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190th Edition 15 December 2016
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Friends of the School MORNA COLLIE, pictured below was announced as BEST ALL ROUND PUPIL for 2016 at our prizegiving assembly last night. Runner up was EMMA VENNELL. Morna is the third daughter of Grant and Ellie Collie of Ongo Road and will be attending Rangitikei College next year. A full list of prizegiving results is included in this newsletter.
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COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
PRIZEGIVING ASSEMBLY WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2016
BOT NEW BOT NEWS BOT NEWS BOT NEW BOT NEWS BOT Staffing 2017 • Miss Gray back from maternity leave to take
Room 6; Mr Johansen returning to Denmark • Mrs Turner resigning her teacher aide position
of past two years • Mrs Parkes resigning her Reading Recovery
release position of teaching Room 1 afternoons • Reading Recovery release position to be
advertised (7 ½ hours per week) • Mrs Turner’s TA position to be advertised as
well as a new TA position to enable more support for literacy / numeracy programmes and for general student support
Property • Specialists to be engaged to advise on any unsafe trees • Boiler house coal fired burner to be advertised on Trade Me • Flat roof area leaking again – Tongs to be contacted to repair • Possibility of in ground trampoline to be installed to be looked at as a
priority in 2017 • $3000 received from Powerco for running track on ‘hockey field’
Trial New Homework Regime • Follows a parent survey and parent/teacher ‘committee’ of R McIntyre, J
Duncan, C Dalley and S Lewis drafting a new policy • Basically taking the stress out of homework for students, parents and
teachers by making it voluntary • New tack will still very strongly push reading • Teachers will provide homework, encourage it, follow it up by giving it
quality class time, but not ‘punish’ students for any homework not completed
• Apart from reading, topic based, optional homework will be made available
ICT Injection • $8,000 (initially) approved to spend on devices ready for day one next year,
with further spending to be assessed in the new year Next Meeting: Thursday 9 February 2017
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StaffRepresentativeColleenDalleyPrincipal
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PRIZEGIVING RESULTS Wednesday 14 December 2016
CITIZEN-
SHIP
EFFORT
PUT INTO CLASS WORK
IMPROVEMENT,
PROGRESS IN WORK
ACHIEVEMENT
OF HIGH STANDARDS
OF WORK Rm
1 Neko
McDougall Lachlan Flower
Nate Arnott
Duncan McIntyre
Rm 2
Kyal Marshall
Zavier Nydegger-Monks
Sophie Duncan
Teagan Collins
Rm 4
Zuriella Kennedy-Goodwin
Liam Green
Rakau Marino-Maangi
Joshua Keenan
Rm 6
Keirra Walker
Anthony Smailes
Bridget Billington
Zara Weston
Rm 7
Lucy McIntyre
Sam Livingston
Gemma Billington
Alec Murray
R8 Yr7
Ben Black
Haana Kilmister
Latisha Roore
Zoe Nydegger-Monks
R8 Yr8
(See below under “Major Awards”)
THE KAPA HAKA AWARD: The Ngaia Trophy: Te Tauhu o Tau ira tanga - Best All Round Student Hine Marino-Maangi
SPEECH CUPS The McConachy Cup: Year 5 Speech Award: Katie Vennell
The Karl Bismark Memorial Cup: Year 6 Speech Award: Asha Stevenson
The Fraser Speech Cup: Year 7 Speech Award: Anna Hughes The G W Agnew Rosebowl: Year 8 Speech Award: Emma Vennell
SPORTS AWARDS
SWIMMING CHAMPIONS JUNIOR GIRL Savannah McDougall JUNIOR BOY Harry McVerry SENIOR GIRL Lucy McIntyre SENIOR BOY Ethan Watson
ATHLETIC CHAMPIONS
JUNIOR GIRL Katie Vennell JUNIOR BOY Harry McVerry
INTERMEDIATE GIRL Jade Guiniven INTERMEDIATE BOY Orlando Ratima
SENIOR GIRL Tineisha McDougall SENIOR BOY George Simpson
CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS
JUNIOR GIRL Savannah McDougall JUNIOR BOY Oliver Bunn
INTERMEDIATE GIRL Jade Guiniven INTERMEDIATE BOY Orlando Ratima
