newsletter 12 2013

Wellesley College Newsletter # 12 www.wellesley.school.nz

Y7 West Coast trip at Fox Glacier (photo Alan Doak)

Mrs Owen with Marcus, James, Aidan and Jack

Maxwell with his Junior buddy Oscar

Matthew (Senior Speech Competition)

Dear Parents, I hope this last newsletter of the year finds you well. Please note the key dates coming up over the next week (see page 11) In 2014 we will continue to publish a digital version only of the Principal’s Pen unless families specifically request the hard copy. This not only saves paper but the reproduction of the photos look so much better online. IMPORTANT Family Database Check and Wellesley Directory Update 2014 Soon you will receive an email requesting you to confirm or update your contact details electronically, this will help ensure your details are correct for the printing of the 2014 directory.

Prize Giving

You are all invited to attend our Years 4-8 Prize Giving to be held

in the Chilton Hall, Waterloo Rd, Lower Hutt. This is a bit

unusual but having our own hall still under construction, we have to go off site. There will be good parking on Waterloo Rd but please also note that you can park on Knights Rd and walk through the back gate into the school. I suggest you arrive and are

2 December 2013

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S PEN

seated no later than 8.50am as we will commence promptly at 9.00am. There will be a few rows of seats reserved for Year 8 parents near the front. Parents wishing to take up the opportunity to sit in these rows should be seated by 8.40am.

This is the formal occasion of the year. Our special guest, the Rev. Dr. Ellie Sanderson will lead us in prayer. School closes immediately after Prize Giving and although we expect most parents to be in attendance, normal school buses will be operating from Chilton. After Prize Giving, tea and coffee will be served in the foyer at Chilton for the leavers and their

parents.

Staffing 2014

After our self-review process which involved full consultation with staff, we have developed our staff structure for 2014 as follows: Y1 Yvonne Odinot Y2 Glen Jorna Y3G Alison Garland (AP) Y3C Carolyn Currington 4C Michelle Colley 4T Christine Trummer 5P Chris Parker 5S Veronica Stevens 6L Chevon O’Leary 6O Tony Orbell 6S Kate Sinclair 7/8D Sarah Dahlberg 7M Jon Mackie 7N Michelle Norton 7/8T Andrew Tait 8B Murray Blandford 8P Tim Parkes

Although there could be some minor changes to the configuration below, our support staff will be structured as follows: Anne Familton will continue her Reading Recovery role as well as supporting literacy in the Junior School. Eve Owen will continue her art role. Steve Girvan (DP), continues as Professional Development and Curriculum coordinator (including the promotion of higher order

thinking), Maths and Pastoral Care (incl. transport). Ross Hampton is Head of E-Learning. Garth Johnson is our ICT Manager. Mary-Anne Morgan will have her usual Music responsibilities and will be involved in Literacy Learning Support. Ruth Hooke continues her role in the Performing Arts. Darren Houston will lead our PE/Sports and Outdoor Education programmes. Ross and Steve will also have special responsibilities in the Year 7 & 8 classes. For example, both will be taking Senior Maths, thus ensuring we have eight teachers for six classes. The Middle School Maths programme will benefit from having an extra teacher and the assistance of a teacher aide. Jo Hawthorne leads our Science and Technology programmes. Teacher support will also be provided by Annick Geldermans, Sue Jones and Jackie Gray. Janice Meo will run our computer based SuccessMaker and Lexia Programmes, as well as taking a maths group. Jane Kent continues as our Librarian. Deirdre van Beynen has worked here both as a teacher and as teacher support. Deirdre will continue to teach alongside Yvonne Odinot in the Junior School. We have an excellent staff/child ratio and, once again, I’m thrilled with our capable line-up of staff. We are also fortunate to have very capable staff in the administration and maintenance areas of the school. Karen Reid is my PA, Hilary Fiennes is our Bursar, Margie Beattie is our Development Manager. Pam Graham is our Accounts Officer and Fiona Donnelly our Uniform Shop Manager. Anne England will continue to work as administrative support. Teresa Davidson is our Domestic Services manager and will be assisted by Rachel Seymour. Gerard Maahuis continues as Caretaker. Paddianne Neely continues as our Archivist.

