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Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 2 <strong>2016</strong><br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 19<br />
Pupils have week in Wellington<br />
DIAMOND <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
School’s year 7 and 8 Kereru<br />
class spent the first week of<br />
this term in Wellington on<br />
camp.<br />
Highlights included a<br />
tour of parliament and an<br />
audience with Speaker of<br />
the House David Carter,<br />
workshops at the MindLab<br />
and making an OnTV news<br />
programme at CapitalE. The<br />
class also loved the meals out,<br />
the trip on the cable car to the<br />
WINNERS ARE GRINNERS: Heathcote Valley School’s Sophia<br />
Clarke and Mt Pleasant’s Lucy Sawyer (front row) celebrate<br />
their win with other speech finalists. <br />
THE BAYS Cluster annual speech contest<br />
was held at Our Lady Star of the Sea two<br />
weeks ago. Speech finalists from bay area<br />
schools came together for the inter-school<br />
Space Place and an afternoon<br />
in Te Papa.<br />
Meanwhile, Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong>’s<br />
Kotare class enjoyed<br />
their long-awaited school<br />
camp at Living Springs.<br />
The class had fun<br />
orienteering, trampolining,<br />
playing mini golf, long<br />
games of tag, archery,<br />
riffle shooting, scaling the<br />
bouldering wall, swimming,<br />
horse and tractor riding and<br />
animal feeding.<br />
competition where one person from each<br />
school spoke for three and a half minutes.<br />
The winner in the year 5/6 group was<br />
Lucy Sawyer from Mt Pleasant School<br />
INTERACTION: Joel and Evie feed the donkey at Farm Park.<br />
Year 5 and 6 speech finalists<br />
Hannah Wylie, Redcliffs – Homework<br />
Amelie Wink, Sumner – Learning: Better in the<br />
classroom or online<br />
Alex Cutforth, Our Lady Star of the Sea – Liam<br />
Malone<br />
Charlotte Palmer, Heathcote Valley – Sailing<br />
Lucy Sawyer, Mt Pleasant – Deforestation in Indonesia<br />
(winner)<br />
Years 7 and 8 speech finalists<br />
Zack Waite, Redcliffs – My top 5 character strengths<br />
are better than yours<br />
Jayan Goldsworthy, Sumner – Whaling<br />
Petra Musinszk, Our Lady Star of the Sea – What<br />
you can achieve when you put your mind to it<br />
Sophia Clarke, Heathcote Valley – The Children of<br />
Syria (winner)<br />
Isla Joyce, Mt Pleasant – Palm oil<br />
Speeches bring schools together<br />
with her speech on Deforestation in Indonesia,<br />
and the year 7/8 category was Sophie<br />
Clarke from Heathcote Valley School<br />
with her speech The Children of Syria.<br />
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