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8 Tuesday <strong>July</strong> 3 <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

highlights<br />

Mr Holstein<br />

Kia ora and thank you to<br />

everyone who attended our<br />

Open Evening on 15 May. We<br />

trust you enjoyed your time<br />

with us, learned more about our<br />

school, and gained an insight<br />

into Burnside High School. I am<br />

grateful to the 250 volunteer<br />

student guides who were proud<br />

to showcase their school to you.<br />

The Burnside High school ethos is expressed in our<br />

vision, mission and values. We provide an excellent<br />

learning environment that makes a positive difference to<br />

people’s lives. We pride ourselves on being a successful<br />

school that is highly regarded in the community for<br />

its high-quality, values-based learning and specialist<br />

facilities. We are a larger school with a community feel,<br />

offering a wide range of opportunities in a safe, friendly<br />

atmosphere, and with high standards and expectations<br />

of ourselves and our students. We base our culture on a<br />

vision of personal excellence and caring for others. Our<br />

key values of Manaakitanga - being respectful, Mana<br />

- having pride, and Rangatiratanga - striving to excel<br />

guides the way that students and staff act, feel and think<br />

about themselves and about others.<br />

Burnside High School has an outstanding reputation for<br />

its ability to ensure that students achieve very well. We<br />

do this through our focus on providing a high-quality,<br />

co-educational learning environment. We are delighted<br />

that, over the next few years, there will be a major<br />

redevelopment of our campus.<br />

Our size and all the advantages that this brings is a point<br />

of difference and is what makes this decile 8, state, coeducational<br />

school special. The seven significant features<br />

that make Burnside High School a leader of learning are,<br />

in no particular order:<br />

• We are a centre for academic excellence with an<br />

emphasis on high-quality teaching practices and<br />

outstanding achievement.<br />

• We are co-educational and multi-cultural, reflecting the<br />

social reality of our nation and our world, and allowing<br />

young female and male students opportunities to<br />

develop learning relationships based on absolute and<br />

genuine respect and equality.<br />

• Our roll of around 2,500 students enables us to<br />

provide an extensive, diverse and specialised<br />

curriculum that caters for and challenges students of<br />

all abilities.<br />

• We provide an exceptionally wide range of cocurricular<br />

opportunities (music, drama, dance, clubs<br />

and sports) for students to enjoy, learn new skills, to<br />

make friends, take leadership roles, and achieve at a<br />

high level.<br />

• We are a caring school where students are known and<br />

supported as individuals in a positive, inclusive and<br />

well-resourced learning environment.<br />

• We value effective relationships with parents/whanau<br />

and the wider community to improve outcomes for<br />

students.<br />

• We are innovative and responsive to the evolving<br />

nature of society through continuous and rigorous<br />

review and evaluation of our systems, practices and<br />

procedures.<br />

These seven factors contribute to the obvious pride that<br />

we all have in our school.<br />

Burnside High School, in partnership with whanau, has<br />

the proven ability to assist students develop the skills,<br />

attributes, and attitudes to make a success of their lives<br />

in the workplace, in the community, and as members of<br />

supportive and loving families. I believe in, and am proud<br />

of, Burnside High School; and feel privileged to be its<br />

principal.<br />

Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tūohu koe me he maunga<br />

