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Scholarships at Rangi
Rangi Ruru Girls’ School offers scholarship opportunities to highly motivated girls with abilities across many areas of life.
These areas include Academic, Music, Sport, Leadership and Cultural contributions and talents. In order to be considered for these prestigious scholarships, girls must be willing to contribute and participate fully in the life of Rangi Ruru, upholding our values and embracing our spirit. These sought-after opportunities are for girls entering Year 7 or Year 9.
Our scholarship recipients are not only given financial support to attend Rangi, they are immersed in programmes that ensure they reach their full potential. This handbook covers the scholarships we offer, and the supporting programmes.
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Rikarika & Ngana E N THUSIASM & ENDEAVOUR Manaakitanga G ENEROSITY OF SPIRIT
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General Excellence
Students must demonstrate a high level of achievement and participation in two or more of our four identified areas: academic, leadership, sport, cultural.
Stellar Music
Excellence in Music. After application, a selected group are auditioned for approximately 20 minutes. Further details will be given on notification of selection for audition.
Academic Excellence
Students must demonstrate academic performance in our Scholarship Entrance Examination. High performance in other
academic competitions may be taken into consideration.
Rangi Ruru Old Girls' Association (RROGA) Scholarship
For Year 7 entry for two years awarded to the daughter or granddaughter of an Old Girl. An academically able girl will be supported to continue her journey.
Nancy McMillan Boarding Scholarship
For a Year 9 entering Boarding, awarded for five years. A girl who shows dedication to academic study and allround abilities.
2021 Dates
May 14
All Year 7 & 9 scholarship applications close at 4pm
May 26
Scholarship testing
June 3
Music scholarship auditions
Mid-June
Scholarship offers made
Our Scholarships
The Details
• Applicants must be New Zealand Citizens or Permanent Residents.
• Scholarships are subject to continued academic progress, school involvement and adherence to Rangi Ruru values.
• General Excellence, Stellar Music and Academic Scholarships are for a maximum of 50% of academic fees.
• Recipients of Stellar Music Scholarships are expected to continue full involvement in school music - curriculum and co-curricularthroughout their time at Rangi Ruru. Details and parameters are discussed individually with the Director of Music.
• The recipient of the General Excellence, Stellar Music and Academic Scholarships are expected to continue full involvement in the areas for which their Scholarship was awarded. Recipients who choose to withdraw from involvement in these areas may have their scholarship withdrawn.
• Applicants are required to sit the Scholarship academic examination regardless of the Scholarship they are applying for. The grades remain the
property of the school and are not released to applicants.
• Year 7 Scholarships are for two years. Year 9 Scholarships are for five years. Scholarships are reviewed annually, and recipients meet with a member of the Senior Leadership Team to discuss their progress.
• A $100 registration fee is required for girls to sit Scholarship. Those who have already submitted a General Application for enrolment, do not have to pay an additional fee. Girls whose mother was an Old Girl of Rangi Ruru Girls’ School are exempt from this fee. For those students who are successful in gaining a scholarship to Rangi Ruru, this will be credited to their account.
Supporting our Scholarship Students
As a scholarship recipient at Rangi, your daughter will be supported in all areas of her development. We have a number of specialist programmes designed to support our girls reach their full potential.
High Performance Learning (HPL)
The HPL Mentoring and Support Service offers a personalised approach to provide continued support for our most highly able students as they develop. The school accepts that gifted students have different learning needs and that, as a school and as teachers, we must respond to these needs.
Areas where particular help is available include:
• Personal Development Plans (PDPs) with the HPL Coordinator who works closely with Deans
• Guidance and Careers Counsellors
• Acceleration / multi-levelling
• Subject choice assistance
• Workshops / field trips / lectures
• Clubs – Chess, Philosophy, Creative Writing, Robotics and Future Problem Solving
• Mentoring / Pastoral Care / Acting as an advocate for students
• Provision of emotional and social support if required
The HPL service offering is relaxed, supportive and inclusive.
