HGHS BULLETIN“A wise woman shapes her own destiny”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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Kapa Haka NohoWaikato Schools Show Hunter ChampionshipsGeography FieldtripSenior Music AssessmentsY13 Drama Performance 7-9.30pm J4Y13 WEB DAY3 GEO Field Trip2APO 2.2 Assessment PresentationTourism Field Trip2PO/2APS presentations A.S. 2.2Ag Art Wear Fashion CompetitionNZSS Cross Country & Relay ChampionshipsGATE - Y9 Extension TripBig Sing0TKA Camp Mufti DayInter-House Academic Quiz3ECE Work Experience DayYSIH regionalsKapa Haka NohoN.I.S.S. Show Hunter Championships.

Kia ora koutou

In order to keep parents more up to date with what is happening in our school, we have made slight changes to our communication processes.

The Bulletin will be a fortnightly document consisting of key dates, upcoming Events, important information and student achievements.

Our newsletter will come out at the end of each term. Please note the Bulletin, Newsletters and our school calendar will be available on our website. We are currently looking at a HGHS App, to try and bring everything together. Although, much of our communication is online, we do encourage parents to meet face to face with our staff. A 10 minute conversation is usually more productive than a lot of emails and can be resolved quicker.

Have a great weekend.Marie Gordon

Principal

NEW STAFF Welcome to Ms Charlotte Calnan. Ms Calnan is teaching in the Science Department for the remainder of this year. Although a Hamilton Girls’ High Old Girl, her teaching experience has been based in Auckland. We warmly welcome Charlotte to our school.

CLASS PHOTOSIndividual and Class Photographs have been sent home with your daughter (if they were present on class photograph today). All the instructions are on the envelope and website Photolife:https://photolifeonline.co.nz

GATE NOTICE Dr Ian Hunter Scholarship Preparation Workshop for Year 12 and 13 students is happening on 29th June. Those who have been selected have been given permission slips. The workshop will focus on speeding up student planning, fluency, output and teaching students to critically analyse, think and then write.

HGHS OLD GIRLS AGM Sat June 18th at 10.00am in the HGHS Staffroom. If you are not available to come but would like to be involved, please e-mail principal@hghs.school.nz. We do need your support.

TERTIARY PRESENTATIONS & OTHER CAREER EVENTS

TERM 2 2016June 9th Thurs - Waikato University – Pasifika Liaison visit for Yr13 students – V2 1.30June 16th Thurs - University of Auckland Info evening Waikato Stadium 7 – 8.30pm please register at least 24 hours before the event www.auckland.ac.nz/parentseminarJune 22nd Wed - Otago University Law Career Event HBHS 12.30 – 1.30 register in Careers OfficeJuly 7th Thurs - Victoria University Info evening Waikato StadiumJuly 7th Thurs - University of Auckland Enginuity Day Auckland - register in Careers Office(students interested in Engineering)

OPEN DAYS & CAREERS EXPO

June 12th – 13th CAREERS EXPO - Claudelands Events Centre

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CONGRATULATIONSCongratulations to Michaela Foster who has been named as Captain for the NZu17 Football team that will tour China as a build up to the

World Cup to be held in Jordan in October.

KEY DATES THIS FORTNIGHT

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ACHIEVEMENTS

2016 HGHS TALENT QUEST Congratulations to 2016 HGHS Talent Quest place getters: 1st place Amelia Penfold, Second place winner Natassja Medina and Third place winner Jaedyn Randell.

ROWINGWell done to Jamie Wilson and Charlotte Whitburn who receive a Top Ten Rowing NZ badge for their 6th placed finish at Maadi earlier in the year. Well done

EQUESTRIAN TEAMAn excellent effort by our equestrian team Molly Anderson, Shelby Davys-Olsen, Molly Nelson, Sian Potter, Mikayla Falconer, Bailey Gallagher, Neve Innes and Natalie le Miere who competed in WAIBOP Interschool competition, in extremely torrid conditions. We were delighted that one of our teams (Molly N, Shelby, Molly A and Sian) placed 4th overall. Excellent work.

