News and events for the week ending 17th May 2019 Friday 17th May 2019 Opening words from the Executive PrincipalKia ora tatou, good afternoon, 你好, 안녕하세요 It’s another busy newsletter today, so I thought I’d try to be briefer than usual with my message this week. I’ll try, anyway… Please do try to find the time to flick through the whole newsletter this week. We know that there’s always a huge amount to read, and there are many pictures to look at, but we love to celebrate the wide range of activities our students are involved in, both inside and outside the classroom, and we hope you enjoy seeing such a comprehensive snapshot as well. I do get asked every now and then for jump links to be used to help you navigate through the newsletter, but we’ve so far resisted. The reason is partly that there would have to be a couple of compromises to the appearance of the newsletter if we added these, and partly that I think it’s great sometimes to stumble across things going on that we might not otherwise be aware of. One of our strengths is that we are a Year 1-13 school, so I hope you enjoy seeing what other areas of the school are getting up to as much as I do! It’s been a sporty week for me so far. Not, I should probably add, that I’ve been doing anything energetic myself (I’d like to blame a dodgy knee/hip/elbow, but the real reasons are simply time, the call of a good book in the evening, and the warm embrace of middle age), but I’ve had a great time seeing netball, football and hockey this week. On Saturday, our three youngest teams (Year 1 team, Year 2 Pinehurst Unicorns, and Year 3 Pinehurst Rainbows) all had fabulous wins to start the season, and our Year 4 team played really well in their match too. It was lovely to see so many excited and committed students (and parents!) at Kidzplay. I managed to see some of the first match of the season for our Year 9/10 football team as well: again, I thought they played really well, and were just unlucky to come up against a very strong – and very big – Rangitoto team. On Monday, our Year 5/6 hockey teams had a great start too, three of the four teams (our numbers in hockey are continuing to grow) having impressive wins; and I was fortunate to see our Year 7/8 girls’ team on Tuesday, who also had a great victory. Our senior hockey teams have also started with a rocket, winning their games and performing well. A quick word too for the 70 Primary students who have ski lessons at SnowPlanet every Friday afternoon. What a great way to end the week. I know I say this a great deal, but I am very grateful for the commitment of the staff who support our extensive sporting programme – all of our staff are involved in our co-curricular programme, and it’s one of the things that makes our school special. A big thank you as well to the parents who coach, manage, support and drive (it must feel to some people as if they’re taxi drivers shuttling their children in all directions), all to enable our children to have so many opportunities. Last week, I talked about our results in 2018. I hope you found the information useful. This week, I’d like to remind parents that our Year 10-13 students’ Mid Year Exams start in a week. These are important staging posts, so that students can judge what they’ve achieved so far and what they need to do before the end of the year. Students should be revising by now, and making sure they’re prepared. At the same time, though, they shouldn’t be getting anxious, and I don’t want them to feel under too much pressure. It’s normal to have gaps in knowledge, and I wouldn’t expect students to be working at the level they need to be at in October. I’m going to talk quickly about a couple of lessons I was lucky enough to see over the past week. I saw Mr Quirk teaching Year 10 PE: I was impressed by his warm, positive manner with the students – I see this in just about every lesson I go to, actually – and I was proud of the way he and the students were developing self-management, strategic and leadership skills together. A great lesson to see. I saw another group of Year 10s in Mrs Heslop’s Art lesson as well. It was such an enjoyable lesson: technical, precise and all nine of the students in the class were completely absorbed, in a warm, positive environment, in developing the techniques they need for their self-portraits. Just lovely. Finally: we are deep in enrolments season at school right now. I’ve just had the difficult task of selecting New Entrant children for Term 4, which means, of course, that I’ve also had to say no to some delightful children and parents. We just don’t have the space for everyone who wants to come here, but it’s always a difficult, painful task to say no. The deadline for enrolments for New Entrants in Term 1, 2020 is the end of this term, and the end of this term is also the deadline for students who wish to join Year 7 in 2020. We have our Term 2 Open Days on June 4th and 5th, so I would encourage anyone interested in joining our school next year to come along to these days and see us in action. Have a lovely weekend. WEEK 4 Monday 20th May
