High Five! - Howick College | home 24.pdf · Mr James Kumate - graduated from Otago University with a MPhEd, BphEd (Hons) and MTchgLn. Ms Lauren Dennehy - graduated from Otago University

Inside this issue:

Achievers 2

Careers Evening 2

Auckland Writers

Festival 3

40 Hour Famine 3

YouDance Festival 3

Culture Week 4

Yr 12 Business Market

Days 4

International Students 4

House News 5

Ingham International

Food Festival 5

Sports 6&7

Board of Trustees 8

Dates for Term 2 8

High Five! Term 2 , 2016

Sandspit Rd, Howick / PO Box 38142, Howick, Auckland / Ph: 534-4492 / www.howickcollege.school.nz

Reminders:

Student Absence –

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Appointments –

Students must bring a note

and sign out (and back in)

at the student office.

Late Arrival After Tutor –

Students must sign in at the

student office. Students

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parent to sign them in.

Unwell at School?

Go to the Health Centre

first. DO NOT TEXT your

parents; they will be

contacted by the Health

Centre if required. Students

will be picked up and signed

Dear parents and caregivers,

Senior School Ball Thank you to all senior students who attended this year’s ball event. It was so encouraging to observe our students conduct themselves in such a mature way and contribute to a highly successful night. My special thanks to Ms Marsick and the Year 13 student committee. What some people don’t see are the long hours of careful planning that goes on behind the scenes to make the night spectacular. An excellent night and our students looked

amazing!

Student Success and Achievement Student progress reports have been redesigned with the clear intention to make them more useful to students and parents as indicators of progress. You will notice a number of really positive changes including ‘feedback and feedforward’ comments along with student ownership of learning assessment data. I’m sure you’ll find them much more ‘user-friendly’ and we welcome any post review comments.

Congratulations to our Smokefree Rockquest band ‘Minimal Silence’ who won the regional competition for best band in Auckland. To members, Mark, Logan and Sabastian, we wish you all the very best for the national finals. There are many other examples throughout the newsletter which you’ll be impressed with.

New Trustees Welcome to our new trustees and congratulations on their election success. Stewardship of our College is an important task and we have been very fortunate to have many highly skilled professional members guide our direction as a school organisation. I acknowledge former trustees who have retired at the last election and thank them for their support and commitment to the College.

Property Development In Term 4, we will begin the start of our school refurbishment plan. This involves upgrading all classrooms so that we achieve an optimal physical learning environment. Some of our classrooms over the years have been neglected and this will be an opportunity to ‘spruce’ up learning spaces and make them more attractive. Also planned are improvements to the theatre, gym and outdoor areas.

Sir Peter Blake Leadership Week Each year, our Houses and students support Leadership Week. Celebrating the legacy of Sir Peter Blake our students are proud to be involved and planned a number of events throughout the week. As part of this celebration of leadership, we also acknowledged our teachers as leaders of a profession. A student led design project of a powerful educational quote ‘I touch the future. I teach.’ was unveiled to all staff at a special assembly. This graphic will be placed in the main school reception area honouring our staff as leaders.

End of term 2 I wish everyone a restful break away. School resumes on Monday 25 July. Regards,

Mr I L Ropati, Principal

Inspir ing a Community of Passionate Learners / Whakamanawahia Tētehi Hapori o Ngā Ākonga Hihir i

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Congratulations to:

Logan Anderson, Mark Tohovaka and Sabastian Munro - their

band Minimal Silence won the Smokefree Rockquest Manukau

regional final. They now begin preparing for selection to the upcoming

national competition later in the year. Good luck!

Dr Simon McNamara - received his doctorate in Art History from

Auckland University. He also holds a BA (Hons), MA (Hons) and a

PGDIP (Art History Dist).

Mr James Kumate - graduated from Otago University with a MPhEd,

BphEd (Hons) and MTchgLn.

Ms Lauren Dennehy - graduated from Otago University with a

BA (History and English) and MTchgLn.

Ethan McCormack - won the Howick RSA Anzac Day speech

and delivered his speech at the Stockade Hill service. Ethan is

the fifth Howick College student in a row to have won

this honour.

Kayleigh Subritzky - won a mural

competition run by SADD. The mural

will be produced to be displayed within

the school later this year.

Samantha Knight - progressed to the

27 June regionals for Dragon’s Den

business competition facilitated by the

Young Enterprise Trust. Her product

enables athletes to attach their

competitor numbers easily.

