Noro Newsletter - June 2023

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Term3inNoroHouse

B Y M S T O R R A N C E

Welcome to our Term 3 newsletter. It has been a truly wonderful year in Noro House where the students and staff have consistently gone above and beyond for the house This year the students decided upon our 3 valuesteam players, enthusiastic and fearless. Every Monday, without fail, I have been privileged to witness incredible teamwork whether this has been on the football pitch, in the swimming pool, or on the stage. The enthusiasm during whole house events such as singing, glee, drama, dance and ensemble performances has been incredible. Although the results have not always been in our favour, the wolf pack continues to stride forward in a fearless fashion To move from 5th to 3rd place in the House Competition displays the grit and determination of the house. I am extremely proud of each and every wolf in our pack, our motto has never wavered - the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

Through this edition you read about a range of highlights from across the year. There has been some significant achievements and stand out performances which capture the Noro House Spirit.

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AMessagefromMrLim

This was my first year as part of the Noro wolf pack and I could not have asked for a more welcoming family Spending time in the Noro house area, I felt the love and passion that each and every student poured into Noro Despite the rollercoaster of emotions that I was subject to during each event, I knew that every time Noro stepped onto the field, there was one victory they had already claimed my heart

I quickly learnt how strong the spirit of teamwork in Noro House was, as students from all ages collaborated together to organise practices, go over strategy, or just provide tips and advice to each other It was also inspiring to see how that sense of House spirit extended beyond Year 11, with Sixth Formers coming down to help out in a variety of competitions, including Glee, Rugby, Chess, Football, Table Tennis, and more (extra special thanks to Haeun Jeon, Sally Kim, Jiheon Kang, Thomas Zhan, Daniel Yoon, Hyeonki Kim, Huey Jang, Brian Jeong, Saine Kim, Jeslyn Park, Ricky Song, Luke Song, Shawn Lew, and Eunju Seo for going above and beyond)

I look forward to seeing what the future brings, Go Noro!

UpcomingYear7TransitionDay

As this academic year comes to a close, Noro is already looking forward to welcoming new members to our ever-growing wolf pack.

Earlier this year, Year 6s had an opportunity to come up to the Senior school to get a feel for what school will like for them next year

Current Year 7 students UChan Seo and Stephie Kim led a variety of activities leading up to, and on Transition Day itself and did a great job guiding the new wolf pups around the school

We would also to thank our upcoming Student leadership team who also came to introduce themselves to the incoming members of Noro and help officially welcome the new members of the House.

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NewHouseCaptains

Hello Noro! I am Freya Nigam and I am Noro’s House captain for the academic year 2023-2024 I have been a student at NLCS Jeju for over 7 years now and have made some of the best memories. I have been involved in Dance and Drama performances but I have also represented the school in a variety of sports ButI have also competed for Noro and done my absolute best in House Competitions. I look forward to spending a year with you all! Let’s go Noro!

Hello Noro! I am Rex Gwon, the house captain of Noro for the next academic year. I have been in NLCS Jeju since 2012 and I am looking forward to working with you in two months' time. I am an athlete in this school who has competed in many different sports and competitions throughout my life in this school. I can’t wait to work with all of you and win all the house competitions!

Hi Noro! I am Benjamin Han, your Arts Captain for the 2023/2024 academic year I am a trombonist as well as a dancer in the school. I am thrilled to work with you in various house competitions and looking forward to your potential and participation that you will bring to Noro. Feel free to drop me a question, should you have any queries about arts-related house events.

Hello Noro! I am Claire Park and I am your Arts Captain for the next academic year. I am currently taking both music and art igcse, so if you have any questions or ideas for the house competitions, I will be happy to talk with you about that. I will be leading art and music-related house competitions with Benjamin, and I am really looking forward to another year with Noro!

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NewHouseCaptains

Hello Wolves, I am your new sports captain for the 23/24 academic year! Although next year will be my third year in NLCS, I have had a lot of chances to try many different sports, such as football, volleyball, badminton, and more I will be leading the sports house competitions happening next year and support students who are new to the sports. I hope our passion for sports will lead us into 1st place next year!

Allow me to introduce myself, I am Eun Taek, your newly appointed house sports captain. With a proud affiliation of 8 years at NLCS JEJU, I have developed a deep passion for sports, particularly football. In fact, I had the privilege of playing for Jeju United in the past, making my love for the game an integral part of who I am. I am thrilled and eagerly looking forward to working with all of you

Hello! I am Louisa Kim and I’m one of the new Noro media & publicity leaders who will be working with Noro students for the next year! I will be mainly working on posting on Instagram, writing articles and publishing, and designing posters. You are more than welcome if you are interested in working with us for the Noro Newsletter! Let's show everyone what we ' re made of!

