Darfield High School 2016 Yearbook

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Darfield High School Jubilee: Celebrating 65 Years!

Sixty-five years ago, in February 1951, 44 students began their High School tuition at Darfield—and now, the school roll for 2016 is approximately 850 students.

And so, on Saturday 27 February 2016, the Ex-Student/ Staff/Committee folk from over those years celebrated the 65th Jubilee of our school.

The day began with tours around the school and then we gathered at the Darfield Recreation Centre for a ‘cuppa and a natter’ while the High School Jazz Band entertained us superbly.

At 7.00 pm, we had a formal dinner with an address from the Ex-Students Association acknowledging ex-students and staff from the various years since 1951.

At the dinner interval, the Patron of the Ex-students' Association, Charlie McCaughan, cut the Jubilee cake and Diane Woodward, Secretary of the Association for many many years, was accorded ‘Life Membership.’

James Morris, current Principal, gave us an entertaining and informative address on the growth of the school since 1951, covering all manner of aspects, from buildings and programmes, to student numbers and staffing.

The evening finished with a dance and further ‘nattering’ where the school legends and myths and truths of our days at Darfield High School were mulled over, elaborated on, and retold over again.

The 65th Jubilee raised $1410.00 to go towards the school's Memorial to the earthquakes of 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011.

It was a great day renewing acquaintances with school mates and reliving what we all agree were the best days of our lives—so much so, we think we’ll do it all again for the 70th Jubilee in 2021.

Lindsay Johnston, President

Darfield High School

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This magazine is a souvenir of a year. For students and staff, it becomes a record of some of the many people and events that shaped the year. It is a document that will trigger memories as you dip into it in the years ahead. In a world that has become increasingly electronic, it is nice to have a hard copy for the days when the batteries go dead. The magazine is also an historical document: when somebody updates the school history in the years ahead, they will find it a key source of information on years gone by. Thank you to the contributors but, in particular, the team of support staff who have put it all together this year—Sheryl, Elaine, Bob and Jane.

For the record, on the school roll on 20 May 2016 we had 856 students. Of these, 25 were international fee-paying; 152 were in Year 7; 71 were in Year 13; and 50% were male. Due to a ‘demographic blip’, we had about 30 more Year 7 students than would usually enrol. This meant that we had ten form classes across Years 7 and 8. Along with increases at other year levels, it meant that we were very tight for classroom space, with lots of movement and using non-traditional teaching spaces.

A few other numbers of note regarding staff: this year, the school employed 66 teachers (71% female) and 31 support staff (84% female); 45% of staff were appointed in the last five years; and the average age of teachers at the school was younger than the national average. Due

to several teacher changes during the year, we relied on the goodwill and expertise of some long-term relievers, including several retired staff.

One of the school’s strategic goals is to further develop systems to support staff and student well-being. This goal has been developed in response to a range of indicators that point towards higher levels of stress and anxiety in a greater number of students and staff.

Increasing complexity and demands of society and education related to things such as assessment and ICT have meant that there has needed to be more focus on how we keep ourselves healthy at work. There are no simple answers. Stress is nothing new but, if we want to be able to continue to have staff and students operating at their best, then we need to make sure they have the support they need.

The way we look changes through the years and the magazine tracks some of this. Scanning back through past magazines reminds us of the big change in students as they grow from children in Year 7 through to young adults in Year 13. This year, I have had the opportunity to try a number of looks: a shaved head for charity, a soggy cat for the Mud Run, a Shinto Priest in Japan, and Sandy in a Grease parody for Talent Quest.

“Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.”

Jonah Goldburg

Traditions can be seen as a part of our culture that links us with the past. A tradition that has taken hold quietly over the past six years is the ‘School of Dreams’ phrase.

This first emerged when Dudley Fairbrass used it as a theme for his emcee-ing in the 2011 Talent Quest.

Since then, it has come to light in a variety of forms— sometimes gently teasing, sometimes ironic, sometimes serious, but almost always with affection. It has been an idea that has been largely left to the students to carry on as, if it became ‘official’, it might seem imposed rather than genuine. That said, the dream link has been carried into the current prospectus as “Explore. Dream.

Discover.” This comes from a quote by Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Another cultural feature that has emerged recently is the singing of Wagon Wheel as a sort of de facto school song. First sung by all the Houses at the House Singing competition in 2013, it has been enthusiastically reprised at school dances and in a school ‘sing-off ’ at the 2014 Stage Challenge. Its country style with lyrics about being on the road (perhaps exploring and dreaming?) seems to have hit the right notes. Only time will tell how long it will endure.

James Morris

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PTSA It has been another fun-filled year, although the Committee has taken a slightly different approach this year.

The year comes and goes so fast: PTSA supports the school with tea and coffee for the open evenings, and drinks and light supper for Senior Prizegiving. Our main fundraisers are the High School Senior Formal and the Courtenay Show.

We invited Mike King (right) to come and talk with our community about Anxiety and Depression. This involved an evening presentation to parents and a daytime presentation to students.

The feedback was great: people really enjoyed his comical and real approach to a hard to talk about subject.

We invited Dr Jackie Blunt, from the Brainwave Trust, to come and present to our community in October. The session was called Unravelling the Adolescent Brain—Social and Emotional Change.

We have invited school pupils to design an apron logo for the PTSA, and there will be a cash prize

Above: Nikki King, Netty de Hertog, Jan Stark, Ed Searle, Rhonda Hamilton-Cross, Leanne Hughes, Ann-Clare McGregor, James Morris

for the one chosen. For another fundraiser, we are hoping to print tea towels using the students’ designs.

We are still raising funds to provide seating and shade to make a nice space in the Quad which can be used all year round.

Nikki King, Chair

Thank You to our Volunteers Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers.

Whether you help coach a school sports team, are a parent help on school camp, help at our fundraising events, or give endless hours to read/write for our students—their learning is enriched, enhanced and encouraged in all areas of the curriculum. We are always astounded by the number of generous and kind people in our community who give freely of their time to aid our

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staff and, ultimately, our students. Thank you—your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you to the Malvern Lions who came in, volunteering their time and resources to cook a huge number of fries and hotdogs for staff and students.

Held twice during the school year, the Lions' Fries Days are a fundraiser for the Young Achievers’ Big Day Out. Everyone loves Lions’ Fries Day!

Lions Fries Day

Board of Trustees

And, just like that, another year draws to a close.

This year, we had a change of guard with many of our previous Board members stepping down. Thanks to Jane McMillan and Darren Hammond for their service to the school. Even though Melissa Jebson didn’t stand for the full three-year term, we were lucky enough to have her available as a co-opted trustee for the remainder of the 2016 year; she is assisting in the transition of the new Board. Thank you, Melissa.

We welcomed Marcus Waters, Toni Bellamy, Anne Hann and Brad Sutton as our Parent Elected Trustees and, with Bailey Campbell our Student Trustee

completing his year on the Board in September, we welcomed Rachael Phillipson in October.

This year, we have worked hard to ensure that the academic achievement of our students remains as high as it can be for every student within our school community; the results have been pleasing. We have set high targets of achievement for our students and we know we can’t achieve that without the having right structure, people and environment.

The Board supports an esteemed group of teachers and support staff—not only in the classrooms but also in

our Admin block and our grounds—each person makes their own individual contribution that means we can open every day and deliver first class education to the students.

Our students are the reason we operate; they are the reason we work tirelessly to ensure they have the future they are entitled to. That is harder than you think.

Expectations of our students, our staff and ourselves, the expectations our students put on themselves, and the expectations our parents have of their children and our school mean we can’t be complacent. Never once can you breathe easily; things change constantly.

Change is the only thing we can be assured of.

So, as we look ahead to 2017, we keep one eye on what was, one eye on what is, and one eye on what will be.

We can’t change the past; we can’t stop time and live in the now; and we can’t live in the future. We can, though, plan for the future, learning from the past and present. As your Board of Trustees, we are excited about the future and look forward to continuing to motivate, encourage and extend our students so that they can be successful contributing members of society.

Sue Robinson, Chair

(Back row) Rachael Phillipson, Marcus Waters, Brad Sutton, Toni Bellamy, James Morris, Scott Jermyn (Front) Melissa Jebson, Sue Robinson, Anne Hann

Ex-Students’ Association The Ex-Students’ Association is really proud of our school and we are also proud and amazed at all the activities and events that the school gets involved in.

Above all, we are impressed by how well the school is thought of in our local communities—and that is thanks to the current students, the staff and all the various committees associated with our school.

Our congratulations to this year’s group of school leavers— well done on the results you have achieved and our very best wishes for all your future endeavours.

Eventually, we hope you will join the Ex-Students’ Association and join us in the functions we hold to renew our Darfield High School friendships and celebrate the memories of past years at school.

Earlier this year, in February, we did just that by holding the 65th Jubilee of Darfield High School. It was a wonderful occasion meeting each other again and expanding on the stories, myths and legends of our time at school. At 97 years old, Charlie McCaughan, our Patron and an ex-teacher at our school, led us in Grace before the 65th Jubilee celebration dinner—a poignant moment for us now, as Charlie passed away in July this year. Charlie epitomised everything good about our school and its staff, and we miss him. The next big celebration will be the 70th Jubilee in 2021!

Lindsay Johnston, President

(above) Patricia Henderson and Diane Woodward (Below) Charlie McCaughan and Patricia Henderson

(above) Welcoming duo, Lindsay Johnston, President, and Annette Scott, Treasurer, at the 65th Jubilee earlier this year.

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Mrs S Davies, Ms L Gallacher, Ms S Rennie, Ms J Stark, Mrs J Rangi, Ms J Milne, Mrs E Vincent, Mr J Walter, Mrs V Oliver, Mrs C Cartman

Fifth Row:

Mme M Juhel, Miss S Beaumont, Ms M Evans, Dr G McKenzie, Mr K Hoy, Mr S Gerritsen, Mr J MacDonald, Mr R Meder, Mr G Chalk, Mr M Maude, Mr R Hayward, Miss N Voss

Front Row:

Mr J Bell, Mr C Quinn, Mr P Tsavousis, Mr J Basevi, Mr S Jermyn, Ms P Evans, Mr J Morris, Mrs K Morgan, Mr T Adams, Mr R Baars, Mr J Dickens, Mr S Gough, Mr R Smith

Second Row: Mrs J Hill, Mrs L Walker, Miss L Petersen, Mrs S Staddon, Mrs L Hamilton, Miss B Graham, Mrs B Lester, Miss K Kensington, Miss K Hobson, Mrs T McKay, Mrs S Hayakawa-Buist

Third Row:

Fourth Row: Mrs A Walker, Ms H Duckworth, Miss S Collins, Mrs E Guy, Miss S Rawson, Mrs S Watson, Ms C Tijsen, Miss J Watherston, Mr P Finnigan, Mrs J Nethercott, Mrs G Galletly

Miss L Blakemore, Miss C Walker, Mrs C Whyte, Mrs K Holland, Mrs A Hanson, Miss N Hely, Mrs M Jebson, Mr M Benassi, Ms B Smith, Mrs B Hoy, Mrs N Ferguson-Brown, Mrs L Pengelly

Back Row:

Principal: Mr James Morris Deputy Principal: Mr Todd Adams

Deputy Principal: Ms Trish Evans Deputy Principal: Mrs Kathryn Morgan

Teaching Staff Mr Remco Baars: HOD Science (until May) Mr Justin Basevi: HOD Mathematics Miss Sophie Beaumont: History and Social Studies Mr Jared Bell: PE, Social Studies, Year 12 Dean Mr Matthew Benassi: Commerce and HOD Social Studies Miss Louise Blakemore: Digital Technologies, Year 9 Dean Mrs Camille Cartman: Year 7 Homeroom, Peer Mediation Mr Gavin Chalk: HOD Technical Miss Samantha Collins: Social Studies and History Ms Christine Curtin: Design and Visual Communication, HOD Technology Mr Jason Dickens: Outdoor Ed, HOD Physical Education Ms Helen Duckworth: Teacher Librarian Ms Barbara Ellena: Maths (from November) Ms Melina Evans: Mathematics Mrs Nikki Ferguson-Brown: HOD English Mr Peter Finnigan: Technology Hard Materials Ms Laura Gallacher: English Mrs Genevieve Galletly: Year 8 Homeroom Mr Stuart Gerritsen: Assistant to HOD Science Mr Shawn Gough: Assistant to HOD English Miss Baillie Graham: PE and Science Mrs Andrea Hanson: Drama Mrs Sumi Hayakawa-Buist: Japanese, International Department Miss Kimberley Hobson: Year 7 Homeroom Mrs Kirsty Holland: Year 8 Dean Mrs Bronwyn Hoy: TIC Digital Technology, Business Studies (until October) Mr Kevin Hoy: Year 8 Homeroom Mr Scott Jermyn: Year 7 Dean Mme Marjorie Juhel: French Miss Kimberley Kensington: Year 7 Homeroom Miss Vanessa Kidd: Careers Advisor (until August) Mr John MacDonald: PE, Health, Rural College Mrs Jayne Mallinder-Scott: Counsellor and HOD Health Mr Matthew Maude: HOD Science Mrs Suzanne McFerran: Learning Support Dr Grant McKenzie: Science and Senior Biology Ms June Milne: Mathematics Mrs Penny Munro: Careers Advisor (from August) Mrs Janet Nethercott: Year 8 Homeroom

Support Staff Mrs Lesley Pengelly: HOD Special Needs Miss Laura Petersen: Social Studies Mr Christopher Quinn: TIC Geography Mrs Jemma Rangi: Year 8 Homeroom Ms Sarah-Jane Rennie: Music Ms Bree Smith: HOD Art Mr Rex Smith: TIC Rural College, Science Ms Jan Stark: English and Specialist Classroom Teacher Mr Warwick Stubbs: Music (until May) Mr Panos Tsavousis: HOD ESOL Mrs Erin Vincent: Food Technology Miss Nicola Voss: Science Mrs Aileen Walker: Technology Textiles Miss Charlotte Walker: Assistant to HOD Maths, Year 11 Dean Mrs Lisa Walker: Year 7 Homeroom Miss Julia Watherston: Physical Education Mrs Carrie Whyte: Mathematics, Year 10 Dean (until September) Ms Hiria Williams: Te Reo Maori Mrs Kathryn Wilson: Mathematics, Science, Year 13 Dean Ms Hayley Woolf: Science

Relief Mr David Armstrong: Relief Mrs Beryl Hatton: Relief Mr Bruce Johnston: Relief

Staff Currently on Leave Mrs Rachel Balchin Mr Graeme Fee Mrs Anna Lee Miss Jasmine Ling Ms Amy Tangney Mrs Jane Turner

Itinerant Music Teachers Mr Guy de Lacey: Clarinet, Saxophone, Quartet Ms Julia Evans-Brant: Flute Mr Ray McMurdo: Guitar Mrs Barbara Mulholland: Vocal Mrs Cecilia Pascoe: Piano Mrs Pauline Sewell: Strings Ms Karen St Guillaume: Brass Mr Rob Zipfel: Drums

Mrs Karen Armstrong: Sports Co-ordinator Miss Hannah Cossey: 24/7 Youth Worker Mrs Sue Davies: Administration Assistant, Absences Mrs Jane Duncan: Librarian Ms Nicola Earle: Teacher Aide Ms Jude Elliot: Network Administrator Mrs Chrissie Fairbrass: Canteen Assistant Manager Mr Enrico Festa: Cleaner Ms Shirley Fitzgerald: Teacher Aide Mrs Elaine Guy: Receptionist, Administrator Mrs Louise Hamilton: Counsellor Mr Bob Hayward: Office Assistant Mrs Poiema Heine: 24/7 Youth Worker Miss Nicola Hely: Director of International Students Mrs Jill Hill: Student Administrator Mrs Jane Huggins: Principal’s and BOT Secretary, Office Manager Mr Terry Hutchinson: Workshop Technician Mrs Melissa Jebson: Rugby Administrator Mrs Sally-Ann Lemon: Teacher Aide Mrs Brenda Lester: Executive Officer Mrs Trudy McKay: Librarian Mrs Lynn Meder: Canteen and Cleaner Mr Ross Meder: Caretaker, Outdoor Ed Mrs Jan Mitchell: Arts Co-ordinator (until July) Mrs Samantha Newbigging: Teacher Aide Mrs Vicki Oliver: Alternative Education Tutor Miss Sarah Rawson: Homestay Services Co-ordinator Mrs Andrea Ritchie: Teacher Aide Mrs Trish Roper: HR Co-ordinator Mrs Louise Singh: Teacher Aide Mrs Shona Staddon: Stationery Shop, International Finance, NZQA Assistant Mrs Anne Tait: Cleaner Supervisor Ms Marita Taurua: Cleaner Ms Cat Tijsen: Science Technician Mrs Maria Townsend: Sponsorship; Careers and Rural College Assistant Ms Tracy Cameron: Cleaner Mrs Janice Van Tongeren: Canteen Manager Mr Jeremy Walter: Grounds, Maintenance Mrs Sheryl Watson: Publications, Newsletter Editor Mrs Lesley Whellans: Attendance Co-ordinator, Teacher Aide

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Kirsty Holland

Justin Basevi

Nicky Voss

Sarah-Jane Rennie

I have thoroughly enjoyed working at Darfield this year. I feel privileged to be part of a dedicated teaching team in a school with such strong ties to the community, and I thank the staff and families for being so supportive and for making me feel very welcome. The biggest highlights from this year have been the Year 8 camps and the Year 8 experiential activities. It has been great to see the students challenge themselves to try something new, support each other and have fun doing so. The kindness and respect the students show other are inspiring and a credit to them.

I am looking forward to another great year.

I come from Auckland (please do not hold this against me!). My family and I moved down from Matakana where we enjoyed the coastal lifestyle of beaches, boats and horses. After many years as HOF at Mahurangi College, and living on a small rural property, we decided we needed to experience the mainland again and live amongst the amazing South Island countryside.

What a year! After working in an all-girls school for 14 years, it has been quite a change for me this year. I have really enjoyed working with the Science Department who have been incredibly supportive. The friendliness and respect of students are the result of all the supportive parents, and the efforts of the community and school staff. The highlights throughout the year have been going on the Year 9 camp, and being involved with our wonderfully talented Equestrian team. I'm really looking forward to 2017, some more challenges, and lots of fun and learning along the way.

I came to the pretty town of Darfield in April and did a little relieving, I am still here as TIC Music while Rachel Balchin is away on maternity leave. The Music students have worked hard and we have had some real successes with Ellen Walters going to Otago University School of Music with Cello in hand, and Holly Kimber off to Rangi Ruru on a full Music scholarship. We have installed new instruments and a stereo system.

The students are learning keyboard, guitar, violin, cello, woodwind and brass.

I hope every student enters a welcoming environment that may help them focus on learning more about the wonderful world of music.

I have enjoyed getting to know the students and staff at DHS. The Maths Department is staffed by some amazing teachers and the students I have met have genuine ability and willingness to learn.

STAFF WELCOMES AND FAREWELLS STAFF WELCOMES AND FAREWELLS

Lisa Walker

Baillie Graham

Hayley Woolf

Penny Munro

It has been an absolute pleasure to start my teaching career at Darfield High School. I have been very lucky to have the most amazing, kind, funny and lovable class. As my students will know, my teaching style is organised chaos and a good dollop of humour.

My time at Darfield High School has been very enjoyable. The highlights through the year have been going on the Year 9 Camp, getting involved in the House activities, and having the opportunity to grow and develop netball at the school. My greatest achievement has been coaching the Junior Netball Team who came 4th in the Junior South Island Tournament. The staff, students and family members have all been very welcoming and I wish you all the best for 2017.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working at Darfield High School. It was a bit of a rocky start coming in part way through a couple of internal assessments but, once I got my feet under me, it was smoother sailing. There have been a few highlights, such as firing bottle rockets, exploding sodium, and going to Orana Park, but I have enjoyed getting to know all of my students. I am passionate about science and I hope that some of it has been passed on to the future generation of scientists.

What a fantastic place Darfield High is with its wonderful students and welcoming staff. I am really enjoying working here and am very impressed with how many students have utilised the Careers department for guidance.

I look forward to meeting more of the students and I welcome parents also to make use of our resources.

I have thoroughly enjoyed using my computer skills to teach Year 7 Digital Technologies. I felt privileged to run the DHS Chess Club and may even learn how to play one day. It is my hope to continue to teach at DHS for years to come.

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Kimberley Kensington

Samantha Collins

Sophie Beaumont

Erin Vincent

2016 has been a fantastic year! It has been great to have the opportunity to be a part of the Darfield High School community and take on many new challenges. I have thoroughly enjoyed my experiences with Years 7/8 sport, helping out with both the Football and the Rugby Sevens teams. Most of all, I have really enjoyed my time with my wonderful class, 7KK, who have been a pleasure to teach, and I look forward to seeing them continue to grow throughout their Darfield High School career.

2016 was my second year of teaching and I had the pleasure of being at Darfield High School. I have had an enjoyable year teaching History at all senior levels with my fabulous students, and have seen some real talent and natural abilities in the subject. I would like to say a big thank you to all of the people whom I have worked with over the year, to the community and to the students for making my time so special.

I have loved my first year teaching at Darfield High School. After a rocky start with a few students (you know who you are), I got into the swing of things and have really enjoyed getting to know the various characters of the school. I had a great time on Year 9 Camp and I am excited about watching the Softball team win the Term 4 competition.

Getting involved with House events as a proud member of mighty Tawera has been a highlight of the year.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year teaching Food Technology at Darfield High School. Staff and students have been very welcoming and I thank them for all their support throughout the year.

It has been a pleasure to get to know the students and it has been very rewarding to watch their growth and success. I look forward to seeing everyone back in 2017 and wish you all a safe and enjoyable break.

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Peter Finnigan

Matt Benassi

Bronwyn Hoy

Remco Baars

Hello. My name is Peter Finnigan and I am a relieving teacher of Mathematics and Technology. I am working with students on all aspects of technology, from the design process to construction level. I have been impressed with the openness of the students to help me fit in. I am enjoying all aspects of school life.

I started teaching Commerce, Economics, Enterprise and Social Studies this year. I enjoy teaching in a range of subjects with students from different year levels. My partner and I relocated to Christchurch after spending eight years working in different schools throughout the South Island. I enjoy sports and do a mixture of snow sports and team sports, such as basketball. So far, I have enjoyed teaching at DHS and am always looking forward to what the future might bring.

I came to Darfield High School after spending four and a half years teaching in Central London; it was so nice to be welcomed into a school where the students care about each other and respect their teachers. I am moving on to Rolleston College to begin a new chapter in my teaching career and I have many great experiences from Darfield to take with me. To all my students past and present: I hope I have made a positive impact in your lives and look forward to reading about the wonderful things you will go on to achieve.

While it has been hard work at times, I certainly have enjoyed the time I have spent at Darfield. I hope that my students will use their learning to think about what they do for a living, for fun, and the contribution they can make to society and the planet we live on. We are moving into incredibly challenging times and it will take young people with a capacity for high-level thinking to come up with sustainable solutions, but I am confident this generation is up to the challenge. To all my past students: have fun, learn lots and be nice.

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Head of Culture It's been an honour to be given the responsibility to recognise and encourage something that I’m so passionate about. I wasn’t really sure what to expect as Head of Culture this year but it has definitely taught me not to over-commit!

Culture is what makes life worth living and it’s incredibly important in everybody’s lives. I knew it was huge but hadn’t fully thought about what it meant at school. Culture and the arts mean different things to different people, but you shouldn’t have to look hard to find it, because it’s your history and beliefs and values.

It’s music, drama, the arts, New Zealand’s culture, the International Department and the cultures of the people there, and also the general vibe of a place, and how people interact with each other and the rest of the world.

A highlight of my year was being MC for Oral Tapestries. Leading up to the event, I was a bit worried about the task ahead but it was one of the best experiences of the year. I’d never thought about how the nerves would go—you give a speech and you’re done but, as MC, you have to keep getting up again!

It has been phenomenal to be a Christchurch Symphony Orchestra ambassador over the last three years, taking over 30 people to concerts and rehearsals and showing them how awesome the orchestra is. I was also asked to be part of a promotional funding video, which was an honour.

Although no-one took up the challenge to participate in the MC competition as part of Talent Quest, I believe it should be continued as it is a skill in itself. A huge thanks to Michael Campbell and Michael Ridgen for doing an awesome job at the Finals night. This really was the most talented night we’ve had, and the calibre of acts was incredible.

I’ve loved meeting the exceptional people in the International Department and finding out more about what happens there. It was also important for me to take a small step and talk about Matariki in assembly.

Something else I’ve found really helpful is creating a link between the Selwyn District Council and Darfield High for things such as art exhibitions, writing workshops and the Cultural Festival.

Over the years, music has grown to be a huge part of my life, and so it has been great to set up a concert band with Emma Grigg and share the experience of playing in a group. All the best to you guys!

It’s been an honour to work with so many inspiring people throughout this year and I hope that passion for culture can continue to grow. Thanks Darfield!

Ellen Walters

The second project is working towards a new uniform item—DHS Sports hoodies. The purpose of the hoodies is to encourage and improve pride in Darfield High school sports, as well as to get a more uniform look for representing the school.

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Head of Sport

It has been an amazing experience to be Head of Sport for the school this year. I have enjoyed every moment of it, and it has been awesome to get to know the athletes of our school. In my role as Head of Sport, I have had two focus projects.

The first of this was the introduction of a DHS Sport Facebook page. The aim of this page is to let the students, parents, and the wider community know about the sporting success we have and, as the page develops, it will be used to advertise any need for coaches/transport, and to let people know of cancellations.

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Darfield High School students have had an amazing year, always achieving to the best of their abilities, and showing incredible sportsmanship and an increasing amount of participation. All the teams that have competed in the Christchurch Secondary School competitions have performed well, earning some great placings and results.

Notable mentions of awesome achievement include: • The visit from Adams Grammar School (from England), with one win and one loss for the DHS rugby teams • Tom Freeman got first in NZ for free water swimming • The Year 7 teams who were the first teams ever from DHS to compete in the Koru Games • Senior Tournament, where Netball came 7th, Girls’ Hockey 4th, Boys’ Hockey 3rd, and Rugby 2nd

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The Junior Netball team gained fourth place at the South Island Secondary Schools tournament The Small Bore Shooting team succeeded with distinction in multiple competitions

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as Head of Sport, and I wish all the best for the future athletic endeavour of athletes from Darfield High School. I can't wait to hear about all the success.

Grace Lemon

Head Students’ Reflections If we were to go back one year from the time of writing this article, we would all find ourselves nervously anticipating the adventure that would be Prefect Camp.

This small overnight expedition proved to be the beginning of what would be a long and educational, but overall amazing, experience. Our Head Student year in 2016 began with an educational trip into Christchurch for the GRIP Leadership Conference. This event really sparked some ideas that we were eager to pursue.

As Head Prefects this year, we have been working to improve the inclusive culture of the school—we wanted to strengthen relationships between year levels and give people an opportunity to interact with people whom they may not otherwise meet. We have built the foundations of many great initiatives that we hope in future years will be developed and strengthened to make Darfield High School a better school community.

This included a drop-in room—we opened up a classroom at lunchtime for students to come and have a chat and seek advice from a Prefect. We also implemented the email address, studentsupport@ darfield.school.nz, so students could seek advice through an easily accessible interface.

This year, we had the opportunity to carry out a presentation to Year 11s regarding study tips. We were very eager to do this because we feel that it is something we would have benefited from in Year 11.

Providing easy to follow and practical study advice was our goal, as well as talking about different effective

study methods and places to go if you need academic help. Wellbeing was another theme we touched on, as taking good care of your mental and physical health can significantly affect your grades. Time management tips were also included—our previous experience showed that this was one of the most important life and study skills throughout our studies. We hope this initiative helped our first-year NCEA students and is a presentation that will continue to inspire academic merit in our valued pupils.

Another programme we introduced to the school was mentoring. This was introduced in order to bridge the gap between junior and senior students, as well as to help guide young students through their time at Darfield High School. A group of over 15 mentors and mentees were paired up in order to create a more inclusive culture within our school community.

There have also been many other opportunities which we have taken part in. These included Shave for a Cure, Stage Challenge, Open Night, 65th Jubilee, GRIP Leadership Conference, Selwyn High School Formals, School Production, Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition, Youth Parliament, Darfield High School Volunteer Army and Selwyn Youth Council.

Eddie’s favourite thing about being a head student: “My favourite part of being a head student has been getting to know so many other students in the school, and making a positive change in their lives. Through things

such as peer support and mentoring I have been able to develop heaps of new friendships. It always puts a smile on my face when people say hey to me when I’m walking around school, no matter what kind of day I’m having”.

Lexi’s favourite thing about being a head student: “Forging new friendships with students and prefects from other schools, as well as connecting with others within Darfield High School. Also seeing the results of some of the projects we put in place and knowing that we have made a difference in the lives of some of the students”.

Emily’s favourite thing: “My favourite part about being a head student has been working more closely with teachers and staff on specific projects and getting more involved in the community. Having a head role within the school has been a great opportunity to grow, develop and understand my leadership skills which I have been able to link with my role in the Selwyn Youth Council.

Overall, it has been a pleasure to be your Head Prefects this year, it is a memory that we will treasure for life. We would like to give our best wishes to the Prefects and Head Students of 2017.

Edward Searle, Alexis Sutherland and Emily de Rooy

Back Row: Ellen Walters, Brittany Muiznieks, Grace Lemon, Bailey Campbell, Michael Ridgen, Kellen Patfield, Samara Crosby, Madeleine Tasker Middle Row: Mariah Glasson, Selina Dixon, Jasmine Nash, Courtney Townsend, Kathryn Barnhill, Lilian Stott, Olivia Shinn, Mr Adams Front Row: Emma Grigg, Chloe Fraser, Emily de Rooy, Edward Searle, Alexis Sutherland, Luke McKay, Kristen Blaber-Hunt, Caitlin Thistoll

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Peer Support In Term 4 2015, the 2016 Peer Support Programme began as a group of Year 12 students underwent a twoday training programme to learn and enhance their leadership, teamwork and communication skills. This training became the basis of our 2016 Peer Support Programme, run between the Year 7 and Year 12 students within the school.

Throughout Term 1 this year, five students from Year 12 were assigned to a Year 7 class. We then became the Peer Support Leaders for this class and spent every Wednesday period 5 with them to develop relationships with the new Year 7 students. We played games and did learning activities in a fun environment, allowing the students to feel at home in their new school. This then also allowed the Year 7 students to feel as though they had someone else they could come to, apart from their form teacher, to help make their transition from Year 6 to Year 7 as

smooth and comfortable as possible. From the Peer Support Leaders’ point of view, this programme was a great success, as throughout the term we could see the confidence of students grow as they got to know us.

Peer Support was also a great experience for the Year 12s, providing another leadership opportunity for us, allowing us to get to know each other better as leaders, and build great relationships with the new students in our school. I would definitely recommend this programme for any Year 12s—it is a great experience, benefiting both you and the new students in our school. I would like to say a huge thanks to all the Year 7 teachers for having us in their classrooms and supporting us in our leadership journey with this programme; also special thanks to Mrs Cartman for organising the programme, for training and for being our go-to person.

