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