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Welcome to "NUI 2020" ! This year saw the successful resurrection of the Hurunui College Formal. With COVID-19 restrictions our usual combined formal with Akaroa and Cheviot Area Schools could not go ahead which lead to disappointment for our Year 13s and other school leavers. So with the help of lots of people we resurrected our own formal. The Rugby Club Rooms were transformed by the Year 13s in to a venue to to proud of. We had been crossing our fingers, hoping for this day to happen! Unfortunately, with us still having Covid Level 2 restrictions in place, this was not able to go ahead as planned. But what could go ahead was a fun afternoon of 7 Aside between our own students! Students from 7 schools had been practising their games for the last 4 weeks, learning the rules and working in their teams to play each other on the day. Our year 10 students had been assigned teams to coach in all 3 sports and they did an awesome job of coaching the Junior students. After having to cancel all the schools coming to us, we had to hold our breath to see if the rain would stop for us to still be able to run it. Luckily it was meant to be! The clouds cleared, the sun shone, and we had a fun afternoon of Touch Rugby, Netball and Football. Just as the last round of sports was ending the dark and stormy weather hit again. We had two photographers snapping some action shots on the day, it was so heart-warming to see so many happy smiling faces playing sport in the fresh spring air and having fun with their teammates. Thank you to our PTA for holding the sausage sizzle lunch fundraiser, which proved to be very popular, the homemade muffins in particular! Thank you to everyone who supported this and helped on the day. Well done to all our amazing students for having a great attitude and showing great sportsmanship. This year we had our biggest number of riders this year. The competition was postponed a week because of the weather, this meant that Millie was not available to ride. Team One consisted of Darcy and Billie Ramsay, Caitlyn and Angus Ferguson. This was the first competition for these riders, they all did really well and came away with big smiles. Grace McKnight rode in the afternoon competition with a team from Sefton. This was her second year at the competition and she rode with confidence and had a good afternoon. Well done to all these riders, it is great seeing them all enjoy themselves and the dedication they all have towards their ponies. 
Every Friday, Exploring students participate in R.I.S.E. Time. This is a time to celebrate achieving our goals for the week and completing our work. Students get to choose from three options for activities run by Exploring teachers, and sometimes other teachers, learning assistants or parents. We even have an option to help with the younger students at Discovery Time. Some examples of activities so far this year are baking, drama, art, hair and nails, outside games, fort making, farmyard fun, science experiments and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities - to name a few. Here's what some of our students think: "You earn RISE Time by being responsible and kind to others. We get to play and choose what we want to do, and we learn new things." Hamish Thompson "We get RISE Time because we do all our work. I like that we get to join in and have fun with our friends. My favourite RISE activity is Knex and hot wheels." Angus Dench "I like how people join in together and how we get to do things we wouldn't normally do with people from other classes. My favourite RISE activities are Just Dance and Hair and Nails." Nicola Upritchard "It's a good reward for if you do good work and it's really fun way to finish the week. I like Ninja Warrior the best." Bailey Cattermole "I think it encourages people to do better work to earn RISE Time. My favourite activity is the outside games." Shea Kelly "RISE Time makes you feel like you have achieved something. You can do fun games with friends and people from other classes." Riley Abbott In Term 3 Kakariki Class studied the Viking Communities. We learnt lots of new facts about the Vikings. But our favourite thing was making shields and axes. Then we pretended to be Vikings going into battle. Here are some of Kakariki Class's thoughts on Vikings: One thing I learnt about vikings was that only boys wore makeup and that it was made out of berries. - Jens Vikings howl like howling animals and chew on their shields before going into battle. Patrick I think I would have been a girl viking because I like gardening. - Katie I liked making shields. - Stanley I learnt that animals live in the houses. - Mason Vikings have Dragon boats and are scary. - Pippa One thing I learned about Vikings was that they killed a lot of people. - Nico Vikings are brave and go hunting. - Frank I think I would have been the best viking because I can swim. - Kyana
 Kikorangi learnt about the amazing and ancient Egyptians. First we discovered what religion and beliefs they believe in. One belief that they strongly believe in were lots of Gods that had bird faces and maybe even lion or horse faces. We learnt about their civilization and irrigation. They used the Nile river a lot to get water, travel, and keep crops healthy. Then we see how they are mummified. They go through a long cleaning process. Egyptians believe that if they aren’t Mummified they won’t get through to the afterlife. A story is told that Howard Carter found Tutankamun’s sarcophagus and opened it. He was cursed. Some think it was a germ but others say it was magic. We drew ourselves as Pharaohs and wrote our own cartouches in hieroglyphics. We even made our own death masks for the after life.  Sophie Thompson received the Blake Young Leader Award this term for her excellent leadership and always trying to make a positive change in our community. The award was presented by Emma from Westpac and Sophie received a medal, framed certificate and a bag full of goodies. Sophie is an excellent role model to her peers and always challenges herself to be the best. She sits on the student council representing Kikorangi class, organises and run fun sporting clubs for her peers and younger students and is always positive and happy to help. The award is for Y5-8, so Sophie is one of the younger ones to receive this awesome prize. We hope it continues to inspire her and others to keep taking on more roles and opportunities and making our school and community a better place.
From the 10th to the 14th of September two of our students attended the NZ Barbarians Area School Rugby Camp at the International Rugby Academy of New Zealand (IRANZ) in Palmerston North. Luke Stern and Jacob Patron were selected to be part of the squad after their performance at the National Area Schools Sports Tournament in Rotorua during the July school holidays. The boys spent the week living and breathing rugby, with two to three coaching and training sessions a day, support by specialist resource coaches and the NZ Barbarians Area School coaching team. This included mental skills, position-specific and team structure coaching and training. The team played two games, a warm-up on Wednesday night against Whanganui and the main fixture on the Saturday morning against Manawatu. The team trained and performed exceptionally well during the week and game away with two wins. It was a great week and we trust that the boys will have got a lot out of the experience. Congratulations to both Luke and Jacob for being selected in the team and for their performance during the two games.  It was that time of the year again when Hurunui College, Akaroa and Cheviot Area schools came together to hold their annual formal. We had a very successful night at Addington Raceway with students enjoying the opportunity to dress formally and experience a more traditional evening out. |
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