Amelie Laing - first place in the Howick College Baking Club

final with her Orange Marmalade Cakes. Jasleen Kaur and

Harsimran Hundal were second and Meghan Woodfield,

third. Well done to all who made the final; your baking was

superb and the judges thoroughly enjoyed their task! Thank

you to Baking Club teacher in charge, Mrs Poole.

We wish the following teachers lü tu yu kuai for their trip to China during the holidays. They will be spending two weeks teaching students a course that prepares them for studying at Howick College as International Students.

Safe travels to: Ms Restieaux, Ms Jones, Mr Kearney, Mrs Fenner and Ms Collingwood.

Careers Evening

The classrooms in H block were full of students

and parents gathering information at the recent

Careers Evening. With over 40 representatives

from industry and tertiary institutes, there was

something of interest for everyone. The Careers

Evening is a great way for students to find out

more about their future career options by asking

questions from those in the know.

A lot of work goes in to organising and co-

ordinating this event and we thank our Careers department team for ensuring our

students have the guidance and information they need—thanks to Ms van Daatselaar,

Mrs Batt, Mrs Simpson and Mrs Hewett.

To get the Teacher Only Day off to a good start, a

Pink Ribbon Breakfast was held in the school café.

Over $800 was raised as staff tucked into French

toast, home made croissants, fruit, cereal and more.

A big thanks to organisers Mrs Poole, Ms Marsick

and Mrs Roberts. Thanks too go to the hospitality

students who came in extra early on their day off to

prepare and serve the yummy breakfast.

Minimal Silence celebrating their Rockquest win Ethan McCormack

1st place – Amelie Laing (orange marmalade cakes)

2nd place – (Coke bottle cake/shortbread fries/cupcake burger)

3rd place – Meghan Woodfield (caramel cheesecake with chocolate whirl)

Ethan McCormack



Auckland Writer’s Festival

This year our group of avid writers and readers spent two days at the Auckland

Writers Festival being inspired by writers such as John Boyne (The Boy in the

Striped Pyjamas), Michael Grant (the Gone series), and New Zealand author

Ella West. Attending these sessions offers a fascinating insight to different

aspects of writing with some authors talking about how their process works and

others offering some practical advice on how to write. Some of our students

took advantage of the book signing opportunity to meet their favourite authors.

The students heard from poets and playwrights as well as novelists, and an

entertaining Shakespeare scholar who encouraged the audience to lose their

‘Shakesfear’ and embrace the language of the Bard.

Thank you to Mrs King for organising this trip and ensuring our students don’t

miss out on this popular event. They have been inspired not only in their

reading but also their writing pursuits.

40 Hour Famine

The World Vision 40 Hour Famine once again brought students together to have

some fun and take aim at their teachers. The ‘Sponge a Teacher’ school event,

combined with a lunchtime sausage sizzle, added $200 to the funds raised by the

students and staff who took on the 40 Hour Famine. Well done to the staff who

volunteered to get a dunking.

Over 5 million children have been affected by

the conflict in Syria, many of those are

homeless, living in refugee camps or on the move seeking

asylum in other countries. Some of our students taking

part in the 40 Hour Famine chose to take on the ‘One

Weekend, One Backpack’ challenge, where for the entire

weekend they used only items they could pack in a

backpack, much as a refugee would have to do. World

Vision will use the funds raised from the 40 Hour Famine

to create Child Friendly Spaces in camps, which will offer

a space for children to play and learn. A child friendly space display was set up at the school

for students to see how their support will be helping to make a difference.

YouDance Festival

This annual secondary school festival celebrating dance ran from the 30

th of May to the 1

st of June this year with over 150 students

participating. Howick College has been a long-time contributor to YouDance and this year the dance department decided to challenge themselves and enter two ensemble pieces.

A group of 23 students from Year 10 to 13 performed at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre at Epsom Girls Grammar School. “Forced Winds”, their first work, was a collaborative piece created by guest choreographer from the University of Auckland, Xavier Breed, Level

3 Dance students and Head of Dance, Ms Santana Schmidt. The piece was based on the events that occurred during the time of the Dawn Raids.

The second piece entered was entitled “Wherefore Art Thou?” and was inspired by William Shakespeare’s Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet; the famous balcony scene. This piece was performed by The Company Class - “In Collaboration”, a dance extension group.

The students performed over and beyond expected standards and received a lot of praise and positive feedback from other participating schools, teachers and dance

practitioners. Congratulations to Ms Schmidt and all the Howick College dancers who took part in Youdance 2016.

Performance photos courtesy of

Nina Gastreich Photography



Cultural Week

The Culture Club hosted a range of lunchtime activities during the first ever

Culture Week to celebrate the diverse cultures represented at the school.

