Congratulations to Kees Hooper-Whiti who recently competed along with 29 other New Zealanders in the Australian Taekwon Do Nationals at a two day event in Sydney. Kees entered 6 different events.  He came fourth in individual patterns, gained a bronze medal in team sparring, a silver medal in team patterns and a gold medal for individual power. Going to Australia was a wonderful experience for Kees, and gave him a taste of what it could be like if he made the New Zealand team to compete in the World Championships in Ireland next year.

Congratulations to Hannah Wedlock in Year 12.  She has won the top prize at the Arts Society exhibition over the weekend! Students from the local colleges were invited to display their work at the two day event.  The Horowhenua College Art Department entered over 50 folios alone, and we in the department are thrilled that Hannah has received the top prize.  Hannah is an extremely talented and gifted Art student.  This year she completed three Art folios in Painting, Design and Photography. This is a huge achievement, one that she should be very pround of.  Well done Hannah! Jeanette Gilroy Head of Faculty Arts

Student Board of Trustee Elections 2016 A reminder that nominations for the student Board of Trustee Representative close Friday 26 August 2016 at noon.  Nomination forms are available from the Student Centre. Please see Mrs Searle if you would like to ask about this process.

On Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 of July, a group of 32 students plus parents, tutors and teachers went to Palmerston North to compete in the regional Pasifika Fusion Competition.  This competition includes twelve categories and Horowhenua College Pasifika students competed in eleven of these.  The aim of this competition is to ‘fuse’ the students of different Pacific Islands into a cohesive group to celebrate their different cultures and encourage pride.   The confidence gained carries over into higher expectations of educational success.  The theme this year was Pacific Leadership. Eighteen colleges competed and Horowhenua College came second overall!!  This was incredibly exciting. RESULTS: 3rd = in Senior Speech – English: Sina Crichton 2nd in Cinematography: Felix Ulu Kini 2nd in Senior Speech – English: Paul Sao 2nd in Senior Speech – Samoan: Olive Penetekoso-Faumuina 2nd in Wearable Arts: Meleofa Finau 2nd in Quiz: Team – Olive Penetekoso-Faumuina, Belinda Crichton, Paul…

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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,…

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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.

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…

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Our Prime Minister, Mr John Key, visited Levin recently.  Our Head Students, Jordan Sue and Anna Newman, were part of the official welcoming party.