Parent Newsletter – Term 4 Week 8: Wednesday 6 December 2017.

Kia ora tatou

Our staff only day last Friday was well worthwhile with really good discussion of our curriculum developments and time to plan for next year - so thank you for your support. I was very proud of the maturity and positive attitude of the Year 10 students who took up the Sewell Peak Challenge last week. The first time yet we’ve been able to see the view from the summit! The camaraderie and support for each other was clear and it’s exciting to think of all the great things these people could do as they grow up. This theme, excitement about next steps, has continued with senior prizegiving and our Leavers’ Dinner. Both events were great showcases for our students’ culture and achievements. Congratulations to all prize winners, Zeb Markland as Dux and Kate Campbell, Top year 12 student, pictured below right, and our thanks to Reuben Mama who returned to inspire current students with a speech at the Leavers’ Dinner. With such a warm spell, and approaching the end of year, we are seeing a few issues with uniform in the junior school - the most common is wearing a jacket all the time to cover up not wearing a shirt/blouse underneath. Our Macpac jackets are designed for cooler temperatures and not for hot days next to teenagers’ skin - this leads to sweating and smelling! Parents, please check what your child is wearing and keep standards high right through to the last day, junior prizegiving, next Wednesday 13 December at 12.00pm.

Ngā mihi

Andy England Principal

Important Dates Wednesday 13

December: Junior Prizegiving @ 12.00noon.

What’s inside… Front page: From the

Principal / Important Dates / What’s inside.

Page 2: School Calendar / Start Dates for 2018.

Pages 3-11: School News including Prizegiving Award List.

Page 12: Coast Colour rush details.

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School Calendar

December

Wednesday 13 December 12-1.30pm Junior Prizegiving. Students are permitted to go home with their parent(s) after this. School buses run at the normal time of 3.20pm.

Thursday 14 December Year 9 2018 Orientation.

January 2018

Monday 29 January Staff Only Day.

Tuesday 30 January Year 12 & 13 Course Confirmation.

Wednesday 31 January Year 9 & 13 at school.

Thursday 1 February Year 9 & 13 at school.

Friday 2 February Full school.

Monday 5 February School closed.

Tuesday 6 February Waitangi Day.

Wednesday 7 February Full school.

Student Absences: 0800 GREYHIGH (0800 473 944) Email: attendance@greyhigh.school.nz Uniform Shop OPEN Tuesday & Thursday, 2.00-5.00pm during term time. Located in the gym quad off Marlborough Street.

Greymouth High School Parent Teacher Association ALL are welcome and especially our families new to Greymouth High School. PTA meetings are held every 2nd Wednesday of each month @ 7.30pm in the staffroom except during school holidays. Dates are as follows unless otherwise advised.

2018 School Day

8.40am Mentor Time (Mon/Wed/Fri)

8.50am Period One

9.50am Period Two

10.50am Break time

11.10am Warning bell

11.15am Period Three

12.15pm Period Four

1.15pm Lunch

2.00pm Warning bell

2.05pm Period 5

3.05pm School finishes

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High Street crossing and boundary rules

All students are expected to stay on school grounds when they arrive in the morning

(lunch passes only cover interval and lunch breaks). Quite a few students are crossing

High Street in the morning to load up on lollies! Please reinforce at home that this is not

OK.

School News

Student Achievements Principal’s Awards. This is an accumulative list of all students who have achieved Principal’s Awards this year. Recent awards are in bold.

