Nelson College Newsletter Term 1 2019 Term 2 Calendar of Events 29 April - Start of term 2 6 May - PTA meeting in the staff room, 7.00 pm, all welcome 10 May - Showquest Performances at Trafalgar Centre, 7pm 11 May - Boarding Open Day, 10am - 2.30pm 14 May - Nelson College Cross Country 14 May - Careers Roadshow in Hall, 9am - 11.30am 15 May - Junior Homeroom Cup, Period 5 in Hall 17 May - Pink Shirt Mufti Day 28 May - NCG Production 30 May - Marlborough Boys College Winter Exchange 31 May - TEACHER ONLY DAY 3 June - QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 6 June - Senior Reports issued 11 June - Year 9 Respect 360 in Hall (9HN, 9GD, 9AN, 9BF) 12 June - Attitude Presentation in Hall 14 June - Year 9 Respect 360 in Hall (9CU, 9NN, 9PK, 9ZN) 24-25 June - Shirley Boys High School Exchange 25 June - Senior Drama Production at Theatre Royal 27 June - Mufti Day 4 July - Junior Reports issued 5 July - Last day of Term 2 Click to view full calendar on the Nelson College website Academic Colours The award of academic colours is our most prestigious recognition of academic excellence for NCEA and is awarded to current Year 12 and Year 13 students. Congratulations to the following students who gained this award for their 2018 NCEA results. Level 1 Colours – NCEA Level 1 with Excellence: Jamie Aran, Johan Banks, Liam Brennan, Maxwell Busby, Josh Chan, Billy Check, Zach Cornelisen, Victor de Maupeou, Euan Fenwick, Jamie Foster, Ben Grenfell, Finnian Hall, Mika Hervel, Ewan Hey, Sam Innes-Walker, Brett Kerr-Laurie, J-L Louverdis, Brock Matthews, Pete Middleton, An Nguyen, George North, Jake Patel, Liam Philp, Leo Secker, Jordan Stirling- Rowling, Ronan Thompson, Patrick Wilson, Haruka Yamamoto. Level 1 Colours – NCEA Level 2 with Merit: Damian Aitken, Jackson Babe, Callum Campbell, Max Choma, Nicholas Choy, Frazer Cowan, Charlie Danson, Ethan De La Mare, Emile Dyson, Daniel E Silva, Harry Fleming, Sam Foster, Harry Gardner, Fife Gebbie, Josh Greer, Fergus Hall, Finn Heale, James Hopgood, Keegan Hornblow, Fergus Hughes, Liam Humphries, Kouki Irwin, Samuel Jones, Chakkrit Klahan, Gyung Koo, Mason Lund, Liam Minhinnick, Ram Peng, Liam Pengelly, Finlay Pinkerton, William Poulter, Hamish Praat, Reuben Prestidge, Sam Preston, Joshua Prospero, Finn Restieaux, Louis Rowe, Daigo Sakazume, Yoochan Shin, Dyson Smith, Hamish Smith, Tom Thornalley, Aiden Timoney, Ben Walker, Punpun Wassanawatheekij, Connor Wilkins, Jamie Wilson. Level 2 Colours – NCEA Level 2 with Excellence: Ben Baker, Todd Ballance, Sidney Barron, Max Cattell, James Clifford, Philippe de Maupeou, Luke Garside, Joshua Hurst, Zach Langbridge, Jackson Loftus, Louis Macalister, Matthew Mayer, Jack McDonald-Hill, Joshua Mead, Luke Meehan, Burty Meffan, Akash Pai, Nicholas Paulin, Tarn Richards, Logan Schokking, Logan Smith, Luc Wiegand, Luke Wilkes. College News Stanley Page-Bates, Matthew Mayer, Vernon Eades-King, Reuben, and Tipene Gunn-Bold making the delivery. Fundraising for Pigeon Valley Fire In February, after the Wakefield Fires, Reuben Prestidge rallied the student body to organise a food collection for the Red Cross Food Collection centre. It was a great success, with two van loads of foodstuffs and supplies being delivered to the Emergency Collection Centre. Reuben also organised a student Mufti day, with $1500 going to the Mayoral Relief Fund. Nice work, and a big thanks to everyone who donated. Broods Concert We were privileged to host Broods for their concert in recognition in all the hard working people involved in the recent Pigeon Valley bush fires. Nelson College Whanau group welcomed them when they arrived at Nelson Airport. https://www.facebook.com/NelsonAirportNZ/videos/2259126920997153/ Year 13 Leadership Conference and Mosque visit In the last week of term one, some of the student leadership group travelled to Christchurch to attend the GRIP Leadership Conference. This gave the student leaders a chance to mix and mingle, share ideas and gain new insights into school leadership from a student point of view and was attended by other school leaders from the Canterbury region. While in Christchurch the group visited the El Noor Mosque on Deans Avenue to express support to the Muslim community from Nelson College. Michael Lauer, a Year 11 student, completed a painting, which students and staff signed with words of support. Michael hand delivered it to some of the Mosque leaders during this visit. The group also visited Christs College to hand over a cheque for $1000 – these funds were collected from the last school mufti day and Christs College will use the money to help in their cause of supporting directly some of the victims families as two of their staff were shot and wounded in the mosque. Debating After some highly competitive debating at the Kahurangi-Marlborough Regional Debating Championships