Georgia Cottrell

Peer Mediation Darfield High School runs a nationally recognised programme called Peer Mediation. This programme is about problem solving by youth with youth. It is for students to help other students solve disputes.

Mediations take place at intervals and lunch times to help solve problems with issues such as friendships, relationships, bullying, and cyberbullying. We currently have a team of about 30 trained mediators ranging from Year 8 to Year 13.

Our peer mediators are all trained in student to student conflict, and can be approached at any time. We are recognisable by the white ribbons and badges on our blazers.

This year, along with the mediations, we organised a Peace Week. During this week, we spoke in assembly, had a peace quote competition and made origami cranes to go to the Peace Park in Japan. This was a great activity to get students together from all year groups and we had a lot of fun doing this. Some of our advanced mediators continued the crane making

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with a Year 7 class, which also helped to advance our leadership skills. We also organised for the Youth Workers to come in and work with our Year 7 classes during this time. The main focus was looking at peace and conflict on a global scale.

Six advanced mediators went to Oaklands School for the Canterbury Mediators Big Day Out. This was a great opportunity for us to see how other schools were running their mediation programmes. Because DHS was the only high school there, we were provided with a lot of leadership opportunities, as well as being able to use the older primary kids as guinea pigs for practice mediations. This was a great day out for our advanced mediators and a good leadership opportunity.

Thank you to everyone who has helped make Peer Mediation a success at Darfield High School and to Mrs Cartman for organising and training the mediators.

Katie Sharp

Mentoring

Leadership Camp

This year, as Head Prefects, our main goal was to create a more inclusive culture that would allow others to have a more positive experience during their time at Darfield High School. In order to achieve this, we decided as a group to look to bridge the gap between the Senior and Junior students. This was done by introducing the new initiative of mentoring.

On Sunday 18 September, as a part of the Prefect selection process for 2017, 31 Year 12 students, accompanied by Mr Bell, Mr Adams and Ms Blakemore, took part in the 2016 Leadership Camp based at Craigieburn. On arrival at school at 9 am, we did our first peer-based communication activity, followed by a presentation from Mr Adams about the qualities he considers a leader needs. We were then fortunate to have a presentation from our head students this year, Lexi, Eddie, Luke and Emily, about the highlights of their time as Head Prefects, the initiatives they have launched, and what top tips they could give us for next year. Following this, our school youth workers, Hannah and Poi, gave us an informative presentation regarding leadership styles and which would be suitable for us to use as prefects next year.

We set up mentoring so that as a group of Seniors we would be able to guide the younger students through their time at Darfield High School and help what could be the next generation of leaders.

By introducing the mentoring initiative, we hoped that we would be able to improve people’s experiences at the school and, therefore, improve the overall well-being and culture of our school community.

After the decision was made to set up the mentoring programme, we sought ideas about how we would be best suited to move forward and put the programme into place. This information was provided by Mrs Mallinder-Scott, Mrs Hamilton, and Mr Adams. The input from these people was vital; their previous experiences and opinions really helped us get our ideas into place and shape our programme, as they matched Prefects with young students in a buddy system, organised activity sessions and really allowed our programme to be successful.

After a few activity sessions, we were left to it and our programme really thrived as students of different age levels were able to get together on their own terms and form bonds which allowed individuals involved to grow and realise their full potential in terms of leadership, communication skills and academic ability.

Overall, the programme was run very successfully and a massive thank you to all involved is definitely in order.

Luke McKay

We then set off for our overnight adventure to Craigieburn. After an hour's drive, we reached the lodge, unpacked, settled into our bunk rooms, had some lunch and began our rotation of activities for the afternoon. As members of Group 3, we started with Ms Blakemore on an activity creating a jingle or movie trailer surrounding an issue we see at DHS. My group took on the challenge of the issue of litter. We then moved on to Mr Bell’s challenge of coming up with what we saw as the 'Perfect Prefect Profile'.

Following this, we went up the hill to Mr Adams, where we played a range of initiative games involving our teamwork, communication and co-operation skills, along with some patience with the weather, as we all got soaked! The activities all tested our ability to communicate with new people within our groups, and not just those whom we normally work alongside. This was a great opportunity to form closer relationships with different people in our year group.

We then moved onto the Leadership Camp adapted version of Masterchef where, in our three groups, we had to create 11 meals from a set of ingredients—one being gluten-free. This was another challenge that tested everyone’s communication and patience as we

had one oven and two cooktops between three groups!

With three adapted versions of Spaghetti Bolognese, all three teams worked well to produce a well thought-out meal for dinner. There was also a competitive and fun dessert challenge where three creative options were served up to our judges!

After dinner, we were given 30 minutes to organise being a part of a group to perform in the Annual Leadership Camp Talent Quest! This was a great opportunity for everyone to become more comfortable with each other and people’s sense of humour really came out on show! We had a range of acts, from Jump Jam and Wagon Wheel performances to a hilarious rendition of America’s Got Talent.

The following morning, Mr Morris arrived for the presentation of speeches from those applying for Head roles next year. Topics covered included why candidates would be suitable for each of these roles, experience they could bring to the role, and what their vision for DHS was next year. For some this was stressful; however, we all gained interesting and thoughtprovoking messages from these speeches, hopefully inspiring initiatives for the 2017 Prefects to put in place!

Attending Leadership Camp was a privilege that we all felt honoured to have and, with 30 other people as aspiring leaders, it was such a great experience! I recommend applying for the role of prefect next year to anyone who sees themselves as a leader wanting to make a difference within our school, as it really is a truly amazing experience, even at this stage of the selection process. I would like to extend a huge thank you to Mr Adams, Mr Bell and Ms Blakemore on behalf of everyone who attended Leadership Camp. Thank you for providing such an insightful, inspirational and genuinely fun experience for us all, and making this camp possible to allow 31 Year 12s to further explore their journey of leadership.

Georgia Cottrell

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SCSP Leaders In 2016, the Student Communication and Safe Practices Charitable Trust (SCSP) and our student ambassadors (Katie Sharp, Gus Thomas and Edward Searle), along with our teacher representative, Mrs Cartman, had another very successful year. This year, the trust, which previously was centred round the 0800pupils anonymous phone line, put a lot of time and effort into helping develop a web portal which teachers (and eventually students) nationwide can access. This web portal has many scenarios that teachers and students face on a daily basis. The SCSP student leaders and other students in the school created videos to help portray these scenarios, and these videos were then added to the teacher portal. This has further diversified the trust as now students can access the phone line resource and the portal resource.

Above: Rachel Redmond, Mrs Cartman, Mariah Glassey, Edward Searle and Gus Thomas

In terms of ground work, the student representatives have been hard at work promoting the phone line in assembly, going around the Junior school showing some of the helpful videos on the portal and, lastly, handing out 0800pupils pens in an effort to remind students of how easy it is to use the phone line. The funds to purchase these pens were acquired through our involvement in Z’s Good in the Hood campaign.

For this, the team put together posters and pamphlets which we made available at the local Z petrol station— this served two purposes: informing the community about our work and encouraging them to support us.

We were able to raise $624 from this endeavour.

Towards the end of the school year, we worked to create some videos for the SCSP portal and to use at Darfield High School. The videos have been focused on showing how to introduce the phone line and portal to the school and how to inform students about the resources that they have access to. The SCSP programme has also worked throughout the year with organisations such as the NZ Fire Service, Police and St John. In our most recent video, we worked with the Fire Service; the purpose of this was to create resources that relate more to Senior students and the responsibilities that they will have when they go flatting.

Darfield High School Volunteer Group 2016 was the year which saw the start of many great things, including the Darfield High School Volunteer group in May. DHS had four seniors accepted into the University of Canterbury’s UCan Volunteer Programme, where we spent four days learning about the effects of volunteering and got out in the Christchurch community and took action.

After these insightful sessions, we came back to the school with ideas of many great things to implement.

There were a number of people and places in the area which could benefit from our helping hands; we just needed to decide whom to help first.

Our first event got a few students helping out after school at the local Plunket Rooms and Toy Library.

They helped the Plunket committee clean, sort, repair and replace toys, as well as take photographs to make a new catalogue for children and parents to browse.

The next event had about eight students giving up their precious school holidays to take part in a working bee at the High School, where we were amazed with the amount of litter we found in just three hours of work.

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Our latest event had us team up with Fonterra for Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week. We had thirteen students take two hours out of their busy post-mock schedules to help us clean up the wider Darfield region.

We had a number of interesting finds, such as large metal poles, a kitchen knife, clothes and a number of empty alcohol bottles and cans, with the weirdest find prize going to Emily and Chloe for the couch they found in the bushes of a local reserve.

This year has been a huge success for us; our volunteer group has grown from just four passionate girls to over 30 seniors. We have had three hugely successful events and much praise from the affected Darfield community for our work. But we aren’t stopping here; we are hoping that next year will bring even greater opportunities to us and that we will get out there and make a greater change in the Darfield community. We would like to say a big thank you to Mr Adams for supporting us this year in making this group possible.

Without his help, we wouldn’t have been able to do it and have the success we have had.

Chloe Fraser and Rachael Phillipson

To complete the year, the SCSP team worked with the school's Year 13s to develop some videos reflecting on their time at Darfield, and encouraging them to convey some useful messages to the younger students in the school. These could relate to NCEA pressure, friendships, etc. These videos are used on the portal and at school during Deans’ assemblies, general assemblies, in classes and at any time they are relevant. Overall, it has been a very busy and prosperous year for all those involved with the SCSP Trust.

Edward Searle

Camp at Mt Hutt On 12 September, 8JN, 8KH and half of 8SJ went to Mt Hutt Retreat for our three-day Year 8 Camp.

We did lots of fun-filled activities which included mountain biking, abseiling, team initiative games, nature sculpting and archery. Those weren’t all the things we did though! There were also lots of mini games like Spotlight and the animal game, plus an auction to finish!

When we arrived at Mt Hutt Retreat, we unloaded the bus and then got to know the area and its boundaries.

We unpacked and found ourselves a home, then headed off to our first activity. Some did mountain biking up the steep, yet fun, track, while back at archery, students were testing their aiming skills by hitting hay bales!

Gradually, all the children woke up from their bunk rooms and made their way to the food area for a delicious breakfast of spaghetti or baked beans on toast and fruit salad. After breakfast, everyone had a bit of time to hang out before we started our activities. Some of us used our free time by playing an epic game of boys vs girls unihoc, others kicked around a rugby ball or a soccer ball, some played volleyball, and the odd ones (me) rolled really fast down the hill in front of the playground.

After free time, all of us split up into our activity groups and went off to abseiling to push their limits, literally, off the edge, to nature sculpting to bring to life creative skills, or to team initiatives to bring out the team leadership in everyone.

We woke up in the morning to rain! Everyone started chatting about how they thought the tramp was cancelled, but luckily no rain would stop us from going on a long walk through the bush, not even if you could hear thunder through the clouds! So we began to pack all our stuff, had breakfast, got our gear for the tramp, and off we went. It began a little steep and then started to flatten out. Since it was raining, you could imagine how much mud was everywhere, which got some boys a little too excited, so they had mud from the knees down! Even with the rain, it was still the best tramp ever! People were laughing, talking, and some even singing their way through! Then it came to an end when we saw the stairs which led to the retreat.

We dried off, had a snack, packed up all our stuff, did a final clean-up and then we were on the bus back home to school.

Mt Hutt Retreat was a great way to try new things and experience different activities with different people. It also challenged some people as they were not used to being away from their parents and bed for so long! We wish all the future Year 8s luck as they push themselves having a fantastic time at Year 8 Camp!

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This year, the students of 7KK have had many sportin g, social and academic opportunities inside and outside of the school . One of the fun activities on offer was playing for the school sports teams, in football, rugby, netball, or hockey. One of the events that came with this was the Quad Tournament where four schools came together and played an array of different sports, and Darfield High School came first overall. There was also cross countr y, triathlon and swimming sports which everyone could enter to earn points for their House. We also had a variety of different social activities that came to Darfield High School, such as Pedalmania, Bumper Balls and Lions Fries Days, which were great fun to participate in. But if sports or social events weren’t your thing, you could choose from a giganti c selection of subjects in the New South Wales University ICAS tests, where you can see what level you are for your age. Whether it was playing for the school sports teams, participating in ICAS exams or taking part in Pedalmania, 7KK has had a fun and jam-packed intro year to Darfield High School. We look forward to seeing everybody and participating in all these activities again next year.

Daniel Holland, Cameron Newell, Hamish Thornl ey and Will Reynolds

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This year has been an int eresting entrance into the daunting, new world of high school, having to cha nge classes often, learning new subjects (ie langua ges , music and technolog y), and keeping up with the high expectations. No w, as we embark on our last term in Year Seven, we may reflect on what we have accomplished throughou t the year.

During the first term, our class participated in many of the school sporting events, such as the tria thl on, swimming sports, athleti cs and cross countr y. As well, our four peer support leaders came into our cla ss to teach us some life lessons and play games with us.

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In March, our class (alo ng with several studen ts from 7KK) went on camp to Lake Lyndon. We did many tasks and activities and had a couple of advent ures.

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In class this year, we hav e had many topics, inc luding flags in Term 1, speech es, explorers and invent ors in Term 2, and WALL-E, PSA, poetic writing and lea ders in Term 3. At the mome nt, we are finishing off our poetic writing about an influential person. All of this work seems like a lot, but it all helps at the end of the day.

Through all of the har d work, it has been a gre at year with many fantastic me mories made. On behalf of the class, I sincerely thank Mrs Cartman for makin g this such an amazing year.

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This year saw the departure of our long-serving HOD, Remco Baars. Remco made a wide-ranging impact on the Science Department, the staff and the students. He is a passionate photographer and eco-warrior; his move to Riccarton will dramatically reduce his carbon footprint as he is now able to cycle to school. Matt Maude was appointed to the HOD position. Staff new to the department this year are Nicky Voss, Baillie Graham, Jemma Rangi, and Hayley Woolf.

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This year, I competed in the Canterbury-Westland Schools’ Science and Technology Fair. My project, Pill

by Mouth?, looked at why medicinal drugs that have to be injected cannot be taken as pills or syrups. To test this, I used jelly shapes, meat tenderiser and water. The event was held on Saturday 10 September at the Ara Institute of Canterbury. I had to stay with my project during judging to talk to many different people about my project. I won the Hands on at Otago prize. This included a Canon camera and a scholarship to the Hands on at Otago Course in January. Overall, it was a great learning experience, I had a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to enter again next year.

Natasha Young

We’ve had a busy time in the department, with lots of learning in and out of the classroom. Here are some of the highlights:

Year 7 Cell Models In Year 7, we have been learning about cells. Every living thing is made up of cells. There are lots of different cells and each one has its own purpose. I made a model of a nerve cell. A nerve cell sends messages from one cell to another. It has a long skinny middle called the axon and tentacle-like structures on the end. These help to communicate between the cells.

Daniel Holland, 7KK

Year 13 Biology Orana Park Field Trip On 12 October, the Year 13 Biology class went on an afternoon trip to Orana Park to improve our knowledge of the human evolution topic which we will be tested on in our exams. The afternoon was run by a keeper named Toby who was incredibly knowledgeable. The main part of the afternoon was spent examining skulls of ancestral humans so that we could learn about the features that characterise different species, such as Homo rudolfensis. We also spent time looking at skulls of other animals. The time out of the classroom was spent looking at different animals, such as gorillas and spider monkeys, in the park’s enclosures. The main purpose of this was to look at the position of the ‘foramen magnum’ (hole through which spine passes to reach the brain) and how the animal moves. Overall, our time at Orana Park was incredibly valuable and made us all more prepared for our exam. I’d like to say a big thank you to Ms Woolf for organising the trip and Mr Morris for helping out as well. We hope the future Biology classes have the opportunity to go on this trip.

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Year 12 Biology Selwyn River Field Trip On 16 September, the Year 12 Biology class travelled to Glentunnel to carry out a series of experiments in the Selwyn River. We had the task of analysing the environmental factors right across the river and sampling for insects such as Mayfly, Horned Caddis and Stone Caddis.

Once we had taken 12 samples from across the river, we needed to sift through all the algae and substrate to complete the time-consuming task of counting and recording each and every insect. After a few algae fights and, for some people, a quick swim, we then repeated the entire process in a different section of the river.

The two sets of results then enabled us to write a report comparing the two environments and the populations of insects discovered.

Eloise Dance

Year 13 Biology Trip to Kaikoura On Sunday 15 May, the Year 13 Biology class—led

by Mr Baars and Dr McKenzie—set out for Kaikoura to do some biological investigating. The trip was based around Achievement Standard 91601—Carry out a practical investigation in a biological context.

Now, obviously, the thought that we had to plan, test, plan again, test again, record results and start writing a report, all in three days, was slightly daunting (especially given that Mr Baars said that University students would get a whole year to do this); however, we all still piled into the vans with smiles on our faces and headed on up for what would be a very enjoyable time.

Our first port of call in Kaikoura was the local aquarium. This was where we got to have our first look at some of the organisms that we would be able to study; this was awesome, although not quite as awesome as seeing an octopus try to climb out of its tank and squirt water everywhere. Following our trip to the aquarium, we headed out to the tip of the headland and had some lunch.

It was after lunch that the real work began! Upon arrival at the Edward Percival Research Centre, we unpacked all our stuff and were given a thorough introduction to the task that lay ahead. We then gathered the organisms that we wanted to study from

the rocky shore opposite the research centre. All sorts of snails, shellfish and crabs were gently collected, placed in containers and whisked away to the lab. Once organism collection was done, we were all able to do some initial testing and research to figure out how the chosen organisms react to different changes in their environment. For example, Michael noticed that the crab he wanted to study preferred to shelter under large rocks rather than small ones.

Once we had finished having a look at how our organisms behaved, we began to plan our initial practical method. Methods needed to be simple enough to follow, but thorough enough so that our test would produce valid and reliable results. It was quite easy coming up with the basic steps for the method, but writing how variables and other factors would be controlled was certainly a challenge.

Following the method write-up, we had some dinner and dessert created by head chefs Dr McKenzie and Mr Baars. I’m pretty sure that at some point during that afternoon Dr McKenzie and Maddie Tasker went diving in the waters around Kaikoura, which would have been pretty awesome!

Day 2 was all about getting results. Practicals were running throughout the day and, when people weren’t

carrying out their practical, they were most likely researching or writing up their report. So, although there weren’t really any adventurous activities to do on Day 2, it still managed to be a very productive day. That evening everyone had the opportunity to present their findings to the rest of the class. This was a great opportunity as it allowed us to be questioned by the two teachers and our classmates about potential weaknesses that we would need to address in one way or another. Following the seminars, we safely returned our little experimental subjects to the rocky shore that they came from.

Only a few people stayed up late into the night to continue their experiments, which was apparently a great contrast to last year’s trip where people were working at three or four in the morning to gather results; this earned our class the title of ‘hard workers’, which made us all very proud.

Day 3 was all about tidying up and getting home, whilst allowing a little time to see some ‘fubsy wubsy seals’ which were adorable. Overall, the trip was great— regardless of the grade we get for the internal, I’m sure that all of the class will have many fond memories of our time in Kaikoura and our last days with Mr Baars as our Biology teacher.

Edward Searle

UC Radioactivity and Rutherford’s Den On 27 June, we went on a trip to Rutherford’s Den at the University of Canterbury. We went there as part of our Radioactivity topic and internal. When we arrived, we were invited into the foyer of Rutherford’s Den where Rutherford’s Medals, including his Nobel Prize, were on display. Even though these medals were replicas, it was still pretty cool. We then went upstairs to the Physics department where we completed some activities that helped us learn about the history of the atomic model. Then Finn Davidson, Tom Gullery and Matt Hadler got to dress up in gold dresses and have ping balls thrown at them by Adam Walker, Abbie Cider and Eloise Dance. This helped us to understand Rutherford’s famous gold foil experiment.

Afterwards, we went into the classroom and were told about the Physics options at Canterbury University.

This was very interesting and gave us an insight into what we could study related to Physics. After this, we were invited to walk around the room and look at some of the Physics apparatus that was set up. Some of us discovered that there was a cylinder of Liquid Nitrogen in the room; Cliff Franklin then offered to demonstrate how the liquid nitrogen works. He mentioned that liquid nitrogen had a temperature of -195 degrees C, and then proceeded to pour some

onto his hand. This made all of us jump, but then he explained that, since it heated up so quickly, as long as it didn’t collect in your hand, it was fine to pour onto your hand. This was really awesome as he also invited us to pour it onto our hands.

After this, we had lunch and went into one of the labs at UC and began our experiments. The first experiment we did involved placing a radioactive source in a Geiger Mueller tube and covering it with carrots to see how well the carrots block the radiation.

Then we did an experiment measuring the half-life of an isotope of copper. This was really fun and it was incredibly useful to do experiments with something other than Maudium. Whilst we were doing these experiments, Finn Davidson decided he wanted to become a superhero, so he held a radioactive uranium fuel rod from a nuclear reactor that was installed at the University of Canterbury in 1962, but has since been removed as New Zealand went nuclear-free. Finn held the fuel rod for half an hour but unfortunately he did not become a superhero.

This trip was really fun and we would recommend it to any student who is remotely interested in Physics.

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There were many highlights for the Commerce Department at Darfield High School in 2016. Market Days continue to be a big success for the students. This year, we had the Year 10 Commerce classes making and marketing cookies, with many of the stalls selling out of their popular cookies. The Year 11 class had the additional challenge of researching and calculating costs and selling their products, with many of the groups deciding to donate their profits to charity, such as World Vision and Daffodil Day. The Year 12 class had two market days with many popular items, such as fisheye lenses, selling out quickly. A highlight was seeing many of the staff and students giving the Gigi ball a go on the field. Year 13 students, Olivia McEwan and Fern Stuart, worked to develop a new product from scratch and earned an award from the Young Enterprise Trust for their sustainable fire starters.

The Commerce Department looks forward to 2017, and will continue to offer DHS students the opportunity to experience and understand our entrepreneurial spirit.

Matthew Benassi

Tī Kōuka Designs

Being a part of the Young Enterprise Scheme this year as Tī Kōuka designs, we have had a very successful year. From attending the first E-day, we both knew that we wanted to do this and create a product that people in the Selwyn community could use. After many different ideas on what we should be making which was sustainable and innovative we created fire starters made from cabbage tree leaves and used tea bags.

We competed in the Regional Dragon’s Den Competition, in Christchurch, which was successful and we won the Excellence Award for Marketing—this gave us the boost we needed and we continued to dig deep and began the production stages as well as had a product launch where Selwyn Council members joined us in celebrating our new product. After a hard year of producing

the product and maintaining the business we aimed to take out the Regional Sustainability Award. We successfully did this by winning the Excellence Award for sustainability in the Canterbury region.

Overall, the experience has given both of us a new look on how to run a business and how to keep everything up to date. It has been an incredible experience for the both of us.

We both would like to thank Mrs Hoy as she has helped us with everything she could and we would not have been able to do it without her, all of the teachers who were behind us and helped us throughout the year and, finally, the Young Enterprise Scheme for giving us the opportunity to be a part of this year’s competition.

Olivia McEwan and Fern Stuart

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We have had another interesting and successful year in Mathematics at DHS. Students involved themselves in a variety of fun learning activities, from calculating “How much do I have?” to “Fairground” probability games. We competed and achieved with aplomb in the annual CanataMaths and the Australasian ICAS Competition. Students also achieved outstanding results in last year’s NCEA Externals, as well as in the Internals this year. Well done DHS!

CantaMaths

Probability Fair

Year 9 students engaged in their annual “Probability Fair”. In this activity, students designed and constructed a range of carnival games to illustrate the real life certainty that the “House never loses!” Ms Evans class ran their games of chance with the remainder of the Year 9 Maths students as their willing participants. It was an entertaining and informative activity enjoyed by all.

How Much Skin Do I Have?

For this task, Year 10 students in Ms Evans’ Mathematics classes were asked to estimate the surface area of their body, ie the amount of skin they have.

Each group was given some chalk and measuring devices to help with their calculations.

On average, a human body has 1.8 m2 of skin. The students were amazed at how accurate their estimates were.

This exciting Mathematics event for all Canterbury Schools was held at the Horncastle Arena. Years 7 to 10 entered several teams which were attended by Mr Basevi (Years 7 and 8), Mrs Milne (Year 9) and Ms Evans (Year 10). There were many teams from other schools there—as many as 90 in some cases, so the tension and noise made for an exciting evening. While no Darfield teams came in the first placings, we gave a good account of ourselves. Two teams scored fifty or more points out of a possible 100 points, even beating some of the big town schools’ teams. Well done DHS! Year 7: Amelia Ridgen, Sam Jones, Belinda Inch and Ella Taylor (40 points), Year 8: Jake Searle, Jack Kennedy, Will Davidson and Lachlan Adams (45 points), Year 9 Team A: Katherine Hadler, Emily White, Hayley Murray and Katie Griffiths (50 points) Year 9 Team B: Brie Edwards, Lewis Smith, Rebecca Inch and Nik Hodgman (30 points), Year 10 Team A: Michelle Bruce, Kate Morris, Abi Tuhill and Georgia Allison (60 points), Year 10 Team B: Hanako Wilson, Sarah Kellock, Kieran McKay and Cameron Hendriks (40 points)

ICAS Mathematics

A number of our very keen and able mathematicians entered the ICAS Mathematics exams. Initial overall school results have been published and it is clear that the students acquitted themselves very well. DHS’s scores ranked them well above the median scores of the other Australasian and Pasifika Schools represented.

Well done to the following students: Emma Watson, Cameron Newell, Oscar Gosling, Jack Gillians, Jeremy Bourhill, Jessica Bassett, Brie Edwards, Michelle Bruce, Kate Morris, Kieran McKay, Samuel King and Samuel Roper.

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Reading

We have continued to base our reading programmes around developing the skills of reading, as well as fostering a love of reading for pleasure.

Best Reads

My favourite book was Selp Helf by Miranda Sings because it shows funny life hacks and it is by my favourite Youtuber.

Morgan Manning

My favourite book is Dork Diaries because it is funny and stupid, and I like the layout of it—it is a diary.

Cassidy Neal

Oscar Gosling, Year 7, on The City of Ember: “It dragged me into the book.”

Doing the Double is my favourite. It is about some boys that are twins in a soccer team.

The captain hurts his ankle so the other twin, who doesn’t play soccer, fills in for the match and he trains and scores a goal.

Josh Rod

Emma Grigg, Year 13, on The Bone Season: “It’s extremely fascinating to look into a world which mirrors our own but which is also completely different.”

I loved The Road to Ratenburg because it has lots of adventure and some dramatic moments along the journey to Ratenburg. It was very enjoyable and a great book to read.

Jessica Townsend

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Melissa Duncan, Year 7, on Moth Girls: “I like how as it gets deeper into the story, you want to keep reading because you don't know what's going to happen next.”

My favourite book is the series of Harry Potter adventurous books by JK Rowling. It’s a great series because it’s magical and basically a day in the life of a famous, troubled, confused wizard who makes new friends and battles life, and figures out the unknown.

Olivia Burgess

Lilian Stott, Year 13, on The Beach: “I read the book and then I reread it the next day.”

My favourite book this year is I Am Malala, written by Malala Yousafzai. I like it because it’s very inspirational and Malala has an amazing story to tell.

Sophie Dance

1: Thea Stilton, because it was an easy read, they are ok for all genders and they were nice books to sit down and read. I did not want to put them down. It’s totally funny because it was a book that made you giggle in your head—a nice read.

2: Hunger Games because it was an adventure to behold. It is a big book but is a good read to read and, once you have read the books, there is always the movie if you liked the books. There are three books in the Library, I think, and I think there are four movies.

Monique Weber

Dandelion Clocks by Rebecca Westcott and Us Minus Mum by Heather Butler are my two favourite books.

Kelly Rod

Angus Marsh, Year 7, on Dirt Bike Ike: “I wouldn't normally read a book this big, but I'm enjoying it.”

Chloe Fraser, Year 13, on To Kill a Mockingbird: “Even better the seventh time.”

The favourite thing that I have read this year is Drift Race by David Juberman Vaughan Smart

Brittany Muiznieks, Year 13, on Living Dolls— The Return of Sexism: “It put what I was already thinking into words.”

The best book I have read in the last month would have to be The Cursed Child by J K Rowling. It is based nine years in the future. His son, Albus, and Draco Malfoy's son, Scorpious, steal a time turner from the ministry and travel back in time to try and save Cedric Diggory from being killed in their battle against Voldemort. All in all, it is a very good book and, on a scale of one to ten, it would probably score a 12.

Jeremy Bourhill

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Language and Literature

Daisy Lavea-Timo—Performance Poetry In Term 1, performance poet and English teacher, Daisy Lavea-Timo, ran a workshop with our keen poets and public speakers. This was an amazing opportunity which took our students out of their comfort zones and into this exciting and dynamic area of oral language.

During the workshop, students from Years 7–13 worked on an original performance poem. Daisy’s visit has continued to inspire some of our keen speakers to express themselves. Natasha Young, Year 11, went on to win the overall prize at this year’s Oral Tapestries Competition with a performance poem which was originally conceived during this workshop.

“I remembe r when it sn owed, when turned into the grass a white thic k carpet, when opened the you front door to breathe in cold breeze that fresh . It was hom e, whether yo there or not u lived .”

Dan Conw ay, Year 10, from a piec writing desc e of creative ribing his vi llage home in England.

As I stood in the frosty paddock, snowflakes landed on my fingertips, and tangled in my hair. As I was standing there, a single gunshot rang out through the crisp night air. My mother warned me about guns, and if I ever heard a gunshot I was to run inside and lock myself away to avoid danger. I did so and sprinted into our little cottage ahead of me. I ran up to the doorstep, and heaved the door open. I leapt onto the kitchen counter, and clambered into the cupboard.

Lily Cameron, 8KH

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Students from Years 7–13 have read, studied, responded to and written, based on a range of literary forms including poetry, short stories, novels and non-fiction texts. In doing so, students have developed their understanding of language features and developed their vocabulary and range of expression. Texts studied have included Boy Overboard, Staying Alive in Year 5, The Iron Man, Dr Franklin’s Island, Jolt, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men and Mr Pip.

Film Studies

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"The earth rumbled loudly ; it felt like a large train had just der ailed and was ploughing towards me at great speed. It was an earthquake , bowling most buildings in Christchu rch with its powerful force of Mothe r Nature, making Christchurch a gho st town."

