The year that was 2017

THE YEAR THAT WAS CELEBRATING LOCAL EDUCATION IN 2017

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Breadcraft actively provides opportunities for school leavers to continue their education through its apprentice programme, and also offers other career paths for keen employees with numerous ways for staff to develop their skills through further training both in the classroom and on the job.

Two big success stories have come in recent weeks with Daniel Evans successfully completing his Level 4 baking apprenticeship to become a qualified baker. This apprenticeship is completed over three years with assessment done on each unit standard as well as a final assessment each year carried out by Breadcraft to ensure the apprentices are reaching the level required. Daniel has done very well during his apprenticeship and during his second year was given the responsibility of being a team leader on his plant.

Our second big success story is from our Supervisor Luke Rosemergy who was

recently Runner Up in the New Zealand Association of Bakers (NZAB) Young Bread Baker of the Year Award. This is a fantastic result for Luke who now has the chance to use the $5000 grant he won to complete further research into his chosen baking field which could involve travelling to bakeries in either Europe or the United States.

The competition involved Luke competing with other young bakers from throughout the country in a theory exam, practical baking of several products, as well as a presentation to the judges on a given topic. This competition was held in Auckland over two days and the competition was very close with the eventual winner just two points ahead of Luke in the final count.

The staff and management at Breadcraft were involved with both these young men achieving their goals, and they can be very proud of their efforts.

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30 Masterton Intermediate

4 Alfredton

32 Masterton Primary School

6 Carterton School

33 Montessori

8 Chanel College

34 Mauriceville School

10 Dalefield School

36 Opaki Primary School

12 Douglas Park

37 Solway College

13 Featherston School

38 Solway Primary School

14 Fernridge School

40 South End School

16 Gladstone School

41 St Mary’s School

18 Greytown Early Years

42 St Patrick’s Primary School

19 Greytown School

43 St Teresa’s School

20 Good Beginnings

44 Trinity Hadlow Pre-School

22 Kahutara School

45 Trinity Hadlow

23 Kuranui College

49 Trinity Rathkeale College

24 Lakeview School

50 Trinity St Matthew’s Collegiate

26 Literacy Wairarapa 27 Little Ferns Private Preschool

51 Tinui School

28 Makoura College

52 Wainuioru School

29 Makoura Community Early Childhood Centre

54 Wairarapa College

53 Whareama School

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ALFREDTON SCHOOL STAFF 7 STUDENTS 67

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

ANITA PHILLIPS 2017 has been a year of growth at Alfredton School. Our roll has continued to maintain a steady upwards path and in January we were able to open our brand new classroom. This was an exciting moment for our community and something very special for Alfredton School. The Board and ASCA (Fundraising Team) have continued to invest heavily into our school and this means we are able to offer our students a huge range of opportunities both within and outside the school.

The teaching staff this year have continued to explore ideas around mathematics in our school and we have raised the profile of science within our curriculum. This has meant a lot of hands of and exciting learning activities for our students! It would be fair to say that the learning this year has been fun for students and staff alike. We are looking forward to another fantastic end of year prize-giving in December and sadly saying goodbye to our three brilliant Year 8s as they leave for their secondary schooling.

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This year we have asked our three Year 8s to share their special memories of the year with you.

A SPEECH My heart was beating like a drum. I was nervous, my speech was the last of the day. The pressure was on me to perform well. I slowly walked up to the front of the class, all eyes on me. I was the centre of attention! The first words came out of my mouth – I stumbled a little. Then the next word came out, then the next. I became more confident as the speech went on. All of a sudden I had no words to say.

Our speech result winners: Year 7 & 8 1st Isabelle Kennedy Year 5 & 6 1st Hannah Percy Year 3 & 4 1st Simone Kittow Year 1 & 2 1st Mac Foreman Written by Moana Papworth YEAR 8 GRAFFITI ART The Year 8s went to a Graffiti art course this term. The tutor told us about his life and how he wanted to do really good graffiti art.

He taught us how to do a lot of different techniques with a spray can. We learnt how to start with a skinny line and up with a fat one. He also showed us how to get a really dark line and then spray up so it looks like grass. To do this you have to hold the can upside down.

We played a game called Spraytionary – that’s like Pictionary but with spray cans.

We made our own picture with spray cans which we got to take home.

Winners from the Wairarapa Photography Competition

know The Rock?” he asked.

“Boys and girls, welcome to National Young Leaders Day 2017! Please welcome our first speaker… Aron Jackson!”

“Yeah, he’s not my cousin!” A laugh rolled through the crowd.

“Whoooo” the intermediate students cheered.

Aron was great at speaking, he was very inspiring. His main message, never stop believing in yourself.

A few speakers later came a Samoan hair dresser.

NYLD “I like this song,” shouted Moana over the thumping music, but I still couldn’t hear her.

“Kia Ora everyone, my name is Matt Brown and I’m from Samoa,” his voice boomed over the microphone. “I’m not famous, but I have a lot of famous cousins, do you

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“Yes!” the audience answered.

After the lunch break everyone was ready for a game. The 2000 pupils at NYLD split into two teams, right down the middle of the rows of seats. Next two big inflatable balls were released into the crowd.

Everyone screamed and cheered as the balls were pushed towards us. “I touched it!” squealed Isabella.

NYLD was a great day. Thanks to Mrs Phillips – we wouldn’t be there without her!

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CARTERTON SCHOOL STAFF 30 STUDENTS 290

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS At Carterton School we are all learners, adults and children.

Through the year we take part in a wide range of activities and experiences to help us all continue to learn and grow.

It is important that our students get a fabulous grounding in the core curriculum, but also have the opportunity to experience what the world has to offer.

ALISON WOOLLARD 2017 has been a very positive year for Carterton School. The happy atmosphere has provided a backdrop for a wide range of learning activities and adventures.

Students of all ages and families new to the school have settled in well and have quickly become a part of our learning community.

The wide range of learning activities on offer provide challenge and interest throughout the school.

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At the end of 2017 we are saying a sad farewell to Margaret Hutchings, who has been a key member of our office staff for 20 years. We will miss her hugely, and wish her all the very best for the future.

In 2017 we have focused on further expanding our collaborative learning teams which allow students to work alongside several teachers.

Children and teachers have responded positively to the flexibility this provides.

Our ‘Carterton School 3Rs’ (I Respect myself ~ Mana motuhake, I Respect others – Manākitanga, and I Respect our environment – Kaitiakitanga) are central to how we all interact, both in and out of school.

Bully Free Me week was a chance to focus on how we can use our 3Rs to learn and play together in a supportive environment.

A highlight of the year was the success of Team Kowhai’s anti bullying video. Their moving video was watched by thousands of people.

Our school links with Kuranui College are being further developed so our senior students will have the opportunity to experience college life.

We have attended several Kuranui assemblies and next year we will be having Science sessions in their lab.

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SCHOOL STUDENT LEADERS Every year we see students stepping up to take a lead in our school. We have formal roles of ‘House Captain and Vice-Captain’ for eight of our senior students, but every member of our school community has the opportunity to take a lead, whatever their age.

Children often organise playtime games and activities for each other, and groups are often seen around the school carrying out environmental projects or helping others.

Our Year 7 students have had the opportunity to attend the GRIP leadership conference, and Year 8s the National Young Leaders Day. These experiences have allowed our children to make links with others from around the lower North Island, and to reflect on their roles in our school.

Seniors also have a range of challenges to meet over the year. The annual Powell Hut tramp is always a star event.

EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM We have taken part in a full and varied programme of activities out of school to take our learning into the ‘Real World.’

Clareville Bakery hosted a fantastic morning when students made a variety of items; it is special to be part of such a generous community.

Each learning team has been out on camps, trips and visits to support classroom learning, Visits this year include Water Treatment Plant, Aratoi, Te Papa, Wellington Art Gallery, Zealandia, Mount Holdsworth, a bus tour around Wairarapa with Ra Smith, Fensham Reserve.

Our Enviro School status has been our learning focus all year. ‘Student Volunteer

City experience at City Gallery in Wellington

Kowhai tree planting

Armies’ have grown up all across the school as children work to improve the local environment.

match was as intensely fought as ever! We are an active school and enjoy physical activity.

CREATIVITY AND CULTURE The Kokomai Festival was an opportunity for us to see world-class entertainers on our doorstep; thanks to our PTA every child had the opportunity to see a performance. Our amazing Kapahaka groups performed at the Festival and wowed the crowd with their passion and technique.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT The amazing Matua Ra Smith has been a regular visitor to school. Kawakawa Tuakana presented him with a very special taonga – a book of local stories they had written.

SPORT AND ACTIVITY Children have had the opportunity to take part in miniball, hockey, cross-country, swim sports, football with Wairarapa United, athletics, triathlon. The senior team hosted Brooklyn School for a sports exchange day. The staff v student netball

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With our amazing PTA and an active ‘Garden Trail committee’, we have made many links with our community this year.

The school Gala in March is a community favourite.

The joining of South Wairarapa schools into a Community of Learning/Kāhui Ako has been an exciting development which will go from strength to strength for the good of all children in South Wairarapa.

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CHANEL COLLEGE STAFF 32 STUDENTS 270

Dr Claire Hills tree planting

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

GRANT MILES We are a Catholic co-educational College with a set of values which come from our founding orders the Brigidine Sisters and the Marist Brothers. Established in 1978, Chanel College is a school with a tradition of Excellence, catering for students from Year 7 to Year 13. Situated in Masterton, at the heart of Wairarapa, Chanel College is easily accessible to all students in the area. The core subjects are taught at all levels and a wide variety of optional subjects are available. The aim of all education at Chanel is to develop potential and educate the ‘whole person’, according to the student’s abilities and needs.

The College seeks to build and develop a warm and caring community spirit among its students, staff, Board of Trustees, parents, former students and the wider Catholic community. This embraces the idea of treating others as we would like to be treated ourselves.

One of the most important things a school does is to provide a wide range of opportunities for students to develop new skills and to improve their personal level of excellence. In 2017 our students have given us much to smile about.

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SHEILA WINN At the annual Shelia Winn Shakespeare Competition, the cast received the Spirit on Stage Award, Max Walden gained the award for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Role Award, and for the second year in a row, a student from Chanel College, Andriette Erasmus, was chosen to be the Wairarapa representative for the National Secondary Schools Shakespeare Workshop. This recognition is testament to the commitment and dedication of Mrs Hills and Mr Holder who prepare the students every year for this competition.

SPORTS Drama was not the only area in which Andriette excelled. At the Wairarapa Athletics Awards, Andriette won the Wairarapa female thrower of the year, and was also selected to represent the Under 15 Wairarapa Netball Team where she was named Vice-Captain.

At the Wairarapa Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards, we had a very successful evening with Bryn Curnow winning the Junior Sportsperson of the Year Award.

This is a significant achievement and reflects the success Bryn has had in Athletics at the local, regional and national levels over the past 12 months.

The year 7 and 8 Hockey team finished 1st in their grade. Our 1st XI Boys Football team won Division A of the Secondary Football Boys competition. These are just some of the fine achievements from the Sporting field.

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O’SHEA SHIELD The O’Shea Shield Team performed very well this year finishing 5th out of the 17 competing schools an excellent achievement given how close the overall results were. Madeleine Bayliss, Kim Mayca Morcilla, and Kenta McKelvey all received high distinctions in their categories and Laura Saywell was named best speaker in our debate against St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie.

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NEW VAN Earlier this term we saw the arrival at the school of the new College van. To see the project come to completion was very satisfying. First we had the major fundraising efforts of the Chanel College Parents, Teachers and Friends Association and we have also had significant support from Eastern and Central Community Trust, Trust House Community Enterprise, TRC Toyota and the Chanel College Board of Trustees.

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DALEFIELD SCHOOL STAFF 7 STUDENTS 51

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Seven student, Jade Harbers designed our new school logo. The logo reflects our rural location and proximity to the Tararua range and Matarawa. Graphic designer, Elton Gregory wove some magic with clever coloured-in typeface and together they have created and original yet contemporary logo.

ERIC DAUBÉ Dalefield School’s year started with a powhiri for the new students/staff and with a splash as the refurbished pool was opened. Term four 2016 saw major renovations of the old teaching block. It was with great anticipation that the new learning space was opened for the start of the 2017 school year.

2017 has seen the introduction of our school app. This has aided communication immensely and is a vital addition to our new website and Facebook page. In Term One a Year

Term Three saw the election of our new Board of Trustees. This is a milestone for the school and reflects the desire of the school and community to make a positive difference for our students.

Term Four started with the annual Lamb and Calf Day. This much-anticipated event attracted a record number of calves and the fine weather brought hordes of families and friends from the local community and beyond. “This event is back on the map,” a local was heard to say.

We look forward with excitement and hope to 2018!

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DOUGLAS PARK SCHOOL STAFF 36 STUDENTS 382

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

GARETH SINTON It has been a real honour to step into Principalship this year at Douglas Park. We have a great set of students here, and a wonderful teaching staff to work alongside them.