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如需阅读校长的中文留言和重要事件日期,请点击此处 Kia Ora, As a Primary team of teachers we are involved in developing ourselves professionally and have a comprehensive programme of weekly meetings where we inquire into our practice in order to provide better outcomes for Primary students. We have divided ourselves into four communities of practice or COPs as we like to call them and set ourselves the task of developing inquiries into the questions we have around how students learn and the most effective ways of teaching them. The COP I am part of is looking at how teachers can develop student agency. What this basically means is how do we teach students to take increasing responsibility for themselves as learners? When I went to school we largely sat in rows and the teacher taught from the front of the class. They asked questions we put up our hands and the teacher called on the same people each lesson; usually the students who knew the answer and sat near the front paying attention. We all joke about people who head for the back of the room whenever there’s a seminar or presentation to attend. This is likely a learned strategy from childhood which says, if I go to the back and don’t put my hand up then you won’t pick me. What that often says is, I don’t want to put my hand up in case I get the answer wrong and the class laughs at me. Eventually that child gives up, becomes disengaged and switches off. One of the techniques we use to ensure that every student expects to be asked about their learning is called ‘no hands up,’ and uses lolly sticks with a child’s name on which we pull out of a pot when it is time to answer questions. When the teacher is working on a new concept each child knows that their name could be called out to answer; this way, their engagement level immediately goes up. If they don’t know the answer they can ‘phone a friend’ to give them a clue. This is simply a way of asking someone for help. The idea is not to humiliate a child who doesn’t know the answer and teachers have lots of ways of ensuring success and building confidence, but by having a no hands up strategy all students are engaged for most of the time. There is no shouting out and the lesson is calmer as students listen for their name. We have been trialling this approach and have now decided to adopt it in every classroom. If you are interested to see a video on this technique head over to YouTube and search for The Classroom Experiment-Dylan Wiliam. Ngā mihi Sian Coxon, Principal of Primary Year 3 with College Science BuddiesLast week P12 were invited by their college buddies to visit the college Science lab. The Year 3 students participated in a experiment where they looked at different flame colours. They found out that by dipping sticks into different chemicals or powders, and set alight, that they burned different colours. It was really exciting and something they are going to find out more about. Jump JamLast Friday afternoon, Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to have a special visit from Mr Jump Jam, Brett Fairweather, who took us for a fast paced, energetic aerobics session. Just over 120 students challenged themselves to coordinate their arms and legs in time to the music. Lots of smiling, red faced students participated with enthusiasm and energy in this special Friday sports session. Thanks to Charliee Hawkins, Pippa MacNicol and Madisyn Atkinson for willingly ‘jumping’ in to be assistant Jump Jam instructors. Check out the video! Learning About Animals in P6In P6 we have had an exciting start to the term learning all about the different types of animals. Last week we focused on our native New Zealand bird, the Kiwi. The children were very excited about their learning; where we had a soft toy Kiwi bird arrive to the class which prompted the students to want to learn lots of interesting facts about the Kiwi and its habitat. This week in P6, we are learning about mammals. The children were given a small homework task talking about mammals over the weekend. The children arrived to school enthused to share their authentic learning. The group that was working on the art table today decided to draw a picture of a person, as we have learnt that people belong to the mammal category too! VectorMany thanks to all the primary students who were great listeners and contributed to the presentations by Vector. We all thoroughly enjoyed the variety of the presentations hosted by Tracy. Year 3 learnt about being safe around electricity and loved watching the video clips where the cartoon character was ‘frizzled’ when making incorrect choices around electricity. Year 6 were impressive with their knowledge demonstrated about sustainable forms of energy used in New Zealand. Our science topic in Term 2 covered the issue of climate change and children were able to make