NCEA at Rangi
At Rangi Ruru we are experts in NCEA. We believe this qualification reflects learning that prepares our girls for their futures. The flexibility of NCEA allows Rangi Ruru teachers and s tudents to construct programmes that suits the individual, something other programmes such as International Baccalaureate cannot cater for.
We are very proud of our girls’ outstanding 2019 NCEA results. These are consistent across many years showing our students excelling in NCEA. In 2019 we had two students top New Zealand in Subject Scholarships, in Printmaking and Music.
Rangi Ruru 2020 NCEA Results
Stellar Music
As part of the scholarship package girls receive discounted tuition fees, a generous grant towards instrument/ vocal lessons, and are given free access to a mental performance coach. Music scholars are well supported and given many opportunities for performance, leadership, extension, and enrichment in a caring and inclusive environment. Many are also top academic students who continue with their sporting commitments, develop strong leadership skills, and become fully involved in all that Rangi has to offer. Stellar Music Scholars are also expected to serve the Rangi and wider community through the opportunities they are afforded.
Rangi Ruru is one of New Zealand’s top performing schools in Music.
Our music programme - the Stellar Programme - offers music as a subject to all, with increased specialisation and personalisation as girls progress through NCEA Levels 1 to 3 and Scholarship. In the past eight years there has been a 95% success rate in Scholarship, with three Top Subjects Scholars in Music and several Outstanding Music Scholarship awards.
There is an emphasis on the development of the whole girl through our integrated approach to wellbeing. There are also opportunities to develop leadership skills in all aspects of the teaching and learning programme. We offer highly regarded co-curricular programmes: Choral, Orchestral, Jazz, Chamber Music, Stellar Strings, Band, Percussion, New Music, and Musical Theatre.
Instrumental and vocal tuition is available, and performance artists, teachers and composers are engaged as part of our Artist in Residence programme. The continuous cycle of learning as a result of the legacy of girls who have moved on from Rangi, is an important part of our ethos. The development of younger musicians is fostered by them being inspired by senior students, who then move on to make room for the younger ones to move through. Our music alumnae often keep in contact and return to engage in workshops and mentoring with current girls.
Crimson Education
Rangi Ruru has an exclusive partnership with Crimson Education which enables us to deliver national and global opportunities at an unprecedented level.
A dedicated Pathways and Careers Strategist, Krissi Schumacher, is a fulltime member of the Rangi Ruru staff. She meets individually with students to establish their direction and goals. This is followed up with significant tailored assistance in order to secure the best possible pathways outcome for the individual.
In Crimson’s time with Rangi Ruru we have had 100% acceptance in international universities for students with that goal. Over 90% of Rangi Ruru students stay domestically for university and, with Crimson’s assistance, numerous prestigious university scholarships have been offered to our students for domestic study.
Pathways and careers education and strategies include preparation of CVs, interview preparation and practice, and application support. In addition, students are given advice and encouragement
around extra-curricular involvement, community service and academic and leadership mentoring. Preparation for SATs is undertaken as required. This gives our girls the necessary information and confidence to face a succession of options and decisions they will encounter.
University Scholarships Offered to Rangi Students (domestic and international)
2019: 68
2020: 88
The Crimson Scholars
Crimson Education sponsor the Dux Award and the Crimson Scholar Award at Rangi. Each year the top academic student in each of Years 9 - 12 is identified and at Prizegiving is named the Crimson Scholar. This awards $1000 of Crimson Education services and mentoring to the recipient for that calendar year.
S.O.A.R
S.O.A.R (Supporting Outstanding Athletes at Rangi) is a unique sports programme which provides support and guidance for student athletes who demonstrate talent, potential and determination.
At the heart of S.O.A.R is the philosophy that better people make better athletes. The focus is on empowering and challenging student athletes to become the most outstanding version of themselves in their journey through sport and, ultimately, life.
Underpinning the programme is a focus on building a platform of behavioural traits which positively contribute to sporting performance but also to life outside of sport.
