RONGOTAI COLLEGE
PRINCIPAL’S NEWSLETTER
Week 4, Term 1, 2018
NZ SCHOLARSHIP encourage your son to look at his
COMING EVENTS NZQA have released NZ Scholarship diary or calendar often and help him results. Three boys were awarded to organise himself to prepare for his assessments. Tuesday 6 March NZ Scholarships. Congratulations to Tom Hughes who was awarded an McEvedy Shield at Newtown Park outstanding Scholarship in Biology McEVEDY SHIELD Friday 9 March and 2017 Dux, Rian Lee also Interim reports posted home This is a highly anticipated annual received a Biology Scholarship. Milo athletics competition contested Monday 12 March Guthrie received a Scholarship in between Rongotai College, Class photographs taken Geography. Congratulations to our Wellington College, St Patrick’s NZ Scholarship recipients! Saturday/Sunday 17/18 March College (Town) and St Patrick’s Relay for Life – Frank Kitts Park College (Silverstream). This event PARENT PORTAL will be held on Tuesday 6 March. Monday 19 to Friday 23 March The Parent Portal allows you, via a All students are required to report Summer Tournament Week secure log-in from the website, to to Newtown Park at 8.55am on this
Thursday 29 March day to compete or to support our check your son’s attendance, Board of Trustees’ Meeting at 6pm in team. Students are required to personal details, results and groups the Mackay Library wear school uniform. with which he has registered. Daily Friday 30 March notices are also found on the Parent Good Friday – Easter holiday Portal. Login information regarding Students must make their own way our Rongotai Parent Portal for to the park, and are required to Monday & Tuesday 2 & 3 April report for a roll call at 8.55am. Boys Easter holiday parents of Year 9 students was handed out at the Year 9 should report to their form teacher Friday 13 April Information evening. in the grandstand. Your son should Last day of Term 1 ask his bus driver to drop him as near to Newtown Park as he can. Monday 30 April If your son is in Year 10-13 and you First day of Term 2 do not have access details to the Students will be dismissed from Parent Portal, please email Newtown Park at the conclusion of [email protected] or the day (approximately 2.30pm) and 2018 TERM DATES contact the college office who will are required to make their own way
arrange for these details to be sent home. Term 1 Monday 29 January to Friday 13 April to you. Term 2: Monday 30 April to Friday 6 July NCEA INFORMATION Term 3: Monday 23 July to Friday 28 September By now, your son should have Term 4: Monday 15 October to received an Assessment Statement Friday 7 December in either paper or digital form from each of his teachers if he is studying for NCEA. These outline when all We are now well into what is assessments are taking place. proving to be a busy Term One, and Copies of all the Level 1, 2 and 3 you will be pleased to know that our statements will be able to be boys are settled and working well. downloaded from the website next Visitors have commented on the week. very good atmosphere around the school. It was great to see so many Please check that your son enters all parents at our Year 9 Parents’ his assessments in his diary or year Evening during the height of the planner. Alternatively, you can Please make sure that your son Cyclone Gita storm. download a blank ‘assessment wears his uniform appropriately for calendar’ from our website the weather and, if it is sunny, (www.rongotai.school.nz). Please provide him with sun block. Limited food will be available at the park, so Mary Potter Hospice appeal, The Academy teams to travel to Las he should also bring lunch and Realm in Hataitai, Wellington Vegas in July this year to participate something to drink. National Band and Orchestra in a tournament. They are Paddy Festival and the Manawatu Jazz Blackman, Evyatar Tabor, Ezrah Festival. This year has started with To’o and Ezrah Vaigafa. Well done a performance in aisle 26 at boys on your selection. CULTURAL Bunnings in Lyall Bay to support their barbecue fundraiser. NEWS
MUSIC DEPARTMENT SPORTS Itinerant Programme Music lessons are available for NEWS piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, Summer sports are well underway Paddy Blackman Evyatar Tabor drums, voice, woodwind and brass. and we are being represented in 13 Lessons are $100 a year. This different summer codes. compulsory fee will be added to your school invoice and must be Winter sports registration will take paid before Term One ends. place from 7 March after which trials and preseason trainings for If you’re interested in signing up, be most teams will begin. quick! These are always very popular and from Term Two Jaylin To’o Ezrah Vaigafa Athletics onwards are usually restricted to Athletics is a major focus of the Softball Music option students. summer and it started off with the Congratulations to Dylan Jackson Rongotai Inter-House Athletics Day who has been named in the New If your son would like to be involved on 8 February at Newtown Park. in any of this he should contact Mr Zealand Lock was crowned as the overall Emerging Sox Crayford at the Music Department. house champions, with Heron in squad for second place, and Mackay in third, games against Queries can be directed to Renner was fourth. [email protected] Australia in
April, to be Athletics Finals Day Big Band followed by Athletics Finals Day was held on The Rongotai College Big Band will participation in Friday 16 February, and saw our travel to Tauranga at Easter to the Friendship Games in July in athletes compete at Newtown Park compete in the 41st National Youth Queensland. against some athletes from Porirua Jazz Competition. Last year they College. were scheduled to participate but a Yachting cyclone made travel to the event After a long and arduous yachting too dangerous. Tickets for their season, raffle will be on sale at the Parent congratulations Interview evenings on 27 and 28 to Albert March or can be bought by Stanley who contacting Sally Thomson-Gregg on has finished the season as the [email protected]). nd 2 ranked NZ youth (under 19 years) sailor in the laser radial class. A great There were many highlights with achievement. some very determined athletes hitting personal best results. Kind regards, Well done to all competitors and a special thank you to the staff and prefects who helped make this day a success. Kevin Carter The band performed at several PRINCIPAL events in 2017 - Khandallah Town Basketball Hall ANZAC Day event, Worser Bay Four of our students have been School Fair, Midland Park for the selected in the NZ Basketball RONGOTAI COLLEGE
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