BOTANY DOWNS SECONDARY COLLEGE • BULLETIN • EDITION NUMBER 13 • WEEK 8 TERM 4 2017 PAGE 2 CONTENTS 17 16 14-15 13 12 9-11 8-9 6-8 5 4 3 KEY DATES ALUMNI NEWS BizTech Results 2017 SPORTS PerformanceHigh Athletic Programme Visual &Performing Arts Careers OUR SCHOOL Junior ScienceGATE Biology Science OUR SCHOOL Maatangi Whenua Geography Quiz Field TripWaitomoto Passchendaele GeographyOUR SCHOOL Finalists 2017 Bee Spelling Itinerant MusicProgramme 2018 CurriculumOUR SCHOOL A Growth Mindset Your Donation School Haka to Farewell Departing Staff Member OUR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE 575 Chapel Road,575 Chapel Howick, Business Manager:Business 027 2935701 Senior Caretaker: 027 3617319 reporting outof hours incidents Important contact numbers for Telephone: 2732310 www.bdsc.school.nz Fax: 2738551 PAGE 3 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. that make adifferencewill in yourlife, withall of them zerorequiring talent! Last atweek theGraduation Dinner for our departing Year 13s, Ishared tenwith theaudience things gaining recognition both locally andnationally with their endeavours. by our staff. dedicated abeen It has very busy and successful year with our students and staff ahead. We continue to offer excellent learning through personalised learningexperiences supported As theschool year ends, itisagreat timeto reflect onthe yearbehind usas we look to the year Dear Parents, Caregivers andGraduates, PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Principal Karen Brinsden Warm regards To oneandall, have a safe andrelaxing break over theholiday season. for their andtheir contribution to throughout thecollege successes this year. I would to like end the year by congratulating staff for their commitment and passion, and students We look forward to hearing from our graduates their andalumniabout achievements inthe future. The key to ishaving happiness dreams andthekey dreams to ismakingthose success cometrue.

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PAGE 4 Mrs Robyn Newman-Hall years of serviceto the BDSCcommunity. spoke onbehalf of thestudent body inappreciation of Mrs Auger’s Booker-Taylor Little (10K6). (9J5) and Isobelle Lead students also The haka boys were by led (12E8),Alex andthegirlsby Hill Ngahuia hungry Botany students. years with theschool, Mrs Auger cameinto contact with hundreds of in 2004, filling intheuniformroles shopandcafe. Duringher fourteen Mrs Auger sincebefore hadbeen with thecollege itofficially opened member of staff, thesupport Mrs Mary Anne Auger. haka,the school Tuu Kotahi, asashow of respect for along-serving In Week Three alarge group of students from all year levels performed MARYMRS ANNEAUGER HAKA TO FAREWELL DEPARTING STAFF MEMBER, OUR SCHOOL The FinanceOfficer from InlandRevenue. Remember you can claimpart of your donation school asarebate payment ininstalments for theparent donation, campand fees. With any of theabove payment options we are to acceptwilling bank statement. donation, etc. trip school asreference information to appear onour family and first name of the student, theitem you are paying for i.e. Secondary College. Itisimportant with thisoption to record the Bank account number 12-3040-0700750-01, Botany Downs • Internet banking: orbdsc.school.nz [email protected]. If you require a form for automatic payments please j.johnston@ email • Automaticpayments: • Eftpos • Credit card • Cheque We offer the following payment options to families: PAYMENTS: magazine. • Families who pay thedonation receive a free copy of theschool 10% discount if the2018donation ispaid in • full by theendof Term 12018 15% discount if the2018donation• ispaid in full by 15 December 2017 below are thediscounts: We offerdiscounts to who families pay the donation early, detailed DISCOUNTS: free.be will families with three or more students, thethird andconsecutive student donationThe school for 2018 remainwill at $275.00per student. For YOUR DONATION SCHOOL University, andthe Co¬Founder of Dr Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford brain.” can reach any levels of inmath because plasticity theincredible of the math person andthat thelatest research usthat istelling students to students. messages mindset” Help them know that everyone is a and parents believe this. Itisreally important to communicate “growth resoundinglyThis has been disproved by research but many students