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for the Glory of God

30 Acacia Ave, Chch 8041 t: 348 9826 f: 348 8317 e: office@middleton.school.nz www.middleton.school.nz Newsletter No. 3 19 Maynewsmi ddl eton g ran g e school 2016

Character Excellence Service

FRIENDSDON’T: Stay silent

DO: Help your friendReport the bullyTell your parentsTell your teacher

THE BULLYDON’T: Respond

DO: Save what they sayUnfriend the personBlock themTell a FriendTell your ParentsReport the person

PARENTS & TEACHERS

Join FacebookUnderstand how it works

Teach safety and responsibilityPrivacy - check their settings

THINK BEFOREYOU POST

BE KINDTO OTHERS

KEEP YOURSETTINGS PRIVATE

DON’T BE HURTFUL TOWARDS OTHERS

DON’T SHAREYOUR PASSWORD

ONLY CONNECT WITH FRIENDS

This is our reaction to cyber-bullying. We must all play our part! Play yours - email design@fuzion.ie for a print ready �le

Coming UpThese dates are subject to change. Regularly check the calendar on the school website for amendments.

Abbreviations:PS-Primary School MS-Middle SchoolSC-Senior College IC-Intl Collegeppd-postponement LC-Learning Centre

May Mon, 23 11BUE(5) Market (Mon, Wed, Fri) Law at Otago Info Christ’s College)Tue, 24 Open Day Y6 Trek-about Tues ( to Packhorse) UC Law Day 12:-3:30pm (y13) Meet the Business Leader Uni Canty 12-2.30pm (Y13s)Wed, 25 World Vision Mufti Day 11BUE(5) Market (Mon, Wed, Fri) NASDA For A Day (at ARA) PS Assembly - Rm 14 Y7/8 Basket & Volleyball champsThu, 26 Open Day Pasifika Supreme Awards Location: Aranui High SchoolLaidlaw Open Night 7-9pmFri, 27 11BUE(5) Market (Mon, Wed, Fri) NASDA For A Day (at ARA)Mon, 30t BOT election - Meet the candidates Staff Room 7.30-8.30pmTue, 31 Year 13 Workers Auction Y7-13 ICAS Science UC Information Evening 6.30pm National Young Leaders Days (PS)

JuneWed, 1 NASDA For A Day (ARA) National Young Leaders’ Days (Y12) Y1-6 ICAS ScienceThu, 2 BECA Open Day Music Arts for a Day (ARA) NASDA For A Day (ARA)Fri, 3 Teacher Only Day Senior Formal Ara Have-a-go Day (Yr 11-13)Mon, 6 Queen’s BirthdayTue, 7 Y 5/6 Wheels DayWed, 8 - Thu, 9 Crescendos Big Sing,Wellington Wed, 8 Y 3/4 Wheels Day Y13 Soil Makes Sense Chiropractic Career Talk 316 Riccarton Rd, 7-9pmThu, 9 Juniors’ Wheels Day (lunchtime)Fri, 10 - Sun, 12 40 Hour Famine & Cans for Homeless fundraisingFri, 10 9NB Courts Visit 10am-12pmTue, 14 PS Learning In Action Y12 Solo Performances UC Criminal Justice day Y1-6 ICAS Spelling Wed, 15 Y7-13 ICAS Spelling

warm welcome to the new term with all of its opportunities and, to date, glorious autumnal weather.

At the start of Term 1 Mr Vanderpyl challenged the pupils in the Middle and Senior Schools to encourage one another and we were

delighted that hundreds of cards were distributed between pupils and staff. I heard of many people who were blessed to receive this encouragement.

At the first assembly this term, I presented the pupils with a confronting video clip of a young hungry boy going through a rubbish bin. Many people walked around this child until a group of teenag-ers stopped and offered help. Colossians 3:12 tells us that ‘as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and pa-tience’. Ephesians 4:32 expressly instructs us to ‘be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ, God forgave you’.

Interestingly NetSafe, New Zealand’s leading authority on cyber safety, have identified Fa-cebook as the platform where over 80% of cyber bullying occurs for teens. I have includ-ed a graphic from the NetSafe website titled ‘Safebook’ and being kind to others is one of

the most important pieces of advice, with the word KIND, itself, being the key word across the heart!

My challenge to our pupils, and to us all this term, is to be kind; in our speech, our actions and our social media interaction.

