No 17 14 November

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HAWERA HIGH SCHOOL
PO Box 437, Hawera 4640 Ph 06 278 4145 Fax 06 278 1039
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.hawerahs.school.nz
NEWSLETTER NO 17
Contents
 PPTA Meeting & Staff Only Day
 Senior Prize-giving Awards
 Student Achievements
 Academic Awards
 Young Enterprise Scheme Awards
14 November 2014
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Music Department
Year 10 Activities
Year 9 Camps
Stationery Lists 2015
Sports News
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Rugby Trip Fundraiser
AFS Host families
Community News
Coming Events
Kia Ora
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Please note (as advised in the previous newsletter)
 Monday 17 November - Staff will be attending a Paid Union (PPTA) Meeting.
Students will be released at 12.30 pm. A study room will be available for
students who are unable to make alternative arrangements. They should
report to the school hall at 12.30pm. Buses will run at the usual time after
school.
 Friday 21 November - Students are not required to attend school.
Staff Only Day - Teachers will be working on review of 2014 programmes and
planning for 2015.
Senior Prize-Givings
It was a privilege to see so many of our students who have worked hard during the year
getting well-deserved recognition. It continues to reinforce for all of us just how well
students from Hawera High School are achieving.
The Year 13 ceremony concluded with the announcement of our Academic Dux and
Runner-up.
Winner of the DUX AWARD: Sonali Mehta
Runner-up to the Dux:
Cameron Spicer
Mr K Horner, representing Halliwells, presented Sonali with the HALLIWELLS Cup and
Scholarship.
We congratulate these students on their achievement and wish them well for the future.
Scholarship Awards for Year 13 students for study next year include:
Michaela Thompson
South Taranaki Rural Women NZ Scholarship &
Darcy Price Scholarship
Katie Linn
McDonalds Hawera University Scholarship
Anyssa Buitjendijk
Ohangai School Centennial Teaching Scholarship
Candace Wellington
Welsh McCarthy Legal Studies
Cameron Spicer
University of Auckland Jubilee Award
Wairingiringi Hemara-Wahanui University of Otago Scholarship &
Priscilla Sandys Wunsch Trust Scholarship
Sonali Mehta
Priscilla Sandys-Wunsch Trust Scholarship
Adam Sheridan
Priscilla Sandys-Wunsch Trust Scholarship
Sport Leadership Awards 2014
Dux Ludorum (Girls)
Celeste McLean
Runner-up
(Girls)
Georgia Watt
Dux Ludorum (Boys)
Christian Hipp & Jade Taylor (Shared Award)
Student Achievements
 Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards 2014
Congratulations to Heather Symonds (Year 10) for being awarded second place and
Wairingiringi Hemara-Wahanui (Year 13) for third place in the Secondary School
short story division of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Awards.
Rebecca Pratt (Year 12) received a special prize for best use of personification and
Germana Lewis (Year 12) a special prize for best local poem/best title/best phrase in
the secondary school poetry division.
This year’s judges Mr David Hill (Short Story) and Dr Glenn Colquhoun (Poetry) spoke
very highly of our winners. Well done to you all.
 Congratulations to Rebecca Pratt – supreme winner of the Student Design and Build
Category at this year’s Kinetika Festival. Rebecca has been awarded a $6,000 Massey
University Scholarship.
 Congratulations also to past HHS student Sean Kelly who won the reality TV
competition Project Runaway Season 13. It is great to see our former students doing
well beyond school. The media reports Sean tracing his creative development right
back to Mrs Horner’s photography classes at Hawera High School.
Young Enterprise Taranaki Annual Awards
On 23 October Taranaki Chamber of Commerce hosted the Taranaki Young Enterprise
Regional Awards in New Plymouth and our students shone their southern stars to bring
home several awards.
B.O.B. won three awards, ‘Graphix Explosion’ YES Business Card Competition Winner, (free
printing of their Annual Review), ‘implement + associates’ Best Customer Service Award,
($950 worth of ‘implement + associates’ services), ‘Centre City Shopping Centre’ Showcase
Product & Service Award, ($200 worth of vouchers)
Cool Crafts won the ‘Taranaki Daily News’ Oral Presentation Award ($500 cash).
Hawera High School wishes to acknowledge the support of a wide range of businesses
throughout Taranaki who have supported Young Enterprise through the year. Their
continual support is appreciated.
B.O.B Young Enterprise Team: Johannes Roimaa, Jason Boyles, Armyn Drake, Liam Wilkie.
Absent - Cleveland Hira and Omeka Davis.
Academic Excellence Awards
The following students were acknowledged at assembly for gaining excellence in internally
assessed achievement standards.
Level 3:
Elaine Mandengu (Economics), Adam Sheridan (English), Cameron Spicer (English).