SENIOR GIRL Tineisha McDougall SENIOR BOY George Lambert
OUTSTANDING EFFORT Euan Gower TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONS
GIRLs Haana Kilmister BOYs George Simpson
TENNIS CHAMPIONS GIRLs Latisha Roore BOYs George Simpson
MIXED DOUBLES George Simpson & Tineisha McDougall
2016 WINNING WHANAU GROUP: Rimu (Whanau Leader: Maia Houltham) HEAD STUDENT AWARDS: 2016 HEAD BOY AND GIRL: George Simpson and Morna Collie
ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2017 HEAD BOY AND GIRL Ben Black and Haana Kilmister
MAJOR AWARDS: The Keryn Michelle Swainson Cup for Fair Play and Participation in Sport and PE. Finalists: Maia Houltham, Will Turner,
Emma Vennell, Mackenzie Williams
MACKENZIE WILLIAMS
The Hunterville Sports Cup for BOYS for Enthusiasm, Effort, Attitude and
Achievement in Sport. Finalists: George Lambert, George Simpson, Ethan Watson
GEORGE
SIMPSON
Special Sports Award for Exceptional Achievement in Middle Distance Running
GEORGE LAMBERT
The Hunterville Sports Cup for GIRLS for Enthusiasm, Effort, Attitude and
Achievement in Sport.
TINEISHA McDOUGALL
G & L White Family Cup: Arts Award for Excellence in the PERFORMING Arts.
Finalists: Anna Hughes, Daisy Lane, Josh Lourie
ANNA
HUGHES
The Leary Cup: for Excellence in Mathematics. Finalists: Morna Collie,
George Simpson, Emma Vennell
MORNA COLLIE
The Dalley Cup: Excellence in English. Finalists: Morna Collie, Tineisha
McDougall, Emma Vennell
MORNA COLLIE
Rhonda Claudette Agnew Memorial Rosebowl: for Effort and Determination. Finalists: Brodie Gray, Maia Houltham,
Emma Vennell, Ethan Watson
EMMA
VENNELL
George Meldrum Memorial Cup: Pride and Service to School. Finalists: Morna Collie,
Maia Houltham, Tineisha McDougall, George Simpson, Mackenzie Williams
MAIA
HOULTHAM
The Lewis Cup for Citizenship, Outstanding Character & Conduct.
Finalists: Morna Collie, George Simpson, Mackenzie Williams
GEORGE
SIMPSON
Forrest Award for Best All Round Pupil
Runner Up: EMMA VENNELL
Winner: MORNA COLLIE
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YEAR 8 LEAVERS’ PROFILE Name: Brodie Gray. Time at Hunterville: 8 years. School Next Year: Feilding High School. What I’m looking forward to most: Leaving home, meeting new people, boarding with other people. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: Electives, SOME students, camps, my friends. Best Memory: Getting into massive trouble, making the Com News team and going on camps. Biggest Regret: Getting in massive trouble. Career ambition: Helicopter pilot or stock driving. Life ambition: Own a Toyota Hilux and own a k200 stock truck. Final comment: Good luck to the Year 8s for next year. Everyone just keep hauling along and try to stay out of trouble - ‘trust me.’ Name: George Simpson Time at Hunterville: 8 Years School Next Year: Palmerston North Boys High School What I’m Looking forward to most: Getting to try new things like sport. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: All my friends. Best Memory: When I got three wickets for the first three balls in a cricket game. Biggest Regret: Drawing on a rock at Mangatepopo and having to carry it back with Zane Brooks to the end of the walk. Career ambition: To become a Black Cap Life ambition: Get lots of money and build a flash house. Final comment: Enjoy your last year at Hunterville School Year 8’s
Name: Macca Williams Time at Hunterville: 8 Years School Next Year: Palmerston North Boys High School What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new friends. Getting a lot more opportunities What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: All my friends and teachers. Best memory: Playing hockey for 5 years, jumping off the jetty every morning at Reso Bay and the Rippa rugby tournament in Wellington. Biggest regret: I don’t have any Career ambition: To become an engineer then work on a farm Life ambition: To own a farm Final comment: GO RATA!