Year 9 Reid Olsen Grace Wallace Ella Rae-Wood Ashleigh Stanton

Dominic Cate Bronah Gibbens Sophia Keown Shaun Lunn

Connor Howe Levi Woolley Connor Green Bailey Russ

Jon Palmer Aedan Gunn Emily Parkin-Rae Joel Dumelow

Vinessa Braxton Samara Uriao Matthew Robbins Allie Vaughan

Connor Henderson Kole Darling Jaime Burrows Blake Eder

Alex Kennedy Alyssa Blacktopp x 2 Clark Fountain Dom Moles

Caleb Wanstall Auryn Barber Jack Fayen x 2 Reed Johnson x 2

Sam Welsford Emma Boddy x 2 Byron Howard x 3 Mishka Lombaard

Kate Ditablan Nina Dronfield Riley Foster x 2 Reuben Taylor x 2

Sophie Allison x 2 Sophie Speirs x 2 Isaac Kirk Daniel Smith x 2

Year 10 Tristan Howard Damian McLaughlin Jasmin Scott-Daley Kyia Cowan

Rose-elle Ross Ruby Roberts Jaese Franklin Bethany Seifert

Skye Symmers Drayden Grant x 2 Seani Eastman Megan Coates

Katelyn Whitehead Faigame Barrow Francis Chapman Riley Pascoe

Tyrone Mahia Ethan Knipe Reuben Lee Ben Anderson

Molly Kells x 2 Ben Anderson Tahlia Sweetman Tyra Jamieson

Caitlin Harris x 2 Ellie Brown Jordy Houghton Ryan Shaw

Rawiri Anderson Reuben Campbell Alex Le Vaillant Zane Smith-Keith

Catherine Flannagan

Year 11 Ryan Jacobs Emma Arthur Montana Lancaster Charmaine Smith

Kaedyn Buchanan Year 13

Zeb Markland Grace Perkins Brianna Wilson Chester Mama

Uniform Shop

Will reopen for 2018 from Tuesday 16th January from 12.30-5.30pm until Friday 2 February

2018. After that the normal uniform shop hours would apply, Tuesday & Thursday’s 2.00-

5.00pm.

STUDENT CAFÉ will close on Wednesday 13 December. It will re-open again on

30th January 2018.

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Spark Jump – affordable Internet access for families Spark Jump is an initiative of the Spark Foundation making the internet affordable and accessible to families with school-aged children and no existing broadband connection. There is no connection cost and the modem is on free loan for as long as you use Spark Jump. $10 per month provides 30GB of data on a pre-pay plan. Make an appointment with Anthony Hunter at the Grey District Library on 768 5597 or anthony.hunter@greydc.govt.nz to find out more, sign up and collect your free modem. To check if your home is covered by the 4G network, access this Spark site: https://www.spark.co.nz/coverage

Chromebook Care We’re seeing a lot of chromebooks being damaged when school bags are dropped. Please ensure that your chromebook is kept in its carry bag, rather than loose in a school bag. The carry bags are designed to protect the chromebooks.

Sewell Peak Challenge Mayor Tony Kokshoorn pictured right talking

to students about the areas below and

around Sewell Peak. This was a big

achievement for many of the students. Well

don.

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2017 Prize Giving Award List

Year 11 Academic Effort With Distinction

Emma Arthur Tasmin Barnett Brydie Boote Ronan Dalton Ashlin Donaldson Matthew Drake Brydie Dumelow Katherine Elliot Astiana Farmer Tonya Gagiano Georgia Gill

Keely Gorrie Billy Greening

Kate Henry Melissa Hibbs Liam Kilpatrick Montana Lancaster

Melanie Lister Joshua Lorimer Cade Lynch Imogen Lynch Jade Madden

Jaymee McGowan Tayla McIntosh Zahne Nel Summer Pizzato Jayni-Rose Reyland-Batchelor Charmaine Smith Emily Speirs Stanley Stanton Tayla Watkins Megan Williams Rubie Williams

Year 12 Academic Effort with Distinction Tess Beirne Emma Burrows Ainslie Campbell Kate Campbell Joel Cleland Rachel Crawford Rebekah Fox Abbey Gardner Ayla Guard

Aurora Hawkins Mason Hunt Layla Kitchin Ashleigh Macilquham Sophie McGeady Alanah Shand Brandon Sheard Regan Simons Brooke Smith

Kayla Smith Jenna Stenhouse Keeley Stewart Alex Warren Yasmin Waters Kate Wilkins Ben Williams Amelia Whyte