Hello Noro, I am Rachel Park, working as your media & publicity captain with Louisa. Our role is to run the Noro instagram page(@norohouse official) and periodically publish the Noro newsletter to share the stories of Noro house If you have any pictures related to Noro, please send them to us :)

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NewHouseCaptains

Hi, my name is Stella, your new secretary I am passionate about music, sports, and dance. Also, I love helping others with their issues in both emotional and academic ways. If you have any queries or problems that I can support you with, please feel free to contact me. Thank you!

Assembliesand Events

Hello Noro, this is Kevin. Finding myself as an active performer and listener, I have been more than happy to take the position of Assembly/Events Captain. My two hopes for this year are to take full responsibility in my position and to instill enthusiasm in Noro. If there are any questions, feel free to reach out!

HouseSecretary

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SportsDay2023

The Noro wolf pack put in a fierce performance for the 2023 Sports Day and achieved 1st PLACE This is an incredible achievement for the house which would not have been possible without the commitment, passion and support of each and every wolf The house made their mark on the athletics track and in the field There are many successes to mention and celebrate, below are the 1st places for the A&B events. There was also an incredible amount of 2nd place achievements and beyond.

The Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 girls all achieved 1st place in the 4x100m relay. Well done to the 16 girls who made this possible - you were unstoppable.

Year 11 Boys 4x100m relay - 1st place

Chloe (Seoha) Kim - Y7 - 1st in the 800m

Rex (Minjun) Jang - Y7 - 1st in the 100m

Lina (Solee) Park - Y7 - 1st in the 300m

Julian (Jeonghwan) Lee - Y7 - 1st in the 800m & 1st in the 100m

Anthony Kim - Y7 - 1st in the Standing Long Jump & 1st in the Standing Triple Jump

ar Long - Y8 - School record for the high jump - 141cm

oon Park - Y8 - 1st in the 800m

ae Park - Y8 - 1st in the 300m & 1st in the 200m

un Jung - Y8- 1st in the 300m

d Jo - Y8 - 1st in the 800m & 1st in the 1500m

e Lim - Y8 - 1st in the Shot Put & 1st in the Javelin

Lee - Y8 - 1st in the Standing Triple Jump

yung Seo - Y8 - 1st in the sack race

eongjin Yoo - Y9 - 1st in the 300m & 1st in the 100m

on Gwak - Y9 - 1st in the 200m

on Ahn - Y9 - 1st in the 300m

e (Nayeon) Kim - Y9 - School record for the high jump - 132cm

ghyun Lim - Y9 - 1st in the 200m

Dahye Lim - Y9 - 1st in the Long Jump

Freya Nigam - Y10 - 1st in the 200m, 1st in the Shot Put & 1st in the Triple Jump

Eunri Kim - Y10 - 1st in the 100m, 1st in the Javelin & 1st in the High Jump

Tom Downes - Y10 - 1st in the 300m

Derek Yoo - Y10 - 1st in the Shot Put & 1st in the Javelin

Rex Gwon - Y10 - 1st in the 800m

Eun Taek Oh - Y10 - 1st in the Standing Triple Jump

Stella Kang - Y10 - 1st in the 100m

Robert Park - Y10 - 1st in the Standing Triple Jump

Hoseung Jung - Y10 - 1st in the 800m

Ginna Kim - Y10 - 1st in the 200m

Lewis Lee - Y10 - 1st in the High Jump

Seungwon Woo - Y11 - 1st in the High Jump and 1st in the 100m

Kyran Coughlan - Y11 - 1st in the Shot Put

Sunwoo Heo - Y11 - 1st in the 200m

Georgina Downes - Y11 - 1st in the 200m

Terry Kim - Y11 - 1st in the Javelin

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Sports Day 2023 - Winning Relay Teams

Year 7 Girls Relay

Chloe Kim

Ellie Ryu

Lily Park

Lina Park

Year 8 Girls Relay

Izzy Shin

Alice Lim

Jinny Kim

Ella Lee

Year 9 Girls Relay

Allison Gwak

Dahye Lim

Eden Kim

Chloe Kim

Year 10 Girls Relay

Freya Nigam

Eunri Kim, Stella Kang

Ginna Kim

Year 11+ Boys Relay

Kyran Coughlan

Seungwon Woo

Hyeonki Kim

Huey Jang

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Other Recent Successes:

House Football - 1st place

Scrabble Scramble - Joint 1st Place

Hype Video - 1st Place with a special thanks to Jude Lim (Y11)

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SportsRoundup

The house competitions which took place for the latest term were Volleyball, Football and Table tennis. Noro has shown good participation and enthusiasm, and we got some amazing results!

Football - A special congratulations to the Y10 girls for showing superb performance and teamwork by winning all 4 matches and to the Y10 boys for winning two of their matches

Volleyball- Thanks to your outstanding effort, both Y9 + 10 boys and girls managed to win 2 of their games Also the Y7 + 8 players had great results in 2 of their matches.