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Name: Maia Houltham Time at Hunterville: 4 years School next year: Wanganui High School (WHS) What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new friends and seeing my old friends. What I’m going to miss about Hunterville My friends and the teachers Best Memory: Going to Resolution Bay and all the camps. Biggest regret: Not doing the whole Tongariro crossing. Career ambition: Doctor, nurse Life ambition: To become rich. Final comment: Take all the opportunities you’re given and good luck to all the year 8’s for 2017.
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YEAER 8 LEAVERS’ PROFILES Name: Morna Collie Time at Hunterville: 8 Years School Next Year: Rangitikei College What I’m Looking forward to most: Making new friends and having a chance to do more art. What Ill miss the most about Hunterville School: My friends and the easy work. Best Memory: All the camps especially Resolution Bay. Biggest Regret: Kneeing myself in the face on the biscuit at Resolution Bay. Career ambition: To do something in art or become an architect. Life ambition: To win Lotto Final comment: To the 2017 year eights: have fun and take every opportunity you are offered. Name: Emma Vennell Time at Hunterville: 6 Years School next year: Feilding High School What I’m looking forward to most: Finding new friends and boarding with other girls. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: Friends, teachers and all the people around the school. Best Memory: All the school camps and trips. Biggest Regret: Not trying or taking up opportunities. Career ambition: To be a vet and run my own stables. Life ambition: To breed and train Welsh Cobs. Final Comment: Good luck to all students and teachers next year. Take any opportunities you get and try hard in everything.
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YEAR 8 LEAVERS’ PROFILES Name: Ethan Watson Time at Hunterville: 8 Years School Next Year: Rangitikei College What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new friends, being with my brother and sister, (Rhys and Chloe). What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: All my friends and teachers especially Mrs Dalley. Best Memory: Last year’s softball and all the great camps. Biggest Regret: At camp I would get angry sometimes. Career ambition: I want to work with computers. Life ambition: I would like to meet the rest of my dad’s family. Final Comment: Good like to all the year eights next year.
Name: George Lambert Time at Hunterville: 8 Years School Next Year: Wanganui Collegiate, WCS What I’m looking forward to most: Trying new things and meeting new people What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: My friends and the people at Hunterville School Best Memory: Breaking 7 records, the school camps and getting a medal at AIMS games Biggest Regret: Don’t have any Career ambition: Farmer or something around farming Life ambition: Go to the Olympics Final comment: I’ve had a pretty good eight years at Hunterville School and I’d like to say thank you to everyone who’s helped.
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YEAR 8 LEAVERS’ PROFILES
Name: Janine Hope Time at Hunterville: 7 years School Next year: Rangitikei College What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new people and making lots of new friends. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: I will miss all the teachers and my friends; I will also miss the sport and electives. Best Memory: I have too many to pick from as my time here has been good. Biggest Regret: Leaving this school. Career Ambition: To be a famous singer and dancer. Life ambition: To be famous and rich. Final comment: I will miss this school, I hope all the year 8’s enjoy high school and have fun.
Name: Regan Harris. Time at Hunterville: 8 years School Next Year: Rangitikei College. What I’m looking forward to most: Making new friends and putting hard effort into the police force. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: My friends, Mrs Dalley and the other teachers. Best Memory: Walking the Tongariro Crossing. Biggest Regret: Ignoring Mrs Dalley. Career ambition: Be in the police force. Life ambition: Have a good life and live well. Final comment: I will miss my friends going off to different schools and the teachers, mostly Mrs Dalley.
