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Scholarships Prizes and Awards
Ethereal Senior Ball
Great Barrier Expedition
International Students
The best of Art & Design
Rugby, League, Touch & Sevens
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Welcome Staff List New Staff Staff Farewells Student Leaders Senior Prizegiving Merit Awards
Senior Ball Library Student Learning Centre Peer Mediation Trees for Survival SADD Week Business Studies
Year 13 - Great Barrier Year 9 - Camp Year 8 - Camp Year 7 - Camp Geography Trips World Challenge Duke of Edinburgh
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Cultural Blues Junior Production Performing Arts Jazz Band Choirs Pasifika
Fashion Design Junior Faculty Morris & James Stories Art Showcase
Kapa Haka
Kia Ora Koutou - Welcome to the 2014 Mahurangi College school yearbook. This year has been another wonderful year at Mahurangi College and I am sure we will all keep and treasure this yearbook for many years to come and it will bring back many enjoyable memories for us all. My thanks to all the contributors and to the editorial and design team of Mrs Lyons and Mr Stewart.
Year 13 - Class of 2014
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 70 71 72 78 79 80 82 83 84 85
Sports Blues Sports Academy Athletics Archery / Basketball Cross Country Cricket / Equestrian
Our NCEA results from 2013 showed our students have continued to perform academically above the average for other decile 8 schools in all three levels of NCEA. ▶
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 L1 Literacy L1 Numeracy
Mahurangi pass rates 2013
National pass rates 2013
Decile 8 pass rates 2013
Variation to Decile 8 pass rates
87.2 91.9 83.5 93.2 89.5
81.3 84.8 78.5 83.4 81.5
86.2 87.4 81.1 89.6 88.6
+1.0 +4.5 +2.4 +3.6 +0.9
Hockey Motocross
Throughout the year our students continued to excel in their sporting and cultural involvements. At our sporting Blues evening we awarded 60 blues to students who had gained regional representation and 8 awards to those who had achieved at a national level. The Cultural Blues evening featured performances from 11 different cultural activities in the school and was enjoyed by all who attended.
Netball Rugby / League / Touch Sailing Swimming Soccer Tough Guy/Girl Tennis / Volleyball Underwater Hockey Year 7& 8 Zone Days
House Pages 86 88 90 92 94 96
Blue House
98 99
Autographs
At our Academic Blues evening in February, we presented a record 56 Blues to students who had gained 50 credits or more at Excellence level in their NCEA last year. The guest speaker was Dr Chris Dowling, a past student who now has a doctorate in clinical psychology.
The House system continued to operate well with Purple House, led by Phillip Perkins and Abbigail Sim, coming out just ahead of Green House, led by Jake Revell and Elspeth Free. And Stage Challenge was once again a huge success finishing second on the night in the Auckland competition at the Aotea Centre and winning the student leadership award as well as six awards of excellence.
Green House Orange House Purple House Red House Yellow House
Stage Challenge International Students
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Cultural 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
Technology
Mahurangi College
Centrefold
Academic Blues
Trips & Camps 30 31 32 33 34 36 37
48 49 52 53 56
Student Executive
College Life 22 24 26 27 28 29 29
Showcase
Welcometo the
Editor’s Note
I was once again delighted with the leadership from our senior students this year. A special thank you to our Head Prefects, Alana Hathaway, Daniel Collings, Rose Gannaway and Findlay Buchanan; to the Chairperson and Secretary of our Student Executive, Jessica Tappin and Elizabeth Murphy; and to the student leaders of the String Movement, Liam Bates, Olivia Collier, Phillip Perkins and Megan Thompson.
As a school we are proud to take our name from Mahuhukiterangi, the name of the canoe that first settled this area, and which means “reaching for the heavens”. That is the ongoing goal for our school and for every student that passes through. David Macleod Principal
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Senior Management
Board of Trustees
Principal Mr D Macleod
Assistant Principals Mrs A Marinus
Board Chair Mrs T Martin
Deputy Principal Mr A Elder
Mr H Vaughan
Staff Representative Mrs N Norrington
B.Com, B.A, Dip Tch
B.A, Dip Tch
Dip Tch, A.C.T. Dip
B. Ed. High Dip Ed, (S.A.)
Mrs C Johnston B.A, Dip Tch
Dip FA, Dip Tch
Student Representative Alysha Dudley
Mr D Macleod
Principal’s Secretary Mrs L Bissett Accounts Administrator Mrs C Meek Student Administrator Mrs S O’Reilly
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Ancillary Mrs P Bartlett Ms A Webber Mr R Bunton Mrs E Bingham Mrs T Eria Mrs H Glover Miss K Hall Mr R Jensen Mr K Kouka Mr T Kouka Mrs N O’Flaherty Mrs S Parker Mrs J Perry Mrs S Robertson Mr P Tefono
Sports Co-ordinators Mrs S Hawken Mr H Cooper Mrs A Daysh Arts Co-ordinator Mrs J Newby International Director Mr P Johnston M.A, Dip Tch, Dip SLT
International Student Office Mrs N O’Flaherty International Student Homestay Co-ordinator Mrs K Leslie I.T. Manager Vern Dempster I.T. Administration Ms K Cowan Mrs B Howson Mrs J Abarbanel
Teaching Assistants Mrs L Benwell Mrs S Fenton Mrs J Jordan Mrs D McKay Mrs H Marsh Mrs K Chittenden Mrs C Stirling Mrs M Mackenzie Mrs G Murphy Ms S Neleta Mrs H McElrich Mrs T Kelly Librarian Mrs J Cornege-Dill Library Assistants Mrs C Lane Mrs J Judd Laboratory Technician Mrs V Paterson
Languages Faculty
Science Faculty
Head of Faculty Mrs N Norrington Dip FA, Dip Tch
Head of Faculty Mrs J MacDonald B.A, Dip Tch, Dip TESSOL Ms C Wynne (Acting HOF) M.A (Hons), Dip Tch
Head of Faculty Mr G Walker B.Ed, Dip Tch, T.T.C
Heads of Music
Mrs L Dashper B.A, Grad Dip Tch Mrs W Sutherland Dip Tch
Teacher in Charge of Spanish
Teacher in Charge of Drama
Mr M Winiana B.A, Dip Tch, Cert PE Mrs J Jessop B.A (Hons), PGCE Mrs E Rothwell B.Sc (Hons), Dip Tch, TEFLA Mr S Smith B.A, B.FA Ms P Lyons B.CS, Dip Tch Mrs G Tahitahi B.A, PGCE, MADMT Miss L Ruland (On leave) B.A, Dip Tch Miss E Goodwin B.A, B.Tchg Ms R Chitty B.A, Dip Tch Ms J Fotheringham PGCE, Dip Tch, B.A (Joint) Mrs N Bain B.Com, Grad Dip Tch Mrs C Nolden
Mr J Dutton B.A, B.A (Hons), Grad Dip Tch Sec Ms K Poynter B.Des, Grad Dip Tch Ms S Maday B.FA, Dip Tch Ms S Piaggi B.VA, Grad Dip Tch Mrs J Eirena B.Ed, Dip Tch, TEFL
B.Com, B.A, Dip Tch
Mr S Garner Mr B Haughey NZ Dip Police Studies
Health & PE Faculty
Mr S Henderson Mrs J Hathaway
Head of Faculty Mr W R Husband Dip PE, Dip Tch
Support Staff Executive Officer Mrs C Strachan B.Com (SA)
Arts Faculty
School Nurse / House Leaders’ Assistant Mrs P Wood
Mr W Frost B.Ed, Dip Tch T.T.C. Mrs N Rhodes B.PE Mr K Ganley B. Sport Science, Dip Tch, PhD Ms G Russ B.Sc (Hons), PGCE Miss M Thomas B.A Ed, Dip Tch Miss K Wards B.Ed, Grad Dip Tch Ln Miss H Cooper BSR, Grad Dip Tch
Itinerant Music Teachers Ms T Lile Ms M Waring
Junior School Faculty
Canteen Mrs J Evans Ms R Fell Mrs G Johnston
Mrs D Lawrence B.Ed, Dip Tch Mrs V Rowsell-Starkey B.A, Dip Tch (TLR) Mrs W Dunn B.Ed, Higher Dip Tch Mr M Cooper Dip Tch Mrs D Hamer B.A (Hons), PGCE Mr R Carty B.Ed Mrs G Healy Dip Tch Mr G O’Brien B.Ed, Dip Tch, RSA Dip ESOL Mr C Taylor B.Ed, M.Ed Admin, E.D, Dip Tch Mrs V Clark B.Ed Mrs M Marshall B.A, Dip Tch Miss K Graveson B.Tchg Ms D Turrell B.A, P.G.Dip Arts, G.DipTch Primary Miss K Jamieson B.Ed (Tchg)Primary, DipEdStuds
Uniform Shop Mrs K Mitchell Property Manager Mr M Haining Groundsmen Mr G Hitchcock Mr A Dunn
Head of Faculty Mr K Tennant B.Ed, Higher Dip Ed
Mrs L Dashper B.A, Grad Dip Tch
Learning Faculty Head of Faculty / Careers Advisor Mrs M J Newlove Dip Tch, Dip Car Guid, Dip Spec Subj Mrs T Scovell B.A, M.Ed (Hons), Dip Tch Mrs B Tennant H.Dip Ed, Dip Jnr Pri, Dip Remed Mr T Dowling TTC, P.G.Dip Guid, Dip Spec Nds Mr A Taylor B.A (Hons), Dip Tch, Cert SSM Mrs J Segedin B.Ed, Dip Tch, P.G.Dip Ed Mrs J Tisot Higher Dip Tch (Special Ed) Miss A Stephens B.Ed, Dip Tch, G.Dip ESC Mrs S Vaughan HDE, SDE Media Science
Ms C Campbell B.Sc, Grad.Dip Tch Sci Mr L H Cave B.Sc, Dip Tch Mr B Howson Dip Tch, Grad.Dip ICT Mr P W Kelly B.Sc (Hons), PGCE Mrs N Newson B.Sc, Dip Tch Mrs C Waugh HDE, Senior Secondary Mr S Yates B.Eng, PGCE Ms C Weaver B.Ed Mr I McHale (On leave) B.Sc (Hons), PGCE
Social Sciences Faculty Head of Faculty Mr J Blyth B.A, Dip Tch Mr I Callachan B.A, Dip Tch Mrs C Johnston B.A, Dip Tch Mr R Stirling B.A, Dip Tch, Cert B.S Mrs A Moncrieff B.A, Dip Tch, Dip TESSOL Mr P Hill B.Com, ACA, CPA, Dip Tch Mrs J Hollyer B.A, Higher Dip Tch, Dip H.Ec Mr S Johnston B.A, Grad Dip Tch
Technology Faculty Head of Faculty Mr J Corteen B.Eng (Hons), PGCE Mr N Collings B.Sc, PGCE Teacher in Charge of Hospitality
Mathematics Faculty
Mrs Y Holdgate Dip Tch, Dip Spec Subj
Head of Faculty Mr J Basevi NZCE Dip Tch, Dip Sec Subs
Mr M Stewart B.Des (Hons), Dip ComGrDes,
Mrs P Dowling B.A, Dip Tch Ms H Edmonds B.Soc Sci, Dip Tch Mrs T Searle B.Ed (Hons) Mr P Glover TTC, Dip Spec Subj Dr Q Zhang PhD, Dip Tch Mrs S Lockyer MBA, P.G.Dip Ed, B.Ed, Dip Tch
Teacher in Charge of Design & Visual Communication
P.G.Dip Tch, Cert GrDes
Teacher in Charge of Textiles/Fashion & Design
Mrs R Astbury B.Mus, Dip Tch, Dip PR, TTC Mrs S Carse B.Hm Ec, Ed, B.Ed, Grad.Dip TESSOL Mr G Waugh HDE Sec Ed Mr P Henchie B.A, HDE Ms L Clouston Dip C.A, B.IHM, Dip Ed Sec Tch Mr V E Dempster B.Sc, Dip Tch Mr J Schnetler B.Ed
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Christine Meek Prior to joining Mahurangi College, I worked for 7 years down the road at the Knitting Establishment Ltd as an Administration Officer. I was lucky enough to get the job at Mahurangi College as Accounts/Payroll Administrator. Some might wonder if I was lucky due to NOVOPAY, but I was. I am thoroughly enjoying the school environment; the staff and students are great and there is never a dull moment. I still have one child attending the college who is currently in year 12. I look forward to my time ahead at the college.
Jonathan Dutton
“Sir! You didn’t tell us you could sing!” exclaimed one of my Year 13 students as we were rehearsing for our class production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Encouraging and humorous comments like this remind me why I’m a teacher. I arrived at Mahurangi College at the start of this year to start a new chapter of life as the teacher in charge of drama. At times this new role has been tough, but at Mahu’ you know that there will always be something great to make all the hard work worth it. Some highlights for me this year have been acting in a student film, being “dunked” by the Year 13s (thanks for the beanie guys), chatting to students about their plans for the future, and feeling like a proud Dad when I watched my students present their Stage Challenge piece to a large audience of family and friends. It has been a privilege to work with so many talented and enthusiastic students this year and I am grateful for all the support from my colleagues. I look forward to my future here and whatever surprises it brings!
Sue O’Reilly Hi, I’m writing this in Term 1, Week 6 and by the time you read this, I will have survived my first year at Mahurangi College as Student Administrator and Receptionist. The first few weeks were overwhelmingly busy and at times I wondered why I had left my previous role as Office Manager of nine years for a local physiotherapist. I pride myself in being friendly, helpful, organised and efficient. I have three sons who attend Mahurangi College who have experienced first hand the top quality service the College offers and now I get to be part of it from a glamorous reception area.
Originally from the South West of England I worked as a Registered Nurse for twenty years specialising in trauma and orthopaedics. When my children were young I went to University as a mature student and studied English and Philosophy. It was an idyllic time and I loved being a student again. After completing a PGCE teaching course I taught English in the UK. As a family we decided to travel around the world to experience new cultures and one of the places we visited was New Zealand. We thought it would be fun to live in Northland for a couple of years. The lifestyle and the culture really appealed. I taught a range of students from Year Seven to Scholarship level at Kerikeri High School and had a fantastic time. After seven years we wanted to experience another part of New Zealand. I would like to thank everyone for a warm welcome and I look forward to working with students and staff at Mahurangi College.
Patrick Henchie I might be considered ‘cosmopolitan’ as I have an Irish passport, was born in Africa, own a property in Cyprus and work and reside in New Zealand, actually in The Republic of Algies Bay. I taught in East London, South Africa from 1981 to 1996 and then turned my hobby, woodwork, into an income. Seven and a half years later my wife, who had not travelled abroad before, persuaded me to join her teaching in Taiwan for the duration of 2004. Then on my return I was recruited to run a scaffold hire and sales company, which I did until April 2013. My current role in the school is as a teacher in the Technical Department, teaching mainly woodwork and some metal work. Previous to joining Mahurangi College, I had been doing some odd-jobs such as plumbing, painting, roofing, market research and furniture restoration until I was asked to relieve here for a few weeks. This led to an offer of a fixed term contract for 2014.
Nikky Bain I haven’t moved far to make my way into the Mahurangi College school culture. After teaching English and Media Studies for a little over 3 years at Whangaparaoa College, I’m delighted to have made a new home teaching English at Mahurangi College. I was attracted to the real community feel of this school and I’m really looking forward to getting involved in the wider school life. I was raised in Whangaparaoa, attending Orewa College, and have settled there with my wonderful husband. Although I have settled close to home, I have experienced many different cultures throughout many overseas travels. In my spare time, I play squash, where I’m working towards B-grade, social touch rugby and train in kickboxing. I look forward to working with many of you during my time here.
Angela Daysh Wow, what a fantastic first few months my role has been! This would have to be my dream job! I have come from a background of doing lots of different roles from being a self employed share milker in the dairy industry, to administration roles, banking roles through to courier driving. I am a person who is always on the go and I especially love a challenge. My husband and I, with our 3 children moved from a little place called Te Aroha, in the Waikato, to Wellsford last Christmas. We are loving the lifestyle, the beautiful beaches and spending time with family who also live up here! I love being the parent who puts their hand up to help out with anything (and be the taxi driver to get them all to their sports & cultural events), so to be able to do this as a job, is just an awesome opportunity – I get to do what I love for a living! I love that students are being given the opportunity to participate and enjoy sports and I love being a part of it. I have to admit to being the person at the finish line with tears in my eyes, as I cheer for the children taking part regardless of where they finish and I couldn’t be more proud of them! Thank you to all the students and staff at Mahurangi College – you have made me feel very welcome and I have enjoyed working with you all!
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Jo Jessop
We have been made to feel at home here in New Zealand and the sense of community here in Warkworth has made it a special place for us to settle. My wife teaches at Warkworth Primary School where she has a permanent post. We have a son in Cape Town, South Africa who is an engineer in the mining sector. Our hobbies and activities revolve largely around aquatic sports and hiking/tramping. I am also a keen motorcyclist and I have a dual-sport touring motor-bike for this purpose.
Hamish Cooper I came to Mahurangi College in February this year as a Sports Co-ordinator. Having been trained as a physical education teacher I had an eye towards eventually transitioning into full time teaching. This happened sooner than expected when one of the PE staff moved on at the end of term two. I have absolutely loved my time at Mahu’ so far. Taking over as Teacher in Charge of Rugby and Cricket has kept me busy in the last couple of months, but I have thoroughly enjoyed this role. Highlights so far have been travelling all over the upper North Island with a delightful bunch of school cricketers and tracking the progress of the schools 1st XV over the winter months. I was born and raised in Morrinsville in the Waikato, and am still an avid fan of the mighty mooloos! I attended St Paul’s Collegiate School in Hamilton where the current Headmaster and HOF PE are both former staff/students of Mahurangi College. I spent a year in the UK working in a boarding school after I completed my own schooling and spent a further two years after that working out what I wished to achieve with my career. Eventually, having realised that I had a passion for coaching, I chose to study sport and recreation at AUT in Auckland and then found myself studying a teaching diploma at Waikato University last year. Unlike many teachers I never thought I’d be a teacher until very late in the piece, but I have never looked back. I really appreciate the community feel of this school. Having got myself heavily involved in rugby I have had a lot of interactions with members of our school community and have started to feel really at home here. I am certainly looking forward to what lies ahead!
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Farewells Jessica Fotheringham We are going to miss the lovely Jessica who turned up at the most convenient moment for the English department. We needed a teacher to come in half way through the year and there she was, bubbly, hard-working and smart. The whole package. Jess, an Irish rose, taught her students well and brought joy to the department.
Annette Atkins Annette taught at Mahurangi College since 1994, a mere 19 years . She started when her children were toddlers and before our current year 13 students were even born. It was in 2002 when Annette was made responsible for teaching Drama. Annette brings real life experience and a thirst for knowledge into the teaching of her subject and was responsible for organising some fantastic school drama productions and cultural events over the years. These events are memorable and have left a lasting impression on students and the wider school community. Annette is a fantastic teacher and I was privileged to watch her in action. She is able to teach students to act in such a way as to illustrate both the best and the worst of human nature during a performance. Annette will be remembered for her commitment and for the time she spent thinking about how to do better for our kids. She is a huge loss to our school and specifically the art faculty.
Jess knows how to organise. She never missed a deadline, kept the resource room in order, coached debating teams. However, we could not keep her! She has moved on to a more important job – being a mum. Jess gave birth to this gorgeous wee lass Beth. We wish her all the best on her new path knowing that Beth is in very good hands!
Scott Smith With a heavy heart, we must farewell the wonderful Scottie. Scott arrived as a beginning teacher back in 2009. Over the years he has honed his craft and offered our students breadth and depth in the topics covered. This year he bamboozled his year thirteens with the delights of existentialism and then went even further by opening up a short course of philosophy to any mug who was willing to undergo the brain torment of the philosophical argument.
Nicola Bain
Scottie has provided us with many opportunities to laugh over the years and often quite unintentionally. Starting the school year a day later than the rest of us was a gem. Calendar malfunction! Jokes aside, we have been fortunate to have Scott in our department as he has been a collaborative, erudite and unassuming colleague. He has decided to re-enter the academic fray of university following his heart’s desire – philosophy. We wish him academic success and look forward to the day he becomes Professor Smith!
After one short year, we reluctantly farewell Nicola. She came to us from Whangaparaoa College and easily slotted into the department. And best of all, she has been our technology whizz extraordinaire. Thanks to Nicola, some of us older technological dinosaurs are reinventing ourselves. Nicola undertakes everything she does with a smile and willingness –unless it’s squash. A killer on the court, we have loved listening to her tournament outcomes realising that within that friendly and amiable lass lurks something harder and unforgiving. Unfortunately, Nicola has itchy feet and we can’t compete with the lure of the dusty road, of adventures waiting. She is off on a jet plane with her husband Al to travel the world far and wide. We wish her all the very best.
After eight years it is with great regret that we farewell Jennifer Judd from our Mahurangi College library team. Jennifer’s excellent research skills have supported the learning of many students in our school. She is an avid reader and has used her knowledge to make recommendations to students and staff at all levels.
Jane Newby Jane has been the Art coordinator at Mahurangi College for the past 10 years. Jane started her position at the college by helping to organise school trips and general duties for the art faculty. Then she took over as the producer of the school productions for both junior and senior schools. Her role expanded and Jane took on the role of the adult responsible for managing and organising Stage Challenge. We have been lucky enough to have Jane’s experience and knowledge in events management to organise and help students run the highly successful Stage Challenge for the last three times. The knowledge she brought into the role enabled students to achieve outstanding results. Jane has brought real life experience and a love of the arts into the role. Jane will be greatly missed by all and she has left a lasting impression on students and the wider school community.
Pat Lyons The lovely Pat is leaving us but not leaving the district! Over the last six years Pat has been the mastermind behind our amazing school yearbook. Under her care it has become a beautiful read. Literally -the pages are vibrant with colour and the school experience, and you never know what odd little gem you might find. Pat is patient. She is an expert at cajoling tardy teachers into submitting for the mag and Pat does it with a smile on her face. Virtuous indeed! Pat is a dedicated teacher who is passionate about her subject. Her media students have thrived under her tutelage producing original film-work that has impressed. She has big shoes to fill and we certainly will be sorry to see her go.
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Jennifer Judd
Her ICT expertise has meant that our library management systems have been keep up to date. In her role she has always shown great efficiency and attention to detail. Her fantastic creative displays have promoted our resources and have lifted our library environment to a higher level. We will miss her contribution to the school and to our library team.
Simon Johnston Mr Johnston, pictured here with children from the Buddhist orphanage (Duc Son Pagoda) in Vietnam, first arrived at Mahurangi College in 2001 as a Year 10 student. Always keen on his basketball and rugby, he became fully involved in the life of the school. In Year 13 he and Hayely Schiscka, as House Prefects, took Purple House to their first inter-house victory. After completing his degree and Post Graduate teaching diploma, Mr Johnston returned in 2010 to take up a teaching position in the PE and Social Sciences Departments. He quickly proved himself to be a very capable teacher, passionate about history and outdoor education, his basketball coaching and working with young people to help them to be the best that they can be. Once again, under his guidance as Purple House Dean, the inter-house victory is well within their grasp! History jobs are rare and so it was with mixed feelings that Mr Johnston applied for a teaching position that became available at St. Kentigern College. Once offered the position, he spent days deliberating what he should do. Eventually, the need to experience teaching in a different school was the deciding factor. Never one to shirk a challenge, he has embraced this new school environment but still feels very strong ties with Mahurangi College which has played such an important part of his life to date. He wishes to extend his thanks and best wishes to all.
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Vicki Clark Mrs Clark has been with us at Mahurangi College for longer than most people might realise. She first worked at Mahurangi College, largely in the Year 7/8 faculty, as a teacher aide from 2004 to 2006. It was because of this experience that she decided to enrol in university and study to be a primary school teacher. She did very well in her studies and graduated at the end of 2010. Luckily for us, we had an opening in our staffing, Mrs Clark applied for the position and she started teaching with us as a full time teacher from 2011. Mrs Clark has always been a hard working member of the Junior Faculty team and has contributed in many different ways to the school and the faculty, such as running equestrian events, organising zone days, being involved in netball and helping to organise faculty events. Mrs Clark has always been passionate about her teaching and her students, striving to do the very best for them. Due to a change in circumstances, Mrs Clark is leaving us at the end of 2014 and we wish her the very best of luck for the future.
Jane Perry On 21 March this year we bade a fond farewell to Jane Perry, our accounts and payroll officer. Jane spent 16 years at Mahurangi College and her attention to detail and organised nature meant that both bills and people were paid timeously and correctly. Upon reaching 65, Jane made the decision to spend more time with her semi-retired husband, Jim, and visiting her children, grandchildren and new great-grandchild. It also meant that Jane could invest more time in her much-loved hobby of gardening. We wish Jane many years of happy retirement.
Les Cave This year the science faculty said goodbye to a very long serving and popular science and horticulture teacher, Mr Cave. Mr Cave joined the faculty in 1987. For many years he was responsible for the Horticulture Department which was a large part of the science faculty for several years. In this capacity he guided some students to careers in horticulture. However, Mr Cave also had a very strong interest in conservation and for some time he was an active member of the Tawharanui open sanctuary society. Over the years he managed to combine his passion for developing the regional park with horticulture by taking bus loads of year 10 students out for planting days. Today many of these trees can be seen gradually maturing into stands of native bush around the park. Unfortunately over the years, horticulture as a subject declined as fewer students opted to take the subject. However, Mr Cave maintained an active role in conservation projects through the Trees for Survival programme where he propagated trees from seeds collected from local areas before students returned to the area and replanted. Mr Cave has also run a conservation group at school. Under his guidance a core group of students have attended events around Auckland, and developed action plans for how the school could improve its recycling methods. Mr Cave is also famous for his running. When he lived in Warkworth he regularly lead a group of teachers on morning runs around the region. He has personally run more than 50 marathons so he has been the obvious person to organise our school cross-country and to take school teams away to the North Harbour and Auckland championships. Mr Cave is also very active in Lions and in this capacity has been involved in events such as the Young Ambassadors programme, and also in gaining sponsorship from the Lions for Science Fair prizes. Mr Cave can look back on a very distinguished career as a teacher at Mahurangi College with some pride. He has made a great contribution to the learning and development of generations of students. We thank Mr Cave for his contribution over the years and wish him the very best in his retirement.
Katie Poynter It is with great sadness that we farewell Katie Poynter from Mahurangi College at the end of the year. Katie has been an essential member of the art faculty over the past 5 years.
Katrina Wards
Katie has taught numerous art subjects from Maori Art/Language, Dance, Music, Drama and Visual Art. During her time here she has been a teacher of excellence and has extended the level of academic standing for all of her students. She has exceptional skills in painting with outstanding success in senior painting.
Miss Wards arrived in the PE department 2 years ago as an enthusiastic graduate ready to begin her teaching career. As a former pupil of Mahurangi College it was a daunting task to begin teaching alongside teachers who had taught her. This proved to be no barrier whatsoever as Miss Wards 2 years here have demonstrated. She has had a major impact on the college and among her achievements are the initiation of a turbo touch module, coaching a group of senior students to participate in the tough guy/girl schools challenge as well as coaching touch and netball teams. To end her time at Mahurangi College as Purple House Leader has been a major accomplishment and testament to her ability and potential as a young teacher.
She will be remembered as a highly motivated, friendly and caring teacher with vast knowledge. She will be very missed by the faculty, the visual art staff and all of her students. Katie has been a great asset to our school we hope that she will return to our school in the future.
Jenine Abarbanel
Students in her classes including level one NCEA have enjoyed Miss Ward’s passion for the subject and, along with the PE department staff, will all miss her.
Jenine Abarbanel arrived in the IT department in 2006 as a former Rocket Scientist, has remained here for 8 years as a ‘rock’ and leaves us as a Rock Star.
We wish her well and are envious of her travel plans. She has already purchased tickets to World Cup rugby matches in Wales and England and plans to travel around Europe later next year.