idea are that somepeople born with a “math brain” andsomeare not. “There isareally damagingmyth that inthe pervades world – the smart enoughto solve it… or have you just not solved it yet? a problemabout that is slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not View this circumstances.” and achieve personal excellence, regardless of their individual andempowers“The curriculum supports students all to learn The New Zealand Curriculum. Growth mindset closely aligns with thehighexpectations principle in children andtheir beliefs learning about andintelligence. thetermcoined ‘growth after mindset’ researching thebehaviour of Dr Carol professor Dweck, of Psychology at Stanford University, first developed.can be A growth mindset istheunderstanding andintelligence that abilities GROWTH MINDSET You might to like take the resources provided by NZCurriculum Spotlight Complied by Prasad Patchigalla, Head of Digital Technologies, with the outdistantSeek horizons andcherishthose you attain. Ko te pae tawhiti, whāia kiatata; ko te pae tata, whakamaua kiatina mindset. This assessment isuseful for students, parents andteachers. TED talk where Dr two Carolways describes Dweck to think mindset assessment mindset youcubed . to learn more about your Webpage . PAGE 5 school extremely school well. The level of performance was outstanding andDerek represented the students to compete in the final which was held on SundayOctober. 22 minute programme from memory and was asoneof selected thetop 6 (12E8) was our representative. He performed 20 achallenging 21 October. Only oneentry per ispermitted andDerek school Long The first round of the Ronisch Piano Competition was heldonSaturday RONISCH PIANOCOMPETITION an excellent opportunity to learn aninstrument. Application Form isalsoavailable onOffice365 -Music page. Thisis continue nextwith lessons year, to complete alsoneed a form. The studentsThose who are learning aninstrument this year, and wish to Music Department by Tuesday 5December. to our website and complete an application form, and return it to the you would to like learn amusicalinstrument next year, please on log Applications for the Itinerant Music Programme for 2018 are open. If are timetables to have their hours. duringschool lessons toschool give group small tuition to students. selected The students of instrumental music. This involves teachers specialist comingto the The Ministry of Education fund number asmall of hours for thetuition 2018 THE ITINERANT MUSICPROGRAMME OUR SCHOOL 3rd Diya Chottera 10J11 2nd Natalie Lau10B7 Vivienne Tam1st 10B7 In the Year 10 final the winners were: 3rd =Shanice Tan 9J11andSara Ng9D9 2nd Vaishnavi Pillay 9K6 1st Jennifer Ham9J11 In the Year 9Final, the winners were: 27th November. students madeitthrough to the finals, which were heldonMonday One, asmaller number competed inthesemi-finals andtwo dozen Bee. annual Spelling studentsAll in Years 9and10competed inRound In the afterweeks thejunior exams department theEnglish heldits FINALISTS 2017 BEE SPELLING PAGE 6 study, butthat isanimportant part of New Zealand’s history. Battle of Passchendaele, anevent notwe did know before about this interested consideringheisonly six. We alsolearned alot the about happen?” Harry to have seemed learned alot and was surprisingly inthatmany onebattle. died people Heeven asked us “did that really Harry really seemed interested inour story andhe was at amazed how thestories.about to tell each group what hethought of their andto askquestions book to read andassess. Harry then Studies lesson visited usduringaSocial that 9J11createdThe books were given all to six year oldHarry Muir in theBattle of Passchendaele. saved how him and about eight hundred and forty three soldiers died wearing. Hetells hisage, themhow about how about helied hispony when hetells hisgrandchildren themeaning thepoppy behind heis his age in orderabout to go to war. The story unfolds in his backyard battle. toWe base decided our story around agrandfather who lied Grandpa’s Horse “Patch” andhow hesaved Grandpa’s life duringthe Our group’s book was titled “Passchendaele Pony”, andtold thetaleof was appropriate for that age, was achallenge. we hadlearned into that asix abook year oldcouldunderstand and as rhyming couplets. We drew our all own illustrations. Turning what this dreadful battle. We researched thebattle before writing thestory create anunderstanding of that