INDIAN DANCE GROUPWell done to our Indian Dance Group that competed in the Rockerz Inter Secondary Dance competition on 21st May at Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland. There were 16 schools competing from all around the country. The girls performed in front of a crowd of 2,000 people and were awarded the best discipline award in terms of dance, song choice and costume. Congratulations.

SOCIAL STUDIES QUIZTen of our budding Social Scientists went to Westlake Girls’ High School on the North Shore to compete in the New Zealand Social Studies Quiz on Wednesday. The two teams had to compete in three rounds including performing a skit to 100 other students. Our girls performed beautifully and earned high praise for their explanation of a Social Studies concept and their skits on the NZ flag referendum and the British Fizzy drink tax. They were placed in the top 5. Well done.

IVF VA”A WORLD WAKA AMA SPRINT CHAMPSPounamu Berryman has returned to us from competing at the: IVF VA”A World WAKA AMA Sprint Champs in Sunshine Coast. Representing the Cook Island at this prestigious event, Pounamu was part of the J19 Women’s Team who won the 500m Sprint Championships.

WAIKATO IMPROVISATION COMBAT TEAMKate Durie, Katy Cruwys and Mirella Willison successfully auditioned for the Waikato Improvisation Combat team for Theatre Sports. This is regional long form improvisation group that is made up of adults and students around the Waikato.

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTSCongratulations to Isla Blake who was the Senior Cross Country Champion in a time of 16.24 which is a new school Senior record, the Intermediate Champion is Sharnae Taylor in a time of 15.38 which is a new Intermediate record and also a new School record and the Junior Girls champion was Maria Sartin in a time of 16.23.

Well done to all competitors who represented their Houses. Edgecumbe finished in 5th place with 822 points, Campbell 4th with 909 points, Wilson 3rd with 978, Heads 2nd with 1080 points and MacDiarmid were the winning house with 1174 points.

Congratulations to each team that ran in the newly introduced cross country house relay around the lake. Each house had to select 4 runners (1km each) that had competed in the championship event. This year saw MacDiarmid take out the relay race in a time of 15:18. The MacDiarmid team was made up Isla Blake, Michaela Foster, Katie Lush and Kahlee Norton.

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CONGRATULATIONSPounamu Berryman has returned to us from competing at the: IVF VA”A World WAKA AMA Sprint Champs in Sunshine Coast. Representing

the Cook Island at this prestigious event Pounamu was part of the J19 Womens Team who won the 500m Sprint Championships.

CONGRATULATIONSTo the winner of the 2016 HGHS Talent Quest Amelia Penfold,

Second place winner Natassja Medina and Third place winner Jaedyn Randell.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The English Committee has been formed under the leadership of Chloe Vitasovich and is a group of enthusiastic students. The committee will be organising a speaking competition for students in Years 11 12 or 13 and are hoping that the competition will occur during English Week in Term Three. The Senior Speech Cup will be awarded to the winning speaker at the Senior Prizegiving in November.

Students in Years 9 and 10 have completed an assessment of the study of a written text and are currently working on a creative writing assessment. We look forward to publishing a selection of the stories in the newsletter.

GREASERehearsals are well under way for this year’s Joint Production of Grease which will be on in Nga Puawaitanga from August 6th to 13th. Our production is inspired by the Grease Live! Movie and is a fresh and vibrant version of the stage show. We have an outstanding cast and are having a lot of fun putting the show together. This going to be an amazing show and a great outing in the middle of the winter, so get your group together, put the date on the calendar and watch this space.

BIG SING AND BARBERSHOPRehearsals are under way for two of our big Vocal Competitions. Our competition dates are 21st June for Big Sing and 25th June for the Barbershop Regionals. Choir students will be visiting Bethlehem Performing Arts Centre to compete and Barbershop members will be competing at Activate Church.

