was very busy, we started off with cross-country and plenty of training. This event went really well and lots made it into interschools’ cross-country later in the term. Since our theme topic was Count on Community, we had lots of visits from people around Wairarapa. Very kindly, JNL visited our school and answered all our curious questions. We also had a visit from Amalgamated Helicopters, the Dog Ranger and the Police, who told us about their jobs and how they help in the Wairarapa region.

We also went on a school trip to the Life Flight Centre in Wellington. At the end of the term we had speeches, we had one person make it into the Wairarapa final and we all did really well this year.

Term 3 was a really exciting term for us this year. We had Doug Bracewell come to teach us some Rippa Rugby skills, also Sam and Cory from Wairarapa United to teach us football skills. The Year 3 to 8 students went to Memorial Park and took part in the Have a Go Sports Day and did loads of other sports that we’d never even heard of. We were even lucky enough to get a performance by Orchestra Wellington where they performed at the Whareama Domain Hall, so that was an awesome experience to have.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Red Cross first aid training certificate recipients.

DARREN KERR

This year has been another very successful year at Whareama School. Our students have been involved in a wide range of opportunities over the year.

Whether it be inside or outside the classroom, the learning experiences that the students are involved in, are a special feature of our school.

Beach Education programme is an annual event for us.

We have many students achieve at a high level in many curriculum areas and are regularly chosen to represent Masterton and Wairarapa in their area of talent. 2017 will be another big year for us with continual development of the work we have done already in modern learning practice.

Term 4 for us has just started. We have just had Pets’ Day which went very well despite the weather. On the 29th of November we are having our Camp week, we are all going to Mount Holdsworth for 4 days. We also have athletics coming up which we are training hard for. To finish off the year we are having a break up which all the students who have been working hard will be recognised with academic and sports awards, followed by a community dinner and this is always a fun evening. Written by Zara and Neshia.

We want to take this time to wish you all a merry Christmas and safe new year.

Having fun at Mandy’s gym.

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016

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Year 13 scholarship winners.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE SHELLEY POWER 2016 has been a huge year for Wairarapa College. After a tumultuous 2015 this year has been characterised by a sense of moving forward after difficult times. We have much to be thankful for: the wisdom and leadership of John Carlyon as Commissioner and Peter Gould as Acting Principal, the hard work and dedication of the staff who were determined to ensure that our students still received the best from WaiCol, and the passionate support of our parent body, who have been actively interested and involved in moving the College forward.

Student achievements have continued to be outstanding.

Building on a sound academic base they have continued to excel on the sporting front with some superb results from our first XV Rugby and our Boys’ first XI Hockey. In addition to this our students have showcased their talent in a vibrant School Production and in Stage Challenge where they received the national award for Best Stage Crew. Our students have once again made the most of the broad range of

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opportunities they have available here at Wairarapa College.

Another vital aspect of the College is our Hostel. We have been fortunate to have been able to appoint Ms Danielle Cottle who is an excellent replacement for Mr Josh Syms in the role of Manager and we have many exciting plans to develop the facilities and culture of College House so that it becomes again the vanguard of Wairarapa College.

My arrival and settling in period during Term 3 was made very easy by the ground work that had already been laid and the warm welcome from staff, parents and students. During this period and in Term 4 we have continued to prepare for the year ahead by reviewing our systems and thinking around teaching and learning. We are determined to be future focused and to provide an outstanding educational experience here at WaiCol for our students. We are looking forward to increasing productive partnerships with our parents and community, in pursuit of our goal.

Bring it on 2017!!

LEAD cards are important part of Wairarapa College’s PB4L plan, Bella Williams displays hers.

Junior students enjoying PE.

Junior students help and learn during docking on the college farm.

Stage Challenge involves over a 100 students on stage and backstage.

Equestrian is a growing sport at Wairarapa College.

Kia Eke Panuku Wairarapa College is a Kia Eke Panuku school. Kia Eke Panuku is about addressing the aspirations of Maori communities by supporting Maori students to pursue their potential.

P.B.4.L. Positive Behaviour for Learning is a big part of how we do things at Wairarapa College and the values we hold close. Our acronym LEAD stands for Learn with Purpose, Engage with Pride, Act with Respect and Dare to Succeed.

College House Wairarapa College House is a quality, structured boarding house offering a warm, family atmosphere in a ‘home away from home’.

This year’s major production was Back to the 80s.

Sport It is hard to find a sport not catered for in this school. We produce national champions, regional excellence and can offer a variety of sports at any level.

Trips Away We offer a variety of curriculum, sporting and cultural trips. A trip to Tahiti in the September holidays was enjoyed by our French students.

High Expectations and Excellence It is this time of the year when students are rewarded for their hard work and diligence throughout the year. Wairarapa College Year 13 students have already received a high number of tertiary scholarships from a number of New Zealand universities and many others have been accepted into courses where it is hard to get a place.

Travelling to Tahiti was a highlight of the year for French students.

Leadership opportunities Student Leaders Leadership opportunities are plentiful at Wairarapa College and include Year 13 Prefects, Student Council, House Leaders and junior Class Captains Authentic Learning Opportunities (Making learning real) College farm The unique place of the farm in our school gives students the opportunity to study Agriculture and Horticulture and also have hands-on experiences learning valuable farming skills.

Culture Cultural activities are thriving in the school.

Music, Drama, Stage Challenge, School Production and cultural groups all welcome new members and House Singing is a wonderful experience for the entire college.

The 1st XI boys’ hockey team came second in the Rankin Cup which is the national tournament for boys’ hockey.

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