thestruggles thesoldiers withstood in Battle of Passchendaele that took place100 years ago. We thisto did to produce children’s theexperience of about books soldiers inthe was part of our Studiescourse, Social 9J11hadto work ingroups In order to gainsomeunderstanding about World War One, atopic that World War One: The Battle of Passchendaele - 100 years ago PASSCHENDAELE OUR SCHOOL 9J11 Dani King, Simran Singh, and Jasmine Goodwin Aarohi Karandikar Of themeninNew Zealand, thisdread.”who witnessed “This day inHistory, was quite asuffer.” Grandpa Said, Would never againgo hometo their mothers. For themanby my sideand842others, I was scared for my life and for those heart’swhose pounded, We reached thesand, andour troops were surrounded, And as throughwe trudged themud to slip, we began Our biggest weapons were left ontheship, far from our reach, We couldn’t get there, mud was inthe way, ground andthesolid was beach, On the12thof October early inthe morning we landed far from the This isanextract from our book: PAGE 7 identified even morelimestone amazing structures andtheir features. onto thebusandtravelled to theRuakuriBushReserve, where we also madethetour very engaging!Later that day back we hopped taught us a lot thecaves about andtheglowworms there living and we saw thousandsof glowworms hangingabove us. The Caves staff the history of them. The boat tour at the end was magical as especially very interesting to learn the about way in which they were formed and favourite part of asthecaves thetrip were soremarkable andit was before setting outto visit the Waitomo Glowworm Caves. This was my The adventure continued day, onthesecond with anearly wake up remember thestunning scenery andamazingexperience. we reached the breathtaking falls where took manywe all photos to where we saw evidence of vegetation andstratification, succession to theMarokopa Falls. After aquick walk through thelushnative bush over thousandsof years. backWe onthebusandtravelled thenhopped structure and were fascinated learning how about formed ithadbeen NaturalMangapohue Bridge, we were in awe all of this amazing natural Region, enjoying thescenery as we went. Heading out west to the ontoWe climbed thePacific Tourwaystravelled busand to the Waikato making many new friends from both theclasses. before. We got alsoall to know each other somuch better onthistrip, students asmost of onthetrip ushadnever to the been Waitomo area Ruakuri Reserve. This was anew andexciting experience for the all NaturalMangapohue Bridge, the Waitomo Glowworm Caves and the Waitomo hasto offer.discovering Thisincluded theMarokopa Falls, the the opportunity to visit many of thestunning karst that landscapes recently went on an overnight trip field to Waitomo where we had As part of our study of karst landscapes, thetwo Year 10IGEO classes Investigative Geography TOFIELD TRIP WAITOMO OUR SCHOOL Deema Alasadi 10J5 Alasadi Deema Brodie Miss for organising andtakinguson this trip. field experience! Thank you to Mr Sequeira, Mr Trevelyan, Bruceand Miss recommend to thistrip any Year Tens next year asit was anincredible as we interacted fromwith people both classes. I would definitely Overallsleep! it was agreat trip. Iamsure of all usmadenew friends although we were all very tired and we ready to get home for abig lots of new the about knowledge Waitomo Region andlimestone rock, our thegeographersThis concluded andall trip incredible left with PAGE 8 Written by Bond(11S10)andKiara Madison Garrow (11K6) next year. We would recommend the2018 year 11’s take part inthecompetition and everyone enjoyed theconcept of given itandthechallenges to us. didn’t know alot of theanswers). It was agreat event to participate in throughout the night and had heaps of fun with it (considering we differentabout of aspects Geography. gotWe all super competitive Geography and left the event with a much wider range of knowledge Throughout the competition, we learnt a variety of things related to points outof 178. Our BDSC A team up19th ended with 84points. In theend, theBDSCBteam amazingly placed 5th with atotal of 121 each activity, thepoints all were totalled up for each team competing. related to them, anddoing various involving activities map work. After of playdough, locate inNew places Zealand, identify places with facts points. requiredThe challenges usto make geographical features out as ashavingwell two current events