SKC 1st XI Boys Hockey

The SKC 1st XI Boys Hockey team played their final game for the season last Monday night in Timaru. 

They tied with TBHS Colts 2 all, finishing the 2020 season a brilliant 3rd equal.

After 5 years playing for SKC Zach Dickie and Thomas Ballantyne played their final game for us. 

📷: Kiri Ballantyne

SKC Senior A- North Otago Netball Premier Grade 3rd Place

 Congratulations SKC Senior A — 2020 North Otago Netball Premier grade 3rd Place!

First XI Hockey Girls- Runners Up

Congratulations to our First XI Hockey Girls who made the final in both of the competitions they played in! 

At the North Otago prizegiving they picked up the trophy for being top of the table after the first round, and Trish Chikowore picked up Player of The Year for the North Otago competition. 

Well done girls! A big thank you to Carrie Bleach and Paul Alden for your support and effort with this team over the season. 

SKC White Wins North Otago Netball Division 1.2

Congratulations SKC White — 2020 North Otago Netball Division 1.2 champions!

We have now had a team win this grade 4 years in a row! 

A big thank you to coaches Lauren Parsons and Tina Souness for your time and effort during the season. 

Principal's Comment

Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

It feels like only yesterday I was welcoming students back to what we all hoped would be a 'normal' term 3 and now here we are at the end of it! While the term has presented its fair share of challenges with the reemergence of Covid 19 and our having to re- engage with Level 2 measures, on the whole, it has been a very productive and heartening term for the college.

Our Year 9 enrollments for 2021 are extremely healthy with our expecting 95 year 9 students in 2021 as of today's date. Tournament week was very successful with outstanding performances by our teams. The singing festival, while virtual this year and with smaller choirs, nevertheless managed to engender much house spirit and house debating got underway.

 

It has also been wonderful to see sporting codes complete their winter seasons under what have at time been difficult circumstances. 

Today we welcomed the First XV from St Thomas of Canterbury for the final interschool rugby match of the year. We also had a St Joseph's under 12/13 team playing their under 12 team which added another fun dimension to the day. Last week I had the pleasure of watching the trap shooting between the two schools where we had a successful teams event. Mock NCEA exams finished today. A big congratulations to the senior students for their dedication to these.

All and all amid the blossoms, the sunshine and the last day of term, the St Kevin's College world is looking pretty good! Have a wonderful term break.

May God bless you.

Ngā mihi Nui
Paul Olsen   

SADD Committee

Check out this fantastic bunch of students who represent our SADD Committee. 

SADD stands for Students against Dangerous Driving, and they are a student-led organisation who empower young people to make smart decisions on New Zealand roads. 

This year our SADD committee has been working on a collaborative project with Waitaki Boys and Waitaki Girls, coming together to design a billboard stating one of the principals they promote as a student led organisation.

Using the theme of “No distractions”, a billboard was designed at each school, with each being put on a rotational display on a billboard outside the Oamaru Police Station.  

This billboard has been funded by fundraising across each of the schools as well as Waitaki Road Safety and is planned to be put up by the end of the year.

Well done to all of you for promoting such great messages!

High Performance Class- NLP Training

Recently our High Performance classes were lucky to have Kate Finn come in and share her expertise. 

Kate is a NLP Practitioner, Timeline Therapy Practitioner, Master Hypnotherapist and has also been a Registered Nurse since 1996.

Neuro-linguistic programming is a method for modelling excellence. Kate covered off many topics with our athletes including cause and effect/self responsibility; language patterns for success; mantras for individual body language; warm up focus; visualisation; grit versus talent; and limiting beliefs in performance. 

Kate’s mission is to help people through NLP learn more about the beauty of the human mind and the power of change that is within all of us. She certainly equipped our students with many strategies for achieving their own best outcomes. 

How great is it to have this level of expertise right here in our own community! Thank you Kate!

Singing Festival 2020

A highlight of the Cultural calendar in Term 3 is the annual Singing Festival. Due to Level 2 Covid-19 restrictions it was held a little differently to what we are used to, however there was still an amazing show of talent on display! 

A big thank you to our judges Rebecca Hyzl, and cultural prefects from WGHS Grace Ballantyne and WBHS Lochlan Cowles.

Well done to our winners:

Top Conductor

Scarlett Smith

Top Pianist Accompanist

Alexis Cuaresma

Winner Junior Girls

Noa Smith

Winner Junior Boys

Riley Little

Winner Duets

Leyanne and Drewbert Monoy

Winner Song in LOTE

Bethan Ardouin

Winner Senior Girl

Isabella Phillips

Winner Senior Boy

Ethan Downing

Winner Group

"Trainwreck" (Mekeisha Hurley, Alyssa Colina, Riley Little and Bethan Ardouin)

Top House

Whyte

Placings of Choir performances:

1st  💛 Whyte 

2nd 💚 Clancy 

3rd  💙 Treacy 

4th  ❤️  Magee

Exam Week

Kia ora 

This week is assessment week at St Kevin's College. The senior school is well engaged; they can study in the library and classrooms between exams.

Please ensure everyone signs in at the school office if they are here outside of set exams.

