which was fully enjoyed by the July 2021 several hundred in the audience
(who also appreciated the delicious They researched and expressed an food on offer!). aspect or concept that they were
Building an engaged, empowered, interested in from Te Kore - the I want to take this opportunity to and flourishing learning community great void to the creation of the that knows no limits, and where we thank the many members of the first female who then became honour ourselves, each other, and Samoan community who support Hinenui-Te-Po. Students were able the world around us. our young people, and, in the to choose a large format painting or words of our vision, contribute to a large format print. Our day trip to FROM THE PRINCIPAL Auckland in early term 2 was a ‘building an engaged, empowered Talofa lava and flourishing learning highlight as the entire show was structured on the Maori creation community’ in this place. narrative. Toi Tu Toi Ora- Last Wednesday and Thursday our Contemporary Maori Art illustrated Our Samoan Aiga did us proud at the power of Maori narrative and Pasifika group the Pasifika Fusion competitions its role in our unique cultural (Aiga) last week. We congratulate them tapestry and art world. participated in on their commitment and Pasifika Fusion. This was the leadership. And special thanks to This year the Level 2 & 3 Art’s regional secondary schools Pacific Whaea Vanessa for her students exhibit their work Festival held at the Regent on organisation, and Ms Paulo for the alongside students from Broadway in Palmerston North. massive support she provided for Whanganui High School at the Students from the Pacific had the making this event happen. Whanganui Community Arts opportunity to demonstrate their centre. The show titled Creation abilities in a range of categories Fa’afetai ma ia manuia lava Narratives is already up, the including culture, speech, talent, Tony Booker opening evening will be 5.30pm debate, quiz, poetry, essay, drama, PRINCIPAL Wednesday, 7th July. All friends and whanau are welcome. The cinematography, wearable arts, show runs till the 14 July and science and visual arts. CREATION MYTHS SENIOR ART opening hours are Monday - Friday EXHIBITION 2021 10am - 4pm and Saturday 10am - This year the theme was ‘Pacific 1pm. If you are in Whanganui, go Wellbeing’. The government’s along and check it out. ‘Lalaga Fou’ vision has four goals to foster this - thriving Pacific Vanessa Buerger languages, culture and identity; HOD Arts prosperous Pacific communities; resilient and healthy Pacific peoples; and confident, thriving and resilient Pacific young people. As a college, we fully support these goals and look to play our part in achieving them.
Almost all our Pasifika students are Samoan, and we highly value their rich contribution to our school community. A couple of weeks ago our Samoan group held a Fiafia
Night at school where they The first term of this year saw the highlighted their preparations for senior art students investigate the Pasifika Fusion and took the Maori creation story as a opportunity to showcase other fundamental part of our cultural Please note - The 2021 Rangitikei Youth performers from the school. It was history. Awards event has now been moved to Friday 8 July. a fabulous three-hour presentation www.rangitikeicollege.school.nz * Ph: +64 6 327 7024 * [email protected]
LEVEL 2 SPORT SCIENCE schools. We enjoyed drinks (juice) yummy lunch and chat with James CAMP IN WELLINGTON and helped ourselves to Subway Towers, from Mahi Tahi Rangitikei which Cullinane kindly provided for Employment Program, we headed us all. The evening was a time to to the Rangitikei District Council to step back from our roles and enjoy be greeted by the Mayor, Andy a more casual and entertaining Watson. It was awesome to hear night. how valuable the community of Marton is and how it will be growing in the future. Some of the employees came to talk to us about how they got into their various jobs
they have with the Council. It was a
great day. Earlier in June our Year 12 Sport Science class went on a camp to
Wellington. The purpose of our camp was to combine the concepts To end the event, we all came of whakatakototia (planning and together to personally reflect on organising), kotahitanga (working our time so far being prefects and together) and haumarutanga (risk head prefects. It was a fantastic management) to plan a fun, safe evening, and everyone had a great and learning-filled camp. We got to time. watch the Hurricanes final super rugby game of the season, try out Jade Gray the Adrenalin Forest high ropes Year 13 Prefect course, go swimming, bowling and LEARNING CONFERENCES ice skating and bond as a group. We are so grateful to Miss Thompson A big thank you to everyone who and Miss Aitken for giving up their attended the second learning weekend to come with us and Miss conferences held on the 29th and
Thompson's parents for letting us 30th of June. This time around the stay with them. focus was on academic progress in Another fantastic career event semester one and preparing for happened at Rangitikei College. We Erin Wigglesworth semester two. If for some reason had some awesome tertiary health Year 12 you have missed your conference, students visiting our school to talk
please contact the school office or to us about making sure we the ACM teacher to make an complete our secondary education appointment as soon as and perhaps pursue one of the possible. We believe in the many rewarding careers in rural importance of attending these as a health. This initiative is called the way for whanau to remain engaged Rural Health Promotions Program and to support their akonga. and the tertiary students who came are members of the rural health Tanya Sherborne student network, Students of Rural PREFECT EVENING Co-Director of Academic Mentoring Health Aotearoa (SoRHA).