inbetween quizzes for extra We had to complete various related challenges to geographical topics, different stations, each of whichhad be completedto in ten minutes. Low andCassie Vickers. The competition required usto goaround six Bond.Madison The BDSCBteam was madeupof Codie Lockie, Abi The BDSC A team, consisted of Donovan Mclean, Kiara Garrow and In total, there were twenty-five teams competing inthecompetition. Maatangi Whenua Geography Quizat Saint Cuthbert’s College. On Monday 14 August, a group of six Year 11 students took part in the MAATANGI WHENUA GEOGRAPHY QUIZ OUR SCHOOL Level 2andLevel 3. basis of study for students who carry onto study Biology at NCEA Adaptation and Conservation. These fundamental concepts form the The focus of our this trip year was to cover thebasic ideas of Speciation, Gifted Science (Biology) And Talented Enrichment trip. accompanied 46students from Year 9and10to Auckland Zoo onthe Biology teachers Mrs Darby, Mrs Husted, Ms Leilua and Mr Gilbertson Junior ScienceGATE (Biology) Graeme Gobey 10E8 tothis trip any enthusiastic Biology andsciencestudent. and contribution toimportance survival of theorganism. Irecommend Zealand’s wildlife. Now Icanidentify adaptations anddetermine their extended my understanding of thetraits and adaptations of New that Ireceived onthistrip was enrichingto my learning. It further Ithoroughly enjoyed theScienceBiology GATE trip. The Information Here is what someof themhadto say their about day: talented junior students. learning opportunity that to atrip presented thezoo to our gifted and the students. The weather was fabulous anditcertainly the enhanced employed to conserve our uniquekiwibird towere alsodescribed world when they visited Africa, South America and Australia. Methods of not only our butinteresting own species from species around the the zoo. Students were alsoableto at look adaptations for survival wonderful of collection native andendemic New Zealand at Species the geographical history of New Zealand andthrough the seeing introducedwere species pest explained to our students by explaining The uniqueanddiverse native andtheimpact of andendemicspecies PAGE 9 CONTINUED Junior ScienceGATE (Biology) OUR SCHOOL Matthew Carson 10D3 the walk around that thezoo we got to doby ourselves. howlike the kea istheonly mountain parrot in the world. Ialsoenjoyed around theNew Zealand parts of asIlearnt thezoo things somecool Gondwanaabout (thesuper continent). Ienjoyed tour theguided mammal theNew Zealand lesser short-tailed bat. We were taught New Zealand of anditsspecies plants andreptiles and itsoneendemic I enjoyed thesciencebiology it trip was alot of fun. We learnt about Sean Feldman 10E2 them. about biology.choose We saw many part animals but the best was learning 10 students. We got to see what Year 12and13students learn if they nocturnal. Overall, thetrip was agreat experience for us Year 9and the kiwishadto inthedark be for they themto comeoutbecause are part was not seeing where I was walking inthekiwienclosure because that helpthemsurvive intheenvironment they live in. My least favourite and learning the structural about and behavioural features of animals animals. My favourite part of the whole trip was goingto thekiwis see went to Africa, we saw zebras, giraffes, pink andmany flamingos other into groups to at look animalsthat live around the world. My group together to goto acafé intheZoo to have lunch. After lunch, we went islands andthehighcountry. After that activity, gatheredwe all back at animals that live in areas the like forest, the wetlands, the coast, the native animalsareas to in fill everythingbooklet. inthe We had to look thestudentsall into split groups little to goaround theNew Zealand animals andhow that themsurvive helps inthe wild. After morning tea, had to in fill structuralbehavioural and features ofdifferent types of the trip, thestudents all got to booklets handed in fill at the zoo. We were asked. After that tour, thestudents all hadmorning tea. Before was really interesting and enjoyedwe all answering thequestions we the animalslive in, how they survive andtheir adaptations. The talk educator told how usabout theanimalshadevolved, theenvironment us atour showing usanimalsthat are native to New Zealand. The zoo Native animalsarea. Each group got itsown staff member whogave intothen split 2groups and were around guided theNew Zealand why Auckland Zoo isso