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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>May</strong> 9 <strong>2017</strong> 35<br />
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Ellesmere College Te Kareti o Waihora<br />
Ellesmere College is a friendly, familyfocused<br />
school, with a caring, inclusive<br />
culture. Our aim is to have engaged<br />
students who are enabled to excel. We<br />
enjoy a strong learning<br />
partnership between<br />
students, parents,<br />
Whanau and staff and<br />
we are proud of the<br />
great support we have<br />
from our community.<br />
Learning innovation<br />
at the College is<br />
strengthened by the strong school values<br />
of respect, integrity, success and empathy<br />
and these qualities support our high<br />
academic achievement and personal<br />
excellence. Our courses develop the<br />
skills required by our community and give<br />
students the foundation for future success<br />
in this rapidly changing world.<br />
Thirty kilometres from Christchurch, we<br />
benefit from easy access to urban facilities<br />
and from the community strengths of our<br />
rural environment. We have close links<br />
with primary and tertiary organisations,<br />
allowing positive transitions through all<br />
stages of education. Our facilities are an<br />
integral part of community life.<br />
Located in the rural township of<br />
Leeston, Ellesmere College is a<br />
co-educational state funded Decile<br />
8 school with almost 600<br />
students from Years 7 to<br />
13 and our three main<br />
contributing primary<br />
schools are Leeston<br />
Consolidated<br />
School,<br />
Southbridge<br />
Primary<br />
School and Dunsandel<br />
Primary School.<br />
The College has a<br />
proud sporting and<br />
cultural history and<br />
frequently produces<br />
results that are usually<br />
associated with<br />
much larger schools including national<br />
titles. Academic results are consistently<br />
high with many students gaining<br />
Excellence and Merit Endorsements and<br />
Scholarships. In 2016 we were the top<br />
Decile 8, state co-educational school for<br />
NCEA Level 2 achievement.<br />
The College has a strong pastoral support<br />
system that is based around four Whanau<br />
groups: Rata, Rimu, Kowhai and Totara.<br />
Class sizes in Years 7 to 10 are usually in<br />
the mid-twenties while senior classes are<br />
often much smaller.<br />
Ellesmere College occupies a spacious<br />
seven hectare site that includes facilities<br />
for cricket, athletics, tennis, netball,<br />
rugby and football. The buildings consist<br />
of numerous classrooms together with<br />
specialist rooms<br />
for teaching<br />
science,<br />
agriculture,<br />
technology, art,<br />
music, drama, a full sized gymnasium,<br />
a modern library and we have currently<br />
embarked on an exciting Master Plan<br />
rebuild programme.<br />
Ellesmere College is an inclusive school<br />
and aims to meet the learning needs of all<br />
students.