Wellesley College Newsletter # 9 www.wellesley.school.nz September 24 2012

Y1s Max, Jude, Anupa, Rex, George, Louis and Roshan in Indian national costume as part of their Indian Inquiry study.

Dear Parents With only a week of Term 3 left, the boys and staff can look back upon it with a large degree of satisfaction. Once again, ‘body, mind and spirit’ have been to the fore with the academics, the arts and the sports celebrated both in quantity and quality. The winter sports season finished in a flurry of activity with the highlight for the senior teams being a successful tour to the Hawke’s Bay and big wins in rugby and soccer over our traditional rivals, Scots. The arts have such important education benefits and are integral to our school holistic philosophy of promoting creativity and higher order thinking. The performing arts have featured in spectacular fashion lately. The Queen Margaret college choir exchange, our WOW representative (Joseph Plun-ket), Noah Woolf in ‘Going Green’, Dancesplash and Artsplash have all been particularly successful. Please read about these and more on Page 6 and, of course this week we have a very busy schedule of shows. I congratulate the boys and staff on their work. There is not room in this newsletter to cover everything that has been going on but I hope you enjoy reading about some of the highlights.

The Bowker Scholarship As my earlier email said, I am delighted to announce a new scholarship that Wellesley is able to offer. This scholarship has come about through the generosity of Troy and Lisa Bowker (Lachie Y2 and Mason Y0). They of-fered this scholarship with the altruistic desire to provide the Wellesley ex-perience to boys who would not normally be able to attend Wellesley due to financial reasons. The scholarship will target boys who are in a position to take advantage of the opportunity and who will make a valuable contribution to the school. In particular, a student’s excellent citizenship qualities and /or special talent(s)

(e. g: cultural, sporting or academic) will be factors in determining the scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded for two years (Year 7+8).

Over the last 12 years at Wellesley we have been focusing on our 4 stage building programme (last stage is the hall) but we have al-ways had a desire to grow the num-ber of scholarships we can offer boys so it is with excitement and gratitude we can announce this new initiative. I have encouraged the Bowkers to put their name to the scholarship as I hope in time we can encourage others to support the scholarship programme. The Bowker scholar-ship will start next year.

Ciaran (Y7) see story on Page 2

I was walking through the Y1 class

at lunchtime the other day and came across Josh (Y8) reading a story to Sam(Y1). Sam was unwell and resting on the bed and on his own initiative started reading him a story. A good example of leadership and empathy.

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PA Quiz Night

What a fabulous night! The Bri-erley Theatre was almost at ca-pacity as were the minds of the participants as they wrestled with the questions being fired at them from our delightfully irreverent MC, Sean Plunket. The evening was targeted as a fun night out for all. The entry price was kept to a minimum but be-cause of the enthusiasm on the night for bar refreshments and pur-chasing of questions, the evening looks to have made a healthy prof-it of around $6000. We can’t thank the hard working core of helpers enough. These were made up of some PA mem-bers, other parents and teachers. Andrew McKenna took overall re-sponsibility for coordinating the event and Sean Plunket was very gracious in accepting the MC role.

I regret not having my camera with me as there were some great shots to be had!

Y0s Charlie, Mason and Jonathon

World Vision Leadership

Wellesley as you know was re-cently acknowledged for our won-derful efforts in raising almost $9600, in the World Vision 20 Hour Famine. This has earned us a Platinum Award and a chance for some of our students to attend the Intermediate Scholarship Day in October. Further to our report in the previ-ous newsletter, we can now also confirm that Marcus Millad, Camp-bell Clarke, Harry Cook and Ben Wilkins will be attending this spe-cial event.

This is a programme that is designed to build on leadership skills and con-tinue to develop the students into global citizens. They will listen to a vari-ety of expert speakers and be involved in interactive activities and compe-titions, designed to engage and inspire the students. It will be an exciting and interesting day for these boys. We would once again like to thank all the boys and families that contribut-ed to World Vision 2012. Veronica Stevens Just out of interest, here is a letter we recently received from Welles-ley’s World Vision child. This was read out in Chapel recently.