unique to other Zoo’s around the world. We were shown a slideshow of how New Zealand got its animals and and teachers to aroom insideof theNew Zealand area. animals’ We arrivedall at theZoo, we met oneof thestaff. the all students Sheled that Y12 and Y13 students learn if that subject. we choose When we students who went to got onthetrip learn theprivilege Biology about students from each whanau went to onatrip the Auckland Zoo. The On the 16thof November, four Y9 and Y10 gifted and talented Jennifer Cao 9E2 Overall theday combinationwas of agood study andhaving fun. eating leaves, it was really cool. Ialsoenjoyed watching thezebra. the day was visiting the Africa of section the zoo. I saw the giraffes Having aday at Auckland Zoo was anice experience. My highlight of PAGE 10 Alex Ferreira BDSCparticipantwon thebest award. Cam Clark’s team won aprize for placing first inone of the events and tea andlunch, andtouch and volleyball duringthebreaks. games friends. Students alsohadanopportunity to over bond agreat morning teams andby theendof theafternoon, theteam members were firm College. The organisers skilfully puttheinitially shy students into mixed College, Manurewa College School, andOtahuhu laSalle High De Other inattendance schools were Christian Elim College, Tangaroa assessmentthe occasional to completed. be exciting ventures onoffer to junior students at thistime of the year, and 10 students decreased participation insize dueto nominees’ inother 10E8, Manjot Mann10J5 and Cam Clark10D3. Our initialgroup of Botany Downs Secondary College was represented by Alex Ferreira continues into Year 11, 12and13. choices, with a focus onleadership andteamwork. This programme from other receive schools; career guidanceabout planningand future is anexciting, fun-filled day where students team up with students 640 Great SouthRoad, Manukau. The Year 10My Future programme group of students to Year 10My Future AUT at theSouthCampus, On Wednesday 22 November, Mrs Drum, Careers Advisor, took a small YEAR 10My Future AUT OUR SCHOOL to celebrate thedepth andacknowledge of talent at our school. Uxbridge Arts Centre was alovely venue andset adelightful atmosphere Thursday, 26October 2017. We celebrated the fourth annual Visual &Performing arts Awards on PERFORMINGVISUAL ARTS AND AWARDS PAGE 11 CONTINUED PERFORMINGVISUAL ARTS AND AWARDS OUR SCHOOL PAGE 12 emailed outshortly.emailed to institute abreak over theChristmas period. Details of this be will Holiday training times, will vary from the past and we may be forced familiar with theroutines andthelevels of effort required. not ashighin the past butthis increasewill asthey more become Currently, we have mostly juniors andtheintensity of is thesessions for outcome. apositive only increase thequality of each training butalsothe session volume is theemphasisonrecovery sothat emerging these athletes cannot and Nutrition visualisation are both integral parts of theprogramme, as careerssporting beyond college. up with movement patterns which shouldensure longevity intheir 450 training sessions, remained injury free and have set themselves Started in 2013, a number of emerging athletes have completed over beyond their current posture and current movement ability. analysis andrehabilitation sothat athletes canset themselves goals time. As far as we are aware noother inNew school Zealand undertakes strategy regarded has been practice as best internationally for some patterns” are the way of the future in New Zealand, however this Recently have articles mentioned that “core functional movement programmes have received somuchnegative press. early peakingand “stress injuries” where secondary sports school emerging athletes andisstructured to avoid of theissues “burn out”, The Programme at islooking thelong time development of its PerformanceHigh Athletic Programme here at BDSC. programme who have committed to attend 300sessions with the thestudents toWe all acknowledge need who are new to the P H OUR SCHOOL ROGRAMME IGH P ERFORMANCE A THLETIC PAGE 13 Taylor Irwin, 9J5 up againnext year. players new to baseball, and can’twe all wait for theseason to start The whole team played really overwell the3days, some including tournament, and Taylor Irwin, receiving pitcher best andMVP. All-Tournament Team, andto Tui Amosa, 9B7, receiving batter of the Taylor Irwin, 9J5, and Brent Mouat, 10K6, for in the named being took out first