Any good IT department needs someone who can pull apart computers and put them back together so they work and Jenine proved she could do that on her first day. She was a pleasure to have around the office, what with her American twang and her fun sense of humour; most of the time we got work done. Jenine has always worked hard, putting in more hours than her wage and we won’t mention how many things she has broken, including her own limbs. We are sorry to see her go, but wish her the best in her new adventures.
When Jennifer Eirena joined the staff at our school it was like we were given a very special gift. Jenny’s delightful personality, professional skill level in music and her ability to relate to our students has been highly appreciated by all who have had the privilege of working with her.
Paul Kelly
While it is very exciting to see her fulfilling a lifelong dream of doing missionary work with her family, the music department and all her pupils are bereft at the thought of her leaving.
Mr Kelly joined the science faculty in 2014 as a one-year replacement for Mr McHale while he was on leave. He soon slotted into his new position despite the real challenges the faculty faced after being moved into Z block for the first half of the year.
Apart from teaching junior classes in music and singing lessons, Jenny has established the superb auditioned choir - The Black Gems, has lifted exponentially the standard of the senior choir, has created a joy-filled junior choir with a beautiful tone, and this year, took over the very talented Performing Arts Academy. She has also been a terrific support with the productions sometimes stepping into a role!
During this time Mr Kelly taught several L1 science classes, 9F science, and 10B maths. His timetable had him block hopping across the school, with classes in both Z and K blocks. While this situation kept him fit it required real commitment and organisation from Mr Kelly to make this work seamlessly for the students. Mr Kelly has also managed the underwater hockey during the year. The school is grateful for his assistance and wishes him well for the future.
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Jennifer Eirena
It has been a very inspiring time working with Jenny. We have learnt a lot from each other, become very close friends and I dearly hope we may be able to work together again in the future. We wish you all the best in your endeavours Jenny, you will be missed!
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Leaders Alana Hathaway
A message from the Head Girl 13 years. 13 years of memories, of different friendships and friend groups, of Science, Maths and English, of teachers and packed lunches and uniform. 13 years of this thing we call school. What a year this final year has been! I can’t believe that time can slip
and privilege bearing the responsibility of Head Girl. It has been one of the best years, no matter how full on it has been at times! One of my favourite memories during the year was helping to organise the ball and seeing it all finally come together when we walked into the venue. I’m pretty sure Rose and I shed a few tears! Being able to relax and
Without all of our teamwork we wouldn’t have achieved as much this year! Mrs. Newlove has always been willing to provide us with guidance and answers to the million questions we’ve had! We would often come with a list to our meetings and without fail she’d be able to help us solve the majority of problems we were facing!
“... I am filled with excitement for what lies ahead, but also sadness...” away so fast! It feels like just yesterday that I was starting out year 7 in Mr. Tennant’s class! However, now I’m about to leave home and leave behind the thing that has been so constant and so normal for the last 13 years of my life!
Daniel Collings
A message from the Head Boy Stepping foot onto the grounds of Mahurangi College on my first day back in 2009, little did I know 5 years down the track I would be given the opportunity to represent the school as Head Boy. Everybody tells you that your last year of school will fly by in no time, and this is no lie! This year has been a blur full of opportunities, experiences and memories being created.
island by storm. Going on camp gave me the experience of a lifetime, being able to develop strong friendships with people in the year who I hardly knew. The trip truly was a team bonding experience for the whole of year 13, bringing us together as a group for our final year of school.
Year 9 camp, reliving the memories of 2010 but this time as a leader, was how my crazy
“Me? Head Boy? But I’m just a skinny Welsh lad? What!?” I can still remember these thoughts rushing through my head whilst standing in the Principal’s office last year. With the opportunity to be the Head Boy of Mahurangi College this year I have been able to enjoy new experiences, been able
year of Head Boy started. Joining Ms Newson and her bunch of year nines, Alana and I headed down to the Coromandel to start our action packed week. Apart from being rained on, it was a chance to re-enjoy the activities, get to know the year 9 students and have the privilege of our meals being cooked for us by the brilliant hospitality staff. This made the experience one to remember.
to put myself out there and do things that I would have never have done otherwise. Meeting and welcoming international students through Powhiri’s, speaking to the Warkworth community on Anzac day, organising a school ball and just having a blast at house events with all the Prefects of 2014. These are experiences and memories that I will honestly never forget.
Year 13 camp however, wasn’t quite the same leisurely experience. Meeting at 3am on the Sandspit wharf to board the ferry, the year 13 student body set off across the rough sea’s for a week of hiking, tramping and team bonding. Being a part of Mrs Campbell’s group we took the
Organising the school ball was definitely the most enjoyable experience of my duties. Decisions, decisions, decisions! From location all the way down to the colour of the napkins! What seemed to be endless meetings of discussing, would always end up with us all having a barrel
of laughs. Alana and I definitely couldn’t have made the event possible without the help of our truly amazing deputies Rosie Gannaway and Findlay Buchanan. Individually, these two are just the best human beings you will get to meet and together they make the ultimate team. Walking into North Harbour stadium on the night made all the time and effort put into organising worth it. Seeing the beautifully decorated venue with people smiling and enjoying themselves just gave us all such a magical feeling. I remember us standing there and saying, “We did it, we actually organised a whole school ball!”
Finishing my thirteenth year at school, as Head Girl has been something I’d always hoped for, but never imagined it actually happening! It has been an absolute honour
have a great night with everyone after a lot of planning was the most rewarding feeling! Head Girl wouldn’t have been the same without Dan! I have loved getting to know Dan more this year and to have someone so reliable, supportive and encouraging to work with has been amazing! I feel so grateful to have gained friendships with Dan, Findlay and Rose and am so thankful for all the laughs we’ve shared.
2014 has been an amazing year! It has been the year that I wore the “big people’s” white uniform and experienced everything school related for the last time. It is the year that I close the curtain on these 13 years of my life. In doing so I am filled with excitement for what lies ahead, but also sadness as I realise that I may not see many of the people I’ve grown up with again. Good luck to everyone and I hope many of us keep in touch!
“... Me? Head Boy? But I’m just a skinny Welsh lad? What!?...”
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Miss Alana Hathaway, having the chance to work along side such a loving, caring, fun and inspiring person has made my year full of funny and fond memories that I will never forget! I’d also like to thank our Deputies for constantly being at our sides to help carry the load. To the prefects and student executive of 2014 I would like to thank you for all the effort you guys have put into really making this year a success and such a blast.
To the year 13 as a whole, whatever you’re heading off to next year, I would like to say good luck and thank you for making these past couple of years something I will never forget.
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Student
Executive Student Executive
spending time with and helping the younger students in our school.
String Movement
We have had such a great time running the Student Executive alongside Mr Elder who has been a huge part of helping us all achieve many activities.
We have also attended Rotary meetings to keep them updated on what has been going on at our school. Rotary would like to have a more active involvement in our school life to help us implement our ideas. We would also like to thank Rotary Warkworth who very kindly donated $500 towards the housing of our school’s defibrillator.
When I was introduced to String movement in January, I instantly developed a passion for its cause. Its message opened my eyes to the reality of what bullying is doing to our youth and the long-term impacts on a generation. String Movement to me, was an opportunity to see my school be freed of chains that refused to let go of their grip on the youth.
Working hard behind the scenes
The year started with the annual Prefect vs Student Exec bake off, which we are proud to say that we won! From there we went on to organise many events such as the Royal Cup, SADD week and various activities in the Library. We have also contributed to many charities such as Shelterbox and Cystic Fibrosis through various mufti days, and have been involved in lots of different aspects of our school life. The Peer Mentoring programme was set up this year, focusing on Senior students
The String movement was based around one simple idea, wear a piece of string on your wrist to symbolize your stance against bullying and make a silent protest against its power. With the team, we developed a goal for the movement, to create an ‘inclusive culture’.
Jessica Tappin and Elizabeth Murphy
Environmental Initiatives
BOT Representative
Environmentally this year has been a huge success for the school. We have introduced paper recycling throughout the school and with the help of the Lions Club purchased a worm farm. The worm farm will help reduce the organic waste currently sent to the landfill by composting it in a sustainable way. We are working towards this becoming an established practice within our school. We would like to thank Mr Cave for the huge amount of support and effort he has put in to the environment group over the years.
Being the student trustee on the Board of Trustees for 2014 was an invaluable experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. Being in a room full of successful adults was a little daunting at times but I settled into the role and was able to give a students perspective on many of the issues we discussed. Changing the school bell tone was definitely the highlight of what I accomplished and I know many teachers and students were grateful for the change.
A student voice on the board
Middle School Council
understanding of how to access assistance when they had issues.
During Term 2, Miss Stephens asked for students who wished to be involved in having a voice in the school to meet to create a Middle School Council. A group of keen Year 9/10 students got together and decided on four main projects to address in 2014:
2.‘Smash the Trash at Mahu’ The Middle School Council worked very hard to raise student awareness of environmental issues and ran a very successful, ‘Smash the Trash’ campaign where students were rewarded for keeping the school trash free.
1.‘Got an Issue?’ This project focussed on the mental health of Middle School Students and student
We would do this by running massive events that could include heaps of people at once and creating a positive atmosphere. This ideal was based on the overflowing cup metaphor, if you fill a cup with enough water it will overflow,
Along with an assembly, highlighting the effects of bullying and tying together the students with string to symbolize the unity of the movement, we received the most overwhelming positive feedback and over the course of the week signed up over 850 students, 2 thirds of the school, backing the values of our mission. For a mainstream school, with a diverse range of cultures, views and personalities, to see the students unite under a similar
Having gone through the age where bullying was the most prolific we knew the greatest form of bullying had changed, name-calling and physical bullying still existed but the most common form of bullying was now exclusion. We saw this
therefore if you create a positive buzz amongst the students then soon they will be so positive it will overflow into the others around them, creating a friendly and happy nature about the school grounds. With this in mind we chose four events to run from the 3rd-6th of June, and also a hard-hitting assembly the week previous, to introduce the meaning behind our movement. Our four events were Bumper Balls, a Dunk Machine, a massive picnic, and a Live DJ with free Mr Whippy, all events were inclusive of everyone.
flag was a blessing, and the success of the positive events led to a whole new culture and vibe amongst the students. Having everyone from 11-18 united for the cause shows the unity it brought our peers, and the shared passion for a positive environment. Mahurangi College may only be one of a thousand schools in the country but it is not to be ignored, it is the leader in a revolution to end the smothering of our individual strengths. It is the inaugural, String Movement ambassador.
I wish all the best to Rory McKay who is the new student trustee for 2015.
Bree & Liz
Our future leaders
every day and we started our movement with the objective of running a week of events to not only highlight bullying, but create an inclusive culture within the school.
“... creating a friendly and happy nature about the school grounds...”
All of the people in our team have worked extremely well together to create a positive and inclusive school environment. We have loved working with everyone. We had a successful year and couldn’t have done it without each other.
Protecting our environment
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Making a positive change
3.‘Intergenerational Project’ We started an Intergenerational Project
developing stronger links between the school and the residents of the Summerset Retirement Village, including an Adopt a Grandparent Program. 4.‘Activities Week’ The Middle School Council have worked closely with Mrs Johnston to design activities for the Term 4, Year 10, Activities Week. It is fantastic to see young people so determined to have a voice and make a change in their community.
Members of the Middle School Council: Miss Stephens (Teacher), Tom Mirams, Aimee Hewett, Zane Illingworth, Matthew Torckler, Ishabel Stevens, Eloise Williams-Mart, Ella Gibb, Laurelie Giles, Kartarina Giles.
Student on Middle School Council: I have really enjoyed my time in the Middle School Council, as I believe that we have made a positive impact. My main project was the war on litter, which I believe was reasonably successful and helped to raise awareness of the negative effects of rubbish. Furthermore, I have really enjoyed working with the other members of the council, and our meetings always brought up interesting new ideas that would help to improve the
middle school. Lastly, I would like to say a special thank you to Miss Stephens who has put in lots of her own time into our projects, and without her the council would not have been possible. Thanks. - Zane
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Prizegiving Dux & Proxime Accessit Mahurangi College top honours
Academic Awards and Scholarships
Recognising outstanding Mahurangi College student achievement
Argyle Manufacturing Scholarship
TUNOA FELETI
The Whitehorn Award for achievement and diligence in the Pathway Programme
JACK SHARP
Dan Smith Chartered Accountants Scholarship
CECILE DIXON
The Norman Roke Shield and Flooring Xtra Prize for innovation in Technology
ELIZABETH MURPHY
David Sheat Memorial Scholarship
ROSE GANNAWAY
The Lions Club Young Ambassador Scholarship
JAMES EDGERLEY
The Quintal Family Cup and White Cliffs Timber Prize for diligence in Workshop Technology
ELLA HARNISH and DOMINIQUE MORGAN and SYDNEY SHEAD and ELSPETH FREE
ESTHER BASEVI
The Lions Club of Kowhai Coast Shield for the Student Learning Centre pupil who is friendly and has a positive attitude
Dolly Wynyard Trust Scholarships
RORY MCKAY
The Anthoni Dudding Cup and ANZ Prize for Science
ELIZABETH MURPHY
The Gladys Partridge Scholarship
NICOLE BINDON
The Gertie Hamilton Art Award for excellence in Year 12 Painting
STEVEN BEECHEY
Rodney Local Board Scholarship
KGA Limited Scholarship Patricia and Alan Schedewy Family Cup for Dux of Mahurangi College
RENE CORLETT and ALANA HATHAWAY and LYDIA OVERTON and LANA MCCARTHY
Victoria University Academic Excellence Scholarships
BRIELLA MARTIN
FINDLAY BUCHANAN and KATRINA SCARTH
Massey University College of Business Captains’ Club Leadership Award
MELISSA HALLETT and ALANA HATHAWAY
University of Auckland Jubilee Award
JAY MORRIS
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CHARLOTTE WALLINGTON Wilson Wirihana Memorial Trophy and Paper Plus Prize for excellent effort and attitude in all aspects of Maori Culture
Special Awards Year 13
ALYSHA DUDLEY
The Jaycee Cup and Timberworld Limited prize for Debating
ANASTASIYA BARANOVA
The Adams Driving School Prize for Innovation in Technology
ROSE GANNAWAY
and ALANA HATHAWAY
ELIZABETH ERRINGTON
The Warkworth Lions Cup and BNZ Prize for Excellence in Public Speaking Auckland City Council Tawharanui Regional Park Conservation and Paper Plus Award
ROSE GANNAWAY
University of Otago Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship
and BREE WOOLLER
ROSE GANNAWAY
University of Auckland Alumni Scholarship
DANIEL BEDGGOOD
The David Wilson Memorial Award and Leggoe Electrical Prize for Mathematics
LIAM BATES
The Auckland University of Technology Business and Law Maori High Achiever Scholarship
KUTUMI LEFFERTS
The Andrew Coombs Memorial Award and Withers & Co Prize for diligence in Digital Technology
ARIAANA OSBORNE
Te Mana Maori Trophy and ANZ Prize for a student who has excelled in Manaakitanga
THORNE WILLIAMS
The Auckland University of Technology Woolf Fisher First in Family Scholarship
SYDNEY SHEAD
The Maltby Family Cup and Gubbs Motors Prize for Senior Art
JESSICA TAPPIN
The Auckland University of Technology Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship
BRIELLA MARTIN
Leggoe Electrical Prize for Services to the Library
BRIELLA MARTIN
The C L Moore Trophy and BNZ Prize for Pure Science
BRIELLA MARTIN
The Campbell Award and Gubbs Motors Prize for Science and Mathematics
ROSE GANNAWAY
The Mahurangi College PTA Prize for Deputy Head Girl
School Sports Champions and JOSHUA SHIRLEY
The Price Trophy and Bavage, Chapman Limited Prize for diligence in adversity
ROSE GANNAWAY
and LANA MCCARTHY
CHANTELLE MAHER
BRENTON BAKER
McDonald Adams Optometrists’ Scholarship
JESSICA TAPPIN
Bank of New Zealand Scholarship Alon & Audrey Shaw Award for Proxime Accessit of Mahurangi College
Year 11 & 12
BRIELLA MARTIN and ALANA HATHAWAY
Briella Martin (Proxime Accessit) / Jessica Tappin (Dux)
Special Awards
Intermediate Girls’ Cross Country Champion Intermediate Boys’ Athletic Champions
AMELIA ARNERICH
Intermediate Girls’ Swimming Champion
VINCENT BUBBERT
Intermediate Boys’ Swimming Champion
ABBIGAIL SIM
Senior Girls’ Athletic Champion
LOUIS YOUNG
Senior Boys’ Athletic Champion
LOUIS YOUNG
Senior Boys’ Cross Country Champion
ELLA HARNISH
Senior Girls’ Cross Country Champion
ELLA HARNISH
Senior Girls’ Swimming Champion
DANIEL VAUGHAN
Senior Boys’ Swimming Champion
BEN DONALDSON
Senior Boys’ Tennis Champion
Sports & Cultural Persons of the Year FORREST AXFORD
Keith Edmonds Memorial Cup for Sportsman of the Year
FINDLAY BUCHANAN
The Mahurangi College PTA Prize for Deputy Head Boy
ALANA HATHAWAY
The Molly Brooking Award and Mahurangi College PTA Prize for Head Girl
ARIAANA OSBORNE
Frost Plate for Sportswoman of the Year
DANIEL COLLINGS
The Mahurangi College PTA Prize for Head Boy
ELSPETH FREE
Moira Atkinson Trophy for the Cultural Person of the Year
KUTUMI LEFFERTS
The Rodney Masonic Lodge Prize for the senior boy who shows the most initiative, self-reliance and consideration for others
ALANA HATHAWAY
The Warkworth BPW Club Prize for the senior girl who shows the most initiative, self-reliance and consideration for others
ATANREREI RUI
The Granville Shield and Biomarine Prize for Civic Responsibilities
JESSICA TAPPIN
The Year 13 and Leggoe Electrical Award for Leadership – donated by the Year 13 students of 2010
ARIAANA OSBORNE
The Ex-Pupils’ Rose Bowl and BNZ Prize for Best All-Rounder
REBEKAH WILSON
Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award for completing the requirements of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award at Gold Level
Purple House Overall House Competition Winners
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Merit Awards Top in Subject Awards
The highest achievers in each subject
Congratulations to the following students who won top in subject awards this year. These awards represent outstanding academic achievement in individual subjects.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Academic Excellence
ASHLEY MAHER
JONATHAN RABEY
JORDYN HUDSON
CHARLOTTE WALLINGTON
SOPHIE CREAN
STEVEN BEECHEY
These awards go to the students with the highest grade point average in their top 100 credits. These awards recognise consistently high achievement across a range of subject areas.
1st place in Level 1 Subjects
1st place in Level 2 Subjects
NICOLE BINDON
GABBY BISSETT
PIA SCHUSTER
JAMES EDGERLEY
BROOKE ADAMSON
1st place in Level 3 Subjects
for Physical Education
HANNAH RYAN
ALANA HATHAWAY
HARRISON MCKENZIE
ELIZABETH MURPHY
SAMANTHA JONES
KARI MEACHIN
TRENT SCANDRETT
BROOKE MITCHELL
IMOGEN DUMVILLE
DEAN MIDDLETON
THORNE WILLIAMS
SEB SAUNDERS
LYDIA HENDERSON
ARIAANA OSBORNE
ARI MARKOWITZ JOSHUA CLAYDEN ELIJAH MORLEYSTURM
for 1st equal in Physical Education
YU MIFUNE Other Languages ROYDON BERGER TIMOTHY BRAY ELEANOR DIAZ RITSON
TEGAN ILLINGWORTH for 1st equal in Physical Education
(Highest Grade Point Average in top 100 credits over 6 subjects).
IMOGEN DUMVILLE CHANTELLE MAHER BROOKE NICHOLLS SARAH WILSON
JESSICA TORKINGTON
Bank of New Zealand and Leggoe Electrical Award for Academic Achievement in Level 2.
SAMI HAWILI
KATE JONES
ASHLEIGH DICK
ROSE GANNAWAY
(Highest Grade Point Average in top 100 credits over 6 subjects).
LYDIA HENDERSON The Colin Lee Memorial Award for Biology
for Speakers of Other Languages
MEGAN THOMSON the Brooking Family Trophy for History
SYLVANA ASHTON CHANTELLE MAHER
Webster Malcolm Law and Gubbs Motors Award for Academic Achievement in Level 1.
Level 2
SOPHIE GREEN
LUCY TWHIGG
Level 1
SYDNEY SHEAD
EFFIE DANCASTER
KAY KANG
Highest grade point average
RORY MCKAY JOHN SU JACK VASEY
MELISSA HALLETT
ALISTAIR LARSEN
Awards for Diligence
AMY TATTERSFIELD
Westpac Bank Prizes for Diligence
BRIELLA MARTIN The Speed Award for Chemistry
SARAH WILSON
RHIANNON GILL
EDEN ROBERTSON BREE WOOLLER ZOE GILES
for Art History DANIEL BEDGGOOD
JACK VASEY
TEGAN ILLINGWORTH SAMANTHA JONES ROSE GANNAWAY CHELSEA LEMMEN
RORY MCKAY
Mathematics with Statistics and Calculus
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Blues Awards Evening
Recognising Academic Excellence Every year Mahurangi College recognises outstanding academic achievement by awarding our highest achieving students at our Academic Blues evening. Held in February, the awards are given based on the previous year’s achievement,
Scholarship 2013
the results of which are made available in January. This year, we presented a record 56 Blues to students who had gained 50 credits or more at Excellence level in their NCEA during 2013.
Outstanding Achievers in 2013
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Highest Grade Point Average at L3
Awarded to only the top students in each subject nationally. Congratulations to the following students, and to the teachers who helped them to achieve at the highest possible level.
We were honoured to have guest speaker Dr Chris Dowling, a past student and prefect in 2005, who now has a doctorate in clinical psychology.
“...this year we presented a record 56 blues...” Year 11 Blues Recipients
Thirlestane Award
Top Subject Scholars Nationally
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded with academic blues for their outstanding achievements in 2013. Students are listed in order of number of Excellence Credits.
RUAHEI DEMANT History
EMMA SANDERSON Mathematics with Statistics
BETHANY MCKAY Mathematics with Statistics
JESSIE WRIGGLESWORTH English
ANGUS ADAMSON Mathematics with Statistics
JESSIE WRIGGLESWORTH Design and Visual Communication (Graphics)
Year 12 Blues Recipients
REBECCA MOON Grade Point Average was an outstanding 377 out of 400 in her top 100 credits.
Year 13 Blues Recipients
Outstanding Achievers in 2013
Outstanding Achievers in 2013
TRE WELLS 50 Excellence, 46 Merit.
SYDNEY SHEAD 50 Excellence, 42 Merit.
ZOE MCAULEY 50 Excellence, 38 Merit.
ALEXANDER GUY 50 Excellence, 53 Merit.
RENEE CORLETT 51 Excellence, 46 Merit.
NICHOLAS LEE 54 Excellence, 29 Merit.
EDEN ROBERTSON 52 Excellence, 68 Merit.
HANNAH MILLS 52 Excellence, 35 Merit.
RUAHEI DEMANT 55 Excellence, 22 Merit.
ELLA HAUSER 53 Excellence, 57 Merit.
KATE TIPACE 55 Excellence, 36 Merit.
LOTTIE THOMPSON 65 Excellence, 32 Merit.
BETHANY MCKAY 56 Excellence, 53 Merit.
GEORGIA WOODALL 53 Excellence, 68 Merit.
HANNAH RYAN 61 Excellence, 59 Merit.
NICOLE BINDON 75 Excellence, 53 Merit.
ANASTASIYA BARANOVA 60 Excellence, 6 Merit.
LYDIA OVERTON 67 Excellence, 30 Merit.
JESSIE WRIGGLESWORTH 59 Excellence, 32 Merit.
GABRIELLE SINCLAIR 53 Excellence, 73 Merit.
AMY TATTERSFIELD 62 Excellence, 65 Merit.
SAMI HAWILI 83 Excellence, 45 Merit.
KIRITAPU DEMANT 60 Excellence, 33 Merit.
SUMMER GARNER 69 Excellence, 50 Merit.
SCOTT DIRVEN 62 Excellence, 14 Merit.
HANNAH BLACKWELL 54 Excellence, 42 Merit.
ASHLEIGH DICK 64 Excellence, 53 Merit.
JOHN SU 98 Excellence, 29 Merit.
ELLIE HAMILTON-HUNTER 60 Excellence, 51 Merit.
ELLA HARNISH 72 Excellence, 38 Merit.
GRACE NEWSON 63 Excellence, 37 Merit.
PHOENIX REES-BAKER 54 Excellence, 60 Merit.
TEGAN ILLINGWORTH 66 Excellence, 56 Merit.
JACK VASEY 109 Excellence, 23 Merit.
STEVEN BEECHEY 60 Excellence, 51 Merit.
JESSICA TAPPIN 75 Excellence, 36 Merit.
CLAIRE DOCKING 63 Excellence, 43 Merit.
MICHELLE TOMLINSON 54 Excellence, 66 Merit.
SAMANTHA JONES 68 Excellence, 48 Merit.
RORY MCKAY 118 Excellence, 10 Merit.
THORNE WILLIAMS 61 Excellence, 55 Merit.
LANA MCCARTHY 75 Excellence, 58 Merit.
REBECCA MOON 81 Excellence, 15 Merit.
IMOGEN CAPES 55 Excellence, 65 Merit.
MILLY TUNNARD 71 Excellence, 49 Merit.
BREE WOOLLER 62 Excellence, 53 Merit.
MELISSA HALLETT 81 Excellence, 33 Merit.
BEN DONALDSON 56 Excellence, 53 Merit.
ALEX HUNTER 72 Excellence, 38 Merit.
PIA SCHUSTER 63 Excellence, 33 Merit.
BRIELLA MARTIN 88 Excellence, 44 Merit.
EFFIE DANCASTER 57 Excellence, 58 Merit.
HARRISON MCKENZIE 72 Excellence, 70 Merit.
KATE JONES 64 Excellence, 46 Merit.
ALANA HATHAWAY 91 Excellence, 25 Merit.
GEORGE SWIFT 61 Excellence, 38 Merit.
FOREST AXFORD 73 Excellence, 52 Merit.
ELSPETH FREE 65 Excellence, 30 Merit.
ROSE GANNAWAY 91 Excellence, 32 Merit.
Junior Dux in 2013 Top Middle School Scholar
CHANTELLE MAHER Middle School Graduation with Distinction. Recipient of the ANZ Bank Middle School Top Scholar Award.
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Ball
Senior The ‘Ethereal’ Ball A night to remember
On the 2nd of August, the School Ball was held at the North Harbour Stadium (QBE) and was an incredible evening for all who attended. Everything seemed to fall into place, with the bad weather holding off until the next day.
Students travelled to the venue by bus and entered the elegant, atmospheric venue. There were photographers taking snapshots as people walked through the decorated archway upon arrival. This year there were also two photography areas with contrasting backdrops, giving students the option of a variety of photos as well as having the ZM photo booth.
For the 2014 ‘Ethereal’ Senior Ball, Duke and Duchess went to: Stanley Coote and Dominique Morgan.
Straight away the DJ was on point and it was only a matter of minutes before people jumped on the dance floor.
At midnight it was time to finish the night and re-board the buses back to the College. The whole night was a great success and it was well received by the staff and students that attended.
Prince and Princess went to: James Edgerley and Tessa Moncrieff. The titles of King and Queen went to: Matthew Boyd and Claudia Ainscow.
“...loved the setting, involving vines, lights, flowers and columns...” The theme for 2014 was ‘The Ethereal Ball’ and everyone seemed to love the setting, which involved vines, lights, flowers and columns. Some people chose to dress to the theme, with girls having lovely flowing gowns and beautiful head-pieces. All of the young men looked very dapper in their well-fitted suits and it was great to see so many teachers there on the night. The pre-ball was held in the auditorium at the college, nibbles and drinks were kindly supplied by the PTA. Students were able to get a feel for the theme thanks to many helpers who came and decorated the hall beforehand.