Education Perfect …… perfect for exam revision Education Perfect has offered HGHS Senior students entry into their Maths website for the rest of the year. This has a cost of $20, paid online. If you do not have your login details, speak to your Maths teacher urgently. Use it to boost your grades and get a better understanding of the subject. This website gives feedback and explanations when you attempt the questions.Year 11MAT and 11MXT students who are sitting the MCAT exam are greatly encouraged to use Education Perfect for revision and doing practice questions and assessments. These are formatted optimally to meet NCEA standards and requirements.

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Maths Tutoring Timetable:Maths tutoring will be offered to all students during the first half of lunchtime in M11 throughout 2016. The schedule is as follows:

WEEK 1.

We encourage all students to attend these tutoring sessions.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Yr 9 Yr10 Yr11 Yr12 Yr13

MathleticsThis on-line learning website is a valuable tool for Year 9 and 10 students. Payments for Mathletics can be made on the parent portal on the school website via flo2cash or you may bring cash or cheque for $30 to the school finance office. The more practice you do, the better you will become at Maths.

ROAD AND TRACK CYCLING

This term we have started our road and track cycling training and have a keen bunch of girls riding. Thanks to Cycling NZ we have use of a limited number of road bikes and twice weekly training with one of their coaches. Already we have had two school competitions for those riders who felt confident or wanted racing experience.

The C3 Road and Track Event was held on May 14 and 15. Our track team (Mya Anderson, Stella Slomp, Siena Lowry and Kaly Harcourt) faced riders from the upper North Island on the Avantidrome, and raced as a pursuit team for the first time. We had some great results with Mya Anderson winning all the U15 track events to take the Gold track medal for U15 girls (see photos below) . The next day Mya won silver in the U15 girls 34km Road Race – it was a fierce sprint to the finish with Mya missing out on first by 2cm.

The Waikato Secondary Schools Road Cycling Competition was held on May 18. Our team of riders (Katie Lush, Mya Anderson, Stella Slomp) braved the pouring rain. Mya Anderson finished 3rd in the U15 girls race, and Katie finished in with the main bunch of riders.

Both road and track teams now have lots of training to do for the North Island Schools competitions coming up in July.

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NZQA NZQA Fees are due to the Finance Office by the 10th June 2016

NZQA will charge an extra $50.00 fee for a late payment. They will also withhold student’s results until the fees are paid in full. This could cause problems for any student wishing to gain entry to courses, polytechnic, or university in 2017.

If there are any issues with payments please contact Mr Mitchell.

School contactMr Mitchell is the Principal’s Nominee (NZQA Liaison) at the school.You can contact him by: E-mail: mitchellm@hghs.school.nzPhone: 07 839 1304 EXT 839Mail: Mr MitchellPrincipal’s NomineePO Box 4082Hamilton

NZQA Fees for Domestic CandidatesEntry FeeEntry for all NZQF standards $76.70Each scholarship subject $30.00 NZQA Fees for International Fee Paying CandidatesEntry FeeEntry for all NQF standards $383.30Entry for each Scholarship subject $102.20 per subject Financial AssistanceTo be eligible for financial assistance the applicant (normally the parent or guardian of the candidate) must be the fee payer and meet at least one of the following criteria:• Be receiving a Work and Income or Study Link benefit. (benefit-

based applications), or• Have a joint family income that would entitle the applicant to

receive a Community Services Card (income-based applications), or

• Have more than one child undertaking these qualifications in the same year, irrespective of income and the total fees to pay are higher than $200. (multiple candidate applications)

To apply: Complete the “Application for Financial Assistance” form. You can obtain a financial assistance form from the student finance office or download it from the NZQA website (http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/qualifications/ncea/Application-For-Financial-Assistance.pdf)

Warm Pasifika GreetingsWe have had a busy few weeks beginning with the annual Pasifika by Nature Festival, which we were fortunate to win, as back-to-back champions and culminating in the Samoan section performing in this week’s school assembly as part of the school’s recognition of Samoan language week.

Part of the Pasifika Education Plan is to raise student achievement. To address this, our area of focus for this term is Pasifika Mentoring. The girls have chosen teacher mentors who are passionate about student achievement and we are pleased at the response of both the girls and the teachers. Another aspect of raising student achievement is the Homework Centre which is held at lunchtimes in AO and after school in H12 every Thursday. We ask families to support this initiative by encouraging their daughters to attend these sessions and receive extra help from teachers and members of the Pasifika Council.