May our loving and gracious God bless you all.

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Megan CassidyActing Principal

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Shayden Gibbons-Kingdom1 December 1997 – 23 March 2016Shayden started Year 11 at Middleton in 2014. This was a big transition for him as he had been at Hillview from New Entrants class through to Year 10. He had some great friends from Hillview, especially Jacob, Jamin and Seth who helped to make this transition smooth for him.

Shayden’s favourite school subject was Classics. He really enjoyed the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He also enjoyed History, Drama and SLP (Supported Learning Programme). In Year 11 Drama he made his debut on stage as a fabulous wheelchair pirouetting clown.

However, to be honest, as with a lot of teenage boys, Shayden’s favourite time at school was lunch time when he could catch up with his mates. It was great to see his friendship group expand, especially over the past year. Shayden had an impact on a large number of pupils and staff at Middleton. This was evidenced by the number of pupils who came to the celebration of his life. Pupils lined the foyer at Majestic House, singing He Hōnore as Shayden’s casket was carried past. This was a lovely moment as his family witnessed our school community’s Christian love for Shayden.

In his spare time Shayden’s passion was gaming and movies. He would look forward to the release of the next Marvel movie or Far Cry X-Box game. Shayden would often talk to his teacher aides about details of a game he was currently playing or the latest action movie, even though they mostly had no idea what he was talking about!

Shayden turned eighteen last year and Jacob, Jamin and Seth threw him a wonderful surprise party in the Middleton Primary School Hall. Convinc-ing Shayden to “pop into school” was not easy but with his family, three best friends and teacher aides conspiring, he had no idea what was in store as he entered the hall lined by his friends.

Shayden will be missed at Middleton by both staff and pupils. We can find comfort in Revelation 21:4 and the fact that he is now running around in heaven. The way Shayden dealt with the many challenges he faced is a testament to his character and made us all more appreciative of how blessed we are.

Year 6 Cycle Safe At the end of Term 1, Year 6 did the Christchurch City Council Cycle Safe program. On the first day the Cycle Safe Team came to Room 15, there was 5 different instructors. The first part of the program was games. They gave us games to understand the road rules and road signals. After morning tea, they brought us inside to split us in to groups.

The second part of the program was to see if we could go on the road with them on Wednesday. But before we went outside to get tested, they showed us how to put our helmets on the correct way, and how to check our bikes. If someone did not have a bike or helmet they would let us use one of the City Council’s bikes/helmets. In the lessons, we did a series of hand signals, right and left. Next, we practised right and left turns. With the right hand turns, we had to do your ‘life-saver look’ or ‘death look’ because it can really change your fate. We did a little lesson where our instructor held up a red card to symbolize a car coming up behind us. If we did our ‘life-saver’ look then we would see it and stop.

On Wednesday, we finally got to see who was going to go on the road. Fortunately, we all passed. So we hopped on our bikes and set off. Our instructor taught us lessons along the way. Our first lesson was passing parked cars. We learnt that we should give the car some space or we might end up hurt. Our next lesson was crossing intersections. We had to check each road as we passed it to check no cars were coming. Then we did T-intersections. These were similar but only 3 roads to check. We would have gone round roundabouts and traffic lights but there weren’t any on quiet roads around the school so we weren’t allowed.

Sadly, the course was over; the cycling had come to an end. Once we came back to school we sat in a circle and the head instructor talked to us and asked for some feedback. We all gave good feedback. We absolutely loved it, it was fun and we all learnt something. THANK YOU so much Cycle Safe, hope to see you again next year.

By Gabriella and Alice

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The International College took 25 pupils to Queenstown in the April holidays. We departed bright and early on the Thursday morning for the long journey. We had a few pit-stops along the way and a rather unexpected pit stop when the bus broke down about 100km before Queenstown. A replacement bus arrived fairly soon, delivering us a little later than expected at Pinewood Lodge.

We had lots of fun activities which included jet boating, gondola and luge, ice-skating and bungy-Jumping. On Saturday morning we went to Arrowtown and enjoyed their annual autumn festival. Autumn colours in and around Queenstown were very vibrant this year and we had some beautiful and colourful scenery that made the trip really special.

Most evenings were very relaxing and pupils either walked into town or played games at the lodge. We stopped at Puzzling World in Wanaka on our way back, arriving safely home on the Sunday evening.

