Issue 03/20 NEWSLETTER 7 Aç¦çÝã 2020 Kia ora, Kia orana, Talofa Lava, Fakalofa lahi atu, Malo e lelei, Namaste, As-salāmu ‘alaykum, Ni Hao, Bula Vinaka, Greetings Parents and Caregivers Our Open Day and Information Evening this year is being Welcome to Term 3. What a busy first three weeks it held on 26 August— much later than usual due to Covid has been! 19— please will you tell anyone you know who may be First of all I would like to thank you all for participat- interested in sending their daughters to AGGS about our ing in the Three Way Learning Conversations that Open Day and we will look forward to welcoming them to we held at the end of Term 2. Our teachers have our school. We have put an Open Day video on our web- reported that they found the opportunity to interact site which you may enjoy having a look at with you in a more meaningful way to be of real http://www.aggs.school.nz/ and a flyer is on the back page value and we hope that your experience was similar. of this Newsletter. We have a lot of exciting events coming up this term. Ngaire Ashmore, Principal
This term we are looking forward to: CAREERS WEEK 10 to 14 August 10—14 August— Careers Week 10 August - Yr 12 Bus Stds Market Day Monday: Trades & Manufacturing 11—14 August—12 PED on the Ropes Course Woodwork demonstration and Building block games— Study Hall at Lunchtime 12 August—Lacrosse Championship Talks with Occupational Therapist and Social Worker— 12 August— Excel Lunchtime Concert tutor time Jubilee library. 12 August—Yr 13 Geography Trip Tuesday: Creative Industries 17 to 21 August—AGGStraordinary Week Creative Walkway—Study Hall 18 August—Yr 12 Academic Pathway Interviews Hairdressing by Servilles Academy—lunch Talks with Occupational Therapist and Nursing Tutor— 18 August—BoT Finance Cttee Meeting tutor time Jubilee Library. 19 August—Yr 12 Geography Muriwai Trip Wednesday Primary Industries 19 August—MATHEX Flower arranging by MIT Floristy—lunch Study Hall 25 August—Board of Trustees Meeting 5.30 p.m. Talks with a Doctor and Pacific Health Promoter Tutor time 26 August—OPEN DAY and Information Evening Thursday Social and Community Services 26 August— Yrs 11 & 12 Puhoro Wananga Playing with feelings game—Recess in Study Hall 26 August—Dance Showcase in the DWC 6 p.m. Talks with Social Workers—tutor time and lunch A239 27 August—Yr 11 Academic Pathway Interviews Talks with a Podiatrist and Dentist—Tutor time Friday Service Industries 28 August—Yr 13 AHS trip to MIT School of Nursing 28 August— Daffodil Day Courtroom debating - Lunch in Study Hall Talks with Techtorium - Lunch 4 September—Founding Day Assembly Talks with Community Nurse and Ultrasound Techni- 9 September—Collegiality concert day cian—tutor time—Jubilee Library
11 September—English Day 13 September—Old Girls Association Afternoon Tea 17 September—Election for BOT Student Rep 22 September—Board of Trustees Mtng 5.30 p.m. 24 September—Progress reports sent home 25 September—Last day of Term 3 26 September—The AGGS School Ball
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STEM WEEK Want to make your own lava lamp?
To kick off Term 3, STEM week took place in Week 2. What you will need: On Monday students were invited to create their own unique Small clear jars; A supply lava lamps, personalised slime and show their magnificent of cold water; Food colour- artistic talents creating milk-candy art. Every student made a ings; Vegetable oil; Alka- special version of slime and an art work capturing elements of seltzer tablets (or you can her sweet and creative personality! use salt as a substitute). Tuesday brought new challenges with our students enhancing their mathematical skills, and becoming excellent Fill a jar approx 1/4 full with target shooters to win a grand prize ‘ cold water followed by 3/4s Wednesday allowed students to test the waters of the full with vegetable oil (or technology field, by learning how to program and control any type of oil you have). Add 3-5 drops of a food robots! colouring of your choice. Drop an alka-seltzer tablet (or salt) into the jar. Screw the cap on tight- Thursday was Physics frenzy day—students had to use ly to avoid any spills and leaks. You will start to their problem solving skills to make an egg survive and build see a chemical reaction that creates the lava the tallest and most structurally stable marshmallow tower. lamp effect. Facing a slight dilemma with broken eggs, we tested using spaghetti sticks instead. Note: When you are done playing with the lava lamp, do not pour it down the drain, instead, pour On Friday the ultimate STEM escape took place; students the contents of the lava lamp into a compost pile were put to the test by combining both their scientific or dig a hole in your yard, away from any plants knowledge and mathematical skills to see which group would you care about, and pour the contents in the hole. be first to escape a classroom. If neither of those are an option, simply screw the cap on tightly and throw the lava lamp jar in your regular trash.
