Sports Roundup

Sports Results for the 18th and 20th of November

Volleyball
Junior Boys – A tough game against Riccarton, ending in a 2-0 defeat.
Junior Girls – A great game from our Hagley side, ending on a high 2-0 win over Rangi Green.

Football
Junior Boys – Christchurch Adventist outclassed Hagley, even our buzzer beater goal could help. Score 11-2.
Junior Girls Black – An equally difficult game vs Villa Green. Villa coming out on top with 11 goals to our 5.
Junior Girls Red – Lost by default.

Netball
Junior Girls – Had a blinding last game against Rudolf Steiner, winning 33-14. Awesome stuff girls!

So this concludes our sport for 2013! Thank you to all the students for participating and all the volunteers for helping out!

Have a great summer everyone!!

Sports roundup

Sports Results for 11th and 13th November

Volleyball
Junior Girls – Played against a skilled Marian College side, Hagley couldn’t get into the flow of play, leading to a 2-0 loss.
Junior Boys – Lost by Default due to lack of numbers.

Football
Junior Girls Black & Red – The two Hagley teams played each other, making for a fun game! However the older Red side was victorious, 5-2.
Junior Boys – Had a great game against Kaiapoi, winning 9-7.

Indoor Netball
Junior Girls – An extremely close and well fought game against Christchurch Girls High School, just losing out in the last few seconds by one goal. End score, 15-16.

Softball
Hillview had a very good team with an incredible pitcher, great experience for our novice side but it did end in a 10-4 defeat.

A quiet week for sport as all the Senior have finished sport to complete exams J

More "Ye Old Fool"

Richard Townsend has released the next episode of "Ye Old Fool" - "Assassin's Return"
Phsich once again, is out to kill the king. But when the King and the Scotsman get trapped by an oncoming cage, it turns out that another villain is lurking in the shadows, and has been waiting for the King for a very long time.

Watch it here

Sports Roundup

Sports Results for 4th & 6th November

Volleyball
Senior Girls – Lost by Default.
Junior Girls – Had a great game vs Rangi Ruru leading to a 2-0 victory.
Senior Boys – This was the play offs for 3rd and 4th, with our boys managing to get bronze! A very entertaining game, end score 2-0 to Hagley.
Junior Boys – A tight game against Riccarton B, they just took the last game leaving Hagley with a 2-1 defeat.

Indoor Football
Senior Girls – Played a tough game against Hornby Gold, in the end neither teams could get on the board. Draw 0-0.
Junior Girls Black – This was a very hard game, with Christchurch Girls High School’s Pink team winning convincingly, 9-0.
Junior Girls Red – Christchurch Girls High School’s Green team won over Hagley, 1-0, in this low scoring game.
Senior Boys Black – Playing against Mairehau at Mairehau, the boys pulled out a stunning effort and won 18-0!
Senior Boys Red – On the flip side our Red team did not manage as well vs Hornby, being defeated 10-0.
Junior Boys – Had a close game against Papanui, ending in a 3-2 loss.

Indoor Netball
Senior Girls – Played excellent netball against St Margarets, winning 23-12.
Junior Girls – BYE.

Mixed Touch
Lost by default.

Softball
The team finally got a proper game vs Cashmere, unfortunately it ended in a loss 15-4.

This was the last week for Senior Sport as they are now heading into exam time. Good luck to all the seniors!

ICAS Results 2013

ICAS  - International  Competitions and Assessment for Schools

Students were given the opportunity to sit these difficult tests throughout the year, with some excellent results.

Grades are allocated as follows:

High Distinction (top 1% in the country)

Distinction (top 10%)

Credit (top 25%)

Maths

Hamish Shaw – High Distinction

Freddy Wilson – Distinction

Rata Ingram   - Credit

English

Lia Capper -  Credit

Thomas Oakley – High Distinction

Freddy Wilson– Credit

Hamish Shaw – Credit

Rata Ingram -  Distinction

Bethany Manders -  Credit

Science

Hamish Shaw – High Distinction

Rata Ingram - Distinction

Computer skills

Hamish Shaw - Credit

Writing success

Congratulations to Faith Oxenbridge for winning the Sunday Star Times short story competition.

You can read her story here

This is what the judge had to say:
Commentary by Carl Nixon, judge of the Open Division of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. (nb: all stories were judged with the author’s name removed).

As is now usual for this long running and highly regarded competition this year’s entries were numerous and varied. There were more than 600 entries. They came from all over the country and reflected a wide range of ethnic backgrounds; Maori, Pasifika, Asian, and European, in keeping with New Zealand’s multicultural nature. There was also a pleasing diversity in genders, ages, sexual orientation, occupations and incomes of the characters. Stories of New Zealanders abroad added colour and variety. Judging them all was not easy. Here are my choices for the top stories of 2013.

