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August 9 2018
Tauranga Girls’ College Newsletter Message from the Principal When the stars come out to play, way that we ‘showcase’ they also come to Tauranga Girls’ College! By the time you read this newsletter, the College will have welcomed and hosted the National Japanese U18 Rugby 7s team and on Friday members of our very own NZ Black Ferns will drop in to support our TGC Rugby Squad. We also host Rotorua Girls’ High School for our annual sports exchange. If sport isn't your passion, then the sold out performances of our Kapa Haka Roopu take place next week and the Music concert in the Hall is about to be advertised. We have several students entered in Pin’d, the Year 11 and 12 Drama classes performed to a packed audience and on Monday 13 August at Baycourt Theatre we have our Staged NZ (the replacement to Stage Challenge) crew competing using the story of 'Wairaka' (the carving you see at the front of the school). There is no doubt that this College ensures there are opportunities for everyone to succeed BOTH in and out of the classroom. We value the diversity of talent we have within our school. Our College’s Open Night is one
our talent and our curriculum. I look forward to welcoming our new parents and students to Tauranga Girls’ College. Welcome and farewell I welcome Ms Donaldson to the Technology Learning Area. Ms Donaldson has been commuting over to Matamata for the last 15 years to teach Hospitality and Food Technology at Matamata College. She says, “for me, this appointment is an exciting opportunity to work in the community in which I live. Preparing and cooking meals from scratch is a skill that is steadily on the decline in New Zealand. Consequently, it gives me so much pleasure to provide opportunities to help students gain confidence and become proficient in cookery skills, so they can choose not to always be reliant on pre-prepared and overly processed meals.” Later this term, we take the opportunity to thank and farewell Ms Sheena Millar. Ms Millar has been the College’s Senior Deputy Principal and has deservedly won the role of Principal at Onslow College in Wellington. She will leave in
Week 9 of this term. Congratulations Ms Millar. Mr Robin Carr is also leaving. Robin has been the College Property Manager for over 20 years and has ensured that our school has been well maintained and cared for over that time. He has seen a lot of change during that period and knows all the ins and outs of our College like no other. Mr Carr is retiring to sunny Gisborne at the end of this month Our College Values Respect, Participation and Pride are pivotal to who we are. It is essential that all staff and students model our values whether that be on the way to school, in class or when representing us. It is therefore timely to remind students that eating and drinking in science labs is not permitted. There are some obvious health and safety reasons for this. This is also true in other classes with machinery or special equipment. Please be respectful of this.
Tara Kanji Principal
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My canvas involves a now extinct Huia bird and a stoat. My theme, for my art board, is on the extinction of New Zealand native birds. I am using several techniques from different artist models to create this artwork. Pierre Bonnard uses textured strokes of the paintbrush with sunset colours, I have used his technique in the background of this painting. Joanna Braithwaite uses realistic looking animals but adds humour by juxtaposition. This is more clear in my other paintings, but in this one, the stoat is looking up at the bird with its mouth open showing that it is hungry for the bird and that it is involved in the birds “melting” and its extinction. The last artist model I used is Alex Pardee. I liked his dripping effect on his paintings so I used that technique to look like the bird is melting away. I also had inspiration from Damien Hirst, who cuts real animals in half for museum displays, (kind of gruesome). I sort of replicated this by “cutting” the head off the bird and showing the skeleton underneath. This shows how the bird is melting away, leaving the skeleton behind. I have used a stoat, as one of the reasons for the bird’s extinct is the introduction of predators like a stoat.
August 9 2018
Welcome to JRFU Women’s Rugby 7s Team The Japanese Rugby Football Union Women’s Under 18 Rugby 7s team are in Tauranga for the week, training with the BOP Rugby Union. TGC are fortunate to have been chosen as their base, giving the team an opportunity to meet with New Zealand students and getting to know a bit more about life in New Zealand. The sun shone down for the pōwhiri and the ceremony was followed by some kai and Ti Rākau with our TGC students
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National Flash Fiction Awards
August 9 2018
Surf Lifesaving Congratulations to Olive Pearce who is one of three nominated for the Under 16 Sports women of the year award in the BOP/Coromandel Awards of Excellence in Surf Lifesaving.
Mufti Day
Asha Clark has been identified by the National Flash Fiction Awards Committee as one of the top 5 talented writers in New Zealand. Her work has been shortlisted and published on both occasions in 2017 and 2018, and she has achieved a 2nd place award and a commended award for her short stories. As a result, Flash Frontiers, a NZ based literary journal, have requested to run a feature article on her, along with 4 other writers they identified in this category. Well done Asha - we look forward to hearing more about your successes in the future!