The Hall/Gym/Chapel is making good progress and we are ‘out of the ground’. Otago Problem Solving 125 boys from Year 6 to 8 took part in the Otago Problem Solving Challenge. This involves five problem solving tests over the course of the


year with maths challenges ranging in difficulty. Here’s an example: Sasha’s teacher gave her a long list of French words and told her to learn 12 every day. After Sasha complained that she didn’t have enough time, her teacher said “OK, learn 9 every day —but it will now take you 6 days longer.” How many words were in the list ? After the five challenges, 37 boys scored Excellence, and 48 scored Merit. The names of the boys who scored Excellence are: Campbell Clarke, Henry Burton-Wood, Louis Schwer, Marcus Millad, Oscar Wilkinson, Thomas Watkins, Albie Humphries, Ciaran Sim, Connor McArdle, Edward Twomey, Harry Cook, Jin Dassanayake, Dalton Cameron, James Dunne, Louis Gradwell, Matthew Sutcliffe, Jack Maclennan, Jesse Richardson, Harry Williams, Theo Tressider, Christopher Bramley, Henry Chandler, Theo Hertzig, Edward Dunn, Hugh Morrison, James Cameron, Kristian Kielland, William Durkin, Cameron McMahon, Dougal Colqhoun, Ben Ross, Dominic Coffin, Arie Renner, Noah Adler, Callum Benfell, Ethan Henry, Toby Marks. Answer? By cutting down from 12 words a day to 9 words a day, clearly Sasha has to learn 3 fewer words on each of the original number of days. These remaining words will have to be learned over the additional 6 days when Sasha will be learning 9 words each day, making a total of 6 × 9 = 54 remaining words. Thus there must have been 54 ÷ 3 = 18 original days, and on each of those days Sasha had to learn 12 words, making a total of 18 × 12 = 216 words.

The Year 8s enjoyed a night tramp at the back of Days Bay with me recently.

Orientation Days At this time of year we are welcoming our next intake into Wellesley by having orientation days. They give our current boys a chance to host new boys and give the new boys an opportunity to meet some new friends. Orientation also gives new boys a chance to get to know the school so the transition to Wellesley can be as smooth as possible.

Speech Finals

As you know we put a lot of emphasis on the boys having the skills and

confidence to present themselves in both formal and informal situations. We have been delighted with the standard of speeches across the school. Year 4 Speech Final

The Year 4 Speech Final was held on Friday 22 November. We were very lucky to have Steve Girvan as the adjudicator. All 8 finalists had put a lot of thought and preparation into their speeches and they were of an extremely high standard. 1

st place Felix Rees-Moore – ‘Otzi’

2nd

place Ben Wilson – ‘LeBron James’ 3

rd place Austin Stewart – ‘Medieval

Times’ Other finalists were: William Johnston – ‘My Frogs’, Joey Edginton - ‘Dr Who’, Harry Zangouropoulos – ‘Trading Cards’, Pat Green – ‘The Pencil’ and Oliver Pope – ‘Living in Space’.

Year 5 Speech Final

The Year 5 Speech Competition Finals were held on Wednesday 21 November, and once again proved to be a showcase of the talent in the year group. The audience of parents, Year 4 & 5 pupils and staff were enthralled by the variety of topics covered. The standard this year was very high, in terms of both the actual content and structure of the speeches, as well as the delivery. It certainly made for a difficult task for our adjudicator, the Reverend Dr. Ellie Sanderson. The eight students in the final were: Caleb Wong (Is McDonalds Bad?), James McDonnell (Sailing), Jeremy Wong (Why Some People are Addicted to Video Games), Thomas Bloomfield (What was it Like to be an Aztec Boy?), Aidan Cushman (Why You Shouldn’t drink Soda), William Chandler (Advertising), James Hoskin (Valerie Adams) & Ben Penno (Bonsai). While the totals were checked,


Ethan McKenzie played three pieces on the guitar to entertain the audience. All the Finalists delivered a terrific speech, and a tough decision had to made, providing us with the following results. Thomas Bloomfield and James Hoskin were awarded equal 3

rd place,

Caleb Wong took 2nd

position and William Chandler was cheered when given 1

st place.