Participation in this programme is based on application. Consideration will be given to students in Year 9 who are on General Excellence Scholarships (tagged to sport). Numbers will be restricted and limited to a maximum of 20 students in any one year.
Throughout the year student athletes involved in the programme will have SEVEN official touch points which
will provide an opportunity for S.O.A.R athletes to grow as people and athletes. These generic sessions will be held during whanau time and will often involve guest speakers who will share their journey to date.
In addition to these sessions, it is our intention that individualised content will be organised around the needs of each athlete. This will include but is not limited to:
• Mental Performance
• Nutrition
• Targeted strength and conditioning, and body balance assessment
• Performance analysis – utilising HUDL and expert coaches
Throughout the year, each student athlete will also have three one on one meetings with the Director of Sport. These sessions will act as a check in to see how the year is progressing, how the programme is supporting students, and where the focus is for the coming term for each student.
Scholarship stories Amber Spurway
It would be hard to find a better role model for an Academic Excellence Scholarship recipient than Amber. A mature, perceptive student with an outstanding work ethic, Amber showed considerable tenacity in the pursuit of her academic goals. Earning Elite Academic Colours for her NCEA results, in addition, in her final year at Rangi Ruru, Amber was named Proxime Accessit for her exceptional academic outcomes across all her subjects.
Amber embraced all opportunities, willingly seeking to extend herself. Leadership opportunities saw her as Head of Form Seniors, a role that included
working with and mentoring Junior students as well as leading her group of peers to facilitate delivery of the programme. Additionally, Amber was a member of the Service Council and the World Vision Representative.
Amber’s genuine nature paired with an admirable strength of character endeared her to many. Sincere and trustworthy, she combines this with a strongly held code of personal ethics. Integrity and humility are character strengths that Amber demonstrated in all situations. She received the coveted Dorothy Bates Trophy for the student who demonstrates Outstanding Potential (Reaching for the Stars) in her ultimate Prizegiving.
Maximising her potential with wonderful NCEA results, Amber was offered the University of Queensland Merit Scholarship and a Liveris Academy Scholarship. In addition to considerable financial support, there is travel provided for an exchange and internship and the additional benefits of mentorship organised by the academy. Amber is studying for a Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Amber (centre) with sisters Charlotte (right) and Grace (left).
Isabella Gregory
Isabella was a Rangi Ruru academic and music scholar, and in Year 13 was the student Head of Sustainability, where her leadership was always about empowering others to become active, sustainable and ecologically focused participants in their own lives.
Performing outstandingly in NCEA, the 2017 NZQA Scholarship examinations saw Isabella gaining Top Subject Scholar in Music and Art History, an Outstanding award in English, as well as scholarships in several other subjects - culminating in her being one of ten Premier Scholarship Award winners in New Zealand. She was Proxime Accessit to Dux and was awarded a premier award ‘The Dorothy Bates Trophy - Reaching for the Stars’. NCEA offered the opportunity to hone and practise skills of creativity and communication with a range of flexible assessments as well as performance at the very highest level.
Whilst at Rangi Ruru Isabella studied flute at the University of Canterbury, played professionally with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, and was Principal Flute in the NZ Secondary Schools’ Symphony Orchestra and NZSO National Youth Orchestra. In addition, she attended master classes and workshops with national and international clinicians throughout New Zealand and Australia. A pianist of note, her 2017 chamber music group was one of six national finalists in the NZCT Chamber Music Contest, winning the National KBB Award.
Currently studying at Victoria University, Isabella is completing her BA in Religious Studies and BMus with Honours. She is plays professionally with the NZ Symphony Orchestra, teaches flute and piano, and is a volunteer tutor for the university’s Pasifika Mentoring Programme.
‘Being supported to explore multiple interests while at school prepared me for the reality of starting to build a career in a creative industry, where organisational and communication skills can be just as important as artistry. Rangi’s support of co-curricular activities and a give-it-a-go attitude helped me to develop the courage to explore new opportunities, allowing me to maintain breadth and flexibility in my study despite the increasing pressure to specialise’.