Our school is on a mission to provide a modern, cutting edge learning experience for our children. Our New Entrant Play-Based learning environment makes transition to school very easy and welcoming for our 5-year-olds, as well as putting them at the heart of their learning. As the children get older this ownership of the learning process becomes more noticeable, and our senior students have a big say in both what they learn, and how they go about learning it. Technology is crucial as well, with iPads, Chromebooks and Macbooks available for students to use and a growing collection of robotics to expose students to future technologies.

TERM 1 Was a jam-packed term to kick off the 2017 school year! Our two junior teams, Rimu and Kowhai headed out to Riversdale beach for some beach education and fun in the sun! Our annual food fair was enjoyed by many in our community and was a fantastic fundraiser for our school. Sheppard house took out our annual house singing competition, which this year was themed Kiwiana. Our top softball team won their intermediate grade with the score in their final against MIS being a close one, 14-12. We also celebrated safe travel to school with a wonderful wacky wheels day, which saw some awesome creative wheels!

TERM 2 The biggest event to happen in Term 2 would have to have been the retirement of our wonderful principal Mr Dick Brown. We celebrated with a huge week of farewells! Also this term, our middle and senior teams went to the Pioneer and Cobblestones museums. DPS kids enjoyed a disco, a visit from Zebong and another awesome fundraiser… our whole school Skipathon! We had another very successful whole school cross-country and a large number of runners headed off to represent DPS at Wairarapa Interschool Cross-country.

TERM 3 Mr Sinton took over the reins as our new principal this term and early on we celebrated Matariki with our beautiful cultural evening. Some of our middle school kids worked with Wai Col students with a SLAM programme. Russel Street School came over from Palmerston North for our annual Tararua Challenge sports exchange. An absolute highlight for the term though would have had to be our Rippa Rugby Team winning regionals and

The DPS Ride Raffle, another successful and exciting fundraiser

Principal Dick Brown retired at the end of Term 2 being selected to represent Wairarapa at Nationals. What an amazing achievement!

TERM 4 This term has seen the start of building modifications set to enhance our modern learning practices throughout the school.

Also early on in the term we have kicked off with wonderful performances from both our junior and senior Kapahaka

DPS Rippa Team representing the Wairarapa at Nationals

groups at the Kokomai Kapahaka festival.

All the kids did us extremely proud.

Nine of our students were placed in the Wairarapa Photography Competition and kids got to experience the wondrous sounds of the Nukes Ukulele group. We look forward to the remainder of the 2017 school year and sharing in the fun of learning with our kids and community!

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2017

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2017 has been a very busy year for Featherston School. Our roll has had another year of growth with numbers almost doubling! Our teaching team have risen to the challenge of the busy curriculum and we have had some amazing learning experiences with the children.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Our year began with a visit to our local Marae, Te Waka iti, with the entire school being welcomed by the tangata whenua.

It was a wonderful start with the children all playing a part in our wonderful learning community. For a few it was their first visit to a marae, so it was a great chance to experience and learn.

Room 3 showing off our new computers GINA SMITH I have enjoyed watching our school grow over the past three years thanks to an amazing team and supportive community. We work well together to make sure the decisions we make benefit the students and ensure they receive the education they are entitled to.

In Term 2 and 3 we looked further into our community. We learnt about people who volunteer in Featherston. We had visits from some of our firefighters, our Nana Readers and some parents who volunteer at various organisations. We decided we wanted to do something in our community and as a school we spent an entire afternoon around the main streets of town cleaning up. We collected bags and bags of rubbish that had blown around. It was a wonderful experience for us. We felt amazing being able to be volunteers ourselves and the feedback we got from our Featherston community was very humbling. It might become an annual event for us!

We were privileged to participate in the Messines commemoration in June of this year. We had already produced some wonderful art for the Mayor to take to Messines as part of the commemoration and it was a moving ceremony for us, especially because we understood what had happened there through our learning prior to the ceremony.

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As a PB4L school we have focused on building the resilience of our students both in and out of the classroom. We encourage them to take risks in their learning, step outside their comfort zone and understand that making mistakes is how we learn. This has produced some amazing results.

Our keen artists produced this piece of artwork as part of the Booktown weekend

thank the Featherston Community and our school whanau for the support and helping hands they have given us this year. Our students and staff appreciate your willingness to share and give of

I would like to thank all those who have supported our school throughout the year and allowed us to provide some awesome experiences for our students. your time and resources. We have lots of exciting things to look forward to in 2018 and we would love for you to join us on our journey!

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Champion horse OUR CONCEPT FOR THE YEAR WAS IMPACT We spent the year looking at how we impact on ourselves, others, the community and how things impact on us.

Term 1 focused on how we impact on the environment, and as a school we reflected on our Enviro School journey. We were recognised with a Silver award, which we are very proud of. This was a huge team effort that was led by Paula Sala and our strong Enviro Leaders.

JANINE DEVENPORT Another amazing and successful year at Fernridge School and once again I am privileged to be the leader of this school and the dedicated teachers who work here.

Term 2 saw us focus on how technology impacts on our learning, and during this term some classes began to use the Seesaw app to communicate our learning with families and whanau. We held a successful sharing evening in which all parents were able to sign up to the app and learn about how this impacts our learning.

2017 was to be the year that our new building work was scheduled to start, but alas this has been postponed until 2018. We are really hopeful that this plan, which is now over four years old, can come to fruition.

Term 3 was a massive term and the focus was on how The Arts impacts on us.

The term culminated in a whole school production – A Night at the Gallery. This was fantastic and a brilliant team effort from all staff and students.

This year we had to close our out-ofzone roll in February, as the school population is full to the brim. This is obviously a comment on both the changing Masterton population and the success of our school.

Term 4 is about how we impact on the community. Many students are now thinking about this and taking action to improve or support the local community in a variety of ways. Of course, term 4 is also a busy one with our Pets Day, whole school athletics and the famous Muddy Muster. We also had the great honour of hosting the Kapa Haka Festival, which was an action-packed two days – Thank you to Roger Graham and Lucy Zouch for taking the lead on this.

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GLADSTONE SCHOOL STAFF 10 STUDENTS 144 Scarecrow making Senior students who were main parts in the school production ‘Aladdin Trouble’

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

MARGARET HYSLOP It has been a great year for Gladstone School with success and progress throughout many areas. The roll has steadily grown and students have taken part in engaging activities both within and beyond the school.

One highlight was the opening of our Senior Hub classroom which has enhanced our collaborative learning practices. Our school has continued the implementation of the Universal Design for Learning framework that has advanced student achievement outcomes. Our senior students had an amazing learning experience planting 2000 trees on the areas around the Kourarau Dam. This opportunity assisted them to further their Inquiry Learning, being able to Take Action in their community and gain knowledge about a special local environment. They worked with Greater Wellington Regional Council, farmers, Enviro School facilitators and Ra Smith (Kahungunu ki Wairarapa).

We have a busy few weeks coming up with lots of exciting activities and planning for another great year ahead.

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GREYTOWN EARLY YEARS STAFF 12 STUDENTS 45

CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE

GRETCHEN SAULBREY We began the year with a renovation project (made possible with grants from Greytown Trustlands and Rotary) which allowed us to increase our roll, and we also said a fond farewell and thank you to past Chairperson Rachel Butler-Peck for her five years of support.

Our passionate teaching team and enthusiastic board worked together throughout 2017 to ‘Provide quality care and education for the children of our community aged 0-5, guided and supported by our community‘ - a vision that began in 1986 and continues to thrive today.

We held successful fundraising events throughout the year and I wish to thank our fundraising committee and our community for their continued support. This allows us to continually improve our environment and resources to support our children’s learning through play.

2017 has seen our curriculum continue to grow as we build and strengthen our community of learners. We were privileged to host Pennie Brownlee, coauthor of The Sacred Urge to Play, at Early Years. We had such a great evening with parents and other educators as Pennie shared with us the importance of play in our children’s lives.

We support this through things such as loose parts so children can be creative, imaginative and free with their play, incorporating rituals and rhythms throughout the day that support sustained play, and introducing a nourishing, monthly, shared lunch: grown, prepared and cooked together.

Our successful Early Years Explorers programme has grown in popularity. Our wee explorers have been celebrating Arbor Day, practising random acts of kindness in our community such as weeding, watering, planting seedlings and delivering Kind Hearts handmade doggie biscuits to our local cafes (free for their canine visitors).

We continue to strengthen our connections within the local community; Greytown School visits for Pet Day, Wheels Day and Arbor Day, Greytown

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We officially became a Kind Hearts centre this year. We are now part of a national movement with a vision of building stronger communities through kindness.

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GREYTOWN SCHOOL STAFF 36 STUDENTS 380

KOWHAI SYNDICATE (YEAR 1-3) Kowhai Syndicate starts each day with phonics to help us with our reading and writing. We have learnt about our brains, growth mindset and how we can always do better if we keep trying.

We visited green spaces in Greytown; Kowhai Reserve, O’Connor’s Bush and Sarah’s Garden. Our classes decided how we could make our school environment better. We have been making bird feeders, growing seedlings, planting in the garden and making signs for the school orchard.

The Junior Enviro Group and Junior Kapa Haka meet at lunchtimes.

TOTARA SYNDICATE YEAR 3-6 Our annual Pet Day is fun! We bring our pets and show off our art. We also baked this year and there was a prize for the class who brought the most cakes. In the past few years we have been taught Mandarin by Shan. She has taught us to count and how to pronounce different words. We had our own WOW! Each class chose their own theme, e.g. “Living Landscape”, “Native Birds”, “Maori Myths & Legends” and “Endangered Animals”.

We had a lot of fun making costumes out of recyclable materials. At our school we have awesome ‘crazes’. Every two weeks we change to a new one. So far we have enjoyed scootering, yoyos, skateboarding and gutterball.

KAURI SYNDICATE Our successes on the sports field and academically have been many. The year 5 & 6s won the Mini Ball competition and the year 7& 8s won the basketball league.

Our Netball A team won Grade 2. We won the South Wairarapa soccer tournament and the Rugby 7 competition. We won 1st in the Year 6 & 8 ‘Wairarapa Science Fair’.

We won the ‘Tournament of the Minds’ Competition. Our production was based on New Zealand’s history with each class

Pet Day a highlight of our school calendar

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

SHARP – Values are a core part of our learning ‘Tournament of the Minds’ winning smiles

Children are encouraged to participate in a variety of sports

using dance, singing and drama to show a different century. Our year 8 leaders took part in the inspiring, ‘National Young Leaders Day’ in Wellington. In term 4 we run an ‘Options Programme.’ Staff and people from our community facilitate a range of activities for our students such as tennis, coding, electronics, music and the visual and performing arts.

PATRICE O’CONNOR 2017 has been an incredible year for me as the new principal.

Greytown School is at the heart of the community and is a warm and inviting place in which to learn and grow. Our children demonstrate ‘S.H.A.R.P’ values in a wide range of contexts and there are numerous opportunities for children to shine across the curriculum; in cultural and arts groups, in sports teams and through leadership. Our staff are passionate about children’s learning and work hard to make a difference in their lives. We are supported by a highly skilled and committed Board of Trustees, a caring community of parents and wider Greytown residents. Together we make Greytown School worth belonging to. We are SAFE and HONEST, we ACHIEVE, show RESPECT and take PRIDE.

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Let’s make sandcastles CELEBR ATI N G 75 YEARS IN WAIR AR APA

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GOOD BEGINNINGS INFANTS & TODDLERS STAFF 7 STUDENTS 21 Peek-a-boo!

SUPERVISOR’S MESSAGE

Good Beginnings Infants & Toddlers opened approximately six years ago in a former villa. The environment has been developed to cater specifically for children less than 3 years of age.

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The Centre is open Monday to Friday between the hours of 7.00am to 5.30pm.

Teachers believe continuity between the home and the centre is paramount. Each child is allocated a primary caregiver to ensure strong relationships are formed so children and parents feel a sense of belonging.

EMMA DEAN It has been another rewarding year for the teachers at Good Beginnings Infants & Toddlers; with some of the highlights including welcoming new families and teachers, seeing children reach milestones and friendships blossom, wonderful feedback from our recent Ministry ERO review and starting online portfolios.

We continue to delight in the wonder of seeing the world through young children’s eyes, as they discover many new and exciting things. It is such a privilege to be able to share so many special moments and memories with both the children and our parents and whanau.

Individual charts support communication between the home and centre and teachers take great pride in providing informative portfolios of each child’s learning journey.

ERO reviews have found “Infants and toddlers benefit from warm relationships with teachers who are sensitive to their cues . . . interactions between children and teachers are highly responsive . . . teachers talk with children in a positive, respectful and sensitive manner. They are skilled at acknowledging children’s nonverbal gestures and supporting language development. They regularly engage with children on a one-one basis and extend their thinking…children are comfortable and secure in the environment. Children are offered a rich play-based programme that includes a range of active exploration opportunities . . . ” The reports can be found at www.ero.govt.nz.