The WINNER: What You Have, by Faith Oxenbridge
On first reading this story immediately struck me as a contender for the top prize. With subsequent rereading the writer’s seemingly effortless artistry became more and more apparent. A story that explores grief and the mental illness of a parent, it is however never bleak or overwrought. What You Have is told in the second person and by using you throughout it draws the reader in and makes them complicit in the events. Although this technique is difficult to sustain the author does not miss a beat. Equally difficult to sustain are the frequent shifts in time between past and present, but once again, they are never jarring, always timely, and in the service of the story. Beautifully controlled use of simile and metaphor and a wry tone in what could have been a depressing tale combine to make What You Have a clear winner.

Well done Faith!

Sports round up

Sports Results for 29th & 30th October
 
Volleyball
Senior Girls – Win by default against Rangi.
Junior Girls – Win by default to Christchurch Girls High School Orange team.
Senior Boys – The only volleyball team to get a game this week, and they made it count beating Christ College, 2-0.
Junior Boys – Win by default against St Bedes.

Football
Senior Girls – Didn’t play at their best this week, but still came away with a win over Catholic Cathedral, 4-2.
Junior Girls Black – Played a good game against Villa Red, ending in a 1-1 draw.
Junior Girls Red – Christchurch Girls High School Orange team managed a 2-0 win over Hagley.
Senior Boys Black – Had a tough game against Hornby, who narrowly got a 4-3 win.
Senior Boys Red - Showed extreme skill and talent against Kaiapoi, outclassing them 14-1! Nice work guys!
Junior Boys - Had a hard game away at St Bedes, resulting in a defeat, 5-4 to St Bedes.

Indoor Netball
Senior Girls – Considering they had low numbers and had to use junior players, they played great, however not quite good enough to beat Mairehau Red. End score 30-26 to Mairehau.
Junior Girls – Played fantastic against Rudolf Steiner leading to a 21-9 victory.

Mixed Touch
Due to low player numbers we lost by default.

Softball
BYE

International Day

This is a piece of writing from 11EFI written by the students in groups about their International Day experience. It was an amazing day enjoyed by our whole community.

On the 26^th September 2013, the English Language Learning Community celebrated International Day. Special guests were invited to a welcome in the cafeteria to begin the day. Our Principal, Brent, spoke to the assembled audience telling us that it is the people who are the most important part of Hagley.

One important aspect of International Day at Hagley was the fun everybody had. Throughout the day everyone had a smile on their face and a warm hello to all the new friends they met. It was good to see the teamwork displayed within the ethnic groups as they worked together to present their culture, their heritage, their costumes and their food in the best way possible. 

Another aspect of the day was the food prepared by each country involved in the day. In many cultures, hospitality is always accompanied by food and the more food available the warmer the welcome. It was certainly a very warm welcome this day. People visited each room where they were greeted with an abundance of ethnic food to taste: sweet, sour, spicy, colourful and aromatic foods were all offered. Visitors found the food very tasty and often came back for seconds. They loved the samosas, the buchingae, the baklava, the sushi, the falafel, the moon cakes, the varieties of rice and the Chinese tea. They asked for recipes and how long it took to prepare the food. The enjoyment was obvious as was the pride of the cooks who prepared it.

Along with the food preparation, students also wore their national costumes, which were bright, colourful and interesting. The clothes were often combined with dancing, singing and lots of noise. The beautiful Korean and Chinese national dresses were exquisite, often made of colourful silk and highly decorated. The African clothes were bright and were matched with colourful headgear. Not only were the people dressed beautifully, so were the classrooms. The Chinese outdid themselves with a technological light and picture show. The Afghans displayed a pair of unique and very expensive large carpets, which showed an Afghan bedroom decoration along with mattresses with pillows.

Another important aspect of the day was the concert in the cafeteria with the traditional music and dancing of each country.  It was a visual and aural feast of cultural movement and sound. From the rhythmic Samoan dance which transported the audience to the beach to the very nationalistic Chinese dance and the professionalism of the performers. The delicate movements of the Indian dancer delighted the audience and the Koreans combined their dance with song. The Japanese were strong and very loud performers, along with the Bangladesh and Kazakhstan items. It was a fantastic show and a fitting way to end the day.

Throughout the day the weather continued to brighten until by 2pm the day was sunny and warm, which reflected how everyone was feeling. International Day 2013 at Hagley was a wonderful, memorable and exciting day.

11EFI

Sports roundup

Sports Results for 21st & 23rd October

Volleyball
Senior Girls – Loss by default to Unlimited.
Junior Girls – Had a great game vs Kaiapoi, leading to a 2-0 victory!
Senior Boys – Due to low player numbers we lost by default to Christ College.
Junior Boys – A different story for the junior boys, outclassing Christ College 2-0, nice work guys!