All the finalists deserve congratulations, and special thanks must go to our adjudicator, Rev. Dr. Ellie Sanderson for her constructive, thoughtful comments, and for making the tough decisions. Chris Parker

Year 6 Speech Final

The Year 6 Speech Final was held on Friday 29

th of November and

was judged by Mrs. Charlotte Gendall. The finalists were George Parker, Josh Kemp-Whimp, Luke Carpenter, Kyle Foo, Alexi Zangouropoulos, Logan Gordon-Crosby, Jacob Edginton, Jackson Reilly and Ben Stirling. These boys did extremely well to make it to the finals out of 60 Year 6 boys. The audience enjoyed hearing a range of interesting and entertaining topics which were delivered extremely well. Our judge awarded both Josh (The 342 Directions) and Alexi (Nelson Mandela) 3

rd place equal, Ben 2

nd

(Fear of Public Speaking) and Jacob’s entertaining and educational speech on ‘Dr. Who’ won him first place. Well done to all the Finalists, and a big thank you to Mrs. Charlotte Gendall. Tony Orbell, Jayne Chatfield and Kate Sinclair

Senior Speech winner Rahul with Mary McCallum (adjudicator).

The Year group speech finalists after a tough round of competition. The standard was very high across the school. (from left to right; Y7+8, Y5, Y4 and Y6 - absent Alexi).

Junior and Senior Calendar One of the highlights for the Junior School is having an opportunity to work alongside our Year 8 buddies. This year the children have designed a calendar for 2014. Their brief

To design a creative calendar which is visually appealing, with important dates.

Create an autobiography at the end of the album with a photo. It is always so lovely to watch the relationship between the boys. We look forward to sharing this with our community soon. Alison Garland

Y8 Adam and Junior buddy Roshan Y8 Paul with his buddy Hector

Christmas Tree

Christmas is coming! The Christmas Tree has been placed in the foyer. It is a time for excitement and happiness for most, but for some families it can be a time of hardship and stress. Let us help to brighten Christmas for those children less fortunate than ours. Your son is asked to bring a present to put under the tree. The Salvation Army will pass on our gifts to children from needy families in Wellington. The gift can be new or preloved (in good condition), wrapped and labelled with the age and gender of the child that the gift would most likely suit. Thank you for your support.


Foundation Bricks The Years 8s raised $503.90 on their sausage sizzle and mufti day for their thank you to the school, their contribution to the Foundation and to ‘earn’ their Class of 2013 brick. The House Captains (Oliver, Dillon, Noah and Cameron) were particularly energised and focused on the task and all credit to them with the ideas and marketing efforts, not to mention BBQ’ing skills.

Refugee Children

A few times a year, Eve Owen and boys host a group of refugee children from St Michael’s school in Taita. This exchange is of great mutual benefit for our boys and the refugee children. The experience brings service, humility and a grounding experience for our boys and the refugee children have experiences which many have never experienced. A few words from Eve: “For our last visit from Saint Michaels we went outdoors. the refugee children love the sea so they joined with a group of our boys and we took them along the beach to the Eastbourne wharf. We built fires, roasted marshmallows and played games. We had a shared lunch and walked back to swim and wharf jump much to their delight. A great day was had by all and it is heartening to see the engagement amongst the group. Marika Batty has been a great support to this on-going programme and I would like to acknowledge and thank her.”

Some of our visitors from St Michaels enjoying the beach.

