Kia ora koutou

Bravery, valour, determination, nerve, grit, spirit and daring are all words that define ‘Courage’, one of the ‘big three’ values of our College Kawa. We are promoting this value with our students over the remainder of this term, how we can encourage and demonstrate courage in the classroom and in the school grounds. Some examples are: persisting, taking a calculated risk, giving your opinion, standing up to negative peer pressure and supporting others. Our goal is for all of our students to become courageous learners and citizens.

Elgregoe The Magician and his assistant Sue conveyed their powerful message of respect, being helpful, tolerant and caring to Year 7 and 8 students on Tuesday. Their mix of magic and important values reinforces our College Kawa very effectively.

Congratulations to Nevis House who are now on the come-back trail in the House Competition after dominating our Swimming Championships last week. There was excellent participation and a number of records broken by Sarah Hogan and Nikayla Bolch. Well done to the champions and thank you to the parents and senior students for their valuable assistance.

A class act – this is an apt description for the Linwood College Concert Band from Christchurch who entertained junior students last Friday. They played a wide range of music from classical to jazz, including a barber shop vocal item. It was interesting for our music students to hear them talk afterwards about their many hours of practice across four days of school and in their own time. They proved that practice makes perfect. Staff from Linwood complimented our students on being a great audience – responsive, respectful and appreciative – tino pai whanau.

Our U14 rugby team thrived in the rain and the mud on Saturday in their game against Dunstan. I enjoyed their commitment and was impressed by their handling and structure in the slippery conditions. It was an entertaining game with some outstanding tries. Well done team.

How do you inspire future performers and musicians? The New Zealand Music Commission’s answer is to fund high profile New Zealand artists to work with schools across the country. Our students benefited from this programme this week with singer songwriter Julia Deans running a number of music workshops. Students learnt about song writing, composition and stage craft from this accomplished musician and former member of the band Fur Patrol. Thank you to Kate Borrie, our Arts Coordinator, for organising this tremendous opportunity.

Fred Richardson, one of our Year 13 Apartments students, shared some of his recent experiences in Papua New Guinea at our assembly this week. His talk and slides provided us all with a greater awareness of the challenges facing PNG and the importance of this year’s 40 Hour Famine. Over 100 students have signed up for this year’s event and will be returning their sponsorship funds this week. Mason Stretch Principal

Whaia te taumata - Deserve Success

NEWSLETTER 9 21 June 2013

UPCOMING EVENTS:

25 June - Collect Home & School Fundraiser orders from Dough Sea Dough 26 July - Mufti Day, gold coin donation 27 June - BoT Meeting 2 - 3 July - Y7/8 Interviews 9 –10 July - Waimate Exchange 11 July - Mid Year Reports posted home - Year 9 - 13 students 12 July - Last Day Term Two 12 July - Rockquest 29 July - First Day of Term Three 5 August - Teacher Only Day 12 August - School Photos 14 August - Year 9 - 13 Parent / Teacher Interviews 11 September - Soiree

Elgregoe Magic Show

Advertised on radio stations (Classic Hits, More FM, Radio Wanaka).

Updates on the school website.

Usually a delayed start until 10am and reviewed during the morning.

Linwood College Band

U14 Rugby v’s Dunstan Julia Deans - Music Workshops Swimming Sports

SNOW DAYS

YEAR 7 & 8 ICESKATING

Year 7 students and teachers were missing from school on June 13th because they were Ice Skating and Swimming in Alexandra. It was a misty day but as we glided onto the Alex Ice Rink the sun shone bright.

While there we had a lesson, curled and had some free skating time.

During the lesson we were taught how to stop in a hurry and dodge large obstacles. We also learned some basics, like going forwards and backwards and skating in bubbles.

Curling was fun. It required some skill. We were actually sliding the stones and ourselves. It was hard trying not to slide the stone too hard or too slow. We had some fun games.

Free Skating was cool because we got to skate with our friends and push each other on the sleds. It was nice to play in the warm pool after all the cold ice.

We all had a great day. It was lots of fun but very tiring and we can’t wait until we go back next year. A big THANKS to all the fab parent helpers. It was awesome to have you there.

Written by 7R Students

Dunedin & Invercargill Ballet Competitions:

Ruby-May Taylor; 1st Novice Jazz, 1st Restricted Classical Ballet, Most Authentic Costume (National Character) Award

Megan Bell; 1st Duo Ballet, 2nd

Championship, Jazz (Dunedin), 3rd Championship Jazz (Invercargill) 1st Trio Ballet with Courtney

Courtney Anderson; 1st Classical Ballet en pointe, High Grade Aggregate, 3rd Championship Jazz, 3rd Championship Classical

Rugby: U16 Rugby Team defeated John McGlashan U16 team on Saturday in Dunedin 15 - 5. Player of the Day Jordan Marshall had a strong day along with Sebastian Downie and Regan Stirling in the forwards. Harry Smith, Tyler Oliver and Matt Bolch ran elusively in the backs. Karate: Congratulations to Michael Manson who won a gold medal in Kata and a silver medal in Kumite at the Canterbury/Westland Karate Championships recently.

National Cross Country Championships in Christchurch: Ezra Berridge placed 171 from 245 runners in a time of 22.03, Emma Smith placed 43 from 100 runners in a time of 12.20. Emma was positioned well until the bottleneck where she got pushed out and for Ezra there was a huge number of boys running together at the start and the same happened to him where the track narrowed and he got spiked by the other runners.

