PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Tena koutou katoa

Congratulations to all Craighead students for their involvements and commitments to a range of extracurricular activities over the recent holiday break (see overleaf). This term is only nine weeks long, but it is already

filling up very quickly. Winter sports are now well underway and we have good structures in place to support all teams. As well as “The Lord of the Flies”, Stage Challenge, Big Sing and House Choirs, we have Open Day on Sunday 29 May, and a visit from the Education Review Office during the week of 7-10 June (after Queen’s Birthday weekend). Our Senior Leaders have chosen to focus explicitly on Respect for our Term Two value. This is one of the four core values from our Strategic Plan – which spells RISE – Respect, Integrity, Service and Excellence.

We welcome back Mrs Scott from her maternity leave. She will resume her teaching of English and History and her role as Year 11 Dean. Ms Mills-Williams has taken over teaching Junior Mathematics. Mrs Towle has been very unwell over the holidays and remains on sick leave. We are very lucky to have such skilled staff ready to step up in these circumstances. Miss Chappell has taken over directing “The Lord of the Flies”, with a great team of both staff and students assisting her. Mrs Mulvihill will pick up the Senior Dean role until Mrs Towle is well enough to return to school. With the retirement of Reverend Blair last term, our local clergy have stepped in to assist us until we make an appointment. Reverend Jill Maslin will become our regular Chaplain at the end of May, when she returns from overseas. In the interim, Reverend John Hayhoe has drafted a roster, (the Reverend’s Heather Robertson, Allan Cummins, and Josh Taylor) who will take it in turn to lead our Chapel Services. We are very grateful for their support.

We were proud of our students and the way they represented Craighead as part of the local ANZAC ceremonies. Kate Jackson repeated her Cyril Bassett speech for the school community in Assembly today and we had former Craighead teacher, Mrs Helen Taine, return to school to share her incredible experience of attending the 100 year ANZAC commemoration at Gallipoli in 2015.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Gypsy Poulston who died recently. Mrs Poulston designed our beautiful Chapel window (St Anthony of Padua), a symbol of Ascension. The family have kindly allowed us to use the Chapel window design in our school publications.

God Bless, Lindy Graham

THURSDAY 5 MAY 2016

School Phone: 03 6886074

Email: admin@craighead.school.nz Website: www.craighead.school.nz

Boarding House Phone: 03 6842251

Email: boarding.manager@craighead.school.nz

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MAY Mon 9 Dunedin Tertiary Institutes Information Day—Y13 Wed 11 Y7&8 Learning Conferences, 3.30-5.30pm Life Education Caravan, Y7&8 Thur 12-Sat 14 “Lord of the Flies” School drama production Fri 13 Y7&8 Learning Conferences, 3.30-5.30pm Sat 14-Sun 15 First Aid Course—Y13 Mon 16 Attitude Team visit Y7-10 Mid-year reports available Tue 17 Craighead cross-country Wed 18 Stage Challenge Thur 19 Netball Winter Fashion Fundraiser, 6pm

For further dates, please refer to the School website calendar

SWIMMING SUCCESS—Congratulations to Danielle Walsh who competed at the NZ Age Group championships last week where she achieved two personal bests and was placed 7th in the 800m Freestyle and 8th in the 400m Freestyle. Yixuan Li also competed and was place 13th in the 50m Freestyle and 14th in the 100m Freestyle—impressive efforts from the only two girls from Timaru who attended this meet.

Meet Aleisha Corfield—Deputy Cultural Leader

When I first came to Craighead, I was a timid Year 9 student. I wasn't confident, I wasn't outspoken and I was terrified of the Seniors. Now, being a Senior student, I don't know what I was so worried about. It's bizarre to think that five years attending Craighead will soon be over for me.

Whilst attending Craighead, I have had many opportunities come my way. I have been involved in many sports such as Netball, Basketball, Touch, Volleyball and Badminton, and several committees including SADD, Peer Support, Health and Kapa haka. Being part of these groups, I have made many new friends and learnt more skills that I will need in my future years.

I am very grateful for the role I have been given this year as the deputy cultural leader and I am super excited to work along side my very close friend Amber Horne. Being given the opportunity to be in this role, it has given me more of a chance to be more involved in the culture as I have always had a very strong passion for learning about it. I advise every girl here at Craighead to take every opportunity that they can and to not be afraid to try new things.

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING DATES Our next open day is tomorrow, Friday 6 May , 3.30pm-4.30pm

Open days coming up are 20 May, 3 June, 17 June, 1 July

EFTPOS is available at the Uniform shop

Second Hand Shop—next opening date is tomorrow, Friday 6 May Open days coming up are 3 June, 1 July

Cash or cheques only at the Second Hand Shop

Please support Craighead Drama and bring

friends and family to see this exciting production, including over 50 students from Y8-13.

12-14 May 2016 Turley Auditorium

Tickets on sale NOW

Available at the School office

$15 Adult $10 Child/Student

$40 Family Pass

L-R: Faith Turner-Walker, Louise Goodwin, Aleisha Corfield and Kate Jackson represented Craighead at the ANZAC Day service at Caroline Bay.

