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7 February 2020 Head Students 2020 1 Principal’s Comment the first time - into Year 7, or indeed any level • by turning up to Meet-the-teacher with but new to James Hargest. your children • by coming to PTA meetings and/or This year we are joined by an unusually large Whanau Hui (all welcome!) number of new teaching staff - two from • by hosting an international student - overseas, some from other parts of NZ, but short term or long term most from other parts of Southland. Whilst • by helping with sports teams - coaching, there are a small number of beginning teachers managing, transporting, or cheering (welcome to your new profession!) , most bring • by helping with cultural/performing arts a huge depth of experience, new ideas, new activities perspectives, and all are excited to be joining us here at Hargest. (See page 4-5). We look • by helping staff with work experience forward to their contribution, and to making placements or curriculum-related new friendships. support through your workplace (where appropriate) Andy Wood • by supporting our expectations around Principal We encourage all parents and caregivers to mobile phones, devices, attendance, support our efforts and take any opportunities uniform etc etc to engage with us; schooling is so much vKia ora koutou - nau mai, haere We look forward to working with you this mai! more successful when there is real and active partnership, rather than a theoretical year. Kia waimarie mo 2020. partnership only! Your interest and involvement I warmly welcome all our families and can be: Nga mihi students back for the 2020 school year, • by proactively letting us know of any Andy Wood with a special mihi to those joining us for concerns - sooner rather than later Principal From the Boardroom Welcome to 2020, everyone! A special arrangement as a way of smoothing out the welcome to our new families, and new staff. highs and lows during the year. I encourage you to set this up with the school office. Congratulations to everyone who made an honest effort for their NCEA last year, and Coronavirus has dominated national headlines reaped the rewards. The results for JHC lately. A small number of students studying at students are in line with the high standard we Hargest are caught up in the border ban into hold up for ourselves. Well done! NZ, even though the recommended stand- down period arrangements had all been made for them. We are all hoping for the best in this Back to school is a pretty heavy time for situation! family finances. What we ask in terms of your contributions to actual costs is reasonable, long-established, and absolutely necessary Best wishes for a great year at Hargest. to offer the programme you all expect Chris O’Connor Chris O’Connor and want your children to experience. We BOT Chairperson BOT Chairperson strongly recommend an automatic payment Whanau Report Kua hinga he tētē kura, kua tū mai he tētē confirmed.) Any inquiries or queries about our kura calendar Māori please email When a great leader falls, a great leader rises [email protected] Mauri ora! It is good to be back. Our new year brings Neitana (Nathan) Tane with it great challenges and expectations. Our thoughts are with those who are experiencing difficulties due to the recent weather conditions. If you can help I’m sure you will. We will keep you up to date with the dates for our Ngā Manu Kōrero which is back in Invercargill this year. Our provisional date is the 19th of June at the CIvic Theatre (to be Matua Neitana Tane 2 Head Students 2020 Head Boy: Logan Dennis Deputy Head Boy: Max Nally Congratulations to the above students. We Head Girl: Katie Heads Deputy Head Girl: Ruby Borland-Fraser have no doubt they will be outstanding role models in 2019 Ka Hikitia “The Step Up” - A well established tradition at Hargest On Monday 3 February 2020 all students who graduated from the Junior Campus in 2019 gathered together to make the “step up” (Ka Hikitia) to the Senior Campus. This is a school tradition which began in 2008 and marks the next step in our James Hargest College students’ education. Students who were not at the Junior Campus previously met up with those on the Ka Hikitia at the main gates of the Senior Campus, as the two groups merged into one! Rowing South Island Club Championships Congratulations to: Eilish McLeod - Gold medal in the Club Doubles, Silver medal in the Under 17 Single Rose Ellenden, Jackie Fetolofai, Gemma McAllister - 4th in the Club Quad 3 New Staff 2020 Qurie Lee Vicki Davis We welcome Qurie to her new We welcome Vicki to teaching position teaching Science and Science at the Junior Campus