Posted: Wednesday September 5, 2018
At the recent 39th Artarama Prizegiving held on 18 August at the Aigantighe Art Gallery, two of our students came away with overall prizes, out of all the entries from local schools throughout South Canterbury.
It is great to see our Arts students out and about, providing entertainment at a number of local venues.
Thank you to the staff and students who gave up a Sunday morning to help clean up our local coastline, and in the process, bagged a trailer load of tyres, plastic and scrap metal.
As part of Engineering Week, on 15 August, the senior ANTS group and other senior scientists travelled to Christchurch to visit Dynamic Controls which is a manufacturer of electric wheelchairs.
Over the past two terms, 10MF and 9Totara have been working on Science Fair projects, investigating topics of interest.
The Thomas House annual ski trip to Roundhill is an eagerly anticipated event on the hostel calendar.
We were very fortunate to have renowned historian, Professor Glyn Harper visit our school on Wednesday 15 August.
The 135th Waitaki inter-school was played in cool damp conditions in Timaru on Wednesday the 29 August. Timaru emerged as clear cut winners 9-4 in the overall exchange.
Posted: Friday August 10, 2018
We enter the new term with new staff, new students, and a new inter-school. Term 3 also brings opportunities to find new success as work in and out of the classroom culminates. It’s the Term when effort invested in the previous two really makes its presence felt.