Option Evening Option Evening is scheduled for: Tuesday 14 August 5.00pm - 7.00pm in J Block. You are encouraged to attend this with your daughter, so that you can discuss subject choices with staff
Thursday’s House Colours Mufti Day was a great success. The Universal Ball House Competition held at lunch time had all year levels together high in house spirit. Thank you to the Tauranga Boys’ College Prefects for attending. Batten and Rutherford joined forces and came out on top of Mansfield and Freyberg. All houses played strongly in a fun and positive environment. A huge thank you to the girls on the Student Council for their hard work in organising and running the event.
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Celebrating 60 years at our Diamond Jubilee 60th Reunion Tauranga Girls’ College has a proud history of providing a wide range of opportunities and learning pathways for our students to thrive and succeed, within and beyond the classroom. Established in 1958, our college will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held over Labour Weekend (Friday 19 and Saturday 20 October, 2018). The celebration will commence with an informal ‘Chatter and Platter’ evening on Friday night, while Saturday’s activities will be more structured, showcasing past and present successes of our students. In keeping with our school’s philosophy of ‘empowering tomorrow’s women’, as one of our events, we are planning to showcase our ‘Sixtieth Summit’ on Saturday 20 October, featuring high profile, successful women. Our aim is to attract guest speakers - as ‘Wahine Toa: Aspirational Agents of Change’ - from a diverse range of fields and backgrounds. We would like them to share their inspirational and motivational stories with our community audience, so that in turn, with the support of their families and our community, this encourages our young women to reach their potential. The organising committee is excited about creating an event which is more than just an opportunity for past pupils and staff to reconnect and reminisce. The Summit will provide an innovative twist to our celebrations and will be open to the general public to attend. Whether they went to TGC or not, this event is designed to inform and entertain! If you would like to be a sponsor involved with our Diamond Jubilee 60th Reunion, please e-mail your details to Ewan McLeod, our Reunion Event and Communication Manager at 60thReunion@tgc.school.nz. If you would like to pre-register, you can go to our website:www.tgc.school.nz- and on the home page's top right hand tab there is a link to the pre-registration form.
YiA Finalists Congratulations to the three Tauranga Girls’ College teams who have been announced as finalists in the 2018 Young Innovator Awards. The competition receives over 550 entrants The winners of the competition will be announced on Thursday 30 August at the YiA Awards evening. Not only do the winners receive a cash prize, but also a coveted YiA internship worth $10,000 where they are mentored by a local innovative business to develop their innovation further. Well done to : Abbey Crawford and Skye Lunson - Storey with OffKuts Pascale Sperling with Snow Swivel Ella Waterreus with Watermark.
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August 9 2018
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT SOME NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Maths Week 2018 13-17 August (Term 3, Week 4) Yes, it’s happening soon! Maths Week is celebrating its 21st year in New Zealand schools this year. From August 13 to 17, Maths Week provides teachers and students with a week of resources that seek to make maths practical, interesting and fun for students. More Mathematics & More Challenges! The 2018 challenges and activities include: Survivor Series class teaching tasks. Maths Millionaire. Completely interactive games at four Levels. The Maths Chase. The Indices Cycle Race! Daily Dollar questions. Maths Week Super Challenge! The popular Games Section has been updated and improved. The Challenges and Games are interactive and contain useful mathematics for students. For further details see http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/ One of our school activities will be the annual TGC Mathsmind competition for Year 9 and 10 students. The aim of this year’s competition is to encourage maximum participation, with those students involved getting a Junior Diploma credit. The Year 10 competition is on Tuesday 14 and the Year 9 competition on Thursday 16. This year the Bay of Plenty Mathsmind competition will be held at Rotorua Girls’ High School on Friday 24 August. If you have any queries regarding any of the above items, please contact the Head of Mathematics, Lewis Hockings.
NCEA Examination Revision In preparation for the Benchmark Exams in weeks 8 and 9 (12–18 September) and the end of year NCEA Exams we encourage the use of commercial revision material. Write-on booklets by D & D Resources give several parallel assessments for each external Achievement Standard, each costing $5 per booklet, representing good value for money. A flier has been sent out to students and payments are due by Friday 10 August.
Help with Maths The Maths Department continues to run Maths tutorials every lunchtime in room J209. There is always at least one Maths teacher available to help students at any level. Please encourage your daughter to seek this extra help if needed.
ICAS Mathematics and APSMO Maths Olympiad The ICAS Maths competition is being held this year on Tuesday 14 August (A busy day for Year 10 Maths!). Students involved in the Maths Olympiad programme have recently completed the third of their five competitions and are making good progress.
