BOARD UPDATE September 2019
Kia ora Koutou By the time you read this we are well into the school holidays. I am sure this is a welcome break for both students and staff before we begin Term 4 and the run down to end of year and NCEA Exams. During Term 4 we celebrate through a variety of events the achievements of our students but also we recognise the additional pressures on our students in completing term work, assessments, portfolios and exams, so again will be doing our best to support them through this period. Term 3 has been a busy one for the Board. We are looking at further property work to update and modernise parts of the school, and have continued to review our health and safety procedures, including discussing preparedness for any Measles cases, and developing a Traumatic Incident Response Plan. We have decided to take up the Ministry of Education’s…
Board of Trustee Student Representative
Nominations are now being invited for the election of the Student Representative to the Board of Trustees. Students may pick up nomination forms from the Student Centre. Nominations close Wednesday 28 August 2019 at noon and must be handed to Mrs Searle.
Major Production Hairspray Jnr
Recently our college production of Hairspray Jnr was performed. This was a wonderful success and we received amazing support from our community. We would like to say a huge thank you to everybody. We would especially like to thank: Nick O’Brien; Kalanee Wicks; Kate Martin; Kenneth Ireland; George McDonald, Joyce Corrin and Yvonne Killiner – Levin Little Theatre; Murray Forward – Woodstock Joinery; Peter Murphy – Colourplus Levin; Levin Performing Arts Society and all of the parents and staff who have made this production possible.
Jamie Harper Year 12
Article courtesy of George Heagney, Manawatu Standard – July 2020 Helping students with mental health, changes to NCEA and transport are the main concerns of an aspiring Horowhenua politician. Year 12 Horowhenua College student Jamie Harper became the Horowhenua youth MP this year and wants to improve the problems youth are facing in his electorate. Jamie, 16, applied to Horowhenua MP Nathan Guy this year for the role and was accepted. Jamie said he was politically focused. “I know what issues are facing young people today through on my work on student council and youth voice, which allows me to engage with youth in this area.” This year Jamie helped organise a Gumboot Friday event at school. Gumboot Friday was part of a nationwide awareness day for Mike King’s mental health programme I Am Hope, which aims to raise money for counselling for young people. Jamie said a lot of…
Manu Korero 2019
This year was the 54th year of the Ngā Manu Kōrero Māori Speech competition. Our Horowhenua/Manawatu regional competition was hosted by Hato Paora College in Feilding and attended by 15 schools. The aim of the competition is to encourage the development of skills and confidence of Māori students in spoken English and Māori. Nikita McDermott competed in the Senior English section with eight other schools. Her prepared speech topic was “My culture is more than a performance” and her impromptu topic given to her 5 minutes before walking on stage in front of hundreds of people was “I believe in the teachers strike because…”. She was amazing, well prepared and focused, taking everything in her stride. She gave it her absolute best against seasoned and confident speakers. She didn’t place but she is a winner in our eyes and we coundn’t have been more proud of her, and she of…
40 Hour Famine
This year our 40 Hour Famine team decided to partake in several social actions within our school community and also our wider community. These social actions were undertaken as part of the 40 Hour Famine annual nationwide social action that helps raise money for nations that are in dire need of resources to support their people to survivie. This year the focus was on the South Sudan crisis in which many Sudanese have been displaced due to war and have taken refuge in Uganda. Alongside the national 40 Hour Famine, the ‘NUA 40 Hour Famine’ committee also participated in the “40 acts of kindness” programme. Our most significant “acts of kindness” consisted of us helping our school environment by picking up and disposing of any litter around the school and also helping in the library with chrome books and shelving books. We also donated lunch to the ‘Share the Care…
Open Evening 2019
Last term we held our Open Evening for all Year 8’s and their parents and whanau who were interested in seeing what we have to offer here at college. Thank you to those of our community who were able to attend, we enjoyed meeting everyone. If anyone was not able to make it to our Open Evening but would like a guided tour of our college please contat us on office@horowhenua.webhost19.inspire.net.nz Also big thank you to our Senior Creative Catering team who catered the event.
Education Perfect Science
Education Perfect Science is an online Science competition involving 100,000 students from all around the world. A number of our students performed extremely well in this. Our top performer was Ethan Roentgen who made the top 0.2% . This means Ethan was one of the top 200 students out of 100,000 from around the world. It just goes to show tht acdemically, students from Levin can compete with anyone from anywhere on the planet. Well done Ethan!