Dear Parents and Friends of the School LAWRENCE AREA SCHOOL Community Newsletter 3 July 2014 No 8 Its mid-year already! Parents will receive mid- year reports through the post in the next few days. Reports and the associated parent teacher interviews are a critical part of the school/home partnership. Reports provide acknowledgement of what students have achieved, strengths and struggles and through ‘comment’ and ‘next steps’ invite discussion and input from parents and caregivers. ‘Reflection on Goals’ is the students opportunity to comment on their learning and competencies. ‘What I want to learn next’ sets learning goals from a pupils perspective for the next half year. To be effective reports need to be honest and constructive. We invite feedback and would encourage all parents to take part in parent teacher interviews. We would like to congratulate our senior netballers for their success in the recently held Otago Secondary Schools Championships. With less than twenty secondary school aged netballers taking on teams from much bigger schools can be daunting. This year our girls overcome the odds. Good victories in the round robin were scored over Bayfield, Maniototo, Queens and Catlins. The semi-final against Tokomairiro was a dazzling performance with amazing intercepts, brilliant passing and fabulous goals, a victory 29 to 13. The final against Queens was also a dominant performance, with players ignoring tired legs - this was our forth game for the day - sticking to the game plan to win 23-13. Unbeaten our students become ‘B Grade Champions’ for 2014, absolutely outstanding, a great team effort. A big heads up to coach Sarah Lloyd and manager Kate for their excellent guidelines and support of our team. It was great to see a great bunch of supporters cheering our girls on. There are big challenges ahead, the South Island Championships to be held in Invercargill in September. Kind Regards John Auld
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Dear Parents and Friends of the School
LAWRENCE AREA SCHOOL Community Newsletter
3 July 2014
No 8
Its mid-year already! Parents will receive mid-year reports through the post in the next few days. Reports and the associated parent teacher interviews are a critical part of the school/home partnership.Reports provide acknowledgement of what students have achieved, strengths and struggles and through ‘comment’ and ‘next steps’ invite discussion and input from parents and caregivers.‘Reflection on Goals’ is the students opportunity to comment on their learning and competencies. ‘What I want to learn next’ sets learning goals from a pupils perspective for the next half year.To be effective reports need to be honest and constructive. We invite feedback and would encourage all parents to take part in parent teacher interviews.We would like to congratulate our senior netballers for their success in the recently held Otago Secondary Schools Championships. With less than twenty secondary school aged netballers taking on teams from much bigger schools can be daunting. This year our girls overcome the odds. Good victories in the round robin were scored over Bayfield, Maniototo, Queens and Catlins.The semi-final against Tokomairiro was a dazzling performance with amazing intercepts, brilliant passing and fabulous goals, a victory 29 to 13.The final against Queens was also a dominant performance, with players ignoring tired legs - this was our forth game for the day - sticking to the game plan to win 23-13. Unbeaten our students become ‘B Grade Champions’ for 2014, absolutely outstanding, a great team effort. A big heads up to coach Sarah Lloyd and manager Kate for their excellent guidelines and support of our team. It was great to see a great bunch of supporters cheering our girls on. There are big challenges ahead, the South Island Championships to be held in Invercargill in September. Kind Regards
John Auld
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Senior SchoolWhats happening in
Senior School.Yr 9 Food & Nutrition
Only three years old, and about to lose his life. He glares straight through me, a crazy, vulnerable expression in his face. “I’m real,” I tell Him. But my attempt of warmth will never suffice, his eyes show a pain reflective of my own. My rifle rests inanimate against the side of my leg. There’s nothing left to fuel the fire’s hunger anymore, so it hides and cowers, kind of like me. My wife is barely breathing, and my son, Alfie, is crying out in pain.Earlier this morning I would never have considered what I’m about to do, but pain makes you do unimaginable things, and I can’t see past this. It’s like a brick wall, endless both ways. But my suffering is irrelevant anyhow, and help for them is a long two hours away.I lift my rifle.“No!” Unmistakeably my wife’s voice, but looking over, I saw that she lay as I found her. Her face, barely recoginzable from the burns. I can almost see the white bone of her jaw.Alfie is sobbing. I have spent the last hour trying to comfort him, but to no avail. Looking down the end of the rifle, a power surges through me. Tears flood his eyes, Imogen had always said that they match my dog’s like a mirror. My dog is lost in the bushfire.A high-pitched ringing start in my ears, I feel tears like acid burning down my cheek. I touch the trigger. Fearful that I might set it off too soon, a struggled breath escapes from me. I put pressure on the cold trigger. The gun fires. A bullet shoots through the end of the rifle. My eyes show nothing but red. My jacket is sticky, and blindingly bright, I hear the sound echo.“Alfie,” I slur from the shock.My eyes dart eagerly towards Imogen, and away from my son’s, my body eventually following my gaze.“Round two,” I laugh. Hysteria floods me and I begin to weep. A vile headache pounds against my temple and through the back of my skull like the bullet I shot.Breathe, but all I can summon into my lungs is smoke from the blackened embers: Photos; books; furniture; everything that no longer exists.December 24thI shot her. Albeit, knowing that she was oblivious to her death was no constellation, I can’t regret what I have done, because I love them. Had I not ended their suffering I would rather have ended my life. As watching their struggle would have done relentlessly. In all honesty, I am really scared. I see the moment I killed my only family every time I blink. I see the red, the blood in that moment when you try wake yourself from sleep. Nightmares intrude my dreams like demons. I see the curtains catch fire and Imogen laughing. It’s like hell. I have lost all that I had, and for what? Nothing. I killed them to save them, to free them of their pain. And now I suffer. Good, I deserve it, because no matter what my intentions were, I killed them. They no longer live, and I do. Taylor Whitehead Yr 11
Senior School Writing
Last Wednesday the Year 9 class were privileged to have Daniel Ferguson, who lives in Lawrence and is a trained chef, come and work with them for the afternoon. The focus for the lesson was to create nutritious and tasty dishes from leftover pumpkins soup. Each student was given a different recipe to adapt and change to incorporate the leftover soup. The students were focused and worked hard to produce the following dishes
* Pinwheel scones* Chicken Curry* Bacon Pasta* Muffins* Tasty accompaniments to have with soup.
