The Star: June 29, 2017

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Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka
Hillmorton High School
Students’ ‘open’ attitude
sets them in good stead
Currently our Board of
Trustees is reviewing
our strategic direction.
As part of this and
our involvement in
Positive Behaviour
for Learning (PB4L)
we are assessing our
current school values
by considering what
qualities we are looking
for in our students
and staff. Some of this
work was done last
year as we completed
our Education Brief for
the Canterbury Schools Rebuild
programme. Students on the
Ann
Brokenshire
Senior School Council
told us that the most
notable quality our
students develop at
Hillmorton is that they
are “open”. What a
marvellous quality to
have. People who are
“open” (open to learn,
open to new ideas,
open to other ways of
thinking and doing…)
are sought after by
employers in futurefocused
areas.
According to the
Forbes magazine the most
important qualities employers
Composer’s work has first airing
www.hillmorton.school.nz
seek are basic team work,
problem solving, the ability to plan
and prioritise, and the ability to
communicate verbally.
Hillmorton students being “open”
gives them a great platform
on which to build those other
desirable qualities. I am convinced
that our focus on embracing
difference and community within
our diverse student population
ensures that our students are
well placed to live and work in a
diverse and rapidly changing world.
They are set to help “create better
futures” for us all.
Ann Brokenshire
PRINCIPAL
Performers tackle big issues
With a theme “Behind Closed
Doors, #ourfight4purpose”,
Hillmorton Stage Challenge
students chose to explore some
hard-hitting social issues about
what some people go through
“behind closed doors” on a dayto-day
basis: family pressures,
loneliness, healthy and unhealthy
relationships, and alcohol use
and/or abuse.
Their performance provided
solutions by working together and
communicating to help each other
as a community to overcome
these issues and get them out
from behind closed doors.
Awards of Excellence for
Soundtrack, Choreography, Stage
Use, Performance Skill and Visual
Enhancement were received and
the team can be justifiably proud
of their efforts.
Equally, our Year 7 and 8
students can be proud of their
performances on stage that same
night and again, they received a
number of awards!
Both these events involve large
teams of students – performers,
back stage team, student leaders
and of course staff who work in
support. We are really proud of
you all!
Kurumi Mori is a talented musician and
Year 12 international student studying
at Hillmorton who is venturing into
composition!
She has been working on a composition for
French horn and piano which recently got its
first airing.
Mr Antonio Dimitrov, a member of the
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and an
itinerant brass teacher at HIllmorton, played
Kurumi’s piece for the first time rehearsing
with Kurumi accompanying him.
Mr Dimitrov said the piece was excellent and
he was most impressed.
It’s not every day that you get to have a
professional musician play your composition!
Kurumi Mori, right, with brass
teacher Antonio Dimitrov.
CUP
AVAU FILIMAUA
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OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF
Avau Filimaua, Year 9 at Hillmorton, is one of the talented and
passionate young rugby players competing in the UC Cup who
the University of Canterbury is proud to back. With its partners,
the BNZ Crusaders, it is supporting up-and-coming leaders on the
field, who also excel in the classroom and contribute to their local
community.
Students dig in for the
greater good at quarry
For the second
year running, Year
9 students recently
took time out to
undertake some
social action at
Halswell Quarry.
Supervised by
the park rangers,
this year they
successfully got
more than 400
plants in the
ground.
The “Big Day
Out” – one of our
cross-curricular
learning episodes
in the Middle
School (Years
7 – 10) coincides
with Arbor Day and
Matariki.