School times during the day are a little different to fit with exam start and finishing. The junior school knows the details.

School starts and finishes at normal times. Buses run as normal.

On Friday 25th last day of term 3 St Thomas of Christchurch is here for the annual rugby exchange.

The school will be allowed to watch the rugby which starts at 1 pm and dismissal for the holidays will be at the end of the match. 

Have a good week.

God Bless.

The Senior Management Team

Debating- St Thomas's Interschool

Well done to our debating team Bethan Ardouin, Rhea Ratgali and Alex Houston who took the win at the recent St Thomas' interschool.

The moot was ''That NZ should keep its borders closed until there is a vaccine for Covid-19".
St Thomas' were affirming, and St Kevin's were negating. There was some very interesting discussion and debate. 

SKC won 260 -241. 

Well done to all who took part.

2021 Rugby Scholarships

Family. Integrity. Respect. Excellence.

St Kevin's College is a co-educational secondary school based in Oamaru with a strong rugby history. We are offering boarding scholarships for talented rugby players in 2021.

We have excellent sports facilities, including three playing fields, an indoor gym, a multipurpose outdoor floodlit training surface, and a weights room.

Our Rugby Programme combines academic school study with specialist rugby coaching, providing students with the opportunity to reach their full potential both academically and physically through the High Performance Sports class. There are also pathways into Heartland and Provincial rugby.  

We strongly feel that rugby is about teamwork and respecting your mates. Not only do we want you to be a good rugby player, but we aim to develop well-rounded individuals.

For more information and applications please contact Justin Fowler, Head of Rugby and Director of Boarding at jfowler@stkevins.school.nz

Highlanders U18 Selection- Watson Tuapati & Lenny Varu

A big Congratulations to Watson Tuapati and Lenny Varu who have been named in the Highlanders U18 camp for 2020!

The squad will assemble on the 27th of September and play against the Crusaders U18 squad on the 2nd of October 💥.

Awesome effort boys!

📷: Jaimee Trainor

More netball success!

A big congratulations to Zaria Kira who was selected as a Talented Player at the Otago Southland Junior Netball Tournament!

Both the Year 9 and 10 A teams finished 11th in their grades. 

A great effort Zaria! Well done girls!

📷: Rachel Fowler

Netball Successes!

A big congratulations to Year 12 pupils Tegan Souness and Jasmine Emery who were named as talented players in the A grade of the Otago Southland Senior Secondary Schools netball tournament last week. 

Also well done to Annie Metcalfe who was selected in the Senior North Otago Netball team, playing at the Hanan Shield tournament in Ashburton last Sunday. Annie was also named as the team's Developing Player.

📷: Jaimee Trainor

St Thomas's Interschool 2020

St Thomas' came down for our annual Interschool on Thursday 10th September. The weather played its part until the hail, thunder and lightning timed it nicely for the halftime for the football game!

The results were:

Junior Rugby            

SKC 46  STC 21

Basketball Top 5       

SKC 94 STC 89

Basketball Junior      

SKC 53 STC 77

Football                    

SKC 2 STC 4

Debating                  

SKC won 260 -241

St Thomas' will be down again on September 25th with their 1st XV,  U13 and possibly U12 rugby teams to take on an Intermediate age team.

Thank you to Sarah Clapperton for the photos.

Burns Memorial Art Exhibition (50th Anniversary)

Congratulations to the following SKC students whose artworks were selected to exhibit in this year's Burns Memorial Art Exhibition (50th Anniversary) to be held at the Forrester Gallery.

Come along, enjoy and support this amazing exhibition of North Otago art student talent. 

Y9K Sculptures
Hana Davies, Ian Mangubat, Cassidy Rawson, Rylee Hollmaby, Mia Cant, and Scott Warwood

Y11 Paper Cut Sculptures
Fergus McMullan, Ash McFarlane, Lester Cavinta, Alysha Melicio, and Joel Carter

Y12 Painting 
Isabella Hanning

Y13 Painting
Millie Coutts, Eliza Baster and Lucila Mino.

The exhibition runs from Saturday, 12th September until Sunday 18th October 2020. Open Tuesday through Friday 10am - 4pm. 

Weekends & public holidays 1:30pm - 4:00pm. 

Free admission, koha welcome.

Year 9 Sculptures

Year 9 Sculptures

Year 11 Papercut Sculptures

Year 12 and 13 Paintings

Year 13 Painting

House Badges for Sale- Home & School Fundraiser

Show your house pride!

House badges are for sale at $9 each from the school office.

These are also a great gift for present and past house leaders.

This is a fundraiser for the Home and School.

Which badge would you buy?

Principal's Comment

Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

This has been another busy week in the school's calendar with our fitting sports photos, an inter school with St Thomas', inter house debating, meetings of the Home and School and various Boards, the Maths M Cat and the NZQA summary reporting all into one week. To say Friday is welcome is an understatement!

Staff and students have had a very hectic term trying to fit in as much sport and culture as Alert Level 2 allows and in striving to give as many opportunities to students as possible. This week I would like to recognize the role of our prefects in this endeavor. 