We all had a wonderful experience in Queenstown and enjoyed making new friends and getting to know everyone a bit better.

Friday 1 April, Years 1, 2 and 13

If you go down to the Junior Field You’re sure of a big surprise.If you go down to Rooms 1 to 7You’d better go in disguise.For every bear that ever there wasWill gather there for certain, becauseToday’s the day the teddy bears and Jun-iors and Year 13s have their picnic.

Picnic time for teddy bears,The Juniors are having a lovely time today!Watch them playing ‘Teddy, Teddy Bear’,And see them picnic with the Year 13s.See them with the parachute.They love to play and shout.And never have any cares.At 1:30 their teachers and friendsWill take them back to classBecause they’re tired little teddy bears.

Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Queenstown Trip

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Join our Prayer GrouPWhen: Every Tuesday 9am

Where: At the back of the staffroom, through the door on the left,

Please feel free to join us at any time. We welcome new prayers. Contact Eugenia Yoon on 0275102102 if you have any queries

Save Our Disappearing Water!In Term 1 all Year 9 classes studied the concept of Stewardship with a water theme. Pupils learned where Christchurch gets its water from. As part of this each class visited the pump station down Colombo Street. Learning about NZ’s unique underground aquifer system made pupils appreciate why our water is so clean and abundant.

Prior to the trip each pupil had to track their own family’s water

Rubbish NinjasWe are the people who ensure our Primary school is caring for the environment. We encourage sustainable lunch boxes and a wrap-per free lunch. We have also started a worm farm at school and it is going well.

Last term our Primary Rubbish Ninjas went to the Christchurch Organics Processing Plant to collect and learn about our new worm farm! We learnt what goes into a worm farm (including banana skins, apple cores, paper etc.) and what doesn’t go into a worm farm (including mandarin and orange peels, plastic etc.) Also we learnt about how to take care of and how to make our own worm farm. We got to participate in many activities including harvesting worm juice, making a worm farm bed, feeding worms, turning worm juice into a liquid not too strong to water plants.

The person who looks after the worm farms and showed us around was called Chris. Chris had about four worm farms. He showed us some different types of worms. There were earthworms, tiger worms and many other varieties of worms in the world. The worm farm has Tiger Worms. They are ones that eat up our organic scraps and save the landfill from filling up unnecessarily.

We will be bottling the worm juice and it will be for sale for a small price. It will be great for your garden. Watch this space!

School Gen Information ReportKia Ora Koutou. We are Preet and Gloria and are the School Gen Leaders in the Primary School. Our job is to go round the junior and the primary classes to check if the classroom lights are off when no one is in the room. We even go to Mr Thompson’s office to check if his office lights are off or not!

If the lights are off and power is being saved then the class-room gets a point. If the classroom lights are on we can’t give the classroom a point. At the end of the term we announce which classroom has won and they get some free time.

We would like to see all the lights off when no one is in the room or hall. We do this because it saves a lot on power bills for our school. Maybe you could save power at school and at home by TURNING LIGHTS OFF when you are not in the room.

We have solar power panels at Middleton Grange School and these help us by generating some free power.

Gloria Hu and Preet Bal

Year 5 School Gen Leaders

use for a week. We then averaged our total class use and it was 1,900 litres of water per day and 6,747 litres a week per family!

Did you know it takes 11 litres of water to flush a toilet, 30 litres to use a dish washer, 180 litres per load of washing and 10 litres a minute IF you leave the tap running when you brush your teeth?

Pupils also learned about other countries where people have limited water for daily life, like a rural family in Bolivia has only 80 litres a day which must be pumped from the village well while some in Ethiopia have to walk for 20 minutes to get their mere 40 litres a day.

Comparing that to our own water use was humbling and reminded us not to waste this precious resource!

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On Thursday 14 of April the Year 1-6 Primary School kids took part in a fun Duathlon. You could complete the course with a buddy or by yourself. Before school the children all lined their bikes up on the pri-mary field. The parents who came to watch

their kids could also join their kids for lunch before their races on

the junior field. The kids lined up at the start line and

got ready to go. Then 3…2…1…GO!! The race began! The crowd cheered as the kids raced around the track. Along the courses there were a series of obstacles including a commando crawl, a row of hurdles and a cargo net to climb over. For the bikers there were ramps and cones to zig-zag around.