links to why New Zealand is using renewable forms of energy. The gadgets using wind and solar energy were are a great hit with the students. It's nearly time for blast off! We’re excited to have our Year 6 students participate in the Wonder Project Rocket Challenge. The Rocket Challenge is the first programme in the Wonder Project family. It’s designed to get young Kiwis excited and wondering about science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Over the term, the students will work through 7 modules which will prepare them for launching their rockets. Each class has been assigned a Wonder Project Ambassador who will work for about an hour each week with the students. Our Ambassadors Leonard Lowe, Ngan Truong & Dylan Waghorn are a great source of knowledge and support for the students during the programme. The ambassadors are all young engineers working in the commercial world who have taken time out of their work schedules to participate in the programme. We aim to be launching rockets in Week 5/6 so look out for our success stories! Year 4’s Got TalentThis week Year 4 celebrated their talents at the ‘Year 4’s Got Talent’ assembly. We were amazed by the diverse talents all the students had and were taken by the Year 4 students’ organisation, participatory skills and performances. To begin our assembly, we were delighted by the elegant sounds of Kayla on the piano. Later in the assembly we had the first talent group featuring the whole Year 4 group performance, Dylan on his electric guitar followed by Jade on her harp. The Year 4’s performed the A, E, I, O, U Waiata with actions - we have been learning this song to help us with Maori pronunciation. Dylan then took us away with his impressive electric guitar, which was then followed by the harmonic and graceful sounds of Jade on her harp. The second talent group featured the musical sounds of Aaron on his flute, talented Homin on his piano and the angelic voices of the Year 4 girls (Iris, Maddie, Felisha, Te Rangi, Jessica, Millie, Tesla, Sofia, Jenny D and Amber) singing ‘This is us’. We were impressed by the dedication and skills all the performers presented. Jenny Deng then ended the assembly with her graceful touches on the piano. We would like to thank all the Year 4 students for their accomplishment on this day and thank all the parents who came and supported them. We are truly grateful to have such a wonderful and talented community of students and their wider whānau. P18 visits their POD Buddy ClassLast Thursday, P18 visited their POD buddy class for our termly catch-up. Normally the POD visits us, but this time they invited us over for a visit. Our senior buddies had kindly organised a fun scavenger hunt for the Year 6 students and their younger POD members to do around the Senior College. Everyone was arranged into mixed groups of older and younger students. Armed with a mobile phone, to take photographic evidence of their finds, the groups set off with great speed in the beautiful afternoon sunshine. All groups successfully found the items listed on the Scavenger Hunt list and the POD leaders issued special certificates to the Year 6 students who were cooperative, helpful team members. Thank you to Mrs Wendy Kothe and Neeraj Charya for organising the event and we look forward to catching up again soon. Table Tennis MentoringTable Tennis continues to be an exciting and popular sport here at Pinehurst. This year, we are offering Table Tennis to Year 5 & 6 students, as well as (as always!) our Year 7-13 College students. Mid Bays FootballOn Wednesday this week, 28 Year 5 & 6 students represented Pinehurst School at the annual Mid Bays Football event at Ashley Reserve. Our girls team finished 2nd overall, and our Boys teams both 3rd overall in their respective grades. Pinehurst finished 3rd overall at this event. Well done to all students involved, with a special thanks to Mr Jack Taylor for preparing the teams for the event, and to Jack, Richard Osborne and JC Coaches Dilan Singh & Alex Hardy for coaching teams on the day. Thank you also to parent managers Tarnya & Avril, and to Mrs Lindsay for organising and supervising students at this event. I Spy in the PrimaryI Spy....Year 5 Robotics! I Spy....Year 1 Maths! I Spy...reading and writing in Year 2! I Spy …. colouring by numbers in Year 3! I Spy...keen Rainbow Readers! Kia Ora, Well done to all the students who have involved themselves in our Winter inter schools sports programme. For most students this is a full two term commitment. At Pinehurst we encourage as many students as possible to actively involve themselves. I consider this an invaluable element of the whole school experience, alongside music, drama, Duke of Edinburgh and leadership opportunities. On Tuesday all Year 7 and 8 students spent the day at Auckland Writers Festival. On Thursday all AS English Literature students also attended the festival. These valuable experiences are planned to enrich and support the teaching and