My name is Bidan, I like playing Rugby.

How are you?

I am in class Towzebra, my class teacher is Robert and Miriam and I live

at IB.

I love you and your family and would love to see you.

I like to eat Chapati, my best friend is called Peter Muchivi.

My favourite animal is a dog, I love him because he guards our home.

Yours Bidan (Kenya)

Year 4s, Jay and Fred enjoying their science (magnets)

Wellington Regional

Science and Technology Fair Congratulations to our science entrants in this annual competition. Alto-gether they scooped 9 of the prizes totaling well over $1000 in prize mon-ey. Special mention to Y7 Ciaran Sim, who came second in Class 1 (Y7-10). These boys won the following prizes: Ciaran Sim, Plants vs Bacteria: Second in Class 1, Wellington Botanical Society and Capital City Science Educators (Peter Jennings Memorial Prize) Matthew Sutcliffe, Weather Lore; Fact or Fiction: Met Shop Prize and Highly Commended

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Harry Mills, Sugar, Is it a drug and are we all Addicted? Wellington Medical Research Foundation Prize and Highly Commended Lachie O'Connor, Colour - Vision Deficiency in Hunters: NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch Marcus Millad, Chicken Nuggets: Cancer Society of New Zealand

ICAS Science Competition This year has once again produced very positive results for the 153 Year 4—8 students from Wellesley College who sat this exam. It is sat by almost half a million students from NZ, Australia and the Asia-Pacific regions. It assesses the students on a range of scientific skills in-cluding observing and measuring, interpreting data, inferring, predicting and concluding, investigating and reasoning and problem solving. We are delighted to acknowledge the achievements of 7 boys who scored exceptionally well by gaining a High Distinction, with another 26 receiving Distinction. The results are as follows: High Distinctions (top 2% and above nationally) were awarded to: Max Abbot, Ben Stirling, Mika Denham, Hugh Morrison, Jesse Richardson, Nich-olas McDermott and Jin Dassanayake Distinctions (Above the top 10% nationally) were awarded to: Tom Adams, Hugo Blair, Archie Chandler, William Chandler, Gabriel Giller, Ethan Henry, Damon Mavropoulos, William Durkin, George Lethbridge, Cameron McMahon, Ben Ross, Harry Williams, Tim Campbell, Campbell Clarke, Oliver Fletcher, Louis Gradwell, Alexander Plimmer, Matthew Sut-cliffe, Edward Twomey, Tom Valentine, Andy Dowell, Harry Mills, Fergus Murray, Joseph Plunket, Harrison Stewart and Luke Whitehead. Another 55 students received Credit awards (top 30% nationally), while the rest gained a well deserved certificate in Participation.

Kate Sinclair

Mathswell team (Isaac, Luke, Tom, Harry, Fergus and Harrison)

Australian Mathematics Summary

51 boys from Mr Hampton’s, Mrs Norton’s and Mr Blandford’s groups sat the testing Australian Mathematics Competition in Term 3 and the results were very pleasing. The highlight had to be the result of Year 6 pupil, Jesse

Richardson, who won a Prize for his score of 93/120 in the Year 6 section of the Competition. It needs to be confirmed, but it is likely Jesse scored the top mark in New Zealand in his year group. Six boys, Thomas Watkins, Pere Wi Rutene-Pomare, Luke Fuller, Isaac Ulusele, Jona-thon Joyce and Tom Turner achieved High Distinctions (top 1%). A further four boys achieved Distinctions (top 15%). Those boys were Fergus Murray, Luke White-head, Harrison Stewart and Noah Wilkinson. A further 34 boys achieved Credits, with as many as 13 of those boys within 5 marks of a Distinction. Well done boys. Murray Blandford