Transition from the Infants & Toddlers Centre to our Educare Centre is developed in consultation with parents and dependent on the needs of individual children. Teachers from both centre’s work closely together to ensure a smooth transition.

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Due to children transitioning to our Educare Centre in January 2018 we have limited spaces available. If you would like to learn more about the centre please visit our website www.goodbeginnings.co.nz or contact Nicola on 06 377 0949 or email gbec@xtra.co.nz.

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GOOD BEGINNINGS EDUCATION CENTRE STAFF 6 STUDENTS 31

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Good Beginnings Educare Centre was established approximately 21 years ago and is open Monday to Friday 7.00am to 5.30pm.

OWNER’S MESSAGE

The Centre is housed in a former villa, which is spacious, homely, and the inviting environment supports child initiated play, catering uniquely for children aged 2 to 5 years of age.

The Centre’s programme is developed in consultation with parents and children and based strongly on children’s individual needs and interests.

Throughout the day children can chose from a range of learning experiences in a carefully prepared environment. Teachers and children interact in responsive reciprocal ways to support learning experiences that are meaningful to all.

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NICOLA BURLING It is my pleasure to manage both Good Beginnings Centres. We have a team of qualified and specialised teachers who have a passion for working with children under the age of five. Teachers work alongside the children to install a love of learning.

Our curriculum is based on children’s interests and during 2017 we have been on many learning journeys, continuing to make links with the local community, redeveloping our playground and gaining our Gold Healthy Heart Award. As you can imagine each day brings delight as a child develops a new skill or discovers something for the first time.

The teaching team look forward to continuing our support for families and whanau in helping their children to become confident, competent learners.

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Our latest ERO review found “Teachers know children well… Warm, mutually respectful relationships are evident…

Teachers regularly ask parents about their views and ideas, and the aspirations they have for their children… Teachers notice, recognise and respond to children’s emerging interests and plan appropriate learning experiences which integrate literacy, mathematics, science, technology and art… Positive outcomes for children are promoted by teachers working collaboratively… Teachers role model te reo Maori and integrate it authentically throughout the programme.” The report can be found at www.ero.govt.nz.

Teachers are committed to supporting children and families in their transition to school. Our robust transition procedures ensure children have the appropriate skills for the best possible start at school.

If you would like further information about our Centre please visit www. goodbeginnings.co.nz or contact Nicola on 06 378 9969 or gbec@xtra.co.nz.

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KAHUTARA SCHOOL STAFF 14 STUDENTS 115

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

CHARMAINE TAPLIN We are extremely proud of our achievements this year. We have a strong belief that children’s learning happens both inside and outside the classroom, therefore we encourage our children to participate in a variety of EOTC activities in the community.

2017 has seen a few changes for Kahutara School staff. We welcomed Ben, Hamish and Wendy to our staff at the start of the year, and Sally in Term 3. Clare Crawford left us at the end of Term 2, after nearly 10 years as principal at the school. I began in this role then, and I now have the job on a permanent basis. We have a wonderful team here providing a quality education for all our children.

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Jesse with lamb INTERNATIONAL READING DAY Students and staff dressed as their favourite book characters to celebrate International Reading Day on 8 September. The children enjoyed being dressed up for the day and they paraded around in the hall. Several children were chosen from each class and they received books as prizes for best costume. We also used this day as a mini fundraiser for our fellow student Eli. PET DAY Our annual Pet Day was hugely successful once again thanks to wonderful organisational skills of the Kahutara Parents Committee. As part of the Health and Wellbeing programme at school we encourage our students to care for their pets.

KAPA HAKA This year our Tuakana and Teina groups performed at the Kapa Haka Festival, which was held at the Wairarapa College Hall. Both groups did themselves proud, sharing outstanding performances.

Students choreographed the moves based on the chosen waiata. Kia Mau te Wehi!

WETLAND DEVELOPMENT & PLANTINGS This year the senior students at Kahutara School continued their involvement in environmental projects out in the community. Students took part in planting days at Onoke Spit and Wairio Wetlands.

We were also fortunate enough to be given access to a piece of swampy land close to the school to develop into our own wetland restoration project. Students have raised funds through applying for community grants and the money raised has been put towards plants that we have already planted around our wetland.

Thanks must go to the Donald Family for donating the land to use, and digging the ponds. We would also like to thank

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We look forward to seeing the wetlands continue to develop and provide learning opportunities for Kahutara children for years to come.

SPORTS Sport continues to be a focus at Kahutara School and is an area where we have lots of fun and achieve great success. We have done a tremendous range of different sports this year, starting with swimming at the beginning of the year then sending teams to many different tournaments including hockey, rippa rugby, rugby 7s, basketball, softball and football to name just a few.

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Kuranui will be offering a ground-breaking new curriculum for Year 9 and 10 students. Students will no longer study subjects, but courses, which combine a number of subjects to create a collaborative environment where students solve real-life problems

Participation-based results in 2016 showed 94.1 per cent of Year 11s achieved NCEA level 1, 94.2 per cent of Year 12s achieved level 2, and 80.4 per cent of Year 13s achieved level 3

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KURANUI COLLEGE STAFF 60 STUDENTS 450

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Over the past few years we have implemented a progressive senior curriculum and next year sees the start of a ground-breaking new curriculum for our Year 9 and 10 students. This new student-centred programme is a real game changer in how we teach our young people.

Almost 200 students took part in various sporting codes as part of the annual sports exchange with Tararua College. Kuranui once again retained the Bailey Family Trophy with the college defeating the visitors in five of the seven codes contested

GEOFF SHEPHERD Our motto is ‘Whaia te iti kahurangi kit e tuohu koe, me maunga teitei’ - be the best you can be and is underpinned by our five core values of Manaakitanga (Respect), Mana tangata (Integrity), Aroha (Empathy), Auahatanga (Creativity) and Te hiringa (Determination).

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I am extremely proud of what the college community has achieved during my time as principal, and it is with sadness that I will be saying goodbye to a much loved school, but I know I am leaving the school in good heart.

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LAKEVIEW SCHOOL STAFF 51 STUDENTS 430

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

TIM NELSON It has been an honour to be back at Lakeview School as Principal, after being away for four years at St Mary’s School. I have come back into an environment that is full of fantastic students, wonderful staff and supportive families. I am really looking forward to starting my first full year back in 2018 after what has been a positive year at Lakeview under the leadership of Ed, Melinda, Gene and I. 2018 will see a number of changes including staff and the way in which some of our programmes are run.

We are looking forward to seeing our children really thrive under new systems as well as tried and trued that we currently have.

Have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

Principal’s Day Out Nga-Teina, Eli and Sylvie Assembly Awards

PRINCIPAL’S DAY OUT This is a special day which happens once a term where children whose behaviour has been exceptional are selected. The students get to spend a day with our Principal – sometimes it’s enjoying a swim in the town pool and movie, or other fun activities. It is one of my favourite days.

ENVIRO GROUP Students have continued to tend to our school garden which has proven popular.

This year we have expanded, putting in a community garden as well. Our group of avid gardeners are learning skills to produce an array of wonderful vegetables which many of our families have enjoyed.

These have been displayed in our new vege cart in the school foyer. All our organic waste is recycled and we are producing worm wee from our worm farm in Room 17.

As part of Conservation Week students planted out areas around our school.

Lakeview School is so very fortunate to be in a beautiful natural setting which is enhanced by the work of our Enviro Group.

BIKES IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMME The children continue to enjoy the loop track and skills track. The bikes are available every lunch time weather permitting. This is a unique opportunity for students in a Wairarapa school. We are very fortunate to have these facilities and space to provide this for our students.

SPORTS Sport is big at Lakeview. Children have the opportunity to be involved in an array of sporting codes and competitions throughout the year. Our kids are amazing athletes. A highlight was winning the Super10 Netball and Basketball competition. We are really looking forward

to building on this success in 2018, making sport a key part of Lakeview School.

STUDENT LEADERS Our senior students strive to become student leaders. Leadership is fostered, promoted and developed at Lakeview.

The group attended an overnight camp at Kaitoke in March and were part of the National Leaders Day held in Wellington.

2018 will see the introduction of GRIP Leadership programme that will put our students on the path for leadership well beyond their time at Lakeview School.

PERFORMING ARTS  Each year a syndicate holds a Production where children can ‘shine’.

This year the Junior syndicate are putting on a show called ‘Mrs Wishy Washy’s Christmas’.

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We are looking forward to using these devices for personalised learning across the curriculum in 2018.

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DUFFY BOOKS Lakeview continues to be part of the Duffy Book programme which provides students with free books to take home each year.

Another highlight is Book Week where we celebrate reading with fun activities throughout the week and culminate with a dress up as a Book Character Day on the Friday.

Jamielea and Hayzel - book week

Lachie and Amelia - writing

Winners of Super 10 Netball

There are so many activities and things going on at Lakeview that I wanted to share but have run out of room. 2017 has been a wonderful year. We encourage families to come and see what we are doing at Lakeview School – we want you to be part of our community.

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LITERACY WAIRARAPA STAFF 14 STUDENTS 200

MANAGER’S MESSAGE

Awards were presented in Adult Learners Week

In 2017, Literacy Wairarapa has continued to assist adults to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. Literacy Wairarapa is a member of Literacy Aotearoa, a leading provider of literacy and numeracy assistance to adult learners in New Zealand - Aotearoa.

We have continued with the national collaboration with Te Wananga o Aotearoa to deliver foundation level programmes and this year 25 of our learners enrolled in these programmes. The resources provided are superb and there are weekly “drop in” sessions.

CAROL WALD Literacy Wairarapa assists Adult learners 16 years and over who are no longer involved in the secondary school system. We help individuals to improve their literacy and numeracy, including digital literacy, road code and English language. Foundation courses are available to learners who have not completed their literacy & numeracy credits. We provide Workplace Literacy programmes tailored to individual and/or work place requirements. We have small class sizes - usually up to eight per group and some learners work individually with tutors.

Annually around 200 learners access services through Literacy Wairarapa. We aim to help learners gain confidence and skills so that they move on to other courses or gain employment. Tuition takes place in REAP House and we run weekly sessions at Featherston Community Centre and Masterton’s Te Awhina/ Cameron Community House.

English Language classes are held three times per week for residents who are learning English as a second language.

Two classes are during the day and one is at night catering for people who are in the workforce. We can assist learners to prepare for the IELTS test.

Pathways Awarua has been a popular choice for many learners who use this form of study for reading, spelling, maths and road code.

In January we upgraded our computer suite with assistance from Trust House.

All computers are loaded with Windows 10 and all pcs run Office 2016. In term four, we started Digital Literacy classes focusing on tablets, phones and other devices. Groups were set up in-house and at Masonic Village.

Future Directions courses are a twentyweek programme for learners who need to focus on basic maths and reading skills.

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We continue to offer literacy & numeracy tuition to the peoples of Southern Wairarapa with classes running at the Featherston Community Centre on Wednesday mornings and hope to attract more learners in the coming year. With the changes in technology, there are ways we can work with learners who live away from the main areas – it does not always mean a trip into Masterton.

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MANAGER’S MESSAGE new play equipment, planting of trees and other greenery and development of our gardens as well as our much treasured lawn!

“Children love exploring outside – there’s such much freedom and adventure to be had as well as the health benefits of being in the sunshine and fresh air!”

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BEKKI GUBB Little Ferns Private Preschool was developed and came under new ownership in 2016 and offers whanau from all over Wairarapa top quality care and education for children aged from birth to five years old.

Payton and Aurora challenge themselves on the monkey bars

Our close-knit team of teachers Bekki, Erika, Debby, Donna and Savannah, come from a diversity of backgrounds, bringing lifeexperience, a kind, caring and respectful approach to growing and learning, with a strong focus on sustainability, cultural diversity and Te Ao Maori.

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“We believe that every child is unique, and that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’.

We really value and respect the unique knowledge and contributions of families/ whànau in the decision-making process around their child’s care and education.”

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The centre itself has undergone a makeover inside, and is a light, bright, airy space with plenty of room to move and specific areas for focused learning.

We really encourage children to be independent and the environment is set up to enable children to choose their activities, have access to their belongings and develop self-help skills.

Whilst there are separate areas for children Under two and those Over two, the layout of the centre means that we often combine the age groups and spend time together as one big whanau!

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Esera Faatasi of Makoura College 1st IV Rugby team.

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PAUL GREEN Deepened student engagement in learning continues to be a key interest area for us.

Whilst we want to preserve our above average NCEA pass rates, we also recognise that we need to move beyond the cross-the-credit-line mind-set which characterises current attitudes to learning in many of the country’s schools.

Our revised strategic goals align with our tikanga and focus on individual well-being (whaia te tika), rich learning (whaia te pono), and community connection (whaia te aroha).

Makoura College students competing in the Dance NZ Made competition

Converting these intents into inspiring programmes for our young people remains our prime professional challenge – something that we care about very much and want to keep developing our understanding of.

Best wishes to those moving on beyond the school into a new phase of life – and a very warm welcome to those heading our way.