YEAR 10, 11 AND 12 OPTION CHOICES FOR 2021 Course booklets detailing the courses that we will be offering in 2021 will be given to all Year 10, 11 and 12 students in the next few weeks. The booklet will assist your daughter to decide which courses she would like to take in 2021. The students are using the course booklets in their tutor classes and we encourage you to have conversa ons with your daughter about her goals for the future and her course selec on for 2021. If your daughter is in Year 11 or 12 you also have the opportunity to book an Academic Pathway interview for you and your daughter to meet with a senior teacher to further discuss her course selecƟon on either August 18th (Year 12) or August 27th (Year 11) between 3.30pm and 7.30pm. You can book an appointment me through the Parent Portal, by calling the school office, or by ge ng your daughter to book a me at the office.
You can keep up to date with school events on our school website http://www.aggs.school.nz/ and in a more informal way on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AucklandGirlsGrammarSchool/ also our Sports page https://www.facebook.com/AggsSport/ and the AGGS Careers page https://www.facebook.com/AucklandGirlsCareers/ You may also be interested in these Instagram pages - the AGGS Student Council https://www.instagram.com/ aggs_council20/ ; the AGGS Careers Committee https://www.instagram.com/aggs_careers/
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UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ENGINEERING COMPETITION
On Saturday 1st August, we competed in the After 8 hours of tackling the question using University of Auckland Engineering competition. countless ideas and equations to develop a report Starting at 10am, our team of 3 Year 12 students, around it, we finally finished at 6pm! Pragati Prasad, Maninder Kaur and McKenzie Adams tackled the gruelling question - “How many satellites can be launched into orbit before astronomers on earth Thank you to Ms Rhode for supervising and giving can observe the night sky without interruption?” us the support we needed.
THE K ROAD TUKUTUKU PANEL PROJECT In collaboration with the Auckland Council, The project will take approximately 10 weeks to complete Auckland Transport and Manu Whenua, Nga and our girls will be working on it with two expert Tumunako o Kahurangi students and other weavers, Tessa Harris and Monica-Ann Brooks. The girls interested mainstream students are participating in wil also have the opportunity to learn about the Mana the making of two large tukutuku panels which will Whenua of the area. be installed at the K’ road overpass as part of a contemporary art installation, utilizing traditional This is an exciting and important process which is creat- Maori practices and contemporary resources. ing new and hopefully ongoing relationships between the school and local body communities
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AGGS SPORT
Basketball Congratulations to our Year 9 team which placed
first in the Combined Points Netball Tournament Our Premier Basketball team is playing in the Senior A on 5 August and to our Year 10A team which competition this year. The team has played four games came second . The first time our teams have - won 2 and lost 2 and are currently in 5th place. Nine of done so well in many years. the current team are in Year 9 or Year 10 which is great for the future of the sport. Football Our Yr 9 & Yr10 Basketball team has had a quiet start to Thank you to Mr Dave Rewi and Ms Sam Hunia for their season; they have 3 wins and 2 losses to date. taking our Football team for training. We hope for more success in weeks to come. The team has had some early success winning its first game against Kings College 2nd XI by 15-0. The Hockey 2nd game was to be against St Kents but St Kents After winning the 9 a-side competition last year, our had to forfeit the game and the team has won it’s Hockey girls have started the season playing in C Grade third game against Baradene 6—0. Way to go! with a win against Mt Albert Grammar School and a loss Our Football captains for 2020 are Fatima Abd Allah to Diocesan. Co-captains of the Hockey team are Saloni and Savannah Vaega. Parekh and Kendall Bramley. Congratulations to goal scorers in our winning game, Safa Nazari, Yr 10, U15 Rugby Michelle Matthew, Year 10 and Armani Kingi- This year we have introduced an U15 Rugby team Burkhardt Yr 9 who scored 2 goals. into our rugby programme. Building on the success of our U15s Condors 7 team (which placed 2nd