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Sports - Rugby With the first round of the rugby season due to commence in ten weeks, enthusiasm levels are very high with over 75 students already registering their intent to play rugby for the college. Over the coming weeks we have a rugby muster – Wednesday, March 21 at 3.30pm. There will be an official weigh-in of all rugby players during week 6 & 7 – lunchtimes from March 8 until March 13. There will be a rugby coaches and managers meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, March 13 inside the Sports Centre. We are possibly in need of one or two assistant coaches and managers. If interested, please contact me on mobile – (027) 4861681 or e-mail sports@wsc.school.nz . Our winter programme will be discussed and finalised. Meanwhile, all students should be in pre-season training mode. The <strong>College</strong> 1 st XV coach, Semisi Tuigamala, is training all students interested in getting fit and wishing to play rugby for the college, 6pm each Sunday night at Coxs Bay Reserve. Peter McIntyre will also arrange a fitness schedule at 6pm each Sunday night at Coxs Bay Reserve. Peter McIntyre will also arrange a fitness schedule once he is back from Australia next week. Art Department <strong>News</strong> It was a sad beginning to the year without our dedicated colleague and friend Nici Green. Nici revived Art History in 2010 with a fully subscribed Level 3 class and followed this up in 2011 with a new Level 2 intake. This was a first for WSC. Under Nici Art History was on the move again. We loved her presence in the Dept. The contribution she made to expanding the study of Art for our students was immense. At our first Dept meeting of the year, Lily, Tori, Kirsty and myself reflected on her expertise, knowledge, strength and the amazing capacity she had to switch students on to learning. Like us, they had great respect, admiration and love for her. We miss her dearly. Once again the Dept had some wonderful results in NCEA last year. Highlights included: Level 2 Design, Painting and Photography: 57% of students who submitted for the 12 credit externally assessed folio gained Excellence grades with 85% being awarded either Merit or Excellence. Level 3 Design, Painting and Photography: 40% of students who submitted folios for the 14 credit externally marked folio gained Excellence against the decile 8 average of 21%. Tim Webby was awarded Top Scholar in NZ for Scholarship Photography. This is the second year in a row that Photography has been awarded this prestigious prize; an amazing achievement and certainly a first for the Dept. Congratulations to Tim for producing such a sophisticated, intelligently conceived and sensitively constructed submission.
Tim Webby’s Submission 4 Scholarships were awarded in Design with Hugo Christian-Slane gaining an Outstanding award and ranked 4 th in NZ. Hugo’s achievement was all the more meritorious as he did this as a year 12 student. Others to gain scholarships were Sally Bollinger, Tom Shore and Hiroto Takaoka. All four students produced original and beautifully executed illustration-based submissions covering a range of genres. Hugo Christian-Slane’s Design Folio Dyslexia Parents’ Support Group The first meeting of the Dyslexia Parent Support Group for 2012 is on Monday 5 March 2012, 7:30 pm, at 25 Jesmond Tce, Mt Albert. We hope you are able to come along and contribute to discussions, especially about the start of the new school year.
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