Thank-you Daniel for giving up your afternoon to come and teach us how to: use leftovers in creative ways, make use of in-season produce, and use common pantry ingredients to create tasty dishes.Recipes will be up on the blog shortly.
Jameisha & Dan
Chloe & Brittany
Dan & Lily
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“I would like to say how much I have appreciated reliving for our senior school. The students were without exception beautifully mannered and totally independent and self-directed in their learning.” - Elsa O’Sullivan
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A BIG WALK IN THE PARK - Anna HarrexFountains pouring water, birds chirping tunes, lovely smelling flowers, butterflies all around.
What a lovely park.We looked on our map and it said ‘Go forward’ so
we went forward. The way was the birds. “Whoooo that was a lot longer than I thought”, I
said to Josie. There were lots of birds like kea and kaka.
Soon we went to an amazing castle. Inside there were stairs you could go up. Then finally we
went to the band rotunda for lunch, then headed home.
The gardens and plants were amazing. The birds were amazing. Everything was amazing!
EXHAUSTING CLIMBING - Ryan MortonHarness on. Rope on. All ready to go. I count
myself 3, 2, 1. I wonder if I should go up and do it or stay down. I’ve decided I’ll go up!
As I went up I started to slowly creep up. I was nervous at first but then i got used to it. The
first time I climb a climbing wall I only went half way up! Then what do you know, I’m at the top. I
reached for the red button but I couldn’t quite reach so I had to go higher! I finally could reach. I
hit it, I leant back and started falling down. It was a big relief when I got back down because I
was exhausted!When i caught my breath I said “Can you please
clip me on to another one PLEASE!”
FACING MY FEARS - Isla PonsonbyHands sweating with fear, heart pounding, legs
shaking, fear is growing. As I look down I see tiny people cheering for me. Mum was saying “You
can do it Isla” and everyone was saying “You can do it Isla.”
I keep going. Nothing’s going to stop me. I can hear the squash people playing. Why did I want to do this? But I didn’t need to worry because I was at the top. I pressed the button. I climbed
down but I heard Mum telling me to let go. It was very fun coming down. I unhook and I run off and start to do another one. The next one was a bit
harder so I had to be careful because I was slippery with sweat.
Finally.... my hands aren’t sweating, my heart is not pounding, my legs aren’t shaking, my fear is
gone. I guess it’s no so bad after all.
My Marae - Charlotte Kenny“Haere mai nga manuhiri...” caleed the
kaikaranga as she was welcoming us on. When we were walking, ladies ahd to go first in the line. Then we stopped at the steps and took our shoes off before we went in the wharenui. But men go in the
front and ladies go in the back. It was hard to see because some of the men were big. I was thinking ‘What’s that man saying?’ as
he was talking in Maori. There were more chairs on our side because there were
more people than on the other side. I was looking all around and there were heaps of
carvings and koru patterns all around. After the hongi it was finished. The lady
told me that it was my home. I felt happy. Then we went to have some kai. It was
yum. We had to sit at they table sto have our kai. Next we had to set up our beds
with our bag, pillow and sleeping bag. After we played some games while we were
waiting to go to Splash Palace. Some of the games were books, iPads, stick games
and monopoly. Room 4 camp was fun, great and awesome.
Friday 18th July 7pm
$10 entry gives you a card for everyone
Light SupperProvided
$5 for additional cards
Auction of Promises - at the end of the night a number of promises will be auctioned
Lots of Family
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Raising Funds for - students who are attendingArea Schools Nationals in Nelson 7th July - 10th July
lAWrEnCE ArEA sCHool PtA FunDrAIsErPlease support our fundraising efforts by purchasing one of our first aid kits.
These large quality first aid kits can be purchased for only $40.For every kit sold, $13 will go towards our fundraising efforts.
For any more details please contact Sue Wither 485 9039A kit can be viewed at the Lawrence Area School Office
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Basketball: Our senior girls have had an interrupted start to the season. Following a very narrow loss to last years grade winners St Hildas Ballers, the team has tone on to gain good victories over Bayfield Senior B and Logan Park Senior A. Defaults wins over Columba and St Hildas PitPat were frustrating as continuity is important to any sports team. Wednesday Nite Basketball is underway for the year with eight teams taking part.Wk 1 Results Westies 57 vs School Amazing 39 MVP Jess/Nadia Scott Slammers 40 vs School Brilliance 22 MVP Mark/Fletcher Green Gorillas 48 vs Townies 37 MVP Paul/Stu Soup Dragonz 52 vs Bernas Belles 23 MVP Will/EloiseWk 2 Results School Amazing 46 vs Bernas Belles 35 MVP Kylie/Matt Green Gorillas 62 vs School Brilliance 39 MVP Leo/Eloise Westies 42 vs Scott Slammers 33 MVP Sarah/Adam Soup Dragonz 45 vs Townies 28 MVP Greer/JJ