Citizenship

All the children in the school voted anonymously for two boys in their class who they respected most for their integrity and caring behaviour towards their classmates. The following boys gained the most votes. It is always lovely to see the variety of names. Y0 Aidan Zhang and Jack Jones Y1 Sam Richards, John McNaughtan-Bonnett and Ezra Baker Y2 Charlie Astwick, Malachy Holborow and Anupa Aluvihare Y3 Lachie Bowker and Gaurav Navalkar 4C Duncan Mutch, Joey Edginton and Braith Osvald Smith 4T Alexander Heine-Sheldrake and Ben Wilson 5S Caleb Wong and Henry Nelson 5P Max Waiker and Jeremy Wong 60 Luke Carpenter and Toby Marks 6S Matthew McCallum and Jaiwei Leong 6L Alex Brown and Ambrose Hill 7M Cameron McMahon and Nick Cooke 7N Thomas Hoskin and Jack Healy 7/8D Paul Ireland and Cillian Butler 7/8T Callum Benfell, Ben Ross and Harry Williams 8B Satchel Benn, James McKenna, Louis Schwer. 8P Noah Woolf and Harry Fraser

The Arts The School Orchestra performed at Shona McFarlane Rest Home in Lower Hutt recently. The residents were most appreciative and it was very special for us all. The boys were fantastic and enjoyed the afternoon tea put on for them. By the time you read this report, the Orchestra will have performed their final concert for the year at Malvina Major Rest Home in Johnsonville. We look forward to seeing most of the boys back for Orchestra 2014! If you are a parent of a boy in the rock band this year, all going well you will receive a recording of the band before Christmas. Rob Joass, our rockband tutor, is in the process of recording the band, which has been particularly strong this year. Congratulations to all the boys in the Y7/8 Choir for their hard work this year. They performed very successfully at all of their engagements, and recently celebrated this with a shared pizza lunch, as is the tradition! The Year 6 choir are busy practising for their visit to the Eastbourne


Women’s club in the last week of the term. They will be entertaining the ladies with Christmas carols and songs. This choir is led by Ruth Hooke and Kate Sinclair and they practice in their lunchtimes. Mary-Anne Morgan

Alex at guitar lessons

World Vision Scholarship Day Report: Can you imagine a village ruined by civil war? It may look like paradise, but on the inside it is a barren land. The food that is there is not healthy, the people are in need of aid and the water is not clean. This is Bougainville. World Vision this year has helped raise money for them. In total, New Zealand raised over $70,000. The top fund-raising schools were invited to send representatives to attend the World Vision Scholarship Day and Wellesley College was allowed to have eight students attend. They were Marcus Millad, Edward Twomey, Ben Wilkins, Campbell Clarke, Josh Kemp Whimp, Toby Cook, Jacob Madigan and Luke Carpenter. The Scholarship Day took place on Monday 11

th November at the

Dowse Art Gallery in Lower Hutt. After we initially arrived, we took part in the first activity, which was a simulation. We had to make cut-out rice bags and collect water tokens at designated times and sell them to the market trader.

However, we were caught bribing the market trader. This was meant to give us a taste of a day in the life of a Bangladesh inhabitant. The other main activity was the leadership challenge. We had to figure out a certain route through a maze and, without talking, the others had to guide him. Many people tricked the person solving the maze. In every group someone took control and helped out. This is how we learnt about the key skills of leadership. We also watched many clips that showed us the life of people in Bougainville. To conclude, we had a great day, learnt a lot and are motivated to support World Vision in the future, by doing the famine again. We would also like to thank the parents who transported us and assisted as parent help on the day, along with Mrs Stevens, for organising our attendance to the event. Marcus Millad & Edward Twomey

World Vision scholarship boy, orchestra at Shona McFarlane; staff members Kate Sinclair and MaryAnne Morgan; Ollie with Toby Mason

Message from Jane Kent (Librarian)

Just a friendly reminder from your Library . . . all items issued from the Library are due back at the end of November. Please have a look around at home for any other items that may have been inadvertently taken out of the Library, missing the computer issue system . . . we have identified quite a few of these in the stock taking process . . . it would be nice to have these back. Thank you in anticipation. I would also like to publicly thank the Wellesley College Parents’ Association for their funding of new library furniture items. This is very much appreciated. Have a wonderful holiday break and do lots of reading.