Tournament of Minds We had four teams, two from Y7 and Y8 and two from Y5 and Y6 compete in this year’s final of the Tournament of Minds competition held at Hutt Intermediate on Satur-day 8

th September. All four teams

aquitted themselves very well and the feedback from judges and par-ents was very positive. The boys too obviously enjoyed themselves and had worked hard for the previ-ous six weeks preparing for their presentation to the judges. One team, our Y7 and Y8 Maths Engineering Team, comprising of Harry Mills, Felix Adler, Ben Mitch-ell, Luke Whitehead, Harrison Devane, Tom Valentine and Ciaran Sim, won their division. Congratula-

tions to them as I know they worked

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very well as a team and their mag-nificent Eiffel Tower now adorns our library. Steve Girvan Check ups—Mandy our Dental Clinic nurse

Junior School Our Junior School has had an in-credibly busy and interesting term. Over and above the one-off exciting events like Pyjama day, Wheels day and Mathletics evenings, they have been involved in a most interesting inquiry study on India. The boys have had wonderful and authentic experiences which have made the learning so powerful. These have included outstanding visiting speakers including Roshan’s mum, Sonali Vijayasenan and Fiona Barrie (friend of the school) who spoke to the Y0/1 and 2 boys about their experiences of India. Ben’s mum, Annie Wilson, spoke about her experiences of being a doctor in India. Kahu’s dad, Tim Allan, shared his experiences working in India as a geologist. The children were able to ask pertinent questions about what it was like to live there and to experience the culture. A real highlight was their trip to Ma-haraja’s Restaurant in Pe-tone. Each child delighted in learn-ing about how the restaurant worked, the family rituals, how the meal started with prayers and an explanation on how to eat the dish-es. Each child was given a naan bread, 2 mild Indian curries, rice and a potato based dish. It was so lovely to see a close-knit family working together and sharing a spe-cial moment that these children will remember as a memorable time in the Junior School. A huge thank you to Kalpana and family, Bhakti and Sam Govind for the organisa-tion in making this event so special.

Staff News

We farewell Archdeacon Damon Plimmer at the end of term. The boys , staff and the wider Wellesley community will all miss Damon’s wonderful calm and spiritual input into Wellesley. During Damon’s 10 year tenure as school Chaplain, he has been an absolute ‘rock’ for us in so many ways. We wish Damon, Raewyn and Alexander (Y7) all the

very best with their new adventure down in Cromwell.

Jayne Chatfield has been away this year on Parental Leave and has decid-ed not to return to full time teaching in the immediate future. Jayne is a fab-

ulous teacher and we will miss her skill and energy. However, she is not escaping altogether as she will be a key member of our relief staff.

Xavier with his painting and the Junior School at Maharaja’s restaurant.

Damon at Chapel and with his son Alexander at the Y7 breakfast.

Citizenship

All children in the school voted anonymously for the two boys in their class whom they respect for their integrity and caring behaviour towards their class mates. The following boys gained the most votes. Many others were very close behind. Y0 Calvin Double Y1 George Woodman and Jude Dawson Y2 Ari Bonar and Arthur Egerton Y3 Ben Wilson and Joey Edginton 4C Ryan Double and Jack Holland 4T Ian Piper and Caleb Wong 5S Jackson Reilly and Alexi Zangouropoulos 5P Josh Kemp-Whimp, Jim Lockwood and Charlie Plimmer 6O Will Hausmann and Gerry Green 6S Hamish Hutton and Matthew Hourigan 7M Cameron Tyson and James McKenna 7N James Dunne, Paul Ireland, Harry Hunter 7/8D Noah Wilkinson and Ben McCay 7/8T Harrison Stewart and Luke Fuller 8B Gus Ashton and Tom McKeogh 8P Lochie Shaw and Jonny Joyce

Class/Teacher Placements 2013

These will not happen until later in Term 4. First we establish the class stu-dent/teacher configuration based on what we know about our current boys, then we look at the new intake of boys. Staff make recommendations to me regarding class make-up based on the social and academic needs of each

