Ashburton Courier: February 13, 2020

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Ashburton College
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment
News
Issue 2
13 February 2020
Congratulations
First Whole-College Assembly for 2020
Held on Monday 10February, this event was acelebration of student
leadership, student involvement and focus for the year. Our Head
Students gave their first speeches to the whole College and student
leadership badges were presented toHead Students Poppy Kilworth,
Henry Chapman, Maria Costas and Kyle Cabangun; the Student and
House Executive members. Additionally, students are recognisable
by braids on their blazers –red forHeadStudents; redand blue sleeve
strips for Student Executive members; while House Captains have one
sleeve braid,intheir House colour.
Principal Ross Preece, saidthis assembly wasalways one to enjoy, and that it
wasapleasureknowing students at Year 10 level and three years laterseeing
them on the stage as College senior student leaders. Ross acknowledged
all who put themselves up for leadership positions, noting it takes courage
to do so, and he also encouraged the next layer ofstudents to think about
coming through forpositions.
This assembly is always significant incelebrating and acknowledging our
student leaders, and Ross referred also to the stringent Head Students’
selection process and the high quality ofcandidates who put themselves
forwardfor consideration, and forStudentand House Executiveroles.
The Head Students for 2020 then made their inaugural speeches to
students and staff.
Head Students 2020:
PoppyKilworth, Head Girl
Poppy reminded students they were in Day
41 of 2020, with 324 days left tomake special
memories, take opportunities, have experiences
and make friendships. She said that, at Ashburton
College, all this and more was possible, and she
welcomed new students and new staff, and
returnees. Continuing her wolf pack theme from
2019 she gave three‘pack pointers’for College life,
including:
1 choosing peers wisely, building people up,
not breaking down relationships,setting goals,
challenging yourself and talking to people you
don’t know.
2 treat others in the pack howyou want to be treated.
3 have fun, be inspired, get involved, don’t forget to have balance,
embraceeach day, test limits and aim high.
HenryChapman, Head Boy
Henry talked about failure and success, noting
that ayear ago he was sitting on the Chessboard
at Assembly and thought‘Ican do that’, and put
his name forward. He illustrated a life lesson
he had when deciding to enter the deer lifting
competition, saying no-one believed he could
do it. Comments were many –why? Then there
was reference tohis physique –too skinny, you’ll
snap, chicken legs, chicken wings. The challenge
was tochange negative comments into positive
action and he challenged students to consider
how tofind away to turn people’s negativity into
the positive.
Would failuretolifta202kg deer,manytimes,make himaloser? Consider
then, successful outcomes –how many times did Michael Jordan miss the
hoop,how manytimes were i-phones made thatfailed? Thelist can go on.
Henry said that every successful person ‘failed lots’. He asked what makes
us successful –ifwefail atest or exam are weafailure? Henry challenged
students to keep coming back, totry again, and to ask what you want to
achieveatAshColl.
In summaryHenryhighlightedthe truism thatthe only true failureiswhen
we stop trying,addingthatthe only person who needs to believe in you–is
you.
Meet this year’s AshburtonCollege StudentExecutive
2020 CanterburyRowing Championships
From student androwingcox HarrietLeverton
In mid-January, the Ashburton College Rowing squad ventured down
to Lake Ruataniwha to compete inthe above regatta. Anearly start on
Friday morning saw usleaving school by 7:00am and arriving at the lake
to rig boats at mid-day. The rowers took to the course in the afternoon to
familiarise themselves with the typical Twizel conditions (boiling hot and
slightly breezy!) in preparation foraweekend filled with racing.
Sponsorship Appreciations
Thanks to Lovett Family Farms, the rowing squad is luckyenoughto have
received newcaps forthe current and upcoming seasons.
These new caps pair upnicely with our new rugby-style jerseys for the
novices, kindly sponsored by Pearce Builders.
At 6:00am on Saturdaymorning, LakeRuataniwha wascovered in thick fog
which meant racing was on hold for two hours.This delay led to races still
goingat7:00pm. However, afterthis,Saturdaynightsaw asquad barbeque
forall the rowers,parents and supporters.OnSunday we managed to get all
racinginand cameawaywith someimpressive results as below.
Results were -
AFinals: 3rd placings
Boys’ Under 15 CoxedFour: TimConnelly-Whyte, MitchellTaylor,
Henry Wallis,Charles Savage,Jed Amos(Cox).
Men’sClubDouble: GedWall,with AshRowingclub member,
and former AshColl rowing studentHaxbyHefford.
4th placing
Men’sNoviceCoxedQuad: Matthew Pearce,Mitchell Taylor,
Henry Wallis,Tim Connelly-Whyte,Harriet Leverton (Cox).
5th placing
Men’sNoviceCoxed Four: Matthew Pearce,Mitchell Taylor,
Henry Wallis,Tim Connelly-Whyte,Jed Amos(Cox).
6th placings
Men’sNoviceCoxed Four ZaneCameron, Riley Harris, Charles Savage,
with Dunstan Rowing Club member, Harriet Leverton (Cox).
Men’sClub Coxless Quad: GedWall with AshburtonRowingClub.
members.
8th placings
Women’s NoviceDouble: MeaganBinnie,Isabel Wall.
Men’sNoviceDouble: Zane Cameron, Mitchell Taylor.