Being a prefect is a privilege and it brings a great deal of mana, but it is also oftentimes a thankless and stressful task. At this time of the year in particular, when prefects are often dealing with mounting school work, applications to tertiary institutions or jobs, the inevitable Year 13 realization that they are soon going to have to stand on their own two independent feet, and exam pressure, the gloss of being a prefect and having to cope with that additional workload has well and truly worn off. Think how much more stressful it is when all of this is happening amid a pandemic and all the unpredictability that goes with it. Not only have prefects had to shoulder their own loads in these last weeks, they have also had to be role models to the rest of the school, lead with patience and kindness and be called upon by management to pitch in when things change as they abruptly do these days.

Our prefects this year have been exemplary. They have been the calm duck on the top of the water while furiously paddling underneath. They have continued to work tirelessly on the Ball Committee, in coaching sport, in representing their school, in organizing house activities, organizing assemblies and Mass, working in the hostel, working on the student council and in mentoring younger students. This week I would like to thank them profoundly for all that they do. You are fine young people whom we are very proud of.

May God bless you.

Ngā mihi Nui
Paul Olsen

Otago U20 Rowing Squad Selections

A big congratulations to Aaron Maxwell for his selection in the Otago Under 20 Rowing Squad.

April Linares-Fontona was also selected as a non travelling reserve, but has since been included in the team. For a 15 year old this is a remarkable achievement! 

All the best for the upcoming rowing season!

You can read about Aaron's perspective in this article from the Oamaru Mail:
https://www.oamarumail.co.nz/sport/super-shocked-to-make-team/

URGENT - DISTURBING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT

We have received reports of a disturbing video that has been circulated on social media sites including Facebook, TikTok and Twitter. Netsafe has reported that it has been removed from Facebook and other social media sites are in the process of removing this video. However, there is a significant amount of discussion on these social media platforms and this could be just as upsetting to young people.

 
The following information is from Netsafe on how to approach this and other disturbing online content:

· Our Online Safety Parent Toolkit is a wider framework for helping parents navigate online safety with their young people
· For some whānau, parental controls may be an appropriate solution to help filter out graphic content
· If students would like further support they can contact Youthline on free text 234 or call 0800 376 633

If you think your child has viewed the video or is in some way upset by the ongoing discussions they may see online, please do not hesitate to contact Mat Harris (mharris@stkevins.school.nz) who will provide further advice and support.

Winter Tournament Week Results

Well done to all our teams that competed in Winter Tournament Week last week. 

Here is a summary of the results:

The Girls 1st XI Hockey won the silver medal at the South Island Championship Tournament in Dunedin.

The Boys 1st XI Hockey finished 8th at the South Island Championship Tournament in Dunedin.

Netball finished 9th at Otago Southland Senior Secondary Schools. A big congratulations to Tegan Souness and Jasmine Emery who were selected as Talented Players for the Netball South Talent ID programme in the A grade competition.

The Boys First XI Football team finished 6th at the Timaru Football Experience Tournament.

The Girls First XI Football team finished 7th at the Girls Football Tournament in Dunedin.

The U15 Boys Rugby Team competed in a series of games in Invercargill. They won 2 of 6 games. 

A big thank you to all coaches, managers and parents for your support- we couldn't do it without you!

Principal's Comment

Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,

This week we have all been reminded of the importance of understanding the fundamental principles of learning as we have watched with delight how well our students have done on the sports fields, on retreat and in the myriad of learning activities they experience here at the College.

Tournament week has been a great success with many students achieving personal bests and teams consolidating their weeks of training with good wins. It is a relief to have been able to get students to Tournament Week in this year which has seen so many of the traditional sporting opportunities taken from them. I would like to thank those coaches and staff who have made this possible.  

Those staff not on tournament spent the day on Monday unpacking the new guidance from the Teachers Council around registration and in the process had many rich conversations about teaching and learning in our school. We traversed the roles and responsibilities of teachers in this process and looked at how our systems link with our overall aims.

Yesterday the Year 13's enjoyed a retreat day with the Catholic Youth Mission Team. This was a chance to take a break from the worries of NCEA and focus on the important aspects of living a rich and fulfilling life.

Learning can take many forms, whether we are learning to use power tools, play a new game, write an essay, kick a goal, make friends or cope with disappointment. As I look around the College and see the wide range of experiences our students are having as they prepare for adulthood, I am extremely proud.

Have a wonderful weekend.

May God bless you.

Ngā mihi Nui
Paul Olsen

 

SKC Youth Group

Today our Youth Group had one of their catch ups. They do this on Tuesday and Thursday at lunchtime in the Redcastle. Thank you to Mrs Esther Dupu for leading this group!

If you would like to head along for some food, chocolate and friendship anyone is more than welcome!

Success at NZ Cross Country Challenge- Max Yanzick

A big congratulations to Max Yanzick who competed in the NZ Cross Country Challenge, held in Dunedin at the weekend.

Max earned himself a Silver in his individual race and a Gold in Team Points.

New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition- Fergus McMullan

Congratulations to Year 11 student Fergus McMullan who was highly commended in the Year 11 competition in the 2020 New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition for his poem Uniform!

Well done Fergus!