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Cory Hoffman our ‘Courage’ winner is very excited about the prospect of jumping out of a plane at 14,000 feet with Skydive Wanaka! Well done to all of the 70 students who earned courage medals for their persistence, taking risks, supporting others and for doing the right thing when it mattered. Our Positive Behaviour for Learning Team have now successfully raised awareness of two of the big three values of our Kawa – Respect and Courage. You could ask your child if they know and understand our third core value.

WARM – this was an acronym used by our presenters in our staff development day on Monday. Our focus was reinforcing the restorative practices, or RP, we use in our school to manage and improve behaviour and relationships in our school. We have been using RP for several years now and it has been one of the keys to the settled learning environment that is a feature of our school. WARM and is a process for ‘putting things right’ when things go wrong in the classrooms or school grounds and harm is caused. It stands for What happened, who was Affected by the behaviour, how do you Repair the harm and Move on and ensure it does not happen again. It is as relevant at school as it is in our relationships at home or other workplaces. It was a valuable day.

Congratulations to our Erik Barros, Sam Moodie, Jerry Salu, and Campbell Morton of ‘West Groove Company’ on winning the Peoples’ Choice Award at the SmokeFreeRockQuest at the end of last term. Their distinctive mix of Brazilian rhythms and rap stood out for it’s musicianship and originality. Well done to our Jump Jam team who have qualified for the South Island Competition in September. I have enjoyed seeing their energy and dynamic choreography during their lunch time practices. He rawe to our ski and snowboard team of Krystal Roberts, Liam Paish, Denholm Rinkin and Jacob Jones who represented the College at the Otago/Southland Ski and Snowboard champs at Cardrona on Monday. The team finished first overall in the mixed competition and Krystal Roberts gained 4th place in boarder cross and 1st place in slopestyle.

On Sunday evening a good crowd came to hear the Everest Base Camp Team present a slide show of their unforgettable adventure trekking to Base Camp via Phortse Primary School and Cho La Pass. It was a fitting way to share the experience and once again say thank you to our 70 sponsors and community for the outstanding support the team received. There is a strong possibility we will be venturing to Everest again in 2015 ‘Pursuing the Highest Peaks’ and planning for this would start towards the end of this year.

Our Year 12 geographers and biologists enjoyed their two day field trip to Dunedin this week. On Tuesday Nathan from the ‘Attitude’ team presented a valuable message to Year 9 to 12 students on good decision making, personal well being and building positive relationships. Motorsport legend Greg Murphy stressed the importance of ‘care behind the wheel’ in his drive safe presentation on Wednesday and on Friday Year 10 students developed their learning, study and revision/exam skills with Stuart Wright from UCANDO.

Our Open Evening on 19 August is an opportunity for our school community to look around their school and see some of the physical changes that have occurred in the past 3 years. It is also a chance to talk with staff and some of our students and find out a little more about the programmes on offer. The evening starts at 6.30pm in the Auditorium and everyone in the school community, including future parents and students from Goldfields and Cromwell Primary, are most welcome.

Nevis still leads the house competition but this may all change with the school cross country on Wednesday morning next week. Mason Stretch Principal

Whaia te taumata - Deserve Success

NEWSLETTER 12 9 August 2013

UPCOMING EVENTS:

12 August - School Photos 14 August - Year 9 - 13 Parent / Teacher Interviews

19 August - Open Night 20 August—OSS Music Festival 21 - 27 August - Senior Assessment Period

22 August - BoT Meeting 28 – 30 August - Y11 Enterprise Scheme Competition

28 August - Mufti Day, gold coin donation 3 September - Last day to pay NZQA fees Years 11-13

SmokeFreeRockQuest—Winner of ‘Peoples Choice’ - West Groove Company

Greg Murphy visit; safer young drivers

Nathan from ‘Attitude’

STAFF PROFILE David Beer is teaching Chemistry at Cromwell College until the end of the year, replacing Alex Pearson who has shifted to Dunstan High School, which is closer to home for him. Prior to this, David taught at Avonside Girls’ School for 13 years and Rangi Ruru, an independent school in Christchurch, for 20 years. David retired at the end of 2012. He is living in Cromwell while a house is built on his 8 hectare lifestyle block at McArthur Ridge, near Alexandra, half of which is planted in grapes. Not surprisingly, David is interested in wine and wine making. He is also a member of the Central Otago Vintage Car Club as well as an MG club. He belongs to the Cromwell Petanque Club, walks with the Alexandra Harriers group and enjoys gardening. In fact, his previous house had a 2 ½ acre garden which was used for weddings, funerals and family reunions. In 2002 David was awarded a teaching fellowship and spent six months at the University of York in the U.K. studying environmental chemistry. David is pleased to be away from earthquakes and their after-effects. He does not miss the constant disruption caused by trucks and machinery in the Christchurch rebuild.

COURAGE AWARD

Congratulations to Cory Hoffman, Yr13 for winning the Courage competition. Cory, who is a prefect, has led by example in many aspects of College life. Cory wins a free Sky Dive kindly donated by SkyDive Wanaka. A huge thank

you to Jodie and Krystal from SkyDive Wanaka for coming into Assembly on Tuesday to present the prize and dish out some other goodies to the students.

CLASS SNOW SPORTS DATES

Tuesday 17 September for Year 9/10 and Friday 20 September for Year 7/8. Cost $56 for lift, lesson & hire, plus $20 for transport. Minus $18 if students have own gear. Senior day Thursday 26 September. Normal classes will operate for those students who choose not to go.

SOCCER - Congratulations to Michael Manson, Hamish Wilkinson, Flynn Reyntjes, and Luke Ashe on their selection to Central Otago Football 12th Grade Representative Team. Congratulations to Jasmine Dunnet who was selected for Central Otago U12 Girls Football Representative Team.

