No images? Click here 6 August 2021Pinehurst School NewsletterOpening Words from the Executive Principal...Kia ora tatou, good afternoon, 你好, 안녕하세요 The lights flickered for a moment on Tuesday, hovering, uncertain, as if making a decision about whether they should continue to light the school, or to give up the ghost and gently fade away. A sudden dip as we held our collective breaths, and then, decision made, they powered back up and stayed on. And so we continued our school day as the storm made its way overhead. We were lucky at the school, but I want to acknowledge everyone who had a rough Monday night and Tuesday morning: a number of our community suffered power cuts, including the whole area just to the east of the school alongside Rosedale Road, and some staff and parents also had to deal with damage to their houses and properties. Our thoughts are with you, and I hope that any damage wasn’t too severe. The weekend at school was a good one, though. Our Primary netball teams continue to do brilliantly, and the College production was fabulous: entertaining, very well-produced and a huge team effort. Thank you to all those involved and the parents who supported their children so enthusiastically. Thank you as well to all those parents who came along to the College Parent Teacher Conferences on Tuesday and Thursday this week: as I’ve said before, the teachers always enjoy these chances to meet parents and talk about the students, and I hope that you found the conversations useful. It was also great to be able to introduce Mrs Ahn formally to the parents of P17, and I’m sure they enjoyed the chance to meet our returning teacher. On Wednesday, our Year 7/8 boys took part in the Inter-Zone Hockey tournament: this pitches our students, who won the North Harbour zone day, against the best teams from around the region. They did superbly, finishing the tournament in third place, and I was very happy to see that we had the largest (and loudest!) support there from our very enthusiastic parents. A word of celebration too for our College table tennis boys, who took part in the Auckland Championships last weekend: it was an extra level of challenge for them in the middle of a superb North Harbour season, and they rose to the occasion. A special shout-out to Andrew Yousif, in Year 9, who won a gold medal in the B Grade, and to both Patrick Ryoo and Adrian Soh who give up so much time to ensure that the students have these opportunities. You will be aware that I wrote home one Wednesday about our new building project: Pinehurst Theatre and College 5. You should have a small publication by now explaining a little more, and we have an evening event on August 19th to which you are also invited, but please let me know if you have any questions or feedback that I can pass onto the Board as we develop the project. There’s also a model of the new building in Reception so feel free to pop in and have a look! Finally from me today: we say goodbye next Friday to Chrissy Nichol, who has been the School Receptionist for 18 years. She has been a wonderful, warm presence at the centre of our school for all of that time, gently helping our littlest ones, keeping a few of our older students in line (also gently, but pretty firmly too!), and cheerfully welcoming parents, staff and anyone who comes into the school. She’s heading off to new adventures, and I know that we will all miss her greatly. If you get the chance, you may wish to pop in and say goodbye to her over the coming week. Ka kite anō au i a koutou. Have a lovely weekend, Alex Reed 如需阅读校长的中文留言和重要事件日期,请点击此处 Dates for your Diary Week 3 Kia Ora, Yesterday’s Year 9-13 Assembly gave a fantastic little snapshot of what our college is all about. We started with a performance from our Orchestra who will compete in the KBB Music Festival next Monday. Their lively performance was much enjoyed by the audience. Ms Naumovska commented that in the past 7 years the Orchestra has grown from 17 students to over 50. Having witnessed the growth in the Orchestra I have also enjoyed the performance improvements that they have made, and I have no doubt that they will do Pinehurst proud at KBB next week. Also at the assembly we had presentations from our Citizenship Council and Enviro Council. One promoting the Pink Ribbon lunch, formally known as the Pink Ribbon Ladies Lunch. This has become a fantastic event in the school calendar, and it is great that boys will be able to attend this year as well. The Enviro Council promoted their sustainable shopping bags with Lianna and Douglas entertaining us with their unique sales pitch. Next up was the promotion of ‘Maths Camp’. Yes, it is such a thing and Michael Ma managed to promote it in a way that I am sure only he could, I expect that we will have more students signing up. Mr Jaques also took the opportunity to