Nor'West News: July 03, 2018
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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