Name: Tineisha McDougall Time at Hunterville: 2 Years School Next Year: Feilding High School What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new friends, seeing old friends and seeing what high school is about. What I’ll miss about Hunterville School: Friends, teachers, easy work, being at primary. Best Memory: Becoming a Whanau Leader, becoming Head Student Editor of Com News, going to Reso Bay. Biggest Regret: Not involving myself more. Career ambition: Police, Silver Fern Life ambition: Live on a farm, Win lotto. Final Comment: Always involve yourself and good luck to the year 8s next year. Also good luck to Hunterville School because there will great leaders next year. Also GO RATA!!!!!!!
Name: Will Turner. Time at Hunterville: 8 years School Next Year: Palmerston North Boys High School, PNBHS What I’m looking forward to most: Meeting new friends and trying different sports. What I’ll miss most about Hunterville School: All my friends and the smallness of the school. Best Memory: Going on camp and the Rippa rugby tournament in Wellington. Biggest regret: Not playing cricket for a season. Career ambition: Be a farmer hopefully taking over dad’s farm or be a professional cricket or rugby player. Life ambition: Become rich. Final comment: Thank you to all the teachers who have given me awesome opportunities and good luck to the year 8s for next year
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The Wonky Donkey The Wonky Donkey has 1 eye, 1 mane and three legs and he likes to sing. But why does he like to sing? Maybe he wants to be an author. He is quite tall and slim. He has a long tail. I really enjoyed the show. He is a really good singer. William Mcleod (Yr 2) The Wonkey Donkey Yesterday the class and I went to a silly but amazing donkey show!!! We sat down to see what the Wonky Donkey book was all about. He has one eye and three legs. Whooooo everyone likes the Wonky Donkey so much. He has a brown, furry body with a fluffy tail and a pompom. Why does he like to sing? We like to sing!! He likes to dress up as the Wonkey Donkey. I really enjoyed the Wonkey Donkey soooo much!!!! By Joshua Dalley (Yr 2)
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Mr Johansen came toNZwith his family, fromDenmark. To cut a longstoryshort,hecametoNZasavisitorandhasendedupteachingRoom6since the end of term two. Mrs Johansen (also a trained teacher) hasbeenhelpingoutinthejuniorsandSimonandTobiashavebeeninRoom3andRoom6.Wearegoingtomissthemallalotnextyear.The Johansens leave Hunterville before Christmas and NZ in earlyJanuary.WeinterviewedtheJohansenfamilyrecently….HowlonghaveyoubeeninNewZealandfor?Nearlyoneyear.11monthsWhichschoolwouldyouprefer?Why?Hunterville,becausewehaveabigplayground.Wedomoreactivitieslikeproductions,musicandlotsofsportsandalsolearnlots.DoyoumissyourfamilyfromDenmark???YesmyGrandmasandUncles-Simonsays.Friends,Grandmas,Unclesandcousins-TobiasAreyougladtobegoinghome???Notreally.Somedayswemisshome.Wemightcomebackatsomepoint.Mixedemotions.WhatwillyoumissaboutNewZealand???Thewaypeoplearesofriendlyandhelpfulandhowbeautifulitis.Howpeopleopenedtheirhomesuptousandletusborrowutensils.Everything,likethefastfoodandtheschoolasitislikeonebigfriend.Whathasbeenyourhighlightofthisyear???It’sreallyhardtosay.Wearesogratefulthateveryonehaswelcomedus.Beingrunnerupinspeechfinals-SimonAllthesportandthenature-Tobias.Everywhereyoulookthereisabeautifulview.Welovedhavingpetlambs!Yoursenseofhumour.Haveyoubeenonanyroadtrips?Ifsowhere???Alot.SouthIsland,upnorth,Taupo,Napier,Picton.AllthewaydowntoLakeWanakaintheSouthIsland
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Joel Fenton - Magician
On Monday 28 November we were lucky enough to get Mr Joel Fenton to come to our school to do some magic tricks. Mr Fenton has Hunterville ties as Mrs Maureen Fenton is his grandmother, and he learnt to do magic tricks when he was in Hunterville. He’s cousins to Brodie, Breanna and Baeleigh Gray.
