Rotorua Lakes High School “Mauria te pono - Keep steadfastly to the truth”
NEWSLETTER ISSUE No. 21 – 9 AUGUST 2019
CHALKBOARD
From the Principal – P. 1 - 2 News – P. 2 - 5 Careers / Gateway P. 5 - 6 Notice Board – P. Contact Us – P. 6 Our Sponsors – P. 7
Dear Parents / Caregivers & Whanau I have enjoyed getting out and about and seeing our students in action over the past week. Our recent Open Day for Year 8 students was a resounding success with our visitors getting involved in multiple activities and being looked after by many of our Year 12 students. My thanks to Mr Dunn and Ms Hingston for organising this event. I look forward to meeting with parents and caregivers at our up and coming Open Night on Tuesday 13th August. We are starting a consultation process with our community about how we want the school to develop. I will pass on more details of this process as we develop the plan. Our goal is to ensure that we provide a strong, vibrant school that meets the needs of all our students now and for the future. As you get a chance to participate in this process I urge everyone to engage so that your voice is heard. It’s been a fantastic week for our students. Four of our Year 13 seniors: Alice Waldin, Stella Pinckney, Maya Weir and Anais Lawson participated in the Rotorua Performer of the Year Awards for 2019 on Sunday night. They presented a linked programme of poetry, prose and drama, followed by a solo inprovisation. There were 8 competitors and at the end of the night Alice
Waldin was dubbed the Rotorua Performer of the Year for 2019, followed closely in second equal place with Stella Pinckney and JPC’s Orla Walsh. Because of the second equal placing there was no third given, but Anais Lawson received the next highest mark followed closely by Maya Weir. Alice and Stella will now travel down to Palmerston North to compete in New Zealand’s premier Performing Arts event, the National Young Performer Awards as part of PACANZ (Performing Arts Competitions Association of New Zealand). Another big event earlier in the week, Alice Waldin sat Module 2 of her Advanced Associated Diploma of Speech and Drama Teaching and passed with the highest possible mark of Distinction. She was also nominated by the examiner for a Civic Arts Scholarship for her excellent results. Stella Pinckney, Anais Lawson and Maya Weir sat Module 2 of their Associate Performance Diploma in Speech and Drama and, even though it is almost unheard of, all three achieved their module with the highest mark of Distinction and Stella Pinckney was also nominated for a Civic Arts scholarship for her very high standard of examination. 1