2014 Classes and School Reports

Year 4-8 school reports will be posted to you no later than December 16.

At the moment we are looking at the composition for the Y4-8 classes. This is time-consuming and much thought goes into the make-up of the classes, as we look closely at the composition of the class both academically and socially. We don’t encourage parents’ requests and at the end of the day, I ask you to please rely on our professional judgement. The boys come into contact with a variety of staff via Maths programmes, ICT, Art, Performing Arts, PE/Sport, Science etc. We are very fortunate to have a strong team of teachers who work together to ensure your son’s individual needs are met. Your son’s class placement will be either posted out with the reports or during the school break.

San Antonio school visiting as part of their creek study and our enviro group planting out the summer vegies.

Year 8 Dinner

Our annual Leavers’ Dinner for all our Year 8 boys and their parents will take place on Monday 9 December at the Boatshed in Wellington. I always look forward to this special occasion, as it is an excellent opportunity to farewell the boys, many of whom have been at Wellesley since they were five years old. (5.30pm for 6.00pm start) Our guest speaker is David Rutherford, Chief Humans Rights Commissioner. Many thanks to Trish Perrins who is working hard to co-ordinate this special event.

Y4 Abe has been having a lot of success show jumping.

Leavers’ Parent Drinks

Thank you to all the parents who were able to join me and staff for drinks and a catch-up recently. The evening was well attended and if the noise level from chatter is any measure of how well the evening went, it was a huge success!

These evenings are totally dedicated to the parents and offer an opportunity for them to reflect on their time and associations at the school. For many of our 2013 leavers’ parents, it is their last son attending Wellesley and marks a significant point in their relationship with the school, which in some cases has been a considerable length of time.

At Wellesley we are very keen that this is not seen as an end but merely a stepping stone to the future. We wish all our leavers and their families success and enjoyment in the next stages of their educational experience and please do keep in touch. We really love to hear what is happening to our Old Boys.

Alexi (Y6)

The Y8’s loving their challenge of building a modern day trebuchet in the science and technology room.


Inter-School Contact

Each year there are various opportunities for our Y7 and 8 boys to host or attend school dances with girl schools. The Year 8s have an annual day with Queen Margaret College playing sport, debating and having a shared music concert where the boys and girls have a chance to shine.

Ethan and Ariaan, Callum and Max

Young Enterprise Trust

Earlier this Term, Year 5 were joined by Sharron Buer and Paul Newsom from the Young Enterprise Trust. They led the boys, over three intensive days, in a Markets unit. With each of the nine mixed class groups headed up by its own CEO, the boys worked to design, cost out, make and then sell a selection of products at the market on Friday. The boys had to design, budget for, and then buy the materials needed from our own ‘warehouse’ before making and packaging the products for sale. The enthusiasm instilled by Sharron and Paul was infectious, and the boys learnt a range of financial literacy skills as well as many aspects of the workings of a market. These skills have been useful with our own market unit we have been working on in class this term. We had the support of several Year 5 parents who

worked with the groups on all stages of the process. The stalls and products were judged by Margie Beattie, Sue Jones and Steve Girvan, who were all very impressed by the standard of presentation and quality of products available. It was wonderful to see so many parents at the market, and the boys were able to test their sales techniques. To follow up the unit, the boys wrote thank-you letters to Sharron and Paul. Many thanks again to Sharron and Paul for their preparation and delivery of the unit; it was an excellent learning opportunity for the boys. Chris Parker & Veronica Stevens

Market day and Luke, Caleb, Jonathon, Aidan and Ben planning for it.

TERM DATES 2014 (further dates and details on our website)

Year 7 West Coast Trip

The boys had a wonderful trip. (See report below). Many thanks to the hardworking team of parents and the staff who made the trip such a fantastic experience.