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Throughout the night there were unlimited drinks and the buffet dinner had something yummy for everyone. After dinner there was a lovely chocolate mousse and cheesecake for dessert, with many going back for seconds. Throughout the night there was also voting for the three main prizes; Duke and Duchess (best dressed couple; year 12/13s), Prince and Princess (voted by the year 12s) and King and Queen (voted by year 13s).
Thank you to the Prefects who spent weeks tirelessly organizing their form of entertainment for the night, including the Viennese Waltz and a couple of original items, all with the help of Mrs Searle. Ball Committee – Daniel Collings, Alana Hathaway, Findlay Buchanan, Rose Gannaway and the fabulous Mrs Newlove.
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Library
Mahurangi College
Our Library
A great place to be Think ‘Library’ and you think of books, reading, information, research and electronic access to the world. We have all of these at our library plus a great team of staff and students who add an extra dimension.
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... the library was a great place to be...
A fantastic team of students kept our library humming through the break-times. Library prefects organised fabulous lunchtime events as well as assisted with supervision, while student librarians ran the issue desk
and kept our shelves in order, generally ensuring the library was a great place to be. “The public library is where place and possibility meet.” - Stuart Dybek
Updating our Library Space
Thinking beyond the square to create the perfect thinking environment Things in our school are changing. Our roll is growing and the demands on our library are greater and different. What had been a state of the art space not so long ago needed a rethink.
Initially, we had two spaces where classes could work: a ‘classroom’ and a teaching space with tables in the main library.
group work.
Changes we have made:
groups or a class to work in.
the fiction section as a bookable space for class reading and selecting books. with a range of shapes to provide greater flexibility of use.
The result of thinking beyond the square has meant that we have greater flexibility of space and are now able fit four classes and into a library that was designed to take just two. Verity Rowsell-Starkey - TLR
free up bench space for students, especially those studying by correspondence.
Library Prefect 2014 Report
My responsibility as Head Library Prefect is to coordinate and oversee all of our school’s Student Library Prefects. I am also required to speak with the library staff and student body on matters concerning the Library, such as upcoming events and maintaining the rules. I contributed to the Library by creating a Suggestions book for students and teachers to write what books they would like the Library to purchase. I even designed the cover myself. This year there are 32 Student Librarians with 16 Student Library Prefects. They are a good bunch of students who regularly attend their duties and always contribute to the positive atmosphere of the library.
Te Ara Poutama for students to study with the help of their teachers. Another aspect of the Library Prefects is to organise and run at least one Library Event in groups of two or three. So far these activities have been “Catch the Culprit”, “Laugh Out Loud”, “Mother’s Day Card Making” and “Music Mayhem”. The latter would have to be the most successful because Cameron and Jacques played a variety of music in the library during regular lunchtimes for two months, which was longer than they had originally planned. This was due to the positive feedback from students, teachers and even the Principal.
Student Librarian Life as a Student Librarian
I love Day 1 because it’s like having a VIP pass to the room that holds millions of stories, lives and adventures. THE LIBRARY! I get to see which books people pick and I help them to get their books out. I hang out with friends and while shelving we laugh at some of the spine labels. I have learnt tonnes of things being a librarian. Things like social skills and brainwork; shelving those books is always a real brainteaser! Why would anyone not want to be a librarian? Pearl McClintock and Michelle Trotter Year 9
My overall goal is to provide a safe and warm place for students to study and enjoy loosing themselves in the wonderful world of books.
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The library hosts many activities throughout the year. Brain Drain is held during the middle of Term 3 and every Thursday after school the library hosts
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Learning Centre Horse Riding
Fun and confidence-building
Alla-Joye gives horse riding a big double thumbs up!
Cassie’s Birthday A day of celebration!
Cassie turned 21 on the 29 July. Head boy Daniel Collings, Head girl Alana Hathaway, other Year 13 students and members of
Special Olympics
Athletics and Swimming Sports On Wednesday 19 March, Mrs Tennant and Mrs Tisot assisted by the lovely teacher aides, took the SLC students to Special Olympics
Cassie, Esther and Alla-Joye received their ribbons after their 100m running race.
With generous funding from Pub Charities, the students of the Student Learning Centre are able to go horse riding once a week at Horse Riding Warkworth run by Roger and Heather Mackenzie.
New year 7 student, Isaac, rides with confidence.
Yazmin loves to go horse riding and is a very good rider.
her Whanau helped the Student Learning Centre celebrate this day with a huge cake her Mum had made and other scrumptious food the students had made. Cassie was very happy and we all wish her well for her transition to AIM next year.
Athletics at the Millennium Stadium on the North Shore. The students all took part in a walk or a run, shot put or soft ball throw and long jump or standing long jump. We had a lovely sunny day and all of the students received ribbons at the end of their races.
On the 29 October, the SLC students went to the Stanmore Bay Leisure Centre to take part in a Special Olympic swimming ribbon day. All of the students had a fun time and did well in their races. Instead of ribbons, they received certificates.
Jake and Mrs Marsh are walking fast in the 50m walking race.
Isaac has a big smile after his race.
Yazmin and Helena enjoyed getting their ribbons after running their 100m race.
Peer
Mediation Peer Mediation Keeping the peace
The Peer Mediation program at Mahurangi College runs all year long and involves a team of twenty-four year 12 students who monitor the year 7 and 8 area at lunch time, keeping an eye on the students’ play and interact with them in order to form a strong relationship between the senior and junior schools.
R Resist all forms of dissing. E Educate younger students by modelling appropriate behaviour. S Support victims of abuse. P Protect others from abuse. E Encourage friendship and understanding. C Challenge unfair treatment. T Teach others to resolve issues by peaceful means.
One pair of mediators patrol while the other pair stay in one of the year 7 classrooms which is open for any year 7’s and 8’s to come with an issue they want to talk about or to just hang out.
Once students have signed the pledge they receive a badge with the word STAND that acknowledges their agreement to stand up against and not partake in bullying. The programme was very successful with a large majority of students enthusiastically signing up.
The year 12’s also run mediations for any recurring problems between two students that want a safe and relaxed environment to seek a solution.
We feel confident that this programme will assist in reducing bullying and indicate to potential bullies that they are in the minority and will not be tolerated.
This year the Mediators ran a new program called, ‘Stand.’ Junior and middle school students were been given the opportunity to sign a pledge against bullying in the form of an acronym of the word ‘RESPECT’;
With so many students showing their support, hopefully potential bullies will feel intimidated and students learn that working together with a common goal can achieve success.
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Student
Another event in the Peer Mediation calender this year was the annual Peace Week, held in Term 3. The Mediators organised and co-ordinated events for each day of the week. On Monday the a group of Mediators arrived at school early and wrote inspirational and peaceful messages in chalk around the school, with the aim of bringing a smile to the face of students. Tuesday was yoga at lunchtime, which while not particularly popular was a lot of fun and very relaxing. Wednesday we held a bake sale and Thursday was ‘Positive Peg Day’ which involved a few of the Mediators writing friendly reminders and quotes on pegs and then passing the positive messages on in a school-wide pegging game.
The programme was very successful with a large “...majority of students enthusiastically signing up...”
Friday was compliment day – throughout the week we had boxes posted outside the office and library in which students from all years posted compliments with a friends name and year group to be delivered to them in Whanau on Friday. The compliment boxes were a huge success with around 650 compliments delivered over a range of all the year groups. Overall the year has been fairly hectic, but great fun with an amazing bunch of Mediators who were so involved and intuitive with their role from the start of the year. I’d also like to say a huge thank you to Mr Dowling for his amazing support, ideas and dedication and also good luck to next year’s leader! Lydia Overton - Chairperson
Madi and Chontel-Rose show off their ribbons after doing the 50m walk.
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Zane is getting ready to throw the 4kg shot-put.
Holly is going as fast as she can in the 100m wheelchair race.
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Survival Trees for Survival
SADD Week
Planting Day
Students against dangerous driving
As part of 8obr’s science programme they have been lucky enough to be involved with the Trees for Survival Programme.
The Snells Beach students brought a similar number of seedlings to the planting day and we spent a hugely satisfying day planting.
also had direct links to the year 8 River to the Sea topic from term one and has added to their knowledge about caring for
Under the direction of their science teacher Mr Les Cave the class grew over 850 trees from seed.
The students were supported by a number of people from the local community, Trees for Survival and The Rotary club. Following a morning of hard work, a barbecue lunch was provided for the whole group who were justifiably satisfied with their achievement.
our beautiful environment.
“... the whole group were justifiably satisfied with their achievement...” On the 7th of August 8obr joined a group of students from Snells Beach School to plant the seedlings on the bank of a stream adjacent to a section of the Mahurangi Farm Walkway and on the Trotter property.
SADD Week
The children learnt a great deal about hard work and perseverance. This programme
SADD or ‘Students Against Dangerous Driving’ week was organised this year by Ellie Hamilton-Hunter, the student representative on the Student Exec and it
was a huge success. The mock crash and dead day involved students promoting this very important message. SADD is a national organisation that works to promote the message of safe driving, especially sober driving. There are too many
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Trees
Students Against Drink Driving
fatal accidents on the roads in New Zealand, a large number involving young people. SADD works to ensure that our young people are educated and sensible when driving, hopefully preventing more unnecessary deaths in the future.
A huge thank you to Mr Cave for his tremendous work and determination to pursue this worthwhile kau papa with our students and for providing me with one of my most enjoyable days of the school year. Gary O’Brien - Teacher, 8obr.
Business
Studies Market Day
Business Boot Camp
The second annual Year 11 Business Day was held recently when 12 different businesses sold a variety of goods and experiences at lunchtime. The students learned to write a business plan and then execute on the plan.
The country’s next group of aspiring entrepreneurs was given a crash course on the realities of business in Auckland during the last week of the first school break.
Business Day 2014
This year every business was profitable and with each business making a “Tax donation” approximately $200 was raised for the fight against cancer.
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Business Studies - Young Enterprise
The inaugural business boot camp, an intensive five-day camp organised by Massey University, saw 56 financially minded senior high school students from more than 20 schools converge on the university’s Albany campus.
For Mahurangi College student Holly Bakker, the chance to see how a variety of businesses operate was an extraordinary opportunity. “Meeting with so many different businesses and making lots of new friends was incredible, it changed my perspective.” The camp included visits to HP, Microsoft, BNZ, Harbour Sports and the Chelsea Sugar factory, and overviews of functional areas of finance, human relations, accounting and marketing from Massey lecturers and presentations by speakers from Drake NZ, Hewlett Packard, BNZ, Juicy Rentals and NZX. The students, who gave up a week of the school holidays to attend the camp, also practiced the ‘soft skills’ needed for business success such as negotiations, networking, public speaking, managing their careers and dealing with stress. As a result of Boot Camp Holly received a $1000 scholarship to attend Massey.
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Year 13 Camp
The Great Barrier Expedition Dateline: Thursday 30th January 2014, 11:30pm, Sandspit wharf: 112 tied, weary and scruffy trampers emerge from the Kawau Kat and stumble onto the jetty to reclaim their packs. Many are still suffering the effects of sea-sickness and a drenching due to the rough crossing back from Port Fitzroy. Despite this the faces are cheery and the conversations animated and passionate as the trampers recount their various highlights over the previous weeks hiking and camping expedition. Each group had their own highlights and of course what happens on the island stays on the island, but in overhearing the gossip this is some of what I overheard or saw. Mr Winiana’s group managed to lose a few, near the end of the Tramline, although Mufasa (aka Mr Winiana) would claim that they were merely ‘temporarily misplaced’. Mr Callachan’s group on summiting Mt Hobson took the obligatory group photo on the trig station. However on noticing it was rather rotten they took precautions.
Mr Frost’s group decided to help him set up in a new hair replacement business and gave a demonstration at the end of tramp variety concert. This involved transferring some of Scott Wright’s whiskers to the patient’s bald spot. I doubt this new business venture will pose a challenge to ‘Advanced Hair Studio’, but time will tell. Mrs Zhang’s group have the distinction of being on hand to watch the camp’s first helicopter rescue. One of their party had a severe asthma attack and didn’t respond to treatment so the Westpac Trust helicopter attended to stabilise the patient and transfer them to the Claris doctor, for further medical treatment. Mrs Johnston was based at Okiwi school and conducted the peer support training
Year 9
Camp December 2013
Unfortunately Mr Callachan wasn’t able to warn the members of Mrs Campbell’s, who followed the next day. As they posed upon the trig, a leg collapsed under them, sending them sprawling – oh dear!
Kauaeranga Valley and Pinnacles Sadly camp this year will be remembered for the terrible weather. For the 2nd time in 19 years we had to pull out of camp a day early due to torrential rain. Certainly it was the worst one I can remember for weather.
with each group, as they rotated through. Fortunately she’s a very compassionate person, because on two nights it was so windy that several tents blew down and she had ‘homeless’ campers seeking shelter in the classroom she was using. On behalf of the school, thanks to the students who attended and responded to the various challenges so positively. Also a special thanks to the fourteen parents who assisted on the tracks and in the driving operations. This camp wouldn’t be possible without the staff and parents who so willingly and ably give of their time to ensure everyone is a safe and enjoyable experience.
For the first time, I thought I was not going to get every one to base camp (home for us) due to rivers rising to levels that made them dangerous to cross. The good news is we proved we had it everything in place to keep everyone safe in such circumstances.
Thinking positively, it was just another great adventure. It was lovely to see students on the Camp Facebook page with exactly the right attitude! “Camp was so much fun. Can’t wait until year 12 when we get to go back!” “Walking around in the rain was amazing and we got to experience some things that other groups didn’t.” Just to top it off, the truck had a blow out on the way home. Thanks to John and Emma for hanging in there.
“... we got to experience some things that other groups didn’t...” Many thanks to Mike Lewis who risked life and limb crossing the rising river (attached with to Rhys Powell and Gavin Webb), to secure a rope for students to use to support themselves crossing. Although the water level conveniently fell to what was considered “safe to cross”, there is still considerable force in fast flowing water and it pays to have a holding rope. I for one, was very pleased to get everyone home that night, and I am sure many parents joined me in that!
Thanks to all the parents, staff and senior students for your dedication, hard work and enthusiasm.
Thanks also to all the students. You are the ones that make camp so special. Your positive attitude and gratitude for all the work people put in to make camp happen is a credit to you all! Here’s hoping that as we move into our 20th camp the sun smiles down on us!
R. Stirling - T/C Year 13 Camp
“... of course what happens on the island stays on the island, but...”
Year 9 Camp
A Student’s Perspective On the first day of camp, group four set out to reach the summit of the Pinnacles hike. With fresh legs the whole group was eager to start the long walk. We reached the hut which would be our home for the night in about 4 1/2 hours. Some very brave students decided to brave it out and take a quick dip in the freezing cold swimming hole up there. The next day, despite our sore legs and shoulders from heaving our packs up the mountain we stared to trudge back down again.
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Year 13 Camp
The group soon forgot about all their aches and pains the next day as our first activity was bush craft. First Mr Sterling freaked us all out with one of his in tense (and dramatic) stories of people getting lost and
dying in the bush before he led us into the bush and purposely got us lost. After that, still damp and cold, we headed down to the raft building in some terrible conditions. We worked hard to complete the rafts to ‘near’ perfection before testing these magnificent structures in the river. We tried in vein to get the girls raft not to tip over due to the terrible current in the river but the boys managed to complete the race with a respectable time considering the rapids that were slowing them down. Unfortunately the next day was spent packing up and taking all the tents down in the pouring rain so we were unable to complete the last two activities but we still had lots of fun and in the end we were like a real family. By Sara Jones
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Camp Year 8 Camp Goat Island
Year 8 returned to Goat Island for their annual camp. The camp relates to extensive studies of the marine and fresh water environments conducted in term one. During the camp, students snorkel in a non-marine reserve environment before
comparing conditions in the marine environment at Goat Island. They also kayak, visit Auckland University Marine Centre and are given the opportunity to work with local experts in fresh water and ocean environments. It’s not all work though. Students stay in tents, some for the first time, cook their own food, with the help of Year 12 students, complete a challenging Burma
Camp trail and sing along with camp coordinator, Mr Taylor. A favourite activity for many of the students is the unique military style spotlight event on the last night. A favourite moment for teachers, Year 12s and helping parents is when an exhausted hush fell over the tents and the gentle sound of 60 snoring Year 8s could be heard across the paddock!
“... sound of 60 snoring Year 8s could be heard across the paddock!...”
Year 7 Camp
the parents that supervise and help to run the activities.
Mahu’s newest students embarked on their first of many college camps only a couple weeks after starting college life.
Not only do students get wet and have fun but they have to overcome the challenges thrown at them. These activities require the students to listen to each other, work together and use their problem solving skills. Needless to say some groups are more successful at this than others.
Peter Snell Youth Village
As has been the case for a number of years the camp was at Peter Snell Youth Village, Whangaparaoa. The purpose of the camp is for students to get to know their new classmates, their homeroom teacher and have lots of fun doing so.
Once the activities are completed, it’s down to the beautiful beach for a swim
Despite a lot of screams and even some tears everyone made it through the Burma Trail – even Mr Tennant made it through in one piece. Day 2 sees a big clean up before the arrival of the next group. It’s then off to Shakespeare Regional Park for a tramp, via the waterfall and the lookout. After two hours of eating and tramping it’s time for a swim and debrief at Army Bay before loading up the bus and heading back to Mahurangi College, exhausted.
“... this way everyone gets the opportunity to make new friends...” Upon arrival the students are put into dorms with students from different primary schools. This way everyone gets the opportunity to make new friends. Then it’s time to rotate through four awesome activities- the slip and slide, waterslide, bivouac building and the initiative course. As with most school camps the Year 7 Camp relies heavily on parent help and it’s
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Year 8
and fun on the swing before heading back to camp for dinner.
After a big feed the students head to the Hall for games before dark. As the games are played noises are heard in the bush and rumours of ‘Nugget’s’ offspring and other scary beasties lurking in the bush are circulated. With fear at fever-pitch it’s off into the bush for the Burma Trail.
Although short, the Year 7 Camp is an awesome camp. Friendships are made and fun is had by all. It is a great way to begin what is a very productive first year at Mahurangi College. The Year 7 teachers would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all the parents that came along as without their support the camp would not be possible.
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Geography Rotorua Trip Level 1 Geography
We arrived early Sunday morning at school, bags packed and eager to learn. With “colouring pencils in hand”, we piled onto the bus and vans with Mr Blyth, Mr Callachan, Mrs Moncrieff, Mrs Jones and Mrs Caldwell.
Arriving at Tui Ridge, with only enough time to have an ice cold shower and to put our bags on our beds, we went straight into assessment mode. After 2 hours of writing we had dinner that was a “not achieved” vegetarian lasagne, and a dessert that was far better (merit). Then we were straight back into writing. At 11:30 we went up to our cold dorms to endure a
With McDonald’s and energy drinks, we returned to Tui Ridge for more assessment work. After 4 hours of non-stop hard work it was movie time on the big screen. The action in Men in Black 3 was enough to keep most awake, but some couldn’t handle it and were obviously in search of much needed
“... we had dinner that was a“not achieved” vegetarian lasagne...” On stopping at our first location at the Wairoa River, we realised it wasn’t going to be all book work but getting stuck into fieldwork like real geographers.
Cold, muddy and wet we had to scramble onto the bus again for the next locations to gather our data. After a short drive we stopped for lunch and a change of clothes with the boys stocking up on meat before we were immersed into the vegetarian culture of Tui Ridge. Two hours into the drive towards our Rotorua base, the bus driver decided to detour via the urban metropolis of Morrinsville to stop for a bathroom break. While he was waiting for us he went to Countdown to grab his week worth of groceries. After waiting half an hour, he finally appeared shopping bags and roast chicken in hand. We were finally off again.
restless night’s sleep. In the girls dorm all was quiet until someone decided to loudly moisturise their legs in the middle of the night. After this event we heard an alarm that no one wanted to take the blame for, making this a difficult night for sleep.
beauty sleep. After lights out, some inspired artwork with glow sticks in the boys’ dorm somehow appeared (low merit), to be much appreciated by the teachers. As hilarious as it was, we fell asleep pretty fast, exhausted from protein deficiency and academic overload.
After breakfast some students spent an hour finishing off the work we still hadn’t finished the night before. The majority of the day was spent sight seeing at the Buried Village and Wai-o-tapu. We were careful not to walk into the steam as it was extremely foul smelling.
Next morning we were packed early, ready to jump on the luge. After roaring down the track a couple of times, we were happy but ready to go home on what we thought was the last four hour stretch of our journey – but someone forgot to go to the bathroom before leaving, resulting in a one hour detour through the middle of nowhere, causing the teachers to use some non-geographic language.
For lunch we were set loose on RotoVegas. Everyone went their separate ways in search of animal protein. A few of the guys got some fabulous new phone cases, and a few lost their friends in Countdown (are they real geographers)? After filling up on more meat, we met back up at the bus.
We managed to arrive back at school, tired but buzzing from the experience. A trip we will never forget. By Gabby, Ruby, Siobhan, Sam and Elijah.
Level 2
Geography Tongariro Trip Level 2 Geography
The compulsory baking was loaded onto the bus and Mr Callachan was set to go. We were quickly acquainted with five Rodney College girls, settling into our seats for the 7 hour long bus ride to Tongariro National Park. After a few pit stops along the way we arrived at the Rangipo Desert to collect our first lot of data. Taking a while to get to grips with what we had to do, eventually everybody had finished and were to get out of the cold. Our accommodation was at Pipers Lodge in National Park. A vast improvement from the vegetarian lodge of the year before!
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The Thursday night brought with it lots of excitement! We would be privileged with carrying on a Mahurangi College Tradition, having a formal dinner at the Chateau Restaurant. Dresses and heels galore for the girls, ties and long pants for the boys. We were all glammed up taking heaps of photos and enjoying the atmosphere of the historic building. After a thoroughly enjoyable night we headed back to the lodge for some much needed sleep. Friday was another fieldwork day, heading first to Whakapapa Village to check out a nature trail and get familiar with the native plants, we then headed further up Mt Ruapehu. Navigating our way through the volcanic rocks we finally gathered all we needed then an announcement was made...
“... feeling exhausted, but proud of our accomplishment...”
Being up at 6 the next morning was a shock for most of us as we had to prepare ourselves for the long hike of the Tongariro Crossing. Arriving at the base of the mountain we were briefed by Mr Blyth and Mr Callachan who then led the way through the Mangatepopo Valley.
Views were limited as we trudged through the fog, not the nicest day for mountain climbing. Nearing the summit Mr Blyth took a group right to the top while the rest of us carried onto the Ketetahi Hut. The fog had cleared for our trek downhill allowing us foreign views of the mountains, without snow! We were able to finish by late afternoon, feeling exhausted, but proud of our accomplishment.
... A weather bomb was about to hit the Waikato and North Region! We needed to get home, and fast. A quick stop in the beech forest in Ruapehu to collect our final data set then it was back to the lodge to clean up and make our way back. By the time we made it back to the college it was dark and we were all ready to spend the weekend resting up. Our trip had been action packed and full of excitement, even though it was cut short by a night we still and an awesome trip.
We would like to thank Raoul Robertson, Kyle Deans, Catherine Wynne, Mr Torrie from Rodney, Mr Callachan and Mr Blyth for taking us on this trip!
◀ By Kelsey Sanderson and
Eden Robertson
“... exhausted from protein deficiency and academic overload...”
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Challenge
Duke of
Edinburgh
World Challenge
Duke of Edinburgh
Over the 2013/14 summer holidays 18 students, Ms Goodwin and Dr Zhang travelled to Vietnam and Cambodia through an organisation called World Challenge. We were away for a month, travelling up and down the country and doing some amazing things.
Duke of Edinburgh had another busy year at Mahurangi College. With large numbers joining the program, students have
The award consists of four sections at bronze and silver level and five sections at gold.
This year Rebekah Wilson completed her Gold Award. This is the highest level that can be achieved in the Duke of Edinburgh
involved themselves in a range of different activities. Duke of Edinburgh provides students with the chance to make new friends, enjoy the outdoors and challenge themselves to try new experiences. It helps
Students are required to spend a specific amount of time participating in a physical activity, learning a new skill, volunteering within the community and training and partaking in an adventurous journey. In
program and involves a huge amount of commitment in order to be completed. Rebekah is one of very few Mahurangi College students to gain her Gold Award. Congratulations Rebekah!
Making a global difference
The challenge of the outdoors
students to gain confidence, develop interpersonal skills and will provide many long lasting, enjoyable memories.
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addition, at gold level students are also required to participate in a residential project.
“... and will provide many long lasting, enjoyable memories...”
One of the most significant parts of the trip, aside from seeing both the beautiful countries, was becoming immersed in the local culture. We spent one week over Christmas in an orphanage outside of Phnom Penh and I think I speak for everyone when I say that it changed us. We saw first hand what those
“... every day was filled with laughter and happiness...”
children had gone through, yet instead of being a sombre week, every day was filled with the laughter and happiness of the kids.
We also spent time in Siem Reap visiting Angkor Wat and took part in treks through Ratanakiri
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National Park and the mountains of Dalat.
Overall the trip was amazing and we saw a part of the world that is not commonly a destination for many people, and we able to take part in some amazing experiences.
The skills and confidence and memories we gained through this trip will stay with us forever. This trip definitely inspired us all to travel the world, we’ve all caught the travel bug and I encourage everyone to take the opportunity when it comes around.
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Cultural
Blues Awards Evening
An evening of cultural celebration The Cultural Blues Night is dedicated to award and honour students who excel in the arts. This year’s Cultural Blues, held on Thursday the 23rd of October, surely did go off! After
an introduction by the Jazz Band and a welcome from Mr Macleod, we were graced by a beautiful Kapa Haka performance. Throughout the night, awards were given to students who have achieved highly or been highly involved in the arts throughout the year, whether it be
performing arts, visual arts, creative writing or service to culture. Cultural blues are awarded to those who have achieved at an exceptionally high standard and Merit awards to those who only just fell short of a blue. Some students received special awards which give recognition for their high standard in a particular skill.
“...performances and a hilarious drama piece (a bathtub was involved)...” Special Awards
Outstanding Cultural Service
Congratulations to the following students who won special cultural awards this year. These awards represent outstanding cultural service and achievement.
SARA JONES Up and Coming Year 10 Award
FINDLAY BUCHANAN The Atkins Award for Drama
CADE HANSEN Up and Coming Year 10 Award
ALEX HILL Technical Support Cup
KUTUMI LEFFERTS Spenceley Trophy for Most Dedicated Student to Music and Performing Arts
EDEN ADAM The Singing Cup for Excellence in Classical Singing
ATANREREI RUI Southern Paprika Cultural Award for Services to Pasifika
KRYSANA HANLEY Basil Kirker Achievement Award for Services to Choral Singing
The performances of the night were what really made this year’s cultural blues stand out from every other year I have been at Mahurangi College. Phenomenal dance, choir and band performances and a hilarious drama piece (a bathtub was involved). The Performing Arts Academy incorporated voice, dance and musicianship all into one impressive performance of the recent song “Aotearoa” by New Zealand artists.
Cultural Blues Awards
Other performances included some sweet harmonies by “The Black Gems” and a rowdy Pasifika performance which was sure to get everyone up off their seats if they weren’t already! The 2014 Cultural Blues really did show how Mahurangi College has flourished in arts and culture the past few years and it was a huge honour to be a part of this unforgettable night. Olivia Collier - Cultural Prefect
Blues, Merits and Certificates
Congratulations to all the students who won Cultural Blues, Merits and Certificates this year, as well as those who are recognised for their services to culture at the school.
