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