Table tennis- Most of the competitors won every game: Y10 team A won 3 games, and team B had 4 victories. Congratulations to the table tennis players!

The young wolves have performed exceptionally not only in House competitions but also represented NLCS in interschool competitions

Football KISAC- HS boys finished in 1st place and also HS girls Varsity in 1st place. This is an extraordinary achievement since the girls are in a 3 year win streak.

FOBISIA U-13 games- Mostly consisting of the Y7s and 8s, many of the Noro students took part. The boys came in 2nd place in football and the girls finished in 3rd place in basketball, 4th place in football. Congratulations to the people who participated in FOBISIA!

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Eunri Kim & Rex Gwon & Eun-Taek Oh

ArtsRoundup

This year, we had some fantastic achievements as a Noro house, that is not only related to sports, but also ARTs!

Full of a mature and enthusiastic spirit, we introduced ourselves as almighty wolves through Whole House Singing, singing ‘Radioactive’ by ‘Imagine Dragons’. Thank you to Nancy who conducted the whole house. Moreover, a number of passionate dancers in the house participated in the Glee performance, along with the tune of ‘Dance Again’ by ‘Selena Gomez’ - achieving 3rd place in both singing and glee On behalf of the whole house, we would like to thank Saine Kim, Sally Kim and Jiheon Kang for joining us and choreographing the whole performance, even though they were busy getting through the Sixth Form

Towards the end of Term 2, drama students in the house unveiled their exceptional performance and potential to teachers and students through House Drama Furthermore, House Dance was simply incredible whereby four of our students choreographed in a single weekend and performed on the following Monday, winning 2nd place - indeed the best result of an arts-related competition! Thank you to Georgina Downes who organised both House Drama and Dance!

We also had put a lot of effort into House Chant as well as House Video & Hype Video, and it was great to see leadership quality from Y10s and Y11s. Special thanks goes to Jude Lim and other Y11s for creating a Hype Video, and Robert Park for drumming for our Y10-led House Chant.

Recently we had the House Mural competition as a part of 2023 Arts Festival, on a theme of ‘Secrets and Discoveries’. It looks amazing and thank you to those of you who participated in the competition and worked during the weekend on campus The house were placed 2nd!

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Term3HouseCommendations

At the end of each term we award the House Commendations to a selected number of students in Noro House. These awards are given to students who have embodied house spirit and ethos.

Congratulations to our Noro Term 3 award achievers:

Year 7 – Julian Lee and Stephie Kim

Year 8 – Leo Kwon and Alex Ha

Year 9 – Shirley Jang and YJ Yoo

Year 10 – Eunri Kim and Derek Yoo

Year 11 – Soomin Shim and Alice Kang Julian (Jeonghwan)

Lee

Julian has worked hard all year and has shown remarkable resilience and determination across his subjects He is an enthusiastic participant in house competitions, especially in sports, and gets along well with his peers.

Ms Bostock (Form Tutor)

Yeongjin (YJ) Yoo

Yeongjin is a true super star. From the beginning to the end, he has participated in all Noro house events, organised teams and demonstrated leadership He is our Noro Y9 Captain and Student Council representative. Yeongjin's determination and team spirit cannot be faulted. Yeongjin also represents Noro within the classroom: he academically shines, is known for his scholarly enthusiasm and demonstrates a maturity and respect beyond his years. To us in Noro Year 9, he is a good friend, a dedicated student and someone we can rely upon. Bravo YJ for a great year!

Ms Gleeson (Form Tutor)

Eunsoul (Alex) Ha

Alex has settled into NLCS brilliantly and gives everything his all He brings energy and enthusiasm to our tutor times and is the undisputed King of Globle due to his unmatched Geography knowledge

Ms Thornley (Form Tutor)

Yerim

(Stephie) Kim

Yerim’s commitment to excellence is apparent in her valuable contributions to the Year 7 tutor group. She is a natural leader, inspiring and guiding peers with confidence and sacrifice Her dedication and leadership are truly inspiring and set a benchmark for others to aspire to

Mr Kim (Form Tutor)

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(Leo) Kwon

Leo has been making significant contributions to House competitions. He not only joins lots of competitions himself but also helps with organising some of the teams. He has been taking the initiative of organising our form summer fete stall as well His dictation is inspiring and has brought the form together. Well-done Leo.

Ms Liu (Form Tutor)

Yejun

(Derek) Yoo

Yejun leads all Quiz time actively He always immersed himself to finish a sort of hard work and problems. It makes us motivated to win. I'm proud of his contributions to the tutor program this year

Ms Heo (Form Tutor)

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Term3HouseCommendations

Yunseo (Shirley) Jang

Shirley is an incredibly resilient student who has truly embraced the spirit of Noro House

Throughout the year, she has actively participated in Noro House sports activities, showcasing her dedication and passion. Shirley's involvement extends beyond the classroom as she continues to achieve remarkable success in external competitions, particularly in ballet and debate Shirley's kind and friendly attitude during tutor time reflects her genuine character and makes her a cherished member of our school community. Well done Shirley!