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Our focus this year was on the centre encouraging Tamariki to be “Community focused” this has seen the Tamariki, Whanau and staff raising money for the Cancer Society & SPCA, collect donations for the local Food Bank and deliver these, establish a relationship with and visit the Oxford St Community gardens, plant trees at the River Road Reserve, be involved in keep NZ Beautiful, clean up in the local Makoura Stream and weekly walks around the local area collecting rubbish. The Tamariki are really noticing now when the local environment is not being cared for.

The weekly Tamariki Toa trips focusing on Nature Education are now embedded as an integral part of the Centre programme and children participate in trips to the bush and local reserves, etc. We are hoping to extend this further with a sleepover at Mt Holdsworth Lodge planned for the future.

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Dayton enjoying the swing Mackenzie challenging herself physically

Jake wearing our special Korowai Cloak WENDY RUTHERFURD Kia Ora Koutou

Rohaarn on a Tamariki Toa trip

Last year the Centre signed up to the Enviro Schools programme. We have added a sustainability focus to the Centre philosophy and are designing a curriculum for our Centre that is relevant to our context and reflects our Centre values, ideals, children, Whanau and community.

We have introduced special rituals into the Centre that reflect our values and encourage a kind and caring environment for all. These include lighting candles and saying a special karakia before kai, recognising each week the tamariki that have displayed kind and caring attributes, & making our environment more homely.

We wished to recognise the huge importance of a child’s fifth birthday and/ or last day at Centre before taking the next step on their learning journey. We have done this by purchasing a special Korowai that the child wears on the last day at Centre. We were especially privileged to have been gifted six native bird feathers from Rangitane and one from a Centre Whanau that have been incorporated into the cloak. The blessing of the Korowai has made it special to us.

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Each child’s primary caregiver closely supports the tamariki and their Whanau and understands the need to go at the child’s individual pace. A close sense of whanaungatanga is developed for these children and their whanau as they embark on their early learning journey with us.

We are encouraging Tamariki and Whanau to become “Community Minded Citizens” by being engaged in all sorts of community projects.

We have made operational changes at the Centre that reflect our commitment to a sustainable future.

Our varied curriculum enables Tamariki to build on their individual needs, strengths and interests and encourages them to take responsibility for their learning.

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We have an open door policy so feel free to visit at any time if you would like to know more about the Centre.

Other events this year include a Rippa Rugby Tournament, Matariki evening, Quiz night fundraiser.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

RUSSELL THOMPSON E nga iwi, e nga reo, e nga mana o te Wairarapa nei. Tena ra koutou katoa.

Tino pai rawa atu te mahi o nga kura katoa ki runga i te kaupapa o tenei tau!

The 2017 school year has been full of positive achievements at Masterton Intermediate – individually, in teams and for our school as a whole. The 40 school weeks seem to disappear very quickly due to the huge amount of student activity that is a constant and important part of how we roll at MIS. I would like to sincerely thank the Board of Trustees, staff, parents, college students, whanau and all who have contributed towards enabling our students to be the best that they can be. There have been numerous highlights for MIS students this year.

Unfortunately these will not all fit into the following two pages but we have endeavoured to include a range of activities and events that are offered at our school. The fact that so many students have chosen to take up these opportunities is a key reason for 2017 being such a successful year.

“E matahi ana, e mataara!” (Work together and be on to it!)

Issac and Lleyton performing at Kapa Haka JANUARY In January, the first stage of our adventure playground was erected with a design that was chosen by the students of 2016. We plan to install stages two ($50,000) and three ($60,000) as soon as the required funding becomes available. Our school year commenced on Monday, January 30, with the school grounds and buildings once again in pristine condition. As was the case last year, an increased school roll required two more classes for a total of 16 rooms.

The number of Chromebooks per class was increased from 12 to 20 while the numbers of students in each room decreased from 30 to 28. A valuable addition to our staff was the eight teacher assistants (one between two classes) and three teacher aides to provide additional support to students and enhance their achievement.

FEBRUARY The Meet the Teacher Evening on Thursday, February 16, was the first community event of the year with games and a sausage sizzle before our families had an informal chat with their child’s classroom teacher. Our newly elected Year 8 Student Leaders spent February 20 and 21 with Olivia Geange, our newly-appointed Assistant Principal, and Niheta Veale at Camp Kaitoke on the other side of the Rimutaka hill to bond as a group and consider the focus areas for their important roles for the months ahead. At the first Super Sport Softball tournament in Palmerston North on Wednesday, February 22, our MIS boys and girls softball teams both retained the banners as champions for 2017. These competitions involve 10 Intermediate Schools from Horowhenua, Manawatu, Wairarapa and Whanganui.

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Riversdale on Friday, March 3. Waiohine were the inaugural competition winners with a victory over Tauwharenikau in the all-MIS final. The annual Fun Run was held on Tuesday, March 7, with a new record MIS total of $32,000 in sponsorship donations from MIS supporters across the globe. On March 30 and 31, our students experienced two fantastic days of Education Outside the Classroom activities ranging from abseiling, biking the Rimutaka Incline, diving for kai moana, rafting, river walking, tramping to Powell Hut, visiting Adrenalin Forest in Porirua, Wellington Zoo and Zealandia through to caber-tossing and eating huhu grubs as part of the Tinui Challenge.

APRIL Eleven MIS boys were members of the 56-strong Nga Tama Toa roopu from 16 different schools which spent April 6 and 7 at Camp Waimanaaki, Riversdale, learning leadership skills based on the principles of mau rakau. Rihari Daymond and three senior students from Tararua College were all outstanding tutors while the Hopman’s hospitality was amazing.

Our Deputy Principal, Cam Maunder, took 48 students for a fun day of surfing and beach activities at Castlepoint for the first ADMIRE day of 2017 on Tuesday, April 11.

Three students are selected each term from each class for best-displaying the school’s ADMIRE values of Active brain, Dependable, Managing self, Interactions, Relationships and Excellence. Waiohine won the syndicate haka competition on Thursday, April 13. This was very closely contested with students in all syndicates displaying great energy, pride and kaha.

MAY Jack Hunter, Kayla Watts, Ben Schwass and Orianne Davidson were the four winners in the school harriers event on Thursday, May 11. On May 17, forty students attended

the National Young Leaders day in Porirua where they were motivated by some inspirational speakers, including Karina and Kasey Bird (previous Master Chef Winners), Daniel Flynn (co-founder of ‘Thankyou’ bottled water), Aaron Jackson (actor from Shortland Street) and Zane Scarborough (poet). A number of students sat ICAS tests this month, with Jacob Rose gaining a Distinction award as one of the top 5% of students in New Zealand and the Pacific in Digital Technologies while Harry Ewington also achieved this award in Science.

JUNE We were very proud of our boys hockey team winning the Wellington Intermediates’ (WRISSA) final against Hutt Intermediate in extra time on Tuesday, June 15. The girls team were not to be outdone and also won the trophy in their competition the following day. A very successful 22nd winter sports exchange was held at Havelock North on June 22 and 23, with MIS securing a convincing victory by winning 12 events to 4.

We hosted the Masterton Speech finals in our school hall on Tuesday, June 27, with Lily Rees (Lego) and Taylor Davidson (Fidget Spinners) representing MIS. JULY The new Masterton Intermediate School web site went live on July 6. On this same date, the 48 students selected for the term two ADMIRE Day had an awesome time at Laser Tag, Laser Golf, Laser Maze and the Lido Aquatic Centre. On Friday, July 7, the second term ended with the dance competition which was won by Tauwharenikau.

AUGUST As we have done for the past 22 years, the month of August started with a powhiri for our Japanese visitors from Shijonawate Junior High School in Osaka. The aroha and hospitality extended to all of our guests was

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The bi-annual Careers Expo was held on August 17 and 18, with students choosing one of 19 jobs to find out more about. We really appreciated the massive support that we received from many businesses and individuals. One hundred and fifty students contributed towards a very successful Open Night on Tuesday evening, August 22 which enabled the families of prospective enrolments to view some of our programmes in action. A huge number took up this opportunity. The following day our first XI boys squad performed brilliantly to win the Super Sport Soccer banner with a very convincing 6-0 win against Palmerston North Intermediate Normal in the final. A huge team of 70 students travelled to Ross Intermediate on August 30 to compete at the first-ever Super Arts Culture event.

We performed kapa haka and Pacific Island items with Pano Alataua becoming an instant crowd favourite. Cheers of delight came from the MIS contingent of performers and supporters when the announcement came that we had won the banner, by two points!

SEPTEMBER Jack Hunter totally dominated this month in terms of his success in crosscountry running races, winning the Year 7 sections of the AIMS Games in Tauranga on September 10, the Super Sport tournament in Feilding on September 20 and the National Primary Schools competition in Timaru on September 28. These were outstanding performances from a very talented, yet humble, MIS student. There were numerous other victories for MIS teams in September, including travelling to Fergusson Intermediate on September

6 for our annual winter sports exchange to win all seven of the football, hockey, netball and rugby events to retain the trophy we won last year. Fifteen Year 8 students competed at the AIMS Games in Tauranga from September 10 to 15, compared to six students last year. The Aces netball team performed way beyond expectations to claim 14th place out of the 122 schools competing. Aja Walker was the Aces’ MVP. Twenty four students and three staff visited Shijonawate Gakuen Junior High School in Osaka for our 17th exchange. Three quality performances were delivered from our performing arts groups and several individuals in our Variety Concerts and mini-production on September 11, 12 and 14. On Tuesday, September 19, the E-Pro8 Challenge was held in the MIS hall for the third consecutive year. This exciting event for Year 7 & 8 students challenges them to work as a team to solve complex technological problems against the clock and against other teams. Team Waipoua achieved second place and earned their spot in the Wellington Regional semifinals to be held on November 29.

OCTOBER The Poly Club and kapa haka groups performed at Wairarapa College for the Kapa Haka festival on October 19 and 20.

Our Chess team finished in fourth place out of 16 schools at the Chess Power National tournament held in Hamilton. Jade Alves was the top individual performer. This was the final chess event for 2017 and our team, under the guidance of Mrs Angela (The Dark Horse) Ternent-James, has had a very successful year, winning both the Chess Power Wairarapa tournament and the NZ Chess Federation Regional event, as well as raising the profile of the game here at school.

Our annual Writers’ Camp was once again held out at Castlepoint under the guidance of Niheta Veale. Twenty two students were

selected to attend this overnight workshop that provides an inspirational setting enabling them to immerse themselves in their own creative writing.

NOVEMBER On Thursday, November 2, we held a mufti day and sausage sizzle to initiate funds for the AWHI (Admirers Who Help Individuals) project. This initiative was presented by Rebecca Mobberley, a Year 8 student leader and is designed to support MIS students to participate in activities that they may be unable to do due to cost. We thoroughly enjoyed hosting 120 students and staff from Havelock North Intermediate on November 16 and 17 for our annual cultural exchange featuring the choir, kapa haka and rock bands. This was followed up with an amazing Kapa Haka exchange with Tawa on Tuesday November 21 and a performance on Wednesday, November 22 at the Tawa Schools kapa haka festival.

DECEMBER The following major assemblies this month will celebrate some of the successes that have been mentioned in the previous months of this year: Sports Awards in the school hall from 7pm on Wednesday evening Dec 6.

Service Awards Assembly starting at9.30am on Friday morning Dec 8.

Curriculum Awards Assembly at 9.30am on Tuesday morning Dec 12.

Our Final Assembly to be held in the Wairarapa College hall from 11am to 2.45pm on Wednesday, Dec 13.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2018 The 2018 school year holds much excitement as we continue to look at ways in which we can strengthen the education for all young adolescents whose families choose to enrol at MIS. Without the pressure of National Standards that we

Lisa loving her learning at MIS have endured for the past nine years, our teachers will be able spend more time teaching and our students will be able to spend more time learning in the holistic manner which has been the heart of Masterton Intermediate since 1960.

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A STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE OF MASTERTON INTERMEDIATE

by Rebecca Mobberley (Year 8) I have almost completed my two years at Masterton Intermediate and in that time I have been involved in many different activities. When I first came to MIS I was shy and nervous, but WOW have things changed! Here are just some of things that I have done during my time here: The Solway College inter-school national dressage competition where I won a test in the junior division and MIS won the junior division.

ICAS writing and English exams, receiving a credit in both tests, Writers’ Camp, Maths is Fun, Science Road Show, Super Arts Culture (where we won the banner), and many other Kapa Haka performances, Open Night speaker, Student Leader, WRISSA hockey winners, Wairarapa A-Grade school hockey winners this year and the Japanese exchange with Shijonawate Gakuen hosting a student in New Zealand then travelling to Osaka, Japan, for two weeks with 23 other MIS students.

My time at MIS has been a blast and I have loved it. I can truly say that I would come back here in a heartbeat. I have learnt many new things during my time at MIS inside and outside the classroom. MIS had taught me to follow my dreams, try my hardest and take the opportunities when they arise because if you deny the opportunities the opportunities will deny you.