Report

"Holy Guacamole! That galaxy of glow worms is stupendous!" we all exclaimed, our faces filled with amazement. Hopefully you have guessed that we are referring to the amazing journey that the Year Sevens took last week. It all started off on a dreary grey Wellington morning at the Interislander Ferry Terminal. As you can probably tell, our spirits needed lifting for we knew we had a good 7 and 1/2 hours of travelling ahead, although little did we know how superb the Year Seven West Coast Trip would turn out to be.

Term

Commencement date

End Date

1 Monday 3 February Thursday 17 April

2 Monday 5 May Friday 4 July

3 Monday 28 July (State 21 July)

Friday 26 September

4 Monday 13 October December 12

Toby and Tyler


Rocks, Caves and thousand year old streams galore! These are only a few words that can be used to describe the Underworld Rafting adventure we took on in Charleston, after this awesome trip into the caves and rafting down rapids, we returned to camp with sore bottoms and smiles on our faces. Although we weren't that excited, we started our walk at Cape Foulwind to the Seal colony but we were surprised to find Horses and a native the Weka. Although some of the seals were a bit on the pudgy side, they were still great but the seals weren't they only thing cool, the waves there were massive!

After the classic..."Talk DenDen to Me !" created and sung by James Cameron, I think visiting one of Dennis-tons historic mines was quite suitable considering it had been reopened to search for uranium. You may think that mining or coal mining is boring, maybe dull, but you would be terribly wrong. Mining is very interesting, es-pecially if you learn about the history, and how people were living back in that olden day. That's exactly what we did in the Denniston coal mine. We were even given the jobs of the past coal miners, for example I was a clip-per, who had to clip the chain onto the cart, while moving, and extract coal. They often would lose fingers, hands or your feet on a regular basis. Gold panning, Victorian Classrooms and Steam Trains all come to mind when thinking of Shantytown. As you probably know Shantytown is an old fashioned town made like it would've been during the gold rush. There are really cool activities like: Chinatown, Orienteering and riding a stinky coal steam train. The only disappointment there were the lollies, that were meant to be old fashioned, but sadly were just the normal two dollar lollies. Punakaiki Rocks were a load of awesome looking, pancake looking, super delicious looking formations of stone, alongside heaps of water spouting blowholes which kept on spraying sea mist on to everyone who was nearby! The waves were pounding and crashing, though I think all of our tummies were rumbling, mine possibly more than most. I have a dying passion for pancakes!! At Fox we went on the glacier. It was awesome! On the walk we were told and shown thedifference in the glaci-er's size from five years ago and today. When we got onto the glacier we passed lots of crevasses that were very deep and very wide. Even with the crampons on it was still extremely slippery and treacherous. Halfway through the walk we were shown the rock fall and a rock called Peanut Rock because the first person to see it was in a helicopter and said it looked like a peanut. Overall the Fox Glacier was a lot more interesting than I first thought. Friday was boring and mediocre, because it seemed to be endless pastures of green fields and native, wild bush. 7N's bus broke down so we had to hop on to the other one and have three people to a row. I still don't envy the parents, as they had to wait around in the stifling heat for roughly an hour and a half with just a rugby ball!! We stopped at Murchison School for a swim and game of cricket, before boarding our own bus, thankfully, to drive to Picton. On the way to Picton we stopped off at Hokitika where, for the first time, we went in the Hoki-tika Treetop Walk. This is where you walk on an elevated bridge which enters the bush canopy and is home to native birds and animals. Since the ferry was delayed we got to see "Beyond The Edge", a doco drama about Edmund Hillary's adven-ture to the top of Mount Everest. A quick squizz in the aquarium,and we had boarded the Interislander and were sailing home safely!! Wow, what a week. By Hamish Hutton and Joseph Hewson


PE and Sport 2013

Newsletter 12 – 2nd

December

The Underwater hockey team won Gold on Saturday 23 November after two previous silver medals. A fan-tastic end to the season! Thank you to Anna Loughnan and Emily Colquhoun for all their efforts with the team this year. The School Athletics took place last week in two parts. The Middle and Senior boys competed in the morning and the Juniors in the afternoon. These events were the end part of the athletics programme for the majority which has dominated PE and sport sessions this term. The overall results were as follows: Wellington was the winning house followed by Marlborough, Croydon and Selwyn. The individual results are as follows:

Year 4 – 1st Alex Rangi-Breuilly, 2

nd = Oscar Jackson & Felix Rees-Moore

Year 5 – 1st Flynn Healy, 2

nd Ethan McKenzie, 3

rd Archie Treadwell

Year 6 – 1st Ruaridh Ferguson, 2

nd Xander Manktelow, 3

rd= Matthew McCallum, Toby Cook & Oliver Hall

Year 7/8 – 1st Harry Cook, 2

nd Matthew Sutcliffe, 3

rd Curtis Shaffer, 1

st Year 7 Nicholas Cooke

Wellesley entered boys in the Year 4-6 Zone Athletics Sports at the Hutt Rec Ground in Week 6. Toby Cook, Rufus Rusholme-Cobb, Flynn Healy, Ruaridh Ferguson, Xander Manktelow and Sam Plimmer won individual events. Ten boys qualified for the Inter-Zone event in Naenae last week. Wellesley is sending a team of Mid-dle and Senior boys to the Regional Athletics this week at the Newtown Stadium. The Senior tennis championships are nearing completion at the time of writing. Isaac Becroft won the singles title by defeating Harry Hunter in the final. Isaac and Zac Jones are playing Harry and Jin Dassanayake in the doubles final. Oliver Hall is waiting to find out who he will play in the Year 6 singles final. Oliver combined with Matthew O’Brien to win the Year 6 doubles. Isaac, Harry and Oliver competed in the Central Regional tournament in Palmerston North. Isaac and Harry went onto the North Island Primary Schools’ Champion-ships and Isaac won the title. This tops off a very successful year for Isaac and his tennis. The Senior triathlon is scheduled to take place today. The Senior boys have organised themselves into teams of three with each going to do the swim, run or cycle legs in Eastbourne. A BBQ follows to replenish lost energy. 8B and 8P had their turn with the Yachting New Zealand run sailing sessions at the Seaview Marina. 7/8D is booked in next week. The other three classes had their turn earlier in the year. The weather has had an adverse effect on summer fixtures with Scots and HIBS. This has been very disap-pointing for the boys and coaches. The 1

st XI Cricket team travelled to Nelson for matches against Nelson College Prep and Nelson Intermediate

Schools. Some boys took the Sunday ferry crossing and others arrived on Monday morning. The hot weath-er greeted the boys on the morning of the match. Nelson Prep batted first and made 138 for 8 off their 50 overs. Xavier Aspell was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 16 off 10 overs. Wellesley started the chase well but then dropped a couple of quick wickets before Zac Jones and Harry Hunter steadied the innings. A thun-der storm halted the chase at 95 for 6 with 18 overs remaining. Opener and Captain Tim Campbell made a very impressive 42. Wellesley made 247 off their 40 overs against Nelson Intermediate with Tom Valentine and Tim Campbell made half centuries in a re-shuffled batting order. Nelson Intermediate struggled to 108 off their 40 overs. Oliver Fletcher picked up 3 wickets. The Nelson parents hosted a pool party for our boys and commented on how much they enjoyed having them. The 1

st XI Cricket boys are scheduled to play the traditional father/son cricket match on Thursday this week.

These boys plus other Senior cricketers are involved in House and Suburb of Origin Cricket games next week. Some year 8 boys pair up with their mothers for the mother/son tennis tournament next Tuesday. Year 6 and Senior boys intending to play tennis next year can purchase black shorts with pockets and caps from the uniform shop. The shorts can be used for PE instead of the normal plain shorts. One Senior and three Year 5/6 basketball teams have carried on in their respective Karori leagues this term. The boys have benefitted from playing together over a longer period of time.