Football
Senior Girls – Our girls played great football against Christchurch Girls High Schools’ Red team, winning 3-1.
Junior Girls Black – This team also had an excellent game beating Villa Green, 4-1.
Junior Girls Red – We can’t win them all and after a hard game Villa Red managed to take the 7-3 victory.
Senior Boys Black – Had a blinding game! Finishing in a 10-0 win over Kaiapoi. Game of the week!
Senior Boys Red – Won by default against Christchurch Adventist.
Junior Boys – Had a tough game vs Hornby ending in a 9-1 loss.

Netball
Senior – Won by default to Linwood Girls.
Junior – Managed a good win over Christchurch Girls High Schools’ Yellow team, 13-9.

Mixed Touch
St Andrews brought their A game and won convincingly, 12-0. However our team show huge improvement from last week and played well in the circumstances.

Softball
Won by default against St Andrews.

World Refugee Day Art Competition

Sushan Gurung and Taiba Alawi received certificates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for participating in UNHCR World Refugee Day 2013 Art Competition.

They were applauded for the artistic and creative skills shown in capturing the theme of “1 Family torn apart by war is too many.” Their artwork can be found on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website. Well done to Sushan and Taiba for raising awareness about refugee issues creatively!

Dance Company excels

In September, the Hagley Dance Company presented an evening of amazing pieces. This was a concert showcasing their work from the year.

Called "Personae", the evening was presented by Artistic Director Candice Egan with additional choreography by Fleur de Thier. The costumes were designed and made by Vicki Dixon and the School of Fashion.
You can read the review on the Theatre View site

Sports round up for 15th & 16th October

Volleyball
Senior Girls- had a BYE.
Junior Girls- had a slow start but got into a good flow, and won the ‘friendly’ game at the end. Unfortunately they lost 2-0 against Papanui.
Senior Boys – a loss to Catholic Senior B 0-2, however the second set was very close.
Junior Boys – good form through the game led to a solid win against Burnside Green 2-0.

Football
Senior Girls- a great game vs Villa Blue, our girls were up by one but a last buzzer beater goal was scored by Villa leaving it a draw, 6-6.
Junior Girls BLACK- a close game ending in a loss 3-2 against Christchurch Girls High School Orange.
Junior Girls RED – Christchurch Girls High School Pink took advantage of the home court advantage and played hard, leaving  Hagley with a 13-0 defeat.
Senior Boys BLACK – a convincing win over Christchurch Adventist, 5-0. Great job guys!
Senior Boys RED – Hagley won by default over Mairehau Black.
Junior Boys- Lost by default to Lincoln Red 10.

Netball
Senior Girls – a hard fought game ending in a narrow loss to Marian Red, 16-19.
Junior Girls – won by default against Papanui Green.

Mixed Touch
Middleton Grange outclassed our team, leading to a 17-0 loss.

Softball
Due to so few numbers from both Aidenfield and Hagley, we won by default. However both teams had a friendly game and a practice session.

Journalism and Music

Field Skjellerup-Reid from the School of Music has been taking Year 13 Journalism this year and as part of his assessment he has created a website that showcases New Zealand's underground music producers. You can see the result of his work here

Young Presenter's Award

We received the "Young Presenters Award" from Plains FM 96.9!

The award was presented to us on the Plains FM’s Party Gliterrati evening of awards and birthday bash in May.

For the past year and a half our ESOL students have been involved with Plains FM 96.9. We record a show once a month. The students have presented various topics including holidays around the world, adjusting to life in NZ, sharing music and more. The show works as a question and answer session after the initial short "speech". I have watched the students go from a bundle of nerves in their first show to relaxed professionals as our radio journey continues. The opportunity to share our voices on the radio has given us real life situations to write about including writing scripts for the radio programme and then writing reflection pieces after the radio program. It has included chances to listen to our radio show as well. It has also given the students and I another link to the greater Christchurch community. Going to the Plains FM studio is very exciting and the staff there has welcomed us with open arms. Naoko (studio manager) invites students in to watch her as she edits our show and she "coaches" us through the show.   Lizzie (the program manager) welcomes us each month with open arms and the studio has a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere. 

Check us out. Our show is called Hagley Culture Chat. It is on at 5 pm on the first Monday of every month. 

Lesley Cowie, teacher in-charge

Sports roundup

Netball
Senior Girls vs. Unlimited: Loss, 20-25.

Basketball
Intermediate Boys vs. St Bedes: Loss, 13-30.

Intermediate Girls vs. Rangi Intermediate Red: Loss,12-25.

Senior Boys Vs. Catholic Cathedral B: Win 32-25.

Senior Girls vs. Rangi Open Black: Win 64-19.

Zen Mantra

Congratulations to Sam Perry who has been given a NZ on Air Making Tracks Grant of $10,000 for Zen Mantra - Body Surfers. This is a huge achievement and has a long list of criteria that must be met before you can apply. This includes having a fan base, business plans and a good track record, as well as a strategic plan of what you will do with the money to improve the quality of your song or video.