RUGBY - Well done to Josh Smith, Jack Ryan, Jacob Scott and Joe Harrison for making Otago Rugby Representative teams.

SNOWBOARDING - Congratulations to Kristal Roberts, Denholm Rinnkin, Liam Paish and Jacob Jones for winning the mixed snowboard team event at the Otago/Southland Ski and Snowboard Championships. Congratulations also to Kristal who was placed 1st in slopestyle and 4th in boardercross. BMX World Championships in Auckland July 22-24: Josh Smith is on bike 64, photographed at the competition gate where he was racing three other boys from New Zealand, 2 from Australia, 1 from Belgium and 1 from Japan. In Josh’s 3 races he placed 7th, 7th 6th and didn’t make the cut for the quarter finals. This was an experience of a lifetime for all the riders.

SCIENCE UNSW International Exam - Logan Bell; Year 7, passed with distinction achieving in the top 3% of New Zealand and the Pacific Region. Outstanding!

BP BUSINESS CHALLENGE August 28-30 2013 will see Year 11 students competing in the BP Business Challenge. The challenge is a 3 day event run by the Young Enterprise Trust focussing on the fundamentals of business. Presenters from the Trust will run the programme. The BP Business Challenge is a unique 3 day experiential learning programme that develops skills, understandings and attitudes about how a successful business operates and connects the students with their local business community. Students work in teams of eight to create a hypothetical product, set up a company and prepare a business strategy to produce and sell their product. In the three days students from Cromwell College will: Form a virtual company, with an

organisational structure and directors roles. Devise a product which solves a problem, or

fills a need. Research the product, target market and

competition. Develop a business plan including strategic

planning, finance, sales and marketing and production elements.

Prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation of their business to the panel of local judges.

All parents, caregivers and members of the community are invited to attend the event that will be held in the Cromwell College Auditorium. The best time for viewing will be the judging day when the students make their presentations to the panel of judges. This will take place between 12 and 3pm on Friday August 30 2013. Lee-Anne Kane - HOF Social Sciences

SNOW SPORTS HELMETS FOR SALE

Snow Sports Helmets for sale, $45 from the school office. First come first served.

JUMP JAM

Congratulations to the 'Cromwell College Girls' Jump Jam team who have made it through to the Regional Finals in Christchurch in September.

The girls are now working flat out both with fundraising and practicing. The girls want to say a big thank you to Stephanie Davies and Jan White for their commitment coaching and management of the team.

SENIOR ASSESSMENT

Year 11—13 students will have ‘practice exams’ in the period 21st to 27th August. During this time students will have study leave. They are required to only be at school for their practice exams (or any internal assessments that may happen at this time).

Students will be given a timetable. This will also be put on the school website from Wednesday 14 August.

Tony Streeter

PARENT REPORT EVENING

A parent report evening will be held on Wednesday 14 August from 3:30pm to 8pm. Please note that this is for Year 9 -13 students. Bookings for the parent report evening can be made on-line.

Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz enter code QCMP8 then follow the instructions. If a teacher’s name does not appear it means that they are not available.

CROMWELL COLLEGE

OPEN NIGHT

MONDAY 19 AUGUST 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Please meet in the College Auditorium. Everyone in our school community is most welcome.

Year 7 and 8 Hockey

Full Calendar for 2013 online - www.cromwell.school.nz

NZQA QUALIFICATIONS FEES

Students entering for an NZQA qualification this year need to pay their NZQA fee which is collected by the College.

The standard fee is $76.70 (this includes any students sitting up to three scholarship subjects). International fee payers to receive results are required to pay $383.30.

Financial assistance is available for those: Receiving a work and income or Study Link benefit. Having a joint family income that would entitle the

applicant to receive a Community Services Card. Having more than one child undertaking NZQA

qualifications in the same year where total fees would be more than $200.

Financial assistance application forms can be sourced from the College or downloaded from the NZQA website www.nzqa.govt.nz.

Applications for financial assistance must be received at the College by 27 August. All NZQA fees must be received by 3 September (cheques made payable to Cromwell College).

Please contact Mr Streeter at the College if you have any questions. Thank you.

DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE: the next AA New Zealand Defensive Driving Course is to be held in Queenstown on August 26 & 28 and September 2 & 4 (inclusive) from 6.30-8.30pm. Further inquiries please call Kaye Rowell Lakes Driver Training on 4427073 txt 027 623 3534 or email krowell@xtra.co.nz;

QUIZ NIGHT

Beat the winter blues, get a few friends together and help raise funds for new outdoor toys for the children at Cromwell Kindergarten. Fantastic spot prizes to be won, as well as a silent auction, $5 mystery bottle draw and blind wine tasting. Bring along plenty of cash as there will be a cash bar. You can also buy an answer each round for $2.

Come along and join us on Saturday 24 August, Goldfields Primary School Hall, 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm). Tickets $10 per person, maximum 4 per team.

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HOUSE POINTS AS OF 1 AUGUST 2013

ALEXANDRA JUNIOR BOYS & GIRLS OFF-ROAD RUNS - 17 AUGUST 2013

A 2km Off-road Run is for boys and girls who are under 11yrs of age by 31 December 2013. Only $2 to enter. A 4km Off-road Run is for boys and girls who are under 14yrs of age by 31 December 2013. Only $4 to enter. A 6km Road Run for boys and girls who are aged 14 to 17yrs of age by 31 December 2013. Only $10 to enter. See www.alexharriers.co.nz for full detail. Entry forms in many local outlets and downloadable from the website.

SCHOOL PHOTOS Monday 12 August

Please ensure that students are wearing the correct winter uniform for their class photos.

Thank you.

Connor Thompson with his Year 10 Materials Technology project