place, national championsagain! Congratulations to then kept thelead andmercied them12-2 in the5thinnings. Botany scoreHill the first run, butBotany came back andscored 4. Botany The first two innings were close, thescoreskeeping to 0-0. One Tree We arrived ready on Wednesday, for the final against One TreeHill. advancing to the final on Wednesday. We then played the semi final againstbeat Glendowie and them 14-0 playin the pool final game,beat and them by ahugescore of 10-0. another big win again One Tree Hill. The next day we played Glendowie, Botany started off withabig winagainst Auckland Grammar andthen College andGlendowie College.Hill National Competition, against Auckland Grammar School, One Tree baseballThe school team recently took part inthe Junior College BASEBALL OUR SCHOOL PAGE 14 Quinnlan is1of 215 year oldsto part be of theU20’s training squad. – (1of 8 Juniors to to selected goupandtrain be with theUnder 20’s) toSelected train part andbe of theNYC U20’s NZ Vodafone Warriors Awards 2017 Received thePassionate Award for the NZ Junior Vodafone Warriors 3rd(placed ) Represented Counties Stingrays U15’s for theNationals inRotorua – (lost inthe final 8-6) Played and captained the Manurewa U15’s Marlins SHARKS team – to Samoa) Made the Tonga U15’s team for theNational Pacific Cup –(lost in final Manurewa representative Marlins andthe youngest player incamp) in the NZ RugbySelected League U16’s Camp – Cambridge (The only Cup.Wiki Made andcaptained the Auckland Vulcans U16’s Team for theRuben Warriors Trained 3days a atweek MtSmartStadium. January 22nd2017 a3 – Signed year contract with theNZ Vodafone what elseQuinnlan achievewill in years to come. Here is a list below of his achievements this year. We are excited to see selected forand being various teams. Quinnlan Tupou (11D3)hashada very successful year representing TUPOU QUINNLAN SPORTS OUR SCHOOL Elise Elise Whickman-Walker (10J11) – Auckland U14Girls Girls Tayla Hawes Blakeman (10B1) and Rebecca (11E8) – Auckland U16 Tournament. in December to represent Auckland Football at theNational Age Group representative teams for Football. They travelling be will to Wellington Congratulations to the following who have made Auckland FOOTBALL REPRESENTATIVES m Tea Shravan Dayal (9S4)andEzra Bond(9S10) – Counties Manukau U15 Counties Manukau U17 Team Guy Burden (10S4), FenningAlec (10K6)andEzekiel Ng(10E2) – U19 Team Tyler (12D3) and Sheamus Hing Power (12D3) – Counties Manukau Representative Programme for the2018season: Congratulations to the following who have madetheCounties Manukau REPRESENTATIVES (13S4) – Auckland U21Mixed Team Taylor Kennard (12D3), Nathan Clark (13D9) and Corne Ludick and Caleb Nyantachi (12B7) – Auckland U18Mixed Team Caitlin Nauer (11J5), GeorgeAlijah (12J11), Lantze Davids (12D3) Eliza Hay (12S4) – Auckland U18GirlsSquad (10J11) – Auckland U16Mixed Team Kaitlyn Apaipora (11B7), Hanro Botha (10B1) and Riley Campbell Jayde McDowall (9S10) – Counties Manukau U16GirlsRed Team Manukau U16Mixed Team Quinnlan Tupou (11D3)andMalachi Te Haki(10B7) – Counties attending be NZ will Touch Nationals inearly 2018. Representative teams for the2017/2018season. ofAll students these the acknowledge following for makingtherespective Touch Rugby With thecompetitive Touch season approaching, we would to like TOUCH REPRESENTATIVES for hisServiceto Secondary Sport. School (13K6) a finalist for Triathlon andMr Alan Taylor who was recognised Brooke Davies (11J5) was a finalist forGymsports, SophieSkelton three intheir individuals nominated sport. at thisevent is very prestigious andmeans theathlete isoneof thetop of the Year awards onNovember 23 for 2017. To asa named finalist be BDSC hadthree finalists attend the Sport College Young Sportsperson COLLEGESPORT YOUNGSPORTSPERSON OF THE YEARAWARDS PAGE 15 : Leianne Tufuga (11B7) Lacrosse: (12K12) Ogle Mica Hockey Girl: ChittendenJessica (13J5) Hockey Boy: Oliver Burnett (12S10) Golf: Jay-Michael Lindsay (11S4) Football Girl: Hayley Miller (12J11) Football Boy: CarsonJoshua (12S4) Cross Country: MoniquePrime(10D9) Girl: Rachel Kilgour (13K6 Cricket Boy: Sayed Rihan (11D3) Basketball Girl: SophiaHerewini (11K12) Basketball Boy: Kyle Cole (13B1) Baseball: Aaron Mouat (13K6)andHarry Valk (13J11) Badminton Girl: Ashley Tan (9J11) Badminton Boy: Jayvin Ang (12K6)andKelvin Ang (12K6) Athletics: Tafito Lafaele (12S10) Archery: IsaacEllery (13B7) Rounder,All