Western News: September 25, 2018

30 Tuesday September 25 2018
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WESTERN NEWS
highlights
Burnside High School
Culinary Champions
Congratulations to Maggie Carroll and Liza Khorozova who
are now National Culinary Champions having won the National
Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge 2018, held recently at
the Manukau Institute of Technology.
Our team competed against seven regional winning teams,
coming away with gold medals. They had to prepare, cook and
present, four individually plated portions of an entrée and four
portions of the main course within 90 minutes.
The entrée had to contain fresh New Zealand grown tomato as
the principal component of the dish. The main course portions
had to include at least three fresh New Zealand grown
vegetables, one of which had to be a potato. The protein
component was produced from a Waitoa chicken breast.
Tomato Entree
Tomato tart with fresh tomato and basil salad, manuka smoked
tomato foam with goats cheese accompanied by a rich tomato
sauce.
Chicken Main
Chicken breast filled with broad bean farce on truffle potato
puree with petite crumbed sausage, seasonal vegetables
served with jus and tarragon cream sauce.
Golf Success
The Burnside High School Golf team came a very respectable
3rd in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Golf Final, on
Monday 3rd September, in Palmerston North.
Juliana Hung has been selected in the New Zealand Golf Team
to participate in the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympics from
6 - 18 October, with the team departing for Argentina on 3
October.
If you are keen to follow Juliana's progress in the competition
you can do so through the NZ Team App, plus there will also
be daily highlights packages on Sky and Prime in the evenings.
You will find the NZ Team App in the App Store under NZ
Team.
(Left to right) Liza Khorozova, Maggie Carroll.
Governor General
visits the school
This term, Burnside High School was lucky enough to have Her
Excellency the Rt Hon. Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor General
of New Zealand visit our school. This began with a welcome
from our Kapa Haka group, Head Students and Senior
Leadership.
She visited a selection of classes in our very successful Visual
Arts department followed by a senior Hospitality classroom.
An interactive discussion took place on the ‘Into Motion’ hui
(@intomotionnz) which was a conference based around
gender equality held at Burnside High School last term.
Altogether, the visit was a success and we hope it gave
Her Excellency an interesting look into Burnside High School
culture.
Music Success
Term 3 has seen an incredible series of musical
achievements on the local and national stage. At the ARA
JazzQuest competition Burnside High School Big Band
won a Gold Award and the “Best Big Band” title for a fifth
consecutive year. Our Junior Jazz Ensemble and Funk
Band also won Gold Awards.
RAQS (Hijiri Yamamoto, Claudia Crosland and Lixin
Zhang) reached the National Final of the NZCT Chamber
Music Contest and won the KBB Award, a huge
achievement in this highly competitive field.
Our senior choirs took part in a day of workshops and a
concert under the guidance of renowned American Choral
Director Jo-Michael Scheibe. Later, they competed at
The Big Sing National Finale where both Bel Canto and
Senior Chorale won Gold Awards with Bel Canto also
picking up the Tour Time trophy for “Best Performance of
a Classical Work”. Malestrom once again won the regional
Barbershop Chorus contest and go on to compete at the
National Finals in Tauranga.
Our Concert Band and Orchestra are now National
Champions, both ensembles having won their class at the
Wellington Band and Orchestral Festival. The Concert
Band and Junior Concert Band also won Gold Awards at
the CWSTMA Wind Festival in Christchurch.
The finale to our busy term will be “The Rat Pack”; a
tribute to the songs of Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean
Martin performed by our multi award-winning Big Band
with 20 piece string section and vocal soloists from the
Specialist Music Programme. This concert is being held
at The Piano, 7.00pm on Saturday 29th September and
is sure to sell out so get your tickets quickly from the
student office.
(Left to right) Hijiri Yamamoto, Lixin Zhang,
Claudia Crosland.
(Left to right) Hiroki Miya, Hayato Miya, Juliana Hung,
Amy Weng.
Mathematics success
for Burnside High
In May this year 1100 top Year 12 and 13 Maths students from
throughout the country sat the preliminary paper for the
New Zealand Senior Mathematics Competition. From this
large group the top 15 students in the country were selected
to take part in the final at Victoria University in Wellington
on August 17th. Two of the top 15 were from Burnside High
School: Robin Wan, Year 13, and Ethan Ng, Year 12.
The final consisted of a 4 hour paper of very challenging
mathematical questions. After the papers had been marked
the top 3 place getters were announced. Ethan Ng was
placed second in this very prestigious competition. This is
an outstanding effort, especially considering that Ethan,
at age 13, was four or five years younger than the other
finalists. Congratulations to both Robin and Ethan.
(Left to right) Shonagh Lowry, Bayley Anderson,
Gray Ryburn, Her Excellency the Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy,
Dom Wilson, Piper Pengelly, E Wen Wong.
(Left to right) Robin Wan, Ethan Ng.
Table Tennis National
success
The New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Championships were
held in Hamilton this year. Our Boys team won the Boys' Open
Teams title again this year, defending their title from last year.
Our Girls team came 3rd in the Boys' Open Teams Grade,
after losing to our Boys' team in the semi-final. This was the
only game our Girls' team lost, as they beat all the other boys’
teams in the competition.
(Left to right) Alex Zhou, Sang-Yong Park,
Zak McKellar, Samuel Li.
Burnside High School | Greers Road, PO Box 29 677, Christchurch 8540
Telephone: 358 8383 | Website: learn.burnside.school.nz