acknowledge three students that had placed in the top 25 in a national maths competition. Alongside this we had our annual fortnightly academic and sporting awards. As I have previously said our students are achieving fantastic results in all fields this year. A special mention this week to our girl’s lacrosse team who finished second in their competition last night, losing their final to St Cuthbert’s. Also of significance was the Year 7/8 Boys Hockey Team who became the first Pinehurst Hockey team to play in an Auckland finals competition. The boys had a great day, finishing in third place, and we look forward to seeing how they perform at AIMS Games alongside all of our other athletes later this term. We had a presentation from one of our Young Enterprise Scheme teams. They were promoting the competition to students so others can get involved next year, and being the fantastic young salespeople that they are, they also took the opportunity to promote their brand and products with the captive audience. In the final part of the assembly, we acknowledged our student coaches who enable sport to run smoothly at our school, and also presented a group of students with their Duke of Edinburgh Hillary Awards. This is an area of the school that goes from strength to strength, and we had a full set of awards presented yesterday with Mario Ibrahim receiving his Silver Award, while Head Girl, Ella Toumadj, was presented with her Gold Award, an outstanding achievement. Thank you to all the parents that managed to make it along to parent conferences. I find it a great opportunity to catch up with many of you, and I hope that you found the meetings worthwhile. One final reminder that we have our IGCSE information evening starting at 6:30pm next Monday in College 4. I look forward to seeing many of our Year 9 families there. Nga Mihi, Kieran Verryt, Principal of College AS Environmental ManagementLast week, the AS Environmental Management class went on an educational and exciting trip to the Auckland Zoological Park. Here the students had a session with a zookeeper all about how humans impact on the habitats of animals and strategies to help species repopulation, to bring birds like the Kakapo back from the brink of extinction. A fun fact the students learned was that the temperature inside a nest can determine whether the hatching Tuatara off-spring are males or females. This is certainly interesting to know with a currently warming climate! The students completed a scavenger hunt of challenges and information gathering and had some time to look at the various animals at the zoo. Year 11 Art & DesignThe Year 11 students have completed their coursework portfolios for Art & Design this past week. They have put an amazing amount of effort into creating a body of work, driven by a chosen theme, and accompanied by a portfolio demonstrating their idea development. For the IGCSE Art & Design coursework, students can choose an area of study that includes drawing, painting, digital illustration and photography. Here are two extraordinary examples of digital illustration completed by Meedol Jin and Danbin Luo. Junior Debating TeamOver the weekend, four students from our Junior Debating Team represented the school at a mini-debating championship for 47 teams from schools across Auckland. Angelina, Tara, Kelly and Emma, from Year 9, all spoke well and played an amazing part in our team. They won 2 out of 3 debates on Saturday, which was sadly not enough to get through to the final on Sunday but they debated very well against the competition. In the Auckland Junior Open Debating, which these students have also participated in, we have managed to make it through to the Octo-Finals so wish the team good luck for the next round of debating! Duke of Edinburgh AwardIn 1956, HRH Prince Philip, Kurt Hahn and Lord Hunt created the Duke of Edinburgh award. Delivered in more than 130 countries worldwide, reaching over one million young people annually, it is a personal challenge aimed to develop kids outside of the classroom, in the forms of a service, a skill, a sport and embarking on adventurous journeys. We are beyond lucky to have our own service centre here at Pinehurst run by Mrs Toerien. This means that students from Year 10 and above have the opportunity and support to complete their bronze, silver, or gold certificates. The bronze level begins with a taster of the award. You get to spend three months working on a service, skill and sport and get to go on a two-day adventure in stunning parts of New Zealand. Similarly, in silver you complete the same components for six months, and the adventurous journeys are three days long. In all areas you get to meet people, develop skills and relationships, and push yourself out of your comfort zone. Finally, in gold level, you spend a year completing the three