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Students from Years 7–13 have studied and analysed a range of films, expanding their understanding of this text form and the language of film and, as a consequence, developing their understanding of themselves and the world around them. Films studied this year included Wall-E, Red Dog, Slumdog Millionaire, The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Little Miss Sunshine, Bro Town, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Schindler’s List and Heavenly Creatures. The annual Year 10 Film Festival was a huge success and showcased perhaps our best ever collection of short films. This group of students has really taken on board the conventions of film-making and produced a range of really impressive short films. The winners of the Festival awards were as follows: Best Camera Work: Rhys Clatworthy Best Editing: Saskia Kremers, Jack Chillingworth and Brooke Steele Best Actor: Georgia Allison Best Concept: Nathan Quinn and James Ralston Most Convincing Message: Zoe Spinks Best Soundtrack: Beowulf Scott and Alex Stiles Best Film: Anna Lovelock Best Audience Response: Ryan Hughes and Jak Phillipson People’s Choice Award: Ryan Hughes and Jak Philipson

ICAS Competitions The next day, the rain had died down to a light drizzle and looked to be clearing away. But the car still didn’t work. Jim wondered why the car was so cold. He realised he had left the hea ter on and the battery had died. Jim had lost hope in everything he had believed in. Especially getting to Queenstown. As Jim was sitting down in his cold, smelly car, he thought about what his mother had said to him when he was a little boy. “Jim , never give up on your dreams. Anything is possible, just believe.” And so Jim started believing again.

“I WILL NEVER GIVE UP ,” he yelled as loud as he could.

Angelo Barrimond, 8KH

Congratulations to the students below who received excellent results.

ENGLISH Credit: Jessica Bassett Michelle Bruce Kieran McKay Distinction: Jeremy Bourhill Oscar Gosling High Distinction: Kate Morris WRITING Distinction: Michelle Bruce Kate Morris Hanako Wilson SPELLING Merit: Jeremy Bourhill Credit: Oscar Gosling Niamh Guy

Grammar Games In Term 1, Year 9 students trained for weeks, revising and honing their grammar skills in preparation for our annual Grammar Games. As usual, it was an actionpacked event where all teams competed fiercely to win the coveted Grammar Games trophy. This year, our winning team was made up of Katie Griffiths, Ellie Knights, Sam Ross and Jayden Fraser.

Oral Tapestries Speaking to a group is a really important skill and one which our students continue to excel in. We commend every student who had the courage to write, rehearse and perform an oral presentation this year. The Oral Tapestries competition was an evening of thought-provoking, serious and, at times, comical entertainment. The judges–Panos Tsavousis, Andrea Hanson and Melissa Jebson, were wowed with dynamic speakers, challenging topics and comical wit, producing a great night of speeches from the finalists in this year’s speech competition. Ellen Walters compered the evening with wit and elegance. The best speaker and winner of the Jebson Family Trophy for 2016 was Natasha Young.

Melissa Jebson

Year 7 Olly Blackburn

Year 8 Jessica Bassett

Year 7: Olly Blackburn

OVERALL WINNER

Year 8: Jessica Bassett Year 9: Harriet Cottrell Year 10: Georgia Allison Year 11 and Overall Winner: Natasha Young Year 12: Sophie Bucknell Year 13: Lilian Stott.

Year 9 Harriet Cottrell

Year 11 Natasha Young

Year 10 Georgia Allison

Year 12 Sophie Bucknell

Year 13 Lilian Stott

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Geography

The trip to Kaikoura was long, but very scenic. Despite our lack of talent, the Year 11 Geography classes did enjoy a good karaoke throwback to the soundtrack of High School Musical (much to Mr Quinn’s horror).

Once we passed all the winding hills, we arrived on the coast and everyone scrambled to see the dolphins and seals that we could see from the road. It didn’t take long for us to reach our final destination, the Kaikoura Top Ten Holiday Park.

Once we arrived, we all quickly unpacked into our conference room as we had Teri, from Whale Watch Kaikoura, coming to talk to us about what they do. It was a very interesting speech, but none of us was really concentrating as next we had our trip on the Whale Watch boats! When the talk finally came to an end, we gathered our warmer clothes, lathered ourselves in sunscreen and made our way over to the Whale Watch office, only to find our trip had been cancelled. This ws because the two earlier trips hadn’t seen anything and also the wind had started to pick up a bit. Although it was disappointing not going on the whale watch boat, we did get to go on the bird, dolphin and seal watch.

This trip was a more coastal based boat ride and was absolutely amazing! We saw seals, albatrosses, dolphins, and plenty of other sea life. The dolphins were so playful, and we were surrounded by them, watching them duck and dive, catching the jets of water the boats were putting out. Many of us stared enviously across to the other boats where there were swimmers suited up to swim. We continued to see dolphins all the way around the coast. It wasn’t whales, but it was certainly a good substitute!

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After our boat ride, we were all allocated our cabins and then had some free time. A couple of hours passed, and it was time for our dinner reservation at Robbies.

There we had a delicious meal followed by ice cream for dessert. We bussed back to our campground to get into some walking shoes for a walk right over to the Point, where we saw a couple of seals and a very pretty sunset.

The day began bright and early, as we had to be in Hanmer to start our data collection. This bus ride also included a lot of karaoke! When we arrived in Hanmer, we were dropped straight into town, where we were to start our first lot of data collection. After counting some people, we took the long walk back to the camp ground, where some team building activities awaited us.

After being out in the hot sun for a few hours, we all got changed into our togs as we were on our way to the pools where Shane, the marketing manager at the hot pools, would be talking to us about what they do, and some facts and figures that would help us with our assessment. After the talk, we all swam at the pool for a couple of hours and had some fish and chips for dinner.

The next day was our last day of the field trip, and we needed to go back via Hanmer and do our last lot of data collection. When we arrived in the township, we all had an hour or so of free time to waste (many of us bought out the lolly shop). Once we finished our data collection, it was time to head home.

Thank you so much to Mr Quinn and Miss Petersen who came on the trip with us!

Katie Sharp

Tarns and Glaciers Day One: On Sunday 20 March, the Year 12 Geography class headed off to Mt Cook for a full-on three days of Geography and banter. We arrived at Glentanner Lodge and were soon off for our first collection of data, where we measured depths of a straight and s-bend in Lagoon Stream.

We carried on to Mt Cook Village Hermitage, where we watched a short 20-minute movie about the formation of Aoraki Mt Cook National Park. After a busy day, we headed back to the lodge and had free time, which consisted of most of our class heading down to Lake Pukaki. Some were crazy enough to go swimming, some took photos and others played a newly formed game of Dackey—a cross between Donkey and Hackey! We then headed back to camp for a bbq dinner and then some continued to play Dackey, and some headed off to bed.

Day Two: The next morning, we were up bright and early and drove back to Mt Cook village to meet Ranger Ray, who was to take us up the Red Tarns walk to do our scree slope data collection. On the walk up, a lot of us discussed how amazingly high we got in such a short amount of time. After a decent climb,

Adventures in Queenstown

Day 1: The journey to Queenstown began bright and early so we could make the long trip in time for the Winterfest opening ceremony. After settling into our accommodation at Pinewood Lodge, we made our way down to the busy township which was crowded with people, authentic food stalls, high market shopping and singers setting the nightlife atmosphere with their upbeat tunes. As the local schoolchildren’s song came to an end, the countdown began. 3, 2, 1…BANG! Fireworks lit up the night sky with a spectacular display. We then made tracks back to the lodge to get an early night before the busy weekend ahead.

Day 2: Our day started with scurrying around the streets, hot chocolate in hand, collecting data and researching Winterfest’s many activities and the opportunities that Queenstown has to offer. Some activities were happening as we were exploring the streets, such as the Golden Mile followed by the Winter Parade that made its way through the township and was full of many floats showing a glimpse of Queenstown from the locals. After our morning preparing research for our assessment, we headed over to Frankton, where the rivalry between the two classes began in an epic game of laser tag. Our trip home took a detour due to Michael’s obsession with Rebel Sport—40 minutes later, the boys had finally decided on their desired purchases, so we

we reached the Red Tarns. While we were up there, we were incredibly lucky because, as we were up at a higher elevation, the sun came out, the cloud moved, and we got an amazing view of Mt Cook! We then completed our measuring, ran down the scree slope and back down the hill.

We then had a quick lunch break and walked to the Tasman Glacier Lake for our boat ride! Our class really enjoyed this part as we went out in boats on the lake in order to get closer to the glacier and got so close to icebergs we could touch them. Following this, we returned to the Hermitage for some free time and then carried on to the Department of Conservation Visitors’ Centre where we met Andrew, who gave us an in-depth explanation about glaciation and how perspectives of the South Island High Country have changed over time. This was a beneficial experience for our geography knowledge; however, it was commented on that we looked half asleep as we were all so tired after a full-on couple of days!

Day Three: Again, we were up bright and early, and headed back to Mt Cook once again to meet Ranger

Ray to walk to the Hooker Glacier. We were all feeling a bit sore after walking the Red Tarns track but, walking to the Hooker Glacier, we saw some amazing scenery and it really put some geography concepts and ideas into perspective for all of us. Some members of our class were crazy enough to run the track and then, on arrival at the Glacier Lake, they went swimming, in a surface temperature of around three degrees!

We then headed back to the vans and made our way home. On the way home everyone was a bit tired; however, it was all a good laugh. We would like to say a huge thanks to Mr Quinn, Miss Petersen and Annemieke Thomas for accompanying us on this trip and making it possible!

Georgia Cottrell

headed back to the lodge to prepare for excitement to come in the night ahead. In no time, we were off to the Pig and Whistle pub as the boys would not allow us to be late for the All Blacks test match. As our meals were being served, the crowded pub grew noisier as the score hit double digits. After a successful win, we left the roaring pub to enter the crisp night air, and some of the group had a go at ice skating.

it was time to settle down to enjoy a movie of choice.

Later on, many of the students decided it was a good idea to go to The Fear Factory after just having watched The Conjuring 2. Screaming our way through The Fear Factory, it was commented that we were the most vocal group of the day. One of the groups even managed to get the scare snap of the day. It was back to the lodge for some pizza and some well-needed sleep.

Day 3: It was a rushed morning as last-minute prep for making costumes took place before we headed down to the wharf to enter the willing students into the “Day on the Bay” activities. First up was the Birdman competition. We spectated from the lake’s edge at Earnslaw Park. Splash after splash, we were nervously awaiting for the Darfield team to be called up and put on their show. Our cheers grew loud as the Country Calendar music began and our Darfield team flew one by one off the end of the wharf. The judges’ smiles grew with the applause of the crowd. The presenters kept us entertained as the judges made the final decisions.

Patiently waiting, the crowd hushed as the winners were announced. To our surprise, “Darfield” echoed through the large speakers—our Darfield boys had taken out the competition as the overall winners of the 2016 Birdman Challenge. Up next was the Jucy Undie 500 with a tough obstacle course lying ahead for all competitors. The two Darfield girls had a roaring start, managing to secure a place in the final after placing 1st and 2nd in their heat. Finishing the final, the girls just missed out on a placing. After the mid-day antics,

Day 4: Our last few hours in Queenstown began early, as we had two important people to talk to before we hit the road home. First was Caleb Tien, who is a planner at the Queenstown Lakes District Council. Caleb

explained to us the processes that big events such as Winterfest have to go through so that they can take place, and he also informed us of other big things that are developing in the Queenstown district. Our next visit was to Marg from Destination Queenstown; she talked to us about the timeline of Queenstown and how it developed into the tourism destination it is today, and also about why they hold festivals such as Winterfest and how important they are, especially in shoulder seasons. After our very informative morning, we nipped into town to grab a bite to eat before we started out for a long journey home.

Caitlin Thistoll

Jucy Undie 500: Caitlin and Anna

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Year 11 History

History is one amazing subject. Get ready to be pushed back into your seats for the wildest subject ever coming your way. Get ready to dream and see the Vietnam War form before your eyes. Get ready to sit in your other classes and see the Springbok Tour form in your mind.

Be in for the thrill and joy of the Treaty of Versailles and the Origins of World War II. Prepare yourself to read the best words and lines ever generated, especially those about Black Civil Rights and the Segregation of Little Rock, Arkansas. Take a dip into exciting hints of the Cold War. This class will shock and liberate your soul and mind as you learn about the most inspirational turning points in history. It will astonish you. It will amaze you. It will rock your world.

Learning about the Treaty of Versailles and the origins of World War II was a highlight for us. Going in-depth about the consequences of the Treaty on the German people and Europe in general made us open our eyes as

Year 12 History History this year has been an incredibly interesting and rewarding subject. We started off learning about the Russian Revolution. This was an absolutely massive topic, during which we covered government systems and were able to see the longstanding impacts of communism.

We completed two internals this year. The first was a research project on an event of our own choice that has continuing significance to New Zealand society. I chose the Erebus Disaster, which I found fascinating, particularly after interviewing people directly involved as primary sources and also developing my own opinion on who was to blame for the event. We then went on to look into The Cuban Missile Crisis, doing our second internal on the perspectives of two key leaders involved, Khrushchev and Kennedy.

We finished the year looking into the Vietnam War, from what caused it to the incredibly emotive impacts it has had on such a large number of New Zealanders. This controversial topic for many New Zealanders allowed us to develop our own opinions on the event and show us its far reaching impacts.

I would like to thank Miss Collins and Miss Beaumont for such a good year in History. It has been an extremely helpful subject, with the general knowledge we have gained and the skills which we are able to apply to every other subject.

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we learnt how the causes of the Treaty brought about the Second World War. We also went to the University of Canterbury and listened to inspiring Dr Stanley Howard from Illinois and Dr Clarence Lusane from America’s International School in Washington. These speakers educated us on, amongst other things, the Black Civil Rights movement in America and how it is continuing today. These speakers were really interesting and entertaining and we gained a new American

Year 13 History

This year has been full of many adventures inside and outside the classroom, including an awesome and eye-opening trip to Arrowtown to research the Otago Gold Rush, along with lots of research which took place in and around the Lakes District Museum.

While researching, we had the full run of the museum and access to their archives; this meant that we were overwhelmed with the amount of information which was available to us and provided us with an amazing number of primary resources to add to our assessment, which was worth a huge 10 credits.

Other activities on this trip included an exciting, yet terrifying, bus ride through Skippers Canyon to get to the river where we had an awesome time jet boating.

Also, on the last night, we were sent out on a scavenger hunt set up by Miss Collins and Ms Holland, which sent us running off in groups all over Arrowtown following the clues which were given to us. Finally, to finish off the trip, the car ride home was hilarious,

perspective to the whole issue and understood why studying History is important. Overall, History this year was a great class that we could look forward to every day. We would highly recommend taking it, especially if you’re just thinking about it, as it is a great and highly relevant learning experience.

George Gibb, Caleb Banks and Jacob Spence

with terrible karaoke—but that was okay as we were all pretty much too tired to care. When we got home, we had all the information we needed to complete the assessment.

Since then, we have been studying the European settlement in Canterbury and the reign of Elizabeth I. Each lesson has been full of interesting learning and even some speed dating—purely educational, of course.

Looking back at this year and how great it has been, I really am going to miss taking this subject as I move on to further studies. But, to anyone even considering taking History in the coming years, I would recommend it highly as it is such an interesting subject.

I would like to give huge thanks to Miss Collins for being so supportive of us all throughout the year—even though we were challenging at times. So, from the whole Year 13 History class of 2016—thank you!

Lucy Wilson

Careers Expo

On Tuesday 10 May, the annual Darfield High School Careers Expo took place. This was a great opportunity for all students in Years 10 to 13 to talk to different tertiary and industry training providers.

There was a great range of people for us to talk to about our plans and ideas, no matter what they are, for when we leave school. Besides giving us lots of free promotional things, like lollies, pens, hats and drink bottles, all of the providers were really friendly and good to talk to and were happy to organise follow-up sessions with us and our parents. They were able to tell us about our options when we leave school and where courses can lead us, as well as what subjects we need to be taking at school and how those subjects link to the courses and jobs. We only wish that we had had more time in the hall as there was so much to do.

Maddison Beardsmore and Nathan Quinn

Penny Munro 2016 has been another busy and productive year with STAR courses, the CTC two days a week Polytechnic programmes, Gateway, the school’s Career Expo, ARA’s taster course, and hosting many university liaison speakers.

Students have taken the opportunity to increase their skill set and knowledge, ranging from First Aid, Health and Safety, Animation, Forklift Training, Retail, and Business Administration to Automotive Engineering, Carpentry, Chef, Hairdressing, and Social Services.

It is really positive to see so many students visit the Careers department and access the wide range of careers information available. Emails from parents have also increased and this is warmly welcomed and encouraged.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and holiday break, and I look forward to continuing to meet and work with more of the school community in 2017.

Year 12 Interview Day

Tuesday 28 June began with a mixture of nerves as anxious Year 12 students arrived in our formal clothes, preparing ourselves for the two interviews that were ahead of us that day. The CVs we had worked on had been given to our interviewers, telling them about our achievements and future career plans. Some of us went into Darfield, where local businesses interviewed us, and some interviews were held at the school.

This was a great experience to give us much needed practice being interviewed for jobs, with realistic questions being asked so we could give answers that interviewers would be looking for. We all benefited from the confidence it gave us. It was such a lot of fun and we all gained something from the day that will help us with future job interviews. It taught us skills that we

will all put into practice in the near future as our time at school is coming to an end.

Farewell to Miss Kidd

We would like to thank all of the interviewers for this opportunity as well as Miss Kidd and Mrs Townsend for organising the day.

Georgia Cottrell and Abi Cider

We farewelled Miss Kidd near the end of Term 2 as she took a position at Riccarton High School.

Vanessa taught Social Studies, but was also our Careers and Employment Skills teacher and did a wonderful job making sure our senior students were aware of all the options available to them, helping them with their CVs, and setting up the Careers Expos and Year 12 Interview Days.

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It has been an awesome year in school. Hannah and I have received a new youth space in the form of a converted container; this has made it simpler and more convenient to meet up with kids for mentoring and other appointments.

Hannah and I spent the day at Stage Challenge, helping with hair and make-up, running errands and generally supporting the team from Darfield. It was a really fun day to be involved in, as it is every year. We also spent some time at the junior camps earlier in the year; this was a great opportunity to meet more of the Year 7s who are always so receptive to chatting and getting to know us youth workers.

We enjoyed our tradition of judging Darfield’s Got Talent and were particularly impressed by the talent on display this year.

Recently, Hannah and I ran the Girl programme with a group of Year 7 girls. This is a mentoring style programme that runs once a week for a term and covers topics like self-esteem, goals, choices, boys, strengths and personality types. This was a positive experience and we’ve been meeting up with the individual Year 7s to debrief and hear from them how they felt about the programme.

Hannah has been spending time in classes and mentoring, and I have been spending a little time at the Learning Centre, getting to know the kids and teachers there.

Overall, it’s been a great year with some neat things to look forward to in the last term: we’re running a bouncy castle day for the kids, as we do each year, and we’re looking forward to that. We’re also looking forward to attending Prizegivings and Year 10 camp days.

Poiema Heine

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Lesley Pengelly and Suzanne McFerran Students attend the Learning Centre to access individualised learning programmes which enable them to reach their potential in a vast range of areas. Programmes are designed in consultation with students, families and whanau, and support students to gain and practise the competencies needed for lifelong learning.

Learning targets build on the skills and strengths of learners and involve independent work as well as group work. Generalisation of skills to alternative contexts, environments and people is a key focus of all learning programmes. Meaningful school and community participation, together with a high degree of independence and self-management, are fundamental components of all students’ learning programmes.

Students have gained a host of skills and attained many successes this year, as seen in our photo collage. Well done to all students on your successes! On behalf of students, we would like to commend our amazing teacher assistants who provide crucial support to make all the successes a reality.

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Alternative Education at DHS is, in my opinion, a fabulous resource for our school. We have the ability to support students’ next steps in learning when the need occurs. The success we have would not be possible if it wasn’t for our school “TEAM” approach and support from our Whanau and parents/caregivers.

Darfield High School has helped me into an amazing course and an amazing class, where I can get the help I need! Vicky Sprott

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Success is possible when we have “BALLS”—Belief, Acceptance, Love, Like and Support! Nothing gives me more pleasure than the small successes that I witness every day. Thank you all: together we are making a difference!

Students: you rock! Always be proud of who you are and where you come from!

Vicki Oliver

Year 11 2016 has been awesome and successful in Year 11 Physical Education! With two dedicated classes, we looked at a range of fun and interesting Achievement Standards, gaining us some excellent results in our NCEA assessments.

The year kicked off with Athletics, soon followed by a fun and competitive tournament of Tchouckball! The class was divided into three different teams; we then picked a name for our team and a job which we would be assessed on. These jobs included coach, manager, and sports board. We ran the tournament ourselves, competing against the opposing two teams. The games were a ball of fun but in the end only one team could come out on top and this year it was The Seals who were victorious!

As the year progressed, we were introduced to Generation Z which are babies born from the mid1990s to the present. We all got to take part in three different Gen Z activities which consisted of Fast Five netball, a Fitness Gym class and even a Skateboarding session with an instructor from Cheapskates Skate School. After some minor tumbles from the majority of us, we soon got the hang of it.

Term 3 was upon us and 11PE were introduced to a standard which involved us getting to know all about Anatomy, Biomechanics and Energy Systems. We were able to apply what we had learnt to the game of Basketball, knowing which muscles were used in certain movements, like the lay-up, and what energy system provided the power for the movement.

The final standard for 11PE was called “Getting stuck in.” The name pretty much speaks for itself. The class was divided into three teams and we competed against each other while giving our best shot at three different sports. These were Ultimate Frisbee, Lacrosse and Takraw. Each student was assessed on how well they participated, supported and encouraged each other— ultimately how much we got “stuck in”.

Guided by the awesome Miss Watherston and Mr Bell, 11PE has been a highlight for many! For any students out there thinking about taking PE, I would highly recommend it!

Zara MacDonald

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Year 12 The Year 12 Outdoor Ed Class has had a great year with many new experiences and many challenges overcome.

To begin the year, we started our Rock Climbing unit. This involved demonstrating basic rock climbing movements. We also had to demonstrate the use of different basic rope systems for top rope climbing and abseiling. We also went to the YMCA rock climbing centre where we completed a Rock Climbing Achievement Standard for which many students achieved Merit or Excellence.

We then moved on to our Navigation unit which involved navigating using compass bearings and reading maps. We went to the Groynes, McLeans Island for practice in a different environment, and had a race with our fellow class members.

During Terms 2 and 3, we started our Day Tramps and continued with our Navigation unit. Our first tramp was to Mt Richardson in Oxford; we had bad weather to overcome and there was no view at the top, due to fog and snow. This was still a good learning curve for all of us as we learnt that weather can be unpredictable and that you should always bring extra clothes and gear in case the weather turns bad. Our second tramp was at Craigieburn and was focused more on our Navigation unit. We were given a map bearing of where Mr Dickens was standing at the top of a hill. Most of the group followed the right bearing to find Mr Dickens after about half an hour of walking through thick bush and snow. The other half, however, found themselves 36 | DARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | 2016

lost but with catching features were able to make their way to the top. The third tramp was Bealey Spur; this was our favourite tramp as it was a relaxing incline with really good views and a different environment to what most of us are used to.

After completing the tramps, we started our Sustainability unit. We had to find ways of increasing the mistletoe population in the Craigieburn Range.

Our idea was to build bird feeders to give the bellbirds an alternative source of food. We have put our bellbird feeders in the Craigieburn Range and the project is so far successful.

Next was our Snow Caving unit, where we had to participate in building and camping overnight in a snow shelter. We also had to demonstrate basic ice axe and crampon movements. We did this by going to Temple Basin for three days, a new experience for all and one of the best trips. The first day we walked up, which took an hour, and we then spent the afternoon learning how to self-arrest and different walking and climbing techniques. The next day was spent walking up and over a ridge to a haunted cabin (Mr Dickens, who died?) where we had lunch. After that, one group learnt how to find avalanche transceivers in the snow, and the other group learnt how to cut steps with crampons and axes. That night, we built and slept in our snow caves, which wasn’t the best experience as we didn’t level our floor properly and all ended up sliding into one corner, which didn’t allow for the most comfortable sleep.

After our Snow Caving assessment, we were quickly shifted to Canadian Canoeing. For this, we travelled four hours to the small town of Murchison where we spent the first day learning how to do certain strokes in very good weather. Caitlin and Rosa were also the first to capsize, going down some rapids that we were supposed to avoid. The next day, however, was some not so great weather, with torrential rain and flooding of the river. This meant many more capsized canoes and a lot of chasing oars and canoes down the river. Lily was lucky enough to find that her shoe was still in her canoe after James, our instructor, chased her canoe down the river after she and James Thornley capsized. The third day was spent on Lake Rotoroa—a chill day of cruising around the lake.

To finish off the year, we are doing our Mountain Biking assessment. Throughout the year, we have spent many Tuesday afternoons down at the Plantation, building our bike track which is now completed and open to the public.

This year has been a good one with many awesome experiences and good banter, and we would highly recommend students to get involved in Outdoor Education. Our class has become a solid team and we have bonded over the year. We would like to thank Mr Dickens for all his work and for teaching us.

Caitlin Frazer and Rosa Millar

Year 13 This year, the Year 13 ODE class have conquered phenomenal feats, such as summiting some amazing peaks and crossing raging torrents. As a class, we have enjoyed all the challenges that the outdoors has thrown at us. The first event of the year was to tackle Mt Somers in the harsh heat. The three-day adventure consisted of navigation and the challenge of summiting Mt Somers.

Our next challenge as a class was the trip to Wanaka for a week of climbing some of NZ’s most famous rock faces. The whole trip was an eye opener into the world of natural rock climbing. The whole group gained a new set of skills and some awesome experiences, including climbing the most famous route, “head bangers erret”. This trip was by far one of the best we had the opportunity to attend.

The second class trip was to the Marlborough Sounds to try to finish the Queen Charlotte Track—a whopping 60km track, it is a mixture of flat, well-formed tracks and rugged coastal tracks around the headlands. All of the hard work was worth it when we encountered the

breath-taking coastline and ocean views around every corner. This endeavour was the first trip that was partly student-planned and, to everyone’s surprise, it was enjoyable.

The last of the three tramps was to Mt Jelly Brook in the Nelson Lakes National Park. The drive was arduous but, to our relief, no comparison to the Queen Charlotte.

The group was in high spirits to start our adventure but, after we became lost in the first half hour of the tramp, the chain of unexpected events began. This final trip, being completely student-organised and planned, was a challenge for all of us but the miscalculations of walking times and errors in map reading and detail led to many ice cold river crossings and a longer walk than expected. When taking a break after five hours’ walking, it became apparent that we were in for a big night walking to our hut; three hours later, the arrival at a small hut was a godsend. The tramp was rewarding after all the hard work put in by the team.

Our topic for the end of year is sustainability; the whole class is trying to regrow native plants at the Creyke Road plantation and also up at the Craigieburn Forest, by eradicating possums and helping trees to grow and survive.

For Term Four, we are learning to mountain bike properly and are regularly biking through the Darfield Plantation mountain bike track built by the Year 12 class. This is a lot of fun and everyone seems to be enjoying it so far. We will be doing a trip to Mount Hutt in the future to test our skill level and see if it has improved. Everyone is looking forward to this trip to end the year for the group.

Overall, this year has been amazing and has given us many skill sets that we will be able to use in our adult lives. Many thanks to Mr Dickens for making this year possible.

Bailey Campbell and Andrew Hennessy

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Good things take time. Art is a good thing. Good art is the result of a robust creative process. Processes take time. I find myself writing this, with very little time available, knee-deep in Senior folio preparation; some of our planned events for the year are yet to happen. All the while, the school clock ticks. How best to sum up a year of creative learning?

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New equipment funded by the Malvern Community Arts Council A fantastic Senior trip to Christchurch City Art Gallery Donated books from Christchurch City Art Gallery

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Two very successful school exhibitions A specialist-trained Art teacher for Years 7 and 8 Students working on their art during lunch breaks Large Junior art classes

and good things yet to come:

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A new mural for E Block, designed and painted

by Year 10 A writing/illustration workshop run in conjunction with the English department and the Library Visiting Artists in Residence New tivaevae banners for the School Hall, made

by Year 7

Our lists may appear modest in comparison to subjects offering extreme challenges and extended excursions.

What happens in the Art room, however, is anything but modest. There is a little bit of magic present when students communicate their ideas and feelings without words. I am frequently amazed to see the indefinable made visible through creativity and imagination. This year has been exceptional. The future for Art at Darfield High School is full of potential, and I say thank you to every one of the students who remind me of this every day.

Bree Smith HOD Art Clockwise from top left: Art trip; Kilita Fouchee; Aaliyah van der Heyden, Bridget Freer; works by Nicole, Crystal, Madison

Bree Smith

Clockwise from left: Sunday folio workshop; work by Madison; Brooke; Kieran; Lexie, and Chloe

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Drama Bugsy Malone Production Week is over, but the buzz surrounding this year’s show is still going strong. The cream pies and splurge guns were certainly a highlight for both the actors and the audience members.

We saw outstanding performances from Kate Morris as Fizzy, Eric Maxted as Bugsy Malone, Lexi Sutherland as Blousey Brown and Kyla Higgins as Tallulah. Their work in the lead roles beautifully captured the essence of the show and really kept the energy alive.

The comedic timing of Caleb Banks and Tom Wilson as the hapless Police duo was exemplary.

The opposing gang leaders, Natasha Young as Fat Sam and Adam Walker as Dandy Dan, kept the attention of the audience.

Special mention must go to the young backstage crew, who kept the show running smoothly and cleanly; thanks to Ms Evans who managed a phenomenal crew.

The friendly and professional welcome from Front of

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House crew, Jess Lane, Michael Campbell and Eddie Searle, set the mood for a wonderful show.

Mr Stubbs, along with Hitomi Kaneko and Dan Conway, kept the feet tapping, both on and off stage, with a whole new approach to the classic songs.

Congratulations to Remington Evans on her debut as our lighting operator, working closely with Robert Bampton, and Max Whyte on sound.

Hair, make up and costuming were professionally applied and effective on stage; a huge thank you to Mrs Wilson, Ms Gallacher and Mrs Oliver for keeping the cogs turning.

Well done to all of the wonderful crew for a stunning and enjoyable performance; you started well and finished even more strongly—I am very proud of all your efforts. (And I think I did pretty well too!)

Andie Hanson

2016 promised to be an exciting year in the Drama department, and it certainly did not disappoint! Some of our exciting new experiences have been the visits from professional theatre and dance groups, such as the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Hagley Dance Company, and NZ Playhouse. The NCEA classes were lucky enough to see some extraordinary theatre in their trips to see Free Theatre’s Frankenstein and NZ Opera’s Sweeney Todd, serving as inspiration for their own class productions and devised pieces.

From top left: Royal New Zealand Ballet Workshop Hagley Dance Company Workshop Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition Sophie Bucknell Sophie Bucknell and Natasha Young Lexie Sutherland, Natasha Young, Caleb Banks, Sophie Bucknell and Sydney Riley Free Theatre’s ‘Frankenstein’

As usual, the Performing Arts extracurricular activities were great fun. The Annual School Production, Bugsy Malone was a hit, the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare team made it through to the regional finals with Hamlet and Jasmine Nash undertook the role of Director for our first Junior Production, Mr Scrooge, which promises to bring Christmas joy as the end of the year approaches.