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boy. Once we have established the needs profile for 2013 we allocate classes accordingly. Teachers put a lot of time and thought into the process so please trust our professional judgement on class place-ments. Almost without exception our decisions prove to be in the best interests of the children Mathswell The Wellesley Mathswell Team of Tom McKenzie, Luke Whitehead and Fergus Murray (Problem Solving) and Isaac Ulusele, Harry Mills and Harrison Stewart (Multi-choice) came 3rd in this year’s Wellington Mathematics Association organised Mathswell Competition. See photo Page 3. 32 schools from the Wellington area (the largest ever number of entrants) were represented in the competition, with the Wellesley team finishing a creditable third in what is a ‘cauldron’ of maths! It is a very hard competition to win and the team scored only one less in each section than this year’s winners, scoring 18/25 in the tough Problem Solving section and 25/30 in the Multi Choice section. The boys in the team can be very pleased with their meritorious result.

Murray Blandford What is quite remarkable is that this is about the tenth year in a row our boys have come in the top three with a number of wins along the way. This consistency of performance is unique. I do want to commend not only Murray Blandford who manages the team, but all the staff for their high standard they maintain in the maths programme.

Y7 House breakfast, guest speaker and old boy, Robert Ashe with Ben. Matthew and Albie with their mums, Julia and Jane.

Y7 Selwyn and Marlborough House Breakfast

Our Year 7 Selwyn and Marlborough Parent and Son breakfast was very successful with our guest speaker (old boy Robert Ashe) speaking passionately to the boys about a number of important themes and he raised a number of questions: How will we put a stop to runaway climate change? How will we grow healthy food without using chemi-cals that pollute our rivers? How are we going to get around when the oil for our cars gets even more expensive? And how do we better share what we’ve got with one another, rather than the current situation where some people have a lot, and a lot have very little? Robert is the economic advisor for the Green Party and sits on the Eastbourne Community Board. His love of his time at Wellesley, particularly the outdoor experiences, was clearly evident. He left us all with a lot to think about but he also gave a real insight into his desire to do the best for our planet. Re-gardless of politics, you couldn’t help admire his zeal.

Pere considering his options. Toby cutting loose against Hutt Central

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PE and Sport

Six senior football, hockey and rugby teams were hosted by Scots College in week 5. This was the final fixture of the season for the 1

st and 2

nd teams. The weather prevented the Colts playing the day before and Scots had to transfer

all the games to artificial pitches. The two football teams came away with good wins and the fast surface enabled both teams to show their skills. The 2

nd XI won by a goal in a tightly contested game. The 1

st XI had a comfortable

win which meant they finished the season unbeaten with 53 goals for and only 3 against. The two hockey teams competed well but came away with losses. The majority of these players are new to hockey and the develop-ment over the season was very pleasing. The 2

nd XV had a comfortable win and enjoyed the experience of playing

on an artificial field. The 1st XV conceded early points but they bounced back and showed determination and skill to

run away with a convincing victory, 65-17. The Colts rugby team played Hutt Central School which has been a tough game in the past. The game was very even and competitive at the start and the Wellesley boys wore them down to finish with a comfortable victory! The Colts football, hockey and rugby teams had their last fixture for the year against Huntley School. The football team was far too strong and their skill was evident on a large field. Huntley brought a team that plays together regu-larly and after the early stages being close, Wellesley scored regularly and came away with a convincing win. The rugby team was in a battle in the first half before running away with the game in the second half. All three teams fin-ished unbeaten for the season which was pleasing. The main disappointment has been the number of cancelled fixtures. The waterpolo season finished recently with a celebration breakfast. The commitment of the parents, boys, coaches and staff has been huge in getting to before school trainings and games at night. The ‘A’ team finished runners-up in the top division and the ‘B’ team finished 5

th in the second division.

A senior Underwater Hockey team competed in a tournament on Saturday 15 September. A core group of boys have embraced this sport and enjoyed the competition and learnt more each time they have played. The team fin-ished 5

th on the night.

Wellesley’s Year 5, 6, 7 and 8 basketball teams have developed their skills over the first seven weeks of their eight week competitions. The Karori based senior team has again been strong winning the majority of their games. The majority of finals are being held this week. Wellesley ran the Year 5/6 Zone hockey tournament. Both Wellesley teams acquitted themselves well against solid opposition. Thank you to the Year 8 1

st XI umpires, coaches and parents for transport!