CRAIGHEAD PARENTS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION

Next meeting—Friday 13 May 2016, 1.30pm—Auditorium Foyer All welcome—apologies to Tracy McLeod, dtamcleod@clear.net.nz

Our focus this term is to provide support for School events, and opportunities for staff, students and parents to work together to strengthen the community spirit at school. Please feel free to contact us with any questions, new ideas or feedback about any of our existing initiatives.

Teresa Templeton (Chairperson) (021) 863 665 Marion Rolleston (Vice-Chairperson) 027 612 6688

Tracy McLeod (Secretary) 027 609 0656 Carolyn Lyttle (Treasurer) 021 377 389

EQUESTRIAN

At the NZ Pony Club National Eventing Championships held near Rangiora in the holidays, Jessica Kerr was placed fourth overall in the 1.05m DC Trophy class, representing Ashburton/South Canterbury/North Otago. Abriele Morse rode as an individual and was second in the 95cm class.

At the recent Equestrian Sport South Island Eventing Championships, held at McLeans Island, Amalia Rowley won the 1.05m class. In the 95cm class, Abriele Morse was placed second and Georgie Dickson third and sixth on her two horses.

ROWING

Congratulations to Sarah Templeton (left) who was successful in being selected as part of the South Island U18 Team to compete at Lake Karapiro during the school holidays. The week provided a great opportunity to train and row alongside team mates from both the North and South Island, and culminated in a weekend of racing which saw the South Island come away with the most points overall and bring home the Menzies Trophy. Emma Trolove and Olivia Hughes also spent the week up at Lake Karapiro participating in the NZ Junior Trials which enabled them to experience and learn a lot about taking their rowing to the next level.

TEENAG

Congratulations to Elizabeth Hampton (left) and Emily O’Reilly who were placed third overall at the recent TeenAg competition for students aged between 14 and 18, hosted by Geraldine High School.

They took part in a range of challenges, covering fuel contamination, wool identification, first aid, and tying down trailer strops. The top five teams qualified for the finals, where they were challenged to set up a perimeter fence around a camp area, pitch a tent, and construct a piece of children’s camping furniture.

ATTITUDE VISIT

Zara from Attitude will be giving presentations to all year groups on

Monday 16 May. Attitude is the youth division of The Parenting Place and presents health issues relevant to young people in a lively, yet wholesome way. The sessions are: Period 1: Years 7 & 8 Identity and Choices Period 2: Year 9 Hauora (Holistic Wellbeing) Period 3: Year 11 Safety – Drugs and Alcohol Period 4: Year 10 Sex with Attitude (Healthy Relationships) Period 5: Years 12 & 13 Mental Wellbeing

If you have any questions about the programme, please email me at whittingtongl@craighead.school.nz. Mrs Whittington, RSE Teacher

HOCKEY

The inaugural SISS ANZAC Hockey tournament was held during the holidays with teams from Craighead, Timaru Girls’ High School, Christchurch Girls’ High School, Columba College and St Andrew’s College attending. Having only played one game together this was a great opportunity for our girls to gel as a team and try out new combinations. Their first game against the eventual winners CGHS had the Christchurch girls scrambling when Craighead were ahead at half time 2-nil. The final score was 3-2 to CGHS. Craighead then drew with TGHS in

an intense game, and had losses to Columba and STAC. Although Craighead didn’t score a win, they can be justifiably proud of the way they played over the two days; with three of our First XI players away it was great to see our younger players slot into the team at short notice.

NETBALL NEWS

NETBALL FUNDRAISER— A STYLE FOR EVERY STORY

Don't forget to book your tickets for our Winter Fashion Fundraiser on Thursday 19 May, 6.30pm, at the South Canterbury Tennis Centre. This will be a very entertaining night and tickets are limited. This is a major Netball fundraiser for the year, so bring your friends along and support it. Tickets are $25, available from: School Office, Groundfloor, Soul Surf & Skate, Cobblers Inn and Stompz

Netball Duty—The Craighead Netball Club is on duty on Saturday 21 May; this includes morning and afternoon netball. Please keep this date free to be available to help when your daughter’s team is on duty. Each team will be given an allocated time (no longer than an hour). More details will be available once the draw for that Saturday is publicised. Thank you.

Strapping Clinic—This is being run by physiotherapist, Simone Greig, on Thursday 12 May, 7-8pm, in the School Dining Room; a great opportunity for coaches and managers of all sports codes to learn how to do basic strapping for their players. Cost is $5.

Reminder...Netball Subs are now overdue!

SAILING

Last week, the Craighead 420 team were at Snells Beach, Algies Bay, Warkworth for the National Secondary Schools’ Teams’ Sailing Championships which involved five and a half days of racing. We were faced with tricky and extreme wind conditions. Perks of the event included mixing with top New Zealand sailors including previous Emirates Team New Zealand skipper, Chris Dixon, who would ferry us out to the boat we would spend the day on. We finished 31st overall and 11th Girls’ team, winning the most races since 2013.

PERFORMING ARTS

Julia Hogg (Y12), recently starred as “Ariel”, the mermaid, in the SC Junior Drama League’s production of The Little Mermaid. Charlotte Howe (Y9), played her sidekick, the delightful little guppy “Flounder”. The show was a resounding success with children big and small mesmerised by the music, acting and colourful costumes of this popular

Disney, under-the-sea story. Julia, along with Brooke Askin (Y13), are also members of the cast of Mamma Mia, to be performed at the end of July.