Jamie Paris (tutor) has been coaching a Senior team in the Hutt Park Friday competition. The team was placed in the top division and has come up against some very good opposition. There were a large number of boys who brought back forms for the Weetbix TRYathlon which takes place next term. Those boys have been entered by Wellesley but other boys can enter online and name Wellesley as their school. School tracksuits are a requirement for the Senior boys next year. Both the old or new styles are acceptable and I encourage leaving boys to try and sell theirs to those boys who haven’t purchased one yet. I have some tracksuit tops which haven’t been claimed over the year so come and see me if your son is missing his. Darren Houston

Lastly, I want to thank you as parents. 2013 has been so exciting and successful on so many fronts. You have been a great support to your boys and us as a staff. The year has again been full of highlights and it is a pleasure to see the boys develop so well. I will see you all at one of the many school occasions coming up, but in the meantime, I wish you a happy festive season and in particular, a Merry Christmas. Best wishes Warren Owen Principal

Last Two Weeks Of Term.

Friday 6 December 9.15 Leavers’ Service at St Albans 11.00am Junior School Prizegiving Monday 9 December 5.30 for 6.00 start Y8 Leavers’ Dinner (Boatshed) Tuesday 10 December 1pm Mother/Son Tennis (Y8s) Thursday 12 December Junior School’s end of year Friday 13 December 9.00am Y4-8 Prize Giving (Chilton, Waterloo Rd Lower Hutt).

Term 1 2014 Start date Monday 3rd February


PUBLIC NOTICES

Please note that notices posted in this section of the Principal’s Pen have not necessarily been vetted by Wellesley College. We therefore advise that if you are interested in any of the services advertised that you check them out yourself.

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Artrageous Kids is offering a One day Crazy Xmas Craft Extravaganza on the 20th of December and we are now

taking bookings for our January Holiday programme.

We are also now offering two sessions 8.30-3.00pm and 8.30 5.15pm

Xmas Craft -December 20th at

Poneke Dojo, Prince of Wales park.

Holiday programme week 1, 21st-24th Jan Poneke Dojo, Prince of Wales park.

Holiday programme week 2, 27th - 31st Jan Poneke Dojo, Prince of Wales park.

Make your bookings online today.

www.artrageouskids.co.nz

ARE YOU IN NEED OF AFTER SCHOOL CARE?

provides an exciting and supervised Out-of-School-Care programme for children

aged 5-10 years of age, Mon – Fri, 3-6pm at HUIA POOL, Lower Hutt. Your

School bus passes our location and makes it easy for you to access our service.

We provide a safe pickup from the bus stop. Swimming /Art/Craft/Games/Sport/Homework make our Fun

Club a great place to be. For more information please call Ph. 234-6440 or e-mail after-

[email protected]

Trans-Tasman Tennis is running Holiday Camps in Dec 9-13 & 16 – 20 Dec from 8:30am -12pm only. In January 2014 the camps will be held on - 6-10 Jan, 13-17 Jan, 20/21- 24 Jan and 27-31 Jan at the Khandallah Tennis & Squash Club. These are suitable for children 6 to 13 years old. The programme includes tennis, table tennis, Olym-pics & soccer. The programme runs from 8:30/9am-3:30pm. Children can attend for half or full days. To enroll please contact us on 479 1386 or email [email protected]. Have you got an Ecomailbox? New service launched! Help reduce waste and make our streets greener by getting your free 'No Ad Mail' sticker for your letterbox from ecomail-

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LEARN TO PLAY TENNIS Holiday Programme For Primary School Children

Supported by HVTA Dates: Monday 27, Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 January, 2014. (wet or fine )

Venue: Mitchell Park (Mitchell Street, Lower Hutt) Timetable: 9.00am-10.00 am- Girls from 5-8 years old 10.00am-11.00 am- Boys from 5-8 years old 11.00am-12.00 noon- Girls from 9 years + 1.00pm-2.00 pm- Boys from 9 years +

Cost: $32-00 for the 3 days. Money to be paid on the first day. Registration: Contact Gary Nelson –Ph. 5897178 or Email - [email protected]

Note: Enrolments must be received by—Wednesday 8 January, 2014.

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