You can check out Zen Mantra at the following sites:
Facebook
Music streaming

9Bt English Blog

With the guidance of Alastair, 9Bt have started up a blog to showcase some of the writing work they have done this year.
Have a read of their work and feel free to make comments.
9Bt Blog

Sports roundup

Wednesday 21 August

Junior Boys Basketball vs. Adventist – Loss, 22-56.
Yr 10 Boys Basketball vs. Aidenfield – Loss, 25-26.

Junior Netball vs. Adventist – Win, 13-10.

Boys Badminton vs. Cashmere – Loss by default.
Girls Badminton Vs. Rangi Ruru Senior Green – Win, 7-2.

Table Tennis Black vs. Marian – Loss, 2-7.

Senior Girls Football vs. Cashmere – Win, 2-0.

Friday 23 August

Intermediate Boys Basketball vs. Papanui Junior – Draw, 26-26, continued to overtime then drawed again. Hagley goes up because they are the higher ranked team.
Intermediate Girls Basketball vs. Rangi Ruru Intermediate Black – Win, 34-8.
Senior Boys Basketball vs. Hillmorton – Loss 46-47.
Senior Girls Basketball vs. Rangi Open Green – Win, 38-30.

Cantamaths

On Wednesday August 14, Hagley competed in the annual CANTAMATHS competition, held in the CBS Arena by CMA - the Canterbury Mathematics Association. Two teams, one each in the year 9 and 10 comps attended the event after practising during Monday lunchtimes through terms 1 and 2. Their coaches, Angela Brett and Bela Adash were both very pleased with the teams' achievement. "Our year 9s did really well, considering the amount of algebra in this years questions, and the year 10 team, who hadn't practised much as a unit, surprised us by getting 45 points (the winning teams only got as far as 75 points this year) which I think is a Hagley record - certainly since I've been coaching!"

Bela and Angela look forward to seeing how the year 9 team will do next year, as their algebra improves and after they've known each other for longer. They also encourage any junior student interested in maths to jump in - you don't have to have been part of the competition this year to try out for the year 10 team!

Pictured are the year 9 team: (L to R) Lewis Huntley, Molly Buglass-Clapham, Tara Bushby, Leo Suggate, and Jessie Robb.

Top 10 Rock Quest

Congratulations to Grace Jones and Kenzie Middleton, from the School of Music, who have made it to the Top 10 Rock Quest solo/duo section for New Zealand. There are 25 regions who all had finalist who were eligible for selection to the final. They had to put together a clip on YouTube for the judges and a set of industry musicians then selected the top 20. Then it went to another set of musicians who selected the top 10.
You can listen to their original music on the YouTube submission here

Bridge Building competition

On the 2nd of  August 2013, three Year 10 Graphics students (Hektor Amazinnia Coyle,  Ruby Scott-Hewitt, Morgan Trestrail) took part in the Aurecon Australia /New Zealand bridge building competition.
These three students were selected because they earlier won the Yr 10 graphics inter-class competition for their bridge design.

To build the Aurecon competition bridge,  students used a balsa kit provided by Aurecon, to build any type of bridge they wanted.
One of the requirements was that the bridge had to be 700mm long.

During the competition, Aurecon Engineers would then load the bridge with weights to determine its load failure point.
The winning bridge was then judged according to it top load weight, quality workmanship and how it looked aesthetically.
You can check out their effort on this clip

The results were that Hagley Community college won 2nd place for the Canterbury competition.

They received a total of $1300 in prize money for their efforts.

Thanks to Ryszard Dybka for his support and guidance.

Yr 11 Geography Field Trip

Earlier this year, the Yr 11 Geography class had a field trip to the Port Hills. The trip was aimed at looking at volcanism, marine erosion and fluvial erosion (and earthquakes) and how these processes have interacted to create the landscape we see today, and how it is still changing. They also looked at land use on the Port Hills and the impact of human activity on the land.
Kiera Heartford put together this clip (6 mins long) that shows what they did on the day.
Geography Field Trip

Voice of Canterbury Choir Festival

Tuesday was a big day for our choir. The group spent the day at La Vida doing workshops and rehearsals for the Voice of Canterbury Festival.

The Festival vision is: "Our vision was to establish a choir festival that is popular music oriented and focuses on enjoyment of music and choral singing, rather than a competition between schools. The main aim of this event is to encourage performing amongst peers and as a community." (from Voices of Canterbury website )

During the evening performance, each school performed their pre-rehearsed items as well as a massed item rehearsed during the afternoon workshop.
It was a very long but productive day with students learning a lot about singing in a choir.
Hagley came away with 2 awards:
Best Performance of a New Zealand song - Royals
School Spirit Award - this is voted on by all the choirs there and is a sought after award for the Festival.