Men’sNoviceCoxed Quad: ZaneCameron, Riley Harris, Charles Savage,
Jed Amos (Cox).
Boys’Under 17 Single: GedWall.
BFinals: 1st placing
Men’sNoviceDouble: Matthew Pearce,Tim Connelly-Whyte.
3rd placings
Men’sClubSingle:
GedWall.
6th placings
Men’sNoviceDouble: Riley Harris,HenryWallis.
Women’s NoviceDouble: RubyLeverton, ClaudiaThomas.
Women’sNoviceCoxedFour: MeaganBinnie,RubyLeverton,
Claudia Thomas,Mia Chambers,Harriet Leverton (Cox)
Heats: 5th placing
Women’sNoviceDouble: LauraJensen, Mia Chambers.
7th placing
Women’sNoviceCoxedQuad: MeaganBinnie,RubyLeverton,
Laura Jensen, Isabel Wall,Harriet Leverton (Cox)
South IslandClub RowingChampionships
From student and rowingcox Harriet Leverton
In the last weekend of the holidays, the Ashburton College Rowing squad
again travelled down to Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel. Another early start
for the team meant aquick stop in Fairlie along the way following the
tradition of grabbing apie from the Bakehouse and of course there were
no complaints!
Once we arrived at the lake it was too windy to put up our supporters’ tent
and rig the boats. This meant no practise on the course for the rowers in the
afternoon. Throughout the weekend, white caps filled Lake Ruataniwha as a
result of strong winds, making racing a challenge, especially for the smaller
boats.
After a hard day of racing on Saturday, the squad earned themselves
tencrewsinthe AFinals and four crewsinBFinals.
The squad woke up at 5:00am onSunday ready torace. However, we had
to wait out the two-hour wind delay which meant all racesweretwo hours
later than scheduled. Despite aslow start tothe day and alate finish, we
came away with some impressiveresults.
These results were as follows (highlighting the College Rowers who were
in the boats):
AFinals: 2nd Placings
Women’s Under 19 CoxedQuad: Harriet Leverton (Cox).
Women’s Masters CoxedQuad: JedAmos (Cox).
Boys’Under 17 Single Sculls: GedWall.
5th Placings
Men’sClubCoxless Quad: GedWall.
Men’sNoviceCoxed Quad: Matthew Pearce,MitchellTaylor,
TimConnelly-Whyte, ZaneCameron, Harriet Leverton (Cox).
7th Placings
Women’s NoviceDouble:
Meagan Binnie,RubyLeverton
(pictured below, leftand right).
Men’sNoviceCoxed Four: Tim Connelly-Whyte, Mitchell Taylor,
Riley Harris, Matthew Pearce,Jed Amos (Cox) (pictured below, lefttoright).
8th Placing
Men’sNoviceCoxed Quad:
Riley Harris, HenryWallis,Parker Bradford,
(Dunstan Club rower), Jed Amos (Cox).
9th Placings
Men’sNoviceDouble: TimConnelly-Whyte,Riley Harris.
Women’s NoviceCoxed Quad: Meagan Binnie,RubyLeverton,
LauraJensen, Isabel Wall,Harriet Leverton (Cox).
BFinals:
1stPlacings
Men’sNoviceCoxed Four: Zane Cameron, HenryWallis,
Parker Bradford, (Dunstan Club rower), Isabel Wall (Cox).
Mens Club Single:
GedWall.
Men’sNoviceDouble: Matthew Pearce,Mitchell Taylor.
2nd Placings
Men’sNoviceDouble: Zane Cameron, HenryWallis
(pictured below, leftand right).
(Front row, lefttoright): Kyle Cabangun (DeputyHead Boy), HenryChapman
(Head Boy), WillowDiedricks (Student Representativetothe BoardofTrustees),
Jestena Raj.
(Middle row, left to right): Penny Stilgoe, Poppy Kilworth (Head Girl),
MariaCostas (DeputyHead Girl), Seluvaia Ratoul,Jacob Gray.
(Back row,lefttoright): IanTeves,LucyMoore, Jonty Small, Ocean Waitokia,
Ngakau Howell.Kotiti Patea.
(Pictured above,
lefttoright):
Harriet Leverton
(Cox), Isabel Wall,
LauraJensen,
RubyLeverton,
Meagan Binnie.
(Pictured right,
lefttoright):
Jed Amos (Cox),
Charles Savage,
Mitchell Taylor.
Photoscourtesy of SteveMcArthur-Rowing Celebration
Coming Events
February
14 College Athletics Prelims Day
16 New Zealand Schools’Triathlon Championships,Wanaka
17 PostponementDay:Athletics Prelims
Heats:
5th Women’s NoviceDouble: Isabel Wall,Claudia Thomas.
7th Women’s NoviceDouble: LauraJensen, MiaChambers.
7th Women’s NoviceCoxed Four: Meagan Binnie,RubyLeverton,
Claudia Thomas,Mia Chambers,Harriet Leverton (Cox).
Photoscourtesy of SteveMcArthur-Rowing Celebration
19 Orientation Day, Chessboard
26 CanterburyShowJumping,McLean’s Island,Christchurch
27 Athletics Finals day
28 Postponementday -Athletics Finals
29 SISS Tennis Championships, Timaru