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At MPS we value individuals and celebrate diversity, offering a welcoming, inclusive school environment. We hold high expectations for student achievement and work to ensure our students are knowledgeable and skilful, as they become motivated, independent, selfdirected learners. We want our students to be excited and interested in their learning and for learning to be fun, challenging, meaningful and relevant to their lives.

Our attractive, well maintained grounds, provide a place for students to take pride in their achievements, where they can learn and play safely. Our students enjoy their involvement in the native plantings, fruit trees and vegetable gardens and share the pleasure of cooking, eating and selling their produce. Student art is visible in and around the school in the form of hall and classroom displays and pou and murals around the grounds.

MPS encourages students to be involved and have a say in their lives and in their community. We recognise leadership potential and foster development of individual skills and talent. Students are offered a wide range of opportunities to participate in the arts and gifted and talented programmes. We also recognise that some students will need extra support and we ensure remedial programmes are matched to the needs of students. The Masterton Primary School community works together in partnership and all who come here receive a warm welcome.

Three pou were designed and painted by students and placed strategically away from the school gate so parents can drop their children off safely, but close enough for them to walk to and from school.

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Each morning begins with our Breakfast Club, open at 8am, for those in need of some cereal and a chat to start the day (school starts at 8.45am). Later in the day we have ‘Fruit in Schools’ and school milk

during ‘Feed and Read’. Sitting under the shade sails or the verandas, students’ lunch eating time is supervised by staff to make sure everyone eats before they go off to play or take part in lunchtime practices. Our 40-minute lunchtime is just enough time to have a break without being too long, so problems are less likely to arise. Our comfortable, well stocked library is a great place for students who like a peaceful playtime reading or playing a board game. Finishing at 2.30pm means we get the best part of the day for learning.

Positive Behaviour for Learning, MPS expectations, are taught throughout the school so students feel safe and supported in class and at play, and Circle Time offers opportunities for them to discuss problems they may have. A peer mediator programme also offers support for students to work through minor disputes with trained senior students.

During the year we have EOTC (Education

outside the Classroom) school camp and class trips, providing opportunities to learn about our local area and environmental issues. We hold a Silver Enviroschools Award and integrate Education for Sustainability throughout our curriculum planning and student inquiry learning. Each term we hold a Whanau Day and families join in with whanau group activities.

Student involvement in school life includes Choir, Kapa Haka, Jump Jam, sports, School Librarians, Road patrol, Peer Mediators, Kaitiaki, running assemblies and working with whanau/buddy classes.

We have a busy Friends of School who raise funds to purchase additional resources, including technology, so students have access to modern tools for learning such as lap tops and Ipads.

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Our Montessori Children’s House is an inviting, peaceful learning environment carefully prepared to engage our children in purposeful activities. This leads them to become independent and responsible for themselves and each other.

Quintin explores maths and geometry of cylinders

Aliza carefully pours liquid in a Practical Life exercise

Our Montessori curriculum provides the children with specially designed Montessori learning materials and these activities are set out on open shelves to support place and order. It is this structure that enables the children to choose purposefully and maintain an orderly consistency in their learning environment. We incorporate children’s individual interests into the curriculum on a daily basis as this is important across all learning contexts.

Throughout the day the children can choose from a wide range of learning experiences (from a range of curriculum areas such as biology, botany, geography, practical life, art and maths) including food preparation, baking and washing dishes.

We have an established indoor-outdoor flow that follows the seasons and connects the children to daily changes in Nature. Indoor activities include children working with colourful puzzle maps, construction materials, moveable alphabets and a ‘bank’ with thousands, hundreds, tens and units for children to manage. Model animals are classified into biological families, diurnal or nocturnal, and world geographical areas. Tamariki study life cycles of the frog, butterfly, corn and apple. Children use real tools and objects to engage in real work. Hammers and saws are for woodwork, while rakes, brooms and spades are for the vegetable and flower gardens. Kaiako incorporate children’s individual interests in the curriculum on a daily basis.

PAULINE HARTER It has been a wonderful learning journey since establishing our Montessori Centre in 1995. We moved to our present site seven years ago, a former villa in Lincoln Rd, and this lovely home has become the ‘Children’s House’ I had dreamed of: A home for busy, confident and connected learners, teachers and children (parents too!) all learning together.

Mila-Kay will make a home for these snails that she found in the garden

Each year we have community festivals and evenings, such as the Harvest Festival, so that our tamariki can share our produce with their families, including walnuts, hazelnuts and Nashi pears from our lovely trees. We celebrate Matariki with a Lantern Parade so our children experience the beauty and excitement of the night sky, while singing and walking with their lanterns and later returning to the centre to share kai.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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Each day is a celebration of who we all are: Growing, changing, caring for ourselves and each other as well as our beautiful Mother Earth, being well prepared for their next educational and social steps in their lives.

We have regular Parent Evenings to share the ‘magic’ of the Montessori learning materials children use, and to discover the philosophy that guides us as teachers. A priority for us is to communicate with parents in order to share their children’s learning at our centre as well as in their home. We aim to follow children’s needs and interests, nurturing their love of learning, being a friend, being part of a community.

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REBECCA STEVENS Kia ora, this year has been another amazing year for our learners thanks to our dedicated staff, community and whanau. Our students have made great progress because of the opportunities and support we have been able to provide. This year students have been learning to value themselves and others through our values programme, PB4L and Supporting Families resilience and change programme. They have contributed to our community including making compost bins for the Oliver Family whose house was destroyed in a fire, working on the Mauriceville Community Reserve, gardening and helping older members of our community. We are also working on an Atua Pou project which will be installed around our school and community in the new year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported our school this year- you are the reason our students are successful learners and are growing into even more amazing human beings.

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MAURICEVILLE SCHOOL VISION To nurture our children’s self-esteem, life skills and grow their ability to achieve.

We do this through student-directed learning integrated in our local community and environment that is based on the 5 Enviroschools principles.

We acknowledge the status of tanagatawhena in Aotearoa New Zealand , and embrace Maori perspectives, tiikanga and ako in our daily practices.

We use knowledge of modern pedagogy and research to meet the individual needs of our learners.

This year we have continued to develop our school’s values and behaviour expectations through the Positive Behaviour for Learning Framework. Our staff, board members and whanau have

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Opaki yr 7/8’s on camp this year in and around Turangi

Success for our sports and academic teams

THE YEAR THAT WAS 2017

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Opaki students , staff and community have all been part of another busy year, full of opportunities and events to remember. Students have taken part in a wide range of activities crossing academic, sporting and cultural fields.

A big part of the culture at Opaki is giving the students the opportunity to experience the great outdoors and this year we have seen the yr 7/8s spend time around the Taupo/Turangi area, the yr 5/6s exploring the Kapiti Coast and our yr 3/4s experiencing life at Riversdale Beach.

DAVE FINLAYSON When I look back over the year it’s amazing to see what the children of Opaki have achieved.

The children of Opaki are very lucky that they have a staff who go beyond the call of duty to develop programmes that will inspire children to want to learn. Once again we have had tremendous support from the community, as a lot of what we do at Opaki is reliant on that support and the children and staff are very appreciative of this.

Congratulations to all those ex- Opaki pupils who have done so well in their respective schools and tertiary institutions. We are all very proud of you and to have played a part in your development.

I continue to enjoy coming to Opaki School because of the enthusiasm shown by the children towards their learning.

I’m also lucky to have a focussed, dedicated staff to work alongside.

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The students also enjoyed tramping in the Tararua Ranges and riding the Rimutuka Incline.

Opaki students and staff are always having a lot of fun together at school and raising money for a good cause

EPro8 winners An amazing day meeting Olympic Ambassador Kayla Whitelock

Our students this year have been very involved in activities that give back to our community. These included being part of the Central Business District project group with our students designing a community garden, the development of a student army raising funds for local retirement villages and the children’s ward at Wairarapa Hospital. Also the funding for further development of our enviro initiatives.

On the sporting front, we have been pleased again with the huge numbers participating in sport. For the size of our school we punch well above our weight and we are lucky that we have the staff and community help in supporting our students in a huge variety of sporting adventures. Also seeing the successes of past students within the Wairarapa sporting fraternity has brought us immense pride.

On the cultural and academic scene, we have had a productive year, participating in Dancesplash, Artsplash, the Kokomai Festival and the Kapa Haka festival, where our performing group gets bigger and

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better each year. We were delighted with our results in the EPro8 competition where our yr 5/6 team was placed first and our yr 7/8 team placed third. Once again we saw outstanding results from the Matharapa competition across all year levels.

achieved, as well as putting steps in place to continue evolving and furthering our learning into the future. We are excited about heading into 2018 with new staff members coming on board and the skills they will bring to Opaki School.

As term 4 progresses towards the end of the school year, we find ourselves reflecting on a year that has seen a lot

A big thank-you to the Opaki community for your continued support and input into making our school what it is today.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE hockey teams represented us at their respective college tournaments, three netball teams reached the finals of their respective grades with two winning their grades. We had provincial reps in netball, hockey, cricket, waka ama and athletics and we had two reps at secondary school nationals for athletics, both of whom finished in the top 10.

University and Leadership Scholarship winners, Anna, Ngahuia, MacKenzie, Danielle, Jenny

BETH ROGERSON 2017 has been an outstanding year and the many successes and achievements of our students show that we are a college where every student counts and we make excellence happen.

Rebecca Smith, Solway Equestrian Academy member

In NCEA, our pass rates and achievement of endorsed certificates at all three levels were again well in excess of both national averages and for schools of our type. We also achieved NZQA Scholarships (in Classics and English) and five students have been awarded leadership and academic excellence entry scholarships to university. Equally to be commended are the increasing numbers of Solway students achieving high levels of success in vocational qualifications.

Our outstanding ICAS results in the junior school show that our younger students are also making the most of their academic abilities.

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This year has seen an outstanding year of sports achievements which saw Solway being named as the Wairarapa Times-Age Sports College of the Year. Football and

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New sports introduced this year included skiing, surfing, lawn bowls and waka ama.

The establishment of the Solway College Equestrian Academy has been an exciting development for the college and the equestrian team has had some excellent results.

There were many cultural highlights too, with our students making their artistic and performing arts talents count. We gained two second placings at intercollegiate music, won both the Year 9 and 10 intercollegiate debating, and the “most enterprising” award for our jazz group at the Wellington Jazz festival.

We had our largest Shakespeare group in many years and seeing the revival of a strong kapa haka group and the adoption of our own Solway waiata have been particular high points as well.

Solway students also excelled in giving service, earning a Gold Award for their World Vision fund-raising efforts, and helping out across the school and community. The Young Enterprise group “Reign” who reached the Wellington finals, donated their company profits to the cause of preventing family violence.

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Tararua production ‘Aladdin’s Trouble

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SOLWAY PRIMARY SCHOOL STAFF 23 STUDENTS 238

2017 started with the school working in three teams.

ACTING PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

VIV BOOTH Ako Ngatahi – Learning Together It’s been a privilege to lead Solway Primary School in my Acting Principal’s role this year. Solway is a warm vibrant school situated at the gateway to Masterton on Ngaumutawa Road. We are proud of our children and their supportive families who are at the heart of Solway. Our strong home school partnership creates a positive culture of collaboration and connectedness where we create and contribute to our student’s learning. Our goal is for our children to leave Solway with a strong sense of self-belief and a commitment to be a well-rounded citizen of the world and to be proud of their cultural identity.

In 2018 we welcome our new Principal Mark Bridges, we are excited about the direction Mark will lead us in. It is also our jubilee year and planning is already well under way for this special event.

Please visit our website / facebook page for information. www.solwayprimary100.nz / Solway Primary 100 Year Jubilee

RANGITUMAU YEAR 0-2 The Rangitumau team is made up of four classes Year 0-2. We have spent the year implementing and developing ‘Play Based Learning’ as part of our morning programmes. All teachers attended professional development to ignite and excite them about ‘Play Based Learning’ and it has transformed and altered our programmes in an exciting and unique way.

Children have spent the year developing their social, cognitive, negotiating and imaginative skills through playing in a range of environments. Having our amazing plantation, making use of the trees and garden areas, children have learned as they have played and have had their play ‘urges’ met. Teachers set up provocations to encourage play and then the ideas the children come up with and develop are endless.

We are excited about Play Based Learning being part of our school culture and can already see the huge benefits that it is having towards children’s progress, achievement and well-being.

REMUTAKA YEAR 3-4 The Remutaka team, which is made up of three Year 3 & 4 classes, was excited to implement Growth Mindset into our teaching programmes this year.

Students know they have the power to challenge their minds to learn. The brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use.

We know that effort and ‘green’ thinking helps us to have a positive outlook on learning. Nothing really good happens in your comfort zone.

Connecting and collaborating have been a major focus this year. The Remutaka Team start every morning together. Students lead the session starting with a karakia, using Te Reo to discuss the weather and how they are feeling. A variety of Oral Language activities have been trialled with the emphasis on critical thinking and working together as a group.