The four senior table tennis teams were again very successful at the Wellington Regional Schools’ competition. The two top teams were drawn in the main draw and both lost to a rep dominated Hutt Intermediate team which meant they finished second and third respectively. The standard in this division was very impressive and our boys more than held their own. The third and fourth teams dominated the second division to take out the top two places. The table tennis tables are constantly in use during breaks which contributes to the large amount of success Wellesley has enjoyed in this sport over a long period. Wellesley has entered a large number of boys in the Hutt Valley Primary Schools’ tennis tournament at the beginning of next term. The Year 6 and senior tennis championships are underway and will conclude around the middle of next term. The tennis courts are in demand with priority given to championship matches. Most local clubs are organising their junior coaching and inter-club teams so don’t delay if your son is considering playing tennis this summer. Cricket Wellington coaches came into Wellesley recently as part of the Cricket Awareness programme. They took sessions with the Year 0 to 4 classes. They aimed to encourage boys to consider joining a club while having fun at the same time. The bonus was a prize pack for each boy who took part. A group of older boys have been receiving coaching after school on Fridays in Eastbourne. This is aimed at developing their skills and preparing them for the upcoming season. There have been a large number of Wellesley boys who have made representative teams over the winter season. The following boys have represented Hutt Valley, Wellington, Wellington Region and/or competed at national level:

Thomas Bramley – Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Sam Hyde-Smith – Hutt Valley and Wellington Cross Country

Brody Janis - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Andrew Loveard - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted, Wellington Winter Swimming Championship Medals

(3 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze), Wellington Fairbrother Swimming Team

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Tom McKeogh - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Oli McLaren – Wellington Hatch Cup Hockey

Xavier Seal – Hutt Valley Rugby League U13

Ben Strowger-Turnock - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Pere Wi Rutene-Pomare - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restrict-

ed

Harrison Boyle – Hutt Valley Rugby U13 Restricted

Conor Butler – Wellington Federation Football

Cade Young – Wellington U15 Basketball

Luke Fuller – Hutt Valley Cross Country

Jacob Masseurs – Wellington Federation Football

Fergus Murray - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Oliver Paotonu - Wellington Zone Rugby U13 Restricted

Isaac Rusholme Cobb – Central Region U15 Fencing – 2nd

Zac Jones – Hutt Valley Cross Country

Christopher Bramley - Wellington Rugby U11

Ben Morton – Hutt Valley Cross Country

Archie Chandler—Hutt Valley Cross Country

Matthew Sutcliffe—Hutt Valley and Wellington Cross Country

Darren Houston. Colts hockey and rugby fixtures

Arts Report

What an amazingly busy time we are having in the Arts department at Wellesley! Year 6 did a wonderful job perform-ing their dance in Artsplash Dance on Friday night. All 58 of them danced with energy and enthusiasm and wowed the crowd! (see the report below) You can see them dance in the middle school’s production, ‘The Lemonade Kid’ in this Tuesday afternoon’s matinee or evening performance. Year 4 and 5 sang their wee hearts out at their Artsplash Choir concert on Tuesday night. They looked fabulous as a big block of blue in the massed choir. It is no easy task learning all those words and perfecting the moves that had been choreographed for some of the songs. An old boy from Wellesley, Hayden Nickel, was playing in the Wellington Youth Sinfonietta orchestra which accom-panied the choir. Year 7 and 8 are putting the final touches to their House items which will be on show next Wednesday and Thursday night. The boys have had loads of fun putting these together and promise to be most entertaining. This year we are trying something different by having syndicate productions and the boys are excited about the change as it is so much more their work and involvement. The junior school will be showcasing some of their talent in an arts filled evening of entertainment in Term 4. Ruth Hooke, Performing Arts The theme of our dance was all about the Wild, Wild, West, we got some ideas from Pump Dance, a hip hop group, then we changed parts of the moves and came up with our own ideas to represent Wild West battle scenes. On the night, at the Michael Fowler Centre, the noise was deafening as everyone was screaming and making lots of noise. The good thing was that we were 7th out of 12 performances so it wasn't too nerve racking. When we did our dance the audience screamed and cheered, especially when Jacob Reiher performed his sponge-Bob shuffle. We thoroughly enjoyed creating and performing the dance. You will get to see a bit of it in our middle school production By Henry Chandler and Jacob Reiher

Dates and Times for this week’s shows. Tuesday 25

th September—Year 4-6 ‘The Lemonade Kid’ – 1pm Matinee and 7pm Evening performance.