Some of the tricks that he did were to do with knives and balloons and riding unicycles. The first trick Joel did was juggle knives. He then did this trick with this big yellow balloon which was tricky as.
He rode this massive as unicycle and when he got up on it he started juggling knives. Next he did his last trick of his show which was blowing up a massive balloon. Once it was fully blown up he put his head in then he put his whole body in the balloon and started jumping round inside it. Overall we really enjoyed Mr Fenton coming to show us his tricks. They were all good tricky tricks. By George Lambert (Yr 8
School Band On the 26th of November was the Marton Market Day and the Hunterville School band was invited to play. We arrived at 9:50am to help set up and do a quick run through. Our first song was We Will Rock, it worked out pretty well even though we mucked up a few times. Our second song was Roll With Me, but we forgot the lyrics halfway through although luckily we recovered. Our third song was Sweet Home Alabama, and that went better than I expected. Our last song, called Stir It Up, went really well, especially for our second time doing it, even though Emma forgot where to come in! Our next performance is at the school picnic. The Band has so far been great with us learning new songs and getting to sing and play instruments. Thanks to Mr Munk, our tutor. (See photo back page)
Emma Vennell (Yr 8) and Dannielle Ansley (Yr 7)
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ChurchPlayIwaschosentoplayJosephforaplayinthechurchbecauseIwastheonlyonetooffer!IwasexcitedtoplayJosephbecauseIgottogetdressupandIgottoholdthebabyattheendwhentheyweretakingphotos.IhadtowalkuptheaislewithMary(Elle)whichwasembarrassing.WhenwegotdressedIwasthelastonetogetchangedbecauseallthepeopleweretoobusythinkingaboutothers.Then they finally gave me my costume to put on and after that heaps ofpeopletookphotosandmymumtook20photosofmeandfiveothersthatwereapartofthegroup.Thanks,MissGray,forlendingyourbabytous!ByAnthonySmailes(Yr5) Room 6 was doing a church play since it was the last bible session. I got to choose to be Mary because I am responsible. I walked down the aisle with Joseph (Anthony S) and I was nervous because I had to walk with Anthony. We got to the end and I got to hold baby Elliott. We also got to feed him a bottle of milk. The angels sang songs. At the end everyone came to the middle and took photos of the whole cast. Thanks to Miss Gray for lending us your baby. By Elle Bourke (Yr 4
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Disco Night The disco is a fun night for all the students at Hunterville School. The Yr 8s get to go up on stage and dance if we want to. There’s drinks and food to buy, also Glow Sticks, glow rings and a lot more glow stuff. You usually find people dancing together or in groups. The food was great and so was the music thanks to Mrs Dalley. There were many prizes given out during the night and the best dressed went to Baeleigh Gray and Oliver Bunn. There was also an award to best dancers, which was Mrs Christie and her daughter Ally, and then it was Mrs Lane and her son Lachie. Most people sit down the back and just talk, drink and eat and it’s a pretty fun night for people to dance and muck around. Hopefully there will be another disco some time this year. We fundraised over $400, which is going towards painting our planter boxes in whanau colours. By Brodie Gray Yr 8
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Resolution Bay Camp It was 5am on a Monday morning - camp day! The year 7 & 8s were heading to Marlborough Sounds. When I got to the school I jumped in Mr Lambert’s car with Patrick and George L. It was a long two hours squished in the back of the ute.
