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.
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…
China Visit by Horowhenua College students 2015
Sister School Exchange with China: This opportunity to form a Sister School relationship with PanYu ZhiXin Middle School, Guangzhou came as a result of Robyn Keeling’s visit to PanYu ZhiXin Middle School, Guangzhou in May 2014 with her agent, Shino. During this visit the Principal, Mr Zhang Xiongji invited Horowhenua College to bring students to his school in April 2015. Shino later came to stay with Robyn in November for two weeks which gave Shino the opportunity to get to know Horowhenua College and some of the staff and students. China Trip 4 to 19 April, 2015 The following students and staff visited Guangzhou during the April school holidays. There were: Alysha Gibbard, Cindy Jung, Amy Yip, Shivana Lucinsky, Naomi Hall, Georgia Floyd, Tameka Solomon, Mr Peter Cadle and Mrs Robyn Keeling. Students from PanYu ZhiXin Middle School will visit us in February 2016. Background: Pan Yu is one of…
China Trip – 4 to 19 April, 2015
See photos: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C36CABA5483F1E0D!4291 The following students and staff visited Guangzhou during the April school holidays. There were: Alysha Gibbard, Cindy Jung, Amy Yip, Shivana Lucinsky, Naomi Hall, Georgia Floyd, Tameka Solomon, Mr Peter Cadle and Mrs Robyn Keeling. Students from PanYu ZhiXin Middle School will visit us in February 2016. Background: Pan Yu is one of three campuses that make up ZhiXin Middle School. PanYu ZhiXin Middle School (Primary and Intermediate School) was built in 2002, has 3000 students (co-ed) and is a private school. Nan Hi ZhiXin Middle School (Intermediate and High School) was built in 2000, has 2000 students (co-ed) and is a private school. Guangzhou ZhiXin Middle School (Intermediate and High School), built in 1921 has 3515 students and is a public school. This school was established first and is the main school. In 2014, 99% of the students who graduated went on to University. In…