Andie Hanson

Year 12 Drama class production of Caustic: Back: Laura McLean, Kayla Croy, Bailey Quirke, Maddie Payne, Jack Millar, Heather McConchie, Jacob Riddle, Regan Redmond, Emma Bary Front: Holly Kimber, Madison O’Callaghan, Niamh Marriott

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The Darfield High School Music department has participated in a number of events during 2016. In Term 2, the saxophone and string groups competed in the NZCT Chamber Music competition at Knox Church in Christchurch and received pleasing results.

Darfield entered separate categories of the Rockquest competition held at Burnside High School—the band, C6H10O5, wrote Na Na and it was performed by Selina Dixon, Hitomi Kaneko, Sammie Crosby and Lilian Stott. Singer-songwriter, Holly Kimber, wrote and sang Stupid Love. Both entries received positive feedback.

The Selwyn Awards were held on 27 July and Leigh and Ellen Walters, Selina Dixon, Tom Wilson and Emma Grigg played a jazz set whilst entertaining diners at the event. The Jazz Band, conducted by Mrs Rachel

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Balchin, played in the Ara Jazz Quest and received a Bronze award. The Jazz Band then competed with 19 other schools at Southern Jam, held in Blenheim from 10–13 August, and won best vocalist, with Holly Kimber, and an overall Silver award.

In Term 3, many of our senior students entered the Talent Quest, with pianist Jaewoo Lee winning best instrumentalist, Selina Dixon and Lilian Stott winning best vocal performance, and Holly Kimber coming overall runner-up.

The Junior Choir rehearsed with Mrs Galletly and then participated in The Christchurch Music Festival held on 28 October at Horncastle Arena. The festival of choral music was accompanied by full orchestra and a concert band. These Years 7 and 8 students enjoyed

a very special day of music with students from many other Canterbury schools.

Senior music students have been very busy preparing performances and writing compositions for NCEA, and were surprised by a special visit from a group of international avant garde jazz musicians from the University of Canterbury, who played original music called Our Letters Home, a response to the Christchurch earthquakes. They then gave a workshop on music appreciation and the formation of creative musical ideas.

operates after school hours and many students learn a variety of instruments under their tutors’ careful guidance.

Every student is progressing well and we are happy to acknowledge the achievements of Ellen Walters who is studying Cello with Heleen du Plessis at the University of Otago next year, and Holly Kimber who is taking up a Year 13 Vocal Bursary at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in 2017. We wish them the very best for their continued studies.

Sarah-Jane Rennie

The Music department is always busy with itinerant music teachers taking lessons; Brass, Woodwind, Strings, Piano, Guitar and Vocal lessons are run most days of the week. The Malvern School of Music

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International 2016 has been another busy year for the International Department. It was a pleasure to host study tour groups from Selwyn District sister regions, Yubetsu (Hokkaido, Japan) and Akitakata (Hiroshima, Japan). This year, we also welcomed back a group from Thai agency, Kiwi Centre, as well as hosting our Japanese partner schools, Setagaya Gakuen (Tokyo), Keiai Gakuen (Chiba), and Kagoshima Junshin High School (Kagoshima).

Along with our tour groups, it has been a privilege to host 48 individual international students from Brazil, China, France, Japan, Germany, Mongolia, South Korea, and Thailand. Some of our new students were here for just two weeks, while some will stay on for four years of study at Darfield.

We’ve had lots of fun throughout the year during various activities and trips. In Term 1, we hosted our first pool party for students, cultural ambassadors, and host families. We also held a BBQ at school so our new international students could get to know some more of our Kiwi students.

In Term 2, it was off to watch a Crusaders rugby game in Christchurch—a real New Zealand experience.

Then there was our annual mid-winter party, as well as International Day where we celebrated all the different cultures at Darfield High School. Fifteen students had a great time on our winter holiday trip to the West Coast where we saw glow worms, Lake Matheson, Hokitika Gorge, and Fox Glacier and toasted marshmallows on the beach.

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In Term 3, we all enjoyed a trip to Hanmer Springs for the day, in beautiful spring weather. We also visited Lake Tekapo with 12 students for some snow tubing, ice skating, horse trekking and relaxing in the hot pools.

As well as participating in the House competition activities, being part of school and local sports teams, and joining in cultural activities, some international students also tried their hand at target shooting through the local Darfield Smallbore Rifle Club.

2016 also saw the start of a new initiative called Cultural Ambassadors. This is a group of students with a keen interest in interacting with and helping international students. We have really appreciated all the help from our Cultural Ambassadors this year, and look forward to developing the group’s activities in 2017.

We look forward to another busy year next year, but a big thank you to all of the Darfield High School students and staff, host families, and wider community for all their help hosting our international students this year.

department Momo Kawakami

I have been rock climbing and to Riccarton Mall. When I started rock climbing, it was very hard because I didn’t have any muscles. But I enjoyed it because I like sport.

I was surprised that my friend, who doesn’t like sport, is very good at rock climbing.

Director of International Students

We visited Riccarton Mall—I wanted some scissors and new shoes, but I didn’t find them. We drank bubble tea and a new coffee at Starbucks, and I had Korean and Japanese food for lunch. I had Torikatu and spicy noodles—very delicious. I miss Korean food and Japanese food, especially Japanese rice and meat. The only NZ meat I like is chicken—I think that NZ meat has a different smell.

Hello, I am YunJeong and I am from Korea. I’ve been here about 10 months. I live in West Melton with my mum and older brother. My brother came to NZ at the end of Year 9, but he changed schools, to Darfield High School, in Year 12. So, he is better at English than I am.

English very well, so I didn’t have the courage to talk with her. However, Japanese students started talking to me and, while we were talking, we realised that we had something in common, so we talked more. We took photos together and became good friends.

When I arrived at Darfield High School, I saw students from different countries, but none from Korea. It has been an interesting experience for me. Firstly, I met Japanese students and one German student who speaks

At school, I see many international students and Kiwi students and I try to talk with them. They have been so kind to me. My Kiwi friends in Drama class wished me Happy Birthday with chocolates and a song.

I am learning a lot of things at Darfield High School. I am improving my English skills. I am learning about the culture. I am making a lot of new friends. I like the Outdoor Education class because I am having a lot of experiences which I couldn’t have in Japan, eg climbing mountains, making a snow cave, mountain biking, and rock climbing. These things are a lot of fun. I have joined many clubs, including shooting and football. These are good opportunities to make more new friends.

Nicola Hely

Unfortunately, we have had to say goodbye to some other international students, and we cried a lot, but we still keep in touch with them. Except for farewells, I have really enjoyed the school and I love my friends.

YunJeong Lee

I’m enjoying my life at Darfield High School. I have some kind friends and teachers, so I’m very lucky.

I especially like the Japanese class. People often ask me, “You are Japanese, but you take a Japanese class?”

You might think a Japanese class is easy for a Japanese person. Of course, it is easier for us than other subjects.

But it’s sometimes hard for us because we have to do translation and, because I learnt Japanese naturally in Japan, I often can’t answer the questions of other

students who are taking Japanese. I want to be a teacher of Japanese for foreign students—like Mrs Hayakawa-Buist. I will learn more Japanese from her.

And, if you want to know about Japanese, please come to me—I will teach you.

I joined a club outside of school—Youth Group— where I have met many kinds of people and learnt about religion. It has been hard to understand another culture, but it is quite interesting.

A school event I tried was Triathlon—it was very hard, and I was nervous because I hadn’t done it before. But I learned the importance of trying something new.

Staying with a homestay has also been a good experience. It’s the first time I have stayed with people who are not my family, so I was quite nervous. But they always treat me kindly. Sometimes, it is hard to understand each other because we have different cultures. My host parents support me very well and I really appreciate them.

Before I came to New Koki Nagahama Zealand, I always had my parents to help me, but now I have gained independence. I have had a very good and satisfying time at DHS.

Honoka Kurata

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DELF Exams

Making Crêpes Learning a foreign language is hard work and sometimes it is good to do something a little more hands on. So, in the last lesson of the French rotation, the Year 9 students learnt to make crêpes.

Crêpes are like a very thin pancake and are typical of Brittany. Students learnt to do them the traditional way and had great fun eating them!

The DELF is an international examination set up by the French Ministry of Education to give learners of French around the world a measure of their proficiency in French. Because it is internationally recognised, students who own a DELF certificate can travel the world and be sure that their ability to speak French will be recognised, whether or not the country or employer has any understanding of our NZ NCEA system. Therefore, this is a great asset for students who plan to travel and apply for overseas jobs.

Well done to Kathryn Barnhill, Sophie Bucknell, Cameron Brunton and Jayden Hann for passing their DELF examinations with flying colours this year. Over the last three years, we have entered 11 students in these examinations and we have had a 100% success rate. Go DHS students—you are the best!

Language Perfect Championship Every year, our students enter an online vocabulary learning competition run by the Language Perfect website. We often gain great success in this competition, but this year was unique as Sophie Bucknell won an Elite Award.

Sophie is the first DHS student to win such a high award. To do so, she had to correctly answer 10,000 questions in 10 days! Well done, Sophie: this is an outstanding result.

Give Teaching a Go Our Years 12 and 13 French students gave teaching a go! On two consecutive Fridays, they went to the Darfield Primary School to teach French to a group of Years 4 to 6 children. Our senior students were a bit shy to start with but soon discovered the joy of teaching. They taught the French numbers up to 10, and led a variety of learning activities and songs. They even ran a cooking session and made waffles with the students. Yum! Who knows—we could have a future French teacher in our school!

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French Cooking Competition Every year, our French senior students take part in the Alliance Française’s cooking competition, “Le Concours des écoles”. It’s the schools’ equivalent of a Master Chef competition but the food is French and the recipes and the dishes must be presented to the judges in French! We had two teams competing this year and, even though they didn’t make a place, they cooked amazingly well and had a lot of fun! Thanks to our French visiting students for being such a great support crew!

New Caledonian Exchange Over the last three years, our French department has been running a New Caledonian exchange. This programme targets Years 9 and 10 students and hopes not only to develop language skills but also to raise awareness of the relevance of the French language in the Pacific.

Our sister school is called Collège de Ouégoa. It is a small public school in the far north province of New Caledonia.

They have 130 students from Years 7 to 10. The exchange we have set up with our sister school is based on alternate visits from each school. A group of 16 students and three teachers from the

College de Ouégoa visited us in October this year. Many thanks to all the host families who volunteered to host them during their stay in Darfield. Next year, we will be organising our return trip and students who are studying French in Years 9 and 10 will be invited to take part in the trip in November 2017.

French Exchange As many of you already know, for the last five years Darfield High School has run a linguistic exchange with its French sister school, Le Lycée Felix Le Dantec, a Senior High School in Brittany.

This partnership allows six Darfield High School students to travel to France for two months, attend school and be welcomed into the families of Lycée Felix Le Dantec students. In return, the six students from the partner school come and live with the exchange students for two months on their return from France. Because this exchange programme is fully reciprocal, all school or host family fees are neutralised and, therefore, the exchange becomes more affordable for the families involved.

In 2016, Harriet Watson and Eloise Dance took part in this exchange programme.

They immersed themselves in the language, discovered the country and its culture and got to experience the French way of life. They made memories that they will cherish for years to come.

Our participants for the 2017 French exchange have recently been selected.

Congratulations to Michelle Bruce, Penny Mitchell, Kate Morris and Elyse Kerr.

2017 is set to be a very exciting year for you all!

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Yubetsu Exchange

Recently, I went on an amazing experience to Japan, for two whole months. During my stay, I met lots of people who quickly became my friends. I learnt so much while I was in Japan and I encourage other students to take this opportunity as well.

The area of Japan I visited was called Yubetsu and, unlike the other trip to Japan, where they travelled a lot, I lived with one family for my entire stay, and even attended school like a Japanese student. This allowed me to make strong friendships, as I was with them for two months and, since coming home, we have received many messages and boxes of food from my host family.

One of the best parts about my trip was at the airport at 4.30 am, about to leave my family for the longest trip I have ever been on, right as I was about to board the plane it suddenly hit me that I was about to experience something that no-one I knew could ever experience.

Another turning point for me happened the night before I left Japan to return home: after telling myself that I wouldn’t cry, I very soon failed. I was leaving one of the best places on earth (in my opinion) and I might never see my friends again.

The day before I left was an emotional one; I spent the entire day with my friends playing games and walking on the beach before finally setting off some fireworks

on the edge of the road. As my friends left, I realised I had a problem: each and every one of them had given me something to take home with me, and I was well over my allowance for the plane. We re-shuffled some things and eventually it was the right weight, until the morning of my departure, when my entire school club, who hadn’t been there the day before, gave me presents as well.

One of the most interesting realisations I had was at the Yubetsu Museum half-way through my trip, when I realised that, during World War 2, Japan and New Zealand were on opposite sides, but now 70 years later, we trust each other with our children and trust that they will help us to learn another language.

I went to Japan for two months and, instead of returning home alone, I returned with my host brother to share another two months showing him New Zealand life, which was a whole other experience in itself.

This was one of the most interesting, fulfilling and enjoyable experiences of my life, and I have already started saving for next year. I encourage other students to take this opportunity to meet lovely new people and keep the bond between our two towns strong.

Hanako Wilson

Celine and Emma’s Trip to Japan During April, Emma Ashworth and Celine Jenkins participated in a disabled youth exchange to Kurashiki, Japan. After two flights and a fivehour bus trip, accompanied by their mothers and Tania McKenzie (Christchurch City Council Sister City Committee) they arrived in Kurashiki.

One of the places they visited was the Hiroshima Peace Museum. This was a very emotional time and they were pleased to see what the war was like for the Japanese people. Two nights were spent with homestays and they had the opportunity to try on kimonos, which were really beautiful.

They visited the Okayama Gardens and then two disabled schools to experience what school life was like for them. Another highlight was going to the lookout of the Seto Ohashi Bridge, which is a series of double-deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa. This is 13.1 kilometres long.

On Emma’s 17th birthday, they attended a local wheelchair basketball centre, where they had a chance to join teams and compete against each other. Celine and Lisa’s team were the winners.

Afterwards they were surprised with a birthday cake for Emma.

Emma and Celine got to experience many aspects of the Japanese culture, including the vast array of food. They thought the best were the doughnuts, which were brightly coloured and shaped. Celine enjoyed the green tea ice-cream and Emma loved battered oysters.

Thank you to Tania and also Independent Fisheries for sponsoring this trip.

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Trip to Japan On 22 September, a group of five enthusiastic students departed on a Japanese adventure. With the help of our teachers, Mrs Hayakawa-Buist, Miss Hely and Mr Tsavousis, we arrived safely in Tokyo. On Day One, we visited the Tokyo Sky Tree, which is the tallest building in Tokyo at an impressive 634 metres high. We learned about Japanese traditions at an Edo museum before heading to a Japanese onsen/hot spring for some relaxation. We went to the Tokyo Dome to watch a Tokyo Giants Baseball game. Day Two included a trip to Ueno Zoo, where we saw two famous pandas (Shin and Ri Ri) and a group of Japanese monkeys.

On 25 September, we flew to Hiroshima where we were privileged enough to participate in a koto lesson at Yoshida Junior High School. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. It was brought to Japan from China in the 8th century. We all really enjoyed learning how to play this unique instrument. We then went to Yoshida High School where we watched a traditional Japanese performance called Kagura. Kagura re-enacts traditional Japanese folk tales and Shinto myths. We also spent time travelling around Akitakata, learning about the old Japanese traditions of Samurai and Buddhism. We saw different types of shrines and temples and experienced unique Japanese foods, like okonomiyaki, which is a savoury pancake.

During our time in Hiroshima, we also had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima Peace Park and Miyajima Island. The Peace Park was a sobering experience as we learnt about the hardships of war and the way Japan was affected during WWII. While there, we hung 1000 paper cranes on behalf of Darfield High School. After that, we headed to Miyajima, which

literally translates to Shrine Island. We had a fantastic tour of the island and even got to pat some of the friendly, wild deer which inhabit it.

We took a Bullet Train to our next destination, Kagoshima. The train ride was fun and everyone had a keen eye on the speed as we swished through the countryside. At Kagoshima Central Station, we were greeted with a huge smile from Sister Nakano who will soon be travelling to New Zealand with Mr Turley (a Kiwi teacher) and a group of their students. The next day, we had some traditional Japanese tea and made a special lunch called keihan with the teachers and students from Kagoshima. The dish originates from this part of Japan and it is made with chicken and vegetables. Later, we played a special sport called Tamaire: two opposing teams have one minute to throw as many little balls as possible into tall baskets. With free time the next day, we visited temples, aquariums, Ferris wheels, malls and much more.

Pavilion, or Temple) which was an amazing sight. We then headed to a Ninja-themed restaurant for lunch: a unique dining experience. Finally, on our last day, we were let loose in Universal Studios Japan.

In conclusion, the Japan trip was highly enjoyable and filled with memories that will last a lifetime. The trip taught us all new words that will help us in our future Japanese studies and we got to experience food that we wouldn’t have tried in New Zealand. Even if you are not taking Japanese as a subject, you are still able to apply and come to Japan; so long as you are willing to learn and participate in the Japanese culture. This trip is only once every two years, so in 2018 the chance of a lifetime will be open. Why not take a risk and go to a foreign country for two weeks filled with adventures?

Elyse Kerr

Our final destination was the Kansai Centre where we stayed for three nights. Students from all over the world attend there to study Japanese. Upon our arrival, we were assigned to our rooms and spent the rest of the night relaxing. On the second day, we went to a Japanese class where we learnt the valuable skill of how to order food from a restaurant. We spent two hours practising our language skills and were able to put our new phrases to good use during the rest of our stay. We also learnt how to play the traditional Japanese drums called taiko. The song we learned was traditionally used to summon the rain spirit - a method often chosen by farmers experiencing drought. The next day, we took a train to Kyoto where we saw Kinkakuji (The Golden DHS YEARBOOK | 49

Japanese NCEA Day at the University of Canterbury

Celebrating 10 Years In October every year, Darfield High School hosts a group of students from Kagoshima Junshin Girls’ High School. The students and accompanying teachers visit Darfield for approximately ten days and stay with local host families. Their programme includes spending time at school in classes with local students, as well as going on outings to places such as Akaroa, Christchurch, and Rubicon Valley Farm. Always a particular highlight is the excellent informative cultural performances the Kagoshima students present to Darfield High School students. This year, we learnt about ninjas, pop fashion, Japanese primary schools, and funny animated characters.

This year marks an important milestone in the relationship—it is the tenth year Kagoshima Junshin Girls’ High School has visited Darfield.

In commemoration, a Japanese cherry tree has been planted outside the Darfield High School International office. We look forward to the relationship continuing to grow and develop in the coming years, and thank all of our host families and the local community who help us to host this wonderful group.

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The day commenced with a bus ride to the University of Canterbury, which I found considerably larger than Darfield High School—I felt like an ant in a paddock of grass. After the entrance ceremony, Ashleigh Stewart, a writer for Stuff, told us stories of her trips to Japan, the friends that she made and the ties she made with the country, and how these were shattered by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. After quite an emotional biography of Ashleigh’s time in Japan, we were guided to the village where we would do most of our workshops. For the first period of class, my group introduced each other, then had a Japanese debate about Japanese schools or New Zealand schools being harder. We learnt in the second lesson about what we do as hobbies and what we want right now, and how our views matched those of students from Japan; this showed us a new perspective on our school lives, and how the Japanese people view things. For my last lesson, I learnt many words that would help me in my Japanese in essays or projects; then we learnt the Japanese names for sports. After three lessons in the village, we went

back to the lecture room for the final words, the prize giving, and the much anticipated dance! We performed the Odoru Ponpokorin Dance in front of a camera. We ended this exciting and fun day with the ceremonial hand clapping, Tejime. I hope I will be able to go to the Japanese workshop again next year!

Rahul Chandra

Japan Day On Sunday 6 March, the Year 10 Japanese class, as well as some seniors, made our way aboard a bus to Riccarton Park, for the Japan Day event. We walked inside to see where we would be performing and watched a boy perform some traditional dancing, which was very enlightening. There were many, many different things to look at. I saw some people pounding rice for rice cakes and saw a kendo exhibition. There were even places where you could join in; we saw some young children learning about sumo wrestling and people being shown how to make traditional kites.

Inside, there were shops, and even an anime room!

At about 2 o’clock, we went back to the performing area and prepared for our performance. We dressed in happi and practised our dance and, before going inside to watch the other performers, we rushed back outside to find some Hi-chew, ( Japanese lollies) and some of my favourite kitkats—green tea flavour. We

went back inside, mentally preparing ourselves for what was going to happen, before lining up ready to begin.

It all happened quite fast and, before we knew it, the audience was clapping and we were heading to the back again.

We performed Yuki Ya Konko, a traditional Japanese song that talks about snow falling, dogs playing and cats sleeping by the fire. We had a lot of fun performing and writing our Kanji symbols, I learnt how to write hana (the start of my name, which means flower) and I am quite proud of how it turned out. It was a really fun day and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I suggest going to Japan Day in the future; it’s a great way to learn about the culture and try food that you can’t buy in New Zealand.

Hanako Wilson

Design and Visual Communication It has been great to have others teaching parts of DVC this year. They have brought with them fresh ideas and new ways of doing things. Huge thanks must go to Bruce Johnston and Peter Finnigan for stepping into the role and offering so much support. Also, there needs to be a big thank you to all DVC students who have worked this year without complaint and managed all the interruptions exceptionally well. What an awesome bunch of students you are!

The students have produced a range of great works, acquired many new skills and developed their spatial abilities well. Year 9 did some awesome design work exploring the use of technologies in society, creating and modelling their own robots. Year 10 investigated technological systems, explored black box technology,

designed their own iPod docking stations and completed an architectural design of a studio. Year 11 put a lot of care and attention into getting a great portfolio together for their design of a tramping hut, including some computer-aided design work. Year 12 made a big step up and spent time developing a re-design for the school Canteen. Year 13 focused on a student’s own design process, ideation and telling of a design story through visual communication—a challenging task.

It has been a great year with a fabulous bunch of students. You all have my sincere thanks for your unwavering support.

Christine Curtin

Clockwise from top: Matt Hadler, canteen design; Finn McGregor, canteen model; Harry Pooler, Year 11, tramping hut concepts; Year 9 theme shack; Year 13 group working; Brogan Baldwin canteen concepts; Caitlin Soal canteen model; Dylan Bamford, Year 10, studio; Jaymee Burrows, Year 11, tramping hut details

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Metal Work and Construction and Mechanical Engineering

Year 10 students complete a set programme consisting of practical work and two Unit Standards worth two credits each. Some students have opted to continue this subject for the full year. These students are offered 14 credits.

Years 11 and 12 students continue to complete Unit Standards and are introduced to Achievement Standards. Year 11 trade students complete a minimum of sixteen credits for Unit Standards and make a small vice, while other students complete a total of sixteen Unit Standard credits and 14 Achievement Standard credits. These students design a storage item as their main project for the year. The students have come up with a variety of storage solutions with their stakeholder (parent/caregiver) and produced a prototype.

The students learn a variety of skills, fro m operating a lathe and a milling machine to bending sheet metal and MiG/Arc welding.

Year 13 students complete Level 3 Achievement Standards only.

Peter Finnigan

2016 has been a year of many changes—in staff and in standards offered. This year, we have introduced Achievement Standards for all senior levels. We will continue to complete Unit Standards for those students who want to take up a trade.

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Junior Technology Year 7 Our Year 7 students have been designing and making picture frames using a custom wood foundation. To this they add personalised decoration to complement the theme of the photo in the frame.

Year 8 Year 8 students produce a maze game incorporating design and barriers to challenge the person playing the game to get the small balls to the finish point.

A range of decorative themes enhance the design of the game.

Year 9 This year group produces a free-standing clock on an easel which has a four-way veneer diamond match background. Students design shapes which they use as the border of their clocks.

Year 10 The challenge in Year 10 is to design and produce a free-standing beside lamp with an elliptical base. The lamp column is turned on the lathe using point-topoint turning. Project two is to produce a footstool with turned legs and an upholstered top. Advanced students also produce an inlaid veneer chessboard and a rimu breakfast tray.

Furniture Making Year 11 Year 11 students study Unit Standards based on traditional cabinetmaking skills. In this class, students produce a bedside cabinet and a cheval mirror (which includes a rose marquetry). Written work supports the practical aspects of this course.

Year 12 Year 12 students continue with traditional cabinetmaking skills and incorporate basic carpentry skills. On the construction side of this course, they produce two saw stools and two Cape Cod chairs. An occasional table is produced as part of the cabinetmaking units.

Gavin Chalk

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It has been another busy year in Soft Materials Technology, with students following the design process to achieve quality outcomes. We have really benefitted from the new sewing machines that we were lucky to get last year. It has helped with consistency of sewing and there has been less need for repairs and maintenance.

I would like to thank the generous people, parents and staff, who have donated fabrics, haberdashery items, patterns, wool and other notions for student use.

Without these contributions, the students wouldn’t have as great a choice and use of extras that our budget doesn’t extend to.

Again this year, the Year 7 students have been learning basic sewing machine and hand sewing skills to create a pin cushion. A very big thank you to Mrs Pat Gibb, who has generously given up her time to help and support our students with their projects. Her help has been invaluable and a positive experience for our students.

The Year 8 students have had Mrs Walker and Mrs Vincent teaching them how to make aprons and have created some interesting designs and made use of different colour combinations and decorations.

The Year 9 students are again making ‘Ugly Creatures’.

These are soft toys that need to include two animal features and be made from recycled materials. The students this year have been very creative, using more and different recycled materials, with excellent results.

They have also been studying the difference between natural fibres and man-made fibres.

Year 10 students are all making bags. They were given a set of dimensions for a very basic bag which they have had to adapt to make a bag for their own needs. This has proved challenging, especially the construction of the bags. Some students are now working on hoodies and pyjamas.

It has been great having the Year 11 students this year. They have been doing Achievement Standards, comprising ‘Just Kids’ and ‘Own Identity’. They have also completed a research assessment on ‘The impact of the emergence of the mini skirt on 1960s society and culture’. Our international students have worked enthusiastically at making many practical garments and articles for themselves and their friends.

In the lead up to the festive season, we will be making Christmas decorations to showcase the students’ Christmas traditions and creativity.

Aileen Walker

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Home Economics 2016 has been a productive and enjoyable year in the kitchen.

projects, along with developing an understanding of healthy eating.

The Junior Food Technology classes have been busy this year creating many exciting new food products. The Year 7 students took an ordinary muesli bar and aimed to make a new muesli snack product that appealed to children more and was a healthy everyday snack that would be suitable for their lunchboxes.

The Senior Home Economics students have been working hard to gain an understanding of many different issues related to food and nutrition, as well as improving their cooking skills in the kitchen.

The Year 8 students have been designing new ice cream flavours that taste like their favourite dessert, as well as refining their skills on how to plate food attractively.

The Year 9 students have been learning the valuable skills of how to make many different types of bread from scratch, along with how to make cheese. Their projects were to create a ‘Kiwiana’ themed pizza and they also designed their own meal using ingredients that require biotechnology.

The Year 10 students have been focusing on making a healthier and more creative alternative to Cookie Time biscuits, designing a healthy breakfast and investigating edible containers. Creativity, innovation and thinking outside the box have been key skills for all of these

The Year 11 Hospitality class began the year learning about what healthy eating is and the consequences of not eating a healthy diet; they have looked at what information can be found on food packaging and have practised and refined their cooking skills to a catering standard.

The Year 12 Home Economics class investigated sustainability of food and learnt many methods of food preservation to prevent food wastage. They also designed and made their very own pie flavour.

The Year 13 Home Economics students looked into the ethical dilemma surrounding battery cage eggs and how advertisements and large multinational companies influence us to consume their products.

Erin Vincent

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Clockwise from right: Logo by Liam Hindle; Jasmine Nash;

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By Rex Smith In June, 20 students travelled to McLean’s Island to compete in the Canterbury Schools’ Agricultural Competitions. Congratulations to the DHS Advanced B team who placed 2nd overall out of 20 teams.

McKenzie Alfeld won the Sheep ID event outright.

Darfield also won other single events.

Students competed in the Non-Electric Fence module where they had 20 minutes to complete a short fence line comprising a variety of termination and joining knots. Students were judged on the speed and accuracy of their work. Both Advanced teams completed this module.

The two Basic teams competed in the Sprayer Safety module where students had to individually measure, mix and spray a mixture. Accuracy, correct use of PPE and the ability to explain the basic ideas behind safety were important ingredients of this module.

In another module, both Basic teams had to sort and flip some large rams. This was much harder than the students thought and only a few students from all schools (including some of our students) were able to complete this task.

During the winter, Year 12 students completed an environmental project on a local farm. They fenced off both sides of a 400-metre stream with a 7-wire fence complete with gates. This will be planted with 500 native plants.

Clockwise from top left: McKenzie Alfeld, Cameron Lingard and Robert Bampton; Courtney James, Robert Bampton and Cameron Ellis; Sam Dalley, Nathaniel Dysart, McKenzie Alfeld and Andrew Coppard; Sam Inch-Reed, Mitchell Hedley, McKenzie Alfeld, Morgan Hesselwood, Nathaniel Dysart, Andrew Coppard and Sam Dalley; Devon Crequer, Mr Mac and Jack Green; Anna Hurst, Morgan Hesselwood and Cam Lingard

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Students are pictured installing the bracing systems on one of the many angle changes. The wet, soft ground presented its own challenges.

Over winter, Year 11 students travelled to a local farm where, amongst other tasks, they completed three fences across bush covered gullies.

Year 11 students completed an electric fence challenge where they erected, connected and tested an electric break over undulating ground and a stream. They needed to complete this task at “industry speed.�

Over three weeks, students visited a farm in the Malvern Hills where they learnt all aspects of Quad Bike and Farm Bike skills. Our objective here is to upskill students to the point where they have learnt the basic techniques necessary to avoid accidents. Students learn how to active ride on hills, and turn, brake and accelerate safely.

Tailing time arrived in due course and Years 11 and 13 students visited two farms and tailed, ear-notched, neutered and sorted over 1000 lambs. Students rotated through the various jobs, completing about 30 instances of each job.

Clockwise from top left: McKenzie Alfeld, Ged Roessink, Mr Mac, and Michael Wells; Luke Beadle; Anna Hurst, Olivia Shinn, Mariah Glasson, Lucy Harrington, Jack Devlin and India Perrie; Luke Beadle, Brooke McKay, Grace Earle, Brooke McKay, Dylan Hyde and Jereon Breunisse; Daniel Felipe; Tessa Mitchell and Roy McCaughan

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T LENT Once again, Darfield's Got Talent evening did not disappoint! After several weeks of lunchtime heats, the finalists were selected and the best Darfield talent put on a great show for family and the community.

Our winners are listed on the following page.

Congratulations to Overall Winners, Sophie and Manaia, who already are featuring on television with their awesome hip hop dance.

