Pegasus Post: December 13, 2016
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14<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
PEGASUS POST<br />
Linwood<br />
College<br />
Learning pathways<br />
to the future<br />
2017 Student Leaders (Left to right, front to back): Havana Aaifou – Board of Trustees Student Representative, Vai Mariner –<br />
Deputy Head Girl, Sean Robertson-Wright – Deputy Head Boy, Thomas McHutchison – Head Boy, Makayla Austin – Head Girl<br />
enrolling now for 2017<br />
Message from the Principal<br />
Warm greetings to<br />
the Linwood College<br />
community. Kia ora<br />
koutou. Talofa lava. Kia<br />
orana. Malo e lelei. Bula.<br />
Fakaalofa atu. Namaste.<br />
Kumusta.<br />
It is with pleasure that am able to report to our<br />
community that Linwood College has had a<br />
most positive year.<br />
It has been a year of significant busyness<br />
reflecting the growth and positive nature<br />
of the wider environment: significantly<br />
increased academic achievement, community<br />
consultation for our redevelopment and<br />
whole-school rebuild, our third year of<br />
providing education at Year 7-<strong>13</strong>, curriculum<br />
and teaching changes for a connected and<br />
pathwayed curriculum, digital learning<br />
and the daily bedrock practices of positive,<br />
learning-focused relationships. At Linwood<br />
College the individual matters.<br />
Education is a vast field and terms<br />
like ‘modern’ and ‘innovative learning<br />
Six Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards<br />
This year has been an extremely successful<br />
year at Linwood College for many of senior<br />
students who have completed their Duke<br />
of Edinburgh Hillary Gold Award, a highly<br />
distinguished achievement and one which<br />
represents a culmination of many years of<br />
effort, both physically and mentally.<br />
Gold Awards were presented by the<br />
Governor-General of New Zealand -<br />
Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy<br />
environments’ and ‘21st Century learning’ are<br />
being regularly used in the media. Linwood<br />
is clear-eyed about the forms of education<br />
that work for our students. We are focusing<br />
on ‘flexible learning environments’ so that<br />
learning can be individualised and students<br />
see pathways for themselves that engage and<br />
inspire. It is not about ‘traditional’ or ‘modern’,<br />
but personalisation so the systems adapt to<br />
the learner, not the other way round.<br />
Common sense and formal research are<br />
united and very clear on the attitudes,<br />
skills and knowledge that lead secondary<br />
school students on to a successful postschool<br />
pathway, both in tertiary study and in<br />
employment, and it is the daily focus on these<br />
attributes, principally through our SEaRCH<br />
values – Service, Excellence, Respect,<br />
Curiosity and Honesty – that is at the heart of<br />
our school.<br />
Nga mihi nui and best wishes for the festive<br />
season and summer holiday.<br />
Richard Edmundson - Principal<br />
with Linwood College receiving more<br />
awards in <strong>2016</strong> than any other high school.<br />
Present at the ceremony, held<br />
in October were the following<br />
students: Fayreen and Mayreen Fualau,<br />
Jordan Meddings, Kesaia Rabuka, Boiser<br />
Raquel and Darney Read. Students have<br />
expressed appreciation to Chris Allan of the<br />
Joshua Foundation for guiding and supporting<br />
them through the process.<br />
<strong>2016</strong> Supreme Awards<br />
(Left to right)<br />
• Sam Kerr-Quinn – 25th Anniversary<br />
Commemorative Prize - Male student<br />
who has made the widest and most<br />
valuable contribution to school life<br />
• Karen Ligsay – Proximae Accessit for<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
• Easter Savelio – 25th Anniversary<br />
Commemorative female student who<br />
has made the widest and most valuable<br />
contribution to school life<br />
• Ruby Kerr - Dux for <strong>2016</strong><br />
• Navneet Narayan – I P Anderson Award<br />
for Leadership<br />
Sport and Physical Activity Awards<br />
Linwood College’s recent Sport and Physical<br />
Activity Awards ceremony was attended<br />
by our guest speaker Steve Gurney, who<br />
has won the Coast to Coast race a recordbreaking<br />
nine times.<br />
We would like to thank the Linwood<br />
Tristen Read –<br />
• Senior Sportsperson of the Year<br />
• Sportsman of the Year<br />
(with Dave Turnbull, Linwood<br />
College BoT Chairman)<br />
Easter Savelio –<br />
• Sportswoman of the Year<br />
(with Principal, Mr Edmundson)<br />
College community and Linwood College<br />
Board of Trustees for their continuous<br />
support as we continue to pursue sporting<br />
excellence.<br />
Top awards were presented to the following<br />
accomplished students.<br />
Kyle Amer –<br />
• Junior Sportsman of the Year<br />
(with Steve Gurney)<br />
Best Mixed Choir at the Festival of Voices<br />
Jennifer Merkin –<br />
• Junior Sportswoman of the Year<br />
Silver Award Winners: (left to right) Year 12s: Leeah Mullany, Eden Pettigrew, Tyler Austin, Thane<br />
Sergison, Vanessa Franklin and Year <strong>13</strong>: Tia Manawatu. Awards were presented by the Right<br />
Honorable Mayor Lianne Dalziel and Chris Allan DoE Coordinator - Joshua Foundation.<br />
Pasifika Programme<br />
This was the College’s first year in this festival<br />
which had thirty-two South Island choirs<br />
participating. We were thrilled to receive these<br />
Kapa Haka Competition<br />
awards: ‘Excellence in Cultural Expression’,<br />
‘Outstanding Duet’ as well as the overall ‘Best<br />
Mixed Choir’ award for the festival.<br />
This year a number of fantastic learning<br />
support networks have been put in place<br />
to support our Pasifika students. Activities<br />
included performing in SPAC PAC Polyfest<br />
in Term 1, speeches and Samoan Language<br />
Week in Term 2, the *Power-Up and U.C<br />
XL Pasifika programs in Term 3 and our<br />
very own Pasifika Awards Night in Term 4.<br />
(*Power Up – as seen in the photo above,<br />
is an after-school homework centre at<br />
the College also including students from<br />
other schools).<br />
En route to the <strong>2016</strong> South Island Kapa Haka<br />
Competition held in Nelson, our College<br />
students visited the Murchison Area School,<br />
performing to the very appreciative audience.<br />
Linwood College • Phone 982-0100 • Email: office@linwoodcollege.school.nz • www.linwoodcollege.school.nz