Mr Narvaez (Form Tutor)

Eunri Kim

Eunri gives 100% and more in every single house competition She has demonstrated the utmost enthusiasm when it comes everything team Noro, whether that be competing in multiple events or encouraging her peers. She has been an absolute role model to all and I am very proud of her contributions this year! Well done!

Ms Sultana (Form Tutor)

Taeyoung (Alice) Kang

Alice is an excellent athlete who has made significant contributions to Noro House She actively participated in many house competitions, showcasing her expertise in Badminton, and acheived outstanding results as well.

Ms Kim (Form Tutor)

Soomin Shim

Soomin, as the representative of Noro House and a tutee of N11A, has admirably maintained a fine balance and wholeheartedly dedicated herself for an entire year. With a perpetual smile on her face, she has consistently led by example, becoming a source of inspiration for her fellow students Whether in the spotlight or behind the scenes, Soomin has always given her utmost, a fact known to all As she took on various roles and responsibilities throughout the year, both as a leader and a member, she experienced tremendous personal growth. Let us extend a round of applause to Soomin for her remarkable journey

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Benjamin Han - N10A

First of all, I would like to extend the gratitude for all teachers that supported N10A throughout this academic year. Especially, I would especially like to thank Ms. Sultana on behalf of N10A. She is not only a wonderful art teacher, but also a highly caring and supportive tutor This year, we had some fantastic achievements as a tutor group From the start, we came together as a one community and brought spirits into the room every morning which enabled us to be chosen as the best performing tutor group, at the beginning of this academic year. As a tutor representative, I collaboratively worked with peers to come up with ideas for various events such as Summer Fete and I am really looking forward to everyone executing the process.

Uchan

My life in Noro 22/23 as a tutor rep pair was ecstatic. I liked the many activities that Noro has provided for me and other tutor reps For instance, I enjoyed discussing the problems in the school and some solutions for them I am happy to conclude that this year for me was fantastic overall.

Emma Chung - N11A

Being a tutor rep in Noro in 2023 had its ups and downs, but overall it was a gratifying experience to be of service. By being a tutor representative, this generally helped me in participating more in our house, and also helped me know more about “leadership”, which I think that due to this, it had become a valuable lesson for me

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Seo - N7A

Bella Kim - N9A

2022-2023 was undoubtedly one of my most memorable years in NLCS Jeju. Although we didn't exactly emerge victorious and ultimately was ranked 5th, what can I say - As the saying goes some days are diamonds some days are rocks. Our disappointments today will enrich our victories tomorrow just like how the lessons extracted from our experience with "See you again", reflected on our performance of "radioactive" making the latter one of the finest Noro House shows.

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Since you became our tutor at the very beginning of this academic year, you have put in an exceptional dedication towards our tutor group. You were welcoming every day in the morning, with a positive attitude that not even students could follow up with You frequently encouraged us to be involved in private conversations where we could express our problems freely. You then gave us invaluable lessons and solutions that would impact not only our academic careers but our lives in general You never forgot even a single thing that you promised us and finally, you always made us laugh.

We will never forget the things we ’ ve been through together as N9A, everything from major trips and events to a typical day in form time. We will remember all the knowledge you gave us and reflect on them to make ourselves a better person We will forever recall the house competitions that would not have been possible if it wasn’t for your active participation and support. All the memories of N9A will be stored within our hearts and we truly hope that they do as well in yours

Despite being new to the school, you have been our utmost supporter who provided us with confidence, knowledge and positivity that were necessary for our life here at NLCS Jeju It is indeed sad news for us and Noro as a whole house to let such an incredible person go, but on the other hand, this is a great opportunity for you to experience and thrive in our school As N9A, we wish that this letter fully showed our appreciation and gratitude for you, who will forever be our tutor nevertheless where you are within our school.

Thank you deeply again for your devotion to our tutor group and please remember that wherever you go we will always be open for you anytime.

Wish you all the best, N9A

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A very special letter from N9A to Ms Gleeson Dear Ms Gleeson,

ThankYouandGoodLucktoMrLong

Last week Noro House said ta very special thank you and goodbye to Mr Long. For some of us we we were fortunate enough to spend many years living in Noro (boarding) House and competing alongside one of the most caring, encouraging and relentless housemasters.

Since joining NLCS in 2011 Mr Long has made a last impact upon many young adults whether this was through coaching sports, trips across the island, house events and much more.

Thank you, Mr Long, for your unwavering support for Noro House, you will be missed greatly.

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