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South Otago High School Newsletter, 6th December 2013 Nga mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa Warm greetings to you all
Our youngest members of our school have been in-volved with the ‘Clean Up NZ’ day and the staff in-volved with this voluntary community activity were very impressed by the motivation and hard work of our Y9’s. On behalf of the community I would like to thank the students and the staff for this effort. We have finished day two of a sporting competition. The Ki-O-Rahi competition is being held over 3 af-ternoons. This is the national game of NZ as played by the United Nations Youth Council last year. It has needed the co-operation of all departments to make the flags and sporting equipment, learn a waiata and have it recorded, prepare the food and cook it, art for the signage, placards, face paint, and the physical education staff for the teaching of the game, umpir-ing, draw etc. The whole staff and student body have been involved in this competition and it has been a huge success. My personal thanks and sincere appreciation to Ms Anna O’Sullivan for her foresight, hard work and organisational ability in getting this new and exciting game into our culture here at SOHS. I hope to see you all at our Junior Prize-giving on Tuesday the 10 December at 1.45pm in our school hall. Over the summer break please keep in mind the need for us to be conscious of the dangers for our young people if they are out of adult supervision for lengthy periods of time; on the water, camping, travelling with other young drivers or attending concerts, sport-ing exhibitions or just hanging out with friends. They need you now more than ever, even if they are vehe-ment about not doing so. I wish you all a safe, happy summer and festive
celebration. Ka Kite Ano Mrs Joanne Hutt Principal
Tena Koutou Katoa
Well here we are at the end of the year, hasn’t it flown by? We held our senior prizegiving on Monday night at the Town Hall. It was very satisfying to see all our senior students assemble together to celebrate excellence. The guest speaker, Alice van den Hout, spoke about keeping your options open in terms of selecting courses at school or university. She told us that she changed her degree twice while finding what she was really interest-ed in. This is a timely reminder to you to continue to discuss careers and school subjects with your young person over the holidays. We want them to keep as broad a range of subjects as possible, but to continue in subjects they have a passion for. Changes to selections are considered very carefully by deans and subject teachers early in the new year. I wish to congratulate and share with you the naming of our top academic prize winners. Proxime Accessit went to Grace Duncan and the 2013 Dux of SOHS was named as Joshua Telford. Josh tells me that his brother was also Dux and his sister Proxime Accessit, so hard work and academic ability clearly run in the family. Like his whanau and friends, the teaching staff are very proud of Josh’s effort and attainment dur-ing his five years at SOHS. Our heartfelt congratula-tions over this prestigious award, Josh. We have been enjoying a very settled and productive last week of school. Many of our young people have been kept busy with a variety of co-curricular activities whilst the majority of students have been finishing units of work and having the last assessment grades added to their reports. The community have thoroughly enjoyed the junior production ‘The Bungling Burglars’ and I would like to acknowledged the many hours of hard work that Mr Bertanees, Ms Parcell, Ms McPherson, Ms Brown, Mr McLaren, Mr Riechel, Ms Kupa, Mrs Jory and Mrs Gardner have put into our young people. The local primary students came to watch the Junior Production. The look on the little ones’ faces as they sat and watched the play was price-less.
Joshua Telford: Dux 2013
Australian Rugby Tour 2014 Many thanks to all who got involved with The Country Ramble on Sunday - helpers and par-ticipants. We had excellent feedback, so sounds like you all enjoyed it. Tonight we have X-Factor Finalist Tom Batchelor performing to do a concert at the Balclutha Memorial Hall. It will be family friendly, starts at 8pm, and is only $15 per person. We are also about to get busy preparing firewood to burn in the 2014 season, if you would like to order some please contact: gheller@sohs.school.nz or Ph 03 418 4416 (home).
South Otago High School would like to sincerely thank the employers who have assisted us with our work based programmes in 2013.We appreciate your ongoing support of our students and school.
Gateway Work Experience
ABC Balclutha Balclutha Automotive
Antony Groenewegen Builder Balclutha Honda
Balclutha Kindergarten Balclutha Public Library
Balclutha Mitsubishi Balmoral Vets
Ben Keach Builder Big River Educare
Big River Educare Big River Radio
Clutha Truck Repairs Blair McGregor
Fulton Hogan Clutha Panel Repairs
Greg Peoples Builder Clutha Vets
Kaitangata Primary School Cowley & McLaren
Electrical
Kolar Ka Painters CRT
NZ Police Davidson Tyres
PA Duthie Farm Garry Milne Panelbeating
Richard Schofield
Photography Hairworkz
Rosebank Kindergarten Hamish & Janet Erwood
Rosebank Primary School King Engineering
SO Customs Matau Garden Centre
Southern Plumbing Services Mike Hurring Logging
Waiwera South School Regan Maze Builder
Rosebank Kindergarten
Rosebank Lodge
Rosebank Primary
School
The Warehouse
What help is out there? Some of these contacts may be useful They are all free. Otago Youth Helpline 0800376633 call and text 234 talk@youthline.co.nz Alcohol and Drug Helpline 0800 787 984 or text ADH to 234 help4teenz@xtra.co.nz online counselling thelowdown.co.nz online counselling or text 5626 7 days a week midday to mid night. Anglican Family Care 418 2531 Family Support Service Best wishes for a safe holiday season
If your child requires an antihistamine for allergies/hayfever etc they can bring the
tablets in and they will kept under lock and key.
Found A Summer Skirt was found at Touch on
Thursday 5th December. It is at the SOHS Office.