The audience was treated to a diverse range of performances including dance, singing, instrumental and even comedy. The best MCs also were chosen from the heats—Michael Ridgen and Michael Campbell. The finalist line-up is at right, and the judges, Poiema Heine and Hannah Cossey, our 24/7 Team, definitely had a difficult time allocating awards and top performer prizes!

Thank you to everyone who helped backstage and with sound and lighting, Mr Cattell and Mr Martin. Thank you to the judges for the heats, Mrs Hanson and Miss Rennie, and on the night.

Winners

Best Dance: Sophie Kingi and Manaia Davies Runner up Dance : Teresa Barnhill Best Vocal: Lilian Stott and Selina Dixon Runner up Vocal: Holly Kimber Best Instrumental: Jaewoo Lee

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And if you haven't yet been to one of our fabulous Talent nights, see you next year—you will be impressed!

Runner up Instrumental: Jazz Band Most Entertaining: Sophie Kingi and Manaia Davies Rising Star: Millie Wilson Overall Runner Up: Jazz Band Overall Winner: Sophie and Manaia

and how protestors or animal conservationists raise awareness about these issues and make you think twice about what you’re buying and supporting. The performance ends with an ultimate tragedy. The lion cub is surrounded by poachers and the lead poacher throws a net over her head as a symbol of capture. We wanted to end our performance with tragedy to shock the audience and to make them realise that humans are very unforgiving in their actions and to really take into account how this needs to change and how they too have a part in this issue. We cannot keep killing animals which are endangered, especially poaching for ‘trophies’.

The DHS Stage Challenge family raised awareness by providing a voice for the animals.

Voice the Roar In May, DHS students participated in the Christchurch Stage Challenge event. Each school involved develops a concept to raise awareness of problems in the world and this is portrayed through dance, drama, acting and design techniques. Our concept was to raise awareness about animal poaching and the student leaders were inspired by the story of Cecil the Lion who was, sadly, killed by a game hunter in 2015. Because that story had gained so much media attention, we thought that the audience would be able to relate to our concept.

We started planning our performance at the end of Term 3, 2015. The choreographers (Maddie Tasker, Chloe Walker, Alexis Sutherland, Grace Lemon, Emily de Rooy and Kyla Higgins) developed the dances over the summer holidays to ensure teaching could start soon as auditions were over. We aimed to mimic the movements of different animals (lions, zebras, elephants, flamingos and monkeys) to add to the performance and to really capture the setting. It was not long before the fundraising, costuming, lighting and T-shirt printing took place and, before we knew it, our performance was coming to life. The students

went through an audition and casting process so that everything was fair and so we could select the right people for each role. There were practices almost every lunch time for different performance groups and a lot of hard work was put in by student leaders behind the scenes to ensure the organisation part of the process was completed.

We created a general animal kingdom of Zebras, Flamingos, Monkeys and Elephants. We also had two main leads who were Lions—one mother and one cub (Kelly Leonard and Alex McGregor)—to symbolise our inspiration. Our performance told the story of a joyous animal kingdom, until an army of poachers intrude and cause disturbance. The animals and poachers have a battle, where the mother Lion gets killed and other animals get injured and killed by the poachers. We created a high society and protesters group to show how both of these groups have different effects on this issue: how the high society group buy and wear fur coats, often unaware of what happens behind the scenes to produce the items they lust after;

Our performance landed us eight awards! Excellence in Costuming Character, Excellence for Soundtrack, Excellence for Performance Skill, Excellence for Choreography, Excellence for Concept, Excellence for Drama and Excellence for School Community. Chloe Fraser was nominated by student leaders and won the Award of Excellence for Student Achievement for all of her hard work on the fundraising and financial team.

We also won a prize for being the best ‘chanters’, led

by Bailey Campbell. Darfield may be small, but we are loud!

As well as the performance, the day was a really great experience. Photos, games, banter, chanting and loads of dancing all kept the day fun and interesting. As well as student leaders, we had help from a few teachers and volunteers who were awesome and were a big help throughout the day. The biggest thank you goes to Ms Blakemore. We wouldn’t have been able to do any of this without her. She came to practices, sorted out all the finer details and really helped us be the best possible Stage Challenge family! Overall, it was an amazing day that really made all of the hard work behind the scenes worth it. We were so grateful for all the Darfield supporters who cheered us on throughout the journey.

We are also very grateful for the opportunity to be part of the 2016 Stage Challenge and, for the leavers of 2016, the fun experience will be sorely missed. But we will always remember to Voice The Roar!

Emily de Rooy and Kyla Higgins

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Shave for a Cure On 14 April, the school's annual Shave Day had finally arrived. The shavees, consisting of 23 students and one teacher, began the long wait for their turn in the chair.

The hall had filled with supporters eager to see their favourite students and the Principal lose their luscious locks to the good cause of Leukaemia and Blood Cancer research. First up was the brave Mr Morris who immediately got a great response from the crowd.

Everyone had been waiting for weeks to see this special event, and it lived up to many expectations. In addition to this, we had 22 male students shave their heads, but there was only one very courageous girl, Kelly Rod, who stepped up to the stage to support the cause. The Shave auction was again held this year: students and staff could bid to be the one who shaved one of our shavees.

This year, the total raised from this auction was $210.

The shavee with the overall highest amount of money raised was Beowulf Scott, who raised an astounding $1910! Again this year, we had Jasmine Nash and

Samara Crosby who reignited their Shave Programme “Hats for a Head”: they knitted hats and sold them to students and staff to raise money for the event. In total, they raised a whopping $170 for the DHS Shave Crew—an awesome effort and a great idea. Thanks to all of those who knitted for this cause.

Thank you!

We raised over $7,000!

Above:Abbie Cider, Gus Thomas, Alex Hitchmough (WV Schools’ Co-ordinator), Olivia McEwan, Maddie

Mr Adams, Olivia Shinn, Courtney Townsend, Eddie Searle, the shavers, and I would like to give massive thanks to Lisa, our resident hairdresser from New Image, for cleaning up some of the interesting shave styles, and to anyone and everyone who donated their time, money and effort in order to raise money for this fantastic cause. Congratulations to everyone who was involved: we raised upwards of $8987. Awesome work once again! That put us in the top five schools in NZ for funds raised, for the third year in a row.

Brittany Muiznieks

O’Callagan, and Georgie Watson

Above:World Vision Leadership Day

Above: Gus receives the Award for Darfield High

Above: Gus with other NZ school winners at Scholarship Week in Auckland

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Darfield High Wins a Place at Scholarship Week!

Over the Term 3 holidays, I was given the great opportunity to travel to Auckland alongside 29 other representatives from World Vision scholarship-winning schools. Our schools had all earned this opportunity for us by being the top 30 fundraising schools which were awarded this scholarship, graciously sponsored by Sanitarium. Together, the 30 schools represented had made half a million dollars to go towards helping those affected by the refugee crisis.

Day 1 started with simply getting to know each other, as we had people from Invercargill to Whangarei. We started as strangers but, by the end of the day, we were all good friends, and you couldn’t even tell we had met only that morning! We also spent some time learning about the refugee crisis currently hitting our world, and how such a large number of people were affected that something had to be done.

That night, we stayed on a marae, a great experience that helped us to see the indigenous culture of New Zealand. Here we were taught about the Treaty of Waitangi, and the different perspectives held by different people, helping us to understand how different people view different issues.

On Day 2, we all had one of the most eye-opening experiences of our lives: we went to visit a refugee resettlement centre. Here we played with some of the children who had migrated to New Zealand, and it was extremely uplifting to see that, even after all that these children had been through, they still had the resilience to be smiling and laughing. As I sat in the middle of a circle, as children aged from seven to 13 ran around playing duck duck goose, I was hit by the fact that they had been through some horrendous situations.

Almost all of these people had fled their country due to conflict. They used to have a life just like mine, and they lost it. Yet, even after these experiences, they were still such vibrant young people and, thanks to the resettlement programme, had bright futures ahead of them in New Zealand.

Day 3 was a roller coaster, as it started with us learning more about the social injustice in the world. We learnt about how 11 million refugees have fled Syria due to the war, adding to the already 54 million refugees in the world. This amounts to one out of every 113 people in the world being a refugee. We also learnt about other injustices, such as the treatment of labourers by corporations such as H & M, the exploitation of children by technology companies such as Apple, and the appalling distribution of wealth in our world: 0.7% of the world’s population owns 41% of the world’s

wealth. As we left this session, we all felt a bit hopeless and useless, thinking that the world was too far gone, that we couldn’t possibly help everyone.

But that afternoon our hope was renewed, as we were introduced to some of the most inspiring New Zealanders I have ever met. Bonnie was a university student who, after a holiday to Vanuatu, decided to leave her degree, and start a make-up company called Indigo & Iris. This company will soon be launching its first product, with 100% of the profits going towards curing blindness in the Pacific Islands.

We met one of the founders of the Breakfast Club, an organisation helping to give breakfast to children in low decile schools, helping to raise the attendance rates, and making sure children are getting fed when their parents cannot afford to feed them.

We met a refugee from Sri Lanka who, after over 50 days on a boat cramped with over 30 people, including two pregnant women, was brought to New Zealand, where he is now studying medicine and helping other refugees to settle peacefully into our communities.

All of these people are doing amazing things and are such inspirations to work towards making a difference.

That night we had an awards ceremony, where all schools were presented with a plaque to recognise their amazing fundraising efforts, with Darfield receiving one for being one of the top 20 highest fundraising schools in New Zealand. After getting to know all of the other scholarship winners, it was great to see them being recognised for their amazing efforts.

Day 4 was our last day, a day that was extremely emotional. We had all become so close over such a short period of time, after all that we had experienced together. It was tough to say goodbye to everyone; however, after meeting such an inspiring group of people, I have faith that each one of them will go on to have a positive effect on the world.

We spent this last day planning the 40-hour Famine for 2017. World Vision will once again be raising money for the refugee crisis, because it is such a big issue that is going to take a huge effort to make even a dent in it.

After all the ideas we discussed, I can say that I look forward to running the 2017 40-hour Famine alongside a group of hard-working students. I encourage all of you to get involved next year, as it is a fun way to raise funds and awareness for such a huge issue in our world.

Gus Thomas

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Darfield great gatsby On the night of Saturday 6 August, DarďŹ eld High School held the Great Gatsby themed Formal. The Committee spent many hours transforming the hall, which looked amazing!

Thank you to DJ Singhstar, the PTSA for the wonderful supper, Mr Adams for all his efforts behind the scenes, Mr Gough for his assistance, and to all the students and staff who braved the cold and had a blast!

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W G H

Caitlin Thistoll Lincoln University Bachelor of Agriculture Science Undie 500 at Winterfest for Geography.

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Mariah Glasson Lincoln University Bachelor of Agriculture Commerce When Mr Smith got a flat tyre on the way back from Glenthorne Station.

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Anna Hurst Lincoln University Bachelor of Agribusiness and Food Marketing Undie 500 at Winterfest for Geography.

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Selina Dixon Victoria University Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Criminology and the unknown When Lilian ran up to me with six bags of bread crusts. Best moment of my life.

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Sammie Victoria University Bachelor of Architecture The time Ms Smith dressed up in a cheesecloth.

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Fern Stuart Lincoln University Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing Going to Auckland to participate in Enterprise in Action.

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Jasmine Nash United Kingdom Bachelor of Drama When a small group of us bought a tub of ice cream and sat outside the Drama room eating it.

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Kristen Blaber-Hunt Canterbury University Bachelor of Science majoring in Biochemistry Seeing Mr Quinn fall over in KFC.

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Luke McKay American College Bachelor of Science, Majoring in Psychology and Physical Education

Class of 2016

Michael Ridgen W Otago University G Bachelor of Physiotherapy or Medicine and Surgery H Mr Maude dropping a kilogram weight on my

hand during a Physics lesson.

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Karta Hewitt Otago University Bachelor of Physical Education After party 2k16.

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Emma Harding Canterbury University Bachelor of Sports Coaching Mr Dickens flips over bike.

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Grace Lemon Otago University Bachelor of Physiotherapy Mr Mac buying a Big Mac from McDonalds.

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Breanna Hale Ara Institute of Canterbury Bachelor of Medical Imaging

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Aidan Tuhill University of Canterbury Bachelor of Engineering or Fine Arts

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Emma Grigg University of Canterbury Bachelor of Engineering Getting stuck on the roundabout in Blenheim.

Maddie Tasker W University of Otago G Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology H Mr Maude turning the lights off, the bunsen

burners on, and singing and dancing to Love is

in the Air by John Paul Young, on Valentine’s Day.

Chloe Fraser W University of Canterbury G Bachelor of Arts then Graduate Diploma in Teaching H Watching Brittany get given 30 jars of gherkins

for her birthday.

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Celine Jenkins One more year at school Staying at school Being with all my friends in the Learning Centre and out of the Learning Centre.

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Alexis Sutherland Victoria University Bachelor of Architecture Mr Maude killing the preschool’s goldfish.

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Lilian Stott Everywhere Bachelor of Happiness Selina falling backwards off the stage on a chair, while holding a guitar. LOL!

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Charlotte Carter University of Canterbury Bachelor of Criminal Justice Travelling to China as a representative of DHS and seeing another country.

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Kathryn Barnhill University of Otago Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Selina and Lilian painting their faces green for talent quest before it got postponed

W G H

Bailey Campbell Royal New Zealand Air Force Air Warfare Specialist Getting roasted by JD in Year 10 Health.

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Matt Caldwell New Zealand Army Combat Engineer Almost being taken by a river in Year 12 Outdoor Ed.

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Edward Searle Canada Working holiday before university Hockey tournaments and all the enjoyable times spent with friends in and out of class.

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Sam Dalley Ara institute of Canterbury Certificate in level 4 carpentry

W G H

Samantha Bevan University of Canterbury Bachelor of Early Childhood Education Year 13 History trip to Arrowtown.

W G

Kyla Higgins Design & Art College Certificate of Make-up

W G

Alice Bradley University of Canterbury Bachelor of Sociology

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Emily de Rooy University of Canterbury Bachelor of Arts majoring in Human Services, minor in Human Resource Management Getting a high jump pole to the face in Year 10.

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Brittany Muiznieks University of Otago Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

W G H

Michael Kypton Scott Campbell Canterbury University Bachelor of Sociology and Political Science Meeting and going to the Formal with Bailey Marie Quirke.

Hitomi Kaneko W Japanese University G Art and Design H Everyday I spend with my gorgeous friends.

Nicôle Feltell W Gap year to travel G Then UC Bachelor of Teaching and Learning Primary H Modelling at Oxford Wearable Arts in Year 10.

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Courtney Townsend University of Canterbury Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Lucy Wilson Lincoln University Bachelor of Tourism Management Getting attacked with shaving foam backstage in production.

Class of 2016

Kellen Patfield W Ara Institute of Canterbury G Bachelor of Sustainability and Outdoor Education

W G H

Mr Cameron Lingard Hairdresser To get a better haircut Getting a haircut

W G H

Ellen Walters Otago University Performance Cello and Māori Having my 18th birthday playing the trombelli in Blenheim

W G

Eric Maxted Ara Institute of Canterbury Certificate in Pre-Trade Electrical Engineering

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Jack Devlin Working at Devil Sausages

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Ben Millar NZ Defence Force - Army Electrical Fitter Cam Carter’s Talent Quest performance.

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Olivia McEwan University of Canterbury Bachelor of Commerce then Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching Year 13 Queenstown Geography Trip.

W G H

Ben Weatherley W Wearing a tinfoil hat and blaming things on the Government G Learn the truth behind JFK’s death H Finally following Finn on Instagram

W G H

Sam Dorsey Christchurch Experiment with different career paths Meeting my friends.

Lucy Harrington Work force Full time work Geo class 2016

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Eamon McKay Massey University Bachelor of Creative Media Production

W G H

Kaitlin Feast Canterbury University Bachelor of Sports Coaching Geography 2K16

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Callum Freer New Zealand Army Electronics Technician Back in Nam

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Jess Lane Cheese

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Chloe Walker Ara Bachelor of Nursing

W G

Olivia Shinn Lincoln University Bachelor of Agriculture Commerce

W G

Bobby Wright Lincoln University DIP AG and Riding Tractors all the time

W G H

Liam Hindle Back to my mom’s basement Art and Design Watching Bob Ross in Art.

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Marmik Patel (Raj) Ara

W G

Jo Basevi University of Canterbury Bachelor of Engineering

W G H

Cameron Carter Canada Professional Eagle training in Ottawa Michael Campbell’s House Leader’s speech in Year 12

Key: W=Where to G=Goal H=Highlight

Singing, to blast out Big Red Taxi for the rest of the 70 | DARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | 2016

Red Runs in our Blood This year, Tawera was going extra hard for the House Cup! We are going for the fourth time as House winners. This year has been very strong, competitionwise! All Houses have been at war, trying to take the top position from us. Our House has stepped up to the challenge and has been working twice as hard to win House points.

The year started off with a BANG, winning Swimming Sports, Triathlon and Athletics. This truly showed that this year we were in for a fierce competition with the other Houses wanting to knock us off the number one position. Term 1 is the busiest in the House event calendar and at every event the sea of red always dominated.

Term 2 was the start of the Cultural Competitions, Cross Country, World Vision and House Singing. We were amazed at the dedication our fellow Tawerians had for the up and coming competitions. Although we placed third in World Vision, that did not stop the mighty Tawera train destined for Victory Station, from being outstanding in the other events. It was a proud moment for us as House leaders to see all the amazing students encourage each other in the dreaded Cross Country. It was everyone’s participation points that made us proud as leaders. This was just one of the many examples of the bond that this House possesses.

In Term 2, we noticed that our participation and dedication to the House set us above the rest. On the last day of term, we were all lined up on stage for House

school. Everyone gave it their all and sung their hearts out. We got first for choreography and third overall for the singing.

Throughout Term 3, we were astounded yet again, taking out House Quiz and coming second in the Oral Tapestries. Now in the tail end of Term 3, we are still hungry for points and, with Rawhiti hot on our heels and down by only 20 points, this is making us drive for success even harder.

We look forward to Tabloid Sports and the opportunity to see what our House has to offer, which we are sure will be amazing, and to see what next year’s House Captain applicants can do to show us their skills.

When we think of Tawera and all its glory we cannot help but think of the honour we have been given to lead this mighty House to the rightful victory that it deserves. We would also like to make special mention of the biggest inspiration for both of us, our staff House Leader, Mr Gough. He has helped us guide and motivate our fellow House members and make them reach their highest potential. We cannot thank enough the members of the mighty red House for all of the effort and enthusiasm they have put in during the year. Olivia and Bailey wish the future leaders of Tawera good luck and thank our amazing house for the awesome year we have had with them.

Olivia Shinn and Bailey Campbell

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This year, the Rawhiti House has been very successful throughout the House competitions, always contributing to school events and doing so to the best of their ability. We have come first in Production, Stage Challenge and Tennis Champs participation, second in House Singing and the Mufti Day, third in the Triathlon and fourth in the Cross Country.

One of our highlights for the year was the House Singing competition, in which Rawhiti performed a rendition of Michael Jackson’s Heal the World.

We were really proud of the end result and of the students, not only for the effort they put into the end performance, but also for their participation and involvement during rehearsals. The students offered their ideas and were especially helpful coming up with some actions that shaped our

song into the success it was. The enthusiasm that Rawhitians put into the practices and into singing on the day was staggering.

Another highlight had to be the Triathlon.

Rawhiti did their House proud by keeping up the House spirit, encouraging each other and the other Houses to just keep swimming, running and cycling their way to the finish line.

Overall, we have both loved our time as House Captains of Rawhiti. Wearing yellow loud and proud has been a highlight of the school year for both of us! It has been an amazing experience, and we are so proud of what the House has been able to achieve this year. We wish the House all the best for next year—keep up that spirit! Go Rawhiti!!!

Jasmine Nash and Maddie Tasker

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This year, the mighty Waimakariri House was off to a good start, snatching the first House points of the year by winning the House Mufti competition.

The House had a great turn-out, showing off all their green gear. We also gained first place in the school Chess competition and, the more memorable win, the House Singing competition. Waimak came out Number One by singing Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. We’ve had many good outcomes over the year and the positive attitude of the House has been presented in the activities. We believe 2016 has been an amazing year for Waimak with improvements made across all categories, and we wish all the best to the future House Captains.

Breanna Hale and Michael Campbell

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Kikorangi for the Cup! Kikorangi for the Cup!

Wow! What a close House competition in 2016, with every House winning at least one event. Our highlights include coming second in multiple events like triathlon and swimming sports, taking out cross country and having the most people participate in World Vision’s 40-hour Famine. Another positive was witnessing the Years 7 and 8 students being extremely enthusiastic at all House events. Keep it up!

Sam and Lilian wish luck to the future leaders of Kikorangi and thank our House for a wonderful year and an awesome experience.

Sam Dalley and Lilian Stott

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First XV Rugby The First XV season started early in February with pre-season training to get us fit and prepared for the tasks we had ahead of us. The team was fairly new to the physicality of First XV rugby, but many younger and new members stepped up to it and performed exceptionally well throughout the season.

After numerous weeks of training and practice, our first game was soon upon us. The Darfield First XV has been a part of the Brockbank Graves competition for five years, after taking Rangiora High’s position in it when they were moved up to a higher level of rugby. The boys were eager to get their hands on the trophy, having not won it in those five years.

The first game against Grey High was played on the Coast in cold and windy conditions. The team fought hard and were surprised with how well they performed in the first game of the competition, coming away with a 31–5 victory.

70-minute mark approached and we were down 10-14.

After a penalty was given in front of the posts, it was taken quickly and we managed to pull off a try in the final play of the game.

This ensured us the win, along with winning the Brockbank Graves trophy for the first time ever. The boys were extremely delighted to hear that whistle blow.

Although we won and the boys were thrilled, the trip back to Darfield was a quiet one as everyone was tired after playing such an intense and physical game against the strongest opposing team in the competition.

The boys performed well in many other fixtures in between and after the tournament. One of the fixtures was College Day where we lost to strong Rangiora and Hornby sides, but won against Middleton Grange and Mt Hutt. We were also part of the annual Quad tournament held between DHS, Mt Hutt College, Ellesmere College and Geraldine High. The games were tough and the weather wasn’t on our side, but we managed to place second after losing to a well-drilled Ellesmere College team.

The following week, we had our second game of the competition against previous winners Westland High School at the rugby grounds in Darfield. Having known they were going to be strong, the boys had to get in a winning mindset. Both teams fought throughout the game, going try for try with one another. The game ended and both teams left everything out on the field, but the Darfield team managed to pull off a slim victory of 22–17.

The team also travelled south for our annual Southern Tour tournament. We played two games over three days. The first day we travelled down to play Timaru Boys’ High, narrowly losing 17–14 in a scrappy yet intense game. After this loss, the boys wanted to redeem themselves and come away with a win to end the tour, and we did this after travelling down to Dunedin and securing a convincing win over King's High 25–7.

After having a one week break from the tournament, we were into our final game against Buller High School— this was to be the decider of the competition. The team again travelled over to the Coast where we were to play at the school grounds. The weather had got the better of the field, but the sun revealed itself to give us a warm but wet game. The game was close for the entire 70 minutes, and the coaches were becoming anxious as the

The final game of the season came around fast and it was a special one to end what was a remarkable season.

A touring team from England, Adams Grammar School, was our final game played at our school. The English team were billeted with members of our team to get a feel for our culture. We did not know what to expect and the game proved that the teams were even, but on the day the Darfield team came out on top with

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a 10–7 win, which was a great way for the boys to end the season.

On behalf of the team, I would like to thank the coaches, Mr Bell and Mr MacDonald, for developing us as a team over the year and putting in the hours to do so. We would also like to thank the members involved in the organising of the fixtures, games, food, and uniforms, and team management for their help throughout the year. I would also like to thank the team for all their effort and dedication throughout the year, and I look forward to seeing a promising First XV succeed in future years.

Ben Millar, Captain

Captain’s Report

Under-15 Rugby: Tournament Report After weeks of preparation and anticipation, on Sunday 28 August, the Darfield HS under-15 Rugby team headed down to Dunedin for the annual South Island Secondary Schools Tournament week. With 24 keen players, the team was hoping to build on the good results it has had it at this tournament in recent years.

After a long trip, the team arrived in Dunedin around 4 pm in time for a short training run at the Pirates Rugby Club, before matches started at Tairei Rugby Club in Mosgiel the next morning.

Day 1 of the tournament saw some really great spring weather and the Darfield team play Mt Aspiring College, where they came back and won 24–12, after being down early. This match was followed by a nail-biting loss to Gore High School 22–19. Day 2 saw matches against Verdon High School, resulting in a close loss, before a strong performance against Wakatipu High School, resulting in a 14 –7 win. Day

3 started with a semi-final win over Dunstan High School 33–12, which led to the Darfield team making the Section 2 final where they would play Waimea High School from Nelson. This again proved to be a very tight match, with the two late tries blowing the score out 19–0. While it would have been nice to win, overall it was an excellent experience for the boys and a very enjoyable trip to be part of.

Finally, amongst the many highlights, the naming of Ged Roessink from Darfield High School in the tournament team was a very fine achievement, given the quality of the 500 odd players involved in this event.

Team Prize giving results—Most valuable player points: 1st: Ged Roessink, 2nd: Mitchell Longdin, 3rd: Brodie Wanhalla Mr Bell

I think that this is honestly one of the best trips I've been on for the school. It was just an awesome time playing rugby three days in a row, even though by the end everyone was tired; but no-one gave up and the boys gave it everything, which was really good to see—just solid commitment. A highlight for me was all the boys getting to know each other a bit more and, when someone wasn't too sure what to do, another boy would help him out. Another highlight was at the games and the holiday park the boys were really friendly with people from the other schools. I think this trip was an awesome experience all round and I recommend it to anyone who is able to go; it's a good chance to play some hard and fair rugby but also have a good time with your mates and get to meet new people.

I'd also like to say a big thanks to Mr Bell, Mr Mac and Cameron Seaward for helping us all out and making sure we were all ok.

Mitchell Longdin

Years 7 and 8 Rugby Fifty-three students signed up for the Years 7 and 8 ugby teams this year. The Thursday competition was a 10-a-side competition and we entered three teams.

A huge thank you to the three gentlemen who coached our teams: Jason Kupe, Gavin Summerfield and Joe Wineera, and to Kevin Hoy who managed the teams with help from two Year 10 students.

The teams performed very creditably and I am pleased to say all students who signed up, played. A 15-a-side team represented DHS in the Years 7/8 Quad Tournament.

Year 9 and 10 Rugby This year, we entered a Years 9 and 10 team in the Wednesday competition. They were coached by Mr Jermyn. Unfortunately, the team was plagued by injuries but made the semi-finals. Some of this year group made up the DHS Second XV that played the visiting team from Adams Grammar School.

Girls Rugby This year, Paige Hunter and Kilita Fouchee played Rugby for the Forward Foundation team. This was a team made up of girls from Ellesmere College, St Margaret’s College, Villa Maria College and Darfield High School. The Forward Foundation team finished runner-up in the competition and our two young women were great ambassadors for Darfield High School.

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Teams Senior Boys Years 11–13 1 Finn McGregor/Gus Thomas/Hamish Evans 2 Michael Ridgen/Aidan Tuhill/Ben Millar 3 Hunter Benbow/George Gibbs/Caleb Banks

Triathlon

Senior Girls Years 11–13 1 2 3

Georgia Cottrell/Anna Hefferon/Holly Kimber 48.08 Ellen Waters/Jasmine Nash/Emma Grigg 62.17 Georgia Watson/Eloise Dance

63.59

Mixed Years 11–13 1 Holly Kimber/Nathaniel Dysart/James Doherty 40.31 2 Callum Freer/Lucy Wilson/Eamon McKay 48.23 3 Jodie Rollings/Bronte Thomas/Hunter Benbow 54.18

Individual Senior Boys Years 11–13 1 Matt Grigg 2 Harry Bampton 3 Jeroen Breunisse

40.44 43.09 43.25

Senior Girls Years 11–13 1 Jessica Osborne 2 Lilian Stott 3 Jade Collier

51.56 53.19 3.24

Intermediate Boys Years 9 and 10 1= Caleb Longdin/Jackson Proud 29.02 3 Lewis Morrison 31.32 Intermediate Girls Years 9 and 10 1 Caitlin Rayne 32.32 2 Paige Hunter 34.20 3 Maddie Beardsmore 35.02

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44.17 45.13 47.17

Intermediate Boys Years 9 and 10 1 Jesse Gray/Caleb Curtin/George McIntosh 26.38 2 Tom Welch/Ben Kimber/Callum Murdoch 27.15 3 Mitchell Longdin/Lachie Summerfield/Ryan Hughes 27.35 Intermediate Girls Years 9 and 10 1 Georgia Allison/Abi Tuhill/Nicole Grigg 29.04 2 Stefanie McKenzie/Rozlyn Doherty/Rosa Buist-Brown 30.32 3 Brianna Longdin/Jenny Walter/Sophie Townsend 31.11 Mixed Years 9 and 10 1 Casey Roessink/Mika Wealleans/Walter Lafleur 19.06 Junior Boys Years 7 and 8 1 Callum Summerfield/Jonty Kupe/Ethan Longdin 17.39 2 Sam Harrington/Sam Robinson/Beau Beadle 23.27 3 Charlie Chambers/Johnny Millar 23.52

Junior Boys Years 7 and 8 1 Ethan Rose 2 Tom Freeman 3 Ben Bampton

24.25 28.22 29.18

Junior Girls Years 7 and 8 1 Caitlin Knowles/Georgie Sarginson/Sophie Kingi 30.52 2= Emma Wason/Monique Weber/Mari Henderson 31.38 3 Emily Waters/Emma Miles 31.38

Junior Girls Years 7 and 8 1 Holly Curtis 2 Hannah King 3 Rozena Sutton

32.31 34.20 34.21

Mixed Years 7 and 8 1 Vincent Sanderson/Jacob Horrey/Emily Mangels 32.36 2 Shannon Bayliss/Kendra Mills/Blake O’Donnell 41.23 3 Isabella Stevenson/Kelly Rod/Josh Rod 42.12

The Sports Department: 2016

2016 has been another very busy and very successful sporting year for Darfield High School and its students. I have enjoyed every minute of it, starting with our summer sports and through to the end of the winter sports season; and then the highlight for some—the week away at a sports tournament.

With various school sports teams I have had the opportunity to travel around New Zealand watching and supporting Darfield High School students participate with enthusiasm and sportsmanship. This year, I was lucky enough to travel to Timaru to watch a number of our students participate in the South Island Secondary Schools Athletic Championships, and to Oamaru for the Jenny McDonald Girls’ Hockey Competition. On both occasions, the weather was great which made for some exciting competition.

Our students have been given the opportunity of participating in an ever-growing list of sporting

Koru Games

activities, ranging from Athletics, Swimming, Cricket, Rugby, Hockey, Netball through to such sports as Archery and Boccia.