The choir for the festival was:
Eilish Bamber Sawer
Isaac Bennet
Shannagh Halewood
Charlotte Arnott
Shea Brand
Nepeya Shirt
Jackson Toomer
Solomon Green
Isla Reeves
Steve Smith
John Armstrong Gale
Felix Vaughan-Walker
Josh Kurene
Richard Townsend
Nephtalim Antoine
Harrison Searancke
Hugo Dyer
Tim Swift
Kerri Batin
Liam Montague
Kiwa Whittaker

ICAS Competitions

 

ICAS  - International  Competitions and Assessment for Schools

Students were given the opportunity to sit these difficult tests throughout the year, with some students sitting one subject, others sitting all five.

Grades are allocated as follows:

High Distinction (top 1% in the country)

Distinction (top 10%)

Credit (top 25%)

With the final tests still to be done, the following have been awarded so far:

Computer Science

Hamish Shaw - Credit

Science

Rata Ingram - Distinction

Hamish Shaw - High Distinction

Southern Jam

The Jazz Ensemble, Kevin, Angela and Van went up to Blenheim for 5 days to participate in Southern Jam - a South Island Jazz Festival.
They had the opportunity to play at a range of venues, including Primary Schools and Working Men's Clubs.
The group played very well and came away with a Gold Award for their efforts.

The ensemble is : Shannagh Halewood, Rachel Murray, Shadow Virtue-Paul, Chris Townsend, Isaac Bennett, Jonty Verkerk, Sev Gourley and Nepeya Shirt with leader, Kevin Roberts.

Jazz Quest results

The Jazz Quest competition is from schools throughout Canterbury and is hotly contested between schools.
We had a great time and the students all really enjoyed themselves.
The 2 junior jazz groups both won Bronze Awards –



Hanafi's band – Georgia, Solomon, Eddie and Matt













Van's band – Lia, Leo, Fergus, Itan, Fynn and Joey

The Senior Jazz band taken by Kevin won a Gold Award!
Nepeya, Sev, Shannagh, Rachael, Shadow, Isaac, Chris and Jonty.
Not only that….
Jonty won Most Outstanding Drummer
Chris won Best Original Composition.
And…
The senior band won Best Jazz Ensemble. This is the highest award and is taken from a large number of bands that competed over the whole weekend.

Fashion success

Hagley School of Fashion has been entering the Hokonui Fashion awards since 2008 and have had finalists in the competition every year. This year 13  student’s entered and all 13 gained a place in the finals.

The judges for the competition are chosen from high profile New Zealand fashion labels and this year included

Elizabeth Findlay co –founder of Zambesi

Warwick Woodfield –Creative Director of Warwick Woodfield

Denise L’Estrange-Corbet –CEO World

Jim Geddes- District Curator of Arts and Heritage

Margi Robertson- Creative director of Nom*d and PLUME

This year the awards celebrated it’s 25^th year with a new section entitled silver.

Hagley School of Fashion was in the limelight this year with several of our garments featuring on the various news reports after the event. It was very exciting to have a winner , runner up and third place getter from with in the college and a past pupil taking out the young designer of the year award.

The results are as follows:

Ailish Roughan……Runner up Silver section

                                      





                            Margaret Hill……….Third place Steam punk.

 Alannah Kwant …..Winner street wear award

Past Pupil Hannah Heslop ( Hannah Louise) Young designer Award

 Hannah is in her 3^rd year of a Bachelor of fashion at Otago.

Both Ailish and Margaret were finalists last year as well.

All participants are to be congratulated on the hours of dedicated hard work that they put into the designs, which are truly wonderful.

The work will be on display in the fashion room on Wednesday the 14^th August 13 and again at our end of year show.

Ye Old Fool Episode 4

The next episode to 'Ye ole Fool' is now out on YouTube and is urging for a brilliant audience!

In this episode things will get a little bit Theatrical! As this brand new adventure has a Broadway twist when our medieval heroes jump onto stage!

Ye ole Fool episode 4 "The play is not the thing"

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Sports roundup

Basketball
Year 10 Boys and Juniors - Our two Wednesday boys teams played each other yesterday, with the junior team eventually winning an extremely close game 19-18 with basket one minute from the end.

Netball
Juniors - The juniors had a another strong win, edging out Villa Maria 29-20.
Seniors - Playing Rudolf Steiner away, the senior girls produced a great performance to defeat them 29-22.

Football
Girls - The girls XI unfortunately came up against a very competitive Burnside High 2nd XI, and, despite a valiant effort, eventually went down 5-1.

Boys 7-a-side - The boys squad finally showed what they are capable of, showing that they had too much speed and power to beat a Hillmorton side 2-1. Great effort!