As soon as we got to Wellington we took all our bags off the ute and met over at the terminal. We got handed our tickets and went on the ferry. When we got on the ferry we had our own little lounge for 30 students and about 12 adults. We got a chance to have a look all over the ferry. Once we had arrived in Picton we went to the Edwin Fox Museum. It was an old ship that brought convicts to New Zealand. Then we loaded our bags onto the Cougar Line boat and left for Resolution Bay. As soon as we got there we got a tour around the place and it looked like a good camp. I was in KEA with George L, George S, Will T, Mack W and Mr Lambert so I couldn't complain about this cabin. We settled in and went and jumped off the jetty. The next day was my birthday and I was really pleased to spend my birthday with lots of others. We went fishing, and between Maca and me, we got 27 fish each but they were blue cod so we had to put them all back because of a ban. Before we went fishing we did a 1 hour and 40 minute walk which wasn't too bad. Day 3 we had to do a bigger walk which took 2 hours each way. On Thursday we just did stuff around camp like kayaking, swimming, walking and compass work. After a while Will and I were walking to our cabin, opened our door and there was a weka standing on the floor so Will and I threw it out. But then we found weka poop on the floor so the other boys cleaned it up. Later that night was our camp concert and we were called Hunting Bros we failed but in a funny way, because we were taking the mickey out of it.
Friday morning came quickly, it was the day everyone wasn’t looking forward to because of the long 3 hour Ferry trip. The Cougar Line was running late but when it got to the bay we loaded our bags and left to go to the ferry. We had a really fun ride home on the ferry. Heaps of us got chatting to this Chinese guy and lots of other people. We stopped in Levin for a fish and chip tea and then went home. It was a really fun camp and I really hope to get down there again one day. By Brodie Gray (Yr 8)
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Since the last newsletter we’ve welcomed: Anaru Hansen-Tipu and Tia Hansen-Tipu We have had no farewells Our roll finishes for the year at 163
Year 5 Camp – By Hayden Lourie
A couple of weeks ago the Year 5s went to Rawkawa Falls. When we got there we had to unpack our bags and take them to our cabins. There were different coloured cabins and I was in the RED cabin. Next we got showed where to go for our activites. On the first day we did the flying kiwi and kyaking. The kyaking was really fun. When we got to the flying kiwi, no one wanted to go first so I went first. The next day we did the waterslide and walking to the falls. When it was time to go down the waterslide I raced into our cabin and got my togs on and raced over to the waterslide and ran up the stairs and came flying down the slide. When the rest of the group came we had about 5 turns each coming down the slide. When we got too cold we went and had a nice hot shower and had some lunch. After lunch we were kyaking in a dam which was full of eels, so we made sure we didn't fall out. That was really fun. At night we played spotlight and Jack and I didn't get found. The next morning we did archery and Harry and I hit the bullseye of the target. Mr Johansen betted on Harry that he could hit the bullseye. Next we did the highropes and I was first up to the top. At the end, we did rock climbing and Harry and I got the highest out of all the kids. Then we had to clean up camp and leave. Thank you to Mr Johansen for taking us on this camp.
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Year 5 Camp
When we got to school we had to wait in the libary untill everyone was there. We went over the rules then we hit the road. Mr Johansen was in Dad’s car with Brigdet, Katie and I. We finally arrived at camp. We got settled in our cabins and met Robyn, Beca and someone else. After lunch we started our first activity. I was a captain in group 2 with Hayden. Our first activity was the flying kiwi. You make a line then the first person gets put in a harness. Then the next person and so on. We then went on the waterslide. I liked the abseiling the best. Abseiling is climbing up a wall then coming down the other side but it was too windy so we climbed up the ladder. The camp was really fun and I enjoyed all of the activites, thanks to Mr Johansen. By Zara Weston (Yr 5)
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Yr 7/8 Camp to Resolution Bay On the 21st of November I woke up really early in the morning to set off for camp in the Marlborough Sounds. Finally we arrived and packed our bags onto the truck that held our luggage over the Cook Strait. We hopped on the ginormous Ferry called the Kaitaki Interislander and started our amazing journey. There was a gift shop, a playground, cinemas and a few cafe’ on the boat. Once we arrived in Picton, we went to the Edwin Fox Museum and got to go on the Edwin Fox boat. We learnt heaps about its history and we were all really hungry afterwards, so we sat down and had lunch. Soon after, we loaded up the launch and headed to Resolution Bay. When we arrived we found our cabins and walked to Schoolhouse Bay. Once we were finished walking we jumped off the jetty, went and did diary entry, had dinner and had a couple of rounds of spotlight. Then we slowly went to sleep.