A pleasing feature this year is the number of our athletes with disabilities now competing in events around the Canterbury region. All have competed with enthusiasm and pride and have seen some pleasing results. Maybe one of these students will end up at the Paralympics!

Lastly, a big thank you to all the staff, parents, caregivers and friends of the school who in so many ways have helped our students this year. Whether it is as a coach, manager or supporter on the side line it has been very much appreciated!

Roll on 2017! I am sure it is going to be another great sporting year! Can’t wait!

Karen Armstrong Sport Co-ordinator

Koru Games This year was the third year of the Koru Games but the first year Darfield High School entered. The Koru Games are made up of many sports: bowls, netball and a whole heap more awesome sports.

Darfield entered a Volleyball team, Touch Rugby team and a 7s Rugby team. These games are a threeday event from Tuesday to Thursday.

Quad Tournament We all arrived at school in our PE gear and started to walk over to the Darfield Domain and got to the places where we needed to be. We had Harrison, Jack and Dan who were all Year 10s. They helped us with drills, warming up and positions.

We played our first game against Geraldine High School and we won that game 1–0. We had a 45-minute break and our next game was against Mt Hutt College.

It was a very even game but Mt Hutt came out on top with a 5–3 victory. Our last game was the decider—if we won it, we would win the Tournament, if Ellesmere won it, they would win the Tournament and, if we drew, Mt Hutt would win. We went into half-time well with a 1–0 lead over Ellesmere. Ellesmere pulled one back; then, midway through the second half, we got another goal and it was 2–1 to us. With five minutes to go, sadly Ellesmere got one goal and we drew the game 2–2. We all had fun on the day and we are all thankful to the people who organised it.

Jack Kennedy

Chess Club We currently have around 12 members who play chess every Monday lunchtime. We have competed in two inter-school championships this year. One was held at Halswell School and the other at Rolleston School. Our A Team did very well in the last competition, coming an impressive seventh out of 22 teams. In August, we held the DHS Chess Championship which is open to all students at the school. We had an impressive turn-out of 20 students. Congratulations go to Vincent Mandapat (8HL) who won this competition. Well done to George Brown (11RS) for placing second, Daniel Felipe (11RS) for placing third and Maxwell Whyte (7CC) for placing fourth.

We look forward to next year when we will be bigger and more competitive.

Lisa Walker

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Netball Years 7 and 8 Netball A Team This year, Darfield High School entered two Years 7 and 8 Netball teams in the Christchurch Tournament.

I was lucky enough, not only to be part of the team, but also to have the honour of being Captain of an awesome group of girls. The standard of play was quite high, but the team played some good quality netball and produced many impressive results. Our coach, Miss Hobson, was an amazing role model and respected by all the girls. Our goal this year was to win the Tournament and have as much fun as possible. We nearly achieved our goal—we ended up third overall.

I was so proud of all the girls as they always tried their best and were always determined and committed to learn more. We competed every Thursday for 14 weeks and we also took part in the one-day Quad Tournament that involved Ellesmere, Methven, Mt Hutt and ourselves. We were the overall winners.

Georgie Sarginson

Back row: Mr Jason McKenzie (sponsor), Aleisha Knowles, Stefanie McKenzie, Maddie Anthony, Rozlyn Doherty, Sylvia Dempsey, Brooke Robinson, Pete Nisbet (sponsor); Front row: Ms Baillie Graham (Coach), Brianna Longdin, Monique St Clair-Newman, Zoe Spinks

Senior A Netball Team Netball this year has been very successful. The girls joined the Saturday competition at Lincoln, which helped them to gel as a team and improve their netball skills. On top of this, they also played in the Super Net Reserve competition held in Christchurch on Wednesday afternoons; they finished sixth in this competition. The highlight for everyone this season was Tournament Week, held in sunny Nelson. The girls had an amazing few days up there and played some fantastic netball. Raspberry buns and chocolate milk were among the most talked about items, along with the pulled beef and pork. We were lucky enough to have families come up for the week and support, which helped to provide some good motivation and they ended the tournament two places higher than last year, in seventh. Overall, it was an amazing season with a fantastic bunch of girls.

Laura Petersen

Back row: Ms L Petersen (Coach), Anna Hurst, Hannah Glassey, Karta Hewitt, Courtney Townsend; Front row: Georgia Meyerhoff, Courtney O’Callaghan, Jade Collier, Caitlin Soal, Lucy Glassey

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Football This year has been a great year for Football at Darfield High School. There has been an increase in the number of Football players along with increased success on the pitch.

The following teams played in the Secondary School competition on Wednesdays, with games in Christchurch and an increased number of home games, which was very much appreciated!

Junior Girls

Boys First XI

A pleasing feature this year was being able to get enough Junior girls together to form a Football team and to play each week. A number of the girls had not played Football before, so it was a steep learning curve for them. But, with the support of the whole team, by the end of the season the standard had improved tremendously.

The First XI had a great year, capped with a resounding win against Hornby High School to win their division on the last day of competition.

All the students who played in this team were outstanding on and off the field. They always played hard but fair and were often complimented on their sportsmanship by the opposition teams.

A big thank you to all students, coaches/managers, parents and friends of the school for supporting our teams—it was very much appreciated by the students and staff alike.

Special thanks to Jenny Walter who was more than happy to pass on her passion to the other girls.

Although the girls did not place in their division, they certainly did not disgrace themselves and they can be proud of their efforts.

Jacob Buck, as well as always playing enthusiastically, performed the role of Manager and Coach superbly.

As I was not able to get a staff member to look after the team, it fell to Jacob to do this for the school.

Special thanks also to Mr Morris for helping out with the refereeing of the home games. It was very much appreciated by the students and the Sport Department.

It is hoped that this team will play again next year with the goal of winning their division—with lots of practice and a confident belief in their own abilities.

With the departure of only a couple of students at the end of the year, it is hoped that this team will play together again in 2017.

Karen Armstrong, Sport Co-ordinator

Junior Boys (Years 9 and 10) This team had a good season, finishing in third place in their division. A lot of the games played were very close and could have gone either way.

All team members played to a high standard and were a credit to themselves and Darfield High School.

Special mention to Dan Conway and Jack Chillingworth for their organisational efforts, support of their fellow team members and enthusiasm for Football.

We all headed into Hagley Park for our first game of Football—we were all buzzing but really nervous at the same time. We finally got to Hagley Park after a 45-minute journey to Christchurch. We all met up as a team and started walking over to the Football grounds. Once we got there, we decided who our Captain was; well, we chose two—Jordy Frew and Harley Gray. We went for a run to Hagley Oval then ran back and started to kick balls and take shots at goal. We warmed up and started our game.

Sadly, at half-time we were down 4–0 and lost the game 7–2.

A few weeks later, after a few losses, we came into town again. We again went for a run to Hagley Oval and started to warm up. We started the game well and went into half-time with a 1–0 lead after a good cross and header from Jordy F and Jack K. After half-time, we scored a few more goals and finished the game with a 4–0 win. We were all happy with our first win!

Jack Kennedy

Back row: Hayden de Burger, Aiden Brackmann, Leif McGuinniety, James Bayliss, Jack Kennedy, Lachlan Adams, Cameron Newell, Angelo Barrimond, Angus Pattie; Front row: Isaac Earl, Jordy Frew, Harley Gray

Swimming Champion

Tom Freeman competed in the NZ SS Triathlon, held in Queenstown and placed first in the Under 12 Open Water Championships.

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Kerryn Wins Drivers’ Challenge Canterbury's Kerryn Tomlinson has celebrated her 16th birthday with victory in the 2016 Lizzie of Rossland Drivers Challenge.

Twelve young drivers from Kidz Kartz clubs from around the Country, including New South Wales representative Aleisha Bond from Newcastle, battled out a tightly run series over six races. After night one at Alexandra Park, Kerryn, who was the defending champion, had amassed 34 points going into the second day at the Thames Racing Clubs final race meeting, also at Alexandra Park.

Series spokeswoman, Gayleen Mackinnon, said following the fifth race of the series, Kerryn was a clear winner, ensuring a virtual one-horse race. She finished the series on a whopping 71 points.

"This series showed that we have a very talented pool of drivers coming through Kidz Kartz.

Kerryn's winning drive in the last race was a testimony to what we can expect in the future from a talented young driver.

Duane Ranger (Harness Racing NZ)

Swimming Ethan Taylor (left with his medals) competed in the 2016 NZ Division II Championships in Invercargill. He won Bronze for 50 m Backstroke, Gold for 100 m Breaststroke and Silver for 200 m Breaststroke.

Ethan swims for the Waitaha Swim Club.

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Ki o Rahi A few years ago, no one at Darfield High School had ever heard of this sport called Ki o Rahi; now we have 22 students and more wanting to participate and be part of this sport, which is awesome.

We were lucky enough to have TOAsports from CPIT come out one Wednesday during lunch time and period 5 to teach our teams some skills for the first tournament. This meant that going into the tournament we were confident and fully prepared to come up against all 15 other teams.

Our students had a nailbiting final against Hillmorton High School, where we fell short by only one point, making it 11–12 to Hillmorton.

At Prize Giving, our team collected their prizes for gaining 2nd place. There were also some special prizes announced and Isaac Proud received a prize for being the player who showed fair play and consideration for the other teams overall. Isaac also made the tournament team. This was a very successful tournament.

Miss Watherston

On Friday 4 March, a group of keen Darfield sportsmen and women took part in a traditional Maori sport, called Ki O Rahi, with other schools around Christchurch. Ki O Rahi has characteristics of many sports, like touch rugby, netball and Aussie rules. Some of the schools competing were Linwood, Burnside, Hornby and Hillmorton.

There was a positive vibe throughout the tournament; we congratulated our opponents and we had a lot of fun.

Our two Darfield teams played extremely well throughout the tournament, with one of our teams coming 2nd and the B team coming 13th. This was a great achievement for our school, with us earning the nickname the "Dark Horse".

Overall, the tournament was a great interactive and fun day with a competitive edge, and we hope to keep this competitive edge up for next year.

Isaac Proud

Basketball Where do I start? 2016 has just flown by and it only seems like yesterday that the basketball season with Friday night games began for two very competitive boys teams.

Junior A Boys This team had a great year losing only one game all season and should be congratulated on this impressive feat!

John Murdoch (a parent) kindly coached this team all season and on occasions also helped with the refereeing of a number of games. It was great to see the skill level of all the boys improve so much over the course of the season.

Senior A Boys Over the last couple of years we have lost a number of our senior boys from the basketball team. This resulted in the senior boys being a lot younger than in previous years but this did not mean the team was not competitive.

With Jordan Perry and Seth Harris (ex-students of Darfield High School) as co-coaches this team had a successful year. All the boys who played each week should be congratulated on their efforts to improve

their skill level in basketball and, as only two students are not returning next year, it augurs well for the future.

Special mention to Michael Campbell who played hard but fair in every game, even when he probably should not have been playing due to ill health.

A big thank you to the parents who came along and supported this team! It was very much appreciated!

Some of the games played were close but the boys held their composure and made the shots when needed.

The final game of the season was exciting and tense but Darfield High won impressively 64–36 against TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi. All the boys contributed to this win either with the baskets or by defending strongly.

I was proud to be associated with this team and miss the weekly stop off at McDonalds for a snack before travelling back to Darfield.

Again a big thank you to all the parents, caregivers and supporters of the school who came along and supported this team in lots of different ways—it was very much appreciated!

Back row: John Murdoch (coach), Ryan Hughes, Cameron O’Donnell, Callum Murdoch, Jackson Proud, Blake Stevenson, Dylan Bamford; Front row: Ben Francis, Harrison Buck, Logan Seaward

Senior A Girls Basketball Tournament Report The Darfield High School Senior A Girls Basketball team attended the South Island Secondary Schools Premiership Tournament in Dunedin from 1 to 3 September.

This year, the team consisted of Georgie Watson, Aeryn McMillian, Pippa Foster, Harriet Watson, Maddie Tasker, Chelsea Wilson, Rachael Phillipson, Niamh Rayne and me. We were very lucky to have Shawn Gough as Coach and Sarah Watson as Team Manager.

On tournament, Grant McKenzie was our referee, and Jane Watson and Sarah Watson came as parent helpers.

This season, we participated in the Canterbury Secondary Schools Competition on Friday nights, in preparation for the tournament in Dunedin. In this competition, we came third in the Girls Open Division 2. We had two weekly trainings, one on Tuesday afternoons and one on Wednesday evenings.

In addition to these trainings, we had two what we called ‘basketball boot camp’ days held in the holidays.

During ‘basketball boot camp’, we spent the first few hours shooting, then we came together for a shared lunch before heading back out for skill drills. On top of this, we also did squad strengthening activities which

helped us bond as a team.

We were very lucky to have a lot of contribution and support from the community that financially assisted tournament. Early on a rainy Saturday morning, the team stood outside the Darfield Four Square selling raffle tickets. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of the community. As well as the raffle, we had Masons Drapery contribute to fuel costs. Polyfusion and Riverlea farms also contributed to overall costs.

Through completing applications, the team successfully received grants from the Selwyn District Council and the Malvern Lions Club.

Back row: Rachael Phillipson, Chelsea Wilson, Pippa Foster, Georgia Watson, Aeryn McMillan-da Via; Front Row: Maddie Tasker, Emily De Rooy, Mr Shawn Gough (Coach)

At the South Island Secondary Schools Premiership Tournament, we came fifth in our pool. The tournament was such a great opportunity for the team to connect and grow together, both on and off the court. Every player improved aspects of their game, with increased confidence in all. We had a competitive, committed spirt to the game which resulted in many bruises and aching muscles. Magnesium was key. As we improved our mental and physical toughness, we made teams work hard for their wins, not giving up until the end of the game. This is something I am really proud of.

I would like to say a massive thank you to Shawn Gough on behalf of the team. It is rare to have a coach who is so dedicated and committed. We are very fortunate to have him at Darfield High School and I wish all the best to next year’s Darfield High School Senior A Girls team. I thoroughly enjoyed leading such an awesome bunch of girls this year and I look forward to watching them develop their skills and confidence next year—just remember ‘Code Green’.

Emily de Rooy, Captain DHS YEARBOOK | 85

Shooting From 5–12 March, I was competed in the New Zealand Clay Bird Shooting Nationals, held at McLeans Island Canterbury Gun Club.

There were over 300 competitors so I was very pleased to win a Bronze medal in the Minis Championship in B grade, on the Sunday.

On the Tuesday, I was in a team of three of the top juniors in the South Island and, shooting against the North Island, we placed second. I received a badge for shooting for the South Island Juniors.

The shoot ran all week from the Saturday to the following Friday. All week, I had to watch what I was eating and try to get as much sleep as possible. Each day, the shoot started at 8.30 am and ran until about 5.30 pm with either one or two shoots in a day. In the

morning, there was a qualifying match and, if you did well enough, you would have a shoot-off in the afternoon. In the evening, there was a prize giving, which is when they handed out the medals to the prize winners.

Ben Sharp

Secondary Schools’ Artistic Gymnastics On Tuesday 14 June, a team of artistic gymnasts went to the Secondary Schools Gymnastics competitions held at the Olympia Stadium at Wigram. The team consisted of Kyla Higgins (Year 13), Katie Griffiths (Year 9), Mika Wealleans (Year 9) and Katherine Hadler (Year 9). The Darfield team competed in the Grade 2 competition; there were 15 competitors in this grade. The competitors came from Burnside High, Christchurch Girls' High and Rangi Ruru.

We all had to compete on four apparatus: beam, uneven

bars, vault, and floor. We had a great day at the competition and our team took out first place. In the individual placings, Darfield High took out the following: Kyla with 1st, Katie with 2nd, Mika with 3rd and Katherine with 6th. We got some apparatus placings as well; we took out the top three placings on vault and uneven bar. It was a great day and we all had great results.

Katie Griffiths

Girls A Volleyball: Back row: Breanna Hale, Alexis Sutherland, Jessica Lane, Mr J MacDonald (Coach); Front row: Kyla Higgins, Emily de Rooy, Grace Lemon, Maddie Tasker, Kristen Blaber-Hunt

Volleyball Volleyball has flourished this year, particularly in the Senior team. We are the first DHS team to compete in the SISS Satellite tournament, placing 10th overall. We have developed into capable and versatile players this year, developing strong defensive and offensive plays.

We are yet to have our annual match against the staff, but are excited to show them all our new skills. We have also been able to pass the torch on, as this is our last year. We have looked to developing the future of volleyball in our school, helping coach junior students, enabling even greater volleyball success to be achieved in the future. It has been an awesome experience playing as a team and we want to say a massive thanks to Mr Mac—without him, we wouldn’t be the team we are today.

Grace Lemon

Girls B Volleyball: Back row: Julia Trushin, Adrianna Cornelissen, Emily Klaassens, Mr J MacDonald (Coach); Front row: Bronte Thomas, Olivia Lemon, Camille Malincon, Jodie Rowlands, Suzumi Takebayashi

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Champions

Age

Champion

Runner-Up

U13 Boys

Jack Kennedy

Tom Freeman

U13 Girls

Erin Hammond

Chloe Newbigging

Junior Boys

Ethan Taylor

Aidan McCallion/George Ridgen/Harry Williamson/Caleb Curtin

Junior Girls

Laura Ashworth

Abi Tuhill

Intermediate Boys

Harry Bampton

Hunter Benbow

Intermediate Girls

Amber Hammond/Christal Dudley

Maddie Beardsmore

Senior Boys

Aidan Tuhill

Gus Thomas

Senior Girls

Holly Kimber

Eloise Dance

Record Breakers

Name

Event

Ethan Taylor:

Junior Boys 50 m Butterfly

36.09

40.80

1.21.37

1.29.81

Under 13 Girls 50 m Freestyle

35.19

32.13

Under 13 Girls 50 m Backstroke

38.56

42.47

Junior Boys Medley Erin Hammond:

New Record Old Record

1.27.03

1.32.91

Amber Hammond

Under 13 Girls Medley Intermediate Girls 50 m Butterfly

36.97

38.50

Hunter Benbow

Intermediate Boys 50 m Butterfly

38.25

38.84

Aidan Tuhill

Senior Boys 50 m Breaststroke

33.53

34.19

Holly Kimber:

Senior Girls 50 m Butterfly Senior Girls 100 m Backstroke

38.21

41.25

1.30.51

1.31.57

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First XI Girls Hockey On Sunday 28 August, the Girls First XI Hockey team travelled to Oamaru ready to take on teams from all over the South Island in the Jenny McDonald Cup tournament. We arrived in time to have a quick training on the turf before competition started the next day.

We got to bed early as we were the first game of the tournament at 8.00 am on Monday—a very early start. We woke up bright and early ready to take on Riccarton. We wanted to get off to a good start with a win and we accomplished that, coming away with a 3–2 win. We then went home to have a quick recovery before our next game that afternoon against Mt Calli (combined Mountainview and Roncalli team). Luckily for us, the recovery went well and there was no fatigue shown as we came away with a massive 20–0 win to push ourselves to the top of our pool. After this, we did some “hot and colds” to help with a quicker recovery.

The next morning, we did some team activities before our last pool game in which we faced a strong home side. Waitaki came out firing but we proved the stronger side, coming out with a 3-0 win to go through pool play unbeaten and qualify at the top of our pool, ensuring our place in the quarter finals the next day. We came up against Taieri College in the quarter final—another strong side; however, we again came away with a win, 4–1, to take us through the semis. The girls were very excited about this as it meant we were in the top four, a huge improvement on past years. Unfortunately, although we qualified top of our pool, we got the hardest semi against last year’s runner up, Ashburton College. We knew this would be our most difficult game but the girls stepped up extremely well and gave it absolutely everything. Unfortunately for us, some poor

Back row: Elyse Kerr, Hayley (from Mt Hutt), Kelsey Parsons, Abi Tuhill, Brooke McKay, Emma Pennells, Nicole Grigg (obscured), Saskia Jansen, Hanako Wilson; Front row: Caitlin Frazer, Emma Harding, Kaitlin Feast, Grace Manera

reffing saw us go down 1–0 due to an illegal goal. The girls were gutted as this cost us a place in the final and meant we had to face Waitaki again in the 3/4 playoff.

With a strong home crowd, Waitaki came out firing and ready to get one back on us. After giving everything in the semi-final, it was going to take a lot for us to get our energy up and get the win. However, this wasn’t our day and, although the girls fought right til the end, we couldn’t get that last win and came away with fourth place—still an amazing achievement for such a young team. Caitlin Frazer achieved top goal scorer

of the tournament with an amazing 14 goals, and this is also another great achievement. I couldn’t be more proud of the girls who played their hearts out the whole tournament and, with this being my last year, I wish them all the best for the future. I would like to say a massive thank you to our coaches, Jan Feast and Sharon Harding, who have done an amazing job over the last four years, getting us from 14th place to fourth place, and also to Mrs Armstrong, who has been an awesome taxi driver all season and a great supporter of the team.

Kaitlin Feast

Doppelmayr Ski Scholarship This year, along with my friend Bridget Freer, I was awarded the Doppelmayr Ski Scholarship. So, thank you to Doppelmayr who helped towards paying my skiing fees this year. I have been part of the Ski Programme since Year 7 and have been skiing with my dad since I was four. Some of my friends, along with many Darfield High students, are also part of the Ski Programme. We go up to the Porters ski field every Wednesday in Term 3. It starts off with us being put into groups and taught by ski instructors for the first few weeks; after that we get free time to ski as we please.

There have been quite a few good days up on the ski field, despite bad conditions for most of this season.

Once again, thanks to Doppelmayr and also the people who run the Ski Programme.

Kieran McKay If you have been lucky enough ever to go skiing, you will know the feeling of freedom that comes with it. You can go anywhere on the ski field if you are experienced enough, and you can go as fast as you like, as long as you know how to stop. I love skiing. A lot.

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And this was my third year with the Darfield High School Ski Programme. I was lucky enough last year to receive the Doppelmayr Skiing and Snowboarding Scholarship, which I wasn’t expecting at all, but made me a lot happier about skiing this year.

Though the snow was not as good as it was last year (though that’s been happening to all the ski fields), it was still great to go down really fast, pass a whole load of people, and ski around with my friends, which is always fun. Most of the days that we went up—only nine days because we had only nine weeks for the third term this year; last year we had ten—the snow was actually pretty nice. The last three days, though, the snow was all slushy and sometimes got a bit icy after the shadows started lengthening but, up at the top at Sundance Bowl and the top of the Cattrack, the snow was still good.

Some people may think of skiing as a way for kids to get out of school, but we still learn stuff when we go skiing. For the first four days that everyone (all the

First XI Boys Hockey This year, the Darfield High School Boys’ First XI Hockey team of 16, plus coach and assistant coach, Miss Watherston and Kathryn Anderson, travelled away to Westport during Week 7 of Term 3 to participate in the Coaches Cup tournament after many weeks of preparation. After placing fourth in this tournament last year, our team had a huge task ahead of us, particularly after losing six Year 13 members going into the 2016 season. However, we gained seven committed, hard-working new players who were willing to learn and give their best on the field.

We trained incredibly hard during Terms 2 and 3, won our Christchurch school competition, and went to tournament in good form. This year, we achieved far beyond our expectations at tournament, coming second in our pool with a niggly 1–1 draw against Geraldine/ McKenzie on full-time. We then went down 3–1 to last year’s champions, Buller High School, in the semi-final, before an epic and intense 2–1 win over Lincoln High School in our play-off for third and fourth. This win gained us third place—an awesome feeling for all and a massive achievement. This feeling of success was even more special for those who had been in the team since 2014, as we hadn’t beaten Lincoln in a tournament environment like this. To come away with the win at the end of the campaign was a great moment and one that I am sure all of the team members will cherish and look back on with pride. Massive thanks to Kathryn, Michael, George and Miss Watherston for putting a lot of time and energy into this campaign—this was definitely appreciated by everyone in the team!

Michael Ridgen

Back row: Mr George Ridgen (Coach), Marcus Anderson, Brett Langlands, Alex Warrington, Sean Pennells, Isaac Proud, Samuel Ridgen, Harry Pooler, Finn McGregor, Michael Millar (Assistant Coach), Ms Julia Watherston (Manager); Front row: Tim Mathers, Michael Ridgen, Edward Searle, Kellen Patfield, Gus Thomas, Kaleb Riley, Ollie Pooler, Georgi Pander

Porters Ski Area Local School Ski Championships kids) did skiing, we were put into groups at our level of skiing and were taught how to ski better by the Porters Ski School instructors. All of the instructors were nice and taught us a lot and some groups got to go over the jumps. In my group, we learned how to ski backwards, which everyone thought was pretty cool. All in all, this year’s skiing was just as awesome as the last two years.

Bridgie Freer

With a great turnout of 25 teams from 13 schools, Porters were delighted at all the support and enthusiasm shown by all participants! This was especially rewarding after the two date changes made on account of weather and snow conditions.

Many congratulations to all the winning teams and individuals in the Dynastar and Snowvision sponsored races. Well done to the following DHS students who gained placings: Years 7 and 8: Fastest Girl: Mari Henderson Fastest Boy: Harry Cookson Teams Race: Ist Place: Darfield High School Team A 2nd Place: Darfield High School Team C Winners of the Snow Vision Trophy, Years 7 and 8: Darfield High School A team Prize winner of 2017 Porters Ski Area Youth Pass sponsored by Snow Vision: Anna McKenzie Right: Monique, Tom and Mari DHS YEARBOOK | 89

By Brogan Baldwin

NZSS Triple S Championships Darfield High School Smallbore Shooters took part in a four-round TSNZ Postal Championship. All of our shooters have worked hard in this competition and it turned out to be an exciting progression through the winter season.

Target Shooting NZ Challenge

Scores are out of 100 with the number of inner bulls (eyes) denoted by the point figure. Round 1 saw some awesome shooting from George Brown (ungraded) with 94.01 and Jacob Spence (D) with 93.03, and Darfield High were winning. By Round 2, we maintained the lead and Hunter Benbow, Will Benbow, and I were all inside the top 10 of Grade C, coming 1st, 4th and 8th respectively. Will shot a fabulous 98.01. We slipped to second place in Round 3 with Ashburton College just beating us by 1.1 point.

Target Shooting NZ Challenge is a postal shoot for schools. Darfield High entered three teams, with results as follows: • Mixed team of Will Benbow, Brogan Baldwin, and Hunter Benbow: 2nd out of 22 teams • Mixed team of Jacob Spence, George Brown, and Piper Benbow: 15th out of 22 teams • On a Rest grade—Annabelle Serra, James Grafton, and Lewis Morrison: 30th out of 42 teams

Round 4 was a tough ask! A double card had to be shot and that was a brand new skill for all of the shooters.

In the end, we managed to hold our second placing.

Congratulations to Ashburton College who came first.

Out of a national field of 146 shooters by the end of Round 4, Jacob (D) came 57th, George (ungraded) 41st, Hunter 27th, Will 7th, and I placed 9th (all In Grade C, with Will winning the Grade C section and me coming 3rd).

Individual rankings were as follows: Boys (place out of 110 entries) • Will Benbow 3 • Hunter Benbow 17 • George Brown 34 • Jacob Spence 77 Girls (place out of 58 entries) • Brogan Baldwin 6 • Piper Benbow 40

National and International Competition in Blenheim Scores shot listed below: School team shoot (3 scores) Will 86.3 96.5 100.6 Brogan 96.5 92.0 98.5 Hunter 90.1 98.4 95.2 South Island team Brogan 99.3 96.4 Plate match Will 97.4 99.8 Hunter 96.4 94.4 NZ vs British schools Brogan 96 96 (British targets do not have an inner bull as a score, which means an absolute dead centre is not recognised as special as it is in NZ, denoted by the digit after the decimal point. So .6 means 6 absolute dead centre bulls eyes, as in Will’s 100.6—a stunning score after his disastrous failed bullet in the first round.)

Well done to all shooters and many thanks to Craig Benbow, coach/manager.

MUD

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Snaps from the UC Mud Run, held on Sunday 19 June. The event attracted over 1000 in a 5 km course encompassing a number of muddy obstacles. Staff and students dressed up and competed in this fun annual event, held at Motukarara.

RUN

Cross Country

Age

Winner

Runner-up

Age

Winner

Runner-up

Year 7 Boys Year 7 Girls Year 8 Boys Year 8 Girls Under 14 Boys Under 14 Girls

Callum Summerfield Anna McKenzie Ethan Rose Caitlin Knowles Johnny Sims Paige Hunter

Brody Simpson Rozena Sutton William Brown Teresa Barnhill James Roulston Caitlin Rayne

Under 15 Boys Under 15 Girls Under 16 ½ Boys Under 16 ½ Girls Over 16 ½ Boys Over 16 ½ Girls

Jackson Proud Maddie Beardsmore Harry Bampton Georgia Shinn Isaac Proud Karta Hewitt

Rhys Clatworthy Emma Pennells Jeroen Breunisse Niamh Rayne Nathaniel Dysart Caitlin Soal

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Athletics

Records Broken Under 12 Girls Shot Put Emma Wason (2.00 kg) 8.76 metres

Champions Age

Champion

Runner-Up

U12 Boys

Harrison Beresford

Harley Gray

U12 Girls

Emily Waters

Emma Wason

U13 Boys

William Brown

Mitchell Calcott

U13 Girls

Scarlett Banks

Casey Roessink

U14 Boys

Cameron O’Donnell

Harrison Irving

U14 Girls

Stefanie McKenzie

Zoe Spinks

U15 Boys Junior

George Brown/Jackson Proud

Callum Murdoch

U15 Girls Junior

Penny Mitchell

Claudia Lassiter

U16 Boys Intermediate

Harry Bampton

Jeroen Breunisse/Michael Dempsey

U16 Girls Intermediate

Pippa Foster

Grace Earle

O16 Boys Senior

Isaac Proud

James Doherty

O16 Girls Senior

Karta Hewitt

Caitlin Thistoll

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Under 14 Girls Javelin Brianna Longdin 22.18 metres (Old Record: 19.66 metres Georgia Lovelady 2006) 100 metres Zoe Spinks 13.41 sec (Old Record: 13.65 sec Lisa van der Plas 1994) 200 metres Zoe Spinks 29.21 sec (Old Record: 30.16 sec Lisa van der Plas 1994) Under 12 Boys Shot Put Jack Buist-Brown (2.00 kg) 9.21 metres Under 13 Boys 200 metres William Brown 28.86 sec (Old Record: 28.90 sec Andrew Muscroft-Taylor 1990) Junior Boys High Jump Callum Murdoch 1.68 metres (Old Record: 1.66 metres Angus Field 2010) Javelin Jackson Proud 37.77 metres (Old Record: 35.71 metres Richard Williams 2004)

Canterbury Interschool Dressage Competition The conditions were picture perfect out at McLeans Island for the Canterbury Interschool Dressage Competition. With 31 teams competing, the event has grown over the years and the top prize is well sought after.