Table Tennis
Senior - Up against an extremely strong CBHS team, the seniors went down 9-0.

Red - Up against Marian College, the red managed to win one game, however Marian were too strong and powered away to win 8-1.

Badminton

Boys - The boys team were up against it from the beginning with a depleted team. They eventually succumb ed to a highly skilled Papanui side 9-0.

Girls - Playing against a competent Rangi Ruru team, the girls produced an impressive performance, powering away to a great 7-2 victory.

Youth Parliament

Every three to four years the Ministry of Youth Development coordinates New Zealand’s Youth Parliament. Young people are selected by members of Parliament to take part in debates in the Chamber and hold youth select committee meetings.
In the last school holidays Hagley student Hanna Deal represented Ruth Dyson at the Youth Parliament in Wellington.
You can hear her speech at this link.
 Hanna's speech



If you would like to know more about the Youth Parliament, click here.

Hagley Culture Chat

This is the second post on Lesley Cowie's ESOL class that has a monthly radio show on 96.9 Plains FM.
You can read more about them in the April post.

Congratulations to Lesley and her students who won the Plains FM Young Presenters Award for their radio show which Lesley has been running over the last year and a half.

June radio show
July radio show

Great writing

Fantastic results from our students and staff at the New Zealand Flash Fiction Awards:

FIRST PRIZE

In the nick of time, a deer by Frankie McMillan,  Christchurch

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Clatter, Clatter by Jackie Watson, Canterbury

Gone Eeling by Melanie Dixon,  Christchurch

The ice cream boy by Frankie McMillan, Christchurch

REGIONAL PRIZES

Canterbury – Frankie McMillan, In the nick of time, a deer

6 out of the 21 stories longlisted for the NZ Flash Fiction awards came from the Hagley Writer's Institute students and staff. Congratulations to students Celia Coyne, Melanie Dixon, Brindi Joy and Jackie Watson and tutor, Frankie McMillan who had 2 stories in the list – they have done the Institute proud.

Sports roundup

Basketball
Year 10 Boys - Up against a vastly improved Aidanfield team, our boys struggled to match their play. The boys never dropped their heads though, finishing with a flurry of points at the end of both halves. Final score was 49-21, with player of the day again being awarded to Ezra Wood for his fine shooting.

Junior Boys - Unfortunately for the junior boys, for whatever reason, they severely struggled with numbers this week. Up against the supremely skilled Christchurch Adventist team, they eventually succeeded with a 60-18 loss after such a strong start where they were well in the game for the first 20 mins.

Netball
Junior Girls - A much improved performance from the girls, they eventually triumphed 19-10 against a strong challenge from Aidanfield Christian School. Thanks must go again to Sheyanne for refereeing the girls.

Senior Girls - Another strong performance from the seniors saw them tough out a solid win against a talented Villa Maria squad 18-14.

Badminton
Boys - Unfortunately for the boys, they again struggled to field a full team which no doubt did not help. While most games were close against Cashmere 7-2.

Girls - Similar story as for the boys. While most games were extremely close, the girls struggled to close out any of their games and eventually lost the match 9-0.

Football
Girls - The girls squad had a great win against St Margaret's College 1-0, owing to a brilliant matchwinner from Liza Mckenzie. Great result girls!

Boys 7-a-side - Unfortunately our rather youthful boys team came up against a senior Kaiapoi High side who were simply too fast and powerful for our boys. Final score was 5-1 to Kaiapoi, with Mustafa Azimi showing great resolve to score our only goal.

Hagley Creative Writers

Have a look at the poems and stories on the Christchurch Art Gallery website by the Level 2 Creative Writing class. Students would love comments so go ahead on any stories or poems you especially like. Commenting is easy and doesn't require registration.

I stumbled into their lair on accident, and found myself in a madhouse of reptilian decree. I immediately froze, in a vain hope they had not noticed me in my peculiarity, but my attempts were feeble, I had been seen. I felt a cold sweat and a shiver ran down my spine as they glared at me with beady black eyes from a nebulous of smoke and dust that choked the room.
Click here to read the rest of the story of these fictive fiends (by Phil White)
  Lizard's lounge


Contributors:
Isla Reeves
Rhiana Dearden
Ben Jones
Corey Anderson
Phil White
Caitlin Watkins
Thomas Crimmins

You can search all of the Hagley stories here: search by author

Loud and Proud

ESOL students have been doing free writing in class to boost their skills. Nav has put together another stunning poster that showcases writing from the class. This piece is by Nargish Khan.

Rock Quest Results

Results from the Regional Finals of Rock Quest in Christchurch

Congratulations to Ezra Wood and Fergus Ingram from Parasitic Swarm for getting the Mainz Musicianship award – it is given for outstanding musicianship and gives them the opportunity to apply for a scholarship to MAINZ.