Each day featured different events such as a dress parade, a presentation

from the French trip group, dance performances, quizzes and craft work-

shops.

The week culminated in a feast of international food with the Ingham House

International Food Festival. Well done to the members of the Culture Club

for arranging this inspiring and fun week.

International Students

Rippa Rugby - A team of our students signed up for a Rippa Rugby

tournament this term. They spent a few weeks learning the game and training

with Waisake Sotutu in preparation for the day of games with other local

International Students. Held at Sacred Heart College, the event proved a huge

success and our students are keen to continue playing. You can check out

some of the fun in the video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?

v=RLUDdsfj95I. Look out for our team in Howick College red and black.

Mid-Winter Christmas - We hosted a Mid-Winter Christmas for our students

and their host families in June giving

them a taste of a Kiwi Christmas experience. It was lovely to see so many of

our students and homestays come along. Well done to the students who

contributed entertainment by performing songs and dances from their

homelands.

Homestay Families - next term we

will be hosting more short stay groups

and also welcoming long term

students. Hosting a student is a

special experience that often leads to

lifetime friendships. If you would like to open your home to one of our students

and welcome them to your family, either for a short or long stay, please contact

our homestay co-ordinators Vanessa or Tania for more information. Email:

[email protected] or [email protected].

International Students enjoying

morning tea with Mr Ropati

Business Studies Market Day

The Year 12 Business Studies students have run two successful market days at the school. The majority of the groups

chose foodie treats, with one team deciding on a branded baseball cap. Each group had to decide on a product and

then produce a business plan considering production and selling of their items. After the first market day, the teams

reviewed their plan and made changes for the second market day. The food stalls included decorated cookies, fudge,

sushi, cupcakes and other goodies which proved popular with the lunchtime customers.

These market days offer our students valuable hands-on experience of creating a product to sell and setting up a

small business. Many of them continue on to Year 13 Business and extend their entrepreneurship into the Young

Enterprise ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition.

Business Studies Market Day

The Year 12 Business Studies students have run two successful market days at the

school. The majority of the groups chose foodie treats, with one team deciding on a

branded baseball cap. Each group had to decide on a product and then produce a

business plan considering production and

selling of their items. After the first market

day, the teams reviewed their plan and

made changes for the second market day.

The food stalls included decorated cookies,

fudge, sushi, cupcakes and other goodies

which proved popular with the lunchtime

customers.

These market days offer our students

valuable hands-on experience of creating a product to sell and setting up

a small business. Many of them continue on to Year 13 Business and

extend their entrepreneurship into the Young Enterprise Scheme ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition operated by the Young

Enterprise Trust.

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Ingham - International Food Festival

Thanks to the support of our school

community, the annual Ingham

House International Food Festival

raised $1,769 for the Foundation of

the Blind. The money will go toward

an e-braille book.

The Theatre was packed with hungry

teens and staff keen to sample a

taste of the world. Stalls offered food

from countries such as South Africa,

India, Austria, the United Kingdom,

France, the Philippines and

Japan (to name a few).

A big thank you to those students

who participated with a stall and also

to parents who helped with all the

food preparation.

More photos from the Food Festival

can be viewed on the school

website in the photo gallery section.

House News…

Our Houses have been busy this term, continuing

their fundraising efforts to support their various

charities. A very big thank you to everyone who

has supported these events and well done to the

House committee members for their citizenship in

organising and running the fundraisers, and

helping their charities.

MACDONALD raised $380 for Ronald McDonald

House with Friendship Day, selling friendship

bracelets and lollies.

BELL, supporting the Child Cancer Foundation, brought yummy Cookie Monster inspired

treats with cookie and chocolate milk. Cookie Monster himself was on hand to help the team deliver the orders. Bell

raised $610 and would like to thank Countdown Howick and Meadowlands, and Goodman Fielder for their very

generous support in donating the cookies and chocolate milk.

IRVINE organised a fun lunchtime Dodgeball competition. Teams paid $10 to enter, with all funds going to support the

Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

BACOT held a cupcake sale which added to the amount raised last term for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Fred

Hollows Foundation.

INGHAM gathered donations of canned food to help out the Auckland City Mission.

This term’s Inter-house competitions were affected by the weather, with the Year 9

Multi-sport afternoon having to be cancelled. The race for House shield honours will

continue next term with Year 12 Netball, Year 13 Quiz, and a debating challenge still to

come.

MacDonald Friendship Day

Bell Cookie Day



Cross country

This year the autumn weather held off the rain for the school cross country which was held at the beginning of term.

The top placed runners from each division then went on to represent the school in the zone cross country competition.