On the second day, most of us woke up and jumped off the jetty and soon after we all had a delicious breakfast together. We had a small briefing and we were off, half of us walked to Ships Cove while the others went fishing. Once my group arrived at Ships Cove, the fishing boat came back in and we all went to Motuara Island. We had to climb a long, steep hill but got to see a beautiful view once we reached the top. My group then dropped the other group back at Ships Cove and went fishing with Captain Colin Davenport and his dog Lucy. I caught three blue cod but had to put them all back as there is a blue cod ban down in the Marlborough Sounds. Next we went back to camp and had a bit of down time, doing camp concert preparation. Lastly we did our diary entry, had dinner, had supper and had rounds of spotlight, then went to bed.
We woke up on the third day to a swim early in the morning and then had breakfast. Today we were doing a long walk to Furneaux Lodge to get ice-cream. The walk was supposed to take 3 hours to get there but we set a fast pace and got there in around 2 hours. Sadly when we got there, we were all shocked to find out that there was NO ice-cream! The lodge wasn't going to get ice-cream until December, so the school shouted us each a raspberry ice-cream spider that had the teensiest bit of ice-cream. Next we had lunch and walked back to camp. We had a bit more camp concert preparation then did our daily routine of diary entry, dinner, supper, spotlight, then bed.
Today was our last full day at camp so we woke up had a swim, had breakfast then split into four groups called Endeavour, Discovery, Resolution and Adventure. I was in Discovery and the first thing my group did was walk to Schoolhouse Bay. Next we kayaked back, had lunch, did some orienteering and lastly we went biscuiting. Finally we had our camp concert and the next day travelled back home. By Morna Collie (Yr 8)
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ROBOTICS TEAM – 3rd in NZ!
From a pool of 33 teams at the VexIQ robotics national championships just last weekend, our team of HARRY CHERRIE, NINA BALLARD and IRIS COLLIE came a terrific 3rd!
Our other team of Alex Legner, Phoenix Whiteside and Marko Legner came a meritorious 8th in the same tournament.
WELL DONE TEAMS!
Many thanks to parent Mr Grant Collie for tutoring our teams each Thursday after school and for managing the team at the numerous Saturday competitions (scrimmages) over the year.
