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16 • By Caitlin Miles Tuesday December 6 2016 CHRISTCHURCH South Intermediate have spent weeks travelling back in time as they prepared for their production of Time Lord, which showcased last week. There were 130 pupils involved in the production about three children exploring an old house and finding a game called Time Lord, which leads to them meeting a real Time Lord and journeying into the past. Teacher Kate Revell and a group of year 8 pupils altered the story slightly to suit the school and community. “We wanted to make some inside jokes about Christchurch and make it relatable to the school,” Miss Revell said. The children visited famous characters, Cleopatra, Beethoven and Al Capone. The production involved 13 weeks and time during the school holidays to perfect the dances, songs and scenes. Miss Revell said the whole community has been supportive of the production, from helping with the set to making costumes. The story ran for three nights and Miss Revell said the pupils have “owned it” every performance. As the pupils got ready for SCHOOLS Production travels back in time the production the garden club were busy working hard on making their community garden ready to open to the public this weekend. What began as simply a bare patch of ground has become a place full of fresh produce where pupils have been learning to grow plants and their skill level. The vegetables collected from the garden with fresh vegetables for use in the school’s cooking room. Members of the garden club recently received a school award for their dedication to recycling, worm-farming and composting. The effort put into creating fences from pallets and re-purposing chairs and desk frames in the garden design was also recognised. Teacher Margaret Calder has overseen the project. “We are really looking forward to showing people the fruits of our labours and hope that it will encourage others in our wider community to get involved,” Mrs Calder said. The project,will be open for all to see between 5pm and 7pm at the school grounds. There will also be home-made items for sale- many using the crops grown. SOUTHERN VIEW HISTORICAL: Pupils travelled to ancient Egypt to meet Cleopatra. They spent 13 weeks rehearsing for the show. GANGSTERS: Alana Topping played Teresa and Jake Walker played the notorious Al Capone in the show. HELP: Beethoven, played by Julius Hlavac needed a hand writing a song when Lord Emit, played by Sophie Hartshaw and Toby Hull, Amelia Kirkness and Lili Nicholl offered their help. EVIL: Sophie Hartshaw had to fend of warlocks – Myles Duggan and Phoebe Finnie. Dyers Road Landscape & Garden Supplies • Barks • Peastraw • Composts - we supply the best available • Aggregates - Chip, Round and Basecourse • Pavers & Schist products • Pungas • Decorative Stones & Landscaping Rocks • Trailer Hire first hour free with purchase • Bag & Bulk - pick up or delivered David, Carol & Mike We will deliver! SOIL AND HARDFILL DUMPING Phone: 03 384 6540 183 Dyers Rd, Bromley • OPEN 7 DAYS Weekdays 7.30am-5pm. Weekends 8.30am-3pm www.dyersroadandlandscapes.co.nz fabric house making European fabric affordable Wholesale prices direct to the public 140 Colombo Street Beckenham, Christchurch Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: 10am-4pm Phone (03) 365 0172 enquiry@fabrichouse.co.nz NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED! A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year www.fabrichouse.co.nz
SOUTHERN VIEW Tuesday December 6 2016 17 Academic Honours for 2016 Hosted at the majestic Isaac Theatre Royal a capacity crowd of 1200 celebrated the graduation of our Year 13 students. This special annual end-of-year event included the graduation of our “Class of 2016” along with speeches, music, and awards. School Dux (Cartwright Prize): Callum McInnes The Cartwright Prize for School Dux was awarded, by standing ovation, to Callum McInnes. Callum is a highly intelligent and motivated student, who has always demonstrated an impressive level of commitment to his studies. He was placed first in three of his subjects and second and third in his remaining two. In addition to his tremendous academic achievements Callum also embraced our school’s values and wider opportunities, such as being a member of our outstanding Jazz group ‘Blue Trumpet’ and winning the award for Jazz Musician for this Year. In 2017 Callum intends to study Jazz at the Ara Jazz School here in Christchurch. Proxime Accessit: Megan Williams Megan is an exceptionally talented and hardworking student, demonstrating a particular technical and creative ability across the Visual Arts and insightful and mature writing across her subjects. Megan placed first in three subjects and second in her remaining two. In 2017 Megan intends to study towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Achievements recognised at event Our school’s annual Achievers Evening is a wonderful occasion to celebrate the wide range of co-curricular achievements of our students, which include the awarding of our prestigious Arts Gold and Sports Blue Awards. The premier awards of the evening was the announcement of the highest achieving students in both the Arts and Sports. Artsperson of the Year 2016: Miriam Qualls Throughout her time at Cashmere High School, Miriam has been actively involved in the Performing Arts, including part of our successful Theatresports team, our biennial school productions, and regular Drama class performances. Miriam has also been a Drama Prefect, Court Theatre Ambassador, Coach for our junior drama students, and won our school’s “Best Actor” Award for 2016. In this year’s entry in the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival, Miriam’s skills were recognised with the Best Actress Award in the Regional Finals and an invitation to join the National Schools Shakespeare Production which will travel and perform in the home of drama, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Our school’s core values are Citizenship, Opportunity, Vibrancy and Excellence — known by the acronym COVE. As a school we actively encourage our students and staff to live out these values in our community. This was most recently displayed when our school community asked for non-perishable donations to support the people of Kaikoura after the major earthquakes. The huge volume of items donated were sorted, packed and transported to the affected area by several helicopter trips and then a van convoy to the NZ Army’s base in Culverden for distribution. This generous and kind work from our community reflects our own understanding of these Proxime Accessit Megan Williams and Cashmere High School Dux Callum McInnes with the school’s principal Mark Wilson. Sportsperson of the Year 2016: Billy Meaclem Billy is one of New Zealand’s most successful mountain bikers, having won a range of regional, national and international awards. This includes being placed second in New Zealand in the Downhill Open event. Billy regularly competes against senior men, including being placed fourth at the Rotorua Crankworx and fourth in the National Junior Men’s Series this year. Billy was selected as the youngest member of the New Zealand World Championship Team this year, with whom he competed in Italy, Andorra and Australia. He has been awarded an Inpsire Foundation Award for his success and was nominated for the Zonta Regional Sportsman Award. School’s COVE values swing into action difficult times and ability to think beyond ourselves to support others in need. www.cashmere.school.nz All Black Israel Dagg helps students plant one of the trees in Cashmere High School’s resurrected orchard. Orchard plan comes to fruition More than 60 years ago, before our school opened, the site was an orchard. This year students and staff organised for fruit trees to be planted on our school grounds. This new orchard will be a practical learning area for our Year 11 Agricultural class, as well as a source of fresh fruit for the school community. This proposal also has strong links with our school’s Sustainability Council’s good work (e.g. ecoDriver programme), and this year’s Year 10 Volunteer Army group. At the same time we received an invitation for three All Blacks — Israel Dagg, Lima Sopoaga, and Liam Coltman — to visit our school as part of their support of the charity CureKids, for which our student Abbey Lesson was an ambassador. So our school combined this visit to celebrate the planting of our new orchard and acknowledge Abbey Lesson who died early this year from epilepsy. Future Problem Solvers with teacher Leigh Barker and coach Sue Williams. Students dominate at problem-solving contest Cashmere students gained most of the individual and group awards at the New Zealand National Future Problem Solving contest in October. This demanding international competition requires students to think creatively to solve future problem scenarios or create potential future situations based on current issues and evidence. At the national competition Niamh Hollis-Locke and Robb Eastman-Densem qualified first and second in the scenario writing category, with Robb also qualifying in the individual performance problem solving section. Hannah Hudson placed second in the senior problem solving category, and our school’s senior team qualified second in the team problem solving section while our middle team also qualified in their age-group section. All those who qualify have the option of attending and representing New Zealand at the international finals in the United States.
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