Congratulations:

Yr9 Girls: Bella Sinclair, 1st / Caprice Howes, 2nd / Ella McCracken, 3rd

Yr9 Boys: Kaine Bradley, 1st / Francis Morrison, 2nd / Angelo Taufa, 3rd

Yr10 Girls: Annie Williamson, 1st / Katie Heaven, 2nd / Hannah Mesley, 3rd

Yr10 Boys: Daerezad Cooverji, 1st / Heath Galloway, 2nd / Daniel Clarke, 3rd

Yr11 Girls: Inka Pleiss, 1st / Jenna Gawn, 2nd / Hannah O’Kane, 3rd

Yr11Boys: Joel Hughes, 1st / Mason Lockhart, 2nd / Seb Judd, 3rd

Yr12 Girls: Jess Manchester, 1st / Marieka Bavelaar, 2nd / Tamanna Ferov, 3rd

Yr12 Boys: Ryan Cobb, 1st / Morgan D’arcy, 2nd, Blaine Le Roes, 3rd

Yr13 Girls: Alice Cloke, 1st / Annabelle Fletcher-Jones, 2nd / Tasmin Cleland, 3rd

Yr13 Boys: Andrew Catley, 1st / Lachlan Haitana, 2nd / Jeremy Thompson, 3rd

Zone Results:

Junior Boys: Rocky Morrison—2nd / Kaine Bradley—5th / Jesse Scheepers—15th

Senior Boys: Lachlan Haitana—2nd

Orienteering team relaxing after a

hard race where they each ran

3-4.5km sections. The girls finished

6th in the interschool competition,

held earlier in the term.

Lawn Bowls

This year we have had a team of girls who have taken on the challenge of Lawn Bowls.

The Howick Lawn Bowls Club have generously supported them with supplying training

at their facility, coaching and equipment for the girls to use. The team recently took part

in the Auckland Secondary Schools Pairs and Singles competitions and have been

successful with Jansje Strydom and Caitlin Hunn taking home a SILVER medal. Both

teams have displayed excellent structure in their playing of what is a difficult sport

requiring great concentration.

The girls have only been playing for eight months and are holding their own against

teams with several years experience. They have also been noticed by Bowls Auckland

officials who are keen to coach and train them to develop their game further. Well done

to Jansje Strydom, Caitlinn Hunn, Olivia Blake and Ashley Hunt - names to watch

out for on the greens. With Howick College alumni Selina Goddard (Commonwealth

Games Lawn Bowler) as their inspiration, who knows how far they may go?

Congratulations to:

Farrah Brill-Holland and Emma Bavelaar

(former student) - (U23 Women), Annabelle

Fletcher-Jones, Marieke Bavelaar and

Grace Driscoll - (U18 Women), Ryan Deen

and Logan Stevenson - (U18 Men) all

selected for NZ Underwater Hockey teams.

Renee Cure, Rosie Salt and Gabby Hill -

members of the NZ All Girl Elite cheer team

who won SILVER at the International Cheer

Union World Championships in Orlando.

James Davison, Francis Morrison and

Lockie Lockhart - selected for the NZ U15

Mixed Touch team to compete in Australia

later this year.

Jordan Nathan-Welch - selected to

represent New Zealand at the World

Taekwondo Junior championships.

Zoe Virgin - won a BRONZE medal at the

Oceania Youth Weightlifting championships

and set two new NZ records.

Zhuali Lim, Richard Wulansari, Blake

Sellwood (B Grade), Ben Rong, Allan Yu

and James Hamill (D Grade)—finished

SECOND in the East Zone Table Tennis

competition. They now progress to the

Auckland level competition next term.

Olivia Cook - won

GOLD at the Australian

Trampoline Champion-

ships, representing New

Zealand in the U17

pairs.

Howick College - Term 2 , 2016

Howick Sports Awards

The annual Counties Manukau Howick Sports Awards were held in May

to celebrate the local sporting talent and achievement. The evening

event acknowledges not only sporting success but also the huge

contribution to sport made by volunteers who coach, officiate or help

out behind the scenes.

Of the many sports people nominated by

Howick College, several were selected as

finalists. We congratulate our two award

winners Kyle Glogoski and Mr John

Wright. Kyle, a NZ baseball representative,

won the Sportsman of the year award and

Mr Wright, a national Touch and Rugby

referee, won the Official of the Year award.