Level 2:
Rebecca Mainwaring (Accounting & Digital Media Technology), Diana-Leigh Martin (Digital Media
Technology), Vikash Nautiyal (Sports Studies), Nitendra Prasad (Accounting), Jacob Rawhiti (Sports
Studies), Kasey Searle (Sports Studies), Micheyla Steele (Digital Media Technology), Storm-Lee
Thompson-Dockery (Sports Studies), Charlie Tipene-Edwards (Sports Studies).
Level 1:
Kate Elgar (English), Liam Fowler (Accounting), Danyelle Harrop (English), Ethan Jones
(Accounting), Caitlin Moseley (Accounting), Jessica Munro (Accounting), Fynn Riddick (Accounting &
English), Shanelle Soothill (Accounting & English), Isa Spurdle (Accounting), Fumitaka Tokino
(Accounting).
Music Department
Hawera High School Music students are often asked to perform at various functions in the
community, including fundraisers, local award evenings and other formal events.
Examples are:
 Combined Primary Schools Festival held in the TSB Hub where Wairingiringi HemaraWahanui (Lynette Morris Vocal Scholarship winner), Corryn Parry (recently returned
from touring in Canada and USA), Luke Roberts (runner-up in solo section of this
year’s regional smokefreerockquest) and Omeka Davis, were guest artists.
 Community Citizenship Awards – Abigail Pratt played background music on the piano.
 Cancer Fundraiser Breakfast at Tairoa Lodge – Omeka Davis, Kaleb McEldowney, Ben
Kerehoma and Simon Valenzuela
 Taranaki Deputy Principals & Assistant Principals Conference – Omeka Davis, Kaleb
McEldowney, and Ben Kerehoma.
Congratulations to these students and other HHS student musicians who represent our
school so well.
Year 10 Activities Days
Two activity days have been organised for Year 10 students. These are aimed at developing
in students the qualities and skills required in the community and workplace.
Monday 8 December – Careers
Throughout the day students will have the opportunity to learn about and participate in all
of the following: Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, Little Miss Cupcakes, Taranaki District
Health Board, NZ Fire Service, WITT, Armed Forces, Fonterra.
Tuesday 9 December – A variety of interesting activities, in school, which develop
workplace/community skills. The day will finish with a BBQ lunch beginning at 1.30pm and
swimming if the weather allows.
Year 9 Camps
Students will have brought home forms to be filled out and returned to school for their
camps at the end of this term. Please complete the forms thoroughly and return back to
school. Students must have full payment for the camps made by 21st November please.
Students and parents are reminded that attendance is compulsory and not optional. If
students choose not to opt into the activity offered then alternative educational activities
will be provided for them in a class room.
Stationery Lists for 2015
Stationery lists for all year levels will be emailed to parents/caregivers with this newsletter.
This information will also be available on the school’s website, at the Hawera High School
office and at Paper Plus Hawera.
Sports News
Sports Uniforms Amnesty
It is that time of the year when students/parents are having clean ups in the bedrooms. If
you find any HHS Sports uniforms, it would be appreciated if you can please return them.
It is very frustrating when we do not have complete sets of uniforms.
Outdoor Bowls Tournament
Jarrod Pettett and Joshua Fox (Pairs) and Georgia Watt (Singles) represented the Taranaki
region in a tournament in Wanganui during the holidays and have qualified to play in the
National Secondary Schools Tournament in Auckland in December. This is a great effort by
these students.
Wrestling
At the National Championships Tadhg McColl was placed second in the U63kg and Sean
McColl second in the U69kg. Well done to these boys.
Athletics
The Athletics season has started in preparation for the New Zealand Secondary School
Championships in December. In the first competition which took place in Hastings on 25
October HHS athletes were led by Aneila Mellish who showed she is coming into form with
a 4th place finish in the 800m run (2:28). Also performing well on the day was Ashleigh
Bennett who threw the shot put 11.58m for second place and Arnold Fage who jumped
12.60m in the triple jump.
At our second meeting in Palmerston North on 8 November the squad really started to
perform to their capabilities. Ashleigh Bennett, recovering from the flu, jumped out to
5.23m in the long jump to take first. Grace White was out to 5.02m and 10.60m in the long
and triple jumps respectively, to be in the top three in both events. Jessica DillonSpringfield produced personal bests in both the 400m (1:02.81) and the 200m (27.90).
Arnold Fage produced an impressive triple jump of 12.80m to place second and Aneila
Mellish continued to improve, dropping 4 seconds off her seasonal best in the 800m, down
to 2:24. Up and coming juniors Austin Fage (1.55m) and Caleb Thomas (1.60m) also
produced personal bests in the high jump.
HHS Tennis Championships
There was a great turn out for the tennis championships held on 17 October, with 38
students participating.