 Congratulations to Charlotte Arnott and Mim Jensen for getting second place in the solo/duo section of Rock Quest.

Congratulations to Grace Jones and Kenzie Middleton for getting First Place in the solo/duo section.

Congratulations to Secularity (Connor Hamilton, Matt Bolch, Sam McRobert, Isaac Pomeroy and Jonty Verkerk) who came 3rd in the band section.

Sports results for Wed 26 June

Badminton
Girls - The girls were faced with a tough opposition in the formn of Riccarton High away, however this did not deter them as the produced a huge effort. The match came down to the last doubles game, which Hagley just lost, making the score 6-3.
Boys - The boys badminton team played against a senior side from Riccarton, and eventually went down 7-2. Special mention goes to Daniel Carvey for filling in for a team that struggles to field a 4-person team each week. Despite this adversity, theyb boys produced a gutsy performance, in managing to take a few games away from their opposition.

Basketball
Junior Boys vs Year 10 - The two Hagley boys teams entered in the Wednesday competition faced off against one another, with the result destined to be close due to their last match being a draw. The result was what some may suggest an upset, as the less fancied junior team defeated the Year 10s by 28-24. Led superbly in the closing stages by sharp-shooting Ezra Wood, the Juniors were extremely pleased with this result.

Football
Senior Girls - Our senior girls team faced off against a well-drilled Hornby High side and, despite a valiant effort, lost 3-0.

Netball
Junior Girls - With a team of just 7, the junior squad battled away against a Middleton Grange team that had pace and height on all areas of the court. After an extremely tough first half, the girls played some great netball in the 3rd quarter, matching Middleton Grange in skill and dedication. The final result was 35-9, with player of the day going to Phoebe Gardiner, for persistence at centre throughout the entire match.
Senior Girls - The senior team produced a powerful performance, running out comfortable victors against Rangi Ruru by 32-13. A great result!

Kayaking - Waiau Outdoor Education trip

Here's a video of one of the Outdoor education trips down the Waiau river in April 2013 (Click the photo). Fantastic fun!

Waiau Video 2013

Not sure where the Waiau is ? You can follow the kayak route by clicking on the map !

Borrow an e-book

Would you like to borrow an e-book to read on your own device? We're building up our collection every week, and there's already a good selection of books, mainly fiction, there. All you have to do to access Hagley's e-book platform is click on this link:  Hagley e-books Then follow the instructions under Getting started to get your particular device set up.

To borrow an e-book you will need to use your Hagley username and password (usual computer log on) and also set up an Adobe ID to store the e-book and allow it to be used on several devices. Ask at the library if you have any problems.

Ye Old Fool New Season

The brand new season to Ye ole Fool is up and running and our favourite little royal fool is back for more!

Check out the first two episodes

Episode One:  "Ye Kings Knight"

Episode Two: "Off to Scotland"

These brand new episodes have an intriguing new look. And the stories have never been more adventurous.

If you want to support the youtube series you can like, subscribe, share the episodes to all your friends and family, or you can just simply watch and enjoy the cartoons yourself. The more bigger and popular we are. The more we can entertain and the better the cartoons there will be. Oh and don't worry, these two episodes are just the
beginning, if you keep a sharp eye than you will see our medieval characters make a musical, get turned into hilarious animals and so much more.

Thanks for the support so far, cheers!
Richard Townsend (Year 10)

"Yellow Smile" by Field Skjellerup

This is a composition from Field Skjellerup in the Year 13 School of Music.


Field says "For this track I wanted to create an old school Drum and Bass/Jungle type of track. I collected a few sample packs with heaps of classic breaks and vocal cuts then arranged it in Ableton Live. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the result."

Yellow Smile 

More postcards

Here are a couple more postcards from Celia King's Social Science class.

This one is by Harry Weaver- this is the front







Back:

This one is by Connor Crampton

13Bio Actogram Video

In 13Bio we have been learning about Actograms and noticed there wasn't much on the internet to help us with our understanding or revision of this idea so we made our own resource and uploaded it to You Tube.  Now we can watch it any time we like and someone else might find it helpful too.

Hagley Writers excel

Hagley Writers' Institute tutors, Frankie McMillan and Kerrin Sharpe feature in the online poetry collection, Best NZ Poems, edited by Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde . This is a prestigious anthology reflecting, as it says, the very best of NZ poetry and is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.  You can check out the website here -
Best NZ poems

 Frankie McMillan is a short story writer and poet. She completed an MA at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in 1998. Her publications include The Bag Lady’s Picnic and other stories and a collection of poetry, Dressing for the Cannibals. Her short stories have been included in Best New Zealand Fiction (Vintage, 2008 and 2009). In 2005 she was the recipient of the CNZ Todd Bursary. In 2009 she won the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition.

