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admin@fiordlandcollege.school.nz THURSDAY 17 AUGUST 2017 Phone: 03 249-7819

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Respect yourself and others will respect you

- Confucius

SPEECH FINALS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Last week students participated in a very

wide range of activities, across just as wide a range of locations. The collage later in

the Newsletter gives you a small glimpse of the range of undertakings. I think that every student who took

part, be they from Year 7 or Year 13, will tell you what

a tremendously worthwhile experience they have had.

Thank you to the parents who assisted. Thank you to the staff who organised and led these activities. Thank

you to the students, who stepped out of their comfort zones and showed the true meaning of our school

values. Effort, respect, curiosity and integrity were

demonstrated through student conduct over the week. I thoroughly enjoyed my week away with the Year 12

group on Stewart Island.

What fantastic opportunities our students are exposed

to. I know of nowhere else in the country where every student, at every year level, has the chance to

challenge themselves through the school curriculum in this way. And not just once, but twice. This certainly

sets us apart from other schools in New Zealand. Fiordland College is definitely a place where all can

thrive.

E haere rā

Lynlee Smith

Congratulations to Lucy Holmes-Crombie who

won the Northern and Western Area Primary Speech Finals yesterday.

Lucy’s speech was about “child abuse” and has qualified

her for the Southland finals.

TRI TOURNAMENT

Next week on Tuesday 22 August we have the annual

inter-schools’ event between Fiordland College, Northern Southland and Aparima College.

Travel uniform is black trackies with one of the

official school tops. This is also to be worn at

the afternoon tea and Prizegiving. No hoodies or other tops please. Thanks and good luck.

ST JOHN’S NATIONAL COMPETITION

Well done to Jacob Lewis who travelled to

Whanganui in the last break to compete in the NZ St John Cadets Finals.

The four day finals were contested by 12 regional

teams of six, and Jacob’s team WON, against the best

in New Zealand.

The team’s skills were tested over a huge range of disciplines including first aid, communication and drills.

SUBJECT SELECTION

Wed 06 September 2017

Fiordland College

2018 Subject Selection

Time: 7.00pm—8.30pm

Year 10 in B8 Years 11/12 in Gym

UPCOMING EVENTS

FiNSCoL AGRIKIDS COMPETITION

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ADULT LITERACY

Do you want to get better at reading and writing, or

does someone you know have so much trouble they can’t read this?

The Adult Literacy Rural Trust has free one-to-one

coaches who can help you for half an hour a day by

phone or video conference. The Trust also has some easy and fun online practice software you can use from

a library computer, a school computer or from home. We are free

We have experienced coaches

We have one-on-one coaching

We coach

- in the comfort of your own home or - by phone if you don’t have a computer

Contact Wendy

Tuesday – Friday 9.00am to 2.00pm

Phone 0800 891339

Also in a New Zealand final was Zoe Denly who

teamed up with her former school team to place 6th in the National finals of Agrikids. Agrikids is

a school version of “Young Farmer of the Year”.

Zoe’s team won the Otago/Southland Champs to qualify

for Nationals where they had 3 days of intense competition in Fielding.

Last week Mr Excell mentioned our new FiNSCoL

brochure in his weekly Te Anau School Newsletter

comment. I would like to draw this to your attention now

too and reiterate what Mr Excell said. Each of our

families will receive a copy of the brochure next week.

The brochure is an outline of FiNSCoL. Over the next six months FiNSCoL will be more visible and our goals more closely worked on. Because of this, now is a good time to summarise what FiNSCoL is and what the vision is for our group. Our schools plan to work more closely together to meet our goals which are based around boys’ writing, transitions and the Arts. With more collaboration between schools we hope to achieve better outcomes for students while having a more cohesive education system in our region. Throughout the nine schools we have between 70 and 80 teachers. With this number of professionals working together the level of skills and knowledge of the teachers is deep and broad. Working together will allow this expertise to be shared across the region.

HOMEWORK CENTRE

Next Wednesday 23 August we are re-establishing a

Homework Centre.

Please see flyer on page 4 for full details.

YEAR 7/8 NETBALL TOURNIE

Over the past two weeks our Year 7 and Year 8 Netball

teams have both competed in the Southland Primary Netball Championships.

Our Year 7s finished 23rd against teams from every

other primary school and college in Southland.

The Year 8s came 34th in their tournament.

The feedback from both coaches was very encouraging

about the girls’ teamwork, attitude and positivity.

Y7 Caped Crusaders Yr 8 Green Lanterns