main aspects, plus four-day adventurous journeys, and a residential project that involves spending a minimum of five days away from home, with no-one that you know. I am very excited to talk to you guys about achieving my gold award, so I can help encourage others to take on the challenge. The best thing is, you can choose to focus on what YOU want to do! My sport was netball. My skill was guitar. And my service was Surf Lifesaving. For my residential project, I spent 8 days completing the Hillary Outdoors Leadership camp with 23 strangers. Completing my certificates has been one of the best experiences of my life and has taken me to places I never thought I would go. Such as exploring Waiheke Island for my bronze, adventuring in Egmont National Park for silver, and tramping in Tongariro on my residential project. None of these tramps were easy – they pushed me more out of my comfort zone than I have ever been. If it was sleeping with strangers in a tent on my residential, finding the motivation to climb humongous hills or even at the end of the day getting to the campsite and realising you have forgotten certain poles for your tent and or a lighter to make dinner – all these experiences shaped me into who I am today. DOE taught me responsibility for myself, and others; it taught me skills in the outdoors; it gave me friendships for life and gave me experiences that I will never forget – and I could not recommend it to anyone enough. Finally, I would like to thank Miss Murray and Mrs Koopen for teaching me the basics, and supporting me during tramps and in general whilst completing the award. I would also like to say a massive thank you to Mrs Toerien for guiding me through my gold award, and all the encouragement when things got tough. If you are interested, please talk to Mrs Toerien, myself, or any of the other students at Pinehurst who have participated in the award. I promise it will make an impact on your life as it has mine. Charlie T, Year 13. YTechOn Monday, 2 August 2021, the Year 12 and 13 Computer Science students attended the YTech symposium (Technology for youth, by youth). The first part of the morning contained two presentations by excellent speakers. The first was titled “How to build a kickass career” by Kendra Ross. She owns a multi-million dollar company in cybersecurity and spoke about her initial struggles by being dyslexic, but how this helped her by thinking differently and building this amazing career. She spoke about the change in work force, driven by technology and explained the impact on our student’s career choices and how important computer science is to secure future positions. The second presentation was led by Dr. Lehan Stemmet, who wrote the book “Deal with it”. In short, he spoke about resilience, how to determine the difference between small and large problems, why we should stop worrying, gain perspective and how to solve the problem instead. After a short morning tea, students broke into groups and attended three different workshops, GameTan (gaming), Aura (cybersecurity) and Yoobee (artificial intelligence). Teachers attended different workshops which provided resources and further information regarding building resilience. After lunch, a panel of 5 representatives from the industry spoke to the students about their personal experiences in terms of building a career in their current field and what future careers they could plan for in those industries. They represented Xero (accounting software), Microsoft, Fleetcor, Aura and Ytech. The highlight of the day was when the students completed a “giant” Kahoot, where all 160 participants completed questions about what they have learnt during the day. The students thoroughly enjoyed it and explored the different careers and opportunities in the computer technology industry first-hand. We will definitely make this an annual event on our agenda. College MathsThe Year 8 extension class were investigating the surface area of a sphere by using oranges.
The Year 7 have been doing a statistical project about aliens that have crash landed at Pinehurst College. I have attached a few pictures of the average ZInflandian. Auckland Hockey Interzone ChampionshipsAs the winners of the 2021 NH Zone Day Boys Hockey event in Term 2, our Pinehurst Year 7-8 Boys Hockey team qualified to attend the Auckland Interzone Championships this week, representing the North Harbour Zone. Competing against 7 other teams, also winners of their respective zones (Waitakere, Northwest, Eastern, Counties, Southwest, Southeast and Central), Pinehurst certainly did not disappoint with their performance on the day! In pool play, Pinehurst won their first 2 games 1-0 and 2-0, before going down narrowly to eventual winners St Kentigerns Boys just 1-0. Playing in the semi-final, Pinehurst again had a 1 goal loss 2-1 to Bucklands