Results
Junior Girls Singles
Sharlaye Bardsley 1st, Sarah Bird 2nd
Junior Girls Doubles
Brooke Horvath & Sharlaye Bardsley 1st
Sarah Bird & Lydia White 2nd
Junior Boys Singles
James Weir 1st
Junior Boys Doubles
Tamaari Kupe-King & James Weir 1st
Senior Girls Singles
Hayley Johnston 1st, Mikayla Cadman 2nd
Senior Girls Doubles
Hayley Johnston & Chanelle Kuklinski 1st
Esther White & Grace White 2nd
Senior Boys Singles
Samuel Jones 1st, Adam Keene 2nd
Senior Boys Doubles
Samuel Jones & Jarron Pittams 1st
Nathan Carroll-Fearnley & Adam Keene 2nd
TSSSA Road Relay
Two Hawera High School teams participated in this event in New Plymouth. Both teams
were placed third.
Team members were Briana Watkins, Waitohu Ngarewa, Anelia Mellish and Grace White;
and Lachlan Gilbert, Ethan Arbuckle, Reon Soothill and Ryan King.
TSSSA Junior Touch
A boys’ team and a girls’ team played in the Touch Tournament on 9 November, with the
boys being placed 6th. Thank you to Mr Hippolite for his assistance.
The girls’ team beat NPGHS 3-2 in the final, winning the competition. Members of this team
were Capri Te Ngahue, Madison Hikaka, Jacinta Kete, Madison Ropiha, Bronte Gorham,
Abigail Pratt, Danika Teariki and R’Leeyah Luke. Congratulations, girls. Thank you to Arif
Ridzuan for coaching the team.
TSSSA Junior Rugby League Tournament
HHS were the overall winners at the tournament which was played in Waitara on 19
October - winning their 1st game 46-14, 2nd game 42-4, 3rd game 18 all draw and 4th game
38-0.
Two students were named in the tournament team: Greegan Thompson-Dockery and
Awatere Kiwara. Our overall player of the day went to Ethan Burfield.
Taranaki Secondary School Girls’ Sevens
Congratulations to Brooke Fevre and Breeya Martin for being selected for the U15 Sevens
team and Deven Robinson for the U19 Sevens team. Well done girls.
TRFU Girls’ Rippa Rubgy
Three Junior Girls’ teams played in the Rippa Rugby Tournament. One of our teams made it
through to the finals after beating Waitara in the semi-final. This team, Madison Ropiha,
Breeya Martin, Capri Te-Ngahui, Bronte Gorham, Jacinta Kete, Madison Hikaka, Abagail
Pratt, Brooke Fevre and R’Leeyah Luke unfortunately lost to NPGHS 5-3, but everyone had a
great day.
Taranaki Winter Swimming Championships
Zoe Williamson and Steven Wereta both swam in this event in the first week of the
holidays.
Zoe’s results were Gold - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 50m
backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke. Silver - 100m Individual medley.
Steven’s results were Silver - 200m butterfly, 400m freestyle, 400 Individual medley.
North Island BMX Title Meet
Congratulations to Brooke Fevre - 3rd in 14 year girls; Marshall Watkins - 17th in 14 year
boys and Michael Mitchell - 17th in the 17 year boys. The Meet was held in Pukekohe at
Labour Weekend.
Boys’ Football
HHS students Jordan Buchanan, Mustafa Can and Joeb Cadman played in the Hawera
Men’s Football team against the Rangers competing for the Duff Rosebowl in Waitara in
September. Rangers won. These students played eleven games in seven days in this
tournament. They also play football for the HHS 1st XI team.
AFS Intercultural Programmes are looking for host families for high school
students from Europe, Asia, North, Central and South America arriving in January 2015 for
five or ten months. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about another country and
culture while the student becomes part of your family and learns about kiwi life. AFS
provides full support for both students and host families. For more information visit the AFS
website www.afs.org.nz , call 0800 600 300, or email [email protected]
HHS Australia Rugby Trip Fundraiser
IDEAL FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Canterbury Trackpants and Hoodies
(A flyer is attached to the hard copy of this newsletter
and an order form has previously been e-mailed home.)
To make your order please return order with money to the
school office by 20 November.
Community News
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XRACE is coming back to Hawera in 2015 and will be at a new location! Entries open 1 November,
visit www.xrace.co.nz for more information.
Taranaki Cathedral’s Drama group of young people will perform ‘Toad of Toad Hall’ on 19, 20 and 21
December at 5pm at the Peace Hall opposite the Cathedral on Vivian Street in New Plymouth.
Tickets available at the Welcome Desk at the Cathedral. Contact [email protected]
Coming Events
November 2014
Mon 17
Students dismissed at 12.30 pm (PPTA Union
Meeting)
Sports Events
18-21 Nov
Thur 20
Fri 21
27/28
3 Dec
BoT meeting 6pm
Staff Review Day - Students not at school
Year 10 Exams
December 2014
8/9
Junior Activities
Wed 10
Year 10 Prize-giving – 9am
Year 9 Prize-giving – 11am
End of Term 4.
No reira tena koutou katoa.
J C Konlechner
Principal
McKean Shield Week TSSSA
Fast
Five,
Futsal, Flags, Ultimate
Frisbee.
TSSSA Show Jumping

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