We acknowledged and celebrated Samoan Language Week this week by having our Samoan Pasifika By Nature group perform at assembly; Mrs Gordon also spoke about the importance of Samoan Language Week and embracing Samoan culture within our school, especially over Samoan Language. Additionally, we had two of our students speak to

our staff at a briefing to outline the role each of them played in the Samoan performance at assembly; and they described the importance of a Samoan National holiday: White Sunday.

Finally, we invite all families to support the Fono that is being held 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 15 at the EFKS Church hall on Greenwood Street, to discuss how Power Up, a government initiative can benefit families as they help their children achieve success in school. We are very pleased that Hamilton has been fortunate to gain funding for such a worthwhile project.

Talofa lava Malo e lelei Mauri Ni sa bula Kia Orana Aloha Taloha ni

Samoan Pasifika group performing at assembly to celebrate Samoan Language week, 30 May

Term 1 saw us meeting and encouraging our Year 13 Mentors who had trained in student mentoring and were paired up with some Year 9 girls who we felt might need help transitioning into such a big school. A big thank you to those girls who participated and some Year 13 girls who went beyond what was asked of them.We farewelled Rachel McKenna (sadly but temporarily) off on maternity leave at the end of February. Rachel gave birth to a beautiful boy named Oscar and she is coming back to work with us on reduced hours from 20th June. She will work Mondays and Wednesdays as well as Monday nights at Hostel.

Leah came in to cover for Rachel’s maternity leave and she has been an amazing asset to our department. She has just slotted in and got on with the busy-ness of the practice. Leah will work Tuesdays and Thursdays with Rachel’s return.Robin has completed the Traveller’s Surveys with the Year 9 students and is at present organising invitations for some of the Year 9 girls to participate in small groups around many issues but working towards building resilience.

NEWS FROM THE COUNSELLING SUITE

The Learning Support team at HGHS has had a productive and exciting start to the year. The volunteers from the Lions club have continued to work with the girls in the Hub, helping us to increase reading mileage and improve their reading comprehension. Their wisdom and enthusiasm for the job is a real credit to the organisation. They are also establishing a Lions Cubs group at school this year with the support of Leonie Bramley and Christian Baledrokadroka. Christian, Jenni and I attended a Lions dinner at the beginning of April and we enjoyed a presentation from Habitat for Humanity and a lovely meal courtesy of the Lions ladies.

Within the Realising Potential Programmes and the Hub at HGHS we have begun implementing the Reciprocal Reading programme, which is developing the girls reading comprehension ability and allowing the students to lead their learning. The girls have embraced the programme and love the autonomy it provides for their learning journey.

Finally the new Supported Learning Unit standards programme introduced this year at Year 11 is already proving a success, with the girls attaining their first NCEA level 1 credits and creating a pathway for them to access the NCEA framework.

We will continue to build on this positive start to the year and ensure there is “success for all”.

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AUCKLAND GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL EXCHANGE

Auckland Girls travelled down to Hamilton with 5 sports teams, Hockey, Football, Rugby, Netball and the introduction of Lacrosse. As the hosting school we started the exchange with a Mihi Whakatau in Nga Puawaitanga. This set the tone for a positive and enjoyable exchange. Thank you to whaea Hollie and whaea Frankie for their support and organisation with the welcome.

AGG’s played well in all 5 codes and never once gave up. However, Hamilton Girls’ High nominated the exchange with a 5-0 win across all codes. It was pleasing to hear from the AGGs sports director about the positive feel about our school and the sportsmanship displayed. He also spoke about the pride our students took in their uniform and the sense of students wanting to be at school. Next year we head up to Auckland.

HAMILTON GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL BOT ELECTIONS 2016

Thank you to all our parents who put names forward for the election.

The newly elected Board are:Junior Ahyu

Christine DavisStan GoldsackChad Hooker

Andrew McRaeMelanie PilcherDavid White

Staff Representative:Deborah Hunt

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