Our two teams had a fantastic day with the Darfield Blue team, consisting of Lily Barrett-Power, Georgia Allison, Niamh Rayne and Rosa Millar, performing exceptionally well in both the morning and afternoon tests, to take out the coveted prize for the top team. A special mention to Lily Barrett-Power who won both of her tests on her beautiful Fresian mare, Izabella M, and the cup for the highest level one score. Lily is certainly one to watch for the future. Georgia Allison also had a wonderful day; riding a young and inexperienced horse, she gained individual 3rd and 4th placings.

The Darfield Maroon team consisting of Laura Gough, Katherine Hadler, Mikayla Jarvis and Caitlin Aubrey, also had a super day which bodes well for the future of dressage at DHS. Many of the riders had young, inexperienced horses, or were quite new combinations, so their placing of 11th overall in such a large field was super.

Above: The winning team (Darfield Blue) and their trophy

Above: The Darfield Maroon Team

Both teams displayed superb sportsmanship and certainly did the school proud. Well done!

Nicky Voss

Canterbury Schools One Day Horse Trial Two teams competed this year for Darfield High School at the Canterbury Schools One Day Horse Trial. The field was large, with 18 schools represented, and 23 teams in total. Unfortunately, the weather was dismal and most riders had to contend with driving rain and freezing cold southerlies on and off for most of the day.

Both teams made a good start on the dressage, with the team consisting of Niamh Rayne, Jodie Rollings, Katherine Hadler and Georgia Allison lying in first place. Our second team, Caitlin Aubrey, Caitlin Rayne and Mikayla Jarvis, also did well in the dressage, lying

in 15th place overall. The wheels came off a little in the cross-country with some costly stops which we could not recover from, even though all of the riders performed well in the show jumping.

Overall, this relatively young team did very well, considering the trying conditions, and should be proud of their achievements. They should continue to develop and should be looking strong for next year's competition. Congratulations to all the riders and a big thank you to the mums who made this possible.

Nicky Voss

Below: Jodie, Georgia, Katherine, Niamh, Caitlin R, Caitlyn A and Mikayla

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2015 Junior Prizegiving Form Class Awards

7HB Issy Kennedy: Extremely motivated student who shows consistent effort in the classroom; Brooke Thomason: Mature and friendly student who has shown improved confidence and is caring towards classmates; Ryan Neal: Extremely polite, mature and respectful young man, with good motivation and self-managing skills; Rowan Hickey: An energetic and lively member of the class, expressing herself creatively, and consistently thinking outside of the box; Sophie Clarke: Perseverance and positive attitude and a very polite and caring student 7CC Olivia Cridge: Enthusiasm and consistent effort in all classes and an improved confidence and self-belief; Janette Chetham: Positive attitude and excellent effort in all subject areas; Zahara Sutton: Diligence and positive attitude towards school and her work; Tamzin Brunton: Excellent effort in all subject areas; Jayden Crawford: Perseverance, a positive attitude and consistent effort in all classes 7CS Danielle Bates: Marked improvement in focus on class work and classroom behaviour; Aidan Brackmann: Positive attitude and consistent effort and application; Emily Cullen: Diligence and consistent application in all her work; Luke Henderson: Making positive decisions about his work and behaviour, and always trying his best; Carwyn Chaffey: Always very polite and helpful, especially to his peers, and consistently working well in his classes 7SJ Georgie Sarginson: A great behavioural role model and well-respected class member; Harry Cookson: Working hard and achieving highly across all subjects; Tyler Tapa-Wither: Working hard and having a positive attitude towards all subjects; Buddhika Ekanayake: Having a positive attitude towards learning;

Katie Molloy: Determination and a great attitude towards her learning 8ES Ella Roessink: Supportive and helpful class member; Caitlin Warrington: Diligence, high achievement in all subjects and a positive attitude towards school; George Thorne: Most improved attitude and effort in class; Blake Hubbard: Enthusiasm and consistent effort in all classes; Georgia Walker: Creativity and artistic flair in all subjects 8GF Charlotte Boyd: Positive attitude and excellent effort in all subject areas; Harriet Cottrell: Excellent work ethic, enthusiasm in all subjects and an exceptional class councillor; Hamish Keating: Consistent application and a positive attitude to all subject areas; Jordan Russell: Positive attitude in all subject areas and exceptional general knowledge in Social Studies; Brie Edwards: Quiet work ethic and enthusiasm and consistent effort in all classes 8HP Crystal Van Duinen: Consistent effort and growth in communication skills and leadership; Emily Bitmead: Diligence and achievement in all subject areas; Jordan Rugg: Diligence and a positive attitude towards school; Lewis Morrison: Effort and application in writing; Sam Cunningham: Consistent improvement and application in literacy 8KH Annie Campbell: Consistent effort and application in class; Sebastian Middleton: Enthusiasm and a positive attitude in all classes; Caitlin Gibb: Diligence, high achievement in all subjects and a positive attitude towards school and working with others; James Miles: Positive attitude and excellent effort in all subject areas; Hannah Booth: Enthusiasm and consistent effort in all classes 8SE Cameron O’Donnell: Consistent effort and application and great attitude to learning; Ben Francis: Citizenship, diligence and a positive attitude towards learning; Jesse Gray: Positive attitude, excellent effort and most improved academically; Zara Woodward: Consistent application and high academic achievement; Harrison Buck: Most improved attitude towards learning, application and effort across all classes 9CH Mitchell Longdin: Always reliable and helpful and showing great potential; Shayden Monk: Thoughtful,

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considerate and always willing to help; Dylan Bamford: Willingness to improve across all subjects; Will Spinks: Approaching tasks with enthusiasm and commitment; Alicia Duncan: Showing the confidence to be in charge of her own learning 9GC Jack Chillingworth: Commitment to learning and consistent effort towards classwork; Laura Gough: Diligence across all subjects; Aleisha Knowles: Positive role model who is enthusiastic and helpful during form time; Reilly Neal: Positive attitude towards learning; Emma Pennells: Diligence and a positive attitude towards school 9GO Karen Baquita: Strong work ethic, goal setting and leadership; Jack Curle: Helpful manner, positive attitude and leadership in group work; Mikayla Jarvis: Personal organisation and high standard of work; Jackson Smith: Always demonstrating leadership through his inclusive and courteous behaviour, in a good-humoured and helpful way; Amber Hammond: Conscientious approach to improving her skills and working well in class activities 9GR Hannah Forrester-Rolton: Consistently putting in a high standard of effort and having a positive attitude; Kelsey Parsons: Consistently putting in a high standard of effort; Lucy Glassey: Working consistently throughout the year and having a positive attitude; Christal Dudley: Always having a positive attitude and consistently putting in a high standard of effort; James Roulston: Always putting in a high standard of effort 9SW Brooke Robinson: Consistent application and effort in all curriculum areas; Sam Clarke: Positive attitude and consistent effort in classroom activities; Savarnnah Taylor: Consistent application and effort in all curriculum areas; Jack Hedley: Positive and enthusiastic attitude and determination to achieve; Penelope Mitchell: Positive attitude and consistent application and effort in all curriculum areas 10HA Joshua Gordon: Positive attitude and excellent effort in all subject areas; Emma Anderson: Consistent effort and application in class; Caitlin Chambers: Hard work and commitment in English, in particular being placed in the quarter final of the Year 10 Speech competition; Alex Warrington: Commitment to the 1st XI Boys’ Hockey team

10LG Adriana Cornelissen: Consistent effort and a positive attitude towards her school work; Renee Cullen: Diligence and high achievement in all subjects; Grace Manera: Consistent effort and a positive attitude; Samantha Begbie: Focussed and consistent effort in all subjects; Cole Spinks: Improvement in attitude and consistent effort in class 10NF Adrian Nolan: Confidence and lateral thinking; Harry Bampton: Participating fully in class and positive attitude towards learning; Jayden Hann: A conscientious and mature student; Emma Kellock: Diligence and a positive attitude towards learning; Poppy Lloyd: Diligence and a mature attitude towards learning 10RS James Muckle: Quiet perseverance and determination to succeed; Brittany Hewitt: Positive attitude and improvement across all subjects; Mark Wilson: Consistent effort in all subject areas; Abbey-Lee Dunlop: Application and excellent effort in all subjects; Sam King: Positive and cheerful attitude in all classes

Letters Year 7 and 8 Harry Cookson: Skiing; Isaac Earl: Cycling and Duathlon; Jordan Frew: Basketball; Benjamin Sharp: Claybird Shooting; Katherine Hadler: Gymnastics and Equestrian; Blake Hubbard: Moto Cross; Scott McKay: Football; Jonathon Sims: Football; Jennifer Walter: Football; Harrison Buck: Rugby and Basketball; Cameron O’Donnell: Rugby; George Ridgen: Rugby; Caitlin Knowles and Sophie Kingi: Talent Quest – Dance; Teresa Barnhill: Talent Quest – Rising Star Years 9 and 10 Callum Murdoch: Athletics and Rugby; Brodie Wanhalla: Athletics; Harrison de Rooy: Moto Cross and Football; Lucy Glassey: Netball; Esther Blain: Netball; Jesse Frew: Football; Olliver Sims: Football; Ryan Hughes: Football; Emma Pennells: Tennis; Jeroen Breunisse: Tennis; Niamh Rayne: Equestrian

Academic Awards Year 7 Emily Waters: 3rd in Year 7 Science; Tyler TapaWither: 3rd in Year 7 Te Reo Maori; Kristanna Bonner: 3rd in Year 7 Art; Ria Kelly: 2nd in Year 7 Art; Rowan Hickey: 2nd in Year 7 Music; Ryan Neal: 2nd in Year 7 Te Reo Maori; Jack Kennedy: 2nd in Year 7 Physical Education; Lachlan Adams: 3rd in Year 7 Physical Education, 2nd in Year 7 Technology; Lucy Mitchell: 3rd in Year 7 English, 2nd in Year 7 Social Studies; Scarlett Banks: 3rd in Year 7 Music, 2nd in Year 7 Science, 2nd in Year 7 Mathematics;

Reuben Boyes: The Judd Family Cup for Year 7 Physical Education; William Davidson: Te Roopu o te Aka Tawera Taonga for Te Reo Maori Te Tau Tuawhitu; Caleb Steele: The Te Whare Koru Trophy for gaining a Significant Goal; Georgie Hamilton: The Delys Addington Cup for Year 7 Mathematics; Jessica Bassett: 3rd in Year 7 Technology, 3rd in Year 7 Social Studies, 2nd in Year 7 English, The Prime Foods New Zealand Limited Cup for Year 7 International Languages; Niamh Guy: 3rd in Year 7 International Languages, 3rd in Year 7 Mathematics, The Stuart Frew Cup for Year 7 Science, The John Gibson Cup for Year 7 Music; Maia Adams: 2nd in Year 7 International Languages, The Bob Hayward Cup for Year 7 Technology, The Five Star Paints Ltd Cup for Year 7 Art, The Collins Family Cup for Year 7 Social Studies, The Roger Hart Memorial Cup for Year 7 English Year 8 Harry Smith: 3rd in Year 8 Te Reo Maori; Ellie Knights: 3rd in Year 8 Technology; George Ridgen: 3rd in Year 8 International Languages; Caitlin Paul: 2nd in Year 8 English, Claire Langlands: 2nd in Year 8 Science; Casey Roessink: 2nd in Year 8 Technology; Sophie Palmer: 2nd in Year 8 Social Studies; Kate Caldwell: 2nd in Year 8 International Languages; Harry Smith: 2nd in Year 8 Music; Paige Hunter: 3rd in Year 8 Performing Arts, 3rd = in Year 8 Physical Education; Rozlyn Doherty: 3rd in Year 8 Art, 3rd = in Year 8 Physical Education; Sophie Townsend: 3rd in Year 8 Music, 3rd in Year 8 Science; Annabelle Jones: 3rd in Year 8 Social Studies, 2nd in Year 8 Te Reo Maori; Jacob Thomason: 2nd in Year 8 Physical Education, 2nd in Year 8 Art; Grace Moana: The Creed Brothers Cup for Year 8 Performing Arts; Brianna Longdin: The Milne Family Cup for Year 8 Physical Education; Stefanie McKenzie: The Brian Connell Cup for Year 8 International Languages; Katie Griffiths: 3rd in Year 8 English, The Taege Engineering Cup for Year 8 Technology; Hayley Murray: 2nd in Year 8 Mathematics, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 8 Art; Katherine Hadler: The Elizabeth Blackburn Cup for Year 8 Mathematics, The Stone Cup for Year 8 English; Caitlin Rayne: 3rd in Year 8 Mathematics, 2nd in Year 8 Performing Arts, The Kellie-Ann Headifen Cup for Year 8 Science, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 8 Social Studies, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 8 Music, Te Roopu o te Aka Tawera Taonga for Te Reo Maori Te Tau Tuawaru

Allison: 3rd in Year 9 Music, 3rd in Year 9 English, 3rd in Year 9 Health, 3rd in Year 9 Performing Arts, 2nd in Year 9 Physical Education; Michelle Bruce: 3rd in Year 9 French, 2nd in Year 9 Social Studies, 2nd in Year 9 English; Jennifer Bell: The Darfield High School Cup for Year 9 Art; Zoe Spinks: The Codie Barnett Trophy for Year 9 Performing Arts; Jackson Proud: The S Gardner Cup for Year 9 Physical Education, The Trevor Glasson Memorial Cup for Year 9 Technology; Nicole Grigg: 3rd in Year 9 Social Studies, 2nd in Year 9 Science, The Darfield High School Prize for Year 9 Health, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 9 Music; Hanako Wilson: 2nd in Year 9 Mathematics, The Woodhouse Family Cup for Year 9 Science, Te Roopu o te Aka Tawera Taonga for Te Reo Maori Te Tau Tuaiwa, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 9 Japanese; Kate Morris: 3rd in Year 9 Te Reo Maori, 2nd in Year 9 Music, The Oliver Mϋller-Cajar Cup for Year 9 Mathematics, The Katsui Okamoto Memorial Cup for Year 9 Social Studies, The Darfield High School Cup for Year 9 French, The Shaw Cup for Year 9 English Year 10 Kyla Benbow: 3rd in Year 10 Performing Arts; Sam Francis: 3rd in Year 10 Physical Education; Jaymee Burrows: 3rd in Year 10 Graphics; Amelia Williams: 3rd in Year 10 Digital Technologies; Kerryn Tomlinson: 3rd in Year 10 Rural College; Cameron Brunton: 3rd in Year 10 French; Jacob Spence: 3rd in Year 10 Technology; Laura Brown: 3rd in Year 10 Soft Materials Technology; Abbey-Lee Dunlop: 2nd in Year 10 Food and Nutrition; McKenzie Alfeld:

Year 9 Blake Stevenson: 3rd in Year 9 Technology; Jesse Frew: 3rd in Year 9 Physical Education; Ellouise Day: 3rd in Year 9 Art; Cassandra Hart: 3rd in Year 9 Japanese; Alex McGregor: 2nd in Year 9 French; Brooke Steele: 2nd in Year 9 Performing Arts; Chantelle Rod: 2nd in Year 9 Art; Jemma Dalley: 2nd in Year 9 Health; Mereana Gilmour: 2nd in Year 9 Te Reo Maori; Cameron Hendriks: 2nd in Year 9 Technology; Lily Gamble: 2nd in Year 9 Japanese; Kieran McKay: 3rd in Year 9 Science, 3rd in Year 9 Mathematics; Georgia DHS YEARBOOK | 95

2nd in Year 10 Rural College; Simon Seelen: 2nd in Year 10 French; Imogen Groom: 2nd in Year 10 Art; George Gibb: 2nd in Year 10 Mathematics; Katie Sharp: 2nd in Year 10 Performing Arts; Courtney Newell: 2nd in Year 10 Science; Aeryn McMillan-Da Via: 2nd in Year 10 English; Katherine Buck: 2nd in Year 10 Health; Lauren Hawkins: 2nd in Year 10 Soft Materials Technology; Adrian Nolan: 3rd in Year 10 Mathematics, 3rd in Year 10 Art; Niamh Rayne: 3rd in Year 10 Economics, 2nd in Year 10 Social Studies; Caleb Banks: 3rd in Year 10 Health, 3rd in Year 10 Science, 3rd in Year 10 Social Studies; Ella Reeves: The Ridgen Family Cup for Year 10 Graphics; Mitchell Baird: The Selwyn District Council Cup for Year 10 Soft Materials Technology; Joshua Gordon: The T & J Gallagher Family Trophy for Consistent Effort and Good Example in Special Programmes; Teagan Mills: The Diedrichs Family Cup for Year 10 Food and Nutrition; Hunter Benbow: 2nd in Year 10 Technology, The Dennis Family Cup for Year 10 Music; Teri Jackson: 2nd in Year 10 Graphics; Te Roopu o te Aka Tawera Taonga for Te Reo Maori Te Tau Tekau; Jodie Rollings: 3rd in Year 10 Music, The Mary Smith Trophy for Year 10 Performing Arts; Olivia Lemon: 2nd in Year 10 Physical Education, The Gavin and Pam Henderson Cup for Year 10 Mathematics;

George Brown: 2nd in Year 10 Economics, The J & A Scott Cup for Year 10 Physical Education; Andrew Coppard: The Darfield High School Award for Rural College, The Taege Engineering Award for Excellence and Application in Technology in Year 10; Jack McConnell: 3rd in Year 10 English, The Claire Hughes Award for Year 10 Art, The Evans Cup for Year 10 Digital Technologies; Esther Blain: 3rd in Year 10 Food and Nutrition, 2nd in Year 10 Music, 2nd in Year 10 Digital Technologies, The Healey Family Trophy for Year 10 Economics, The Darfield High School Prize for Year 10 Health; Elyse Kerr: The Rebecca Halkett Memorial Cup for Year 10 English, The Searle Family Cup for Year 10 Japanese, The Dr Mary Warren Cup for Year 10 Science, The Alan Blackburn Cup for Year 10 Social Studies, The R L Bennett Cup for Year 10 French

Cultural Awards Years 7 and 8 Jessica Bassett: The Worsfold Cup for Year 7 Speech Competition; Caitlin Warrington: The Tecorian Cup for Year 8 Speech Competition; Maia Adams: The Darfield High School Creative Writing Award for Year 7; Katherine Hadler: The Darfield High School Creative Writing Award for Year 8; Niamh Guy: The Jenny Pearson Cup for High Achievement in Year 7 Reading; Harriet Cottrell: The Hayes Trophy for the Greatest Contribution to Music in Years 7 & 8; Niamh Guy: The Malvern Community Arts Council Trophy for Enthusiastic Participation in Cultural Activities Years 7 and 8; Katherine Hadler: The Christchurch Music Centre Cup for Years 7 and 8 Music; Maia Adams: Talent Quest Overall Winner Years 9 and 10 Brooke Steele: The Post Office Cup for Year 9 Speech Competition; George Brown: The Lee Cup for Year 10 Speech Competition; Kate Morris: The Darfield High School Creative Writing Award Year 9; Aeryn McMillan Da Via: The Darfield High School Creative Writing Award Year 10; Elyse Kerr: The Johnston

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Family Trophy for Excellence in Japanese—Years 7 to 10; Kate Morris: The Malvern Community Arts Council Cultural Trophy; Jodie Rollings: The Darfield High School Junior Drama Trophy for Years 7–10; Esther Blain: The Christchurch Music Centre Cup for Years 9 and 10 Music; Daniel Conway: Mrs WilsonCoutts’ Cup for the Most Promising Musician in the Junior School; Hunter Benbow: The Hayes Trophy for the Greatest Contribution to Music in Years 9 & 10; Kate Morris: Mrs Wilson-Coutts’ Cup for the Best Contribution to Vocal Music in the Junior School

Sporting Awards Years 7 and 8 Teresa Barnhill: The Julie Battersby Cup for Year 7 Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Ethan Rose: The Darfield High School Trophy for Year 7 Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Stefanie McKenzie: The Early Cup for Year 8 Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Jayden Dysart: The Blackburn Cup for Year 8 Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Johnathan Hart: The W & M Broughton Cup for Under 12 Boys’ Athletics Champion; Scarlett Banks: The R Adams Cup for Under 12 Girls’ Athletics Champion; Cameron O’Donnell and Nik Hodgman: The Hill Challenge Cup for Under 13 Boys’ Athletics Champion; Vincent Mandapat: The Harcourt Insulation (2006) Ltd Cup for Chess; Caitlin Rayne: Junior Girls’ Triathlon Champion; Ethan Rose: Junior Boys’ Triathlon Champion; Claudia Cullen: The Collinton Cup for Under 13 Girls’ Tennis Champion; Harry Cookson: The Collinton Cup for Under 13 Boys’ Tennis Champion; Jenny Walter: The Mrs A Cullen Trophy for Under 13 Girls’ Swimming Champion; Daniel Baxter: The Malvern Jaycee Cup for Under 13 Boys’ Swimming Champion; Sylvia Dempsey: The Lesley Hurst Trophy for the Most Improved Junior Netballer; Matthew Ashworth: Steele Family Cup for Excellence in Sportsmanship in Years 7 and 8 Rugby; Jordan Frew: The Malvern AFC Trophy for the Junior Player of the Year; Juliet Summerfield: The Rosanowski Trophy for Contribution to Year 7/8 Hockey; Annalise Selfe: The

Price Trophy for the Most Improved Year 7/8 Hockey Player; Ethan Rose: Colours in Mountain Biking, Colours in Cycling; Rosa Buist-Brown: Colours in Equestrian; Sophie Townsend: Colours in Equestrian Years 9 and 10 Maddison Beardsmore: The Adams Cup for Under 14 Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Rhys Clatworthy: The Trophy for Under 14 Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Zoe Spinks: The Miller Cup for Under 13 Girls’ Athletics Champion; Emma Pennells: The Chamberlain Cup for Under 14 Girls’ Athletics Champion; Callum Murdoch and Samuel Manson: The Dick Cup for Under 14 Boys’ Athletics Champion; Harry Bampton: The Frew Brothers Trophy for Junior Boys’ Athletics Champion; Esther Blain: The Dick Cup for Junior Girls’ Athletics Champion; Emma Pennells: Intermediate Girls’ Triathlon Champion; Jeroen Breunisse: Intermediate Boys’ Triathlon Champion; Abigail Tuhill: The Clucas Trophy for Under 14 Girls’ Swimming Champion; Ethan Taylor: The Webster Cup for Under 14 Boys’ Swimming Champion; Hunter Benbow: The Diane Baird Trophy for Intermediate Boys’ Swimming Champion; Abby Thornley: The Milne/Mulholland Netball Trophy for Sportsmanship; Nicole Grigg: The Horndon Cup for the Most Improved Girls’ Hockey Player; Bridget Freer: Doppelmayr Ski Scholarship; Kieran McKay: Doppelmayr Ski Scholarship; Jacob Spence: The Darfield High School Trophy for the Most Improved Smallbore Shooting Score; Hunter Benbow: Colours in Target Shooting; Kerryn Tomlinson: Colours in Kids Karts; Jayden Hann: The Darfield High School Golf Championship Trophy; Jesse Frew: The Rodger Family Trophy for the Most Valuable Junior Cricketer; Emma Pennells: Senior Girls’ Tennis Champion; Jeroen Breunisse: Senior Boys’ Tennis Champion

Premier Sports Award Kerryn Tomlinson: Te Piko Trophy for Outstanding Female Sportsperson in any Code

Premier Awards Years 7 and 8 Harry Robertson: The School Council Cup and Selwyn District Council Award for Service and Cooperation in Year 7; Hannah King: The Class of 1953 Cup and Selwyn District Council Award for Consistent Effort and Application in Year 7; Jessica Bassett: The Creed Brothers Award and the Darfield High School Trophy for the Highest Academic Achievement in Year 7; Stefanie McKenzie: The School Council Cup and Selwyn District Council Award for Service and Co-operation in Year 8; Rozlyn Doherty: The School Council Cup and Selwyn District Council Award for Consistent Effort and Application in Year 8; Katherine Hadler: The Milne Trophy and the Selwyn Sawmills Ltd Award for the Best All-Rounder in Years 7 and 8; Hayley Murray and Katherine Hadler: The Creed Brothers Award and the Darfield High School Trophy for the Highest Academic Achievement in Year 8; Rozlyn Doherty: The Hororata-Malvern Returned Services Association Scholarship; Benjamin Sharp: The Hororata-Malvern Returned Services Association Scholarship Years 9 and 10 Teri Jackson: The Malvern Suffrage Committee Trophy and Bond Frew Ltd Award for the Junior School; Grace Earle: The Darfield High School Ex-Students’ Association Trophy and the Selwyn District Council Award for Consistent Application and Effort in Year 10; Jennifer Bell: The Class of 1953 Cup and the Selwyn District Council Award for Consistent Effort and Application in Year 9; Toni Forsythe-Walton: The Wooster Cup and Selwyn District Council Award for Service and Co-operation in Years 9 and 10; Kate Morris: The Creed Brothers Ltd Award and The Wilsthorpe Trophy for the Highest Academic Achievement in Year 9; Elyse Kerr: The Creed Brothers Ltd Award and the School Supplies Prize for the Highest Academic Achievement in Year 10; Elyse Kerr: The R H White Trophy and the Selwyn Sawmills Ltd Award for the Best All-Rounder in Years 9 and 10

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2015 Senior Prizegiving Academic Awards

Year 11 Subject Prizes Akalanka Ekanayake: 3rd in French; Cassidy Judd: 3rd in Home Economics; Anna Hefferon: 3rd in Art; Dylan Cagney: 3rd in Geography; Hamish Evans: 3rd in Design and Visual Communications; Hannah Marchant: 3rd in Economics; Harriet Watson: 3rd in History; Holly Kimber: 3rd in Music; James Doherty: 3rd in Furniture Making; Lily Barrett-Power: 3rd in General Science; Matthew Grigg: 3rd in Physical Education; Momo Kawakami: 3rd in Japanese; Sydney Riley: 2nd in Drama; Thomas Wilson: 2nd in Music; William Benbow: 2nd in Rural College; Rachael Phillipson: 2nd in Japanese; Sean Pennells: 2nd in Biology; Georgia Shinn: 2nd in Physical Education; Georgia Watson: 2nd in Mathematics; Grace Hodgman: 2nd in Home Economics; Georgia Cottrell: 2nd in Economics; Danielle Cooper: 2nd in Digital Technology; Devin Benbow: 2nd = in Business Studies; Hannah Glassey: 2nd in Design and Visual Communications; Haydn Rose: 2nd in Furniture Making; Iva Vukovic: 2nd in Art; Eloise Dance: 3rd in Biology, 2nd in French; Caitlin B Fraser: 3rd in Digital Technology, 2nd = in Business Studies; Findlay Davidson: The Macartney Prize for Mathematics; Alyssa Cruickshank: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Business Studies; Emma May: The New Zealand Agriseeds Limited Prize and the Forrester Family Cup for Agriculture for Conscientiousness and Diligence in Theory and Practical Work; Gary Jingyan: The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for English for Speakers of Other Languages; Caitlin M Frazer: 3rd in Drama, The Jebson Family Prize for Geography; Sacha Smith: The Office Max Prize for Furniture Making, The Diedrichs’ Family Prize for Home Economics; Joseph Manifold: 3rd = in English, 3rd in Mathematics, The Christchurch Cleaning Supplies Prize for General Science; Madison O’Callaghan: 2nd in History, 2nd in Geography, The Taege’s Foodcentre Prize for Drama; James Thornley: 3rd in Rural College, The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Physical Education, The Courtenay

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A&P Association Prize for Economics; Caitlin Soal: 2nd in General Science, The Mitchell Brothers’ Prize for Digital Technology, The Trevor Wall Design Prize for Design and Visual Communications; Abigail Cider: 3rd = in English, 3rd in Physics and Chemistry, The Rosanowski Family Prize for Biology, The Taege’s Foodcentre Prize for Japanese; Leigh Walters: 2nd in English, The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Physics and Chemistry, The Canterbury Education Services Cup and I & A Cullen Prize for History, The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize and The AK Scott Cup for Music; Sophie Bucknell: 2nd in Physics and Chemistry, 2nd in Year 12 Drama, The G M Ridgen Prize for English, The Andrew John Kennedy Memorial Prize for Art, The Taege’s Foodcentre Prize for French Year 12 Subject Prizes Harry Barrett-Power: 3rd in Outdoor Education; Kaitlin Feast: 3rd in Physical Education; Samara Crosby: 3rd in Art; Takaaki Kuwashiro: 3rd in English for Speakers of Other Languages; Caitlin Thistoll: 2nd in Rural College; Breanna Hale: 2nd = in Economics; Kristen Blaber-Hunt: 2nd = in Economics; Kyla Higgins: 2nd in Art; Grace Lemon: 2nd in Physical Education; Renee Robson: 2nd in Home Economics; Georgi Pander: 2nd in Japanese; Olivia McEwan: 2nd in Business Studies; Stephanie Hubbard: 2nd in Outdoor Education; Madeleine Tasker: 3rd in History, 3rd in Music; Mariah Glasson: 3rd in Home Economics, 3rd in Rural College; Ellen Walters: 3rd in Physics, 2nd in Music; Chloe Fraser: 3rd in Geography, 2nd in Digital Technology; Kathryn Barnhill: 3rd in Biology, 2nd in English, 2nd in Chemistry; Hitomi Kaneko: The Darfield Bakery Prize for English for Speakers of Other Languages; Courtney Townsend: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Excellence in Economics; Harriet Evans: The Rural Women’s New Zealand Prize for Business Studies; Selina Dixon: The Carus and Resene Prize for Home Economics; Robert Wright: 3rd in Business Studies, The Carus and

Resene Prize for Outstanding Performance in Class and Practical Work in Rural College Studies; Emily de Rooy: 3rd in Digital Technology, The Trevor Wall Design Prize for Mathematics; Aidan Tuhill: 3rd in Design and Visual Communications, The Trevor Wall Design Prize for Art; Bailey Campbell: 3rd in Drama, The Carus and Resene Prize for Outdoor Education; Emma Grigg: 3rd in English, 3rd in Chemistry, The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Music; Michael Ridgen: 2nd in Geography, The Carus and Resene Prize for Physical Education; Ryo Nishimura: 2nd in English for Speakers of Other Languages, The Hayakawa Trophy and Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Japanese; Jasmine Nash: 2nd in Design and Visual Communications, The Taege’s Foodcentre Prize for Drama, Mrs V Booth’s Cup and Darfield PostShop Prize for Digital Technology; Alexis Sutherland: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Physics, The McDonald and Horton Architects Ltd Prize for Design and Visual Communications; Edward Searle: 3rd in Mathematics, The Pearson Family Cup and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Geography, The Logan Friedman Trophy and Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Year 12 History, The Malvern Community Board Prize for Biology; Lilian Stott: 2nd in History, 2nd in Physics, 2nd in Mathematics, 2nd in Biology, The Rachel Ridgen Memorial Cup and Business Distributors Ltd Prize for English, The Darfield Federated Farmers Prize for Chemistry Year 13 Subject Prizes Annabelle Johnston: 3rd in Art; Georgina Brown: 3rd in Digital Technology; Gemma Waters: 3rd in Drama; Haigh Jebson: 3rd in Rural College; James McMillan: 3rd in Economics; Leigh McConchie: 3rd in Outdoor Education; Savannah Sayer: 2nd = in Geography; Jordan Watson: 2nd in Outdoor Education; Francesca Dela Cruz: 2nd in Economics; Georgia Wilson: 2nd in Rural College; Tayla James: 2nd in Home Economics; Thomas Rowlands: 2nd in