Female: NgapipiHerewini (12K6) Rounder,All Male: Ruben Van der Merwe (12K12) MOST VALUABLEPLAYERS Personality of the Year: Mr Cull Nicholas Student Volunteer of the Year: Jerecho Rivera (11E2) Supporter of the Year: Samuel Phillipa Manager of the Year: Burnett Melissa Coach of the Year: Mr Alan Taylor andPeter Samuel (13S4) Captain of the Year: NgapipiHerewini (12K6)and Armani Wright Team of the Year: Rugby 1st XV Fatupaito (13E8) The Kyle Heath MemorialCup, to Dedication Rugby: Nathaniel Thakur (13S4) Memorial The Mekellan Naidoo Trophy, to Dedication Football: Arjun MAJOR AWARDS recent Sports Awards dinner. Congratulations to therecipients of the MVPandMajor Awards at the SPORTS2017 ANNUAL AWARDS OUR SCHOOL Volleyball: Tafito Lafaele (12S10) Touch Girl: Caitlin Nauer (11J5) Touch Boy: Lantze Davids (12D3) Tennis Girl: Courtney Huff (12B1) Tennis Boy: Matt Shearer (10E8) Table Tennis:(13S4) Zhang Tianyu Swimming: Holly Ancliffe (12E8) Squash: Ruby (10S4) Saies Rugby: Otto Sanft (13E2)andIsikeli Vite (12B7) Orienteering:Anna Twyman (10B7) GreaterAuckland Touch Championships. Zone Boys A grade and as a result have invited been to take part in the Zones Girls A grade andtheBoys in3rdfinished placeinthe Eastern exceptionally well. inthe position The Girls Eastern in5th finished Junior Touch competition for Term 4. Both teams represented BDSC teamBDSC hadonegirlsandboys entered into theEastern Zone TOUCHJUNIOR PAGE 16 1st Place: Botany DownsSecondary College 2nd Place: Heights Mission Junior College 3rd Place: Botany DownsSecondary College results werefollows:as With external judges, andeach team inunidentifiable team names, the taking part in2018. region took part, and we are hopingit growwill with more teams Approximately 14teams from 7schools from across the Auckland ofactivity thesubjects utilising Business, and Design Technology. technology solutionsto modern-day issues. Itisacross-curricular BizTech to create isdesigned acollaborative space to digital design BizTech Labs. interschool competition for Year 9 and Year 10 students named On Tuesday 28November 2017, we sponsored and hosted an BIZTECH LABS2017RESULTS OUR SCHOOL kate-waterhouse nz/1211/6/quals/215/ www.futureintech.org. https:// in GISsee career andcareers For more Kate’s about Defence area. doing more work in the Civil be Council whereshe will In December Kate anew begins jobat theBay of Plenty Regional is also very involved in with theNew Zealand GISUsers Group User Conference inSanDiego, the world’s largest GISconference. She In July, Kate represented the Western Bay of Plenty Council at theESRI groups data aligning within theemergency management sector. group iscurrently working with local, regional andcentral government also lead to Kate theco-founder being of theNZGIS4EM group. The that to responded the Edgecumbe earlierfloods this year. This work years, won her award for her Defencework intheCivil emergency team Kate who hasbeen working for the Council for thepast four andahalf communicate information to thecommunity. the field andthencreating maps from thedata for analysisand which as aGISanalyst. This involves working inateam, data outin collecting Systems) before at the gainingaposition Western Bay of Plenty Council Otago University inGIS(Geographicwhere Information shespecialised At BDSCKate took Geography andthenmajored at inthesubject (Year 13 2009) was as the announced Young Professional of the Year. At therecent New Zealand Spatial Excellence Awards, Kate Waterhouse YEAR: OF THE PROFESSIONAL EAGLE TECHNOLOGY2017 IS THE YOUNG ALUMNI NEWS. FORMER BDSCSTUDENT PAGE 17 Wednesday 26December Tuesday 25December Friday 14December Monday 22October Monday 15October Friday 28September Monday 23 July Friday 6 July Monday 4 June Monday 30 April Wednesday 25 April Friday 13 April Tuesday Monday 2 April 3 Friday 30March April Easter Tuesday 6February Thursday 1February Tuesday Wednesday 31 January Monday 29 January Thursday 25 January KEY DATES 2018

Christmas Day Term 3Ends Term 3Starts Term 2Ends Boxing Day Term 4Ends Labour Day Term 4Starts Queen’s Birthday Term 2Starts ANZAC Day Term 1Ends Easter Monday FridayGood Waitangi Day College starts on full timetable for ALL year levels. Arrive at 08:30am for an08:40amstart. Year 9Students ONLY new andall students to starting theschool in Year 10to Year 13 Term 1Starts Auckland Anniversary Day Holiday] [Public Senior Course Confirmation