Cultural Blue
Service to Culture Blue
CADE HANSEN - Dance
KUTUMI LEFFERTS - Library / Performance
ALANA HATHAWAY Dance Makers Trophy for Performing Arts Person of the Year
LYDIA HENDERSON - Dance
ALEX HILL - Stage Technology
ABI SIM - Dance
STEVEN BEECHEY - Music
ELSPETH FREE Moira Atkinson Trophy for Cultural Person of the Year
CALUM GRAY - Dance
OLIVIA COLLIER - Music
SYDNEY SHEAD The Elliott Cup for the Visual Arts Person of the Year
CLAUDIA AINSCOW - Stage Challenge ARIAANA OSBORNE - Stage Challenge ELSPETH FREE - Dance / Drama / Stage Challenge
Service to Culture Merit
Service to Culture Certificate Recognising the considerable service students have given to the school band and choirs over their years at Mahurangi College. SAVANNAH GORDON - Band and Stage Challenge backstage and set DANIEL COLLINGS - Band and Stage Challenge backstage HENRY LEE - Band
BRYCHAN DEMPSEY - Stage Technology REBEKAH WILSON - Choir JACQUES ROBERTSON - Library
SARA JONES - Music CAMERON BOYCE - Library
SUMMER GARNER - Choir and Harmony group and Stage Challenge
ALANA HATHAWAY - Speech ROSE GANNAWAY - Speech MOANA WINIANA - Music
Morris & James Competition Every year Morris and James sponsor a writing competition across all levels at the school.
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Cultural Merit
1st - ELIZABETH MURPHY
IMOGEN CAPES - Dance
2nd - SOPHIE GREEN
GEORGIA BOYD - Dance
3rd - ALEX HUNTER
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Hazel Kirk
Arts Academy
Hazel Kirk
Old time music hall spectacular!
and singing routines all introduced by the rather extravagant Mr Interlocutor!
period costume, all singing along and interacting with the performance.
Performing Arts
This year’s Junior Production was an Old Time Music Hall with the Victorian melodrama ‘Hazel Kirk’. The Music Hall acts showcased lots of colourful dancing
The melodrama required dedication from the actors as they learned many lines and perfected their delivery. The Gala evening saw lots of the audience dressing up in
Craig Taylor did a truly magnificent job of transporting the cast and audience back in time, to provide an evening of entertainment, Victorian style!
2014 has been a year of marvellous experiences for the 20 senior Performing Arts Academy students. Together the group grew, learnt and bonded until we went from being a motley mix of artsy individuals to a finely tuned team bringing shows and performances to the students of Mahurangi College.
“... all singing along and interacting with the performance...”
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Performing
Mahurangi College PAA 2014
We often become so absorbed in our own hobbies we forget to appreciate how hard others work towards theirs. We also forget how hard it was when we first started. Those first lessons back in the day where we were plunking away on keys to learn scales on the piano, pointing our toes correctly at the barre, or learning how to use breath correctly when we sing. Those days seem so long ago and we all secretly breathe a sigh
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together with organising all our lunch time performances turned us into a slick little production company! The Performing Arts Academy has given us all a chance to grow, experience and meet others who seek to achieve highly in their chosen fields. We were supported by our lovely coach & artistic director Jenny, who organised all of
“... inspired by professionals performing what we all aspire to do...” We had the great opportunity to attend many wonderful cultural performances around Auckland, attending ballets, orchestras and the theatre. These provided the occasions to dress up, and be inspired by professionals performing what we all aspire to do.
of relief that we have improved significantly since then. But we were all brought right back to basics in our “Lessons for Dummies”. These were lessons where a “pro” would teach the rest of us how to play their chosen instrument, how to hold a tune, or do some basic ballet steps.
It also gave us all a chance to get to know others in the Academy and what it is that makes them enjoy their art and what they aspire to achieve in their later years.
Of course, almost all of us who had no experience in another part of the arts field really learnt to appreciate how hard the rest of the team works and this
“Words can’t do justice describing my experience in the PAA. These are my extremely talented friends, they have inspired, encouraged and taught me incredible new things about the arts. For them and their incredible range of skills, the only way is up. I’m truly grateful that I was part of the ride, so what else to say but, Thank you.” - Sean Dugdale-Martin
“The PAA has really taken me outside of my comfort zone in an amazing way. It has been a privilege experiencing so many different types of art forms with such talented people” - Liam Teo
our trips and performance opportunities, and also gave us the space to create and debate our own ideas around the weekly meeting table.
This year has been not only an exciting one for the Performing Arts Academy but it has created a team of students who will be sad to leave or see each other leave when the year is over. By Lydia Henderson
“Mahu’s PAA has given me the opportunity to learn from a bunch of really talented, like-minded people this year. I’ve been exposed to a number of different styles of music, dance and drama through collaborating with other members and attending performances in the city (usually late night and dressed outrageously). It’s been fab!” - Alex Hunter
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Mahu’ Jazz Band
2014 Junior and Senior Jazz Bands The two Mahurangi College jazz bands have been active during 2014 in different ways. Our band of younger players has regularly rehearsed on a Wednesday before school under the direction of our saxophone/
The images show the senior jazz band playing in Paihia in August. In the photo, students are wearing coats, and the reason for this was the temperature of seven degrees for the one and a half hours of performance. This cold has a detrimental effect on the instruments, which continually go out of tune, so not only does the human have to battle the cold,
“...They have come ahead in leaps and bounds...” clarinet tutor Michelle Waring. They have come ahead in leaps and bounds in their playing skills as well as learning some of the tricks of improvisation and jazz performance.
The senior band has continued to be involved in community events such as the summer fete out at Point Wells and the unveiling of the new town clock in Warkworth.
but also the instrument. Luckily our two other gigs were inside, so we were able to perform much more comfortably.
The bands also had the pleasure of playing with the Navy Band who came to perform at school at the beginning of August. It was a great opportunity for students from both groups to sit in and play during a lunchtime. There were tips and tricks shared from these professional players who are obviously
Mahu’
Choirs adept at building an encouraging rapport with young musicians. They were really inspirational for everyone in our two bands. Much of the tuition for the instruments in these bands is free of charge. We are looking for new players all the time and would welcome enquiries from anyone who is interested in playing big band jazz.
Senior Choir Singing Group
Senior Choir 2014 has been a blast. We started the year with preparations for the Big Sing, the annual choir competition in Whangarei. For this competition we were required to perform an old piece, a New Zealand piece and then a piece of our choice. For our three songs we chose “Iona Boat Song”- a traditional folk song, “Promise of Land” by our very own Jenny Eirena, and “Edge of Glory” by Lady Gaga. We won the award for “Best Performance of a New Zealand Song” in the competition, and a Highly Commended Award. Both were awesome achievements. Our pieces for the Cultural Blues and Senior Prize Giving in term four were, “Anything You Can Do” from Annie Get Your Gun and “Promise of Land” performed one final time.
We also performed “Lullaby of Broadway” joined by Mahurangi’s other talented groups – the Junior Choir, the Harmony Group, the Performing Arts Academy and the Jazz Band.
We’ve had a successful year, but sadly we are saying goodbye to our awesome choir director Jenny Eirena; we’ll miss her a lot. By Alisha McLennan
“...we won the award for Best Performance of a New Zealand Song...” Junior Choir Singing Group
Mahurangi College Junior Choir is a fabulous group of dedicated young people who sing their hearts out every Thursday morning before school. We have learned to sing using sol-feg (as in do-re-mi, like in “The Sound of Music”). We have developed great sight singing skills and have enjoyed playing, singing and improvisational games.
We have entertained local residents with a variety of wonderful songs, and have developed in our performance skills as a result. The Junior Choir is a supportive group, which encourages people to take risks while developing technically and creatively.
Harmony Group
“The Black Gems” is the auditioned choir at Mahurangi College, otherwise known as the Harmony Group. We have 14 members who are dedicated and talented and thoroughly enjoy singing together. Our specialty is close harmony singing and creative arrangements and compositions. Our award at “The Big Sing” in Whangarei.
Performing for residents at Summerset Falls mid-year.
“...have developed great sight singing skills...” The Black Gems
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Jazz Band
This year we have achieved great success at the Whangarei Big Sing competition.
We were awarded a Commended Certificate and won the prize for “Deportment and Stage Craft”. We also performed a concert at St Columba’s Presbyterian Church, which was an occasion where individuals could shine and our group pieces could be enjoyed. Our year’s work was rounded off with performances in both the Cultural Blues and Senior Prize Giving, performing “Kaleidoscope Heart” by Sara Barielles and “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap.
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Pasifika Pasifika at Mahu’
Celebrating Pasifika Success Pasifika students at Mahurangi College have had an exciting and successful year. The students bring a colourful dimension to school life and our two prefects have worked hard to raise the profile of Pasifika students this year. Atanrerei Rui initiated the first Celebration Fono that acknowledged the success of the students in the classroom and for NCEA. It was an enjoyable evening and culminated in Special awards for an outstanding student from senior, middle and junior school. These recipients epitomised the gentle, polite, caring and hardworking nature that we see from our Pasifika students. This year the awards were won by Kappy Makasini, Veronica Nabuti and Aborina Arawatau. Our performance group continues to delight audiences in school and in the
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wider community. We performed at the Mahurangi East Library in Snells Beach for Pasifika languages month, at the Pasifika awards Fono, the Cultural Blues night, at assemblies and for the residents of Summerset Rest Home. Pasifika week was an occasion for the whole school to enjoy. As well as the performances, the school learnt greetings from all the Pacific Island nations we have represented in the school. A name game in the Library where students were challenged to read Pacific Island names from a card was well supported. The week was rounded off by our students wearing their traditional dress to school and students made Supa Sui for the teachers and students to sample. The students continue to be integral in the success of sports teams and are well represented in whanau events. What a great year!
separation also had to put up with the burden of her father’s mistakes.
Stage Challenge is a student lead performance of dance, drama and design spectacular. Students are expected to come up with a storyboard that creates depth and makes the audience reflect and become aware of the subject chosen.
After doing research we found that it is the people around the children of parents in prison who help direct their path, so we showed the struggles she went through with other children bullying her at school for something that was “not her crime but still her sentence”. Once she was in a downward spiral, instead of ending the performance with people helping her to finally break the cycle, we ended it with the cold hard truth when she is sentenced to be behind bars.
“Not My Crime, But Still My Sentence”
Atanrerei and Taketi at PILOT, Pacific Island Leaders of Tomorrow.
This year the stage planning team chose an issue that was more close to home. Loosely taken from the New Zealand organization “Pillars”, our piece was about children who have parents in jail. This appealed to us, but
be placed second amongst really great pieces by other schools. We also won 7 awards of excellence for: Stage Use, Drama, Set/Design and Function, Choreography, Costumes and Visual Enhancement. We also won the ‘Student Led Awards’. But none of these awards would have happened without the amazing planning team. Being a student lead performance all aspects such as set, costume, makeup, choreography and more were allocated to a student to handle. They worked tirelessly to complete the huge workload and did better than I imagined! We also could not
“...created a performance based around a girl’s journey growing up...” we were unaware of how many kids are affected. Statistics show that children who have parents in jail are 7 times more likely to end up behind bars themselves.
Arama, Tuuta, Taketi and Tauaa Learner licence success.
“...epitomised the gentle, polite, caring and hardworking nature...”
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We created a performance based around a girl’s journey growing up, with her father being taken away when she was young. The daughter, traumatised by the
Each scene was thought through carefully with specific meaning and information. We wanted to show the truth about what is happening in our communities and hopefully the audience can reflect on the issue. On Friday 4th of July we competed against other schools in Auckland at the Aotea Theatre. It was an indescribable feeling to
have done it without the actual performers and stars, their handiwork and dedication is also how we achieved 2nd place. I am so incredibly proud to be a part of this year’s Stage Challenge. It has been an experience I will never forget. Claudia Ainscow-Pati
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Students International Students
Senior Kapa Haka
2014 saw 67 international students attend at various times of the year. Most of us came from Japan and Germany, but we also had students from France, Spain, South Africa, Cambodia, Brazil, Chile, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Austria.
Cher bro wot ta yer itz ben. Nah hang a minute let’s get it right.
Bringing the World to Warkworth
It has been an ‘awesome’ experience for us, learning new ways of doing things, made special ‘mates,’ watched and sometimes took part in new sports like touch, netball, rugby as well as the ones we are familiar with – soccer, basketball. Inter House haka, all House activities, the production, our powhiri that made us feel special are activities we remember. Having to wear a uniform is strange for most of us and getting used to only five or six subjects when we mostly have 10-13 seemed a ‘breeze’. Some subjects we do not have in our home countries so doing Technology like cooking ,Te Reo, and furniture were special and much appreciated. From our start at the beginning of the year, Great Barrier camp for some of us, and orientation for all of us, has gone really fast. In Mr Johnston’s words, learning everything we needed to know at first is like “drinking from a fire hydrant,” but we did (or most of us.) NZ vocabulary and Mahu’ oddities made us even more of a kiwi – snags, barbie, meat pies, knackered the olds and more and more.
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The year changed somewhat this year. Whaea Vikki moved to Auckland and came once a month to keep up the standard. Whaea Kyle pursued a new career as an air hostess. Go Whaea gee you look sweeeeet.
Our trips…2014 saw our first South Island tour organised by Mr J and what a great experience that was, but really cold! Try de icing the van doors in July when everything is frozen solid! We really enjoyed the fun and a wonderful chance to see most of the central and north of the North Island, even the rain in Northland on the sand dunes. What amazing scenery you have here! Have you ever seen the Hokianga harbour entrance on a beautiful day?! We even began learning how to cook our meals and know that chuck steak is for the family cat not for the barbie! Most of us have never been fishing and to catch a fish was wonderful. Sand dune ‘surfing,’ real surfing at Omaha, rafting the Kaituna and going over the 7m waterfall, jet boating on the Waikato, visiting Hobbiton were all highlights. Thanks also for our shopping trips to Albany although Mr Johnston soon gets bored!
Special thanks to Mrs O’Flaherty for being our school ‘mum’ and listening to us, and to Mrs Leslie who carted us around from homestay to homestay (for some of us.) To our homestay families who welcomed us into their homes, our huge thanks – we feel we are Kiwis now and would love to come back some day. And we will. Also thank you to our teachers who are so patient and tolerant with us, as we struggled with the English. When we were naughty Mr J ‘graduated’ us in environmental studies and went to different places in the school that most don’t visit, like the flax bushes and the fence line along the rugby field. Some of us did this several times. So kia ora everyone at Mahu’; we had a wonderful time here. You will always have a special place in or hearts.
Nah nah but back to the year. So in comes Mr Winiana and Mrs Hawken. To put in a sterling effort I say wot wot. And wot, where was I. Ah yes. The Kapa haka group small in number but big in heart practiced on Wednesday after school and had a number of intensives. The Junior Kapa haka group combined with the Senior Kapa Haka group to make up a consistent group of at least 20 at each practice. No not seniors, mainly Year 7&8’s.
We hosted Kerikeri High School who were performing at the Te Taitokerau Festival at Rodney College. They were humble, polite and graceful performers.
Charlotte Wallington Year 11 was the leader of the group with help from Year 10 students Harrison Pene-Bavastro and Mariana Winiana. And Kayla Fillery. At times we had guest appearances from our loving Seniors Ariaana Osborne and Atanrerei Rui.
Mariana Winiana, although our only speaker was awesome and so was the group.
Another time a small group went up to the Nga Manu Kōrero up in Kaitaia and that was cool.
try our best no matter what. Also on that evening congrats to the main winners Ariaana Osborne - Senior, Mariana WinianaMiddle School and Takimoana PhillipsJunior School. The Kapa haka group also went out to the Summerset Falls Retirement Village and
“... brought a tear to their eyes as they sang and performed...”
The group attended ANZAC Day at the Warkworth RSA with a very fitting performance of the old songs such as “Don’t sit under the apple tree” and “White Cliffs of Dover”. It was very moving.
Performing at assemblies highlighted the groups ability to perform at a high standard in front of their peers and also the dreaded Seniors. They were also a class act at the Māori Achievement evening, with guest speaker Hayley Shishka (ex-mahu pupil). She inspired our students to aim high and
brought a tear to their eyes as they sang and performed items that took the old dear ones back to their younger years. What a joy it was for both us and them. This year we are hosting the Kaipara Festival and we will be simply superb there. A year of change and moving on. Young is the group, with a bright future. Grass roots but true to heart. Tama tu, Tama ora, Hine tu Hine ora. Tatou katoa Mauri ora.
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Technology Senior Technology Expo Evening 2014 Showcasing the work of senior Technology students On Thursday, the 21st of August we held our annual Technology Expo Evening. The event showcased student work from every Technology area, including Fashion Design, Woodwork and Furniture, Engineering, Hospitality, and Graphic Design.
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Fashion
Design
Fashion Design
Below is a sample of the creative pieces designed and constructed in Fashion Design senior classes. Students follow a design brief and create garments as part of their own collection.
Creative Garment Design
industry is huge in New Zealand, and our top chefs, restauranteurs and serving staff are second to none. We lead the world in many areas of design and engineering, from America’s Cup yachts, to architecture and green energy.
“...history of ingenuity and craftsmanship...” Highlights of the short, one hour event included a catwalk fashion show with students modelling creations from Fashion Design, live demonstrations of 3D printing and CNC machining, finger foods expertly prepared and served by our Hospitality students, Furniture and Mechanical creations on display, and visual presentations of creative work from our Graphic Design students.
Students who are successful in Technology subjects often go on to have the biggest impact on our daily lives. The hospitality
Our fashion designers are recognised and respected globally, and we have a history of ingenuity and craftsmanship that goes back to our first settlement in the country.
We are excited to be able to give some recognition to these Technology students’ efforts each year, and support them in their chosen areas of education. Thank you to all of you who joined us and made the evening such a success. We look forward to seeing you all there next year!
Hospitality Hospitality
Food Technology
These meals and finger foods have been highlight of many school events, with students providing professional food service.
As with previous years, 2014 saw Hospitality students produce a wide range of exquisite meals, prepared and presented to the highest standard.
Through this training many students have learned the skills required to go on to work and succeed in the New Zealand hospitality industry.
Georgia Riley-Wood
Emily Peden
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Erin Allen
Jasmine Hanley
Anastasiya Baranova
Jasmine Searle
Eden Robertson
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DESIGNED BY YEAR 13 LEAVERS
CLASS OF 2014
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Junior Faculty Celebrating Success in the Junior Faculty Outstanding Year 7 and 8 Students and Award Winners
The Junior School has recognised and celebrated these students for their successes, shown below, in 2014.
Morris and James Year 8 Winners: Elvira Trowbridge, Phaedra Capes, Isabella Stevenson.
ICAS Science Exam: T Jessica McCormick (Yr 7) Received a Distinction and Ryan Torckler (Yr 7) Who received High Distinction, Absent Jordan Vegar (Yr 8).
ICAS English high achievers Year 7: Kiera Gray, Peter McHale, Gabriel Tahitahi, Grifin Crawford, Riley Popham, Nigella Anderson, and Ryan Torckler. Absent: Jessica McCormick, Rowan Buick.
ICAS Writing exam: Jessica McCormick (Yr7), Riley Popham (Yr7), and Maxwell Meale (Absent - Yr7) all received a Distinction.
ICAS Maths high achievers Year 7: Riley Popham, Peter McHale, Ryan Torckler, Grifin Crawford. Absent: Jessica McCormick, Cameron Phillips, Cormack Blennerhassett.
Mahu’s Year 7 Mathex team achieved second at the Whangarei Mathex competition. Well-done Davey Newcomb, Ryan Torckler, Peter McHale, and Alex Bindon.
Year 7 speech winners: Eden Langsford (1st), Ryan Torckler (2nd), Coco Bone (3rd), Jess McCormick (4th).
The Year 8 speech winners: Elvira Trowbridge (1st), Aurelia Torkington (2nd), Arielle Heslop (3rd). ICAS English high achievers Year 8: Elvira Trowbridge, Lauren Adams, Anais Bentley, Noam Webber, Finn McClellan, Jordan Vegar, Jo Miller, Aurelia Torkington, Aran Corteen and Mikaela Kirk.
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Morris and James
These are the top placing short story writers.
Year 8 1st Place - Phaedra Capes 2nd Place - Isabella Stevenson 3rd Place - Elvira Trowbridge
Year 10 1st Place - Nina Mirfin 2nd Place - Hannah Dunn 3rd Place - Seth Kirk
Year 7 1st Place - Leilani Jones 2nd Place - Ethan Grice 3rd Place - Rowan Buick
Year 9 1st Place - Nicole White 2nd Place - Claudia Munro-Boga 3rd Place - Julia Caulfield
Seniors 1st Place - Elizabeth Murphy 2nd Place - Sophie Green 3rd Place - Alex Hunter
Short story writing competition
Jack and the Beanstalk
by Elizabeth Murphy - 1st Placed Senior
There was once a peasant woman and her son Jack. The winters were harsh in their land, the ground became barren, icicles danced in the windows and their table was bare. Only one cow still stood in their field and soon it was to be sold.
ICAS Maths high achievers Year 8: Elvira Trowbridge, Jordan Vegar, Noam Webber and Aurelia Torkington.
Year 8 action plan evening winners: Cayle Farmiloe, William Patterson, Jordan Vegar, Anna Schollum, Aurelia Torkington, Emily Martin, Intuane Faale, Maddy Courteney. Absent: Caitlin Rouse, Emily Mahady , Devon Blair, Kate Powell, Phaedra Capes and Ben Holland.
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Celebrating Success in the
Year 7 Morris and James winners: Ethan Grice (2nd), Leilani Jones (1st), Rowan Buick (3rd).
Jack and his mother went to the markets but even after haggling with every merchant there, they couldn’t find a price to suit them both. Until a strange merchant wandered in. His voice was enchantin g, honeyed and silvery. The strange merchant spoke of these glorious magical beans and the more he spoke of them, the more Jack needed them. Jack traded the cow for the beans without telling his mother. After finding out, she was enraged but the deed was done. Together, they planted the beans in the paddock where the cows used to live. It grew and grew. It grew so tall the beanstalk seemingly reached the heavens. It grew so wide that Jack and his mother could not touch if they stood on either side. The roots grew so tough and so deep that it would take a whole village to pull it up. Everyday the desire to climb the beanstalk grew in Jack until one day he could no longer deny it. He ascended the plaited, green ladder. Up and up he climbed and it was a long time before he found himself at the top. There he froze, awestruck. Peonies, forget-me-nots and daisies carpeted the ground. Roses sprawled over stone walls and a giant willow tree stood in one corner. Over everything was the faint stench of compost. Tending all this beauty was a massive ogre. He was hideous but the fingers tending the flowers were gentle. Over and over he dipped his hand into the bag of compost and spread it over the flowerbeds until the bag was finally empty. Standing, he beckoned to Jack to follow him through a gate in the stone wall. They came to the ogre’s house and Jack was invited in. He stayed there for a while and helped tend the garden. He pruned the roses, weeded the flowers and trimmed the willow tree. They composted the garden together and it flourished. And all the time he was there the beanstalk grew. Jack became a son to the ogre. He was a comfort to the ogre as he grew feeble and sick. Jack took over tending the garden more and more. And all the time the beanstalk grew. Eventually the ogre died and he left his garden and his house to Jack. Jack stayed there and pruned the roses, weeded the flowers and trimmed the willow tree. Now however, he composted the garden by himself. And all the time the beanstalk grew. Thoughts of his old life started to come more often to Jack. As beautiful as the garden and the house were, he missed his mother and the village. At first he pushed the thoughts down and tended the garden, pruning and weeding and trimming. He continued composting by himself. And all the time the beanstalk grew. Until one day he could no longer ignore his desire to see his mother. So he climbed down the plaited, green ladder. When he got to the bottom he froze. Gorse and crabgrass carpeted the ground. Stones and sticks were all that were left from the stone walls that once stood. And dominating it all was the beanstalk. It had grown so wide and tall that it obliterated all that stood around it. The farm was gone. The market was gone. Jack pivoted, taking it all in. The destruction of the place he loved. No garden, however beautiful, could replace it. Tears blinded him and rage coursed through his body. He spied an axe dropped near the beanstalk and started chopping but it did no good. The beanstalk was so strong that one person could not make a dent in it by themselves. It’s roots were so tough and so deep that it would take a whole village to pull it up. But the village was gone. And all the time the beanstalk grew.
Ryan Torckler won the Australian Minecraft building competition.
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Or sharing r dubstep crap I can hear from seem to write them off as narc the other side of the bus. I feel issistic based on when they wer sick that people e born. I don’t think these kids but themselves – or me for that , my friends, are shallow enough case! Yeah yeah, we all need to love no one to love and be happy with ours that hippy stuff, feel the peace elves at the end of the day and or whatever, but that’s different all the rest of to loving absolutely NO ONE clothes, or phones or somethi but yourself. We’re all going to ng for ourselves ever y now and go out and buy again, and a little selfie here ‘baby boomer’ generation thro and there never hurt anyone. ugh to me, generation Y, is goin Ever yone from the g to do stuff for themselves ever a narcissist, or does it mean that y once in a while. Does this then we all have a small amount of make me not narcissism in us? I am a millennial. Generation Y. Born between the birth of AIDS and 9/11, give or take. The for our sense of entitlement and y call us “the Global Generation” narcissism. But make sure you . We are known get to know me before you file being generation Y, I am also me under this stereotype. Bec Nina Jade Mirfin, a unique indi ause as well as vidual who loves her phone and hates stereotypes.
Too Quick, Too Sudden, Too Late... by Nicole White - 1st Place in Year 9
before I gracelessly hit the ground with a thud, causing a mini The sharp, pointy branches cut and slashed themselves against my body ss, my weight on my left side, a lot on the arm. My mind motionle ground, the earthquake beneath me. I lay awkwardly sprawled out on open, I gazed up at the rays of strong sunlight, casting pillars of blurred as I slowly began to regain consciousness. Eyelids slowly fluttering amongst me. I lightly stroked my right temple, locating the heat was heat Such Heat. me. above golden mist through the trees towering high movement was enough to ignite sparks of pain all over my simple small, source of sweat trickling down my face. Was it sweat though? That fuelling the sparks into small flame balls. A small groan back, my onto ly complete over rolled carelessly I arm. left body; back, neck, head... all this time, it still hurts even thinking about it. after And obbing. head-thr escaped my lips, activating the on switch to the agonising enough homework done for now, the light of daylight savings The dog run and fed, the ponies cared for and covered for the night and until it was a little darker. I needed to. Being outside cleared my just longer, was quickly creeping away. I wanted to stay outside just a little in the garden, the lone Gleditsia that towered above the rest head of the millions of things cramming it. I gazed out longingly at the trees knife into my shorts from the garden shed, just in case I pocket my slipped sneakily I up? high in particular. What would it be like to be that could get even higher another time, and set out to the trees. my way through the maze of trees and bush and gazed up at Barefoot, hair loose, grubby old farm clothes. Just the way I liked it. I found as if with a warm smile beaming down on me, the wind its vocal the great gleditsia, greeting it like an old friend. It welcomed me in return, of the tree as I began my journey toward the sky. part a became soon I . branches and chords whispering through the leaves ly high that most would cower at even attempting to achieve. Higher and higher I climbed without a fear or a care in the world. So terrifying to go higher! But I was weary, tired, cold, darkness passion the had still and be to want Higher still. I didn’t care. I was as high as I would had plenty of other times to get even higher, but I just would’ve sure creeped in all around me. “Just a few more branches!” I thought aloud. I branches up, I began to carefully settle myself onquered toughly-c few A it. ng overflowi problems constant the needed to drought my mind of to slightly shift my already dangerous having knife, pocket my for grab to as safely as possible to mark a record in the tree trunk. I started have time to think about that; didn’t I But movement though. and uncomfor table position in the process. Too much of a quick, sudden I was already falling.