Beach. The final game of the day was for Bronze, with Pinehurst winning against the Counties team (Reremoana) to finish 3rd overall – an outstanding effort at this high level competition. Thank you to Coach Will Elliot, Manager Mike and to Emily for umpiring for us at this event. Thank you also to all the parents, families and staff who came along to support the boys on the day. We look forward to seeing the team in action again at AIMS Games in just a few weeks’ time! AKSS Table Tennis Grade Champs Last Friday night several Pinehurst students qualified to attend the Auckland Secondary School Table Tennis Grade Champs. The level of play was of a very high standard and our students were surprised by the number of good social school players in the Auckland region and gained from the experience. Congratulations and well done to Andrew in Year 9 who won the B Grade single champ finals. A huge thank you to Patrick Ryoo and Adrian Soh who accompanied and supported our students at this event. Kia Ora, It has been a super busy week and our programmes are in full swing. Classrooms are focused hubs of learning with lots of activity, movement, creativity and joy. One of the great aspects of working in the Primary is the amount of enthusiasm to learn and fully take part in all of the opportunities on offer. Our Year 3 and 4 syndicate have been absolutely amazing this week. We have been so impressed with the work they have done so far for their production of Pirates Past Noon. Lines have been learned and the singing is beautiful. We are very grateful to have a large group of parents making costumes and props for us, they are a talented bunch! Tickets are now on sale for two productions on August 24 and August 26. We have a large number of students consistently achieving their green ticks in Maths Whizz and we love to hear how proud they are of themselves and their achievements. Maths Whizz closely matches our Maths programme and gives students a chance to consolidate their understanding and develop their skills. Using the Reading Eggs or Eggspress programme was also chosen because of its close links to our reading programmes and the resources to develop the ability to build comprehension skills. Thank you for all of your support to help students complete their homework, it makes a difference in the classroom. Kia pai to rā whakata, have a good weekend. Ngā mihi, Sian Coxon, Principal of Primary What is happening in Term 3 for the New to 2 team?Term 3 welcomed 11 brand new 5 year olds who have made themselves at home in P23 with their new teacher Ms Walton. The students in P23 started their learning journey the moment they entered Pinehurst. Their classroom is like Old Macdonald’s Farm as they have helped the farmer remember the animals on his farm with a song and a rhyme. They are brilliant artists and have drawn and decorated some of his hens. The students are already great mathematicians and have been practicing reading and writing numbers. Every morning they love doing fitness, to help get their bodies ready for learning. If it is sunny, they like to go outside, or if not, they do it inside, on the mat. Ms Walton has been helping with phonics and the students have learnt so many new sounds. The Year 1 and 2 students have welcomed our new members and are playing with them in the playground at break times. P1 and P2 are learning about the ‘Midnight Garden’. In Science they will be learning about night and day and researching into nocturnal and diurnal animals. This will help the students with their literacy mission, which is to find out which creatures come out at night, what they look like and what they sound like. So far P1 and P2 have researched into hedgehogs and written a report about hedgehogs. Later on in the term the focus in Science will take them in to the night sky, answering the question; what is the moon? The students are already excited about the new topic and the upcoming ‘night time’ adventures in class time! Arrrrggg! There are pirates in P4 and P5! Students really enjoyed the story “Pirates Love Underpants” this week. They found it hilarious that these pirates are trying to find the Pants of Gold. Using our small world materials, we have been retelling the story and even creating a new ending for our story. The photo shows Yuna in P4 who has recreated the part in the story where the other pirates are sleeping and the Pants of Gold were stolen! Shhhh..don’t wake them up! The students are working on the Big Write 'Message in a Bottle' and linking it to the theme of pirates. They have had fun doing all things pirate, from making a pirate passport to building and labelling a pirate ship, and even starting to talk like a pirate! Traction Man is here! Yes, in the Year 2 classes ‘Traction Man’ has been encouraging the students to retell the story using a story map. There