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BRONZE – Pearl Flat “We had a meeting a couple of days before we left to discuss what food and clothing we should bring and to sort out who would carry what equipment. On the day we walked in the weather was sunny with patches of high cloud. We walked up the valley to the Aspiring Hut where we stopped for our lunch break. We then walked further up the valley which became more challenging as we passed through the beech forest. We emerged at Shovel Flat but carried on walking to Pearl Flat where we set up camp at the fork of two glacial rivers. Once we got our tents up and had cooked our meals we sat around the old campfire swapping stories and jokes. It was a lovely warm evening so we didn’t got to bed until quite late and those who were silly enough to leave their food outside during the night lost most of it to the possums!” Jack Beattie “I’m really glad that I have had this experience – I have got to know the people tramping with me, I have seen those wonderful views and explored a magnificent area. This is the just the first of many tramps – I can’t wait! I persevered throughout the trip and found it best to go at my own pace to conserve energy. I really enjoyed this expedition, particularly being out enjoying nature.” Nicole Batchelar SILVER - Kepler Tramp “We set off on our first silver tramp on the Kepler track, with a weather report of snow storms! Unfortunately for Tim Andrews he’d only brought one set of thermals. So, after a fine day’s tramping, and 45 minutes walking in the dark, we’d bunked down and had a good sleep. We moved out the next morning, into the steadily falling snow. During the day we tramped for four hours through a snow storm, between Avalanche huts on a mountain ridge! It was a hard tramp for some of us – a great character building experience’ according to the teachers! Even though this tramp was a bit more adventurous that anticipated, we had a great time, full of laughter – including a kilogram of mince, a burned mouth (not so fun!), the world’s first camping stove accompanying us, balloons, giant blisters and charades! Thanks very much to the teachers and parents that accompanied us. We all had a great time!” Alison Reid and Helen Prescott GOLD - Rees and Dart Valley (Final tramp, one step further to Gold) “By the second day we were missioning up a vertical hill which was covered in a foot of snow. Sometimes I wonder how we did it! Then on the third day we woke up to it snowing heavily outside. It was a tough decision to decide whether to risk the walk or stay in the hut. We layered on the woollens and took on the snow and we came out on top the best tramp of my life.” Jillian Macfie The Young New Zealanders Challenge of the Duke of Edinburgh Award is a programme designed to challenge young people to use their leisure time constructively and to become balanced individuals. Students may enter the award at 14 years at the Bronze level and work their way through the Silver and Gold levels. They may choose their own challenges within the categories of physical recreation, skill, expedition and service. 16 These awards are highly valued in the community as they show that a student has commitment, perseverance, a sense of adventure, the ability to organize themselves and, best of all, that they are balanced individuals. The awards count highly as qualifications in jobs, scholarship, university, polytechnic and halls of residence applications and are well worth having. This year over 80 students have participated at one of the three levels and we are thrilled to have eight students who have completed their Gold award – a first for Mount Aspiring College!
Central Otago Mathletics Competition This year two teams from each of Years 7-10 went to Cromwell College to compete in the Central Otago Mathletics Competition. Mathletics requires a combination of superb mathematics understanding, excellent computation and problem solving skills and the ability to work in a team. Some examples are given below - see if you can solve them! Our teams were pitted against the best from Dunstan High School and Cromwell College. We are proud of all our competing teams and would like to acknowledge the following great results: 1st 3rd 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd 3rd Year 7 Richard Macpherson Gabriel Schwarz Cody Tucker Ben Sherson (pictured right) Dylan Stock Nick Jackson Eachann Bruce Maddie Lysaght Year 8 Rohan Brash Alex Winsloe Lisa-Katie Rethwisch James Rowe (pictured right) Saasha Bruce Michael Jolly Cory Bryan Dominic Schwarz Year 9 Tom Sherson Michael Hammerich Anna Hogg Amy Kennerley Year 10 Sarah Cashen Lauren Wootton Melissa Buckingham Catherine Hart Shilo Gibson Katarina Schwarz Susannah Schwarz Hannah Lumsden Taken from 20<strong>06</strong> questions.... 1) 4 + 3 x 7 = 2) 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... ... + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 = 3) Which 3 consecutive square numbers add to 110? 4) Put mathematical symbols between these digits to make the equation correct - you can use x, +, -, or () 7 6 4 9 = 81 5) A jar contains 454 g of sugar. If 5 jars with sugar weigh 2.95 kg what is the mass of an empty jar? 6) Two numbers which are 7 apart have a sum of 37 and a product of 330. What are the two numbers? 7) Wurzles have 2 heads and 3 legs, Frumples have 1 head and 4 legs. In total there are 35 legs and 15 heads. How many Wurzles and how many Frumples? 8) Unscramble this geometric word: enclase Year 7 Champions Year 8 Champions Answers: 1) 25 2) 210 3) 25, 36 49 4) {7 + 6 - 4} x 9 = 81 5) 136g or 0.136 kg 6) 15 and 22 7) 5 of each 8) scalene 17
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Page 14: 2006 40 Hour Famine Leadership Camp
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Page 34 and 35: Mathew Bancroft competed in the Wor
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Page 38 and 39: 36 Our voyage on the Spirit of New
Page 40 and 41: Year 7/8 Netball Girls The 2006 sea
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Back: Nicola King, Hannah Steven Mi
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New Athletics Records 2006 Girls Ye
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Back: Sarah Lees, Anna Watson-Taylo
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Under 18 Rugby Team Back: Miles Top
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Senior ‘B’ Hockey Team Golf Cal
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Back: Sarah Lees, Tom Sherson, Mada
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Our Super Squad of four intrepid ad
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The Jazz Band have met to play jazz
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