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Narcissistic Generation Y
by Nina Mir fin - 1st Place in Yea
Midnight Blue, The old fisherman & Daisy
by Leilani Jones - 1st Place in Year 7
Every day I go for a walk over the hill to Blumber Berry Park with my fluffy little spaniel, Spark. I love this place, deserted with lush green grass, smot the way it’s so isolated and hered with wild flowers and the brigh t blue bay dotted with tiny fishing boat sparkling, turquoise waves. s bobbing about on the Every time there’s the same friendly fisherman sitting on a rotten park benc h. Today he sits gazing at some old forgo the kids who feed the squawking seag tten bread crusts left by ulls. His gnarled, wrinkled hands clutc h some oily fishhooks. As he see’s me break into a friendly smile. I grin back his wrinkled, old cheeks . His lustrous eyes twinkle from abov e a small brown mole. He looks at me “Is your sister coming fishing today?” in that friendly way of his. he mumbles nodding to the pebbly path that meanders down the hill. My little honey coloured curls bobbing about sister jogs, over her soft like one of those rubber ducks in the bathtub. ” Hi Daisy,” I say. “You kids want to try catch a fish?” sugg
Enraptured
by Phaedra Capes - 1st Place in Year
ests the fisherman man. “Yeah OK,” I say with a shrug of my shou lders giving her a grin. She smiles back and skips over to the wooden jetty besid old, red, rusty shed. e the
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is thick in the atmosphere. The pungent aroma of Indian spices life. with es All around me the market thriv It is surreal.
. my stomach and I turn, looking down A strange sensation tugs at the pit of iling. unsm and re somb up, s my mind. Long, thick lashes stare Behind me the petite child , stamping a permanent image into are liquid coals, burning into my skull They ely. ediat imm me re . captu gaze eyes Her le to avert my an ebony pool, and I find myself unab pink colour, not unlike the delicate hue frame them like palm fronds around beads and paste jewels. It is a dusky ed paint with lined sari a is e fram Wrapped around her scrawny of her dry, pouting lips. She is mesmerising.
She extends her hand ed orange by the dirt of the market. c are her feet, shoeless and dusty, stain skin. my of tone Down past the swathes of gauzy fabri pallid the by re I can touches my own, seemingly intrigued nation - but only for a moment. Befo towards me, fingers out stretched, and gazing up at me with unconcealed fasci and r finge my onto ng holdi , there For a moment she is iduals. , swept away by the tide of jostling indiv ing chaos. Yet one register what has happened, she is gone stationary being in this flurry of stunn only the , cane hurri the of eye the am I if as is it and me nd arou swirl The crowds image dominates my thoughts. will never forget them. in etched into my mind and I know I Those piercing eyes, dark as night, rema
fisherman’s The old man puts on his ancient, grey coat and walks over to the wooden jetty. His upturned collar juts out as he hand fishing rod. I throw the line out and s me an oily, red wait. I hear Daisy’s tinkling voice besid e me and the old fisherman’s gruff voice your line. You might hit Sam on the saying, “Daisy watch head.” I duck the shining, fishing hook as it narrowly misses my head. “ Oops blonde curls bobbing about with excit ,” she giggles her soft ement “ I bet I’ll be the first one to catch a fish.” “Oh whatever,” I say.” I think I’ve alrea dy got one,” I yell jerking the rod. I wind the rod. Fast. Faster. The water swirls like a whirlpool. “ Here it comes,” yells Daisy her voice filled with excitement. Within seconds a dazzling fish appears. “ Oh,” Daisy gasps in delight, staring at the water in surprise. It is a spark with shining gold scales. I carefully lift ling dark blue fish sprinkled it up out of the water and pry the hook from its mouth. ” I’m going to call the Daisy declares proudly. fish Midnight Blue,” We let Midnight Blue go because she is protected around here. But before I lower her into the water the old man Blue and us so we can remember her. snaps a picture of Midnight I lower her into the water and with the flick of her tail she glides away, her golde the light before the dark blue water n scales sparkling in snatches her away. “Goodbye Midnight Blue,” I whisper softly after her.
I am enraptured.
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SHOWCASE
Level 2
Painting, Design & Photography
SHOWCASE
Level 1
Painting & Art Design
Jorgia Bays - Photography
Ruby Garner - Art Design
Nirvana Hansen - Art Design
Megan Kilmister - Painting
Kym Price - Art Design
Milly Tunnard - Photography
Milly Tunnard - Painting Student - Art Design
Sylvana Ashton - Painting Lucy Twigg - Art Design
Ruby Garner - Art Design
Mate Stancich - Art Design
Gabby Bissett - Painting
Alex Still - Photography Nicole Bindon - Painting
Kym Price - Art Design
Nicole Bindon - Painting
Lucy Twigg - Art Design
Milly Tunnard - Painting
Heidi Tuffley - Photography
Megan Kilmister - Painting Harrison - Photography
Megan Williams - Art Design
Katie Wright - Painting
Heidi Tuffley - Photography
Eleanor Diaz-Ritson - Painting
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Liam Caldwell - Art Design
Gabby Bisset - Painting
Harrison McKenzie - Photography
Harrison McKenzie - Photography
Daniel Stringer - Art Design
Sophie Crean - Art Design
Pearl Williamson - Art Design
Pearl Williamson - Art Design
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SHOWCASE
SHOWCASE
Level 3
Painting, Design & Photography Lydia Overton - Photography
Mikaelah Whaanga - Photography
Chelsea Lemmen - Painting Mikaelah Whaanga - Art Design
Sydney Shead - Photography
Erin Allen - Photography
Ella Harnish - Painting
Bree Wooller - Painting Alley Bissett - Photography
Claudia Ainscow - Art Design
Shaye Cornall - Art Design
Claudia Ainscow - Art Design
Melissa Hallett - Art Design
Megan Thompson - Painting
Dominique Morgan - Painting
Elizabeth Errington - Painting
Mikaelah Whaanga - Art Design
Melissa Hallett - Art Design
Dominique Morgan - Art Design
Erin Allen - Photography Brooke Mitchell - Photography
Sophia Miller - Art Design
Ryan Helleur - Photography
Sydney Shead - Painting
Angela Berger - Art Design
Lydia Overton - Photography
Mikaelah Whaanga - Photography Alec Bartlett - Painting
Sydney Shead - Photography
Jessica Hallam - Photography
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Alley Bissett - Photography
Anastasiya Baranova - Painting
Melissa Hallett - Art Design
Aran Clewes - Painting
Rebekah Wilson - Photography
Summer Garner - Photography
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SPORTS
Sports
Academy
Blues Awards Evening
Celebrating sporting success Congratulations to all students who achieved at the Sports Blues Awards this year.
Blues Award Winners ATHLETICS: Tonya Botherway, Chantelle Maher, Benjamin Mennenga, Jay Morris, Pale Vaotangi. BMX: Mitchell McFarlane. CRICKET: Shaun Beamish, Findlay Buchanan, Van Grooby, Liam Jones, Shannon Kloppers, Noel Roberts. CROSS COUNTRY: Lucy Rowe. EQUESTRIAN: Rose Gannaway, Harrison Sterling.
Thank you to all the staff and parents who give up their time to coach, manage or officiate for a school team. We can’t do it without you. Merit, Services to Sports Awards and
Team Achievements were recognised at assemblies this year. Congratulations to those who received an award. Your efforts contribute to the successes of Sports at Mahurangi College.
FOOTBALL: Amelia Arnerich, Summer Bowden, Lara Sutton, Frankie Walkington, Sean Wilcox, Jackson Woods.
TOUCH: Lewis Arthur, Alley Bissett, Carlin Dunn, Tamara Hagger, William Haughey, Chrysanthe Hawken, Tama Hawken, Danika McKenzie, Kristopher Middleton, Ariaana Osborne, Mako Osborne, Lachie Williams, Mariana Winiana, Tamatea Winiana.
GYMNASTICS: Thea Henderson. HOCKEY: Tonya Botherway, Brianna Cadwallader, Seb Saunders. NETBALL: Coco Bone, Ella Hauser, Chrysanthe Hawken. SWIMMING: Chantelle Allen, Amelia Arnerich, Vincent Bubbert, Jamie Peterson, Tayla Rogers. TAE KWON DO: Anna Hanley.
UWH: Forrest Axford, Rebecca Twhigg, Sarah Wilson.
Services to Sports - Blues TOUCH: Moana Winiana. UWH: Forrest Axford, Jorgia Bays, Max Hargreaves, Elliot Snedden, John Su, Lucy Twhigg, Rebecca Twhigg, Rebekah Wilson, Sarah Wilson.
Team of the Year
2013 Junior Open Underwater Hockey - Gold at the 2013 NZSS Nationals Team members: Forrest Axford - Captain, Sarah Wilson (Co-Vice Captain), Rory McKay (Co-Vice Captain), Amelia Arnerich, Rebecca Twhigg, Samantha Jones, Pearl Williamson, Callum Rice, Leo Arnerich, Elliot Snedden and Christian Mitchell.
Sportsman of the Year
Forrest Axford - Underwater Hockey - Qualified referee at regional and national secondary schools level. - Coaches Junior and Senior teams. - Has been captain of the teams he plays in. - Selected for NZSS National Tournament teams in 2013 and 2014. - NZ U18 Representative this year.
Sportswoman of the Year Ariaana Osborne - Touch / Rugby 7s
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- NZ U19 Womens Squad. - North Harbour U21 Women’s Representative. - Touch Referee for school.
Merit Award Winners
Services to Sport - Merit
ARCHERY: Hannah Brassett, Bailey Earley.
HOCKEY: Tegan Illingworth, Zane Illingworth, Sara Jones.
ATHLETICS: Beeba Amuera, Brianna Cadwallader, Samuel Cadwallader, Alisha Dempsey-Jensen, Hugo Dixon, Noah Hallam, Eria Kaneama, Lucy Rowe, Olivo Silvestro, Abbigail Sim, Cane Whitaker, Louis Young. BASKETBALL: Lucas Mennenga. CRICKET: Rhys Jones, Liam Wewege. CROSS COUNTRY: Samuel Cadwallader, Shona Illingworth, Katherine Rowe, Louis Young. GYMNASTICS: Emily Campbell. HOCKEY: Molly Illingworth, Davina Jones, Kaleigh Morris, Alex Neumann, Theo Neumann, Noel Roberts, George Swift, Jack Swift. SWIMMING: Chantelle Maher. TOUCH: George D’Urban-Burgess.
Sports Academy The mission statement of the Mahurangi College Sports Academy is, “to provide elite athletes with an environment where they can excel to their potential.”
This program is designed to help students achieve to potential. Concepts that are covered include goal setting, programme design and implementation, what professional elite athletes have and do that make them excel. Also included are nutrition and injury prevention.
This is the seventh year of the Mahurangi College Sorts Academy and academy
It is hoped that this course helps students become more focussed & dedicated athletes.
A significant sponsor has been retained who has been impressed about what the Sports Academy is trying to achieve and
students have excelled in their sporting endeavours this year. The elite athletes have performed at the highest stage and represented the college with distinction.
Also that the athletes understand the requirements of elite athletic performance and how these demands can be accomplished.
this year gave each participant a new set of shoes and a shirt. I would like to thank ‘The Brittain Wynyard Founders Trust’ for their continued support for this Academy.
Mahurangi College Sport Academy Participants 2014:
While student’s experienced great success this year, a special mention needs to be made of the success we had in the pool in Underwater Hockey with:
Sporting Elite
COMMENDATION: Hockey Girls 1st XI Team Hockey Boys 1st XI Team DISTINCTION: Touch 2013 Year 7&8 Mixed Team Underwater Hockey Senior Open Team HIGH DISTINCTION: Hockey Year 7&8 Girls A Team Touch Senior Mixed Underwater Hockey Junior Girls
The aspects of goal setting and time management along with a better understanding of their own demands on themselves will also help in academic performance. Many of the academy students also aspire to achieve excellence in NCEA.
“... students have excelled in their sporting endeavours this year...” PIA SCHUSTER - Sailing ELIZABETH MURPHY - Shooting RUBY SHEARING - Surf Live Saving
FORREST AXFORD - NZ U18 Underwater Hockey Team SARAH WILSON - Underwater Hockey Tournament Team - Juniors
FINDLEY BUCHANAN - Cricket TRISTAN GILL - Sailing LOUIS YOUNG - Athletics
Team Awards
SPORTS
Sports
FORREST AXFORD - UWH MAX HARGREAVES - UWH
Other academy members represented North Harbour or Northland representative teams. Also further congratulations to Forrest Axford, who was awarded the Mahurangi College ‘Sportsman of the Year’ award. We look forward to continued support and student sporting success in 2014.
SARAH WILSON - UWH ALEX NEUMANN - Hockey ELLA HAUSER - Netball BROOKE ADAMSON - Sailing CHANTELLE MAHER - Long Distance Swimming
Achievers of the Year
CHANTELLE ALLEN - Swimming
Forrest Axford, Tamara Hagger, Thea Henderson, Mitchell McFarlane, Danika McKenzie, Rebecca Twhigg, Sarah Wilson, Mariana Winiana.
JAY MORRIS - Athletics KRIS MIDDLETON - Touch
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School Athletics Day
North Harbour Champs Auckland Champs Regional Finals
Regional Finals
Archery Report
Overall Champions for 2014:
Following on from our School Athletics Day our top athletes then went on to compete at the North Harbour Finals Day against the top athletes from other North Harbour Schools. We had some very good performances.
The Auckland Athletics Championships were the next event for the year. Our athletes who did well in the North Harbour Championships were selected to compete at the Auckland Championships. This competition has all of the top athletes from Auckland competing. We had 11 Mahurangi College athletes selected, which is the most we’ve had represented at these championships.
Archery has been an extremely successful sport for all students involved. It allows students of all ages, strength and gender to compete on a level playing field. Every archer just wants that satisfaction of getting a bull’s-eye and are always working on and challenging themselves to gain higher scores because we all want that score of 50.
SPORTS
Athletics at Mahurangi College Year 7 Boys: Cormac Blenerhassett Year 7 Girls: Shona Illingworth Year 8 Boys: George D’Urban-Burgess Year 8 Girls: Brianna Cadwallader Junior Boys: Cane Whitaker Junior Girls: Thea Henderson
Intermediate Boys: Jay Morris, Samuel Cadwallader, Joshua Shirley
North Harbour Champions for 2014: Intermediate Boys’ Shot Put: Jay Morris Int’ Girls’ Triple Jump: Tonya Botherway 2nd Place:
Intermediate Girls: Tonya Botherway
Junior Boys’ Long Jump: Cane Whitaker
Placings at Auckland Championships:
Senior Boys: Louis Young
Junior Boys’ Shot Put: Pale Vaotangi
Senior Girls: Abbigail Sim
Junior Boys’ Discus: Pale Vaotangi
Jay Morris was 3rd in the Intermediate Boys’ Discus.
Congratulations to the following boys who broke School Records:
Junior Boys’ Javelin: Noah Hallam Intermediate Boys’ Discus: Jay Morris
Year 7 Girls’ Discus: Korotaake Tebutokai 19.29m (previous record 18.61m from 2011)
Senior Girls’ 200m: Eden Manuel
Year 8 Girls’ Long Jump: Brianna Cadwallader 4.27m (previous record 4.24m from 1979)
3rd Place:
Year 8 Boys’ Long Jump: Benjamin Mennenga 4.58m (previous record 4.49m from 2002)
Senior Girls’ High Jump: Abbigail Sim
Senior Boys’ High Jump: Keegan Cole 1.75m (previous record 1.73m from 2013)
Junior Boys’ 800m: Olivio Silverstro Int’ Girls’ Long Jump: Tonya Botherway Junior Girls’ Shot Put: Beeba Amuera Senior Girls’ Javelin: Alisha Dempsey
Tonya Botherway (Triple Jump), Cane Whitaker (Long Jump) and Noah Hallam (Javelin) all finished 4th in their events. Other top 10 places were Hugo Dixon (800m), Sam Cadwallader 7th (800m), Pale Vaotangi 7th (Shot Put), Olivio Silvestro 9th (800m). Congratulations to all of these athletes: Jay Morris and Sam Cadwallader went on to compete for North Harbour at the North Island Championships.
Junior Boys’ Javelin: Pale Vaotangi Senior Boys’ 400m: Louis Young Senior Girls’ 400m: Eden Manuel
Y7&8 North Harbour The North Harbour Championships for Year 7 & 8 were held at the end of 2013. After a successful Year 7/ 8 School Athletics Day in November 2013 a team was selected to compete for the College at the North Harbour Intermediate Year 7 & 8 Zone Day Championships. We must make special mention of our principal Mr Macleod, who jumped into the staff relay team at School Athletics, he took off like a gazelle (in his business suit) and unfortunately pulled a hamstring halfway down the straight culminating in a dramatic army style dive roll onto the ground. Good on him for having a go and the students all appreciated his effort and participation in the Athletics Day.
2014 Championships Results from North Harbour Athletics Day: Year 7 Boys’ Long Jump: Benjamin Mennenga
The 3000m champs are held on a separate day to school athletics and have their own North Harbour and Auckland Championships.
Year 8 Boys’ Discus: Pale Vaotangi
The school 3000m champions are:
2nd Place:
Year 7 Boys: Stam Ryan
Year 7 Girls’ 200m & 400m: Brianna Cadwallader
Year 7 Girls: Shona Illingworth
Year 7 Boys’ Shot Put: Eria Kaneama
Year 8 Boys: George D’Urban-Burgess
3rd Place:
Junior Boys: Liam Spur
Year 7 Boys’ High Jump: Benjamin Mennenga
Intermediate Boys: Hugo Dixon
Year 7 Girls’ 1500m: Lucy Rowe
Intermediate Girls: Chantelle Maher
1st Place:
The following students also represented the College at the Auckland Intermediate Athletic Championships: Brianna Cadwallader, Benjamin Mennenga, Lucy Rowe, Pale Vaotangi, Eria Kaneama.
On Saturday the 16th of August 16 archers including myself from Mahurangi College competed in the NASP (National Archery in Schools Program) competition held at Parnell College. All archers had five practice arrows each shot at 10 and 15 meters, then had three sets of five arrows at each distance that were to count.
Senior Boys: Louis Young Congratulations to Chantelle Maher who won the North Harbour Championships and to Sam Cadwallader who ran very well gaining a personal best time.
Mahurangi College was outstanding in the competition and our students gained the following places:
Junior Boys: Sam Overton - 1st place. Lars Noordhoek - 3rd place.
Senior Girls: Hannah Brassett - 1st place. Hannah also achieved the highest girls score and was awarded a bow, bow case, quiver, arrows and a target.
Mr Dowling the coach of Archery is one of the main reasons we gained so high in the competition with Parnell College. With his encouragement he has helped to build each archers abilities and skills, which we all have to thank him for.
Junior Girls: Kartini Clarke - 2nd place. Claire Mattner - 3rd place. Senior Boys: Bailey Earley - 1st place. Bailey also achieved the highest score for boys and overall competition. He was awarded with a bow, bow case, quiver, arrows and a target.
Basketball Basketball at Mahurangi College
3000m Championships
2013 Championships
Archery at Mahurangi College
Basketball Report
Int’ Boys’ 800m: Samual Cadwallader
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Archery
SPORTS
Athletics
This year saw the school fielding seven quads playing in the winter terms. Three teams; the MC Lions, the MC Thunder and the MC Hotshots from years 7 to 9, played on Monday afternoons at the Stanmore Bay Leisure Centre. Four teams; U15 boys, U17 boys, U19 girls and open men played in the North Harbour competitions at the North Shore Events Centre. Year 7/8 boys and girls also competed in the Intermediate School Zone Days. The senior boys and girls also played in the exchanges with Mt Roskill Grammar School and Hauraki Plains College. All the teams performed with credit and excellent sportsmanship throughout the season. Two teams managed to make podium finishes, in their respective leagues. The under 19 girls finished third in their competition, whilst the year 7 team, the MC Lions, won their league in the Hibiscus Coast competition.
The school wishes to thank the many parents who assisted with transport throughout the season, the committee and especially those active with the management and coaching of the teams. It wouldn’t be possible to field seven teams relying on the efforts of the staff alone, so their contribution is most welcome and valuable. A special thanks to our community coaches; Brian Hagger, under 19 girls; Rahiri Bennett, Open Men; Bevan Sterling, MC Lions and the under 15 boys, Gwen Hawken and Craig Clark, the MC Hotshots. Finally thanks to our staff coaches; Russell Stirling, the MC Thunder; and Simon Johnston under 17 boys.
As usual our prize giving, on October 15th, was well attended by players and parents and provided a convivial finish to the season. Among our many award recipients were top prize winners, Jay Morris, boy player of the year and Tamara Hagger, girl player of the year. Russell Stirling - T/C Basketball
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SPORTS
Cricket
Country Mahu’ Champs
Mahurangi College Cross Country The annual College Cross Country was run on Wednesday 7 May (Week 1, Term 2) and was held on the traditional course at the Warkworth Show Grounds and Mahurangi Rugby Club. All Yr 7 and Yr 8 students competed. It was optional but encouraged for Yr 9-13. Teams were later selected to represent the College in inter-school events at North Harbour and Auckland. The course was adjusted due to earthworks on new hockey turf - included creek, improvised crossing with plywood panels. It was a dry underfoot with good overhead conditions.
Senior Boys Louis Young Matthew Boyd Noel Roberts
Place Time 1st 16.14 2nd 16.31 3rd 17.51
Senior Girls Ella Harnish Eden Manuel Julie Weisser
Place Time 1st 9.44 2nd 11.12 3rd 11.33
Int’ Boys Sam Cadwallader Hugo Dixon Sam Reiff
Place Time 1st 16.24 2nd 16.52 3rd 17.49
Int’ Girls Chantelle Maher Sophie Hart Zoe Illingworth
Place Time 1st 9.25 2nd 10.12 3rd 10.22
Junior Boys Zane Illingworth Theo Neumann Liam Spurr
Place Time 1st 8.36 2nd 8.52 3rd 8.59
Junior Girls Sara Jones Nicole White Alisha Ferris Sophia Torresan
Place Time 1st 10.52 2nd 11.00 3rd= 18.26 3rd= 18.26
Year 8 Boys George D-B Luke MacKinnon Sean Willcox
Place Time 1st 7.49 2nd 8.59 3rd 9.00
Year 8 Girls Lucy Rowe Davina Jones Shar Illingworth
Place 1st 2nd 3rd
Year 7 Boys Finn Tomlinson Jack Campbell Ryan Stam
Place Time 1st 9.17 2nd 9.30 3rd 9.34
Year 7 Girls Shona Illingworth Kate Rowe Kaleigh Morris
Place Time 1st 9.29 2nd 9.57 3rd 10.32
Cricket Team 1st XI Report
Lucy Rowe in Year 8 ran a very well judged race to take over the lead at the three quarter mark to finish strongly in 1st place.
Katherine Rowe and Shona Illingworth ran aggressively in the Year 7 Girls’ race and led the field most of the way to finish 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Harbour/West Zones
Greater Auckland Champs Y7&8 North Harbour Greater Auckland Championships
Y7&8 North Harbour Championships
Our runners progressed to the Zone Championships at Moire Park, Massey. This was an interesting course including running on a bush trail.
Our best runners went to the Auckland Secondary School Championships, which were run in early June at St Kentigern College, Pakuranga.
Our team of runners competed successfully in the Year 7 and 8 North Harbour Championships held on 12 August at Onepoto Domain, Northcote.
There were a number of very pleasing performances with Louis Young (2nd Senior Boys), Julie Weisser - our International Student from Germany (4th Senior Girls), Zane Illingworth (4th Junior Boys), Sam Cadwallader (3rd Intermediate Boys) and Chantelle Maher in the Intermediate Girls.
There were large and competitive fields of runners, the course was very flat and covered the playing fields.
The rain cleared but the runners faced very difficult, heavy conditions underfoot.
North Harbour / West Auckland Champs
SPORTS
Cross
The boy’s first eleven cricket team had a very strong season only losing two games throughout the summer. The first set of games was for the Wyatt Cup, which Mahurangi College has not lost in over 4 years and continued that run going through undefeated. The team had wins over Dargaville, Rodney, Otamatea and Bream Bay. Highlights with the bat being two hundreds a piece for Noel Roberts and Van Grooby. Shaun Beamish’s remarkable 6 for 4 against Otamatea was the highlight with the ball. In this game we dismissed the visitors for 4 runs! The school experienced a mix of results during the business end of the season. We defeated Kamo High School in a Gillette Cup qualifying match, restricting
Kamo to 110 runs before chasing down the target with 3 overs remaining. Liam Jones (51*) and Findlay Buchanan (44*) were able to complete a 10 wicket win. This result meant a trip to Hamilton for the Northern Districts Gillette Cup qualifying tournament. Unfortunately, luck didn’t go our way during this tournament and we lost both fixtures to Strathallan and then to St John’s.
school cricketers showing very promising signs, the future of Mahurangi College cricket appears bright. On behalf of the team I would like to thank Mr H Cooper for coaching us for the first time. By Liam Jones
This year saw the introduction of a match between the schools stayers and leavers. This game was evenly poised when the leavers required 6 runs from the final over. Year 8 Lucas Smith bowled this over to Northland cricketer Noel Roberts and prevented Noel from hitting a four off the last ball for victory. While the team didn’t achieve what it set out to achieve this season, there were many positives to come out of it and with the next generation of
“... this was an interesting course including running on a bush trail...” Our best performers were Sam Cadwallader (Intermediate Boys) and Chantelle Maher (Intermediate Girls). They both finished in the top quarter of their race.
Rosa Keskic ran well to lead home our Junior Girls.
There were big fields of runners representing all the major North Harbour Intermediate Schools. Katherine Rowe and Shona Illingworth ran aggressively in the Year 7 Girls race and led the field most of the way to finish 2nd and 3rd respectively. Lucy Rowe in Year 8 ran a very well judged race to take over the lead at the three quarter mark to finish strongly in 1st place. Many others ran fine races with George D’Urban-Burgess finishing 11th in Year 8 Boys and Davina Jones 13th in Year 8 Girls.
Zane Illingworth (#258) and Liam Spurr (#261) hotly contesting the Junior Boys’ race at the North Harbour / West Auckland Zone Champs.
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Sam Cadwallader running very strongly in the Intermediate Boys’ race at the Auckland Cross Country Champs.
A number of these runners now qualify for selection to run in the Greater Auckland Year 7 & 8 Championships being held next month.
Equestrian
Mahurangi College Equestrian Team Another year has passed for our Equestrian teams. While we have only entered senior teams in three events this calendar year, the
Fund-raising has involved two BBQs at Mitre Ten Mega which were both successful. We were also very fortunate to receive a generous donation from Horse & Hound to put towards uniforms. Thank you very much to the Driver family for their support with this.
“...the horses don’t always feel the same way...” girls are always enthusiastic to be involved. Unfortunately, the horses don’t always feel the same way and can choose the most inappropriate time to throw a shoe, become lame or generally not perform. Our girls rely heavily on their fantastic parents to transport both horse and rider to competitions, some parents having to take time off work to do so which is not always easy. Your commitment is, as always, really appreciated.
This year our numbers have been strong with thirteen seniors (Year 9 – 13) but only two intermediates (Year 7 – 8) and we are always looking for new members.
Cecily Driver.
A special thank you goes to Georgia Robson, Kari Meachin & Alisha Dempsey-Jensen, the current year 13s, who have put a huge amount of time and effort into organising the team throughout the year. Vicki Clark - TIC Equestrian
Paris Allinson.
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SPORTS
Hockey Hockey 1st XI Girls Wow, what a season!
The 1st XI Girls Hockey have again excelled this season. With a fairly new refreshed young team this year no one knew quite what the season would hold. The girls started in a determined mood against some very tough opposition such as Westlake and Kristen 1st XI. Although these initial results did not go their way, the learning curve was immense and the talent
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Hockey 2nd XI Girls
took the lead within 30 seconds through some dynamic running by Tonya Botherway. The girls maintained the pressure throughout the first half with some impressive passing from both the midfield and forwards leading to a fantastic strike on a PC by Alex Neumann to put Mahu’ ahead, 2-0 at half time. Mahu’ entered the second half in a determined mood to extend their lead and within 10 minutes Alex Neumann displayed some silky skills to slot home her second. Mahu’ then came under the pump as Kingsway were not going to go down without a fight.
