Queen’s Guide Award
Two Horowhenua College students have travelled through the ranks of the Girl Guide movement and have now received their Queen’s Guide Awards. Sarah Benseman and Kylie Smith have grown up side-by-side from the age of 7 years old when Kylie first joined the movement. Since then they have perservered through the ranks and are now qualified leaders. The two girls recently ran an advocacy project in the community to raise awareness about people who struggle in times of need. This project was the last criteria they needed to complete in order to gain their Queen’s Guide Award and graduate into leadership positions. They chose the Levin Combined Church Foodbank as their project. Kylie Smith said the Levin Foodbank was a very worthy choice for their advocacy project. “We knew there were a lot of people struggling to feed their families”. The girls raised awareness and also funds for the foodbank,…
National Shakespeare Schools Production
Ayvran Mackie as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, has been selected for the National Shakespeare Schools Production. Congratulations Ayvran! Thank you to everyone who supported Team Shakespeare this year. The road to the Glob begins now.
2016 Board of Trustee Elections
Declaration of parent and Staff Election Results Parent Representative votes: 18 Month Term GOOD, Garry 78 MCKENZIE, Ian 72 SIMPSON-TUKAPUA, Nikki 73 I hereby declare the following duly elected: Garry GOOD Nikki SIMPSON-TUKAPUA 3 Year Term CAMERON, Craig 55 HARTWELL, Chris 69 IMRIE, Janine 46 KIRIONA, Dylan 77 MANSVELT, Juliana 90 I hereby declare the following duly elected: Chris HARTWELL Dylan KIRIONA Juliana MANSVELT…
Prime Minister visits the Horowhenua
Our Prime Minister, Mr John Key, visited Levin recently. Our Head Students, Jordan Sue and Anna Newman, were part of the official welcoming party.
Year 9 High Achiever Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations and well done to our seven Year 9 Scholarship winners for 2016. They are: Ethan Roentgen (Academic), Sam Anderson (Sport), Isaac Bishop (Academic), Jamie Harper (Academic), Jared Davis (Sport), Brianna Chow (Arts) and Oliver Bau (Arts).
Much Ado About Nothing
Horowhenua College won the prestigious Sheilah Winn Cup for the first time in the college’s history. Our 15 minute scene of “Much Ado About Nothing” was a multi-cultural highlight of the recent Regional competition held here at college. The team have been invited to perform at the National SGCNZ University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival.
Start Dates 2016
The College Office will be open from 9am – 3.30pm on Tuesday 26 January. Senior Management and Deans will be available for enrolments. Please phone the college office on 0800 467694 for enquiries or to make appointments. Wednesday 27 January Year 12 and 13 subject confirmation day in the hall 9am Students with surnames from A-G 10am Students with surnames from H-P 11am Students with surnames from Q-Z Friday 29 January 2016 Prefect Leadership Training. Meet at 9am at the College Wharenui Monday 1 February 8.40am – 3pm Peer Support Leaders’ Training Tuesday 2 February 8.40am – 3pm Year 9 Students Induction Day with Peer Support Buddies. Bring pen, paper and lunch. Gather at 8.40am for the Y9 Powhiri. Parents are welcome to attend. 8.15am Service Academy Students start. Wednesday 3 February 8.40am – 3.05pm Classes start for all year levels. Thursday 4 February 8.40am – 3.05pm.…
Have you considered hosting an international student?
We are looking for school families to support our international programme by hosting a student next year. This can either be short term, for example, two weeks, or long term from 6 months to one year. We have approximately 50 homes currently on our books but are expecting 5 short term visits next year (in addition to our long term students) so we need to increase the number of host families to accommodate the visiting students. Our biggest group from Japan will be visiting in October, bringing 40 students for five days. Our international students particularly enjoy staying with a family where there are children. If you have a spare bedroom and an interest to welcome an international student into your family, we would love to hear from you. If you know of others in the community who would be interested, please talk to them about this also. After an…