Wednesday 26

th September—Year 7+8 House Productions - 7pm Evening performance

Thursday 27

th September--- Year 7+8 House Productions - 7pm Evening performance

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Dancesplash, Artsplash and Amos and Henry taking time out from the orchestra

The Y6-8 Wellesley Choir gave its last performance as a whole group at a combined concert/chapel service at Queen Margaret College recently. The boys were fantastic. Thanks to Mr Houston for helping us on the day. It’s been a very busy year for this large group of 50 boys and they’ve risen to every challenge without fail. We couldn’t have done it without support, particularly from Mr Blandford at Wednesday rehearsals and also from Mr Girvan at performances. Many thanks to all the boys for an outstanding year and may they all continue singing! The Y7 and 8 boys in the choir will have one last burst of fame when they open the 2012 senior school production. A small group of boys performed exceptionally well at the Eastbourne Community’s farewell concert for the Venera-ble Damon Plimmer recently. Milo Benn, Satchel Benn, Mika Denham, Henry Burton-Wood and Dillon Nickel re-ceived high praise for the standard of their performances. Thanks to their parents who went out of their way to bring the boys to the concert on a Saturday night. If your son learns a musical instrument at school or is in the school orchestra, please remember to keep Sunday 4 November free for the annual concert in the music room. The orchestra will perform at approximately 1.45pm just prior to the first concert at 2.00pm. The second concert will start at 3.00pm. Your son’s music teacher will have a note to give out regarding this in the next week or so. Congratulations to the following boys whom I know have had outstanding success in the performing arts recently. Henry Burton-Wood 7/8T has been accepted for the Virtuoso Strings Orchestra, a training group for students prior to joining the Wellington Youth Sinfonietta. Henry performed with this group in the Foyer of the Michael Fowler Centre during the 3 day Artsplash festival recently. Amos Manktelow in Y7D recently passed his Grade 2 Trinity piano exam and Noah Wolf Y7N played an important role in the ‘Musical Stars’ yearly production, called Going Green. Musical Stars is an after school musical and performing arts theatre group for 5-16 year olds. Noah has also just joined the Wellington Performing Arts Centre Teenage Dance/Sing/Act classes. Watch this space!

Year 6-8 Wellesley and Queen Margaret Combined Choir

Year 6 2013

We have decided to start a new Year 6 class in 2013. Our two Year 5 classes are over our desired number of 23 stu-dents per class and we have an enthusiastic number of boys on our waiting list. We are very keen to ensure Wellesley’s roll remains around the 340-350 student mark so we are not looking to grow the roll as such. However, because of this new class, it will mean we can ensure a lower teacher/pupil ratio in each of the three Year 6 classes.

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We will be having our usual Year 7 intake each year but do not intend to increase the roll in this area of the school.

And finally ………. We have had staff from two schools visit us recently. Both were very interested in how boys’ learn and how we operated the school to provide for their needs. Another school visits early next term. Term 4 dates are 15 October to 14 December, with Juniors’ last day being Thursday 8 December. It is going to be a big week of productions so do enjoy! Kind regards Warren Owen Principal

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.

ARTBOURNE tickets went on sale last week and there is a window of opportunity for Wellesley families to get in first to this popular social and fundraising evening, until the end of this term, then tickets go open to the public and artists database. Check out the website for a taste of the artwork www.artbourne.org.nz or to book online.

Noah in full voice in ‘Going Green’.