at Lacrosse Condors 2019) we have seen a “massive rise” in Our Lacrosse team is yet to register a win after two Juniors wanting to play rugby this year. rounds but both games were closely contested against We are also very fortunate to have established a Glendowie and St Marys Navy teams. partnership with Auckland University Rugby Club this Captain, Caitlin Malone, has taken on the coaching duties year and our U15 girls rugby team is playing in the and is during a great job with our players at training. Auckland U15 Girls rugby competition under the Lacrosse is the only sport we host at school on University Rugby club. Thursdays after school at 4.00pm. Our U15 rugby team has played three games so far We are keen to welcome new players to the team. and has had “emphatic wins” over College Rifles, Papatoetoe Rugby and Eden Grammar Tech. Badminton We are very fortunate to have Mr Lucky Smythe and We had over 80 students trial for our Badminton teams. Mr Dave Rewi as our coaches for the U15s team. 30 players were selected in 6 teams to play on Both coaches were an integral part of our U15s Mondays (B Grade) and Thursdays (C & D Grades) Condors team success in 2019. Captain – Lumina Mendonca and assistants Ranae Bishop and Esther Blackmore have been coaching Rugby 10s and helping the “learners” to understand the basics of the Our Rugby 10s team has had a mixed start to the game. season. Currently, five of our six teams are in “first place” in their Our girls notched up their first win of the season by sections, and our Monday night team is in second place. beating Mangere College and last week they had a Thank you to Ms Sabbage, Ms Krishnan and Ms Flannery narrow loss to Mt Roskill in the last possession of the for supporting our Badminton girls. game. An intense and gut-wrenching loss. The team is in good spirits however and the rugby season is looking good for our girls. Netball We also recruited Hayley Pilato (former student in Netball trials were held in February for our Junior and 2018) as Assistant coach to Mrs Stowers. senior teams. Despite the disruption caused by Covid 19 we have almost doubled our teams from 2019, Rugby League going from seven teams to twelve. This is in no small measure due to the hard work of our Office gurus— Ms Building on making the inaugural final in 2019, there Whenuaroa, Ms Hunia and Mrs Stowers. has been “big interest” in students wanting to play We also welcomed Ms Paula Smith to the coaching staff. Rugby League for the school. Over 50 students Ms Smith is a PE teacher at AGGS and is also Appren- trialled for Rugby League and 20 players were tice coach to the Northern Mystics ANZ Premiership selected. team. We are very fortunate to have her coach our 10A The team has had a dream start to the season, by Netball team. beating two of the strong schools in the competition Our Premier team has made it back into Premier 1 for the – Aorere College and Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate first time since 2016. A massive achievement for our net- and to date, the team has won all four games and sit ball girls. at the top of their competition. All teams started competition on Saturday 25 July and Our girls are training very hard and have set high competition will run for 10 weeks in Term 3. expectations to make the Grand Final in 2020.
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Our Winning Year 9 Netball Team at the Combined Points Netball Tournament
Drowning Prevention Auckland will be delivering the activities including water competence simulations, Life- FREE aquatic based holiday programme for 11-17yrs jacket safety, Snorkelling, By Stander Rescues, Safe in the Term 3 holidays. For the past five years our 14- Boating Programme, Beach Safety, Aquatic games, 24 year olds have accounted for around 21% of our and land-based games. We also provide a free lunch. preventable drownings in Tamaki Makaurau. This pro- Website: https://www.watersafe.org.nz/community/ gramme focuses on a holistic approach when it comes holiday-programmes/ to teaching water competencies that can protect one Registration: https://www.surveygizmo.com/ from drowning. The week includes a variety of s3/5689560/2020-SPLASH-Break-Away-October- Registration
YEAR 12 SOCIAL STUDIES — FOOD BIN DRIVE AND MUFTI DAY Some of our Year 12 SOS students are pictured here with just some of the collection of food items that our students and staff have so generously donated. The goods are bound for the Auckland City Mission along with $542.50 raised at a mufti day on 31 July.