Creating at our traditional flower day Rangitumau’s play based learning fun

The syndicate has adopted a thoughtful, planned approach to developing a futurefocused curriculum with students playing a greater role in decisions about their learning.

TARARUA YEAR 5-6 The Tararua team is made up of three Year 5-6 classes. The Year 6 started the year with their traditional three day camp and the Year 5s end the year with their camp to Mount Holdsworth. The Tararua team have worked collaboratively throughout the year integrating STEM activities into their programmes and providing a weekly exploration session so children can be creative and imaginative using a range of materials. A highlight for the team this year was the amazing production “Aladdins Trouble “ – they wowed the school community with their skills on stage.

The children in this team are our leaders of the school – we rely on these children to be our role models and lead the way.

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THE YEAR THAT WAS 2017

As part of our STEM extension programmes, we sent two teams to the EPRO 8 technology challenge: one Year 5/6 and one Year 7/8 team. Both teams succeeded in making the semifinals in Wellington

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CLARE CRAWFORD Kia ora It is an absolute honour and privilege to have been appointed the new Principal of South End School in Term 3 of this year.

South End School is a vibrant primary school in the heart of Carterton – and the only school in Wairarapa offering both Mainstream and Montessori education.

We pride ourselves in catering for all students’ needs. We promote student health and well being and emphasise the importance of sports and fitness activities. We have a very strong Kapa Haka rōpū and music group.

On our Matariki Celebration day all students took part in a variety of activities celebrating Maori New Year. In the evening we had a lantern walk around the school

There have been many fixtures for us on the sporting calendar again this year. Students have had the opportunity to have a go at a growing number of sports including softball, football, hockey, rippa rugby, rugby 7s and hockey We are very fortunate to have Te Kura o Papatuanuku Wairarapa Earth School based at South End School. An important connection to our existing Enviro-School projects which include the development of our food forest, introduction of bee hives, making bug motels, composting and recycling

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ST MARY’S SCHOOL Pet Day winners with the Mayor Mr Booth What a great year we’ve had with a range of events and successes.

In 2017 we celebrated 100 years since the foundation of Saint Mary’s school. The jubilee was held over Queen’s Birthday Weekend and included a Kapa Haka performance from the students and the formation of the time capsule. In it, we placed artworks, stories and photographs made by the students, for future generations to see.

A major change in the school this year was the departure of three beloved staff members, Amber Gray, William Jephson and our principal, Tim Nelson. We are very thankful now to have a lovely new principal, Karen Goodall, and two new teachers, Lisa O’Connor and Deb Mann.

Due to our expanding role we have gained two new classrooms. The buildings were blessed by Father Bruce and members of the school’s community. Thanks to the board of trustees for overseeing the relocation and refurbishment of the new classrooms. Also thanks to Friends of the School we now have an incredible, upgraded playground.

I’m sure the playground will be much appreciated and enjoyed by students in the years to come.

This year we have been fortunate to enjoy weekly class masses with parishioners in the Presbytery with Father Stefano and Father Bruce. We have also enjoyed whole school masses each term as well as preparing students for the Sacraments of Confirmation, Reconciliation and Eucharist.

Our school has had a major sporting success this year with the Milo Cup Shield.

Senior girls won the Wairarapa grade and qualified to compete in Palmerston North in the Central Districts competition. They

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Milo Shield Cricket Team Matharapa success

Senior Ski Trip

won this and got to travel to Christchurch to compete against the top eight teams from around the country.

Nearing the end of term three, we performed the biennial production, the Pirates of the Curry Bean. The show was a great success and the Event Centre was sold out. Both cast and audience loved this fun and hilarious musical.

For the second consecutive year, we took the senior year 7 and 8 students to Mount Ruapehu for a ski camp. The long drive was worth the magical experience we had, and the children loved the experience. Teacher Brent Ballantyne described the weather as being “in primo

condition”. By the end of the camp we had 18 accomplished skiers.

The students at Saint Mary’s have also excelled academically. Examples of this would be the great success we had in the South Wairarapa science fair, with first and third place winners, Zachary Stapleton and Fletcher Brady; Tasha Forest, Isla Hamilton, Annabel McQueen showing great teamwork and winning the Matharapa competition; and Zachary Stapleton taking first place in the Wairarapa regional speech competition.

KAREN GOODALL I was lucky enough to be welcomed into the St Mary’s school community at the start of term four and can already tell how much I will enjoy being part of this lovely place. It has a strong sense of family and community and this is evidenced by the amount of support that is given by the Staff, the Board, the Friends of the School and parish members.

St Mary’s is a school with strong traditions and involvement in a wide range of activities and I look forward to seeing the full range of these over the 2018 school year and working with students, staff, family members, parishioners and the community.

All in all, It’s been a fantastic year for Saint Mary’s and we are excited for the summer break and 2018.

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Year 6 & New Entrant children planting trees in our native bush area

Members of the school choir performing at Art Splash in Wellington

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Daily life at St Patrick’s School brings many varied opportunities for our wonderful children to develop and learn in line with our school vision of: Love - each other and all of God’s creations Aspire - be the best we can be in everything we do

Annual school cross country at Solway Showgrounds

Create - explore and develop new ideas for learning Some of the main highlights this year have been: STEVE WHEELER We are a Catholic Integrated School catering for children from new entrants through to year six. We aim to provide every child with a high quality education within a caring, respectful and Catholic environment. At the heart of everything we do is our school motto ‘Strength & Kindness’. Our school curriculum gives opportunities and experiences for all children to meet the ever-changing future with resilience and confidence. We highly value and promote all aspects of school life including sport, culture, environmental issues, performing arts and academic success.

“We are always keen to hear from families with a Catholic connection to join our amazing school community.”

SCHOOL CONCERT This was a fantastic community event in which our children showcased not only their amazing performing talents but also a wide range of the different cultures within our school. The evening at the stadium was a packed house and culminated with parents joining children to perform together.

CULTURAL EVENTS Throughout this year emphasis was placed on celebrating our Māori culture.

This included staff undertaking Te Reo Māori PLD with the help of Wairarapa REAP, a student led celebration of Matariki and a fantastic school hangi, in which the children enjoyed not only the yummy kai but also learning the cooking process from start to finish.

SPORT Sport is a huge part of what we do.

Children have participated in many different sports including soccer, hockey, netball, basketball, cross-country, rippa and touch rugby, swimming and athletics.

School activities have included a biathlon, cross-country and athletics events.

PERFORMING ARTS Children have always enjoyed taking part

Children sharing their work at the end of our school Arts Programme

in a wide range of opportunities and this year has been no different. These have included Kapa Haka festival, Art Splash in Wellington, choir performances, Arrow FM radio shows and the amazing school Cultural Concert.

SPECIAL CHARACTER As a Catholic school we enjoy being able to celebrate our unique special character.

This includes daily classroom prayer as well as an evergrowing Baptismal and First Communion programme. We take pride in our Patron Saint Patrick, as well as recognising the work of the Brigidine Sisters in the history of our school. We also take great delight in watching our children develop and live our motto ‘Strength & Kindness’ through their daily interactions as well as support of Operation Christmas Child, CARITAS and food bank appeals.

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ST TERESA’S SCHOOL STAFF 6 STUDENTS 106

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St Teresa’s School is a small, family-centred school, catering for year 1-8 students.

Currently there are 106 pupils. We believe in educating the whole child and structure our innovative learning environments to allow students to excel in the arts, sport, academically and in ICT. With our Board of Trustees’ strong emphasis on equity we are able to provide one-to-one Chromebooks in Years 4-8 and iPads for our junior pupils. We encourage pupils to use their strengths and learn in the way that suits them best.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Planet Wow Production

This year students have taken part in a wide range of events and activities, including the primary school photographic competition, DanceSplash, the Speech Competition, Booktown and an art exhibition. Currently we are working with authors, the Book Council and REAP to have students’ writing published in a book. We encourage teachers to use their strengths to provide excellent learning opportunities.

Our school values, encourage students to follow the teachings of St Teresa of Avila, to be the visible hands and feet of Christ.

Our home learning programme, “The Hands of Christ” is a series of challenges that students complete throughout the year. The challenges include academic, sporting and arts challenges, as well as stewardship and service to our school and community. At the end of year Mass, students are presented with badges marking their completion of the challenges at each year level.

JENNIFER MUTH “To develop confident, life-long learners within the Catholic faith.”

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Planting at Donald’s Creek

2017 has been another amazing year at St Teresa’s School. We have welcomed new families and supported them to become part of our caring inclusive school. Our OnTRACK values of Think, Responsible, Achieve, Courageous and Kind are evident every day in the interactions inside the classroom and in the playground. We are very proud of the achievements of all our students and acknowledge the hard work and support of all our community to provide opportunities to learn digitally and creatively. 2018 will be another exciting year!

We work closely with the SWD Council on stewardship projects in our local parks, creeks and lakes. This makes learning engaging and relevant to our students.

We have a strong Kapa Haka group and welcome new students and their families to our school with a student-led powhiri each term. We have strong community support and contribute to many community events.

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Pets Day Hadlow Pre-School is situated on the grounds of Hadlow School and is a part of the Trinity School family of schools. We welcome pre-schoolers who wish to enrol in Hadlow and alternative schools.

Teddy Bears Picnic

We offer pre-school education to all children between the ages of 3 and 5.

ANNABEL WYETH We have had a fun and enjoyable year welcoming many new children and their whanau.

Term one saw us hold our annual sports day and enjoyed a teddy bears picnic.

Term two we celebrated Matariki making pumpkin soup together and had a shared morning tea with our whanau. Little dog barking came to do a performance.

Term three we enjoyed a trip to Aratoi where the children learnt about local stories. Our grandparents enjoyed being invited to pre-school for morning tea. We had our annual pets day at the end of the term which was a great success.

Term 4 we are looking forward to our annual Christmas concert.

At Hadlow Pre-school we prepare children for a lifetime of learning by providing a balanced learning programme in which children actively participate in a range of planned and spontaneous experiences. The development of literacy and mathematical skills is an integral part of our programme along with the virtues which forms the back bone of our programme.

Parents, grandparents and extended family are kept informed of their child’s progress instantly through our Storypark eportfolio system allowing them to be more involved in their child’s learning.

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To achieve this, we are introducing more natural materials and providing a variety of natural resources to develop children’s curiosity, sense of wonder and imagination.

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MICHAEL MERCER The official name of the school includes the word preparatory, and if you check on Wikipedia it will tell you that a preparatory school traditionally dates from a previous century and is a fee-charging independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to the age of 13 years, and prepares them for the Common Entrance Examinations, the key entry into independent UK. secondary schools. Hadlow, now in its 88th year, was founded as a private boys’ boarding school to prepare boys for their secondary education.

The term preparatory may seem anachronous in today’s education environment, but Hadlow still remains a preparatory school - no longer preparing learners for their secondary school, but for their future in their world. We are preparing children for a future we don’t really know about, but we do know that the traditional 19th century model of education, based on the first industrial revolution, is no longer relevant.

There is a global movement, and it is increasingly evident in Wairarapa, where educators are questioning the relevance of the current education model and are implementing a more future-focused pedagogy that promotes self-motivation, selfmanagement, independence and learner-agency - the skills and attributes our learners will need in the future. Hadlow Preparatory School is unashamedly preparing its learners for tomorrow, not for today.

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HOUSE CULTURAL COMPETITION This year saw a return to the Housebased cultural competition. This is to encourage and foster multi-age relationships across the school, promote the family atmosphere in the school where everyone looks out for others, and provide a balance between innovation and tradition. The House Days are an important part of the school’s calendar now. For the Hadlow House Cultural 2017 we welcomed back Jessica Graham and Will McMaster, our head prefects of 2012, to judge the competition.

The concert started with the school dance group and the school First Choir.

They were followed by Masters House performing their two items, The Cup Song and their hymn, Hallelujah. Next was Martin House, who performed the hymn, Seek Ye First, and then their song, Count on Me. The school Kapa Haka group then took to the stage. Grey House performed the hymn Hareruia and their song, Thunder. To round off the house competition we had Carter House who performed He Honore, followed by their song, I’m Yours. Will and Jessica then provided some feed-back to the houses, accentuating the positive and providing a few tips, and then announced and presented the trophies. The Best Hymn award went to Grey House for their performance of Hareruia, and the cup for the overall winner of the competition was awarded to Carter House. Overall, this was a great return to tradition that will hopefully be continued over the years to come.

EPRO8 CHALLENGE This is a competition involving engineering and problem-solving. Teams of four build large-sized structures, engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles, construct basic

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The Year Seven and Eight competition had three Hadlow teams competing.

Congratulations to the team of Jack Sorrell, Teagan Abbott, Rosie King and Will Booth, which was placed first on the night and will now travel to Upper Hutt to represent Masterton at the semi-finals.

The Year Five and Six competition had two Hadlow teams and the team of Zac Jolliffe, Hamish McNelly, Caleb Roberts and Billy Johnson were placed first-equal in their competition. They too will contest the semi-finals in Upper Hutt.