learning taking place within the classroom. This coming Tuesday evening (21st May) there will be a meeting to launch a Geography / Science school trip to Hawaii. This is aimed at current Year 10,11 and 12 students. The trip will take place in April 2020. Anyone interested in finding out more information is welcome to attend. This time next week Year 11 students will have started their mid-year examinations and have completed their English and Mathematics papers. All other examinations for Year 10, 12 and 13 students will begin on Monday 27th May. Study leave for Year 11, 12 and 13 students begins on Monday 27th. This means that these students only have to be at school when they have an examination. However, if a student prefers to study at school rather than at home there will be study spaces available for them to work in. Year 10 students will be expected to attend school as normal. When Year 10 students do not have an examination they will be allocated to a supervised study class. The most important piece of advice that I can offer is for students to know their examination timetable. You do not want to be the person who turns up at 12.15pm expecting to attend the afternoon Physics examination to then discover it took place at 9.00am. An exciting event next week will be the Year 7 and 8 virtual reality visit. I am really interested to see what this involves and we look forward to sharing with you the experience in the next newsletter. Ngā mihi, Chris Wiggin and Kieran Verryt Principals of College Auckland Championships OrienteeringEarlier this week, 12 Year 7-8 students travelled to Moire Park in Massey, to take part in the Auckland Intermediate Schools Orienteering Championships. Teams qualified for this event from their results at the Zone Day earlier in the term, and were representing Pinehurst and the North Harbour Zone. Despite a tougher course, with some slippery logs to navigate, tight/blind corners to run around and a different landscape from the Zone Day, our teams performed very well! Our Year 8 Boys team of Kevin Guo, Dylan McKay, Daniel Murphy, Ted
Rua , Dilan Singh & Benen Sitarachiyanon were 8th out of 24 teams, and Daniel Murphy (5th) and Dylan McKay (6th) overall on their respective courses. Thank you again to our TIC Orienteering Kaye Griffiths for working with these students this year, especially as many are new to the sport of Orienteering, and to our wonderful parent helpers Emily, Hannah & Jan for transporting/supporting the students at this event. Citizenship CouncilTerm 1 was a successful term for the citizenship council. As a group of many year levels combined, we have integrated to make a great team, working together to organise activities that support our local community and essential causes. Such events included, a blanket and towel drive for the SPCA. As a whole school, Pinehurst came together and donated old towels, pet food and other animal essentials, to the SPCA. We held an Easter baking and sweet treats drive for Hospice. This is a great cause that left us feeling humbled and thankful for the small joy this brought to the families. Following the Easter theme, we held an Easter egg scavenger hunt at the Rosedale Retirement Village. This was hugely popular and brought a lot of smiles to faces. Lastly, we had a guess the number of jelly beans in the jar contest. All the money raised from this event will go towards the Breast Cancer society foundation. As a council we are looking forward to our big event this term, which is a Pink Ribbon breakfast, where all the money raised will go towards the Breast Cancer society. The Citizenship Council would like to say thank you to the Pinehurst parent and student community for their support in their endeavours. Auckland Writers FestivalThis week the Junior College visited the Auckland Writers Festival, where we were spoken to by four accomplished writers: Luke Wright (UK) , Sally Gardner (UK), Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith (NZ) and Joanna Grochowicz (NZ). Each of them entranced us with their unique styles of presenting their writing and taught us about lots of things such as: The Dawn Raids and The Polynesian Panthers in New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s; the thrills, humour and tragedy of poetry; conquering dyslexia to become a world-famous writer; the courage, suffering and perseverance of the brave men who were the first explorers of Antarctica. In conclusion, we all had a great time at the event and we appreciate the work the staff put in to organising this brilliant trip. Written by Jack Potier and Sam Craig Year 8 Social ScienceThis term in Social Science the students are learning about Ecotourism, why it is important and how, if they were in charge, would the students protect and maintain their own ecotourist destination. It is awesome to see the students working collaboratively, using their imaginations and getting excited about how they can make a difference in the world. "Our