Year 13 Academic Effort with Distinction Jacob Atkinson Patrick Bell Bonnie Dempster Katrina Ditablan Grace Henry Katrina Ilton Maggi Johnson

Rebecca Lomax Emily Lorimer Zeb Markland Lucy Miedema Kyla Millar Kelly Rowling

Rachel Rowling Harvey Rubbo Alex Stenhouse Ingrid Van Rijsoever Brianna Wilson Reid Winter

Assisted Learning Awards Luke Connell SPEC Certificate in Key Competency Development

Katrina Ilton SPEC Certificate in Key Competency Development

Tom Mann SPEC Certificate in Key Competency Development

Peter Stewart-Stubbs SPEC Certificate in Key Competency Development

Alex Sturkenboom SPEC Certificate in Key Competency Development

Individual Prizes

Sport

James Hutton Cup and Sportsperson of the Year - Griffin Neame

Sporting Excellence Medal Griffin Neame, Aylah Peterson, Brooke Smith, Isaac Stratford and Ben Williams

Cook Family Cup-All Round Sports Person - Harvey Rubbo

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Sports Team of the Year - Coast to Coast Team George Rubbo, Blake Robertson and Ben Williams Fair Play Award - Jack Olsen School Values in Sport Award - Mixed Hockey Team

Physical Education Top Student Level 1 Physical Education - Emma Arthur Top Student Level 2 Physical Education - Rachel Crawford Top Student Level 3 Physical Education Cup - Liam Williamson Top Student Level 1 Health Astiana Farmer Top Student Level 2 Health Abbey Gardner and Jenna Stenhouse Top Student Level 3 Health - Katrina Ditablan

The Arts Top Student Level 1 Art Tasmin Barnett, Katherine Elliot and Zoey Markland Top Student Level 2 Art Felicia Calder and Yasmin Waters Top Student Level 3 Art Bonnie Dempster and Kyla Millar Arts Prize – Future Studies in Art Bonnie Dempster and Kyla Millar Top Student Level 2 Photography

Felicia Calder, Susan Du Preez and Layla Kitchin Top Student Level 3 Photography - Zeb Markland The Stewart Nimmo Award for Photography - Zeb Markland Top Student Level 1 Drama - Luke Baatjies Top Student Level 2 Drama - Emma Burrows Top Student Level 3 Drama - Nikita Gagiano Coxon Drama Cup - Bailey Williams Top Student Level 1 Music - Ashlin Donaldson Top Student Level 2 Music - Courtney Allison Top Student Level 3 Music - Taegan Bourke The Dane Wafer Award for Music Composition - Taegan Bourke

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The Wicks Prize for Music - Montana Lancaster

Languages Keri Hulme Trophy-Top Year 11 English - Tasmin Barnett Eleanor Catton Trophy-Top Year 12 English - Kate Campbell Top Student Level 3 English - Zeb Markland Peter Hooper Award for Creative Writing - Jacob Atkinson Paul Caffyn Award for Non Fiction Writing - Blake Shaw Barbara Cowan Cup – Excellence in Senior Writing - Jacob Atkinson

Mathematics Euler Cup- Level 1 Mathematics Tasmin Barnett and Joshua Lorimer Agnesi Cup-Level 2 Pure Mathematics - Kate Campbell Hypation Cup-Level 2 Mathematics & Statistics - Brooke Smith

Poisson Cup-Top Student Statistics - Grace Henry Leibniz Cup-Top Student Calculus - Patrick Bell

Sciences Top Student Level 1 Biology Billy Greening and Stanley Stanton McKinley Cup - Top Student Level 2 Biology - Kate Campbell Roney Family Cup-Year 13 Biology - Tom Fahey Top Student Level 2 Chemistry Cup - Kate Campbell Top Student Level 3 Chemistry Cup Patrick Bell and Tom Fahey Top Student Level 1 Horticulture - Aydan Blair Top Student Level 2 Horticulture - Sharna Pulley Top Student Level 1 Industrial Science Pauli Monika and Charmaine Smith