LEARN TO PLAY TENNIS

Holiday Programme For Primary School Children

Supported by HVTA

Dates: Monday 8, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 Octo-

ber, 2012. (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: $30-00 for the 3 days. Money to be paid on the first

day.

Registration: Contact Gary Nelson –Ph. 5897178 or Email -

a.nelson@xtra.co.nz

By—Monday 1 October, 2012.

EARLY ENROLMENT is advised as this programme is

very popular and the

first 12 enrolments in each age group will be accepted.

Wellington Collegians Junior Cricket Club Play Cricket this summer – Our clubrooms are at the picturesque Anderson Park at the Botanical

Gardens (next to the Rose Gardens)

Wellington Collegians is the Capital’s leading junior cricket club. We have teams from Nursery Grade to Premier – catering for primary school boys and girls of all ages and abilities. Enrolments are open for the 2012-2013 season. This can be done online on www.collegians.org or in person at our Enrolment Day on Saturday 22 September, 9.30am – 12.00pm at our Ander-son Park Clubrooms at the Botanic Gardens (next to the Rose Gardens). For any enquiries, please contact Grant on admin@collegians.org or 0275575545. If you would like to know more about Nursery Grade (Year 0 – Year 1) Marty ReadT: 475 9009 or email readeire@gmail.com

October Holiday Programme Eve and Olivia Owen will be running a 3 day holiday

programme from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd October.

Art and Craft activities

Technology and other challenges Games and out door activities.

Years 5- 8 - sisters and friends welcome. $110 -3 days. $75- 2 days.

Please email eve@wellesley.school.nz

October Holiday Programme @ Waterloo School, 1 – 12 October 2012.

The Holiday Programme is open over the school holidays from 7.30 am- 6.00pm. Our quality pro-gramme offers exciting field trips, fun games, art & craft and sport activities for primary aged children. Our experienced team members are looking forward to meeting your child. All staff trained and police vet-ted. For enquiries and/ or enrolment please ph. 234-6440 or e-mail afterschool.funclub@xtra.co.nz. The programme is OSCAR approved. Everyone welcome

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2012/13 children's athletics season

Were your children inspired by the Olympics? Is the next Nick Willis or Valerie Adams living in your house? You could find out this summer. If your child enjoys running, jumping and throwing, then athletics could be for them. Lower Hutt Amateur Athletic Club is one of Wellington's most success-ful junior athletics clubs. Its trained coaches pro-vide expert tuition and a pathway to competitive athletics for children aged 7-15. The club is holding a registration night for the 2012/13 season on 19 September, 6pm to 7.30pm at the upstairs grandstand room, Hutt Recreation

School Holidays at the New Zealand Police Museum It's going to be a fun two weeks at the New Zealand Police Museum these holidays. Grab a clipboard and follow trails of 'evidence' in our Operation series, unrav-el our latest Junior Detective Mystery or join us for our Scene of Crime Officer Workshops. Plus we have all the usual favourites including police uniform dress ups and the M.O.T. motorbike; they make a great photo op-portunity for the young and the young at heart! With so much on offer we're sure we'll see you at the New Zea-land Police Museum these school holidays. We are open 10am to 5pm Wednesday to Saturday and general admission is FREE. Scene of Crime Officer Workshops Come along to the New Zealand Police Museum and learn how to identify, dust and lift fingerprints like a Sce-ne of Crime Officer! In this half hour workshop our new-est recruits will learn the tricks of the trade using real police equipment.

Bookings essential - spaces are limited to 15 chil-

dren per workshop so please call (04) 238 3141 to se-cure your place.

Suitable for children aged 7 to 13 years, adult su-

pervision required.

Wednesday to Saturday in the school holidays,

2pm. $5 per child New Zealand Police Museum Royal New Zealand Police College Papakowhai Road, Porirua, Wellington. e: museum@police.govt.nz

ONSLOW AMATEUR ATHLETICS CLUB

2012/13 Season Registration Weekly training and competition for all

children aged 6 - 15 years Monday evenings (5.50 - 7.20pm)

at Nairnville Park, Khandallah Season begins 29th October

Register online now: www.sportsground.co.nz/onslowaac