Ecotourist destination is a Maori village which includes a waterfall, lava rock caves and a village with exotic horses, the main goal is to protect the Maori culture of the village and the wild horses which are endangered and to keep the water clean" - Goldie Moritz "Our destination is on an island in Central America. It is highly tropical, very remote and a fantastic ecosystem with dinosaurs. It is a pristine and untouched land from millions of years ago with a massive active volcano and a gorgeous cave waterfall." - Shafeek Allie First Edition of the 'Christie Cup'On Friday 10th May 14 parings participated for the first running of the ‘Christie Cup’. The staff/student tennis tournament was the ‘brain-child’ of Harry Townsend and the Sports Council. Students from the Senior and Junior College had to ask staff members to be their partner in a Tennis Doubles Tournament. Each player had to donate $10, there was also a ‘sausage sizzle’ for spectators; all proceeds went to the Christchurch Canterbury Attacks Fund. After 1 and a half hours of fierce competition, Miss Daly & Benen Starachiyanon beat Mr Johansen and Minnie Turner in the Final. All pairs had a minimum of 3 matches. A good time was had by all. I would like to thank the staff that participated, the spectators and Harry and the Sports Council for organising the event. The ‘Christie Cup’ will be presented in Senior College assembly this week. AS BiologyThis week the Year 12’s studying AS Biology have been experimenting with ‘immobilised enzymes’. Both classes made Lactose-free milk from normal milk by using Lactase in the form of an ‘immobilised enzyme’. All the students managed to make beads from Sodium Alginate, Calcium Chloride and Lactase. They then passed normal milk through the apparatus to make ‘Lactose-free milk’. Some students even tried their product – but wished they hadn’t! JC HockeyThe Year 7-8 girls and boys have started off their seasons very well with great wins over their opponents, girls scoring 5 goals and the boys 6. It was great to see our kids doing their best and working well as a team. Big thanks to the two coaches Danielle Wheeler in Year 11 and Sophie Maxwell, an U21's rep player who have been working hard with their teams over the last few weeks. It's going to be another excellent year with Pinehurst JC Hockey. Hockey 1st XIMillwater provided a fresh and dynamic venue for the Pinehurst clash against Whangaparaoa College. The gentle thwack of carbon fibre on hardened plastic soon became a crisp set of clicks as the frenetic pace created a Morse code style soundscape for the well fought match. The bright white flood lights smiled favourably upon Pinehurst and they fought hard from the outset. Instead of waiting to be behind by a goal or three the team played hard from the outset. The plan paid off and soon the opposition were on the back foot. Dom opened the scoring with a hard hitting shot from a penalty corner. CJ made a dive to secure the second goal. The team passed well and kept the pressure on. Dom then repeated his PC charm with another goal. Under pressure the defence of the opposition could not stop CJ as he charged through for his second. The Pinehurst defence and mid-field were instrumental in getting the ball into the D from where the front line inflicted their damage. After the break Oli, Will and CJ added more to the tally and the opposition gained one goal. Was the final score 7:1 a fair reflection? No! Whangaparaoa College deserved at least three more goals as a reflection of their skill and determination, but Dong Ook used his lightening reflexes to keep them at bay and Pinehurst, as a team, must be congratulated on their sterling efforts. Pinehurst Golf Team hope for the WildcardThe Pinehurst golf team started the school week by playing an 18-hole tournament at Warkworth. The winner of this tournament would automatically qualify for the NZ secondary school nationals in September. Pinehurst started as one of the favourites to qualify, however with so many top-class golfers it came down to the team that can produce the goods on the day. Weather plays a big part in golf and throughout the round the players experienced a few seasons rolled into one. The first sign that it would be a day of ups and downs started when Yeonsoo’s golf clubs rolled down the hill and landed upside down in a creek. With help she managed to fish it out but clearly it was going to take some time to settle back into her game. It was a bit of a rollercoaster for everyone on the course however with most players finding it difficult to find consistency. Our number two player, Jaewoo Son was the most consistent and finished with the best score for the team. The team were clearly disappointed once all the scores were recorded, however they still managed to finish in second place. This means that we may still have a chance of going to nationals if the team is awarded the wildcard by New Zealand Golf. And on a less serious note...A super tired