SOHS 2014 New Caledonia French Trip Over the past term and a half, 11 Year 10/11 French students have been assiduously fundraising for our trip to New Caledonia in the April/May holidays next year. In that time we have sold chocolate, cheese rolls, pizzas, pies and lamingtons and tomorrow will be holding our first major event - a yard/bake sale downtown (see the flyer accompanying this newsletter for more details). At this stage, I wish to acknowledge the school and wider community for supporting our cause by purchasing items from the students. Equally, I would like to thank the students and parents for helping me to co-ordinate the fundraising campaign and even spearheading some of our initiatives. Next year, in addition to some more food options, we are looking to run a quiz night (for young and old) and a disco for the primary schools. You can expect to hear more about these at the beginning of Term One next year. Until then ... Bonnes vacances, Elliott Carroll TIC French
Condor 7s
The SOHS Girls 7s team attended the
Condor 7s National Tournament in
Auckland last weekend. Having also
been in 2012, we knew what level of
competition to expect and we weren’t
disappointed.
We played our 3 pool matches on Satur-
day, winning against Wellington East
College and Fielding HS (first team to
beat them in 5 years) and losing to New
Plymouth GHS. Due to a very tight pool
(3 teams won two games), we lost out
due to points differential.
This placed us in the Bowl competition on Sunday. We
were absolutely dominant, winning all 3 matches, includ-
ing the final, buy over 30 points and without a point
scored against us.
Highlights were the live telecast on Sky of our Bowl Final
match and Sam Hollows’ selection in the Tournament
Team. All up, the weekend was a magic opportunity and
for many girls, their last opportunity to represent SOHS.
A massive thanks to our coach Richard Hurring, manager
Tracey Latta and to all the parents that travelled to sup-
port the team.
Greg Heller (TIC Rugby)
Year 9 Social Studies – Raj trip
Over the course of the year, several Year 9 classes have
visited the Raj Restaurant in Balclutha to sample Indian
cuisine.
India is a topic that is studied at Year 9 level and part of
the learning is around food. Students sampled a variety of
curries, rice and naan bread. For many it was a first time
experience, but for most it will not be their last!
Greg Heller (HOD Social Sciences)
Cricket The first half of the 2013/14 cricket season is drawing to a close with both the boys and girls teams having got into the swing of things. The boys opened with three close losses but won the next two match-es convincingly. Highlights have included: - Jesse Maher 5/14 v Milton - Team total of 307/5 (40 overs) v Kings HS - Dion Willocks 97 v DCA Selection, 57 v Kings HS - Michael White 65 v DCA Selection, 62 v Kings HS - Danuel Wyllie 4/21 v DCA Selection, 77* v Kings HS - Ashton Tourell 60 v Kings HS Boys' crick-et has finished for the year and will resume at the beginning of Term One next year. The girls have played two matches, both losses. Fortunately they were not bowled out in ei-ther game and have competed well on the strength of decent team efforts. While the boys have finished for the year, the girls still have two matches to play (6th and 13th December). Elliott Carroll TIC Cricket
Important Dates: Tuesday 10th December - Last day of School, Junior Prizegiving - starts at 1.45pm Thursday 23rd January 2014 - PTA Second Hand Uniform Sale, 5 - 7.00pm School Hall Thursday 30th January 2014 - Year 9 start Friday 31st January 2014 - All Students start
Junior Prize List Junior Prize Giving will be held at the school on Tuesday 10th December starting at 1.45pm in the School
Hall. This list is of students who will be recognized on stage at prizegiving.
Year 9
Sean Aitken-Boyle
Timothy Aleni
Morgan Allington
Jannah Ariola
Hannah Botting
Jasmine Burrow
Lorna Button
Dana Buyayo
Daniel Cook
Matthew Copland
Dylan Crawford
Tessa Dix
Abby Edwards
Jessary Garcia
Joshua Hansen
Chance Heremaia
Drezarn Hira
Jacob Hutton
Molly Jeffery
Shannon Jelley
Mike Jessop
Jordie Keenan
Madison Latta
Stephanie Lawrence
Cassandra Lott
Anna Mccaughan
Delaney Mckenzie
Natasha McNaught
Conor Mills
Levi Mitchell
Reeve Murdoch
Josie Pirie
Surya Prasad
Isla Pringle
Ella Pryde
Tyler Ritchie
Bradley Ross
Grace Schuurman
Cameron Smith
Tegan Stephens
Luc Thomson
Abby Uson
Reuben Watt
Laura Williamson
Paige Win
Izzy Woodward
Year 10
Jethro Ariola
Jessie Bennett
Tori Brown
Michael Buniag
Leighana Budd
Alyssa Cu
Taylor Clark
Simon Craig
Olivia Finney
Cody Forbes
Jackson Gardner
Hanmish Gillespie
Kate Gold
Laura Graham
Michaela Groenewegen
Tayla Hannah
Sian Hepburn
Joshua Hill
Mitchell Hollows
Atawhai Hotene
Jess Kendall
Sam Keenan
Harrison Lawrence
Hannah Lee
Jordan Maaka
Dane Macpherson
Jesse Maher
Reese Martin
Beckie McKinney
Kirsty Mclaren
Sophie Mills
Todd Nicolson
Shania Pennicott
Liberty Reedy-Waru
Bailey Reichel
Olivia Richardson
Brady Robertson
Kate Robertson
Levi Robertson
Ani-Lee Sexton
Brodie Smith
Ashton Tourell
Brae Tourell
Tasmyn White
Cameron Williams
Chloe Williamson
Katie Willocks
Georgia Wilson
Congratulations to Sophie Mills who
represented South Otago High School
in the Otago Junior Secondary Schools
Speech Competition at King’s High
School last week.
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