On Tuesday night, our Prefect team headed to Cullinane college for the WHANGANUI CAREERS ROAD TRIPS second termly Prefect’s evening of the year. The night consisted of fun Several of our rangitahi took the activities and team building games opportunity to attend the first of that built a bond between all the two Vocational Road Trips prefect teams from high schools in organised by Rangitikei District the Rangitikei/ Whanganui area. Council, Mahi Tahi and Ngati Apa.
We talked about similarities and We learnt about the Te Kotuku differences within our roles and Hauora, Te Puna ETE, Researching, laughed at shared experiences even Forestry, Taonga Takaro and though we are all from different Meridian Cadetships. After a www.rangitikeicollege.school.nz * Ph: +64 6 327 7024 * [email protected]
Many of the tertiary students are Our junior players are well It is our hope that in time and with from rural backgrounds themselves supported by our senior leaders, this ability to structure our teams so could relate to us and were and we know that it is only a matter around a Game On attitude that we highly motivated to encourage us of time until we start to see the will be able to grow our rugby to realise that we can gain a tertiary scoreboard reflect all the hard program and eventually compete in qualification and, most work, they are putting in. a 15 a side game. Rugby has now importantly, become one of the been added as an IQ subject for many health professionals we so Our Junior Basketball team came those boys who are keen to badly need in our rural back from Whanganui at the end of develop their skills and represent communities. June with a winner's grin. The team the College in the Whanganui won 45-28 against Whanganui High competition. The third careers trip held in School B. Mr. John says the team is Whanganui was another fantastic growing in confidence and getting Our year nine rowing girls have experience. Manahi Cribb from more aggressive with driving to the recruited a new Coxswain for their Awa FM was the Master of basket. team. Hunter Shannon has put his Ceremonies for the day, and he was hand up to steer the girls up the a great encourager. We learnt The Footballers continue to river. After weeks of learning the about Navy Cadets, mastered the improve and impress. Their most strokes in separate boats teamwork tasks that Sport recent game against Collegiate accompanied by experienced Whanganui set us, nailed the beep resulted in a 3-1 victory. Collegiate rowers, the Rangitikei Quad headed test, realised that it is not just about were a great fun and fair team. Our down the river together in June. We looking good in a uniform and players implemented many of the are very fortunate to be supported became part of the Comm's team passing drills that Mrs. Rayner has by Aramoho Rowing Club. The club for the Civil Defence. The kai was been putting them through at has generously lent us two erg awesome too! A big thank you to all practice. Turns out practise makes machines so that our students can the people involved in organising perfect! get in some extra training this, especially our own Mrs throughout the winter months. Proctor and Miss Paulo for helping Rangitikei College is on a mission to Mrs Graham get us on the road. revive rugby for our students. It had been our hope this year to launch a Michelle Graham program for our U-15 Boys, Vocational Pathways however due to a lack of numbers and commitment from our SPORTS REPORT students we were unable to fully