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August 9 2018
Quiz Night
An exhilarating quiz left TGC with $12,500 for numerous sporting, cultural, academic and pastoral trips. This year 33 tables were sold to 268 individual participants. The Stig (an anonymous genius) was on sale each round to grant a team correct answers for the round. Rob Pinny with Realycom won several of 'The Stig' auctions however their buying power could not beat the brains behind the ITed team who eventually claimed the 2018 Quiz Night Championship prize (8 bottles of the prestigious Bird Manu labelled wine) It was a great night with some tricky questions. We would like to thank all those in the TGC Community, parents, teachers and friends who opened up their wallets to help our girls. Also a very big thank you to all the staff and student ambassadors involved with the organisation and the running of the night. Lastly a very big thank you to all our amazing sponsors for making the night possible. Major sponsors sponsored a quiz round while those who gave donations provided prizes for the raffles, spin wheel, and/ or silent auctions. Our Major Sponsors included: Rob Pinny Realtycom NZ Uniforms David Pua Eves Reality Artisan Manufacturing Jewellers Greerton Laser Electrical Mount Maunganui Escape Masters Bay Med Sprint BNZ Bank Cameron Road
Major Donations in kind: Steve Bird Wines Cake Away Team Dental Greerton Bed, Bath and Beyond New World Warehouse Stationery You Travel Pak n Save Cameron Road Pak n Save The Lakes Young NZ Writers
World’s End Mega Mitre 10 Dive Zone Michael Toner Solicitors Asses Scaffolding Farmlands
Science of Maui day 26 July A group of 6 Year 10 students enjoyed a day working with Waikato University scientists and local iwi at the Sulphur Point Research Station. They participated in drilling down for 1000 year old sand cores, collecting animals from transects and forensically measuring and interpreting Pipi and Tuatua collections. The day was filled with fun and games using local knowledge, and the value of integrating traditional and modern knowledge systems was demonstrated. Thank you to Ngai Te Rangi Iwi Trust, Ngati Pukenga Iwi Ki Tauranga Trust, Ngati Ranginui Iwi and the University of Waikato. We look forward to next year’s event. Students attending were Kaylee Breingan, Cheynes Kuka, Stevie Morrison, Grace Pettigrew, Abbey Stiles and Kyaria Warbrick.
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Thank you to all the sponsors who kindly supported this year’s Tauranga Girls’ College Quiz Night Major Sponsorship
Major Donations in Kind
FACE AND BEAUTY
BLAZE FITNESS MICHAEL TONER SOLICITORS
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MASH UP, University of Auckland In the first week of the school holidays, three TGC students attended the MASH program through the Whakapiki Ake program. It involved them staying on campus at the University of Auckland in the marae, Waipapa. That week, they explored professions in Health, focusing on its affects on our Māori and Pasifika people. The girls said they were lucky to have been taken through the Auckland Hospital and to have taken part in workshops in the labs on campus. It was eye opening staying with Māori students currently studying towards becoming doctors, pharmacists, and scientists etc and being able to talk to them about university life. Maioha Haimona-Ngawherau, Akuira Haimona-Ngawherau,and Tangiwaiora Cook said that 'without a doubt we built strong relationships with other students from around the motu who were also interested in going into Health Science, and we left with motivation to work harder back in class at school and strive for excellence. Maioha Haimona-Ngawharau Year 12
Alumni success
Coming Up... 10 Aug 11 Aug
CANVAS Careers Expo—Year 12 Pin’d - Baycourt
13 Aug - 17 Aug
Maths Week
13 August
22 August
Dance NZ Made Competition Y10 Maths Mind competition Y8 BYOD Community Information Evening: 5.30pm Option Evening Winter Sports Photographs
3 - 7 September
Winter Tournament Week
12 - 18 September 28 September
Benchmark Exams Last Day of Term 3
14 Aug
Due date for payment of the NZQA Fees is 31 August
Scholarships through TGC The Scholarship season has begun and in addition to the Tertiary Scholarships on offer, Tauranga Girls’ College has another eight which Year 13 students are invited to apply for. Year 13 students have been emailed all the details including the criteria.
Closing date for all applications is Friday 24 August
Best wishes to ex student Catrin Pearce who was selected for the 2018 New Zealand Aerobics team. She is travelling to Phoenix, Arizona, with the rest of the NZ team to compete in the 2018 Association of National Aerobic Championships International Aerobic and Youth Aerobics Championships from 28 July – 03 August.
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Contacting the College 2018 We encourage parents to contact the College (578 8114) for support at any time during the year. The Pastoral Team includes: Year 9
Dean: Ms Robyn Mankelow
ext 767
Senior Leader: Mrs Bird
Year 10
Dean: Kylie Valentine
ext 766
Senior Leader: : Ms Millar
Year 11
Dean: Ms Caroline Gill
ext 768
Senior Leader: Mrs Ferguson
Year 12
Dean: Mrs Bridget Prendiville
ext 769
Senior Leader Ms Glenda Rowlands
Year 13
Deans Mrs Audrey Keightley and Ms Margot Glaser-Brown ext 770
Senior Leader: Ms Glenda Rowlands
Guidance Counsellors Ms Judy Burr
ext 728
Ms Chantal Stopford
ext 724