hosted by Nelson College for Girls, Ronan Thompson was selected for the Regional Team - he'll be going to the New Zealand Schools' Debating Nationals later in the year. Congrats too, to our junior team, Sam Twamley, Ben Thomas and Jay Simpson for coming in as Runners-Up in their section. Nelson College representatives on this year's Nelson Youth Council are Ollie Ransom, Hamish Smith, Theo Wheatley, Ryan Martyn and Nico Frizzell. Nelson Youth Council The Nelson Youth Council is a group of 20 people aged 14-24 who work to make the city a better place for youth and to give young people a voice in Nelson. There are representatives from every secondary school, as well as NMIT and the community. The group meets every month in the Council Chamber to discuss youth issues, actions and projects. Young Enterprise Trust Every year Nelson College nurtures budding entrepreneurs, who are active participants in the Young Enterprise Trust. The first session of the year had Pic Picot as a guest speaker, inspiring students with his famed rise to success in the world of peanut butter! Chess Congratulations to our sterling Chess Team who beat Marlborough Boys' College, with a grand total of 51 wins and 5 draws out of 64 games. That's Bawi Tlumang, Reuben Prestidge, Ronan Thompson, An Nguyen, Daniel Dennis, Alexandre de Maupeou d’Ableige, Sam White and Freddy Griffith. Grandmasters in the making. Year 11 Geography Abel Tasman National Park research field trip On Thursday 28 March the Year 11 Geography class embarked on a field trip to the Abel Tasman National Park. We spent the day in the park with the main purpose to conduct counts of native bird species on both Adele Island and Appletree Bay on the mainland coastal track. We used the services of Abel Tasman Eco Tours to provide water transfers to and from the mainland, as well as a guided interpretive tour around Adele Island and Astrolabe Roadstead and Split Apple Rock (Kaiteriteri). The class was investigating the differences in the number and range of birds between each study location. We were interested in whether there would be more birds on Adele Island, which has been recently publicised as being ‘predator free’, compared with Appletree Bay. This would help the class assess the effectiveness of the management of pests such as rats, stoats and possums in the national park. The day was a great success, with settled weather and good preparation by the students contributing to this. The students thoroughly enjoyed being out of the classroom, learning about the protection of native birds in a practical and relevant way. The primary data collected during the field trip will be used by the students to write an internal assessment in the form of a research report. My thanks to Graeme Peake for accompanying one of the two groups on the day, as well as driving one of the vans. He also deserves credit for the excellent photos enclosed with his article! Mr David Purdie Teacher in Charge of Geography NC GYMBUDDY On Sunday 24th of March a dedicated year 12 business group set up a community gym stall for Race Unity Day at Victory square. The goal was to create a fun community gym for anyone to come in and try their service and pump some iron. The stall was a success with over 100 people getting involved lifting weights with another 50 people showing membership interest for our open access Community Gym and friendly Personal Training service. The boys are trying to make a community gym and offer training for the local Victory Nelson community so if you have a free space please contact [email protected] Also, if you have any gym gear or a venue available for them to use please contact the school. Pictured below are Ben Stewart, Madhan Pradhan, Kap Cin Lian Tang, Cung Bawi Hlichal, Sang Hlichal with their teacher Mr S Bathan. Sport Daniel Rogers - 2019 Marjoribanks Shield winner Josh Sheridan - Senior Athletics Champion & TSS Triathlon Nelson College Athletic Championships There were two stand-outs in college athletics this years. Daniel Rogers won the Marjoribanks Shield - awarded to the winner of both the 80m and 100m. The Shield was first awarded in 1898 for what was then the 100 yard dash. And Josh Sheridan won the Barron Cup for 400m, Duncan Cup for 800m and Talbot Cup for 1500m, making him the 2019 Senior Champion in Athletics, as well as winning the Tasman Secondary Schools Triathlon. Volleyball It has been a hectic season for our Senior A team. They performed well in the local NVA league on Thursday nights. In the first qualifying round for Nationals they lost to Waimea College in the final. They then headed off to Christchurch for the Mainland Competition where they placed 3rd. In the final round of Tasman Secondary Schools Championships the team had a great tournament winning this one and going to Nationals as the first seed from Tasman.