SERVICE BEFORE SELF There are a number of service initiatives happening in different hubs at the school this year as a result of the schoolwide inquiry covering the environment, recycling and sustainability: how big is our footprint? The initiatives have included collecting good, used clothing for the Women’s Refuge, cleaning the park benches at Queen Elizabeth Park, a stream clean-up, fundraising for Wairarapa Hospital, helping out at Pukaha Mt Bruce, fundraising for the Wairarapa Community Kitties, tidying Kirk Reserve, planting trees, organising a Family Fun Night at school, collecting cans for the Salvation Army food banks, recycling old books to raise money for the library, and collecting everything needed to ‘outfit’ one of the refugee houses in Wellington.

WAIRARAPA MATHS COMPETITION The highlight of Maths Week for the senior school was the inter-school mathematics competitions, formerly known as Matharapa. The competition was run in the South Wairarapa and in Masterton at the primary and secondary school levels.

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representing Hadlow at the Year Five and Six level. The Year Seven team was made up of Harrison Dudley, Romy Ifill and Andrew Cox. This was not because there aren’t many competent mathematicians at the school at the Year Seven level. Rather, that the date clashed with a sports fixture with Wellesley College, and quite rightly, the children had to make the decision regarding which event they attended.

Personal preference for some was to play sport, rather than complete maths. The team was placed fourth. There were three Year Eight teams: Congratulations to all the teams who participated, but special mention needs to be made of the Year Eight team, which won the competition this year. The team of Flynn, Angus and Jack have a very positive history of attending and succeeding at the maths competition. The three boys won the Year Five & Six competition in 2015 as Year Sixes, and the Year Seven competition last year. And Flynn and Angus were also part of the winning Year Five and Six team (as Year Five pupils) with Hunter Kendall in 2014. A very fine effort!

TRACKING & TRAPPING Enviroschools, Te Upoko, o te Ika a Māui, in collaboration with the Greater Wellington Regional council, Pukaha Mt Bruce and Zealandia, held a Wairarapa Schools tracking and tramping workshop recently. Each of the Wairarapa schools was able to nominate three pupils to participate in the tracking and trapping programme. The Wairarapa tracking and trapping project has been set up to activate schools tracking and trapping in their grounds. The tracking and trapping school-rangers will track and trap rodents, and monitor wēta as an indicator species.

They will collect data weekly and share it using the app INaturalist which will then be collated by NatureWatch NZ. Hadlow’s

three rangers have been given an action plan to implement, which details tasks to be completed for a nine-week time-frame.

It involves placing tracking tunnels out in the school grounds, checking paw prints, checking their wēta motels, and recording their data.

PUBLIC-SPEAKING SUCCESS The finals of the Wairarapa inter-school public-speaking completion were held in the iconic Anzac Hall in Featherston.

At the competition in Featherston were the first three place-getters at the Year Seven and Eight levels from the Masterton competition and the South Wairarapa event. Eddie Rice represented Hadlow at the Year Seven Masterton schools’ final, and Genevieve Nightingale represented the school at the Year Eight level. The competition was held at Masterton Intermediate School. Eddie spoke on School Discipline, and won the Year Seven section of the Masterton Inter Schools’ Final. His fellow finalists from the Masterton Finals came from Chanel College and Masterton Intermediate School. Eddie was the first place-getter on the night. Eddie has been a finalist every year in the school’s public-speaking competition and has his name engraved on the junior, intermediate and senior public-speaking trophy, and he still has another year to go. He is a very accomplished orator.

BISHOP JUSTIN’S VISIT The bishop visits the school each year for a day. Bishop Justin spoke at chapel and then spent time with the principal discussing the school’s Special Character, our highlights this year to date, and even the situation regarding the formation of Communities of Learning in Masterton.

He then joined the staff for morning-tea before attending the Hub Four Religious Education lessons with the chaplain.

Carter House performing at the House Cultural Competition

The Winning Y7&8 team at the Epro8 Challenge

Then it was lunch in the dining-room with the school, followed by a guest appearance on the staff team for the football game against the senior pupils.

After all that exertion and exercise it was coffee and a tour of the school to see the developments in the teaching and learning programme and buildings since his last visit. The bishop applauded the school on its forward-thinking initiatives and the board’s resolve to continue on this journey. He sees it as a very positive development for education, globally.

of Angus Smith, Thomas Leske, Michael Chapman and Theo Hann were placed third in their competition.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Mr Kendall and three of our senior pupils, Meghan Macri, Romy Ifill, and Jonty Maunsell travelled to Auckland to attend a Digital Technologies crosssector forum and expo being held at the Pullman Hotel. The Ministry of Education funded the travel to the conference centre where Mr Kendall and the three pupils were ‘manning’ their stand and sharing their learning, and show casing their projects with the conference attendees.

Attending were approximately two hundred National Education Sector leaders, primary and secondary school principals, senior Ministry officials, leaders in Digital Technology, and the Minister of Education, who gave the opening address.

The theme of the expo was Responding to the Challenges for Education in a Digital World, and Mr Kendall has been leading a digital technology programme at the school for Hub Four.

COMMISSIONING OF OUR CHAPLAIN, PREFECTS & HOUSE LEADERS We had an archdeacon, two priests-incharge, the hospital chaplain, two school chaplains, a youth worker, and two church wardens in attendance at a special service at the Church of the Epiphany earlier in the year. The members of clergy were all in attendance to support our chaplain, Mrs Young, and our prefects and houseleaders as they were commissioned into their respective roles.

CHESS The Wairarapa inter-school chess tournament was held at Masterton Intermediate School. Because the date clashed with the St Mark’s fixture we were able to send only one team for the senior competition in Year Seven and Eight, but three teams in the intermediate section, Years Five and Six. The teams of four each played a series of six matches, and by the end of the programme our senior team

In the intermediate section, the Hadlow team of Hamish McNelly, Sophia Hallett, Tayna Marurai and David Chapman were placed third overall, the team of Oscar Rice, Johnny Wu, Charlie Lynn and Charlie Griffiths were placed fourth, and the team of Louis Adams, Evie Nightingale, Duksha Kheterpal and Matthew Heard were placed eighth.

The focus was on our pupil leaders, and Mrs Young who was commissioned as Hadlow’s first school chaplain. This was a significant occasion in the school’s 88th year history. As chaplain, Mrs Young has committed to be the spiritual leader of the school, and is charged with upholding the special Anglican character of the school, and inspiring our learners to be the best they can be academically, physically, socially and spiritually. Mrs Young was then presented with a Bible as a symbol of the living faith upon which the school is founded, and her chaplain’s licence from Bishop Justin.

THE END OF STAFF-MEETINGS If you were to peruse the school’s term calendar you would notice something missing - staff meetings. These administrative and curriculum based meetings saw everybody sitting around the table listening to the principal or

member of senior management, and watching the clock until they could go home. It used to be the same for the children - sitting passively listening to the teacher at the front of the room, willing time to fly, so they could actually get on with something.

A full staff meeting doesn’t always meet the needs of everybody (one size does not fit all) so it made sense to review what we do, as teachers, regarding in-house professional learning development and administrative matters. With the advent of digital communication, quite a lot of administration matters can be disseminated electronically to everyone, so there isn’t always the need to sit around a table and discuss every minute detail of administrivia!

When I walk through the hubs and see the active learning taking place, the interaction amongst the learners, and the enthusiasm and engagement I always wished it could be same for the teachers and their learning. So, we have created a more personalised and future-focused professional learning development programme for the staff. We have created compulsory parts which everyone is required to attend and others that teachers can attend if they wish because they meet their particular needs. The compulsory component includes the four teacher-only days in each of the holidays where we are focusing on the future of learning with the educationalist, Mark Treadwell, the ongoing focus on cultural competencies and responsiveness with Ngati Kahungunu, a workshops on overall teacher judgements, the senior and junior hub meetings and the hub leaders’ meetings.

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RATHKEALE COLLEGE House Music - Halberg in action ACADEMIC 2016 Outstanding Academic Results with 13 Rathkeale boys gaining NZQA Scholarship. Of these, Jack Hopman and Robert Spite gained five scholarships each and received a National Scholarship Award for their efforts.

Rathkeale was named in the top five of Decile 9 NZ colleges.

CULTURAL Senior College students won an award for a student-directed five-minute scene at the regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival, enabling them to present this at the national festival in Wellington over Queen’s Birthday weekend.

Viva Camerata won the top award for their performance of a New Zealand composition at the Wellington Big Sing and were placed among the top 30 secondary school choirs in New Zealand.

Anthony Voice achieved Speech NZ Grade 6 with two Honours and a Merit pass.

Judah Dabora was one of 10 finalists in the provincial Katherine Mansfield Short Story Writing Competition.

SPORT Ollie Donaldson gained two gold, one silver and three bronze at the NZ Div II Swimming Championships Rathkeale performed well in the InterCollegiate Athletics, with 26 boys gaining 21 1st, 14 2nd and seven 3rd placings in individual events, and two 1st and a 2nd in the 4 x 100 m relays.

Ben Clatworthy (3rd – Hammer Throw) and Jayden Webb-Milner (1st – Triple Jump) at the North Island Athletics Championships.

National SS Triathalon – Mitch Cockburn (swim), Tom McCallum (cycle) and Hugh

O’Donoghue (run) gained 5th place in the senior event.

The Junior White team won the Wairarapa Rugby competition and we had 23 Wairarapa Rugby representatives in the U14, U16 and U18 categories.

Winter Tournament Results: Hockey was placed 4th in the India Shield Tournament, Football 9th in NZ, Thomas Wagner won the Golden Boot award (top goal scorer for the tournament) and Colts Rugby placed 4th at the Lindisfarne Tournament.

Callan Elliott was named Wairarapa United Youth Player of the Year and gained a place in the Tasman United Football team playing in the National League.

1st XI Football placed 5th in the Wellington Secondary Schools’ Premier Boys’ competition, secured a placed in the Wellington Premier I competition and a

place in the National Secondary Schools top tier at tournament.

Hockey gained a place in the semi-finals of the Wellington Premier Schoolboy league by winning their fixture against Scots College 5-0. They placed 4th and remained secure in the competition.

There were eight Wairarapa U15 Hockey representatives.

WILLY KERSTEN Rathkeale College prides itself on being able to offer young men a wide range of opportunities in the classroom and beyond. Supported by willing and talented staff, our students commit fully to a school life that seeks to promote physical, mental and spiritual well being. We are proud of their achievements and commend them on the efforts they have made in pursuing their academic, cultural, musical, sporting and service interests. We sincerely thank parents for the tremendous support they provide for their sons, and in turn the school.

Rathkeale College has had an excellent year. We expect another set of commendable results in both the NCEA examinations and the junior examinations at the end of the year. Our departing students will leave with our best wishes for the bright futures they will undoubtedly have. Looking ahead to 2018, we are excited to have reached a point where interest in the school sees us with maximum day boy and boarder rolls.

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Gerard Hickey and Nathan Whiteman were selected as finalists in the junior section of the Wellington Region Athletics Awards and then as Youth Sportsman of the Year finalists in the Wairarapa TimesAge Sports Awards. The 1st XI Football team was a team of the year finalist; ex-staff member David Knox was Coach of the Year and Johann Fourie as Official of the Year. Rathkeale was one of three College of the Year finalists.

Sam Callaghan was 5th in the National Enduro series and 1st in class (2nd on a countback) in the Central Cross-Country series.

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KIRI GILL St Matthew’s is steeped in tradition, but it is ever mindful of its place in the future of girls’ education. Being a small Anglican boarding school for girls compels us to make our impact felt and that we do - academically, culturally and sportingly. A visit from ERO asked us this question: What are the outcomes that are valued for all learners in St Matthew’s, as learners in Aotearoa New Zealand, and as global citizens? My response is they: ɵ Have pride in self, school, community and their own culture. ɵ Demonstrate characteristics of good Christians of honesty, compassion, inclusiveness, acceptance and integrity, respect for self, others and the environment, give service to others, school and local and global community, show forgiveness and understanding ɵ Are empowered to be confident, resilient, connected and successful valued citizens, who are equipped for the future. ɵ Are confident, competent, well-prepared, active and organised learners. ɵ Understand and accept diversity, are resilient and adaptable. ɵ Are innovative, reflective and critical thinkers. ɵ Celebrate the relationship between Tangata Whenua and the wider school community ɵ Appreciate and celebrate success.

Our House Prefects before our major school event – House Music

Our Equestrian Team is growing with many new members in 2017

2017 began with the completion of our seismic building work and the opening of the ‘Upper Classroom Block’ by our Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy. The successful completion of the classroom block coincided nicely with our celebration of the successes of our NCEA Level One (100%), Level Two (100%) and Level Three (98%) candidates. In Year 13, nine of our girls passed Scholarship exams in Classical Studies, Design, English, Painting, Geography and Photography.

The school gathers in house groups for Swimming Sports in March

Senior SMT girls displaying their entries for the ‘Oversew Competition’

In the first weeks of the school year there was an exodus of students heading to camps around the lower North Island.