Top Student Level 2 Industrial Science Blake Gray and Lakin Heslan Top Student Level 1 Physical Science - Joshua Lorimer Top Student Year 12 Physics Cup - Kate Campbell Top Student Year 13 Physics Cup - Patrick Bell

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Social Sciences Top Student Level 1 Geography - Imogen Lynch Roney Cup-Year 12 Geography - Kate Campbell Hannan & Seddon Cup-Year 13 Geography - Zeb Markland Top Student Level 1 History Ashlin Donaldson and Imogen Lynch

Maverick Cup-Year 12 History - Ayla Guard Firebrand Cup-Year 13 History - Zeb Markland

Business Top Student Level 1 Accounting - Summer Pizzato Top Student Level 2 Office Practice James Baker and Lakin Heslan Top Student Level 1 Digital Media - Kate Henry Top Student Level 2 Digital - Ayla Guard Top Student Level 1 Digital Programming - Melanie Lister Top Student Level 2 Digital Programming - Joel Cleland Top student Level 3 Digital Programming Blake Davis and Lucy Miedema Top Year 12 Commerce Student – The West Coast Rotary Club Lend a Hand Foundation Trophy - Alanah Shand Top Student Level 2 Business Studies - Alanah Shand Top Student Level 3 Business Studies - Katrina Ditablan Excellence in Business Studies Cup - Katrina Ditablan

Technology Westland Engineering Prize - Alyx Johnston Level 1 Mechanical Engineering - Megan Williams Westland Engineering Prize - Hamish Coates Level 2 Mechanical Engineering - Lachlan Richards Top Engineering Student - Lachlan Richards

Top Student Level 1 Furniture and Design - Keely Gorrie Top Student Level 2 Furniture and Design - Regan Simons Top Student Level 3 Furniture and Design - Blake Gray

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Top Furniture & Design Technology Student - Regan Simons Top Student Level 1 Fabric and Design Jayni-Rose Reyland-Batchelor Top Student Level 1 Graphics - Tasmin Barnett Top student Level 2 Graphics - Kate Wilkins Top Graphics Student - Kate Wilkins The Chapman Prize for Architecture Kate Wilkins and Stevie Mathewson Top Student Level 1 Hospitality Tyler Lee and Cade Lynch Top Student Level 2 Hospitality - Sharna Pulley Top Student Level 1 Hospitality Theory and Practical - Cade Lynch Top Student Level 2 Hospitality Theory and Practical - Sharna Pulley

Assisted Learning Programmes Most Diligent Student - Lucas Wilson

Career Services Meihana Award for Top Academic Mawhera Services Academy - Kyle McArthur Top Gateway Student - Samantha Stewart

Individual Service Awards Award for Student Sport Representative - Aylah Peterson Award for Student Arts Representative - Taegan Bourke Award for Service to School Council - Maggi Johnson Award for Service to Maori Students-Pūmanawa - Rose-Maree Jones Award for Service to Board of Trustees - Zeb Markland The Bowes Family Award - Brianna Wilson Principal’s Award for School Service - Patrick Bell Principal’s Award for School Service - Grace Henry House Leader Kahurangi - Chester Mama House Leader Pounamu - Thomas O’Dea House Leader Rata - Ingrid Van Rijnsoever House Leader Tawa - Dane Norton-Jarlov Te Tohu o Whakawhanaungatanga - Harvey Rubbo

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House Shield - Kahurangi Kapa Haka Leadership Award - Rose-Maree Jones

Study Awards Harley Award for Tertiary Study – Female - Katrina Ditablan Evelyn Cooper Award for Tertiary Study - Patrick Bell Tai Poutini Polytechnic West Coast Schools Award - Hamish Coates The WCDHB 2017 Health Career Scholarship - Tom Fahey

Academic Achievement Award for Top Student Year 11 - Tasmin Barnett Award for Top Student Year 12 - Kate Campbell Proxime Accessit-Melse Cup - Patrick Bell The Harley Award for Top Male Student, the James Hutton Prize and Recipient of the Guinness and Kitchingham Tertiary Study Award. The Dux of the School for 2017

Zeb Markland

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