student pretending she was still watching Mr O'Connell's lesson...! In Music this WeekKBB Competition With the KBB competition only 12 weeks away both the Jazz Band and Orchestra are cementing the material of their chosen repertoire. Closer to the competition in August, musicians in both groups will attend weekend held workshops, details of which will be released in the next couple of weeks. The competition details will be released at a later date. The KBB Music Festival showcases secondary school orchestras, concert bands and jazz bands in Auckland. The festival celebrates 34 years this year, having started out as the Auckland Secondary Schools Band and Orchestra Festival. The Festival began with a few schools combining for performances and has since grown in both size and stature. Each year approximately 130 groups represent more than 50 schools from across the greater Auckland region. Groups perform in professional venues, competing for awards and a place in the gala concerts. The aims of the festival are:
To see the Jazz Band in action, rehearsing toward this event, click here. Yuzhang Wu selected and the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition Congratulations to Yuzhang Wu (Yr 8 - piano) who has been pre-selected for the upcoming third Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians to be held between 10th and 22nd of September in Zhuhai this year. Established in 1841, the University Mozarteum Salzburg, is one of the prestigious music academies in Europe, and is the founder of the International Mozart Competition. The Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians is an international and comprehensive music competition for youngsters. The participants, aged under 23, are divided into three groups. The Competition not only focuses on young musicians’ virtuosity, but also attaches great importance to their understanding and interpretation of classical music style. The Salzburg Chamber Soloists, globally renowned for their specialization in Mozart’s works, is designated as the orchestra of the Competition. Much Ado About ShakespeareTickets are now on saleOn Sunday Jessy Sehgal, the Creative Director of Graphic Monk, took on the task of teaching our cast to sword fight. A huge part of this is safety even though the weapons are not real. The positions, respect and strength involved is a lot to learn for such young members of our school. It made a huge difference to have senior students Devon Alexander and Andrew Stone in to work with them and mentor them after their experiences in last year’s production. The rest of the cast continued to develop their scenes, helped with final costume preparations and worked together to keep improving. This was made a lot easier with the assistance of present and past parents Tarnya Hawkings and Maree Jaggard. Behind the scenes students have been using their art skills for the production of props. It will be amazing to see all of their work put together on the 13-15th of June at the Pumphouse Theatre. Pinehurst Swimmers at the Dulwich Cup in ShaghaiThe Dulwich Cup swimming competition held at Dulwich College - a private international school in Shanghai was recently attended by approximately 20 international schools from across China and SE Asia and is of a very high standard. The Phoenix Aquatics Swimming Club sent a small group of swimmers, 3 of which were from Pinehurst - Jasmine and Jade Lyles and Osbert Gu, finishing 5th in the girls overall team scores and 6th in the boys team. Jade - swimming in the 10/under age, despite only turning 8 last month finished 3rd in the 100m Backstroke, 3rd in both the 4x50m Freestyle and Medley relays and 6th in the 50m Backstroke. Jasmine was 2nd in the 12 years 50 & 100m Breaststroke and 3rd in the 50 & 100m Freestyle and finished 4th overall in her age group. Osbert won a silver medal in the 4 x 50m Medley Relay (4th in the 4 x 50m Freestyle relay) and placed top 8 in 4 individual events (4th 100m Bk, 6th 50m Bk, 7th 100m Fr & 100m Br). What a great experience for our wonderful swimmers - well done! Golden Homes Swimming CompetitionCongratulations to Elsa Shu, who recently competed at the Golden Homes Swimming competition, winning Gold in the 50m Backstroke and Silver in the 100m Backstroke. Well done Elsa! Firefighting Teacher takes on Sky Tower Stair ChallengeOne of our very own teachers, Mrs Angela Smith is a volunteer firefighter at the Silverdale Volunteer Fire Brigade. She is taking part in the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge on May 18th to raise money for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ. This challenge is an annual fundraiser and firefighters from around New Zealand and international competitors race up 1,103 stairs in Auckland’s Sky Tower. If you wish to donate to this worthy cause, click here. Just a small action can benefit so many. Year 8 student EunJin Jang interviewed her to find a little more about what she does as a volunteer firefighter.