Chemistry; Timothy Logan: 2rd in Biology; Honoko Ishida: 3rd in Japanese, 2nd in English for Speakers of Other Languages; Chisano Tsugehara: 3rd in English for Speakers of Other Languages, 2nd in Japanese; Emelia Todd-Lister: 3rd in Media Studies, 2nd in Digital Technology; James Cider: 3rd in Classical Studies, 2nd in Mathematics—Statistics; Liam Bragan: 3rd in Calculus, 2nd = in Geography; Julia Anderson: 2nd in History, 2nd in Physical Education; Brittany Hodgman: 3rd in Physical Education, 3rd in History, 3rd in Biology; Matthew King: The Darfield Pharmacy Prize for Outdoor Education; Amber Pont: The Mitre 10 Mega Prize for Home Economics; Scott Taege: The Torlesse Travel Ltd Cup for Economics; Blair Manson: The National Trade Academy Cup and Carus and Resene Prize for Excellence in Practical Assessments in Rural College; Georgia Cridge: 3rd in Home Economics, The Class of 1954 Trophy and the Carus and Resene Prize Ltd for Outstanding Performance in Class and Practical Work in Rural College Studies; Nicole Hamilton-Cross: 3rd in Mathematics— Statistics, The Carus and Resene Prize for Geography; Lois Freemantle: 3rd in English, The Trevor Wall Design Prize for Design and Visual Communications; Ciara Rayne: 3rd in Chemistry, 2nd in Physics, The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Physical Education; Shannon Griffiths: 2nd in Calculus, 2nd in Art, 2nd in Design and Visual Communications, The Taege’s Foodcentre Prize for Media Studies; Sarah Baker: 3rd in Physics, 3rd in Design and Visual Communications, 2nd in Media Studies, 2nd in Drama, The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Mathematics—Calculus; Hanako Nakagawa: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for Japanese, The Carus and Resene Prize for English for Speakers of Other Languages; Brie Gullery: Mr Bruce Smart’s Prize for Classical Studies, The Helen Moore Trophy and the Trevor Wall Design Prize for Excellence in Art/Painting in the Senior School, The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Art—Print Making; Ella Pearce: 2nd in English, 2nd in Classical Studies, The Darfield High School Parent Teacher Student Association Prize for History, The Malvern Community Arts Council Prize for Drama, The Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Digital Technology; George Watson: ICAS International Competitions 2015—First place in New Zealand in Year 13 Science, Mrs Eleanor Smart’s Prize for English, The Darfield High School Parent Teacher Student Association Prize for Mathematics—Statistics, The PWA Griffin Prize for Physics, The Rosanowski Family Prize for Chemistry, The Darfield ITM Prize for Biology

Senior Cultural Prizes Caitlin M Frazer: The T & H Drama Trophy for an Emerging Talent who Demonstrates Initiative and Enthusiasm at Year 11; Sarah Baker: The Kirwee Players’ Trophy for Contribution to Drama in Years 12/13, Colours for Drama; Ella Pearce: Senior Drama Trophy; Alexis Sutherland: The Carran Cooke Cup for Best Performance in a School Production; Hitomi

Kaneko: The Darfield High School Award for the International Student who Participates Most Fully in the Life of the School; Hanako Nakagawa: The Darfield High School Award for the International Student who Achieves the Greatest Academic Progress in a Language other than their Native Tongue; Honoka Ishida: The Darfield High School Award for the International Student who Shows Consistent Effort and Application Across All Subjects; Brie Gullery: The Darfield High School Award for Creative Writing in the Senior School; Kathryn Barnhill: The Hatton Cup for Excellence in Correspondence; James Butler: The Lilly Cup for Services to the Darfield High School Library; Emma Forbes: The Stage Challenge Trophy for Performing Arts; Harriet Watson: The MKB Buchart Cup for Year 11 Public Speaking; Alexis Sutherland: The Avery Cup for Public Speaking in Year 12; Tim Logan: The J Paul Cup for Public Speaking in Year 13, The Jebson Trophy for the Best Public Speaker–Years 7-13; Ellen Walters: The Malvern Community Arts Council Metronome for the Most Promising Instrumentalist, Colours for Music; Holly Kimber: The Grenell Family Trophy for Best Performer of Contemporary Music, Talent Quest 2015 Best Vocal Performance; Hitomi Kaneko: The Hayes Trophy for the Most Improved Music Student in the Senior School; Emma Grigg: The Malvern Community Arts Council Prize for the Best Contribution to School Music

Senior Sports Awards Leigh Walters: The Mitchell Brothers Cup for the U15 Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Matthew Grigg: The Addington Cup for U15 Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Georgia Shinn: The Darfield High School Cup for Intermediate Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Isaac Proud: The Darfield High School Cup for Intermediate Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Ciara Rayne: The Staff Rose Bowl for Senior Girls’ Cross Country Champion; Tim Logan: The Mr C S Ell Cup for Senior Boys’ Cross Country Champion; Emma May: The G and L Beattie Cup for Intermediate Girls’ Swimming Champion; Celine Didham: The Skinner Cup for Senior Girls’ Swimming Champion; Aidan Tuhill: The Coley Cup for Senior Boys’ Swimming Champion; Chelsea Wilson: The David Baird Trophy for Intermediate Girls’ Athletics Champion; Isaac Proud: The David Baird Trophy for Intermediate Boys’ Athletics Champion, Colours for Road Race; Ciara Rayne: The Cup for Senior Girls’ Athletics Champion; Harry Pringle: The Charles Family Cup for Senior Boys’ Athletics Champion, Colours for Athletics; Molly Buist-Brown and Esther Blain: The Dick Cup for Junior Girls’ Athletics Champion; Ciara Rayne: The Trophy for Senior Girls’ Individual Triathlon Champion; Isaac Proud: The Rosanowski Family Trophy for Senior Boys’ Individual Triathlon Champion; Aaron Gunn: The Broughton Cup for the Most Improved Rugby Player; Harry Pringle: The 1994 1st XV Trophy for the Best Contribution to

1st XV Rugby; Harriet Evans: The Darfield Garden Centre and Florist Trophy for the Most Valuable Girls’ Rugby Player; Jayden Hill-Inch: The Sportsmaster’s Trophy for Contribution to Rugby below 1st XV; Haigh Jebson: The Darfield High School 1st XV Trophy for the Most Valuable Player as selected by the 1st XV Team; Jonathan Anderson: The S M Forsyth Trophy for Services to School Hockey; Finn McGregor: The Chamberlain Trophy for the Most Improved Boys’ Hockey Player; Georgi Pander: The Porters Cup for Excellence in Skiing; Karta Hewitt: The Malvern Netball Association Trophy for the Most Improved Netball Player; Jade Collier: The Taege Family Netball Cup for the Most Valuable Player in Senior Netball; Jake Burgess: The Malvern Basketball Trophy for the Most Improved Player; Lois Freemantle: The Darfield High School Trophy for the Most Improved Girls Basketball Player; Ciara Rayne: The Rayne Family Cup for the Most Valuable Senior Basketball Player; Nicole Hamilton-Cross: Darfield High School Girls’ Golf Championship Trophy; Robert Bampton: The B & E Smart Trophy for the Individual Claybird Shooting Champion; William Benbow: The B & E Smart Trophy for the Individual Claybird Shooting Champion, Colours for Target Shooting; Brogan Baldwin: The Woodward Trophy for the Smallbore Shooting Champion, Colours for Target Shooting; Courtney Townsend: The Darfield High School Equestrian Trophy, Colours for Equestrian; Molly Buist-Brown: Colours for Equestrian; Heather McConchie: Colours for Equestrian; Harry Pringle: The C Jenkins Cup for the Most Improved Player in the 1st XI; James Doherty: Colours for Moto Cross

Premier Sports Awards Jonathan Anderson: Neil Thomas Cup for the Best Off-the-Field Contribution in any Sport or Recreation; Harry Pringle: Roach-Wilson Trophy for the Sportsperson of the Year for Excellence and Contribution DHS YEARBOOK | 99

Senior Premier Awards Shannon Griffiths: The Lorraine Jacobs Award and Carus and Resene Prize for the Student who has shown Outstanding Effort in Senior Art; Annabelle Johnston: The Malvern Community Arts Council Prize and the Jessica Penn Clark Memorial Art Award for the Senior Art Student with the Most Potential; Blair Manson: The Darfield High School Ex-Students’ Association Cup and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Consistent Application and Effort in the Senior School; Charlotte Carter: The Patricia Henderson Plate and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for Consistent Effort and Application in Year 12; Joshua Cook: The Carus and Resene Prize for Service and Co-operation for Years 11 to 13; George Watson: The William Broughton Plate and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for the Student who Realises their Potential by Making the Most of their Opportunities; Grace Lemon: The 1993 Malvern Suffrage Celebrations’ Committee Trophy and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for a Female Student in the Senior School who Participates Fully in the Academic, Cultural, Sporting and Social Life of the School; Alexis Sutherland: The 1993 Malvern Suffrage Celebrations’ Committee Trophy and Torlesse Travel Ltd Prize for a Female Student who Demonstrates Exceptional Leadership Skills both at School and as a Representative of the School in the Wider Community; Abigail Cider: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for High

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Academic Achievement; Sophie Bucknell: Mr and Mrs R L Bennetts’ Trophy and The Malvern Community Board Prize for General Excellence; Kathryn Barnhill: The Business Distributors Ltd Prize for High Academic Achievement; Lilian Stott: The Sonia Early Memorial Trophy and The Malvern Community Board Prize for General Excellence; George Watson: Mrs M Thompson’s Trophy and Malvern Community Board Prize for the Best All-Rounder; James Cider: The Christopher Cullen Memorial Trophy, the Selwyn District Council Prize, the Malvern Community Board Award and the Upper Riccarton House of Travel Award for 3rd in Year 13; Ella Pearce: Mr & Mrs Ryburn’s Prize, the Business Distributors Ltd Prize, the Selwyn District Council Prize, and the Rosanowski Family Trophy for Proxime Accessit to the Dux; George Watson: The Darfield High School Parent Teacher Student Association Prize, the Business Distributors Ltd Prize and The Malvern Community Board Award for Dux

Scholarships Sarah Baker and Shannon Griffiths: The Victoria University Excellence Scholarship; George Watson: The University of Otago Academic Excellence Scholarship; Emma Forbes: The University of Otago

Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship; Amber Pont: The University of Otago Alumni Appeal Scholarship; Amanda Schnell: The Lincoln University Future Leadership Award; James Cider: The University of Canterbury Emerging Leaders Scholarship; Tim Logan: The Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize; Amanda Schnell: The Frews Transport Sponsorship; William Gross: The Selwyn District Council Education Fund Bursary ; George Watson: The Orion Selwyn District Centenary Educational Trust Scholarship; Nicole Hamilton-Cross: The Malvern Lions Club Scholarship; Emma Forbes: The Malvern Health and Community Welfare Trust Scholarship ; Bailey Campbell: The Malvern Youth Trust Scholarship; Joshua Cook: The Malvern Youth Trust Scholarship; Grace Clouston, Claudia Thomas, Caitlin Brooks, Aaron Watson, Jonas Meyer, Daniel Winter, Jonathan Anderson, Georgia Cridge, Paige Heselwood, Blair Manson, Amanda Schnell, Renee Curtin, Harriet Evans, Georgia Wilson: The Elizabeth Richards Scholarship; Julia Anderson, Francesca Dela Cruz, Lois Freemantle, Leigh McConchie, Savannah Sayer: The Hickman Family Trust Scholarship

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7CC

Back Row: Naiyumi Busgano, Rozena Sutton, Piper Benbow, Ella Taylor, Angus Marsh, Tom Freeman Third Row: Stella Futter, Ainsley Worling, William Morgan, Sam Harrington, Kate Curle, Oscar Gosling, Rose Williams Second Row: Sam Robinson, Melissa Duncan, Jessica Henderson, Beau Beadle, Samantha Jones, Sam Lyon, Bianca Duncan, Mrs C Cartman Front Row: Jemma Horn, Megan Allan, Summer Mitchell, Leah Keating, Serenity Bellam, Emily Mangels, Emily Morrison, Maxwell Whyte, James Day

7HB

Back Row: Logan Hindle, Emma Wason, Duncan Riddle, Isabella Stevenson, Amelia Adams Third Row: Charlotte Roberts, Sophie Tiede, Jade Abraham, Anna Smith, Jack Gillians, Annabelle Serra Second Row: Amelia Ridgen, Jack Barnes, Charlotte Woolley, Sarah Gerritsen, Charlotte Moana, Mitchell Perrin, Miss K Hobson Front Row: Michael Marvin, Molly Mannering, Matthew Singh, Heath Bell-Taylor, Reuben Holden, Fenton Dawson, Emma Miles, Flynn Bell-Taylor, Millie Wilson

7JR

Back Row: Tessa Bellamy, Arjana Kremers, Mari Henderson, Ava de Rooy, Tyjian Rangihuna, Vincent Sanderson, Jeremy Bourhill Third Row: Tessa Bishell, Sharla Brightwell, Manaia Davies, Reagan Viliua, Sophie Dance, Declan Kenure Second Row: Steven Murray-Jamison, Tristen Jones, Ruby Smedley, Oliver Blackburn, Olivia Burgess, Ryan Fleet, Mrs J Rangi Front Row: Jessica Townsend, Joshua Rod, Kelly Rod, Joe Veronese, Morgan Manning, Cassidy Neal, Vaughan Smart, Cameron Payne

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7KK

Back Row: Scott Bourgeois, William Reynolds, Tamara MacMillan, Holly Curtis, Cedar Scott Third Row: Darren MacRae, Max Marshall, Daniel Holland, May Sweeney, Peter Bourgeois, Hayden De Burger Second Row: Dwight Felipe, Kendal Moore, Jasmine Inch, Wilson Bell, Jackson Hill, Holly Moore, Miss K Kensington Front Row: Zara Gardner, Ruby-Rose Shepard, Hamish Thornley, Jack Robertson, Cameron Newell, Marcel A’Court, Belinda Inch, Bernadette Campbell

7LW

Back Row: Alexandra Hunt, Shannon Bayliss, Rhiannon Alexander-Lamb, Ashlee Kala, Liberty Smith Third Row: Jacob Horrey, William Heiler, Ella Forrester-Rolton, Katherine Muckle, Jess Ford, Harrison Beresford Second Row: Brody Simpson, Mackenzie Scannell, Todd Thomas, Blake O’Donnell, Matthew Speechly, George Evans, Mrs L Walker Front Row: Kendra Mills, Charlie Chambers, Lucy Hunter, Cameron Agnew, Connor Palmer, Kohbyn Ross, Angus Pattie, Shannon Treleaven, Kyro Aratangi

7SJ

Back Row: Harry Cookson, Jessica McKenzie, Lucy Mitchell, Mitchell Calcott, William Brown, Georgie Sarginson, Emily Cullen, Kohen Earl Third Row: Jonty Kupe, Tess Jenkins, Ria Kelly, William Dempsey, Ethan Longdin, Jack Buist-Brown, Luke Reeves Second Row: Ms S Rennie, Cade Hinman, Brodie Taylor, Chloe Newbigging, Caitlin Knowles, Ethan Lovelock, Callum Summerfield, Luke Henderson, Ethan Rose, Mr S Jermyn Front Row: Mya Moore, Anna McKenzie, Molly Roberts, Nathan Gunn, Olivia Manning, Travis Abraham, Johnny Millar, Lachlan Daly, Emma Smart, Amelia-Jane Kempthorne DHS YEARBOOK | 103

8GA

Back Row: Zane Scobie, Elijah Cullen-Reid, Jonathon Matiaha, Scarlett Banks, Zahara Sutton Third Row: Reuben Boyes, Paris Taylor, James Baylis, Brooke Winter-Reid, Sophie Jarvis, Keiran Walker, Heath Currie-Moore Second Row: Maia Adams, Olivia Cridge, Reece Carney, Lachlan Adams, Harley Gray, Kristanna Bonner, Arial Galbraith, Mrs G Galletly Front Row: Carwyn Chaffey, Devon Buck, Lucas de Burger, James Wright, Niamh Guy, Aidan Brackmann, Caleb Steele, Casey Cooper, Matthew Ashworth

8HL

Back Row: Benjamin Medez Cabezas, Rosa Dunnlogan, Sam Chaffey, Jordan Atutolu, Eva Jackson, Zack Johnstone, Gareth Lomas Third Row: Mrs K Holland, Cora Palmer, Tyler Tapa-Wither, Sophie Kingi, Anika Ponga, Kayla Rosel, Quintin Middleton, Mr S Gerritsen Second Row: Emily Waters, Vincent Mandapat, Sophie Clarke, Brook Leighton, Bailey Crawford, Harry Robertson Front Row: Maddison Whyte, Caleb Blackler, Hannah King, Cassidy Wells, Jayden Crawford, Callum Watson

8JN

Back Row: Rebecca Bruce, Zoe Van De Pol, Paula Smith, Bae McNicholl, Aaliyah Cutler, Brooke Muirsmeath Middle Row: Isaac Earl, Jordan Frew, Molly Batstone, Danielle Bates, Paris-Lee Adamson, Asia-Leigh Machirus, Mrs J Nethercott Front Row: Felix Varley-Clapp, Jacob Blaber-Hunt, Rowan Hickey, Leah Hamilton-Cross, Angus McPherson, Joseph Collier, Ben Knowles, James Stewart

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8KH

Back Row: Brooke Thomason, Emma Daniel-Wilson, Angelo Barrimond, Qwin Billings, Henry Pearce Third Row: Jessica Bassett, Campbell Barrett, Rueben Davis, Ruby Marshall, Buddhika Ekanayake, Tazmin Brunton Second Row: Micah Innes, William Davidson, Katie Molloy, Teresa Barnhill, Jack Kennedy, Ryan Neal, Mr K Hoy Front Row: Aidan Strowger, Amanda-Jane Jones, Daniel Jackson, Lily Cameron, Isabella Kennedy, Hayley Phelps, Georgie Hamilton, Leif McGuinniety

9BH

Back Row: Kyla Connor, Jordan Russell, George Thorne, Shanitta Carroll, Benjamin Sharp, Hamish Keating, Sam Ross, Jayden Dysart Middle Row: Blake Hubbard, Charlotte Boyd, Sylvia Dempsey, Monique Hore, Callum Jones, Jayden Fraser, Mrs B Hoy Front Row: Samuel Cunningham, Benson Wong, Star Chalmers, Caitlin Hool, Joseph Feltell, Lachlan Woolley, Crystal Van Duinen, Rhys Hawkins

9BV

Back Row: Stefanie McKenzie, Harriet Cottrell, Brendan Broxup, Oliver Sutherland, Harry Williamson, Grace Moana, Rozlyn Doherty Third Row: Brienna Edwards, Jessica Galletly, Walter Lafleur, Brianna Longdin, Ellie Knights, Saskia Jansen, Hayley Murray, Aimee Fleet, Mr J Basevi Second Row: James Miles, Rosa Buist-Brown, Jesse Gray, Caleb Curtin, Ella Roessink, Ethan Spence Front Row: Casey Roessink, Angus Whitaker, Mika Wealleans, Paige Hunter, Mequa Strowger, Georgia Walker, Nik Hodgman, Jennifer Walter, Michael Lane DHS YEARBOOK | 105

9JD

Back Row: Caitlin Gibb, Michael Bruce-Sheppard, George Ridgen, Darcey Edwards, James Learned Third Row: Zara Woodward, Anika Fouchee, Emily White, Kaleb Riley, Jesse Sutherland, Isabel Simcox, Darren Burrows-Thornley, Mr J Dickens Second Row: Lewis Smith, Lewis Morrison, Rebecca Inch, Caileigh Peaufa, Monique St Clair-Newman, Johnathan Hart, Sophie Townsend Front Row: Caitlin Warrington, Kate Caldwell, Katherine Hadler, Alexandra Walker, Jordan Rugg, Sophie Palmer, Claire Langlands, Katie Griffiths, Jamie Walker

9MB

Back Row: Matthew Young, Bailey Buchanan, Jacob Hardaker, Scott McKay, Cameron O’Donnell, Taylor Barnes, Matthew Cooper, James Stead Middle Row: Alex Gerritsen, Oliver Sutton, Rebecca Manifold, Cameron Murdoch, Josh May, Regan Bell-Taylor, Mr M Benassi Front Row: Brayden Middleton, Isaiah Barr, Minori Onishi, Tatiana Little, Mana Origuchi, Caden Dixon, Ben Francis, Andre A’Court

9NV

Back Row: Harrison Buck, Harrison Irving, Sebastian Middleton, Alex Jones, Aidan McCallion, Nathan Carter Middle Row: Callum Whyte, Annie Campbell, Annalise Selfe, Cameron Mills, Oliver Pooler, Natalia Little, Miss N Voss Front Row: Keegan Burrows, Cara Jenkins, Devon Read, Jonathon Sims, John Raye Guerzon, Kegan Pitkethley

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10EV

Back Row: Logan Seaward, Benjamin Millar, Hannah Forrester-Rolton, Rhys Clatworthy, Rachel McLean, Ewen Lalor, Jack Chillingworth Third Row: Sam Clarke, Madison Perrie, Lexie Purvis, Cassandra Aubrey, Emily Klaassens, Cassandra Hart Second Row: Jack Hedley, Ursula Thomson, Lucy Glassey, Abby Thornley, Jemma Dalley, Michelle Bruce, Mrs E Vincent Front Row: Aleisha Knowles, Chantelle Rod, Mikayla Jarvis, Zoe Spinks, Reilly Neal, Alex McGregor, Jennifer Bell, Cleo Searle

10GC

Back Row: Penelope Mitchell, Madi Harris-Cowles, Beowulf Scott, James Bitmead, Ashleigh Cridge, Aaliyah Van der Heyden Third Row: Ethan Blackler, Saskia Kremers, Hanako Wilson, Chanelle Inch-Reed, Cameron Hendriks, Brooke Robinson, Oliver Moody Second Row: Kilita Fouchee, Emma Pennells, Sarah Kellock, Kieran McKay, Sara Dorsey, Laura Gough, Jessica St Clair-Newman, Mr G Chalk Front Row: Kate Morris, Brooke Steele, Tiaan Johns, Madeleine Berge, Eboni Lawrence, Nicole Grigg, Ellouise Day, Georgia Allison, Alexander Stiles

10MI

Back Row: Jak Phillipson, Harrison Barton, Daniel Conway, Samuel Ridgen, Jackson Smith, Denis Smith, Brodie Wanhalla, Ethan Coles Middle Row: Georgia Mitchell, Anna Lovelock, Jesse Smith, Shay Gerrard-Smith, Benjamin Williams, Alicia Duncan, Ms June Milne Front Row: Jenna Pont, James Roulston, Maddison Beardsmore, Nathan Quinn, Will Spinks, Sean Stewart, Khale Bond-Ruscoe, Ella Harper

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10CH

Back Row: Lachlan Summerfield, Bridget Freer, Nicholas Walker, Dylan Bamford, Mykelti Beale, Thomas Grafton, Ryan Hughes Middle Row: Cameron Smart, Shayden Monk, James Grafton, Blake Stevenson, Mitchell Longdin, Edward Manson, Kear Billings, Mr P Finnigan Front Row: Karen Baquita, Erin Worling, Savarnnah Taylor, Brodie Champion, Jack Curle, Harrison de Rooy, Mereana Gilmour, Shynali Maharaj, Finn Farrington-Squire

10PN

Back Row: Nathan Bennett, Terry Robertson, Caleb Longdin, Callum Murdoch, Jackson Proud, Ryan Spargo Middle Row: Olliver Sims, Antonia Sutherland, Thomas Welch, Augusta Thompson, Eli Gunn, Lily Gamble, Miss L Petersen Front Row: Liam Hutchinson, Hunter White, Benjamin Kimber, Olivia Sherlock, Samuel Rowlands, Kelsey Parsons

11LG

Back Row: Samuel Inch-Reed, Toby Gross, Ryan Austin-Watts, Cole Spinks, Thomas Williamson Third Row: Shakyla Lawson, Grace Coleman, Adriana Cornelissen, Georgia Thompson, Matthew Gibbons, Samantha Gordon, Renee Cullen Second Row: Jaylee Stephens, Thomas Davis, Ryan Hammersley, Laura Wong, Grace Manera, Thomas Neal, Ged Roessink, Ms L Gallacher Front Row: Suzumi Takebayashi, Katherine Buck, YoonJung Lee, Katelyn McKay, Grace Earle, Jade Gerrard-Smith, Samantha Begbie, Holly Gibson, Caleb Chartres 108 | DARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | 2016

11NF

Back Row: Jack McConnell, William Carter, Taylor Cleland, Adrian Nolan, Samuel Marsh, Olivia Lemon Third Row: Harry Pooler, Xavier Holland, Elyse Kerr, Remington Evans, Natasha Young, Sam Francis Second Row: Lucy Learned, Cameron Brunton, Katie Sharp, Zara MacDonald, Emma Kellock, Jayden Hann, Mrs N Ferguson-Brown Front Row: Courtney Newell, Brittney Blackburn, Jaymee Burrows, Teri Jackson, Ella Reeves, Laura Brown, Poppy Lloyd, Imogen Groom, Aeryn McMillan-Da Via

11RS

Back Row: Jehosua Muiznieks, Andrew Coppard, Caleb Banks, Luke Beadle, Jacob Spence Third Row: George Gibb, James Muckle, Jeroen Breunisse, Hunter Benbow, George Brown, Riley Bell-Taylor Second Row: Yuuki Koike, Daniel Felipe, Samuel King, Micaela Curtin, Dylan Freller, McKenzie Alfeld, Mark Wilson, Mr R Smith Front Row: Bridget Leach, Alicia Rhind, Shae Read, Bronte Thomas, Keith Stevens, Jodie Rollings, Brittany Hewitt, Abbey-Lee Dunlop, Chloe McCaughan

11SC

Back Row: Devon Mount, Joshua Gordon, Alex Warrington, Isaac Newbigging, Jayden Henderson Third Row: Joshua Hendriks, Taylor Parker, Campbell Bryant, Lauren Hawkins, Alexa Lalor, Claudia Lassiter Second Row: Julia Trushin, Elisha LeRoux, Jonathan Paxton, Matthew Bell, Mitchell Baird, Amelia Williams, Miss S Collins Front Row: Emma Boyes, Camille Malincon, Toni Forsythe-Walton, Brooke McKay, Caitlin Chambers, Emma Anderson, Kerryn Tomlinson, Amber Karst-Smith

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12CQ

Back Row: James Doherty, Dylan Cagney, Cameron Cook, William Benbow, Robert Bampton, Findlay Davidson, Nathaniel Dysart Middle Row: Danielle Cooper, Brogan Baldwin, Georgia Burrows, Molly Buist-Brown, Chaedyn Bellam, Amy Bruce, Olivia Brackmann, Mr C Quinn Front Row: Emma Ashworth, Sophie Bucknell, Abigail Cider, Jade Collier, Caitlin Aubrey, Kayla Croy, Lily Barrett-Power, Georgia Cottrell, Alyssa Cruickshank

12MM

Back Row: Taylor Strowger, Samuel Roper, Anthony Searle, Fergus Thomas, Dale Winter, Sydney Riley, Isaac Proud Third Row: Hiroaki Yokoo, Caitlin Soal, Haydn Rose, Bailey Quirke, Leigh Walters, Georgia Watson, Josiah Wilson Second Row: Hiroaki Yokoo, Haydn Rose, Bailey Quirke, Leigh Walters, Georgia Watson, Josiah Wilson, Mr M Maude Front Row: Paisley Spencer-Newell, Sacha Smith, Adam Walker, Momo Kawakami, Hibiki Shimizu, Georgia Shinn, Honoka Kurata, Iva Vukovic, Maddison Payne

12JW

Back Row: Cameron Ellis, Morgan Heselwood, Mitchell Hedley, Hannah Glassey, Matthew Grigg Third Row: Courtney James, Tom Gullery, Hamish Evans, Rahul Chandra, Lee-Ann Roemmling, Pippa Foster Second Row: Julia Santos Canario, Matthew Hadler, Edward Harris, Michael Hughes, Gareth Kirton, Caitlin Frazer, Miss J Watherston Front Row: Caitlin Fraser, Anna Hefferon, Hayley Fraser, Amanda Da Silva Felix, Kaycee Jones, Akalanka Ekanayake, Holly Kimber, Grace Hodgman

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12RB

Back Row: Christopher Moffat, Timothy Mathers, Joseph Manifold, Vincent Li Creagh, Jack Millar, Tane Nikora Third Row: Kelly Leonard, Kotaro Saiga, Finn McGregor, Georgi Pander, Brett Langlands, Koki Nagahama, Courtney O’Callaghan, Mr R Baars Second Row: Madison O’Callaghan, Jessica Osborne, Laura McLean, Mayara Souza Da Silva, Tessa Mitchell, Rosa Millar, Stefany Da Silva Santana Front Row: Henry Oakley, Eva Nunes Sousa, Georgia Meyerhoff, Maddison McMillan-Da Via, Hannah Marchant, Heather McConchie, Roy McCaughan, Stephanee Lomas, Leticia Viana Da Paixao

13MC

Back Row: Samara Crosby, Kellen Patfield, Grace Lemon, Bailey Campbell, Samuel Dalley, Lucy Harrington, Brittany Muiznieks Middle Row: Olivia McEwan, Kaitlin Feast, Courtney Townsend, Ellen Walters, Emma Harding, Charlotte Carter, Edward Searle, Mr J MacDonald Front Row: Eamon McKay, Jasmine Nash, Mariah Glasson, Madeleine Tasker, Breanna Hale, India Perrie, Alice Bradley, Samantha Bevan, Emma Grigg

13ME

Back Row: Michael Campbell, Andrew Hennessy, Regan Cornelissen, Eric Maxted, Jack Devlin, Callum Freer Middle Row: Anna Hurst, Samuel Dorsey, Cameron Carter, Liam Hindle, Marmikkumar Patel, Olivia Shinn, Ms M Evans Front Row: Celine Jenkins, Nicole Feltell, Chloe Walker, Jessica Lane, Fern Stuart, Esther Basevi

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13MK

Back Row: Aidan Tuhill, Michael Ridgen, Finn Leonard, Lucy Wilson Third Row: Selina Dixon, Kathryn Barnhill, Benjamin Weatherley, Luke McKay, Harry Barrett-Power, Dr G McKenzie Front Row: Kyla Higgins, Hitomi Kaneko, Chloe Fraser, Lilian Stott, Kristen Blaber-Hunt, Caitlin Thistoll, Ryo Nishimura, Koharu Iwai

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