teitei, ko Aoraki anake<br />

Pursue excellence, and if you are to ever bow – let it only<br />

be to a lofty mountain, Aoraki.<br />

Phil Holstein,<br />

Principal<br />

Burnside High School Music Department<br />

Term 2 has seen a remarkable number of impressive<br />

achievements by our talented musicians on the national and<br />

regional stage.<br />

The Burnside High School Big Band and SMP Jazz Combos<br />

embarked on a week-long tour of the North Island, performing<br />

at the Manawatu Jazz Festival and the NZSM (Wellington)<br />

Jazz Festival where they won a total of 19 separate awards,<br />

including Best Big Band and Best Combo at each festival. An<br />

outstanding achievement.<br />

At the ARA Jazz Quest Combo Competition this success was<br />

repeated with SMP Combo 1 won “Best Combo” and a further<br />

five individual awards were won.<br />

Dr Dave Lisik, Head of Jazz Theory and Composition at the<br />

New Zealand School of Music writes: “What this doesn’t<br />

illustrate, given that Burnside’s jazz groups routinely have<br />

successful individuals and groups winning awards, is how<br />

the Jazz Programme as a whole continues to improve. Huge<br />

congratulations to everyone!”<br />

At the regional NZCF Big Sing competition, Burnside’s choirs<br />

were once again in the spotlight and received a number of<br />

coveted awards:<br />

Junior Performance Choir<br />

• Outstanding Recital by a Junior Choir<br />

Aurora Voices<br />

• Outstanding performance of a composition with a Maori or<br />

Pacifica text<br />

• Outstanding performance of an Early Music composition<br />

• Outstanding Recital by a Treble Choir<br />

Bel Canto<br />

• Outstanding Recital by a Girls’ Choir<br />

Senior Chorale<br />

• Outstanding performance of a New Zealand Composition<br />

• Outstanding Recital by a Mixed Voice Choir<br />

• University of Canterbury School of Music Award for<br />

best performance of a New Zealand work at the Big Sing<br />

Canterbury and West Coast competition <strong>2018</strong><br />

Burnside entered a total of 13 groups in the annual NZCT<br />

Chamber Music Contest this year, two of which were selected<br />

for the district, and subsequently, the regional final: RAQS<br />

(Hijiri Yamamoto, violin; Claudia Crosland, Alto Saxophone;<br />

Lixin Zhang, piano) and The Rota Trio (Ashley Leng, violin;<br />

Emica Taylor, flute; Tetsuya Yamada, piano). Maggie Ma (cello)<br />

and Juliette Ma (violin), both Burnside students also featured<br />

in the final as part of a composite school group.<br />

RAQS were successful in winning the Southern Regional Final<br />

overall, an outstanding achievement in this highly competitive<br />

contest.<br />

The Mendelssohn Trio (Lily Doak, Samantha Chiang and Cherry<br />

Inazumi) won a KBB award at the District Final of the contest.<br />

Ashburton Exchange<br />

Just over 130 students travelled to Ashburton to compete<br />

across seven sports and in 13 matches at the annual<br />

Winter Sports Ashburton College Exchange. The Sports<br />

Exchange has been a major and popular event on the<br />

school calendar for many years. In the past over 200<br />

students normally compete but this year the wetter<br />

weather played havoc with the grounds forcing football<br />

and rugby matches to be cancelled.<br />

Hayden Cox (Boys Hockey)<br />

Congratulations to Year 13 student Lixin Zhang, winner of last<br />

year’s Wallace Piano Competition, on the release of his first CD<br />

recording on the Rattle record label and for the stunning CD<br />

launch concert he performed at The Piano Centre for Music<br />

and the Arts.<br />

Finally, congratulations to Keira Jonkers (Year 11) and Dylan<br />

Jonkers (Year 9) for reaching the regional final of the<br />

RockQuest competition with their bands “Better than Bacon”<br />

and “Class Disruption”.<br />

Term 3 sees the national final stages of all three competitions;<br />

best wishes to all students and staff involved.<br />

Andrea Maro (Aurora Voices)<br />

Back left to right: Maddy Randall-Davis, David Petch,<br />

Amy Boden, Liam Johnson<br />

Front left to right: Nick Pitts, Devin Min, Felix Backhouse<br />

(Individual Jazz Award Winners)<br />

The stakes are always high playing for pride and the<br />

coveted Ashburton - Burnside trophy. Ashburton College<br />

snuck off with after a close battle winning 7 - 5. Burnside’s<br />

strength this year was in hockey with both the boys and<br />

girls teams winning convincingly 7-0 and 8-0 respectively.<br />

Principal Phil Holstein took full responsibility for the loss<br />

and offered to walk home from Ashburton!<br />

It was a very successful exchange with both schools<br />

continuing to build a strong relationship through sport.<br />

Payton Anderson (Girls Hockey)<br />

Burnside High School | Greers Road, PO Box 29 677, Christchurch 8540<br />

Telephone: 358 8383 | Website: learn.burnside.school.nz

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