CROMWELL COLLEGE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

Year Level Champions 1st 2nd 3rd 7 Abby Griffin Emily Hurdle Emily White

7 Kierren Longman Broc May

8 Sarah Hogan Tia Clark Claudia Patton

8 Joseph Harrison Sam Smith Ben Moodie

9 Tegan Buchannan Georgia Franklin Ruby May Taylor

9 Anton Schroder Rian Norton Issac Steentjes

10 Ruby Gibson Emma Smith Jesse Cox

10 Carter McAuliffe Jake Fogarty Luke Holden

11-13 Nikayla Bolch Emma Patton Rayna McKenzie

11-13 Jack Harrison Sean Tan David Beck

House Points

Thanks to Mike Patton, Karen Bolch, Michelle Hurdle, Anna Harrison, Di McAuliffe, the Pool Staff at the Aquatic Centre and the House Leaders for helping the event run smoothly. Congratulations to record breakers; Nikayla Bolch and Sarah Hogan. Full results are available via the link on the schools Moodle site.

Steve Hodkinson, HoF Physical Education & Health

PLATINUM SPONSORS VIP CARD LAUNCH We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Platinum Card which will be issued to all families of the Cromwell College. Approximately 80% of families have been sent a book and card in the mail, unfortunately there is a three week delay for the remaining 20% due to a supplier issue with the cards. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this delay. Warmest regards

Maximising Resource Committee (MRC)

ELGREGOE - ‘YOU’VE GOT THE POWER’ SHOW

NEW PE TOPS The next bulk order will be processed in Week 8,

last day for orders is Friday 28 June. Delivery is approximately 8 -10 weeks.

1st Place Nevis 2nd Place Pisa,

3rd Place Clutha 4th Place Kawarau

Magician Elgregoe shares messages of anti-bullying and building safe and caring schools to our Y7 & 8 students.

WAIMATE EXCHANGE

Waimate Exchange will take part on the last week of this term the 9th and 10th of July. The Seniors are at Home this year with the year 7s - 10s away. Sports will be confirmed soon and letter home to parents also.

We do very much appreciate the students taking billets and making new friends is a great part of the exchange.

YEAR 7 & 8 INTERVIEWS AND SCHOOL REPORTS

Year 9 to 13 students will have mid year reports sent home in the mail on Thursday 11 July.

Year 7 and 8 students will have face to face inter-views, rather than reports. These will occur on 2 and 3 July. An information sheet will be sent home at the end of this week.

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

STAFF WANTED FOR CROMWELL’S SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME

Cromwell Kids Fun Club Inc, has the following positions available for the July School Holiday (15-26th July) Programme based at Cromwell Primary School. Programme Supervisor - 40 hours per week. Provide on site leadership of the program for the duration of the holidays. A current teaching qualification is highly desirable, however those with relevant training in education will also be considered.

Programme Staff (4 positions) 2 x 40 hours per week & 2 x 20 hours per week. You must have lots of energy, arts & crafts skills, great communication skills and the ability to relate to children aged 5 - 12 years old.

All applicants must be aged 18 and over and willing to be subject to full Police Vetting. Applications to be sent to cromwellkidsfunclub@yahoo.co.nz or CKFC, PO Box 322, Cromwell.

It’s My Turn To Cook Tonight Bosch School Holiday Program – July 15 - 17

The It’s My Turn To Cook Tonight Bosch School Holiday Program is FREE, ONLINE, FUN and unique with great prizes. It is available ANYWHERE there is Internet coverage. This means no travelling, no pick ups or drop offs – kids get food savvy and learn to cook in their own home, using their food, cooking their dinner. Find out more www.itsmyturntocooktonight.com.

LINWOOD COLLEGE CONCERT BAND PERFORMANCE The Linwood College Concert Band performed for Years 7, 9, 10 and senior music students on Friday in the Cromwell College Auditorium. They were on a South Island tour travelling from their base in Christchurch and performed as a whole orchestra, a jazz band and a barber shop group. It was probably the first time many of our students had heard male singers harmonising unaccompanied. All the groups were energetic and skillful and the Cromwell College Jazz Band was fortunate to listen to the Linwood Jazz Band more during the lunch hour. One of the Linwood staff commented on how our students were a great audience. This is pleasing as it is something we have been working on in the past year.

Kate Borrie - Arts Coordinator

FASTEST GO KART KID COMPETITION: Due to bad weather on Sunday, Cromwell’s heat has been changed to Sunday 30th of June. If you have not registered already we suggest you do so as soon as possible to secure your spot and the chance to win some epic prizes! The age group 13-16 years start at 9am and the age group 10-12 years start at 9.30am at the front desk of the Museum. It is a lot of fun, great value and a chance to earn some bragging rights over your friends. To register and pay, please visit http://www.highlands.co.nz/Calendar/Fastest-Go-Kart-Kid-Competition-2013.asp

PB4L UPDATE

At the College the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) initiative is focusing on Courage. We have discussed with the Students and Staff what we think showing courage looks like in school. Courage is different for everyone but the main 4 areas that we have arrived at are: Trying hard tasks, perseverance, resilience, seeing it

through, failing and retrying Doing the RIGHT thing even when its hard - standing

up for your beliefs, speaking out, being true to yourself, not worrying what others think, supporting others

Taking responsibility - admitting if your wrong, asking for help, apologising

If it’s hard but the right thing to do - it's probably showing courage! Students will be collecting Medals for showing courage at school, for the student showing the most courage we have been donated the ultimate act of courage - a Sky Dive by Skydive Wanaka. There are lots of other rewards to encourage students, as well as the increase in achievement and feel good factor that goes with courage.

Steve Hodkinson

COURAGE