FROM THE PRINCIPAL, L INDA TAME 22 MARCH 2019

Tēnā koutou katoa

Our hearts go out to the people of Christchurch after last week’s horrific events. As a Kāhui Ako, we are choosing

to support the Tamai Kāhui Ako (Linwood), and our school is sending messages of aroha and small donations to the Linwood College Student Council and staff. All schools in the Bay had a Red & Black mufti day to show our support.

Kindness is a GBHS value which has overwhelming student, community and staff support. Let’s take the time to be kind to one another!

Home and School AGM All are welcome! Wednesday 27th March in the School Library.

Strike for Climate I am extremely proud of our students who organised the Golden Bay Student Strike 4 Climate. The Earth Guardians did a fabulous job organising a safe and meaningful event. Thanks too, to Takaka Library and Takaka Police for their support.

Arts Council Values Poster Competition This year we have formed a student Arts Council, and they are running a competition to design a poster for our values. We encourage students to participate.

Feedback on swim sports Thank you to the two parents who sent me feedback after last Goldie’s request. We are beginning planning for 2020 events so please email me if you have any feedback. linda.tame@gbh.school.nz

Athletics Sports A huge thank you to all those students and staff involved in organising the Athletics Sports. The GBHS programme is enormous, and this year we saw increased participation. I want to especially thank Dan Padial, Cherie Chamberlain and the Sports Council. Thanks also to all of the parents and community who came to watch and support.

Kōrari – information about 2019 School Boards’ of Trustees elections An information meeting is being held in the GBHS library on Tuesday 26th March from 8pm. This meeting is for anyone in the Bay interested in being on a Board, and will be run by the School Trustees Association.

Ake ake kia kaha

Ngā mihi Linda

NOTICE OF AGM The Home and

School Association for

GBHS would like to advertise that

their AGM will be held on

Wednesday 27th March

in the school library at 7pm.

All Welcome.

The AGM will then be followed by a Home and School

Meeting.

TERM ONE & TWO 2019 CALENDAR

25 March ................. BOT meeting

26 March…………….School Trustees info evening

27 March ................. Home & School AGM

28 March– 1 April…NZSS AdventureRacing Champs

29 March ................. Yr 7 Fair 3.30– 6pm

3 April ....................... TSS Mountain Biking

3 April……….Wednesday; school closes 2.15 pm

5 April ....................... Goldie, Mufti Day

8,9,10 April .............. Yr 7& 8 Sailing

9—16 April ............... Waitomo Caving Trip

12 April .................... End of Term One

Easter and Anzac Day in the Holidays

27 April– 5May ...... Torpedo 7 Hillary Challenge

29 April .................... Term Two Begins

1 May………Wednesday; school closes 2.15 pm

2 May ....................... Yr 7& 8 Immunisations

9,10 May…Queen Charlotte Exchange (hosting)

10 May ..................... Goldie

13– 17 May ............. Bully Free Week

15 May…… .Wednesday; school closes 2.15 pm

17 May ..................... Pink Shirt Day

17 May ..................... Cross Country

Students Of The Week 15 March

Kye Childs and

Imogen Harris

For outstanding leadership of Student Strike 4 Climate

School Fair Come and see our amazing School

Fair Golden Bay High School Hall

Friday 29th of March 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Raising money for Year 7 school camp Included in the Fair are:

Cupcakes and cupcake decorating Haunted house Tea and Coffee

And many other fun activities See you there!

Thank you so much to Home and School for purchasing medical weighing scales for the Youth Health Nurse. Accurate scales are an essential item in assessing students BMI. I really appreciate Home and School supporting this service for our students. Caroline Jones, Youth Health Nurse

Netball training has begun!

Wairua Warrior Adventure Race Wairua Warrior is a yearly obstacle course event held at Cable Bay Adventure Park just outside of Nelson which attracts racers from all over NZ. Teams, individuals and Elite racers can enter. Golden Bay teams included CrossFit Mohua, ITM Takaka and Golden Bay Community Health.