Season Report
Although the Girls 2nd XI Hockey team has had a bit of a rough season, we still managed to have an absolute blast. Despite suffering a large percentage of losses, the girls stayed strong and worked
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started to shine through. They finished 7th after the initial grading play only losing out to much larger and older teams. They found themselves placed in Grade 1A of North Harbour with everything to play for.
This is where the confidence and team spirit really started to grow. They produced nine straight wins in the final round to ensure that they finished 10 points clear at the top of the table. Despite this they still had to face Orewa in a semi-final, which they won 3-0 and then onto the final against Kingsway 1st XI girls. The girls started the match in high spirits and Tournament Week: This year the girls headed down to the not so sunny Mount Maunganui. Once settled into Cosy Corner the girls focused on the challenge in hand.
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Girls’
Kingsway slotted 2 goals in within 5 minutes to leave it 3-2 to Mahu’ with 5 minutes to play. Mahu’ forwards rose to the challenge and drove the ball to the other end to gain a PC with 2 minutes to go. Alex Neumann calmly converted the PC with a powerful reverse strike that left the keeper stranded and secured the win for Mahu’.
fun-filled warm-ups, and the development of skills on the field. But, we also faced some trying times with the many injuries we faced this season with our own team and our oppositions’: a cut lip, bruised forehead, hockey balls to the face, and damaged limbs. However, the girls stuck it out and created a wonderfully fun team environment.
team spirit amongst the girls is “...whatThereally made this season a success hard to develop their skills and build closer as a team. The team spirit amongst the girls is what really made this season a success. There were some times full of fun: sing-alongs on our journeys to and from games, post-match dinners, intense but
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The players awarded at the end of year prize giving were: Kendyll Butler - Most Valuable Player, Lily Walkington - Best Team Player, and Ashley Smith - Most Improved Player. Great season girls!
The girls have dominated their league this season through hard work, commitment and determination. Their success is well deserved and a great sign of things to come in the future for hockey at Mahu’. to prove why we beat them to the North Harbour 1A title. The midfield of Tonya Botherway, Alex Neumann, Zoe Illingworth, Katelyn Daysh, Tegan Illingworth and Marney Edwards all worked extremely hard linking and creating space wherever possible to create another convincing 4-3 win.
With Jamie Lee, Rebecca Twhigg and Amy Wewege solid in defence in the early rounds, the girls cruised through with 3 wins against Otamatea (9-0), Taradale (3-0) and Rutherford College (5-0). This was after some hard work and perseverance from the forwards who consist of Fleur Pancoust, Rhonda Davies, Sara Jones and Mariana Winiana.
The semi-finals are where we met our match. Despite the girl’s best efforts there was not enough left in the tank after a long hard season to turn over John Paul. John Paul is a well drilled dynamic team who were made to earn their position in the final by taking the game 5-2.
Now came the challenge with Kingsway drawn again in the quarter final, it was time
The play off for 3rd and 4th was another hard fought game against a team that was
much older on paper and had a large depth of experience to content with. Te Kura won 7-0, but provided a great learning experience for the girls of the next step they are to take in hockey with the goal to win tournament next year. Thank you to all the girls for their hard work, commitment and dedication this season. They have thoroughly deserved all they have achieved.
Intermediate Girls Season Report
An amazing season of hockey for the Y7 & 8 Intermediate Girls. They won the North Harbour Zone Day, went on to place 3rd at the Auckland Zone Day and then won their grade at North Harbour Hockey. Their defence was incredible! With only 6 goals
scored against them in the 15 games they played, this highlights their outstanding defensive play.
teams and supporters of Mahurangi College, your team and yourselves. Be proud girls – you deserve it!
The attack players were fit, agile and their tactful game play, out-manoeuvred their opposition and showed great skills! You are a team who have worked well together and gained great respect from opposition
Thanks to a very supportive and committed coach, Gavin Jones who helped develop the team and led them to victory! And a big Thank you to Christine Cadwalladder who did an awesome job at managing the girls!
Also a big thank you to Mrs Moncrieff for her amazing organization and dedication to the team this year – even wearing the Smurf outfit, there are photos!
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Hockey 1st XI Boys Hockey
Mahurangi College 2014 Report Last year at this time I laid out the get fit challenge. Get level 12 in the beep test, sprint 30m in under 4.5 seconds, do 140 1metre drags in a minute and you will make the squad. Any boy who achieves all three will automatically make the 1st XI squad. We had great results this year, after losing the first 4 games of the season we only had three other losses in the year. Over eight games we won by a solitary goal and often we would concede the first goal only to come back in the second half due to the fitness of the team. I think even the boys now agree that getting fit helped with our success this year. At the start of the year I put four goals in front of the boys: 1. Retain the Robyn Bruce trophy for lower North hockey. 2. Beat Hauraki Plains College 1st XI – something we had never done in my time here. 3. Win the North Harbour 1A competition 4. Get in the top two at tournament, (something that we had only achieved once before since I have been here). We came within the width of the goal post to achieving all of these targets. We retained the Robyn Bruce Trophy for lower North secondary schools with a solid 3-0 win against Bream Bay, and 2-0 win against Otamatea. Damp rain affected the game against Hauraki Plains and we had a solid 3-0 win. The first time ever? But will not be the last.
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Boys’
The team: Noel Roberts - Captain Alex Still Max Hargreaves
Seb Saunders Elliot Snedden Daniel Vaughan David Trotter
In the local competition we placed third in the round robin. We played Westlake in the semi-final on the same day we had played the Robyn Bruce trophy and when we were down 1-3 shortly after half time I thought we would run out of steam. However getting the third goal scored against us seemed to spur the team on and we dominated the rest of the game to draw even at full time, but we won on strokes. In the final we played Long Bay and after going down an early goal we again applied a lot of pressure and equalised with a good goal to Patrick Bates. Unfortunately, although we had chances we failed to score again, so it came down to strokes again. The second time this had happened in two weeks. This time things did not go our way and after hitting the posts twice we came second. Tournament this year was in Whakatane. After round robins wins of 4-3 over Trident, 1-0 over Gisborne Boys and a 2-0 over Te Kura Ruamata we came top in our pool. In the quarter final we played Te Puke and had a come from behind 2-1 win. In the semi final we started hot scoring 4 goals in the first 10 minutes to lead 4-1. Final game score was 4-2 as we didn’t push home our advantage.
Tournament game player of the day awards went to: Monday – Seb Saunders & Noel Roberts Tuesday – Max Hargreaves Wednesday – Robert Vivian Thursday – Alex Still Wally Awards (awards for boys who do silly things) this year went to: Sun / Mon – David Trotter Tuesday – Max Hargreaves Wednesday – Ben Mackinnon Thursday – Noel Roberts Thank you to Nikki Sneddon for coming away with the team, great company, easy to get along with and fitted in well with the old management team. And to Robert McVeigh for coming down on Thursday to help the team home. Finally I must thank my off-sider Geraldine, not only does she do transport draws, she is a financial manager, photographer, driver, cook, personnel manager, liaison contact, fund-raiser and IT expert. This team wouldn’t function without her.
In the final we played a big strong FAHS team and after a tense few minutes we gradually dominated the half without scoring any goals. Fielding Ag came back in the second half and scored a goal with about 10 minutes to go. We pushed hard having several chances to snatch a draw but failed to capitalise. Coming second is an achievement that the team should be very proud of.
Patrick Bates Ben Mackinnon Theo Neumann Robert Vivian
Zach Grey Cameron McVeigh Murray Sincock Sam Twhigg
2nd XI Boys Hockey
Mahurangi College 2014 Report What a great team to coach. Their enthusiasm and spirit made practices and games enjoyable and we often had full attendance. The results this year were a mixed bag. The team had some excellent battles against top ranked teams. After coming last in the first round the team improved to third in the second round. The highlight was a game against Glenfield 1st XI as they were the top team after round one and we beat them 6-3 with Sam Twhigg scoring 5 goals.
I would like to thank Brent Courtney for stepping in when I was unavailable to take a practice or a game. I really appreciate that support. It is hoped that all of these boys keep playing as the pressure that they put on 1st XI players helps push the standard of all players and of course some of these players should be looking to step up next year into the 1st XI. Players: Amitiel Lefferts Alex Crabb-Chishom Jared Came
Thanks also to Teresa Gibson for her invaluable support as manager, her frequent emails making sure that everyone knew what was happening, the transport roster and anything else that was required. I hope all players enjoyed the season and we will see you back next year, stronger faster and more skilful. Team awards for the year: Team players of the year: Amitel Lefferts / Ben Nathan. Most improved player: Josh Giles Most valuable player: Sam Twhigg Trey Baker Hunter Courtney Ben Nathan Josiah Hudson Olas Berreras
Josh Giles Wade Davies Jackson Crawford Sam Twhigg Finn Collings
Mixed
Hockey Intermediate Mixed Team Mahurangi College 2014 Report
For the Intermediate Mixed team we had more than our share of tough encounters, most of which we came out on the wrong side of, but that did not make it an entirely unsuccessful season.
Tournament player of the year: Seb Saunders Best team Player: Max Hargreaves Most improved player: Elliot Snedden Most valuable player: Noel Roberts
All the boys can be proud of the progress they have achieved this year and should continue working on those basic skills to make them better players.
After a rocky pre-season wondering if we even had numbers to field a team, we found ourselves with a squad of 15 boys and girls. The mix brought determination and some confidence, balanced with dedication, skills and energy to the team. Together they worked on developing skills, fitness and importantly, teamwork. Sadly, Round 1 was more successful than the Round 2 for us. That made it difficult
for us to keep our chins up when games weren’t going our way in the latter parts of the season. Frustratingly, we had a couple of games that slipped through our fingers in short parts of the game, including one where we were plunged into darkness during the second half of the game.
had to play a very strong Whenuapai side, the eventual winners of our grade. I was not sure if the hearty 3 cheers was to acknowledge the opposition’s comprehensive victory, the end of a long season or that we were off to McDonald’s. Perhaps it was one each.
Along came junior production that took some of our multi-talented team off the playing roster for a few weeks.
In 2015 I hope to see all the players back in various teams in what will be a huge year for hockey in our area.
Among these developments the season’s real positives emerged. Practices were well attended and not a negative word was uttered. The dedication to this undeniably ragtag team seemed to grow stronger.
A huge thank you for the support of a core group of parents cheering from the sidelines and providing transportation down to the stadium. We could not have done it without you and I look forward to seeing you back for more next year as well.
They team showed grit and perseverance to keep trying their best right through to the end of the season, where we
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Motocross
This was the first year that Mahurangi College entered numerous motocross school events since 2004. Our team consists of 10 members and has done very well for a small school team.
Tournament. This ride was a memorial ride for Tauranga’s boy’s school team rider, Trent Haywood, who was tragically killed in a motocross event in the South Island early this year. In remembrance of him, there was a tribute lap consisting of 200 plus riders who rode in single file for a lap of the track.
We ventured north to Ruakaka, to the Whangarei Secondary Schools Motocross on the last day of the school holidays. The team comprising of George Swift in the ladies all in, Jack Swift in the intermediates, Sam Mason and Jack Rodgers in novice. For a very small team of only four riders we competed against bigger and stronger school teams, but we came away with great results: George Swift 2nd ladies all in, Jack Swift 1st intermediates, Jack Rodgers 1st novice, Sam Mason 2nd novice. In storm like conditions that closed the Brynderwyns during the day, our riders excelled well above our expectations.
The team consisting of Sam Mason, Mathew and David Georgetti and Jack Rodgers all entered in the 85-150cc novice class. This competition was a step up from Ruakaka, with high school teams coming from all over the central North Island. The boys competed well in a very strong field, with Sam Mason and Matthew Georgetti finishing on an equal of 41 points but Sam’s faster lap times putting him a head of Matthew for 8th spot in a Field of 19. Under a special arrangement with the Tauranga club, 11 year Jack Rodgers was allowed to race in the same grade as the older boys. Jack had a podium finish of 3rd.
The following weekend we also sent a team of four down to Taupo, to enter In the Independence Day High School
In August Mahurangi College also sent down a team of 3 to the Pukekohe Motorcycle Club Secondary School MX
Mahurangi College Motocross Team
Champs held in Mercer. The team consisted of George Swift and Ella Rodgers racing in the women’s class, and Jack Swift racing in the 250cc 14 to 15 year old competitive class. The track and great weather allowed for a brilliant day of motocross. For the women’s challenge there was some great competition with girls coming all the way from Whakatane and Dargaville. George managed 8th overall, and Ella 1Oth. In the 250cc competition class there was a very tough field, which included world number 6 Josiah Natzke fresh back from Europe. However, Jack did well and finished a respectable 7th overall. After racing, prize giving was held and Jack Swift was picked as an outstanding rider and received a $50 graphics voucher. The team has really enjoyed all the school events and are looking forward to future events. We are hoping more riders will join the school team, so we can challenge for the top school team trophy. By George Swift and Ella Rodgers
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Netball
Mahurangi College Netball Report The 2014 Netball season was one filled with outstanding court time during games and lots of rain! A number of changes came in for this season, the biggest being in our senior team uniforms. It was great to see our players being represented well and playing with pride. After 10 years of endless hours of dedication, enthusiasm and coaching, Sandra Hawken stepped aside from her role as Senior
Prizegivng is always a time to celebrate the success of our Netball players and highlight the achievements of those who have played. Congratulations to the following players who stood out this season: COCO BONE and CHRYSANTHE HAWKEN Holdgate Trophy - Year 7
Elite coach. We want to thank Sandra for the support she has given to Mahurangi College Netball over this time and the valuable skills she has given our players.
Netball North Harbour Award winning teams for this year was Mahurangi 8/3, coming Runner Up in Grade 8/6 Championship league.
Trials and trainings started very early for everyone involved and it was great to see a number of new players join the game.
Representative honours were gained this year by Ella Hauser, selected for Netball North Harbour U17 A team and Coco Bone and Chrysthe Hawken for Netball North Harbour Year 7 A team.
14 teams represented our school, playing at North Harbour each week. An outstanding achievement for this season was seeing our Year 7/1 and Year 8/1 teams making Grade 1 for their year levels.
These are awesome achievements by these players, who were recognised for their quality skills and understanding of the game.
KELSEY BROUGHTON-JOHNSON Pixie Jones Trophy - Year 9
NIRVANNAH STREETER Hawken Trophy
HANNAH POWELL Pixie Jones Trophy - Year 10
HEIDI TUFFLEY and MILLY TUNNARD Student Coach of the Year
LUCY ROWE Kowhai Physio Intermediate Award
SHANNAY GARNER ANZ Sports Person of the Year All Round Excellence
ROSALEE GREEN and CARRIE JONES Kowhai Physio Senior Award
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Motocross
NATASHA FOSTER and CAITLIN ROUSE Wendy Dunn Trophy - Year 8
CARRIE JONES: Wendy Dunn Trophy - Senior
ELLA HAUSER Ellen Cooper Memorial Award Most Outstanding Achiever
A huge thank you to all coaches, managers, parents and the Netball committee who all put in tireless hours of travel, effort and support to ensure the success of Netball.
We want to wish all the Year 13 players leaving us and the best of luck in their future endeavours and teams as they take on Netball outside of school.
2015 looks to be an exciting and challenging year of Netball for Mahurangi College.
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Rugby
Mahurangi College Rugby Club 2014 This year saw us make cement in place of the changes that we committed to last year, namely increasing player numbers, growing our financial base and improving our competitiveness. At the same time we wanted to improve communication with players and parents through robust discussion at meetings and regular updates on our Facebook page.
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Mahurangi College 1st XV Report
The team played an attractive style of rugby. We scored some excellent team and individual trys. The back line was the strongest it has been in a few seasons and the set piece from the forward pack was very solid. We had a really well balanced team. Off the field there was a group of dedicated parents lead by our wonderful manager Charmaine who gave the boys superb support. Charmaine’s efforts cannot be under stated, she definitely made our jobs as coaches much easier. This group of parents raised a significant amount of money and have not only donated a scoreboard to the school and reserve jackets, they have also left some money in the kitty for next year’s 1st XV.
If we were to receive a scorecard on our performance I believe it would be a high merit. and we were able to field a 2nd XV for the first time in a long time. has increased from 69% to 100% which is the first time in the history of the rugby at the school (to the best of my knowledge).
Team Statistics:
Coaching/Management Team:
Competition 1B: Played 12, Won 8, Lost 3, Draw 1.
Coach: Mr K.Ganley
Points For: 319 Points Against: 188
Co-coaches: Mr M Winiana,
Position: Runners up in 1B Competition (promoted to 1A)
Mr P Stanich, Mr R Beamish
Top Points Scorer: Carlin Dunn 163 (5 trys, 28
Physio: Mr M Lanergan
conversions, 18 penalties). Top Try Scorer: Josh Shirley 8
Managers: Mrs C Gravatt, Mr M Cooper
highlight of the season was winning our annual sports exchange with Hauraki College in front of a large home crowd. This was a special result for the team as this was only the 9th time we have won in over 50 years that the exchange has been going. We also scored the most points 52-0 that any Mahurangi team has scored against Hauraki.
scored 165 points this season kicked at an outstanding 91%. In any level of the game this is level of accuracy is at an elite level, this is arguably the best display of goal kicking to ever come through the College.
This year the 1st XV have initiated a Cap system that we hope will be a tradition carried on within College Rugby. A player needs to play 20 games for the 1st XV to be presented with a Cap. This year 4 boys were presented with their Caps at Rugby Prize giving. Congratulations to Nathanael Reeves (20 games), Keegan Cole (22 games), Carlin Dunn (27 games) and
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There were many highlights during the season. Making the 1B final was a really good achievement, unfortunately losing by 3 points to Westlake 2nd XV was disappointing, but we exceeded one of our team goals from the start of the season of making the semi finals. The biggest
the 1st XV narrowly lost the final in the 2nd division and the 3rd and 4th grades won their respective 3rd divisions. The club was well served by Anne Ginders (Secretary) and Duncan Napier (Treasurer) this
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This year the 1st XV played in the North Harbour 1B competition. The squad enjoyed a good pre-season, including 3 warm up games and an enjoyable training camp. Many of the boys will remember running up the sand dunes for a long time to come. One of the highlights from the coaches was watching the players bond during pre-season, which carried on throughout the season and certainly helped get through some of the close games this season. The players commitment to trainings was excellent, most trainings we had full attendance, which certainly helped our team develop. We were also lucky with injuries this year. We lost Shannon Kloppers to a season ending injury during a pre-season game which was disappointing, but credit to him as he stayed part of the team and attended all games and assisted where he could.
Matakana ITM & Arthur’s Construction which allowed us to kit out every player in quality shorts, socks and a warm-up shirt.
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Lloyd Gravatt (28 games). These boys have provided dedication and commitment to the 1st XV and we look forward to presenting further Caps next season. Special mention to Daniel Vaughan who captained the team outstandingly well as a Year 12 student. Carlin Dunn who
In closing, a big thank you to all the parents and particularly the coaching and management staff. Good luck to all the boys leaving the College, I hope you will take many fond memories with you from this season. I have thoroughly enjoyed coaching you and watching you develop as Rugby players and young men. To the boys returning, don’t be lazy over summer, see you early next year for pre-season. Mr Ganley - 1st XV Coach
4th Grade
4th Grade Rugby Report The North Harbour 4th Grade competition was a very competitive grade this year, with some very good teams. The season began with two pools of eight teams, which would then decide the divisions for the championship rounds.
year, and we all owe them a debt of gratitude for their commitment and dedication to raising our performance. We also welcomed on board Hamish Cooper as the new Teacher in Charge of Rugby and Hamish has brought the sort of energy and professionalism we need to take us to the next level. Amongst the changes include the “streamlining” of committee. Previously we operated through monthly meetings
Mahurangi College was placed into arguably the most challenging of the two pools. Pool play was very close with five of our six games being won or lost by 10 points or less. In the final game we faced Kaipara College, a victory would have placed us in the 4A competition but a loss would have us fall all the way to 4C. That is how close the 4th grade competition was. Unfortunately, we conceded a late try and lost 24-19, which was a disappointing result for a team that should have played 4A rugby, particularly when we had already beaten a number of the teams who made the A-grade. In the second half of the season the team won all six games well, scoring 216 points
attended by all club members and this meant discussion and decision making was slow. The changes that were agreed upon at the AGM see an executive committee of 5 people who will assume responsibility and control of the club. Those members are myself (Chair/ Sponsorship Manager), Hamish Cooper (TIC Rugby/Operations Manager), Keith Tennant (Resource Manager), Jon Williams (Player/Coach Development Manager) and Charmaine Gravatt (Finance Manager).
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Chairman’s Report
Our plans for 2015 are essentially to continue building on what we started last year. Our goal is to be the sport of choice at Mahurangi College. Our expectation is that our players will look the part, our teams will be competitive and we will all have reason to take pride in our school. With the progress that we have made to date, I believe this is quite achievable. Enjoy the summer, keep up the fitness and an eye on our Facebook page for updates. Bede Haughey - MCRC Chairman, 5/11/14
and conceding only 39, resulting in us holding the 4C title. A number of the boys in the side have the potential to play first XV rugby next year. Thank you to the parents who supported the boys throughout the year and helped with after match functions, etc. Thank you to the sponsors Arthur Construction and ITM Matakana who provided us with socks, shorts and training tops and the Bridgehouse for player of the day. Finally, thank you to Keith Tennant for all of his hours of hard work helping to coach the team, and to Jane Newby for managing the side so well each week.
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SPORTS 5th Grade
5th Grade Rugby Report 5th grade started a little slow this year, with only 3 practices under our belts before the season started.
6th Grade
6th Grade Rugby Report What a season for the boys in 6th grade rugby side this year. With a good start in the early grading rounds the team was placed into A grade. The side played an excellent season with exciting running play and great defence. The team managed to string together a number of wins only losing narrowly to Westlake and Rosmini. I was privileged this year to play with such a great bunch of boys who made the season one to remember and provided many laughs. On behalf of the team we would like to give a huge thank you to our
7th Grade
7th Grade Rugby Report The 7th grade season started in earnest at the end of February with pre-season fitness training at the Mahurangi club. The focus was team building and establishing a base fitness. We had good turnouts and commitment that was encouraging. With 11 7th grade teams split between the 2 pools, we were ceded to play last year’s and this year’s eventual grade winners Rosmini ‘A’ for the very first game of the season. Losing the first outing 24 nil, the score really didn’t reflect the game at all and we realistically bombed several decent opportunities to score, so we were disappointed but also encouraged by this result.
We had 8 boys who were new to rugby and it took the first round of games to get experience and work as a team. Second round saw different results, with the boys showing passion and playing hard on
the field. This led to exciting results, with the 5th grade winning Pool C of our division. We had lots of mud and fun during practices, great team spirit and an enjoyable season.
Rugby League 2014 League Report
This season we had a new and very young team, half the team were either in years 10 or 11. Most of the team were participating in Rugby League for the first time. We played 3 games and lost 3. Unfortunately, we had to default our remaining 2 games due to injuries and lack of numbers. Our best performance came at home against Whangaparaoa College losing 20-10.
coaches Bruce & Dave and our manager Miss Goodwin. I couldn’t have asked for a better management team. I wish all the boys good luck for their rugby in 2015 and into the future. Sam Warner
The team captains were Carlin Dunn, Jake Revell and Tre Wells. Thanks to Mr O’Brien for helping coach. Mr Ganley
First game under our belts we continued through the season, playing with some really constructive, accurate and skillful Rugby displays. These results put us into second position in the round robin, meaning that we qualified for Pool A, achieving one of the first goals we had set at the beginning of the season. At this point we said goodbye to the weaker teams in the competition with every game a much tougher proposition, none more so than our first game of round 2 against our geographically proximal arch rivals, Orewa College. The result didn’t go our way and Orewa deserved their win, although it really was a game of two halves, with Orewa scoring 17 unanswered points in the first half and us scoring 10
unanswered points in the second, not to mention being hot on attack for almost the whole half. In particular near the end of the second half, Orewa conceded 8 consecutive penalties, within as many minutes, only for the game to fizzle out due to time elapsing. Success against Kaipara College, Takapuna and a further (albeit narrow) loss to Rosmini ‘A’, and a come from behind draw against Westlake ‘A’, left us in the privileged but unenviable 4th position at the end of round two and in a sudden death semi final against Rosmini ‘A’ who were the eventual season long unbeaten grade winners. The boys were up for the semi final, but were simply out-classed by a very accurate and highly motivated and well-drilled team. Finishing the year in fourth position and only losing to two teams all season, was a great result and one that we were proud of for ourselves as a team and as representatives of Mahurangi College rugby.
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League
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Rugby
Recognised at the school Rugby Club prize-giving as the team of the year for all grades, was an accolade that underlined the commitment and focus of the group and provided the icing on what was another enjoyable and successful year.
Girls’ Rugby
Sevens Girl’s 7s Team 2014 Report
The girls had a very short season that finished with the North Harbour Secondary Schools Tournament. There was a mix of age groups ranging from year 7 to year 13. With only 3 players who had played the game before, it was a challenge for the team this year. However, they acquitted themselves well on the day and finished 3rd overall. Player of the day went to Captain Ariaana Osborne. The younger players are looking forward to next year.
Back Row (Left to Right): Ellie Hamilton-Hunter, Ella Endemann, Sophie Green (Co-Captain), Momi Nawaia, Katelyn Daysh, Kayla Fillery, Ariaana Osborne (Captain), Eden Connolly, Tenaija Fletcher, Pia Schuster. Front Row (Left to Right): Alisha Dempsey, Diana Lualua, Angel Sturm, Mercedes Smith, Briana Julian.
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TouchRugby Senior Girls’ Touch Team 2014 Report
The senior girls touch team finished off 2013 well by coming 6th at the Touch Nationals held at Bruce Pulman Park.
Kylie Osborne did an incredible job coaching the girls over the last few years and I really enjoyed helping her out as the manager. This year we had a very new and young team as the year 13’s had departed. They
(who’s teams had barely changed from the year before) were just too strong for our new and young team. We gave them a good run for their money but just missed out on Regionals meaning we couldn’t qualify for the 2014 Nationals.
however is very bright for the girls “... Theasfuture they are a very young team with huge potential
They had some tough matches and the talent that was there was outstanding. Despite some last minute injuries to the team, the girls put in a great effort and played some awesome games. It was a very enjoyable 4 days for them all and a great way for many of the year 13s to finish the year off.
were a keen bunch of bubbly and talented girls who were always willing to learn.
Senior Boys’ Touch Team The Senior Boys team are in their development stage and with a very young group of boys (mainly year (and 10’s with 2 year 11’s) they played some good touch. Just managing to make the semi-finals for the Boys A grade. Unfortunately Mahurangi drew Westlake A and with the team Captained by Tane Prendergrast put on a sterling performance sadly went down and then down to Westlake B but proud came 4th overall.
2014 Report
The Team: Captain Tane Prendergrast Jayden Armstrong, Jackson Balzat, Kade Banks, Jacob Bindon, Xavier Garneau-Roughan, Jack Gothard, Brenton Holdsworth, Ben MacKinnon, Tom Mirams, Dominic Salabrini, Cassidy Tuffley and Max Young.
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The future however is very bright for the girls as they are a very young team with huge potential. I know they will keep learning, and working hard to become bigger and better! All the best for next year girls!
Senior Mixed Touch Team Northern Region Zone 1 Champions The Senior Mixed Touch team competed in the North Harbour competition in early 2014, winning the final against their neighbouring rivals Kaipara College. This qualified the team for the Northern Regional competition in late March. The tournament was a big day for the team, with lots of excitement and a few nerves.
Katrina Wards
We had two strong wins followed by a difficult loss, but came out on top as the Northern Region Zone 1 champions on points. Good luck to the team, who are now off to the National Secondary Schools Tournament in December.
Senior Girls’ A Team
Year 9 & 10 Teams
Year 7&8 Touch Zone Day
With some of our stronger players leaving school Ariaana Osborne had to pull a good group of girls together although young they played some good games. But like the Boys the girls came up against Westlake A only losing 2-3. So close and then then winning 3rd place. An awesome effort.