The track started on the field and went around the big tree and over the stage, then went in a straight line down through the junior field while jumping over some wooden tables; it then continued around

the back of Room 7 & 5. After jumping down some steps there was the dreaded cargo net to climb over. Once you had gotten over, you had to race through the forest and over the stage covered in old car tyres. Then you ran up the stairs and finally through the finish line where your buddy was waiting.

Mr. Pomare was the rabbit and ran in front of everyone to show them where to go. In total he ran 12 laps around the track. PHEW! At the end of each race everyone got a chocolate egg as a prize for their good efforts. The parents all congratulated their kids as they finished their races. We had beautiful weather, lots of fun and a great day.

DressageOn Wednesday April 6th, Middleton was represented by Hannah Vaughan (Y12), Abbey Baker (Y11) and Mischa Vaughan (Y7) in the Inter-school Dressage Competition held out in McLeans Island National Equestrian Centre. 

Our girls and their horses represented themselves and the school very well. It was a very tough competition with eight rings in action at the same time and over 60 riders. Hannah placed 10th, Abbey 18th and Mischa, the youngest competitor in the entire field, placed 27th. A fantastic effort by all.

Many thanks to the Year 8 supporters. 

Volleyball The Senior A Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball teams joined with over 170 other teams from around New Zealand and Australia in Palmerston North for the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Volley-ball National Championships. 

The sheer size of the competition is a vision to behold, holding the title as the largest indoor tournament in Australasia. Over 3000 participants took place over the course of a full week, with 22 courts being used non-stop from 8am - midnight each day.

Our teams represented the school well, and while results did not always go the way the teams would have hoped, they always ap-proached the games with effort, intensity and integrity. Both teams played in some epic 5 set games which tested the mettle of even the fittest players. The boys finished 9th in Div 3 and the girls finished 4th in Div 4. 

Thank you to Mel and Ben Vannoort and Sam O’Neill who have done a great job of coaching the teams this year.

Primary Duathlon

Service with the SVAIn March Imogen Eagle, Maka Malia, Liam Heath and Meike van der Meer par-ticipated in the first UC Student Volunteer Army (SVA) volunteer programme, working alongside SVA members and pupils from other schools to restore a vandalised area of at Halswell Quarry wetland to its former glory. Christchurch City Council park rangers (also pictured) worked alongside the volunteers.

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Outstanding Achievements

Madison & Evelyn

Joel

Esmarelda

Makemeone

Tyus

Nakita

Daniel

• Esmarelda Malua (Y9) was awarded 1st place in Tongan Juniors at the Pasifika Speech Competition.

• Tyus Dimbleby (Y10) has been nominated and accepted for a Rugby exchange trip to Japan. He will attend Higashi Fukuoka Jikyokan Junior High School in Fukuoka from June 9th to their end of semester on July 22nd. While there he will be an integral member of their Rugby team as they build towards their end of semester regional tournament.

• Makemeone Malua (Y12) was awarded 1st place in Tongan Seniors at the Pasifika Speech Competition.

• Nakita Turner (Y13) first invaded the music scene with her anti-bullying song, ‘One Voice’. She has recently released her first single: ‘Where Are You?’, along with receiving a grant from NZ on Air for a music video of the song. Nakita’s desire is to reach out to her generation for God’s glory. Learn more at http://www.lifefm.co.nz/music/item/2529-nakita-releases-where-are-you

Chinese Bridge Speech Competition This is the first year that Middleton Grange entered this annual, global competition. Our two Year 10 pupils were in the Lower Secondary Category and did an outstanding job, especially considering they have only been learning Chinese for just over a year! Both are going on to compete in the National Finals in Auckland on the 28th May. Results were:

Evelyn Yeo • 1st Prize in the Upper South Island Competition and the South Island Competition• 1st Prize in both competitions for her talent item. Madison Millar • 3rd Prize in both the Upper South Island Competition and the South Island Competition. Mrs Borger (their teacher) received the Top Coach Award.This competition requires a lot of preparation time and dedication to practising and rehearsing for

the three sections: 1. a two-minute speech in Chinese about their experiences learning Chinese2. answer in Chinese a question asked in Chinese3. a talent item of their choice.

We would like to acknowledge and thank our Mandarin Language Assistant, Blake, who put in a lot of time to prepare the girls for this competition.