I saw a recruitment sign as I was driving past one day and thought that it was something that sounded interesting and that maybe I could do. I went along to an information evening and decided to give it a go.
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The Sky Tower climb is raising money for Leukemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand. I want to thank everyone who has donated this year – I really really appreciate the support. To read more of this interview click here... Chess CoachingAfter-school Chess Training at Pinehurst taught by a chess master:
Please contact Alex Huang at 021-0543891 for more information. New Zealand Careers Expo23rd–25th May, ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane. This is a fantastic opportunity to speak with a wide variety of careers related exhibitors in one place - especially as there will not be a Pinehurst Careers Expo in 2019 (held every second year). Exhibitors include employers, industry representatives, tertiary providers, training institutes, representatives from government departments and from corporate New Zealand. Admission to the Expo is FREE to all visitors! Families welcome to attend on the late night Thursday or the Saturday session. To see the list of exhibitors and more information go to: https://www.careersexpo.org.nz/expos/auckland-2019 Lifewise Big Sleep OutSasha Lockley, Mum to Toby Cleaver in Ms Speirs class is participating in the Lifewise Big Sleep Out. Lifewise partner with a wide variety of service providers to help communities, including family support, housing, and education programmes. Their annual Sleepout event raises money for programmes that work hard to reduce and eliminate homelessness. Sasha’s team from Avanti Finance have currently had 69 donations so far raising a total of $8,514.69, but the target for the campaign is $250,000 so there’s a wee way to go yet! If this is a cause that resonates with you they’d really appreciate your support. You can donate to their team here. Final Destinations for 2018 GraduatesWe have the final destination information for last year’s graduating class. Congratulations to all our ex-students on their placements, whether they are at university, polytech, have an apprenticeship, working or taking a gap year. For those at university in Australia, New Zealand and Korea they are well underway with their studies, but for those who are heading to the Northern Hemisphere, we wish them well as they make final departure plans to start their studies in September. Harry BartlettAfter leaving Pinehurst Harry moved to the UK in August 2016 and dancing up a storm, achieved top world medal placings at the world championships, but in recent times has been on the professional dance circuit touring. Harry spent January - April touring Ireland,North America and Canada on a 3 month, 50 state tour with Murphys Celtic Legacy. It was an amazing sell out of shows and he also had several opportunities to play the lead of a bad guy which was a dream come true, his first lead role was in Albuquerque, New Mexico on his 21st birthday. Murphys Celtic Legacy tour has now finished until later in the year when he is hoping to tour with the company again. For now Harry is on an exciting tour with a renowned show with world champion dancers called a TASTE OF IRELAND. It is currently touring Australia and is coming to NZ to the Aotea Theatre here in Auckland on September 20th. If you would like to see Harry in action head to Ticketmaster with the presale code Jig for promoter discounted tickets. |