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:
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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.