Kerrin P Sharpe is a poet and teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition Programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Hue & Cry, JAAM, the Listener, Poetry New Zealand, Sport, Takah?, Turbine, the London Grip, Snorkel and the Press, Best New Zealand Poems 08, 09 and 10, and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teachers’ award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her debut poetry collection, three days in a wishing well, was published by Victoria University Press in 2012. A selection of her poems will appear in Oxford Poets 2013 from Carcanet Press later this year.

Short elearning/blended learning presentation

Quite a nice short interview with a Professor from Massey University on e-learning/blended learning

Certainly worth <2mins of your time !!

Radio show on Plains FM

Lesley Cowie's ESOL class has a monthly radio show on 96.9 Plains FM.
It is quite an undertaking for students whose first language is not English but they do a fantastic job of this.
The students are from many different countries including Ethiopia, Somalia, Nepal, Cambodia, Afghanistan, China and Samoa.
They are between 14 and 20 years old.
As they progress through the year they will have more and more responsibility in the show. It is 25 minutes long and it is played on the first Monday of each month (excluding school holidays).

 You can hear the latest show here:
Plains FM radio show

April Fool's Day writing

ESOL students have been doing free writing in class to boost their skills. It is an on demand piece written within one class. Nav has put together this stunning poster that showcases writing from the class. This piece is by Andrew Chun of 12EAP.

Spotty Day

Here are a couple of prizes winning photos from the recent Fundraising day. There were some fantastic spotty outfits from both staff and students. As usual, the enrolment centre turned out a superb display, and Jenny O'Sullivan was voted the winner for her wonderful outfit. The school raised $125 for the Melanoma Foundation. Thanks to all those who supported this venture.

Social Science postcards

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Here are a couple of postcards from Celia King’s  Social Science class – 10WM.  The topic is migration, about understanding that people move. Students were asked to send a postcard from an exciting destination. Many of them had visited places of natural beauty in the world. They understood the need to inquire after their reader’s wellbeing. 

Ye Olde Fool

Ye Ole Fool is a cartoon about the misadventures of an ambitious royal fool who finds himself having to stop a Scottish psycho path from having his revenge on a lazy mean king!

The cast consists of three Hagley students who do the voice overs, Christopher Waffleton, Keaton Flitney and John Smith. Script and animation are by Richard Townsend. There are 6 episodes in season one and the team is well underway with season two (8 episodes). Richard is very keen to get as many views on YouTube as possible so please check them out, like and subscribe, and share with family and friends. Thanks :-)

Episode1 'Ye ole Jerry'

Sports roundup

Senior girls black volleyball team had a great win against Lincoln in the semi final on Monday night last week, they are in the play offs this Monday, wish them luck! We had a great couple of wins in indoor football. Year 9s winning 11-10, this was their first win and they played some great football. The senior girls red team had another great win 8 - 1 playing against Catholic. All teams showed some great football, were all pleasing games to watch. Only 2 more weeks of sport left, keep up the great work.

Sports roundup for last week

Senior Boys White had a great win against Mairehau 8-7. We had a clash with both of the senior girls playing each other with the senior girls red taking it out 3 - 0. It was a great game and we are looking forward to the outdoor season with all the girls in one team! Indoor netball girls have shown great improvement and the junior girls got some great goals. The senior girls had their first win with a awesome comeback after half time.

Composition skills

School of Music student, Adam Webb, has created this piece that he has put on YouTube. He composed it on Garageband and you will notice a similarity to an old but famous song - see if you can guess! You can search for more of his music under the name GammaKiwi.

Sam and the Guitar Lord

TodaysMeet

I have been using TodaysMeet in class with my 11Sci.  A lad in my class posted 3 answers to worksheet.  Others thanked him by posting back.  He didn't have to look at them or talk to them, he doesn't like doing that.  He looked like he grew 10cm taller.  Check out TodaysMeet.  Ask me or Andy or Sue Mc or Kim Swann how to use it if you need help  http://todaysmeet.com/

Carmen

Shape Poem

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A 

descending

drizzle of tiny

clear crystals, hitting

the sharp blades of grass

and the glass of windows, sliding,

racing one another down to the pane.

Her reflection is captured as she watches,

the image of her features almost trapped in the

splattering glass. The pitters and the patters accelerating

as she observes the sparkling droplets collecting on the rim of

the panes. She watches intently as ducks plop and paddle through

the Puddles, their webbed feet disappearing beneath the shallow murky

surface. In a flash, they shake their matted down, the yellow blur a bright

contrast to the drab fog. Her gaze drifts from them but remains fixed on

the drizzle before her. And then, suddenly, the rain abruptly comes to a

halt, everything still and silent. Almost imperceptibly, the sun peeks out

from behind the clouds which conceal it, illuminating. The

droplets remain clinging to the blades of green,

glinting like tiny shards of glass.

It’s over. For now. 

By Clementine Page 9Bt