STUDENT LEADERSHIP • 2020
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE Words by Sophie Pye and Senior Student Leadership Team RANGI RURU GIRLS’ SCHOOL
The word live is all about taking opportunities, embracing school spirit and enjoying co-curriculars. Laugh is about looking after yourself, having fun and making memories with your friends. Love is aroha - spreading kindness, giving through service to your community and generosity of spirit. By embracing a little bit of the live, the laugh and the love, you have it all! Covid-19 was certainly unexpected and unfortunately resulted in a lot of disappointment. However, our theme shone throughout the seven weeks of lockdown. From day one we kept up our Rangi spirit by staying connected through a brand new @rrgsstudents Instagram account. On this account, we kept everyone up to date with the happenings of girls at our school as well as running a bunch of fun competitions and activities. Some of these were:
• The famous ‘Great Bake Off’ competition, in which Holly
Lill took out the 1st prize with her creative cake.
• A Les Mills instructor did a
live workout tutorial on the Instagram just for Rangi girls
• A newly formatted ‘Rangi’s
Got Talent’ took place on the Instagram story, which
allowed us to watch the talent of our school perform from their homes
• Our Kapa Haka group ran a
Te Reo quiz every Thursday featuring a Māori word of the week
• Our Wellbeing Council shared their Wellbeing Wednesday tips to help us keep on top of our self-awareness
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• Teachers also popped in to say hi through some lovely videos, along side other recognisable faces including Brodie Kane, Art Green, Suzie Cato and Rachel McCann.
• Student involvement and
connection on this platform was a highlight throughout the lockdown.