has been a focus on new wonderful vocabulary from “suspended animation” to “giant intergalactic people mover”. The use of onomatopoeia is evident throughout the story and the Year 2 students have been identifying onomatopoeia in other books, especially when they visit the library. The students have practiced using brackets for parentheses (added information) and including these in their writing. In Science the students will be designing different outfits for traction man by looking at the properties of different materials and what they can do. The New to 2 syndicate are excited about their fun filled term of learning and look forward to sharing this on their class Seesaw page. Year 3 and 4 SyndicateYear 3 English In Writing this term, Year 3 are exploring a castle adventure to help them with their Big Writing agents: describe what life was like living in a castle. They need to be able to identify the features of play script features first, through reading and performing then talking about plays themselves. Learning how to get into character by acting out their roles will be easy with the Year 3 and 4 production practices happening at the same time. Understanding about rhyme in poetry will be helped too by the songs they are already practising and performing in Pirates Past Noon. Once they have explored all the new language features such as onomatopoeia and alliteration, they will put everything they have learned together to write their own plays and poems. Year 3 Maths Year 3’s started Unit 5 in their Busy Ants Maths book this week. The topics the students will be working on in the coming weeks are:
To successfully add, subtract, multiply and divide, students need to be able to recognise, count, read, write, compare, and order numbers. An important concept that aids their learning is knowing the place value of the digits in a number. In money lessons, the dollars and cents are kept separate. Amounts are added, subtracted, and recorded as either dollars only or cents only. Secure knowledge of number bonds to 20 and of place value leads to confidence in management of money calculations. We know lots of the names of 2-D shapes, so will now begin to identify right angles within the shape and develop our knowledge of the properties each shape has. We will start to learn which shapes are regular and which shapes are irregular. Year 3 Global Perspectives In Global Perspectives this term, the focus is collaboration and analysis. The students are refining their communication skills by working together in groups to complete tasks. They are learning how to be critical thinkers through gaining a deeper understanding of a topic. Our inquiry question for Term 3, is “How do homes provide shelter?”. Students have been locating relevant information and learning how to differentiate between a reliable source and an unreliable source. Students will then progress to observing forecasts and identifying weather patterns using global maps and other weather data. By the end of their challenge, students will have developed their analysis skills by using weather data to compare their local weather with weather in the rest of the world. They will work in groups to design and present their own shelter. Year 4 Maths In the Year 4 cross group maths, we started the term by recapping quickly on rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We looked closely at the rule of rounding and place value of the digits to help us round correctly. Next, we started learning about negative numbers. We worked together on drawing a number line and this time we added to the number line by counting backwards through 0 to include negative numbers. Year 4 English In Writing, the Year 4’s are looking at the language features of a persuasive speech and then coming up with their own topics. They are pondering interesting issues to persuade us to consider different points of view. Their persuasive speech will then be written, practiced and performed to an audience. In Reading, we are looking at a variety of texts and focusing on determining the main idea, summarising and retelling the story. Global Perspectives in Year 4 In Global Perspectives Year 4 will be developing their understanding of what contributes to the physical health of children their age. They will explore the impact of diet and exercise on their physical well-being and make connections to Term 2’s investigation into positive relationships and the use of humour to maintain emotional well-being. Year 4 Robotics Students have been exploring a Guided Project called Frog’s Metamorphosis. In this project, the students created and programmed a model of a frog from birth to adulthood. They explored the physical characteristics of each stage and changed their model, according to the stage in the life cycle. Building instructions were available for the tadpole