BEBRAS -informatics and computational thinkingStarted in 2011, the Bebras Computing Challenge is organized in Holland and now runs in over 30 countries.  Its purpose is to get pupils around the world excited about computing. Last year there were over 1.3 million pupils involved.

We trialled the challenge at Middleton this year. Each partici-pant was given 45 minutes to answer 15 multiple-choice questions that focus on computational and logical thinking. There were 247 New Zealand participants, yet our 15 pupils did exceptionally well with 5 achieving scores of 80% or better. Special congratulations to Daniel Harris (Y12) who managed a perfect score of 100% and Joel McKinnon (Y8) who top equal in the ‘Cadet’ division for NZ.

More information is available at http://bebras.nz/  or the parent organisation http://www.bebras.org/

Can you read and write?

Would you like to support someone in their education? We urgently need volunteers to

support pupils during assessments by reading and writing for them.

If you can spare an hour during your week please contact Leslie: ph 3489 826 ext 757, or email learningcentre@middleton.school.nz

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Canterbury Inter-School Canoe Polo Middleton Grange teams dominated the inter-secondary school summer league, winning both boys’ and girls’ finals.• The girls’ title was won by Middleton Junior Girls in an upset

win over Middleton Senior Girls’ A. • Middleton Senior Girls’ B came 4th after losing a close playoff

to Burnside.• In the open grade Middleton Boys’ A reclaimed the title from

Burnside. • Middleton Boys’ B defeated Shirley Boys’ for 3rd place.Eight Middleton teams participated in this competition. Con-

gratulations to all those players, especially those who were playing polo for the first time.

Canoe Polo

National Secondary Schools’ ChampsAfter years of dominance at the South Island Secondary Schools Canoe Polo Championships, Middleton Grange sent 3 teams to the National Championships in Palmerston North for the first time during summer tournament week this year.

Unsure of how they would stack up against the North Island teams (where Canoe Polo is more widely played) the teams knew that they had done all they could to prepare themselves for the challenge. All three teams achieved outstanding results.• The Senior Boys’ team finished 2nd in Division 2, narrowly losing an exciting overtime game in the Div 2 final by way of a golden

goal. This result ranks the team 8th in New Zealand.• The Senior Girls’ team ended up 5th in Division 2, earning them the #10 rank in New Zealand after an exciting golden goal win in

their final game.• The Junior Girls’ team bounced back after a tough first day to end the tournament 6th in the country and taking home with them a

whole lot of experience which will serve them well in future years.Congratulations to all three teams and a huge thank you to Mr Anderson for his commitment to the sport over the past numerous

years and to all the volunteer coaches and parents who made this trip possible.

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WELCOME TO OUR PARENT COFFEE MORNINGS

We welcome all school parents to come and enjoy a chat over a quality cup of tea or coffee every Friday during the term in the Performing Arts Centre

from 9.00 am onwards.

A gold coin donation to cover costs would be appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Senior College pupils attended the Careers’ Expo on the 13th of May.

A big thank you to Konica Minolta for printing our newsletter free of charge.

Dip In early 2015, we enter the hot cramped dirty metal prism of the bus. The glass doors automatically open with a thud, like an accordion pumping back and forth with exasperation. The stampede of stu-dents jump on board wearing a kaleido-scopic gallery of clothes, some vaguely or completely loyal to our house colours.

“Same as last year,” I think. “Same as last year.” Disengaged by the enormous chat I look up at the mural on the building.

“Per Aquam et Gloriam.”

“From water to glory.”

All of us line up into our classes and then houses in the hot, dry weather, slowly arranging from chaos into order, and then enthusiastic chaos all over again.

The untold masses of us cram into the chlorine-smelling and humid 1990s-look-ing building with surprisingly long-lasting murals of swimmers and lifeguards. On the left side of the building is a long and tall row of frail, moist wooden seats. Under the guidance of our house leaders, we sit on seats arranged in our house colours. In the middle is a long pool of 6 lanes. At the central north of the build-ing is a kiddie pool. No-one is using that

today. At the right side of the building are the bathroom doors, and the exit to the pool, along with a multitude of closets. This is it. Wharenui Pool.