The Year 9 &10 teams are playing this term, and at the moment the Year 9 &10 Boys’ A and Girls’ A teams are both unbeaten and look like the ‘teams to beat’ going into the Championship round. The Girls B are playing off in the 9 - 16 placed section and the Boys B are in the 1 - 6 placed section.
The Team: Captain Ariaana Osborne, Tonya Botherway, Eden Conolly, Chrysanthe Hawken, Katie Heron, Summer Jane-Rashleigh, Mako Osborne, Brooklyn Riggs, Eden Robertson, Ella Rodgers and Heidi Tuffley.
It is going to be a good year for the Year 9 &10 touch teams. Go Mahu!
Mahurangi College had three teams go to the North harbour Zone Day at Sunnynook Park. The day started off wet and drizzly as the Boy’s team put in a good effort for the small amount of time they had to prepare, especially with boys dropping out and then having to pick up boys the day before at competition. They battled well and enjoyed the day. Thank you to Mr John Hawken for his committed effort to keep the boys going and we are looking forward to next year as all the boys who play are all only Year 7s.
They did their best at the North Harbour Module at the beginning of this year and played some great games. Unfortunately the experience of Westlake and Rangitoto
2014 Report
Season Update
North Harbour
Girls’ Team: Coach Gwen Hawken Eden Langsford Coco Bone Kate Rowe Lucy Rowe Caitlin Rouse
Coco Dowling Serena Sturm Lily Marcroft Eden Connolly
The girls team also did well making it to the Quarter final, where they met a good Carmel team, but only going down 2-1. They were a spirited team that slowly gelled together, and possibly with a few more games could have placed better. Thank you also to Mrs Gwen Hawken. And finally the mixed team, having not enough practices and only 10 players it was going to be tough. Orewa and Northcross seemed to be the teams to beat. Orewa was in our pool and a 1 all draw showed that they were good.
much bigger players, but with a simple game plan we prevailed winning 5-0. In the semis, we challenged Northcross, who are bigger, fast, and stronger. They came out pushing and shoving us around, but our tactics were to rely on our defence and the rest would come naturally. And it did - we won 5-1. The final. Yes, we played Orewa. A hard game and we kept with the semi final tactic of a strong defence, which unsettled Orewa and put us in a position to take the final out 3-1 and become North Harbour Champions for 2014 emulating last year.
Making it to the quarter-final we faced Belmont Intermediate, a strong team with
A big thank you to the coach, Mr Winiana.
Boys’ Team: Coach John Hawken
Mixed Team: Coach Mr Winiana
Monty Nash Josef Ujdur Harrison Sterling Ryam Membery Tomasi Nikaro
Seth Olive Jackson Gravatt Jack Campbell Finn Tomlinson Bailey Mason
George D-B (cpt) Robert McFarlane Tama Winiana Gabriel Tahitahi Sam Banks
Summer Bowden (cpt) Mackenzie Durant Chrysanthe Hawken Kate Powell Emma Foote
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Sailing Team
Swimming
Auckland Champs
2014 was always going to be a difficult year for Mahu’ sailing due to many of the long-time stalwarts of the team leaving school in 2013.
School swimming championships were held this year on Wednesday 12th February. Congratulations to all students who got a placing and/or broke school records. I look forward to seeing more students next year competing at the school swimming championships.
Jamie Peterson Chantelle Allen 3rd 100m Breaststroke 4th 50m Backstroke 4th 400m Freestyle 4th 50m Freestyle 4th 100m Backstroke
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A difficult but successful year
Mahurangi Swimming Championships
The upper North Islands at Porua Bay saw us start the season with a result of 4th. Light airs did not affect us too much and this result was sufficient to give our new combinations a great start. As always the pinnacle of team racing is the Nationals and this year it was held in our home waters off Algies Bay. We were seeded in the Silver fleet and sailed well enough in the first round to sail off again and earned a place in the Gold fleet. As often experienced at Nationals, the conditions varied from heavy seas and high winds to light airs. On the final day we were not able to finish as strongly as we hoped (9th overall, out of 32 schools).
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We must say farewell to senior sailors Pia Schuster, Savannah Gordon and Tristan Gill and wish them all the best for their future sailing adventures.
... this result was sufficient to give our new combinations a great start...
A lot of credit must go to the great support crew (parents), especially the Adamson’s who hosted us in their home during the event. Sailing is a sport where parental input is essential in many aspects of our team’s success.
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Other members of the Nationals team were Georgia Woodall, Brooke Adamson, Jordan Stevenson, Mathew Leydon, and Heather Pearson.
Year 7 Girls 1. Emma North 2. Leilani Jones 3. Kate Rowe
Junior Boys 1. Laurens Bubbert 2. Zane Illingworth 3. Sam Overton
Year 7 Boys 1. Cormac Blennerhassett 2. Cisco South 3= David Georgetti Jackson Gravatt
Intermediate Girls 1. Amelia Arnerich 2. Chantelle Allen 3. Tayla Rodgers
Year 8 Girls 1. Samara Shore 2. Shar Illingworth 3. Brianna Cadwallader
Intermediate Boys 1. Vincent Bubbert 2. Jamie Peterson 3= Leo Arnerich Sam Cadwallader Callum Gray
Year 8 Boys Senior Girls 1. Christos Sanft 2. George Durban-Burgess 1. Ella Harnish 2. Sophie Green 3. Connor Simpson 3. Lydia Henderson Junior Girls Senior Boys 1. Mackenzie Buick 1. Daniel Vaughan 2= Sara Jones 2. Shannon Kloppers Julianna Panui-Leth 3. Louis Reeves Records: 25m Freestyle: Daniel Vaughan 25m Freestyle: Vincent Bubbert 25m Butterfly: Vincent Bubbert 50m Backstroke: Ella Harnish 50m Butterfly: Amelia Arnerich 50m Freestyle: Vincent Bubbert 50m Butterfly: Vincent Bubbert 50m Butterfly: Laurens Bubbert 100m Freestyle: Vincent Bubbert 100m Medley: Vincent Bubbert
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The following students represented Mahurangi College at the North Harbour swimming championships: Chantelle Allen, Amelia Arnerich, Leo Arnerich, Laurens Bubbert, Vincent Bubbert, Samuel Cadwallader, Ella Harnish and Zoe Illingworth.
Auckland Secondary Schools Champs
Chantelle Allen, Jamie Peterson and Vincent Bubbert went on to representing Mahurangi College at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Championships in Wellington.
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Swimming
Sailing
NZ Swimming Champs
NZ Secondary School Championships
Four swimmers from Mahurangi College qualified for the 2014 NZ Secondary Schools swimming competition that was held in Wellington over 4 days. Amelia Arnerich, Chantelle Allen, Vincent Bubbert and Jamie Peterson competed in the event. There were over 100 schools competing from all over NZ. In the end we came away with two medals each from the relays. We swam in freestyle and medley relays for 16 and over as well as our individual races that we all had to qualify for to compete in. Chantelle
Ocean Swim NZ
New Zealand Ocean Swim Series We had 2 students from Mahurangi College who competed in the ocean swim series. The series consisted of 6 ocean swims of distances between 2.6-3.3km all around New Zealand. Congratulations: Tayla Rogers Who placed 2nd in the under 15 age group Chantelle Maher Placed 7th in the 15-19 age group
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Soccer 1st XI Boys
Soccer/Football Report Our first games of the season saw the First XI Boys scoring goals for fun, defending brilliantly, keeping clean-sheets (well at least one) and dominating the opposition. Such good early season form saw the boys move up a division from last year to play in the Senior B Championship.
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To our credit we never stopped trying, we trained hard, team spirit was always high and we kept improving each week. This resulted in a strong finish to the season and the early season swagger returned. 3 wins in our last 4 matches saw us finish 8th in the 10 team competition. The two exchanges with Mt Roskill Grammar and Hauraki Plains College were,
as usual, highlights of our season. It is not so much about the football, but the opportunity to make lasting friendships that is the key to the exchanges.
The Mt Roskill game is always a difficult one for Mahu as they are a school with a strong footballing pedigree that compete
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made viewing, let alone playing, difficult. The sun came out mid-way through the second half with the scores still level. A break down the wing saw Leo Arnerich in space and his cross sailed over the keeper and into the back of the net. Leo’s goal was the difference and secured the boys a 1-0 victory.
This year was a very enjoyable one for all concerned and it was capped off by some fine performances late in the season. Some of the most memorable moments of our season were: Trent nearly scoring his first EVER goal, despite his claims the ball never crossed the line. Taketi scoring in his last game for Mahu.
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Kay’s goal scoring celebrations.
Kay celebrating by taking his shirt off and sprinting the length of the field, then having to be subbed as he wore himself out. Leo’s shot-cross to give us the win vs Hauraki.
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We started off the season well, winning our first game against Northcote and continued on our winning streak.
1st XI Girls
Soccer/Football Report The Mahurangi Girl’s First XI football team finished 7th in the greater Auckland girls football competition, not an accurate portrayal of what was a good season under the circumstances. We had a new team this year which spanned the grades from years 9-13. Kate Tipace, Cecile Dixon, Emma
Unfortunately, suggestions of Taketi Nawaia repeating Year 13 to keep playing football have failed. As a result Taketi has played his last game for the college after 3 years of service. We also say goodbye to Kay Kang and Ashley Wilson. Kay’s pace and goal scoring ability will be missed, as will his over-exuberant celebrations. Ashley has been hampered by injury for the last two seasons, but also played a crucial role in our side over the last 3 years.
We qualified for 4th place in the championship round of the top nine teams out of the sixteen teams in the North Shore region. found to be able to field a side on a regular basis. The girls appreciated those players for giving up their time to help us out. The team would like to acknowledge the support and commitment from both the coach, Paul Watkin, and manager Kathy Hunter. Paul left work early and drove up from Auckland twice a week to coach and encourage the girls in their games. Kathy
“ ... remained positive and continually encouraged the rest of the girls... ”
The team unfortunately lost three players during the season for various reasons, which meant new players needed to be
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The second XI Girls Soccer team had a brilliant season, deserving every last bite of celebratory Burger King.
Clark (new to Mahu’ this year) and Katie Lester made up our defence; Alex Hunter, Amelia Arnerich (team captain), Gemma Harris, Beth Watkin and Sarah MacGillivray took the midfield and Shaye Cornall with young players Danika McKenzie and Jade Matheson made up our striker team. Hannah Dixon was our regular goalkeeper but also enjoyed a few games on the field.
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The Hauraki exchange was a much more even affair. After losing in a close game at Ngatea last year, for the first time anyone could remember, the boys were hoping to re-secure bragging rights. Unfortunately, the weather did not play it’s part and strong winds and heavy rain at one stage
... it is not so much about the football, but the opportunity to make lasting friendships that is the key to the exchanges...
After playing great football in the grading games we went into our first game high on confidence, with hopes of winning the title. Sadly, after an 8-0 hammering to a very strong Sacred Heart College, followed by 3-0 and 4-1 losses we were left to reevaluate our goals and to ponder exactly where our goals were going to come from.
2nd XI Girls
at a much higher level. Needless to say Mt Roskill won this fixture, again.
ensured the girls were always informed of games and training details via Facebook and was on hand to drive the mini-bus whenever necessary. The team would like to thank the parents who supported the team throughout the season. Paul was impressed with the leadership skills role modelled by the team captain Amelia Arnerich and vice captain Katie Lester, who remained positive and continually encouraged the rest of the girls throughout the season.
The last game of the season was a highlight, when we played a hard game against Kingsway. The game was tied 1-1 until the last five minutes of the game when a penalty kick right outside the goal won the game for Mahurangi. This earned us 5th place overall in the A grade. The team’s success was all thanks to Mr Elder, their very dedicated ex-all white coach who brought the team together and taught the girls some amazing new skills. The team had Pia Schuster as captain and adopted talented international students including Germans Klara, Lena and a Brazilian girl we nicknamed “Orange”. I personally am very grateful for my experience on the second XI. Being part of such a great team has allowed me to meet girls from all different year levels as well as keeping me fit and busy. This has been a very rewarding and worthwhile experience that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in getting involved in a really fun and social sports team.
We would like to extend a BIG thank you to Grant Sutherland for his help and support over the course of our season. Another thank you to the parents who came and watched each week. To the Bridgehouse for the Player of the Day certificates and our groundsmen Glen, Ali and Mark who kept the field in mint condition all season. This season has been lots of fun and the boys have played some very good football but most importantly they have had fun and made friends doing so.
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Tough Guy & Girl Mud Run Challenge
It all started in assembly. A video came on advertising the Tough Guy and Girl mud run challenge. This instantly woke us up from the latest boring speech and got many people excited with a large group of people interested in participating. We began the preparation and training which quickly identified the keen from the curious and less people were interested when they realised it wasn’t going to be a walk in the park. We trained with Miss Wards every Friday at lunchtime for a few months leading up to the event. Our trainings included such activities as “12 days of Christmas” and “100 club” which are full on workouts
We got in the van still half asleep and made our way down to Woodhill being one of the first schools to arrive, a bit too keen I think. The free food and goodie packs on arrival were a good start to the day. The energy jellybeans were especially a bonus and desperately needed. We then covered ourselves in face paint and fully painted Matthew Boyd yellow to pass the time until race time! It was a 12km course involving massive mud ponds where you fully sunk and everyone got stuck having to help pull each other out. None of us had ever seen this much mud before!
Tennis Report
After a battle of a race we all managed to finish and survive! Only a few bruises and scratches to take home as evidence. We lined up for communal showers after washing off in freezing cold water all adding to the memorable experience.
Tennis had a limited season in terms of competition play this year. Five students represented the college at the Auckland Championships; Daniel Vaughan, Sam Overton, Caleb Wigman, Ben Donaldson and Taryn Meachim.
We then got changed into warm clothes in big tents before watching the prize giving, unfortunately not managing to win any prizes but still everyone having a great day and it was lots of fun.
We had a visit from Wanganui High School, an Australian school who have been a
On the way home we had a well-deserved feed at KFC with people eating crazy amounts. I know everyone would have slept well that night after having another much needed
obstacles that were horse jumps and crawl through drain pipes. We also had to do an army crawl under barb wire, climb over massive fences and then do a mud slide down a hill into an ocean of mud before crawling under electric fences that really did hurt when you got hit.
shower, getting mud out of the strangest places (you don’t even want to know).
This, as you can imagine was very tiring – especially with all the running in-between the obstacles and the mud continually making you slip over. I think we spent more
Renee Corlett
“... None of us had ever seen this much mud before!...”
involving pushups, squat jumps, plank and anything and everything else to get you fit and strong. We also did road runs around Warkworth, even running up the dreaded Palmer Street. As the weeks went on some students just couldn’t hack it and dropped out of the challenge. However, those of us who decided that we were the tough guys and gals of Mahurangi got up at 6am and got ready for the big exciting day ahead.
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time falling over and crawling than staying on two feet!
The other obstacles involved swimming through muddy rivers and running through forests, up hills and crossing a ditch on a tight rope. We had to climb over big
Overall it was an awesome experience that I will never forget and such an amazing opportunity that I encourage anyone to do if they have the chance.
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Tough Guy/Girl
Mahurangi College Tennis Team
regular fixture for the last 10 years. Our students enjoyed this event, which was a mix of serious tennis and social activity. We managed to win more games than Wanganui, which was a pleasing result. In term 4 we are hopefully going to enter a boys’ and a girls’ team in a North Harbour Secondary School weekly competition and will be the first time we have entered a team in this competition.
Volleyball Senior Girls
Senior Boys
This year, two senior girls teams were entered into the North Harbour competition. It was great to see so many girls interested in playing volleyball, even though some of them had not played before.
This year two senior boys teams were entered in the North Harbour competition. It was the first time for quite a while so it is pleasing to see the interest developing in volleyball.
Both teams improved during the competition and the girls were able to get in a few good rallies. The girls would like to thank Tanz for her time and effort in supporting both teams. With the majority of the two teams returning to school next year, the teams could perform to an even higher standard. Our aim is to attend the Secondary School Volleyball Nationals in 2015.
Both teams did very well with the Division 1 team getting 4th in their grade and the Division 2 team placing 2nd.
Volleyball Team Report
Volleyball Team Report
Individual skills and teamwork developed throughout the season and with the majority of the two teams returning to school next year, it means the teams could perform to an even higher standard.
“... skills and teamwork developed throughout the season...”
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Hockey
Junior UWH Team 2014 Team Report
This year our club went from being barely 2 teams to requiring trials for the Junior Girls team for Nationals. In the summer, Terry ran a holiday programme to give interested kids the chance to try under water hockey and now we have 4 full teams in the club. Even though it is the juniors first year in the club there is a huge amount of talent coming through. Both the Junior Open and the Junior Girls team played at Upper North Island Regionals. Christof Sanft and Julianna Panui-Leth were named most valuable players. The Junior girls were then offered a chance to play at Nationals even though
at Nationals and to Rebecca Twhigg who was selected for the National Junior Girls tournament team. Also a big thanks to Jorgia Bayes who has coached the Junior girls this year as a youth coach, and to Carolyn Rohm who has travelled up from Auckland to help coach and assist the girls at Nationals. Thanks also to Forest Axford who has helped coach the junior open team this year. Terry Axford has also been a continuous supporter and helped both the junior teams immensely. Special thanks also to Colin Snedden who has put a huge amount of time into managing the junior teams and without whom none of this would have been possible. We would also like to thank Mr
Kelly for his help supervising at lunchtimes and being a teacher for our sport and Sandra Hawken for coming to watch us play at Nationals. Can’t wait for next year. Sarah Wilson - Captain JG Team, Nationals
Zone Days
Senior UWH Team
Year 7&8 Zone Days
Through our short run of Under Water Hockey in Mahurangi College we have managed to be a hugely successful group in regional and national standards.
What a fantastic year 2014 has been for the Year 7 & 8 students and the Zone Days they have attended. We participated in the Triathlon, Swimming, Cricket, League Tag, Tennis, Orienteering, Soccer, Rugby, Squash, Hockey, Table Tennis, Netball, Rugby League, Cross Country, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, & Touch Zone days.
Another Successful Year
This year however, has been largely a development not only in learning for the already established teams, but also involved the introduction of two new hockey teams for our school (junior and senior girls). We have grown in the last year from a group of roughly twenty students and players to over forty. We had some successes in the Auckland competition placing second in the
“... there is a huge amount of talent coming through...”
they didn’t qualify. Trials were held and Rebecca Twhigg and myself joined the team. After progressing hugely during the tournament we went on to win the bronze medal. Congratulations to Julianna Panui-Leth who was most valuable player
Year 7&8
Sports Experience
The Zone Day’s provide opportunities for students to broaden their horizons,
continuing development in their preferred sport, as well as develop their team building and interpersonal skills. As with everything we do here at Mahurangi College, we partake in sporting opportunities with the “Mahu Way” as the underlying pinnacle to our students participating! This year we have had some excellent results particularly from our Girls Hockey Team, who won their Zone Day and went on to place 3rd in the Inter Zone Day and the Cross Country Zone Day, which saw
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Underwater
three of our runners finish with a 1st (Lucy Rowe Year 8 girls), 2nd and 3rd (Katherine Rowe and Shona Illingworth Yr 7 girls) qualifying them for the Inter Zone Day (Auckland Champs). Thank you to all our students who took part in these Zone Days and played with pride, determination and showed commitment to not only themselves, but to their team and our school. Thank you to the Teachers and Parents who gave up their time to coach and provide transport to these days as well!
“... opportunities for students to broaden their horizons...”
Auckland schools comp for the senior open and placing first in the Auckland B division schools for the senior girls. This year has also allowed for some personal triumphs with two Mahurangi players being selected to trial for the NZ rep team which competed in the TransTasman tournament earlier this year, along with five male and two female senior players selected to trial for the Northland regional teams. The two girls are still in trial phases. One of the boys made the Northland A team whilst the other two qualified for the Northland B team. Forrest Axford - Senior Open Captain 2014
2013 Junior Open Team Sports Blues Recipients
The Junior Open team from 2013 won team of the year at the Sports Blues evening, for placing first at Regionals and first at Nationals in 2013.
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BLUE HOUSE
Blue House Blue 1 Sean Bartlett, Vaughn Bolstad, Joseph Bray, Keegan Browne, Emma Camwell, Madi Clementson, Ben Donaldson, Arielle Heslop, Kate Jones, Zane Just, Eria Kaneama, Cole Lyman, Karen McCulloch, Taryn Meachin, Cassie O’Flaherty, Ariaana Osborne, Reiko Pham, Lochie Piper, Rousseau Rees-Baker, Christos Sanft, Matthew Torckler, Charlotte Wallington, Jack Whyman, Leah Wood.
Blue 2 Rebecca Ball, Vance Bolstad, Elissa Britton, Bradley Camwell, Emma Clark, Jamie Curtling, Thomas Daniels, Eleanor Diaz Ritson, Kurtis Gwyn, Ella Harnish, Shona Illingworth, Coco King, Zayde Lee, Kari Meachin, Samuel Napier, Dylan Neilson-Sigley, Eli O’Neill, Zane Panui-Leth, Jessie Porter, Pipi Ross, Tyler Rutson, Pia Schuster, Ryan Stam, Tre Wells.
“... some of the most talented students in this school...” Blue 3 Sora Akashi, Owen Ashton, Roydon Berger, Stanley Coote, Nicholas Daniels, Rhonda Davies, Cosmo Garner, Katherine Haque, Callum Harnish, Katie Heron, Shar Illingworth, Nakiata Kaneama, Emma Lang, Alesha McFarlane, Elizabeth Murphy, Sam Overton, Julianna Panui-Leth, Samuel Peterson, Kiana Rogers, Lucy Rowe, Trace Savage, Nathan Shirley, Jessey Toms, Eden Tudman, June Xu.
What an amazing experience! From the very beginning we would look up to charismatic year thirteen students encouraging us little year 7s to get involved and do our best. We would listen and respect these seniors as they lead our house; now after six long years of planning on being in their position, we are. We’ve both learnt more from than we would ever expect. We’ve had a blast at each house event and it’s been an honour to fill the shoes of past Prefects. Finally being able to stand in front of our house as role models, we made it our goal to have fun and do as well as we possibly could.
Blue 4 Hunter Aley, Paris Allinson, Emily Ball, Jackson Balzat, Jorgia Bays, Daniel Bedggood, Laurens Bubbert, Georgia Clark, Ella Ferguson, Haylee Fuller, Savanna Griffiths, Molly Illingworth, Tomoya Kinukawa, Eden Langsford, Katie Lester, Joshua McDonogh, Konrad Morrison, Veronica Nabuti, Chontelle Ruthe, Hayden Simmons, Ryan Torckler, Ava Ward-Stewart, Jimi Williams, Katie Wright.
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Sarah Applegarth, Anna August, Hannah Brassett, Alex Delamore, Jasmine Donaldson, Nathan Dumanauw, Lucas Edgerley, Flynn Ferguson, Molly Hutchinson, Tegan Illingworth, Sam Mason, Sana Okamoto, Lana Perfect, Katherine Rowe, Elliot Snedden, Connor Stables, Sander Stam, Claudia Stevenson, Isaac Stocking, Aurelia Torkington, Emma Van Santen, Paige Williams, James Woodall, Jack Yarndley.
Blue 5 Alec Bartlett, Vincent Bubbert, James Edgerley, Ayla Elliott, Summer Garner, Shelby Glavish, Logan Harris, Zoe Illingworth, Jessica Leaning, Joseph Martin, Uetaake Nabuti, Johnny Pham, Amy Reader, Savannah Rolfe-Vyson, Luke Scholes, Samara Shore, Carrie Taggart, Tekiate Teakin, Frankie Walkington, Brooke Wilson, Sabrina Yarndley.
Blue 8 Steven Beechey, Angela Berger, Timothy Bray, Liam Caldwell, Aran Corteen, Wade Davies, Imogen Dumville, Ashlee Gwyn, Zane Illingworth, Ari Just, Amaya McConnachie, Duncan McDonald, Jo Miller, Mary-De Moss, Mako Osborne, Glyn Rodberd, Nell Rowan, Sidney Satterthwaite, Cisco South, Brahm Stables, Allie Telfer, Faith Toms, Olivia White, Georgia Woodall.
Blue 6 Hauraki Beazley-Keane, Niamh Browne, Marnix Bubbert, Logan Bull, Hannah Dunn, Bryn Griffiths, Teakireke Ititaake, Kay Kang, Levi Langsford, Brooklyn Martin, Lydia Overton, Jamie Peterson, Jake Piper, Benjamin Smith, Brooklyn Tahi Tahi, Hannah Taylor, Jason Tunnicliffe, Lily Walkington, James Wallington, Lily Whyman, Amy Wood, Wanghua Yang.
Blue 9 Campbell Aley, Jaidyn Armstrong, Forrest Axford, Nathaniel Bedggood, Cassandra Clark, Angela Coote, Katie Dale, Vanya Dunn, Jae Johanson, Zayne Johnson, Shannon Kloppers, Olivia Lyttle, Ella Martin, Mitchell McFarlane, Luke Morrison-Healy, Phoenix Rees-Baker, Faye Rodberd, Joshua Shirley, Connor Simpson, Matang Teakin, Kate Tipace, Mitchell Tucker.
The year has been a fantastic one and we’ve both thoroughly appreciated the effort made from the everyone and the great turn out that we’ve had from our enthusiastic peers – it’s fair to say that we hold some of the most talented students in this school; academically, athletically, and artistically too. We are two very proud leaders. We would like to take this opportunity to give a massive thank you to our Whanau reps, who have helped run assemblies and fund-raisers throughout the year. It’s great to see Blue represented well from the senior school. Also a well-deserved thanks to our deputies Angela and Haylee who have assisted us throughout the year – we’re both incredibly grateful for your constant support. To Hauraki, our amazing fund-raising coordinator for organising a very successful bake sale. And last, but certainly not least, Mr Ganley himself who has given us plenty of guidance and freedom. We have been so fortunate to have a supportive role model who has taught us the ropes of being a House Leader. We couldn’t have asked for a better Dean. Now that we hand over our duties as Blue House Leaders, we can definitely say that one of our greatest highlights over the years is having this opportunity as a Prefect. We wish the best of luck to the future leaders and hope that Blue House continues to share its talents and charisma with the rest of the school. Stanley and Ariaana
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GREEN HOUSE
Green House Green 1 Tebarae Amuera, Chontel-rose Anderson, Renee Aruch, Patrick Bates, Angelique Boisseau, Tonya Botherway, Raymond Carter, Carlin Dunn, Georgia Ferguson-Yearbury, Xavier Garneau-Roughan, Seneca Grant, Destiny Harema, Eisuke Hayashi, Yana Ingles, Tan Jariyawattanasakul, Tutolu Manumalo, Jack Marshall-Young, Tomasi Nikaro, Jake Revell, Cooper Rodden, Jayme Scott, Nipun Thilakarathna, Finn Tomlinson, Cassidy Tuffley, Jane Wilcock, Cleveland Woodward.
Green 4 Brooke Adamson, Bo Corry, Connor Deans, Tunoa Feleti, Jessica Hallam, Charlotte Hamer, Tama Hawken, Leo Holder, Mikaela Kirk, Kevin McNeil, Lucas Mennenga, Brooklyn Riggs, Meg Rodden, Remo Scopas, Sydney Shead, Mercedes Smith, Hayley-Anne Spence, Emma Stretch, Ariana Toi, Pale Vaotangi, Megan Wech, Caleb Wigman, Thorne Williams, Brad Worsfold.
Green 2 Alex Bindon, Elspeth Free, Tegan Gimblett, Jaden Grant, Calum Gray, Billie Hoggard, Ayla Johnston, Maria King, Seth Kirk, Hannah Le Scelle, Chelsea Lemmen, Kate Niccolls, Katy North, Callum O’Neill, Joshua Ockleston, Trismarie Peo, Ethan Rebenschied, Dylan Schedewy, Neve Thornicroft, David Trotter, Vailala Vaotangi, Lukas Vikstrand.