and froglet but at the adult stage the students needed to change its characteristics and use high-level problem-solving skills to make their adult frog models jump. Next, they explored earthquake simulators working with the Guided Project called Robust Structures. Students needed to examine structures and look for features which assist with the ability to withstand high magnitude earthquakes. Using their high-level problem-solving skills, the students needed to create the tallest structure that would withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake. They closely examined bases and height that were key features of design. Year 5 and 6 SyndicateYear 5 Global Perspectives This term Year 5’s Global Perspectives unit focuses on ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. Where does all our packaging go? By the end of this unit, students will have identified key information about ocean health and waste from a range of websites. Students will use what they know about materials, along with new information gathered, to identify whether packaging could be recycled, reused, or made of biodegradable materials, and will create a proposal for redesigning an item of packaging to help reduce the amount of waste in our oceans. Year 5 PE Year 5 are starting the term off with a focus on Rugby. They will be developing running, passing, catching, and tagging movement skills within two different codes of rugby: Rippa and Touch. They will then move on to Athletics, focusing on throwing, running, and jumping movement skills. This will be in preparation for our school athletics in Term 4. Year 5 English In Writing this term, the Year 5 students will learn to structure, prepare and present persuasive speeches. Students will develop their skills in public speaking, learn to communicate with power and purpose, and extend their listening skills. Students will be taking part in a class competition. There will then be an opportunity to move through to the Year 5 semi-final and lastly the Year 4-6 Speech Finals. Year 6 English Year 6 are continuing with their ‘Lost Buildings Mission’, trying to solve the mystery of the disappearing, iconic buildings. The next part of the mission is to write a formal persuasive letter. Firstly, the students will be identifying key features of an effective persuasive letter, then moving on to planning their own. The students will be focusing on including features in their letter such as countering objections with answers, flattery, sophisticated vocabulary for dramatic effect, including synonyms and antonyms. The students are also deciding on topic ideas for persuasive speeches, they will be planning and writing these ready for class speeches in Week 5. Year 6 Science This term, students are combining science with art: they trace their hand, then add see-through bones to their picture, making their own skeleton hand. Our pictures show the many joints in our hands. Joints allow movement! Without joints we would not be able to bend our fingers. Can you identify the different types of joints in our hands? Hinge Joints and Gliding Joints. Year 6 Global Perspectives; ‘If I was a World Leader’ This term, Year 6 are learning all about Leadership. As leaders of Primary, this is an important daily focus for them; whether as an ilead, a librarian, a peer mediator, a sports café monitor, a councilor, or a road patrol monitor. Later in the term, the students will be heading offsite to attend a Young Leaders Conference which should help them to further develop their skills in leadership. In this term’s Global Perspectives Challenge on being a leader, the learners will be developing their evaluation skills by assessing the reliability of information from different sources. They will learn about the educational rights of children worldwide, the problems with school attendance in some countries, what organisations are doing, as well as possible actions they could undertake as individuals to help the situation. We have begun by looking at what attributes we think a good leader needs. See some of our attached brainstorms! Year 6 Visual Art Year 6 are producing a Photography Portfolio this term. Each week they are focusing on a different skill. They will begin with formatting a photograph to make improvements to it. They will also look at the rule of thirds, macro photography, portraits, perspective, capturing colour, patterns and landscapes. Final Jazz Band and Orchestra Rehearsals before the KBBThank you to all the Jazz Band and Orchestra members and their supportive families for ensuring a good attendance to the final weekend workshops and rehearsals (held last weekend and this coming weekend, on Saturday from 11.30am to 2.30pm for the Orchestra and Sunday also from 11.30am-2.30pm for the Jazz Band). Many students are valued members of both groups and their dedication