August Newsletter 2020 YEAR 11 PED TACKLE THE HIGH ROPES This challenging course not only builds the girls confidence and skills but also earns them NCEA credits by com- pleting the standard “Demonstrate, and show understanding of, responsible behaviour for safety during outdoor education activities”
THE AGGS SCHOOL BALL
The amazing, incredible and thoroughly enjoyable AGGS SCHOOL BALL will be happening this year, a bit later than usual due to Covid 19 but definitely better late than never! This year the ball will be on Saturday 26 September, the first day of the school holidays. It will be held at the Eden Park South Lounge, entry through Gate H, 10 Reimers Avenue, Kingland. Gates will open at 7 p.m. and close at 8 p.m. and the ball will finish at the Cinderella hour of midnight. The ball is an alcohol and drug free event.
Tickets are $110 each. Students can purchase a maximum of 2 tickets each. The Accounts Office and Mrs Ikitomai in reception are accepting part payments now—minimum of $20. Students must have paid at least $60 per ticket by 21 August. Payment can also be made online to 12-3209-0059410-00. Please put your daughter’s name, tutor class and Ball ticket in the reference section. Excitement is building and we are looking forward to a great evening.
YEAR 13 BUSINESS STUDIES—YOUNG ENTERPRISE GROUPS Year 13 Business Studies students participate in Sugar works is selling an the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. This exfoliating soap bar made programme gives students the opportunity to work in from organic ingredients groups to set up and run their own business including lavender essential enterprise throughout the school year. oil and real lavender flowers. Students become company directors and design, mar- The soap leaves your skin ket and sell a real product or service of their choice. feeling soft and glowing. Lavender oil is known to be a Four companies were set up in February. All groups good stress reliever. Only $5. have completed a business planning portfolio and pitched against more than 70 teams to outside Find them on: Instagram: business judges. Well done to Folau and Sticker Up @sugarworks2020 who did particularly well in this Challenge. Production Email: sugar- has been completed and selling is now underway. [email protected]
Folau and Sticker Up have been invited to sell at the Poly X market in Mangere on Friday 21 August. Clean Bean has Folau has produced a fun interactive educational created a handcrafted board game called ‘The Island Explorers’ designed organic coffee soap. On- for ages 8 - 14 . To move around the board, partici- ly natural ingredients that pants have to answer a variety of questions - fun facts have been locally about the Pasifika islands and a variety of phrases in sourced are used. No Tongan, Samoan, Niuean, Cook Island Maori, Fijian nasties in their recipe! and Maori. RRP $15. Stock is selling out quickly! Selling for $7.
Contact them: Contact them: [email protected], Instagram @folau_20 Email: cleanbeanyes @gmail.com
Instagram: @cleanbean_soap Facebook: Cleanbean_soap
Sticker Up are selling sheets of 40 stickers. The unique stickers feature designs, symbols and words from Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Maori and NZ culture. Each sheet is selling for $2. Sticker Up has caught the attention of Tagata Pasifika which will be running a story on their Pasifika language stickers.
Find them on Instagram: @Stickerup2020, Facebook: StickerUp, Email: [email protected]
Keep an eye out for the activities of the four groups, and be sure to follow them on social media to keep up to date with their progress.
GEOGRAPHY CLASSES VENTURE OUT Year 13 Geography will be collecting data for a research project when they visit Jordan Park, Potters Park, Albert Park and Victoria Park during a day long trip on Wednesday 12 August.
Year 12 Geography will be heading further afield to Muriwai on the following Wednesday, 19 August to collect data for research on Coastal processes, including viewing the Gannet Colony from Otakamiro Point.
BARISTA TRAINING Our Year 12 Food Technology students enjoyed learning very useful Barista skills during this 3 day course at the Crown Institute of Studies and they have also gained 5 NCEA credits. Hot chocolate, flat whites, lattes, cappucci- nos, espressos and all the other ways that people like their coffee are all now part of the girls’ skill set.