Most impressive result was Golden Bay High School student and CrossFit Mohua member 14 year old Oliver Gray, who came first in the Open Mens Individual 12km in a time of 1.20.36 His Dad Ben Gray came 3rd in the same race; 4 minutes behind Oliver.

A fantastic and inspiring achievement was another GBHS student, Joshua Scotland, completing the event after suffering a broken neck in 2015. He has religiously attended Crossfit for over 18 months and has made astounding progress in his strength and fitness. (submitted)

climate strike

Westpac Rescue Helicopter Fundraiser

This group of Year 8 girls started their William Pike Challenge Community Service hours with a really successful fundraiser. They organised and held a bake sale for the

Westpac Rescue Helicopter outside Fresh Choice last Saturday.

The bake sale was a huge success, with many people simply donating money without buying any baking. Plenty of others sampled the delicious treat the girls had made too.

One grandfather from Auckland asked the girls if he could take their photograph because he was so impressed by how the youth in Golden Bay want to reach out and help others. He was hoping to inspire his grandchildren up in Auckland by this!

The girls raised a whopping $931.70 and plan to travel to Nelson to hand this over in person during our Staff Only Day this Friday.

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION FUNDED TRANSPORT SERVICE

Only students eligible for the Ministry of Education funded service are allowed on to the buses.

Students must only use the bus that is assigned to them which is based on their primary home address.

Refer to the School Transport web page for Ministry bus eligibility rules: https://www.education.govt.nz/school/running-a-school/school-transport/sta-eligibility/

Students that are eligible have been notified by the bus company.

Golden Bay Coachlines

Outdoor Movie Night Friday 29th March Rec Park Centre

Food and Drink available to purchase from 6:30pm

Movie starts at 7:30pm Come up to Rec Park and enjoy dinner and a

movie under the stars.

Gold Coin Entry - proceeds going to Mohua Social Services.

TAKAKA BADMINTON CLUB Season Starts Tuesday

19th March

Tuesday 7-9pm GBHS Gym

Thursday 9.00-11.00am Rec Park Centre

All players welcome.

Club racquets available.

Enquiries Kerry 5257007

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Above Left: The Year 12 Hospitality students, as part of their Safe Food assessment, made Sushi for the teachers.

Summer may be coming to an end, but that music still plays on...

Takaka's Village Green will host a free, all-ages music gig featuring the finest in Golden Bay musical talent, on Saturday 6 April, between 4-7pm.

An eclectic assortment of local, homegrown talent has been assembled, with 5 piece girl pop band Switch, and pop-rock band Fairly Local co headlining the bill

alongside Pulp Funkshun. They will be joined on stage by Charlotte Miller, Stella Molloy and Louis Bowker Gibbard, Malaika Hollis and Kyla Lusty. Motueka’s The Jess Tibbs Trio, plus Waimea College's Krystal Hollis and Nayland College's 3's A Crowd will also be performing.

What: Rock the Bay When: Saturday 6 April, 4-7pm Where: Village Green, Takaka (wet weather: GBHS hall) Cost: Free

Photos left: "Co-operative Learning in the Maths classroom. Year 8 students are working together to solve mathematical problems in a quiz that requires them to work together, use a variety of strategies and run fast!"

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Caving-middle earth Last Saturday me and seven other students went down middle earth cave with Mr Stevenson, Ms Wilkinson and Mr Mackenzie. When I woke up on Saturday morning it was pouring with rain and we thought caving wasn’t going to be on, but the weather turned out alright on top of the Takaka hill. It took us four hours to abseil, squeeze and climb our way down to the lunch spot, then four hours out jamming our way to the sun light. Over all we went 150m down under the ground! Thank you Mr Stevenson for taking us on such a cool adventure. By: Rosie

Orienteering – Sunday 7th April at Canaan Downs. GBHS is a member of the Nelson Orienteering club so all students get club rates – only $5 per student. Non-members Adults

$15, maximum $35 per family. The Murray family are organising a variety of courses to suit all abilities. Registration from 10am. Starts from 10:30-12noon. Course closure 2pm. BYO food and water. Make a day of it and take the family to Canaan. Info: www.noc.org.nz/event/canaan-downs

The Girls Team: Jen Sampson , Shaye Oates(captain), Marie Sampson and April Ma’a The Boys Team: Kai Dodson, Tomo Clere (captain), Ryan Gray and Kodie Dodson-Herron Both teams placed overall second in their respective team categories.