has been admirable. Supporters and general public are welcome to view the Orchestra’s performance held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell on Monday the 8th of August from 12-12.30pm and the Jazz Band’s performance in St Mary’s Church on Wednesday the 11th of August 7.30-8pm session. The Orchestra performed one of their pieces, as a teaser, Tico Tico (The Flea) by Zequinha De Abreu at this week’s College Assembly and both groups will be welcoming new members from next week onwards. The Orchestra performed one of their pieces, as a teaser, Tico Tico (The Flea) by Zequinha De Abreu at this week’s College Assembly and both groups will be welcoming new members from next week onwards. Introducing our Music Student TeacherSam Swindells has been working at Pinehurst for 10 years as our dedicated guitar itinerant teacher, specialising in Rock, Pop and Jazz styles. Sam has performed extensively in New Zealand, recorded with numerous artists and released an album himself. This year he has embarked on earning a Music teaching qualification as well, and will be working with Year 7-13 Music classes until the end of week 7. Arts Council and Student Leaders Lead Jump Jam
Following the successful Senior College Jump Jam event, organised by the Arts Council and Student Leads last term, Year 7 and 8 were treated to a repeat experience on Thursday period 7. Students and Home Room teachers, dressed in house colours, competed for the coveted best individual (Lily McCabe), most enthusiastic teacher (Ms Webb, in heels no less and Mr Reynolds) and most enthusiastic house (Totara) prizes. Final Jazz Band and Orchestra Rehearsals before the KBBThank you to all the Jazz Band and Orchestra members and their supportive families for ensuring a good attendance to the final weekend workshops and rehearsals (held last weekend and this coming weekend, on Saturday from 11.30am to 2.30pm for the Orchestra and Sunday also from 11.30am-2.30pm for the Jazz Band). Many students are valued members of both groups and their dedication has been admirable. Supporters and general public are welcome to view the Orchestra’s performance held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell on Monday the 8th of August from 12-12.30pm and the Jazz Band’s performance in St Mary’s Church on Wednesday the 11th of August 7.30-8pm session. Peter Pan and WendyThe cast and crew of Peter Pan and Wendy want to thank you all for your support of our college production this year. The casts wouldn't have had such great audiences without the support of all our friends, families, and wider school community. Pinehurst School Theatre and College 5 Information EveningYou are invited by the Board of Governors to our information evening for wine, canapés and a short presentation about the Pinehurst Theatre the College 5 Project. The event will take place from 6.00 pm in the Library on Thursday 19th August: canapés and drinks will be available, so this is an adult-only event. If there are any questions regarding the event, please contact michelle.alves@pinehurst.school.nz Please RSVP for the information evening here Reserve your tickets now here For any questions, please email michelle.alves@pinehurst.school.nz Pinehurst Ambrose Golf DayWe are holding a Golf Day for Pinehurst families and friends! This will be held on Sunday 31st October at the North Shore Golf Club and is open to all levels of golfers. You can register a team of 2-4 players, or we can put you in a team of similar experience. A two-tee start from 7.50am – with the last tee-off at 8.40am. Registration is $120 and includes: Registration Pack, 18-holes of Golf, Sausage sizzle followed by prize-giving and a buffet lunch. Non-players are welcome to attend the buffet lunch – so it really is a family event! If you are interested in attending, get a team together and register using the RSVP Form. If you have any questions, please contact sylvia.lum@pinehurst.school.nz. Scholarship AwardedOn Tuesday 27th July Elijah received a scholarship of $1000 towards his school fees from the Korean government in recognition of his grandfather’s contribution to peace and freedom in South Korea. This was celebrated at a luncheon at Cornwall Park Bistro where Elijah met the Consulate General. Elijah’s Grandad was part of the navy mission sent from New Zealand to assist South Korea to fight against North Korea in 1951-1953. The ship he was on was the HMS Hawea. The war ended in 1953 in an armistice. 2021 Auckland Short Course ChampsOver the past few days some of our Pinehurst students from Coast Swim Club competed in the Auckland Short Course Champs. Congratulations and well done to Eleanor Saunders (13-14) who placed 2nd overall in the 100m Butterfly and to Kenneth Wang (13-14) who placed 3rd in the 100m Freestyle.
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