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PAGE 12 Wednesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

BAY HARBOUR<br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Linwood<br />

College<br />

PERSONALISED<br />

PATHWAYS<br />

TO SUCCESS<br />

2018 Student Leaders: 1st Row: Vai Mariner, Crystal Mehlhopt, Jenna Hollis, Leeah Mullany, Sarah Moana Wooff-Smyth<br />

2nd Row: Eden Pettigrew, Adonai Schwenke, Anaru Gray, Cole Barrie<br />

3rd Row: Havana Aaifou, Thomas McHutchison, Sapana Kharal, William Paulden, Sean Robertson-Wright, Makayla Austin<br />

Enrolling now for 2018<br />

Principal’s Report<br />

Striking the Stage<br />

Kia ora koutou. Talofa.<br />

Kia Orana. Malo e<br />

lelei. Bula. Fakaalofa<br />

atu. Namaste and<br />

Kumusta. Greetings<br />

to our Community.<br />

Earlier in the year,<br />

I wrote about the<br />

principle of collaboration and its importance<br />

to our students as they prepare for the global<br />

world in which they will live their lives. This is<br />

because the global world requires effective<br />

interaction with others. IQ alone is not enough.<br />

Our Emotional Intelligence (EI) – also matters.<br />

I also discussed that we now know through<br />

neuro-science that IQ-smartness is not fixed<br />

but can grow. Effort makes us stronger. In<br />

schools this is sometimes called ‘growth<br />

mindsets’. For more information on this please<br />

see https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/<br />

I raise these points again at the end of Term 3<br />

as our focus even more tightly centres on<br />

our senior students’ success in their Yr 11-13<br />

Career Pathway and for the juniors, their Year<br />

7-10 Learning Pathway.<br />

Meet the Mayor<br />

Nineteen Linwood College students attended<br />

the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze and Silver<br />

Award Ceremony with the Honourable Lianne<br />

Dalziel, Christchurch’s Mayor. This prestigious<br />

event was held at the Mayoral Office.<br />

At Linwood College we want our students<br />

to have both the necessary NCEA success<br />

in knowledge and content-skills, and also<br />

leadership and employability expertise. IQ and<br />

EQ – the whole person. This is reinforced by the<br />

following seven qualities that NZ employers<br />

are essential for career development:<br />

1. Positive attitude<br />

2. Communication<br />

3. Teamwork<br />

4. Self-management<br />

5. Willingness to learn<br />

6. Thinking skills<br />

(problem solving and decision making)<br />

7. Resilience<br />

The message is that academic and social<br />

learning support one another in personalised<br />

pathways, career development and lifesuccess.<br />

This message is at the heart of<br />

Linwood College of <strong>2017</strong> and beyond.<br />

Finally, schools can be complicated places.<br />

If for any reason you would like to talk to me<br />

about anything, please contact the office so we<br />

can arrange this. My door is open.<br />

Ngamihinui – best wishes,<br />

Richard Edmundson - Tumuaki (Principal)<br />

We congratulate these students on their<br />

efforts and again thank Chris Allan from the<br />

Joshua Foundation for his mentorship and<br />

tremendous commitment to Christchurch<br />

youth.<br />

The Year 11 production, ‘<strong>Harbour</strong>ing Ghosts’ was a<br />

fantastic, eerie performance. Through this, students<br />

explored the healing of past mistakes.<br />

It was then the Year 12/13 classes' turn to take the stage.<br />

They tackled an adaption of Hamlet, ‘Ophelia Thinks<br />

Harder’. This was an extremely challenging performance<br />

which students handled with finesse.<br />

Stars in the Making<br />

In 2016, twelve Linwood College students<br />

acted as extras in ‘The Changeover’, a movie<br />

filmed and set in Christchurch’s Eastern<br />

suburbs.<br />

Prom Night <strong>2017</strong><br />

For many Seniors the <strong>2017</strong> ‘American Prom’<br />

was the highlight of the year’s social calendar.<br />

Magic was in the air and everyone was dressed<br />

to the nines - dancing the night away with<br />

flashing tambourines and Mickey Mouse ears.<br />

It was truly a special occasion, full of smiles,<br />

Based on a novel by Margaret Mahy and<br />

starring Timothy Spall and Lucy Lawless, this<br />

comes out in theatres on <strong>September</strong> 28.<br />

Get down and support our local talent.<br />

friendship and laughter and one which our<br />

students will never forget.<br />

Staff working at Twiggers said that it was<br />

a pleasure to be part of such an enjoyable<br />

occasion. They were extremely complimentary<br />

towards our students’ positive demeanor.<br />

ELL at the Zoo<br />

Photos: Daniel Chew Photography<br />

Front Row: Thor Russell, Jack Triggs, Damien Arps. Back Row: Ms Larisha Toomey, Makayla Austin, Aaron<br />

Skow, Jamie Hosking, Kyle Amer, Honorable Mayor Lianne Dalziel, Jacob Tait, Moahengi Ngauamo, Pritesh<br />

Nair, Joshua Galang, Orion Tipuna, Chris Allan (Joshua Foundation) Not present in photo: Jade Lindsay,<br />

Lilyanah-Rose Mato, Jordan Meaclem, Jakhaan Pitama-Dwyer, Piper Stewart and Gloria Sua.<br />

The Wonders of Science<br />

Ninety English Language Learning<br />

students gathered with excitement<br />

recently for their <strong>2017</strong> excursion to Orana<br />

Park. It was an unseasonably sunny day<br />

and the two busloads of students had a<br />

wonderful excursion.<br />

Science discoveries<br />

cause wonder<br />

and amazement<br />

for ‘Team Kea’, a<br />

class of innovative<br />

students from Te<br />

Waka Unua School<br />

who visited the<br />

College recently.<br />

Linwood College • Phone: 982-0100 • office@linwoodcollege.school.nz • www.linwoodcollege.school.nz

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