Green 5 Hayley Adamson, Daniel Bagby, Jacob Bindon, Jessica Borg, Drew Eaves, Sophie Gradwell, Ellie Hamilton-Hunter, Jasper Harcombe, Kyla Harema, Ethan Hatton, Alfie Lewis, Ashley Maher, Ty Maker, Teimaalaima Manumalo, Isaac Merton, Luca Noakes, Justine Quintal, Georgia Riley-Wood, Sam Warner, Ayden Whaanga, Jamey Whitcher, Nicole White.
“... screaming,cheering victories and the odd failures...” Green 3 James Baker, Chas Costello, Grifin Crawford, Esha Darji, Cecile Dixon, Tyler Ferguson-Yearbury, Tristan Gill, Zale Godfrey, Rosa Keskic, Alice Marshall-Young, Heather Niccolls, Brooke Nicholls, Thomas Ockleston, Paige Paddison, Fleur Pancoust, Jackson Rhodes, Harrison Sterling, Liam Tomlinson, Shanae Toms, Jayde Trott, Lineni Vaotangi, Dylan Wech, Bernie Woodward.
Green 6 Samantha Anne Cabacungan, Santiago Carstensen, Hugo Dixon, Luke Dryland, Kaitlyn Edwards, Lapi Feleti, Tash Foster, Mason Gould, Sophie Halstead-Smyth, Samuel Hodgetts, Daniel Love, Briella Martin, Robbie McFarlane, Rory McKay, Kaia Stafford, Finian Taylor, Willa Thompson-Ahern, Tanumi Thomson, Michelle Tomlinson, Ryan Wech, Ruby-Rose Whitcher, Millie Worsfold, Lin Xing.
Shot Green House! Another awesome year full of hard work, fun and great results. No one does it as good as green. We are so proud to be your house leaders and of your efforts and support this year. Our highlights would be first of all having the privilege to lead such an awesome fun group of people and that we have gotten to know so many of you. When the year has ended we will miss you all tremendously, not to mention the screaming, cheering victories and the odd failures that have brought us together making us more determined, stronger and proud to wave the best colour, GREEN!!!! Biggest thank you to our beloved Mr O’Brien, green house dad, who has put in effort, time, money and care beyond the call of duty and has made yet another year of being in green house such a blast. Thanks for helping us through all the challenges that we faced throughout this year, we always looked up to you during the past and it was a privilege to work side by side with you. We would do it all again in a heartbeat. We will miss your advice, support and not to mention that laugh that always makes our day. Shout out to our whanau teachers Ms Goodwin and Ms Dunn for being understanding about our many absences and for being totally loving and supportive in the many years before. Go hard green and good luck for the future. Jake and Elspeth xx~
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Esther Aruch, Connor Bagby, Jessika Baker-Llewell, Liam Bates, Jurgen Brand, Isabelle Brockie, Cristina Costa Leversha, Kyle Cree, Jackson Gradwell, Ryan Helleur, Caitlin Love, Jordan Maker, Benjamin Mennenga, Jowan Nute, Sam Ollason, Bridget Pancoust, Briana Stemp, Marchant Thornicroft, Shara Waugh, Ryan Weatherall, Mikaelah Whaanga, Daniel White, Sandra Wilcock.
Green 8 Brenton Baker, Trey Baker, Nicole Bindon, Francois Brand, Dion Corry, Jackson Crawford, Zane Donaldson, Kartarina Giles, Noah Hallam, Cade Hansen, Louie Keen, Eunete Kiataake, Elise Maric, Jenna Martin, Ryan Meek, Dominique Morgan, Jasmine Munro, Emma North, Trae Oxborough, Fin Paddison, Mitchell Sterling, Shane Stone, Asini Thilakarathna, Heidi Tuffley, Rachael White.
Green 9 Beeba Amuera, Oliver Brockie, Alexander Calder, Georgia Clack, Hallie Clayton-Macintyre, Keegan Cole, Shaye Cornall, Danielle Edwards, Rhiannon Gill, Lewis Gould, Eli Hallam, Chrysanthe Hawken, Benjamin Holland, Lynita Holloway, Ronan Keoghan, Rohan Lewis, Samuel Mennenga, Connor Michel, Eva Rebenschied, Calum Rice, Blake Toi, Christin Voigtlander, Clay Woodward.
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Orange 1 Eden Adam, Lauren Adams, Rene Adams, Ben Ashton, Alexander Brown, Ashley Came, Samuel Collings, Beth Docking, Madaline Ellis, Kayla Fillery, Madi Gambling, Carl Knutson, Richard Lim, Elijah Morley-Sturm, Billy O’Reilly, Nelle Patterson-Tansley, Nathanael Reeves, Ethan Reiff, Logan Ross, Lara Sutton, Uriel Teo, Reiwai Travan, Cameron Waddell, Pearl Williamson, Trinity Wright-Van Thiel.
Orange 4 Francesca Bennett, Aran Clews, Taine Connolly, Lizara Cuthell, Stephanie Earley, Lewis Gravatt, Krysana Hanley, Nirvana Hansen, Sami Hawili, Jordan Heron, Storm Mckenzie, Ryan Membery, Hannah Mills, Tom Mirams, Jacob Mitchell, Jessica O’Neill, William Paterson, Danielle Phillips, Austin Puckett, Allyson Sheffield, Ishabel Stevens, Max Young, Caitlin Zenovich.
Orange 2 Cody Allison, Aborina Arawatau, Caleb Beardsley, Jedd Blennerhassett, Daniel Budgen, Hunter Courtney, Elizabeth Errington, Jackson Gravatt, Teneale Guy, Jasmine Hanley, Thea Henderson, Jared Lambert, Caoimhe Lane, Danika McKenzie, Chloe McKnight, Ashleigh Munro, Jackson O’Reilly, Harrison-Michael Pene-Bavastro, Cleo Penman, Samuel Reiff, Tanika Rutson, Zach Smith, Avalon Stapleton, Lucy Twhigg, Moana Williamson.
Orange 5 Nigella Anderson, Lukasz Aremka, Anastasiya Baranova, Anais Bentley, Sarah Boundy, Dior Bowden, Madeline Courtenay, Cole Davis, Lloyd Gravatt, Lydia Henderson, Ben Mirams, Jessica Munro, Kaelib Newey, Danny Noyer, Caleb O’Reilly, Benjamin Paterson, Tane Pendergrast, James Pollitt, Kym Price, Nikita Sazhin, Regan Swensson, Nikayla Thomas-Smith, Rebecca Twhigg, Chloe Watson, David Wolfenden.
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Orange House
“... with passion,excitement and a whole lot of fun...” Orange 3 Melissa Ashton-Leach, Bella Brown, Daniel Collings, Alisha Dempsey-Jensen, Zach Gray, Oliver Griffiths, Jasmine Hanley, Nick Healey, Nathan Heron, Emma Holman, Lana McCarthy, Elijah Newey, Holly Ostling, Boedi Parker, Shania Price, Bianca Rayner, Anna Reiff, Tom Robson, Ashley Smith, Jack Spence, Jordan Tennant, Liam Teo, Sophia Torresan.
Orange 6 Amy Beardsley, Cormac Blennerhassett, Summer Bowden, Lauren Brebner-Fox, Charlie Budgen, Jared Came, Sharna Fillery, Jayden Gatherer, Aimee Goddard, Anna Hanley, Jasmine Hansen, Sahara Hawili, Matthew Healey, Kappy Malaki Makasini, Henry Mayall, Jamie Noyer, Fletch Ostling, Catherine Paterson, Francis Paule, Laura Puckett, Holly Ross, Liberty Saville-Hoy, Samuel Twhigg.
What an awesome year we’ve had! For years we’ve looked up to our house leaders, in awe, admiration and of course careful observation at their styles of leadership. Having always watched these people with respect, it was an honour and almost surreal experience for us to be offered these same positions. It was important to us that we give this job our absolute best just as those before us have done so well. We also made it our goal to get our house fully involved in every event. We think we have achieved that. At every event we’ve seen record numbers of students who are enthusiastic and raring to go. This year not only have we placed highly in many events, but more importantly we have come together and worked in an extremely successful, fun and cohesive way. We’d like to say a huge thanks to our awesome support system as we haven’t done this alone and wouldn’t have been able to without the help. Our whanau reps and whanau teachers have bound our house together and kept everything running fluidly, working to create an awesome atmosphere that caused us to be a strong competitor in this year’s events. And of course none of this could have happened without Mr Taylor, and his endless support and injection of life and motivation into our house that pushed us all to excel this year. Putting away the carrot costumes will definitely be a sad moment when we pass over our roles at the end of this year, but upon reflection this year has been filled with passion, excitement and a whole lot of fun. Lana and Brychan
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Keegan Ayers, Stella Birch, Sophie Boyle, Nathan Butler, Eden Connolly, Hannah Dixon, Bailey Earley, Charlotte Errington, Carter Fraider, Joel Gatherer, Billy Holman, Jack Merton-McCafferty, Jessica Mitchell, Samuel Munro, Ryan O’Connor, Mikyla Pene-Bavastro, Rupert Power, Pedro Sawyer, Kane Sharpe, Liberty Staddon-Ward, Junior Togatala, Jordan Tudman, Juliette Twhigg, Miles Williamson.
Orange 8 Kieran Burgess, Phoenix Burke, Brychan Dempsey-Jensen, Croy Geurts, Aaron Gilbert, Kate Goddard, Jack Goodwin, Kiera Gray, Ethan Grice, Tamara Hagger, Ethan Haines, Camille Harris, Jacob Hunt-Reynolds, Kathryn Kortegast, Chantelle Maher, Max Newby, Blake Olsen, Charles Pallister, Safia Price, Louis Reeves, Olivo Silvestro, Raphael Staddon-Ward, Natasha Stewart, Eloise Williams-Mart.
Orange 9 Rory Adamson, Sam Ashton, Holly Bakker, Hoani Birch, Petra Blanchette-Burton, Kody Bolstad, Dean Brewer, Rebecca Dobson, Zoe Giles, Mei Hirai, Aaron Holman, Marne Kortegast, Taegyn Lambert, Simone Mayall, Kelly McKnight, Isiah Newey, Bonnie Parker, Emily Peden Mold, George Pollitt, Zoe Spence, Megan Thomson, Nakita Walters, Toby Webb, Kyal Wells.
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PURPLE HOUSE
PURPLE HOUSE
Purple House Purple 1 Dali Allen, Jay Arthur, Colin Babbott, Coco Bone, Marcus Brummel, Jack Campbell, Effie Dancaster, Fransiska Dodiarto, Alexander Guy, Riley Hathaway, Maia Hawes, Imiy Hayward, Lily Marcroft Anderson, Caitlin Mitchell, Christopher Moon, Lars Noordhoek, Reed Pitcher, Madison Pullar, Georgia Robson, Gabriel Tahitahi, Dayne Tohu, Jack Willis, Matthew Young.
Purple 2 Jethro Allen, Eric Beenata, Billie Blair, Tahjahn Bond-Thompson, Emily Campbell, Imogen Capes, Jerome Cunningham, Danielle Douglas, Rory Kavanagh, Mia Morrison, Liam Newson, Seth Olive, Hannah Perkins, Morag Rutherford, Logan Scarth, James Simmonds, Logan Smith, Sinead Spurr, Jack Swift, Jessica Tappin, Teaeto Tebutokai, Fayte Woodcock.
“... the smallest but loudest and most enthusiastic...” Purple 3 Leo Arnerich, Lewis Arthur, Cameron Boyce, Jayme Curtis, Cicely Driver, Benjamin Hart, Alana Hathaway, Lauren Hill, Aarana Julius, Krystle Kayll, Kotua Kotua, Jade Matheson, Andrew Miller, Sasha Murray, Davey Newcomb, Zaria Newrick, Heather Pearson, Noel Roberts, Breanna Sarjeant, Gabrielle Sinclair, Maia Smith, Rikuto Suzuki, Louis Tailby, Stephanie Walsh, Bree Wooller.
Purple house is by far our favourite house! We have truly enjoyed the honourable role of being purple house leaders this year. We appreciate the work that both Mr Johnston and Miss Wards have put into purple house this year. Purple is both the smallest but loudest and most enthusiastic house we know. It’s been awesome growing as leaders and organising fundraisers and encouraging our house to participate in house events. Purple this year has been outstanding; we have shown how much of an all rounded house we are, winning the haka and athletics, and coming 3rd in brain drain was outstanding.
Purple 4 Broady Amiss, Amelia Arnerich, April Atkins, Devon Blair, Rebecca Boyce, Alex Caldwell, Victor Dodiarto, Keisuke Fukuda, Triniti Goffin, Bayley Hudson, Ari Markowitz, Christian Mason, Lexie McGillivray, Jack Morgan, Raglan Pool, Tomoya Shimbata, Jack Sowten, Nirvannah Streeter, George Swift, Korotaake Tebutokai, Jordan Vegar, Megan Williams, Carrie Wooller.
Purple 5 James Atkins, Codey Belsham-Partridge, Caleb Brydone, Phaedra Capes, Taylor Coe, Isabelle Cohen, Brady Coleman, Coco Dowling, Romy Fenning, Dawson Galloway, Blake Heaven, Marin Hoshino, Alistair Larsen, Kutumi Lefferts, Daniel Matheson, Brenna McCarthy, Philip Perkins, Perry Pitcher, Caitlyn Pullar, Caitlin Rouse, Kelsey Sanderson, Aiden Sinclair, Robert Vivian, Sean Willcox, Tamatea Winiana.
Purple 6 Dakota Allen, Helena Anderson, Tolka Ashworth, Sophie Brown, Zane Canter, Ashley Curtis, Anneliese Guy, Aimee Hewett, Alex Hill, Katerina Hoffmann, Louisa Hughes, Timaai Itinimarewe, Tekabwan Katarake, Andre Marinus, Tremayne Marsh, Bailey Mason, Jess McCormick, Zachary Morrison, Aaron Pearson, Rangikawea Puriri, Seb Saunders, Kris Stroud, Jack Vasey, Togan Walton, Bayley Webb, Matthew Wilmot, Moana Winiana.
We loved working with the whanau reps and other leaders within the house, thank you for all the effort you have put into Purple. We couldn’t have done it without you. We will truly miss dressing up in purple and cheering on the house, and it was an honour to be chosen as this years house leaders. Best of luck to the house leaders next year. Thank you to everyone in the purple family for an amazing opportunity and awesome adventure. Love Phil and Abbi
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Teejay Coe, Maria Dodiarto, Ella Endemann, Laurelie Giles, Liam Hannah, Sophie Hart, Bradley Kayll, Geoffrey Larsen, Benjamin Lawton, Asha Liberts, Harrison McKenzie, Sophia Murray, Rebecca Parkinson, Matthew Perrin, Riley Popham, Shannelle Procter, Ravinta Raikaon, Eden Robertson, Murdoch Rutherford, Katrina Scarth, Abbigail Sim, Liam Spurr, Theo Steens, Taki Viliua, Justin Wilson, Mariana Winiana.
Caelan Amiss, Natasha Butcher, Jacob Caldwell, Pat Chalayon, Jack Cole, Georgia Hibbert-Foy, Luke Hughes, Tauaa Kabunare, Daniel Lawton, Mia Matheson, Peter McHale, Annabel Milburn, Sophia Miller, Brooke Mitchell, Vagn Nelson-Marsden, Arama Puriri, Toby Sowten, Alex Still, Max Thomas, Paris Toomey, Michelle Trotter, Oliver Warden, Noam Webber.
Purple 9 Asher Beagley-Steel, George Bogue, Cade Bond-Tepania, Kelsey Broughton-Johnson, Cassie Butcher, Katelyn Daysh, Texas Dowling, Mackenzie Durrant, Jorja Fenning, Dylan Hathaway, Ruby Hayward, Mackenzie Hitchcock, Isaac Hopewell, Josiah Hudson, Amitiel Lefferts, Vlad Mamaev, Tamzin McGillivray, Annabelle McKenzie, Connor Patton, Thomas Patton, Jamie-Lee Roberts, Callum Rouse, Aimee Webb, Omri Webber.
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RED HOUSE
RED HOUSE
Red House Red 1 Callum Alexander, Galwynn Anderson, Daniel Armstrong, Gaby Bailey, Findlay Buchanan, Brody Buer, MacKenzie Buick, Brianna Cadwallader, Joshua Clayden, Rueben Crane-Lima, Annalise Dawson, Liam Freestone, Dale Garlick, Sarah Goodhue, Rhiannon Hall, Melissa Hallett, Gemma Harris, William Haughey, Quinn Jacob, Cameron Keats, Sarah-Jane MacGillivray, Isabel Oakwood, Samuel Thompson, Solomon Waterhouse.
Red 4 Kaytlyn Austin, Jessica Benwell, Fenella Coleman, Hannah Dick, Blair Futcher, Kyle Goodhue, Max Hargreaves, Jack Harrison, Jessica Heron, Maddy Hunter, Vaughan Hunter, Oliver Johnson, Blake Lambert, Emma Matheson, Malina Oliver, Cameron Phillips, Zach Pickett, Sam Poolman, Jeremiah Saleupolu, Connor Sharp, Jordan Stevenson, Sam Sutherland, Fifita Tamale, Terese Thompson.
Red 2 Rowan Buick, Teitiata Bura, Anton Cavanagh, Nathan Dick, Marcus Evans, Jaccoa Folasa, Ruby Gordon, Stjarna Heslop, Sean Holt, Jordyn Hudson, Mitchell Lambert, Kristopher Middleton, Joseph Morrison, Toni Newbold, Zeke Oliver, Malachi Osbourne, Jaime Reid, Samuel Rickwood, Anna Schollum, Jack Sharp, Olivia Stevenson, Alix Tobin, Ella Tunnard, Kayla Wenham.
Red 5 Zak Alexander, Kade Banks, Lisa Camelbeke, Stella Clark, Renee Corlett, Stevie Cormack, Alex Crabb-Chisholm, Seng Im Dann, Ashleigh Dick, Kendra Diprose, Alysha Dudley, Daniel Foote, Ruby Garner, Scott Hamilton, David Heron, Brayden Heslop, Ally Holt, Sarah Hughes, Tom Hunter, Cameron McVeigh, Xanbrielle Rawlinson, Lucas Smith, Ysabella Stevenson, Owen Telfer, Apollo Va’aulu, Lachie Williams.
“... but typically Red House bounced back...” Red 3 Sam Banks, Shaun Beamish, Samuel Cadwallader, Daniel Cameron, Marney Edwards, Abby Ettritch, Charlie Eyre, Darcy Garner, Alicia Graham, Nicole Greaves, Brenton Holdsworth, Jonathan Keet, Jerry Lai, David Lark, Tessa Moncrieff, Zarnika Rawlinson, Alla-Joye Reeves, Jacques Robinson, Zak Smith, Madison Thomson, Milly Tunnard, Siobhan Weaver, Jay Wenham, Liam Wewege, Scott Wright.
Red 6 Kimberley Allen, Kendyll Butler, Kyle Campbell, Abergail Coleman, Nicole Cormack, Rose Gannaway, Jacob Garner, Ella Gerard, Brad Graham, Jesse Gregory, Cameron Holmes, Rosie Hunt, Philippa Hutchinson, Kahn Lawrie, Dean Middleton, Ben Nathan, Leeann Norton, Christian Poland, Hannah Ryan, Hamish Tanner, Jessica Torkington, Amy Wewege, Gustavo Ximenes de Castro.
It would be an understatement to say that leading Red House has been an absolute blast! It has been a journey with times of triumph, times of struggle and times when we look at each other and wonder how we got the opportunity to lead such a fantastic house. To be lucky enough to lead this charismatic group of kids has been an absolute privilege. A memory we will never forget is the first house event of the year, swimming sports. Standing bright eyed and bushy tailed, hopeful and anxious on the edge of the pool, we watched as our year 7 and 8s made their way to the pool. We will never forget the look that we gave each other as we came to the realisation that we, Red House, had by far the least number of kids. After the juniors came 6th, we thought all hope was lost, but typically Red House bounced back and our intermediates and seniors saved us from receiving the tormented wooden spoon. This has been the trend throughout the year and as a house we have not stopped moving forward. Winning netball was a massive highlight and showed how much Red House has grown. It is impossible to look past the efforts of our beloved Red House dean, Mr Collings. With his charming smile mixed with his abundance of lollies, it is hard to find enough words to thank you for your massive contributions this year. We think it is safe to say next year will be a year full of success and we wish the year 12s all the best on leading this fantastic house. Love Fin and Rose
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Matthew Dawson, Len Donnell, Niqisha Epiha, Emma Foote, Tristan Frandsen, Max Harrison, Siu Hepoto, Bevan Hodder, Taran Marsh-Goudie, Nasia McLennan, Alex Medland, Jimmy Morrison, Bronson Norton, David Pickett, Atanrerei Rui, ‘Atelaite Tamale, Ethan Thomson, Talya Upson, Mason Wenham.
Red 8 Joshua Bailey, Robert Bedwell, Gabby Bissett, Hannah Blackwell, Samuel Chitty, Shannay Garner, Joshua Giles, Tayla Glover, Van Grooby, Marina Hay, Keegan Holdsworth, Thomas Hutchinson, Megan Kilmister, Sophie Knight, Finley Lawlor-Mendez, Mya Lawrence, Henry Lee, Alisha McLennan, Yu Mifune, Scott Monteith, Liam Price, Oscar Reid-Thompson, Daniel Vaughan, Raine Wilkins, Masato Yoshikoshi.
Red 9 Chantelle Allen, Alley Bissett, Lachlan Clark, Logan Curreen, Rochelle Dudley, Olivia Freestone, Rose Gerard, Lily German, Yazmin Gillespie, Luke Hitchcock, Alex Hunter, Summer Jane-Rashleigh, Marty Johnston, Ranelle Le Bas, Kian Marsh-Goudie, Kelly Middleton, Christian Mitchell, Karl Poland, Tony Rickit, Rosaleigh Roberts, Ruby Shearing.
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YELLOW HOUSE
Yellow 1 Barabei Baukie, Olivia Collier, Matthew Fay, Ella Gibb, Charlotte Grant, Rosalee Green, Carlin Greenwood, Parco Ho, Alex Hunt, Tutana Hurbert, Samantha Jones, Ella Lawton, Troy Malofy, Finn McClellan, Levi McGlynn, Lani McLellan, Momi Nawaia, Theo Neumann, Matthew North, Mate Stancich, Angel Sturm, Toby Swann-Mckay, David Tepania, Ashley Wilson.
Yellow 2 Keagan Brandt, Taliea Burdett-Rhodes, Julia Caulfield, Sasha Curin, George D’Urban-Burgess, Regan Flewellyn, Sophie Green, Eden Hunt, Carrie Jones, Mathew Leydon, Diana Lualua, Luke Mackinnon, Caleb McGlynn, Malia McLellan, Sam Mercer, Ella Mitchell, Monty Nash, Bailey Nickel, Jamie North, Shakira Palmer, Jack Rodgers, Daniel Stringer, Eriteti Taboia, Alex Wardenaar, Michael Wheeler.
YELLOW HOUSE
Yellow House
“... making Yellow House a force to be reckoned with...” Yellow 3 Sylvana Ashton, Sachin Austin, Jonathan Bassett, Chloe Blyth, Khalled Burdett, Kartini Clarke, Marli De Jager, Ellie Dragicevich, Stephen Graves, Max Green, Isabella Hood, Michael Hubbard, Alexander Kitchin, Neleta Lanyon, Lewis Munson, Connor Nickel, Nation Pareta, Hannah Powell, Ethan Scalabrini, Oliver Swann-Mckay, Samuel Telfer, Sean Wakelin, Beth Watkin, Daniel Wech, Sarah Wilson.
Go Yellow! After six long years of planning, prepping, training, crossing fingers and wishing on every star the year finally came! We were both honoured to be offered the position of house leaders for 2014 (something we had been scheming for together since probably the first day of year 7), and made it our goal to at least place in every event this year. The year started off well with a win in swimming, resurrecting a Yellow House tradition, however we did slip a little through the middle of the year but managed to soar back to a high with a brutal (for the other houses) win in tug of war. We have had immense turnouts at all events and send out a massive thanks to all those who participated!
Yellow 4 Esther Basevi, Dylan Bradshaw, Elena Cooper, Ruben De Jager, Naia Doak, Marlon Fa’ale, Michael Franckin, Jason Good, Savannah Gordon, Zen Henwood, Joseph Kearns, Nathan Malofy, Stella Mirfin, Jay Morris, Olivia Newall, Caleb Paxton-Penman, Ella Rodgers, Dominic Scalabrini, Xanthe Scandrett, Carissa Smith, Danica Stancich.
Yellow 5 Cameron Aitken, Erin Allen, Katie Blyth, Lucy Dragicevich, Rose Dugdale-Martin, Cayle Farmiloe, Solomon Hood, Dylan Jones, Trace Kemp, Emily Mahady, Josh Mercer, Nina Mirfin, Toby Nash, Tonga Nawaia, Kate Powell, Jonathan Rabey, Tayla Rogers, Daniel Russell, Bethany Sanders, Jasmin Searle, John Su, Shenaye Sullivan, Lottie Thompson, Gryffin Woods.
Yellow 6 Jake Baldwin, Matthew Boyd, Sean Dugdale-Martin, Eleisha Ferris, Daisy Flavell, Tenaija Fletcher, Kayla Flewellyn, Lucy Gore, Andre Hallgren, Ethan Hodgson, Boboua Itinibaara, Briana Julian, Ben MacKinnon, Cameron Maddren, Emily Martin, Dylan Moore, Kaleigh Morris, Lyndon Morris, Tekaretaake Nawaia, Alex Neumann, James Norman, Isabel Sanders, Miles Scherer, Chesna Stancich, Andrew Wheeler, Louis Young.
Yet none of this would have been possible without the inarguable prowess of Miss Gillian Russ. We wish to send a big heartfelt thanks to her and all the advice, time and effort given throughout the year, with a special mention to Miss Russ’ ability to keep the house in order using only one small object – the P.E. whistle. We’re so grateful for the help! We also wish to thank all the whanau teachers and whanau reps for their ongoing help and support this year, with the most passionate whanau teacher award going to Mrs Weaver for making the effort to come to basically every event... This. Whole. Year. As we hang up our yellow gear and reflect back on our time at Mahu’, a definite highlight of the 7 years here has been making Yellow House a force to be reckoned with in 2014. All the best for the years to come Yellow!
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Claudia Ainscow, Logan Aitken, Olas Barreras, Kelsey Brandt, Aleicha Burdett-Rhodes, Sophie Crean, Intuane Fa’ale, David Georgetti, Jack Gothard, Ella Hauser, Paige Jones, Sara Jones, Jack Kleyn, Victoria Lawton, Danika Morris, Alice Nash, Fergus Neumann, Brayden Newall, Foster Rae, Lagen Rhodes, Victoria Teokila, Jozef Ujdur, Freedom Walsh, Jackson Woods.
Yellow 8 Max Ainscow-Pati, Georgia Boyd, Jordan Curin, Dez Foote, Liam Foote, Hugo Fung, Matthew Georgetti, Frazer Grant, Davina Jones, Leilani Jones, Rhys Jones, Pearl McClintock, Samara Melling, Claudia Munro-Boga, Taketi Nawaia, Andrew Norman, Alexander Rutherford, Trent Scandrett, Tegan Smith, Boata Taboia, Amy Tattersfield, Elvira Trowbridge, Michael Wech, Rebekah Wilson, Sean Wilson.
Yellow 9 Zhanie Burdett-Rhodes, Tyler Cauty, Finn Collings, Tyler Davis, Case Green, William Green, Jacob Hodgson, Rachel Hubbard, Liam Jones, Leila Kleyn, Eunice Lanyon, Maxwell Meale, Chantelle Millar, Addison Morris, Darrien Olivier, Anna Pashley, Takimoana Phillips, Mitchell Powrie, Tony Reeu, Madison Smith, Serena Sturm, Matt Watkin, Cane Whitaker.
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