Congratulations also to the following

finalists for their continued commitment

and passion for their sports:

Annabelle Fletcher-Jones, Farrah

Brill-Holland - Underwater Hockey

Gabby Hill, Rosie Salt - Cheerleading

Iva Livani - Rugby 7s and Netball

Rhian Kocsis, Sian Lovelock, Annie

Willamson, Gemma Owen and Saskia

Jordan - Rowing

Angel McCreedy - Taekwondo

Seth Gibson - Softball

Chris Walden, Liam Brown - Football

Evan Froger, Mak Rawiri - Ice-hockey

Trevor Smith - Drag Racing

U15B Netball team, Mrs Adelita Sotutu - Netball

Jessica Manchester - Mountain Biking

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Kyle Glogoski

Mr John Wright

Underwater Hockey

The regional tournament in

Tauranga was a huge success

for our Senior Girls A team,

with them bringing home the

GOLD medal. It was a

weekend of hard games and

all our teams performed well,

playing their best and staying

committed. The Senior Girls B

team finished 5th and Senior

Open 9th. Several students

have been selected to trial for

the Northern Region U18 team later this year, based on their

performance during the tournament.

A big thank you to all the coaches, managers and parents who worked

hard behind the scenes to support our players, cheering them on and

keeping them fed and focussed.

Good luck to Sean McGrath— for the

North Island Clay target shooting

championships, 8-10 July .

Weekly sports draws and a roundup of

results are now on the school website:

www.howickcollege.school.nz/about/sports

We recommend downloading the College

Sports mobile phone app to stay up to date.

Also available on the website.

Olivia Cook

Yorel Alapaki -

selected for the U15

New Zealand softball

development team.

Senior Leadership Team (SLT): Eric Wall (Deputy Principal), Janice Wright (Assistant Principal),

Mike Stanghan (Business Manager), Kathy Heaton-Brown (Executive Secretary), Iva Ropati

(Principal), Louise Addison (Associate Principal), Steve James (Assistant Principal), Lin Lescher

(Deputy Principal), Joseph Heays (Deputy Principal).

Thanks to the following Friends of Howick College for their generous support:

Howick College - Term 2, 2016 Page 8


Important Dates for Term 3

Mon 25 Jul - first day of Term 3

Thurs 28 Jul - enrolment evening,

4.00-6.00pm (in zone)

Tues 2 Aug - BoT meeting; 6pm

Wed 3 Aug - Yr12 Inter-house

Wed 3—Fri 5 Aug - Yr 13 Production

Blood Wedding

Thurs 4 Aug - enrolment evening,

4.00-7.00pm (in zone)

Fri 5 Aug - MACDONALD MacMarket

Mon 8 Aug - teacher only day

Tues 9 Aug - Hillcrest Sports day

(in Hamilton)

Tues 9 Aug - enrolment evening,

4.00-7.00pm (out of zone)

Wed 10—Fri 12 Aug - Yr 12 production

The Cherry Orchard

Mon 15 Aug - Inter-house debating

Wed 17 Aug - MINERVA Daffodil day

Fri 19 Aug - mufti day

Fri 19—Sun 21 Aug - snow trip

Tues 23 Aug - parent/teacher

interviews; 5-8pm

Thurs 25 Aug - parent/teacher

interviews; 4-7pm

Fri 26 Aug - Yr13 Inter-house quiz

Week 6 - tournament week

Tues 6-Fri 16 Sept - Senior Exams

Tues 20 Sept - BoT meeting; 6pm

Fri 23 Sept - mufti day / winter sports

photos / last day of term

Mon 10 Oct - first day of Term 4

Meadowlands

Board of Trustees

As another term comes close to an end the Board of trustees and I would like

to congratulate all students and staff for their continued hard work.

We are pleased to welcome our new parent representatives to the Board of

Trustees: Rachel Barker, Roger Gribble, Pino Scully and Kelly Slattery. All

four have some valuable previous governance experience. We also welcome

Adelita Sotutu who replaces Dianne Fenner as the staff trustee. We look

forward to the valuable contributions they will all make as members of the

board.

I was delighted to have the pleasure of attending the recent college open

evening. From the large numbers of attendees of prospective pupils and

parents it is clear that Howick College is the school of first choice for many.

It was inspiring to see so many staff and pupils passionately involved in the

open evening. There were so many attendees that two presentations had to

be made.

There are some exciting times ahead for Howick College with new building

plans and further advances in new programmes for teaching and learning

and technology.

The Board of Trustees continue to wish all students success in their studies

and future events of which there are many to look forward to.

Regards,

Alan Topham Chair, Board of Trustees

NZ Uniforms -

have moved to a bigger, better store!

They are now at Unit B, 16 Bishop Dunn

Place, Botany (by Mitre10 Mega)

Ph: 281-3531 / [email protected]

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