UPDATE/REHUNTERVILLELIONSCLUBCHRISTMASPARADE
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Home and School Assn News Wow!Wherehastheyeargone?Infactthelastelevenandahalfyears,asthisismylastreportastheHomeandSchoolChairperson.TheyearstartedoffwithaBBQwiththeparentsandteachersmeetingandgreetingnewandoldparents.Thisisalwaysagreatwaytostarttheyear.WethengotstuckinandhadanewfundraiserinconjunctionwiththeHuntervilleLionsClub Auction. The school was responsible for all the extra stalls that made the day asuccess.Wehadlivemusicallday,foodstalls,andgiftstalls.Allinallwehadasuccessfuldaywith$10,000.00madeforthechildrenofHuntervilleSchool.Asitwasforthekidsthiswas their opportunity to have their say inwhat theywould like to spend some of themoney on. The student council came back with in ground trampolines. After someresearch this projectwill hopefully be up and running beginning of 2017. Other thingsthathomeandschoolpurchasedwasnewfurnitureforthelibrary,newtrestletablesforthe hall, and the smart looking track suit jacket that the children wear when outrepresenting the school at school events. Every yearwe also supply the school library$2000 in library books, $1000 towards the school van and run the various BBQ’sthroughouttheyear, forwhichIwouldliketoThankTaylorsGeneralstorefordonatingsome of the sausages. We also fund book gift for all new 5 year olds, and the year 8leaver’sgifts,aswellastheprizesforthespellingbeeandmentalmathscompetitions.WestartedanewsocialeventwithGIRLSNIGHT.Thiswasagreatnighthadbymothers,caregiversofthechildrenofschoolandladystaffmembers.Thiswasagreatwayforallofustogettoknoweachotherinasocialsetting.ThemenoftheschoolmaywanttocomeandrepresentthehomeandschoolsoyoucanhaveaMEN’Snight.Ihopethiscontinuesnextyearandyearstocome.HomeandSchoolhadabitof abreakover terms2and3as theproductionwas in fullswing,OnceagainanotherfabulousperformanceandtheHomeandSchoolsuppliedeverychildintheproductionwithasnackpackforthelasteveningperformance.Our Annual Quiz night was another fun fundraiser that was well run again by thecommittee.ThanksagaintoMrAllanRamsayforallthequestions.Thisyearitwasagreatsuccesswith fullnumbersofadults’ teamsanda fewchildren’s teams.Onceagaintherewereafewpeoplekeentodressupandtherewerespotprizesonthenight.Eventhoughitdoesn’tseemlikeaverybusyyear,HomeandSchoolhavedonequitewellthisyear.Wemeetonceor twicea termand theAGM isheld inMarch. Ifyouhaveanyfundraisingideasoryoujustwanttojointhisfuncommittee,comeandfindoutwhatitisallabout.Thecommitteeisalwayslookingfornewfacesandespeciallyifwewanttoraiselotsofmoneyforthechildrensotheycanstrivetobethebesttheycanbe.Iwould liketothankmycommitteethisyear forall theirworkandsupport throughouttheyear.Wesaygoodbye to JoLambertwhohasbeen the treasurer for theHomeandSchoolforanumberofyearsandI,myselfwillalsobeleaving,asourlastchildrenareoffto college. Iwould like towishTrisWeston andher awesome teamall thebest for thefutureyears.ToallthefamiliesthatareleavingIwishyouallthebestandthankyouforallyourhelpandsupportwithallthefundraisersovertheyears.LastlyIwouldliketowisheveryoneahappyandsafeChristmas.MERRYCHRISTMAS!RachelWilliamsChairpersonHomeandSchool
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Looking Back in History 1928
February: Principal Mr E L Ironmonger. Roll 150. The Secondary Department was to be kept open, but unless more pupils arrive it must be closed. February: During the past 10 days, I have dismissed the pupils at noon owing to the intense heat. This course of action was taken after consultation with the school committee, who decided that when the temperate reached 75 degrees in various rooms, children were to be sent home. March: At the boards meeting today, my resignation as headmaster of this school was accepted. On The 1st of April I shall have been in charge for 26 years and much regret having to retire, but owing to advancing years I fell that it is time I made way for a younger man. April: At last night’s meeting of house holders, a very good committee was elected one with which the incoming headmaster should be able to work without too much friction. May: Severed connection with the school after 26 years as headmaster. (singed E.L. Ironmonger) June: Received 3 dozen coat and hat hooks. Received e dozen inkwells. September: School half holiday on account of Tasman Flight. October: Took charge of this school. C.C. Southey (Headmaster)
Year 8 Leavers 2016 – Prior to Their Yr 8 Dinner
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Wethankparentsandcommunityforanotheryearofmuchvalued,wonderfulsupportforourschool.Wewishyouallasafeandenjoyableholidayseason.