The South Island Secondary Schools Adventure Racing Championships, Gore

Thursday lunch time last week the NBS van

was packed with eight year 12 athletes,

two drivers, an absolute multitude of

race gear, copious food supply, tents for

all and a trailer with eight competition

mountain bikes. The weather from Takaka

to Lewis pass was wet and foul. However,

then it cleared up and the next four days

were very pleasant.

Competition day, Saturday, began at

6:30am in pitch black darkness for the

start of the first section; a 9km

mountain trek navigated through dense

bush on doubtful walking tracks. Many

teams got into difficulties and required

organisers’ assistance. Fortunately, our

girls team were map reading spot on but

the boys team at one stage had the

unenviable job of crawling through gorse

along what they laughingly say was an old

pig track to get back into the game; with

a loss of three competition points. The

boys then recovered magnificently to

power through the rest of the competition

in style. Meanwhile the girls

team were steadily progressing through

the 30 km of mountain biking, then the

kayak section, a portion of the second

7.3 km trek, finally the abseil to finish

with four minutes to spare at the 5:15pm

cut-off time. Unfortunately, the race

director gave any late teams coming in

before the cut-off an untimed allowance

to go and do the abseil and record an

extra

competition

point. This

cost our girls team an equal first place

position. The boys team gained a deserved

second place finish in their category.

The round trip was 28 hours driving with

the team time taken up with many, many

word games of "Mafia " (an

incomprehensible game to adults) a lot of

banter and laughing, some dubious singing

and stop overs at Dunedin's steepest

street, Moeraki Boulders and Hanmer

Springs hot pools.

Home tired, but very satisfied with their

efforts at GBHS bus bay at 6:30pm Monday.

(Submitted)

Left: More photos from the SISS Adventure Racing Champs In Gore.

Far Right: Gus McKean representing Linwood and Canterbury. Our Red and Black Student mufti day raised $1036.60 - fantastic! Above: The card we are sending to Linwood College, hand painted by our Arts Council.

The report by the Tomorrow’s Schools Independent Taskforce Our Schooling Futures: Stronger Together \ Whiria Ngā Kura Tūātinitini was released in December 2018. The Independent Taskforce is now very keen to receive feedback from as many people as possible to help complete their final recommendations. Public consultation on the report is now open and we really encourage school staff, board members, PTA members, par-ents, whanau and the wider school community to have their say on the future of our schooling system…. -The Taskforce will be holding public consultation meetings around the country, starting on Thursday, 14 February and fin-ishing on the 27th March. We really encourage everyone to come along to these events and find out more about the report and its proposals. The full schedule is now available on the website (venues will be added for events as they are confirmed) https://conversation.education.govt.nz/tsr - An online survey which canvasses opinion on each of our 32 recommendations is now available and will remain open until 31 March 2019 https://consultation.education.govt.nz/tsr - Postcards: for students, families and anyone that just wants to briefly ‘have their say’ on a recommendation or the full report. Postcards will be available at the public meetings. - An 0800 for Oral submissions will be available from 11 Feb. Call 0800 FOR TSR to leave your thoughts on the future of our schooling system. - Formal written submissions about our report can be sent to: tomorrows.schools@education.govt.nz Consultation closes 7 April 2019. We want everyone to have their say and we want to do our very best to listen carefully to what is said. From the Independent Taskforce Bali Haque (Chair), Barbara Ala’alatoa, Mere Berryman, John O’Neill and Cathy Wylie