part Chemistry at JHC, after being a time, previously having worked at reliever during 2019. Also a parent Southern Health School. Outside with students at the school, Qurie of school Vicki enjoys the outdoors enjoys music, golf, swimming and with the family and gets involved in being part of a Christian group. She fitness. is of Korean background, and has a strong focus on helping the Korean community in Invercargill. We wish Chloe Madden her all the best. The Junior Campus is pleased to welcome Chloe who will be teaching Sarah Greeff a Year 7 Homeroom Class and Year We are pleased to welcome 7 Maori, previously having taught Sarah Greeff who will be teaching at Lumsden School. Chloe is keen to Digital Technology (Programming). share her interests and participates Previously Sarah had been in Kapa Haka as well as Speech and teaching programming and website Drama. development at a South African university. Apart from participating in hockey and trail running, she enjoys Deb Cowie the outdoors and is sure to explore the south going tramping, Deb will be relieving at Junior surfing and swimming. Campus and we look forward to having her on board. Welcome Deb! Tessa Thomas Tessa Thomas joins JHC from a strong background in both the health sector and several other local high schools. We are delighted to have her as a Guidance Counsellor at both the Megan Lindsay Junior and the Senior Campus. She We are pleased to welcome Megan is very excited to be starting this role who joins us from Menzies College. and we are thrilled to welcome her Megan is very excited to be part to the team. of the Guidance team (part time). Megan enjoys Netball and umpiring, Lara Buchanan as well as tramping. Lara comes to join the International team after working at St Peter’s College as Director of International Students/ ESOL teacher. She will be Nola Cassidy teaching ESOL/English, alongside Nola is beginning her teaching being Co-Director of International career with us! This year she’ll be Students. She is very much looking a Year 8 Homeroom teacher at the forward to getting to know our Junior Campus. She will also be students and community and getting taking Year 8 Te Reo Māori. Her involved in the International Friendship Club. We wish her all the interests include Kapa Haka, Netball best. and Basketball. Welcome Nola! Bridget Bekhuis We welcome Bridget who has been Ariana Mirfin working as a Year 7 homeroom Ariana is also a beginning teacher. teacher. She’ll be sharing her She will be joining the Junior experience, taking on Year 8’s at Campus team, taking a Year 7 the Junior College. Bridget enjoys Homeroom. She is passionate about the good life on the family lifestyle rowing, running and art. We are block going horse riding, knitting, delighted to have her on board. spending time gardening and walking with whanau. 4 Jalana Collie Anél van den Berg Welcome to Jalana, who will be Anél is a recent Invercargill import from sharing her passion for Science, her previous home in Pretoria in South teaching at the Junior Campus. Africa, and looks forward to making a Jalana has been relieving and is home here for her and her family. A also a mum. passionate teacher, she has a wealth of experience in teaching for the past 18 years and we are thrilled to welcome her teaching Year 9-12 Mathematics. Anél is also keen on netball and we welcome her Emma Jarman to the team. We are thrilled to welcome Emma as our new Head of Music. Emma Libby Jamieson joins us from Verdon College where From her native Christchurch, Libby has she was Head of Music and Co-Head travelled and taught English all over the of Arts and Languages. She will be world. We are delighted that she is keen teaching Year 9-13 Music and also to share her skills with Year 9, 11, 12 will be involved in productions, and 13 students at JHC. Libby and her music ensembles, concert bands, family enjoy exploring Southland and chamber music and jazz bands. Central Otago going skiing, camping and mountain biking. denise judson denise will be sharing her extensive expertise in Photography, Design, Frances Matheson and Art. denise previously was the We are pleased to welcome Frances, Head of arts at Amuri Area School who joins us from Murupara Area in Culverden, North Canterbury. School. She will be taking Hard Materials denise is keen on film making and and DVC. Frances loves swimming, walks has participated in the 48Hours Film in the bush and reading. We wish her all Festival. We are pleased to welcome the best. her to the team. Connor Page Welcome to Connor who joins JHC Bex Pillley after studying a Diploma in Teaching Welcome to Bex, who has extensive and Learning in Christchurch.