What A Circus

Y9 Hostel students were treated to a trip to the circus last night and had a great time!  What a nice way to end their first year at the College.

Wednesday Equals Competition Day

Wednesday was competition day for our Y9s, with Bridge Breaking, a film competition and of course the always popular Y9's Got Talent at which Mr Nyika and Mrs Dooley had the task of judging!  First place went to the amazing dancing trio of Leyanne Monoy, Johanna Alegado and Maria Nichole Bautista, Cassidhe Harrop and Ethan Downing sang their way to second and Ella Cochrane presented a dramatic piece from Harry Potter for third.  Fantastic!

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Girls Cricket In Safe Hands

The Cunninghams have the edge in girls cricket with River and Amber (no relation!) scoring spots in Otago representative teams.  River has been named in the Otago U15 Girls team and Amber had her debut for the Otago Sparks last weekend.  She was featured in the Oamaru Mail last Friday, and the Otago U15 team head to Wanganui in January for the Festival of Cricket, so exciting times ahead!

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Middleton Action Day Two

The warm weather is continuing for our campers at Middleton and they're certainly getting use out of the inner tubes from Advantage Tyres!  

B Day For Activities Week

There weren't chestnuts roasting on an open fire, but reindeer biscuit baking in the Food Technology room!  Our Y9s are on 'B DAY" of their Activities Week with baking, bridge building and bowling on the schedule this morning.

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Hot Start At Middleton

It was a hot start for campers at Middleton yesterday so they were glad to be able to enjoy the water.  

Graduation Dinner

A final farewell for our graduating class of 2017 was held at The Manor Estate on Saturday evening, when our newest batch of past pupils gathered with staff and family at the Graduation Dinner. Deputy Mayor for the Waitaki District Mel Tavendale was the guest speaker for the evening, delivering them an inspiring challenge as they head off on their next life chapter. Thank you Mel for joining us for the evening. Thank you also to Mr Nyika and the team for arranging such a wonderful event! There were plenty of special family photos celebrating the occasion and we wish all of our graduates every blessing for their future paths.
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Toasty

With such warm weather for the last weekend in Hostel students enjoyed a day at the beach, topped with some marshmallow toasting.

Y10 Camp Hits The Road

Our Year 10 students are ready and rearing to hit the road for camp!  The forecast for the week is excellent so makes for some great memories.  Have fun team!

Y10 In Action At The PU

 As promised, our Year 10s in action at the Junior Performance Unit on Friday

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Principal's Comment

Kia ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College

This week staff have been busy completing, junior reports, preparing for our year 10 camp and year 9 activities week as well as welcoming the fresh faces of our 2018 intake to the College. As part of the induction program, Mr Ryan and I  helped students link themselves into the computer network and explained our 2018 BYOC (Bring your own Chromebook) initiative. The reason for requesting Chromebooks is to eliminate the need for mobile phones to be routinely used in class.  For junior students,  Chromebooks have been shown to be the most cost effective device for school.

Today the catering staff held a farewell morning tea for Mrs Pauline Orr. Pauline has worked in the College kitchen for over 23 years and her loyalty and commitment to serving our community has been second to none. We wish Pauline every happiness and blessing in her retirement.

On Saturday evening staff and caregivers will join with our Year 13 leaver's to celebrate their Graduation. The dinner is the final formal event for the cohort that joined us as Year 9 students back in 2013. We wish them every success in their next endeavours and look forward to keeping up with their exploits in years to come. I would like to formally acknowledge those families who are ending their day to day connections with the College as their last child graduates. I have appreciated your support as we have worked together to educate your sons and daughters. All our parents can be proud of the fine young people we have heading out for a GAP year, joining the work force or undertaking further training or study. May the Kevinian Special Character that has shaped your time with us, be your guiding compass in life.

May God bless you all this Advent Season
Paul Olsen, Principal

Junior Performance Unit

Creativity and practice were put to the test today when our Y9 and Y10 classes presented their Performance Unit haka and routine in front of judges Kalas Taukamo, Tivinia Misiloi and Ms Walshe.  The standard was set high from the onset so well done to everyone!!    Congratulations to our 2017 winners 9K and 10C

Stay tuned next week for photos from Y10!!
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