It takes countless ages to get to my turn. I mostly just wait and watch, while listening to the frantic cheering of the excited screaming crowd. There is a 2 or 3 or I don’t know minute wait between every swim, and it is not very long before it ends up becoming a near-endless cycle of ecstatic rejoicing and expectant boredom. People from all over Years 7 & 8 swim like champions, going for the gold. I doubt I will ever go that fast, since my technique is horrible. I seriously don’t regret choosing non-championships.

I don’t cheer madly like last year; I just sit and watch until it is my turn. Then suddenly-

“Gideon Chan!” announces a voice I don’t actually remember. As that voice courses through the air, I shudder. I’m dead.

I stumble over to the lane and nervously sit down at the edge of the pool. As soon as my big toe dips into the water, it burns. It feels like I am about to enter J318.5-22, a sunless planet, without a spacesuit. The tip of my unfortunate toe freezes like the frosty desert of Antarcti-...

“3!” The coach announced. What? I haven’t finished my monologue!

“2!” That’s it, nothing matters any more.

Goodbye dignity, goodbye self-confi-dence, goodb-

“1!” Here goes!

THE COLD! IT BURNS! All is silent for a millionth of a second in this aquatic abyss, until I violently push off the edge of the pool with all the force I can muster. I cannot rest, I cannot think. All I focus on is freestyling as fast as possible, ignoring the endless litres of chlorinated water flushing through my sinus and into my windpipe. Water splashes everywhere, obscuring all I can see. I feel so numb that I don’t even feel exhausted for after swim-ming half the pool.

In order to motivate myself to swim faster and faster, I imagine I am the last of all the swimmers. That’s not happening! I keep on going, ignoring the pain in my limbs. This is for Shackleton. My focus breaks and I peek over to the side, seeing there are 4 people behind me! My arms and legs cramp, spasm and ache, like they’re turning to stone, but as I hone into the edge of the pooI still barely manage to pull my arms over the side of the pool and furiously vault over the other edge, landing me on my back. All this effort is not in vain, since I take 3rd place out of 7 swimmers. For that, I receive a strawberry lollipop. That’s the last time I go to a swimming competition.

by Gideon Chan, Y9. (Written in Year 8)

A New Zealand software company has developed a world-class game for PC, Mac, iPad and Android based on the Biblical narrative.

Think “Chronicles of Narnia for the 21st century” - well-crafted Biblical allegory, accessible and engaging for youth. The game is endorsed by the American Bible Society, and is Kidsafe Certified. Check it out at theaetherlight.com, or contact Mr Stephen McConnachie (s.mcconnachie@middleton.school.nz), e-Learning Coordinator, for more info.

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DECEMBER 2016

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FIESTA! 5-8pm

WHAT is fiesta? FIESTA is our annual school fair, the major fundraiser to purchase equipment and resources for all areas of our school, Primary to Secondary. It is a highlight in the school calendar year and a great school and local community event, stretching well back in Middleton Grange School history.

It is a Fun Filled Evening with Something For Everyone ….. a delicious dinner menu in the FOOD TENTS, a LIVE AUCTION, Garden, Sweets and Baking PRODUCE STALLS, bargains in the PRE-LOVED STALLS and exciting SIDESHOWS, ATTRACTIONS and RIDES!

When is fiesta ? FIESTA is on Friday, 2 December, 5-8pm (Term 4, Week 8). Save the Date!!

HOW CAN I HELP? We are blessed to be part of a fantastic school community. FIESTA is a great opportunity to celebrate this, and to contribute by offering your Time, Talents and Treasures. We have an enthusiastic Planning Team who have started the FIESTA ball rolling for this year. Specific requests for staffing and donations will come in Terms 3 and 4, but we would love to hear from you now ….. …. if you want to be part of the planning team… we are needing 2 more people …. if you are able to help with sponsorship/donations to defray costs. …. if you have a contact to supply bulk food ingredients, particularly meat …. if you have contacts for hiring inflatable rides, cooking equipment (bainmaries, fryers) etc. …. if you have any other ideas! eg. a Stall or Attraction ...

The Great Annual MGS FIESTA!

WHO DO I CONTACT? The Planning Team is Robyn Bosma and Christina Davison (FIESTA coordinators), Henry Tseng, Julie Fraser, Susan Broom, Mandy van der Pyl You can email us at fiesta@middleton.school.nz

If anyone serves, they should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. 1 Peter 4:11

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