Years 7/8 to Kapiti, Year 9 to Whanganui, Year 10 to Levin and Year 12 to Kaitoke.

We have also seen the growth of the Duke of Edinburgh programme with girls regularly heading into the Tararua Ranges tramping, and involving themselves in community service.

The organisation of our pastoral groupings saw change this year with the introduction of ‘Whanau Groups’. Here Years 7-13 are arranged vertically with the intent that they remain with that group as a family, or whanau, for the time they are with us at St Matthew’s. This is based around our Houses, Wakefield, Cobham, Fergusson and Grey.

We have seen two major productions with ‘Our House’, the Senior College Production and ‘Annie Junior’, our Junior Production for this year. Both productions involved large numbers of students, onstage and backstage. We also had representatives in the Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival in April. Year 13 students Eden Eldred and Sarah Saunders went on to compete in the student directed section in the National Shakespeare Competition in Auckland.

In sport, our girls continue to be active

Our Junior Production of ‘Annie’ was a highlight of the year

around Wairarapa in many codes. Our First XI Hockey team broke back into the Federation Cup after a period of rebuilding and were placed 10th in New Zealand. We are also very proud of Natalie Austin for her selection in the Under 18 New Zealand Hockey Squad.

Georgia Percy won Sportswoman of the Year at the Wairarapa Trust House Sports Awards for her reselection in the Under 18 Showjumping Team.

Senior Reserve players receiving ‘Best Defence Cup’ for Premier Two Netball

Finally, on Friday, November 3, we acknowledged the many volunteers who have supported our school community throughout the year. Without them, many of our achievements would not be possible.

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Agrikids team 3rd place in National Finals This year has been a whirlwind of change at Tinui School. After half a year with a temporary principal, Richard Lennox was appointed at the end of 2016 to take the reigns of the school for the 2017 year. He has been teaching for 15 years and was principal of a Mapiu School in the King Country and deputy principal of Taihape Area School before spending six years at Douglas Park School in Masterton as a classroom teacher.

We have started to introduce more use of technology in the form of Raspberry Pis to complement the laptops and i-Pads already in use in the classrooms. We have been part of the new Digital Technology Curriculum roll out professional development and have started to use the Google Apps for Education suite.

For the second year in a row we had a team compete in the Agrikids National Finals and they placed 3rd overall and once again we participated in the Artsplash Festival, entering a Dancesplash performance which had 25 of our 36 students participating. Looking forward we are excited about moving towards the use of See Saw to record and share students learning. We are also looking forward to developing our Room 2 classroom into a Makerspace for the students and community to create and learn in. Bring on 2018!

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Young Leaders GENE BARTLETT After five and a half years, Miss Goodall moved to a school closer to home and I have been lucky enough to be the new Principal at this great school. Thank you to all the students, staff, parents and community members who have made me feel so welcome already in my short time here. I can certainly see what a great school it is and know I will really enjoy being part of the place.

School Mission Statement ‘Excellence and pride in our learning, our school and ourselves’

This year we took the big idea of being Curious and Creative and shaped our learning around this. Some classes learnt about the body, others were curious about different countries. We were lucky enough to have Marilyn Bouzaid teach us drama skills and this culminated in the world famous “Wainuioru’s Got Talent” show.

We have had a great range of learning opportunities Have a Go Sports, Pedal Ready, Matharapa, Life Education, Kidz Conference, Science Roadshow, Kokomai Festical, Epro 8 challenge as well as lots of workshops provided by REAP. Highlights of the school year for us continue to be our school picnic, rural cross-country out at Tinui, our Pet Day. Something we

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particularly enjoyed this year was the Wainuioru Women’s Institute knitting slippers for us to use in the classrooms.

The junior students read to them and also learnt to knit.

Miss Morrissey became Mrs Lyttle and then had a lovely little boy so Miss Johnston came back to us after her time overseas which was great. Cherish joined us as a Teacher Aide to help with our learning in the Ngahape and Fernyhurst classrooms and Aleighsha took over the very important job of looking after our school.

Free Ambulance and Operation Christmas Child Project. We are very grateful to the parents and community members who help us out through fundraising, jobs around the school and driving and supervising us on school trips.

Our students continue to impress us as they strive to do their best work in the classroom while becoming well-rounded, resilient students who demonstrate our school values of open mindedness, confidence, physical well-being, respect, good manners, academic excellence and genuine support for each other.

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WHAREAMA SCHOOL STAFF 7 STUDENTS 42 Whareama School where we are “Empowered learners - Future leaders” 2017 was an amazing year and our theme for this year has been to “Think like an Inventor”. We have looked and studied inventors and inventions from around our local community, New Zealand and worldwide. We have completed a range of enquiries into inventions and have also been part of many STEAM activities which has been really interesting. We had our Beach Ed programme, summer sports and swimming programme to keep us busy in Term 1.

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In Term 2 we took part in many varied and interesting activities. Some of these included National Young Leader’s Day, take a kid fishing day, cross-country, and in class we learnt many skills and strategies to help us understand the key competencies and how these are going to be useful for us in the future. The senior students also started Design Technology and our popular Rural Kids programme with our other rural cluster schools.

Term 3 was really busy and we had Helen come and teach us Chinese until the end of the year. We also had our school leavers ski trip and winter sport carried on. We also started to learn more about Google Classroom and have developed our digital technology skills to work in an online platform and this has set us up for learning anytime we want. We also had the Westpac bank programme, learning ambassadors and even a helicopter turn up on our field!

In our final term, we have just had our Pets’ Day and rural athletics event in which Mark Harris has been training us for. All of us are really looking forward to this year’s trolley Derby on the Langdale Hill.

We have also had Cody come in and take us for music lessons again this term. We are also working hard on our wearable arts costumes which will be shown off

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DARREN KERR 2017 has been another very successful year at Whareama School. Our students have been involved in a wide range of events and opportunities over the year.

Whether it be inside or outside of the classroom, the amazing range of learning experiences that our students have, are a special feature of our school. We have so many students who go onto represent Wairarapa in academic, sporting and arts based events and this shows the huge range of talent we have at our school. With a dedicated teaching staff who do all they can to ensure all students achieve to their potential, means that our small rural school is an amazing place to learn. It is with great pride that I teach and lead at Whareama School and with the best kids, staff and community we all achieve great things together.

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CELEBR ATI N G 75 YEARS IN WAIR AR APA

THE YEAR THAT WAS 2017

WAIRARAPA COLLEGE

Wairarapa College had over 120 students competing in the Winter Tournament with teams from netball, football, hockey and rugby

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Year 10 Ash Ferguson participating in the Model United Nations run at the college

House competition continues to be fierce with House Singing a crowd favourite

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

SHELLEY POWER 2017 has been another exciting year for WaiCol. The school has had exciting news about the building of a $10 million Stage One Redevelopment which will focus primarily on the frontage of the school and redevelopment of the interior of the Sutherland Block. This is the beginning, we hope, of a longer process to update and improve school facilities while retaining the best of our traditions. The first project, however, that we will be dealing with at the start of 2018 will be a gym refurbishment.

This will be a much-improved space as a result and we are looking forward to beginning this project. WaiCol has also continued to build on the hard work of 2016 in improving our financial position.

This has seen the school return to a surplus position in 2017. We have also begun a programme of maintenance and upgrade of facilities for our students such as toilets and investment in IT. In the latter half of the year, we have also entered talks with the Ministry about the establishment of a Board. This has resulted in an agreed timeframe of a Board to be re-established by the end of Term 1 2018.

The year has also been characterised by a series of great successes on both the Cultural and Sporting front. We were thrilled to be the winners of the Wellington Regional Stage Challenge competition.

Our performing arts are a huge strength at WaiCol and the Stage Challenge success was the result of a number of years’ hard work building our skills and confidence in this area. Our students and staff are to be congratulated on their enthusiasm and commitment. We have also been very pleased to see our girls’ netball team win their division as part of Tournament week.

This was the highlight of a series of solid sporting results and successes throughout the year which again saw a very strong WaiCol presence in the Wairarapa Sports Awards nominees and finalists.

We have also been working as a staff to consider how we can bring our school vision of thriving, student centred and future focused to life. We have been looking for opportunities to develop our future focus through new courses for 2018 such as the Digital Learning Course, developing our Arts with the WaiCol on Stage option and also to provide support for our students in a kaupapa Māori environment with our Whanau Group class for 2018. We are working currently to implement these new initiatives and to look at ways that we can be student centred through also developing Academic Mentoring across our school.

2017 at Wairarapa College has proved to be another busy and successful year.

Students have taken up opportunities academically, culturally and on the sports field. Year 9 Rocco Thompson sums it up: ‘College has been both challenging and exciting. There are so many different opportunities to cater for each and everybody’s interests. Not only are the sporting, academic and cultural aspects of school great, WaiCol has an awesome learning environment. The teachers and students are very supportive, especially to the new Year 9s.

Our House competition continues to be a strength and an exciting and vibrant part of our school with events such as our House singing which are a wonderful focus for the development of a culture of participation and fun throughout the school.

The Wairarapa College Kapa Haka group was established at the beginning of this year and has become an integral part of the college. They have performed in a number of settings, including college assemblies and competed in the Wairarapa Schools Kapa Haka Festival.

Another Maori cultural initiative set to launch in 2018 is the Te Whānau o Te Tapere nui a Whātonga (The Whātonga Group Class) which has been established to inspire students to strive for academic excellence while encouraging them to be proud of who they are and where they

An enduring strength for our school is our staff. They are unfailingly caring and devoted to achieving the very best for our students in all aspects of their time at school. Our students continue to be engaging, respectful, passionate about their school and a huge asset to us. We have much to be thankful for as we near the end of another very busy year.

come from. It is an opportunity for Māori to succeed as Māori.

Pōto College House continues to be a quality, structured boarding house offering a warm, family atmosphere in a ‘home away from home’. Pōto College House boarders excel in all areas of the college and are strongly represented throughout. Year 9 Jack Castleton says, ‘I decided to come to the hostel and I think I made the right choice. It’s cool that we get to do fun activities and go for swims.’

Wairarapa College students have shown great leadership this year from the Head Students at the college and Pōto College House, Year 13 prefects, Student Council, each of the six houses also have leaders and each Year 9 and 10 core class has two class captains who are chosen by their classmates. Mentoring programmes were also run with Year 10s working with students at nearby Douglas Park School and Year 11 students have mentoring sessions with Masterton Intermediate School students.

On the sports field many WaiCol students coached primary school athletes in different codes and also refereed and umpired at their sports tournaments.

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It was rugby season and Waicol needed some gear for their teams Old jerseys were coming apart at the seams!

Oh no - what to do?

E nter WBS to the rescue With a sponsorship package (that included the balls!)

There was much joyousness throughout the halls!

Players had big smiles on their faces and flash gear to wear They played with great pride all throughout the year!

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College House continues to be a home away from home for boarding students

Horticulture continues to grow at Wairarapa College with students propagating trees and also growing vegetables from seed Stage Challenge was another great success with WaiCol winning the Wellington Regional Competition

The Senior A netball team were unbeaten at the Lower North Island Secondary Schools’ Tournament, winning the B Grade competition and gaining promotion to the A grade tournament next year The college farm has gone through another cycle with students involved in all aspects from lambing through to docking and shearing. This gives them hands-on experience learning valuable farming skills. On the horticulture side students have been working with seedlings to start off school vegetable gardens in spring and also the growing of natives from both seeds and cuttings. The plants will be used for food or beautification purposes by the school community. WaiCol had an amazing four students accepted into Smedley Cadet and Training Farm for 2018 to continue their agricultural and horticultural careers.

Stage Challenge had great success this year winning the Wellington regional Stage Challenge competition with their entry Cosmetic Animal Testing. The Senior Drama production of Spamalot performed to great acclaim and the many musicians in the college made an impact by performing at college events and assemblies and taking a lead in the House Singing Competition which is a wonderful experience for the entire college. A new initiative for 2018 is the WaiCol On Stage

full year option for Year 9s that focuses on dance, drama, music, Tikanga Māori and performing arts culminating in a production in Term Four.

Also new in 2018 will be a Year 9 Digital Learning Core Class. The class will utilise digital devices to enhance their learning in the core subjects of English, Health and Physical Education, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

WaiCol athletes competed and excelled in a large number of sports from football and hockey to chess and volleyball. The Senior A netball tournament team were particularly successful by winning their B Grade competition undefeated at the Lower North Island Secondary Schools competition which puts them into the A Grade competition in 2018. Year 12 Sam Smith attained national honours when he was named in the New Zealand Under 18 Maori rugby team and many former students continue to make their way into national hockey teams.

In addition to the established Year 9 and 10 Sports Academy classes a Year 11 class will be introduced in 2018.

2017 Head Boy Isaac Bracewell and Head Girl Stephanie Andrews-Paul

Year 13 students using technology in their studies

The WaiCol Kapa Haka performing at the Wairarapa Schools Kapa Haka Festival

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