launch the program at the It has been another successful The Rangitikei College Fun month of sport at the College. Our beginning of the rugby season. We are committed to developing a Run/Walk Series wrapped up on students continue to play on the the last Sunday in June. Thank you court and turf with respect, aroha culture within our school in which we expect our students to to all those participants who came and perseverance. They are out and supported the event each continuing to endeavor for sporting participate in and we will not stray from our own school values of Sunday. We loved hosting the success and for all their efforts we community on the College field and are tremendously proud. Respect, Endeavor, Aroha and Perseverance in the process of are looking forward to another series in warmer weather. A big Well done to our Netball girls who achieving the desired outcome in sport. thank you to New World Marton for continue to dominate their grades. their continued support of our Both teams sit at the top of their We have been in discussion with college events. table and continue to work hard at training to maintain their spot at Whanganui Rugby and have taken onboard their "Game On" School holidays are just around the the top. corner. Athletes enjoy the break approach. The Game On rules state we can play a team depending on and take some time out from sport Girls Hockey continues to battle in to recharge those batteries as we the top three spots in their grade. It our numbers. This means that if numbers restrict us to playing 10 a head into the second half of the is a close competition between the sporting year. top three teams and our girls are side, then we are still able to compete and our enthusiastic, neck and neck with Dannevirke for Emily Rayner 2nd place. Boys Hockey has had committed students will not miss out on their entire rugby season. Sport & Recreation Director some very close losses this month. www.rangitikeicollege.school.nz * Ph: +64 6 327 7024 * [email protected]
HOUSE COMPETITION Photographs can be viewed and
This month Ruahine hosted the purchased by going to ‘Peter inter house competition and chose McDermott Photographer’ Facebook page. football as their sport. Well done to all students who came out and Deborah Jorgensen played or supported their fellow Year 12/13 Dean students. Ruahine were victorious in the competition claiming first PASIFIKA FUSION place, Kaweka in second, Tararua in third and Kaimanawa in fourth Blueberry Farm Manager Tony place. explaining the operation of the Blueberry Farm.
SMOKEFREE ROCKQUEST
It was a cold early start for 11 students and their teacher, Whaea Vanessa and assistant Miss Paulo, at the annual Pasifika Fusion competition held at the Regent in Palmerston North last month. Also joining them were their tutors Mary Laki and Tavita and former student, Tia Wright.
Paeroa with her brother and ex- Maddi Marriner and Denise Pio were entered in the cultural Congratulations to Jessamy Cottis student Hunia who works in the 22 performance held at midday, and on her 1st place win at the tunnel houses growing blueberries. two group items were selected by Whanganui Regional finals judges to be performed later at the of Smokefree Rockquest, Solo/Duo Judy Proctor evening concert, which they did category. Also, well done to Aviy Gateway with the same energy as they put Cruz, Bronson Belk, and Liam SENIOR SCHOOL BALL into their earlier performances. Green on a great performance. All students represented our school well and demonstrated our three pouwhenua with pride.
Ayden Hancy TIC of Music
VOCATIONAL ROAD TRIPS Our girls performed beautifully, and it all came together on the night. The weeks and months of practice and fundraising culminated into a fantastic day and evening.
Yvonna Paulo
IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP
Wed 7 Jul , 5.30pm Open evening of Markaia with Beekeeper Angela. Te The Rangitikei College Ball was held Creation Narratives at the Hou Farms have 550 beehives on Saturday 26th June. The Whanganui Community Arts Centre which make 11-13 tons of Manuka students spent the evening in an Wed 7-14 July Creation Narratives Honey a year. Beehives are colour Enchanted Forest, with over 3000 fairy lights. A big thank you to the Fri 9 Jul Last day of Term 2 coded so bees can find their way back out of the blueberry tunnels, year 13 Ball Committee for their Mon 26 Jul Term 3 begins ideas and preparation in making back to the same beehive. this event a success. www.rangitikeicollege.school.nz * Ph: +64 6 327 7024 * [email protected]