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Year 13

Issue 9 of 40

C ALENDAR

29 March Slum City, Mass 7pm in the Gym 3 April Hui - for all Maori students and

Whanau, 5.45pm at Garin College 9 April Golden Bay Exchange

GARIN NOTICEBOARD: GARIN NOTICEBOARD: events, advertisements & information

Long term and short term

Homestay families needed Do you live in Richmond and have a

spare room? The International Dept. has a need

for some new Host families, some long term. We have a group of 24, 14 year old Japanese students coming to us for the month of August and need to place these students by the end of May. There is a payment of $215 a week to cover your costs. For information call Jacqui on 5439498 or e-mail

jacquicleary@garincollege.ac.nz

Caravan wanted Girls Wellbeing & Health request.

If you have an old (clean) caravan that can be put up on blocks to use

as a space to meet with stu-dents...and you are willing to sell for a budget price, please email : catharonsten@cloud.garincollege.ac.nz

Homestay for Kiwi student If you are able to provide a caring

home for a very lovely, quiet girl from the senior school, we would love to hear from you. Please con-tact via email: catharonsten@cloud.garincollege.ac.nz

www.inspirationalty.net The little things we do can mean so

much to others. We become the light of the world in its dark-ness. This week on www.inspirationaltv.net

Baby Food Jars Needed! Mrs Cornelisen needs baby food

jars for the term break science camp at Garin. Please drop off to the of-fice. Thank you!

Easter Liturgy The Easter Liturgy will be held at

2.20 P6 on Thursday 17th April. Parents and caregivers are all

welcome.

Please support our sponsorsPlease support our sponsors——Network Tasman and The Loop, The Copy Press, St Vincent de Paul Society Network Tasman and The Loop, The Copy Press, St Vincent de Paul Society

Russel McVeagh Debating Competition Recently, four teams from Garin represented our school at the Nelson Regional Debating Competi-

tion. Over forty teams entered, and we were extremely successful to get one team placed fourth. Debating is sort of an ordered argument.

Two teams of three are given a subject, such as „This House Would Make Maori A Compul-sory Subject At School‟.

Then the affirming team would put togeth-er an argument for that idea, while the ne-gating would put together an argument against. It is fast paced and exciting. Over the course of the day, the four teams com-peted in four debates. The subjects were: Maori being made compulsory in

schools. Prisoners being allowed to raise their

children behind bars. Plastic surgery being banned. Alcohol advertising being banned at

sports games. Once each debate had finished, each team would be judged on speaking abilities, content, presenta-

tion and success. Depending on how many points each team had, there was a junior and senior final at the end of the day, and at prize giving. Both Nicholas Erasmuson and Finlay Langelaan were recog-nised for their efforts, with Nick receiving a Highly Com-mended and Finlay receiving Most Promising Debater.

Slum City is a 24 hour Challenge Students are invited to arrive at the College around 5pm and set up their boxes/sleeping area (do not use the tennis nets for any form of set up). The girls‟ area is in the front part of the tennis nets and the boys behind the nets. Mass is at 7pm followed by a Sau-sage sizzle (all funds will go to Caritas). Parents and families are encouraged to attend and there is entertainment provided by the College students. There will be a movie/activity in the gym and sleeping is on the tennis court area. (Supervision is organised), Everyone will all pack up and clear the school area by 9.30am and cardboard must be removed from the school grounds and students are responsible for the clean up. Thanks fo to Paul Traynor and the Slum City Committee. Any concerns please contact Paul Tray-

nor Pastoral Chaplain 021357933.

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Take a Moment ... “The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment." T H White

One of the best things about being a secondary school teacher is that, at heart, young people are idealistic, positive, and really want to make a difference.

I know there are plenty of times when parents (and teachers) see another side of them – but when our students have the chance to do something that will make a positive difference in the lives of other people, they are very willing to make a sacrifice to make it happen.

Tomorrow 170 of our 470 students will be giving up food and warmth, television and computers to stand in solidarity with all the people in the world without enough to eat, proper shelter, worthwhile employment, or medical support.

They will bring their cardboard boxes and construct shelters for themselves, and they will go without food for 24 hours – all so they can develop their empathy for those millions of people, and at the same time raise a little money to support a few of them.

Parents and parishioners are welcome to the Slum City Mass at 7pm on Saturday in our gym. You are also welcome to contribute moral and financial support for the cause at the Mass and later barbecue.

Lent is a time when we focus on self-development. This week I be-gan a series of assemblies looking at bullying and the positive and negative ways we relate to other people. I reminded everyone of the basic premise of every relationship: God made us and therefore we are special and must be protected and nurtured.

Then I spoke about the responsibilities of every citizen when we see people or property being damaged. We have two constructive things we can do: we can stop it or report it. That applies to adults and young adults on the streets of Richmond – and it applies here at school.

In the adult world the Police are a vehicle for many reports of this kind – but there are others. In a shop, shoplifting can be reported to the shop-owner. If a parent sees a young person hurting people or property you often report it to us (or to the young person‟s parents if you know them).

I think that there is a big fear attached to that in our world: we might be told to mind our own business. But it is your business: as the African proverb reminds us, it does take a whole village to raise a child – and we do need a healthy village!

… from the Head Teacher John Boyce… from the Head Teacher John Boyce

Donations A big thanks to all par-

ents and caregivers who have already paid the school donations. Schools throughout the country are having to rely more and more on their local commu-nity for financial support. For those of you who are still going to pay the dona-tions, it would be beneficial to do so before 31 March 2014. Any donations paid prior to this date are enti-tled to receive a rebate of 33%. If you paid $300 in donations to the school you can claim back $100. Dona-tion statements and a re-bate form will be sent out in April this year enabling you to claim the rebate. If you pay after 1 April, you will have to wait till 1 April 2015 before claiming the 33% rebate as we will be in the new tax year. Again your support of the college is greatly appreciated.

Congratulations to Sam Traynor who was running neck and neck with the best in the region at the recent Regional Athletic Championships.

Request from the Art

Department Thanks to you all who have

brought in lidded containers for the Art Dept. Please con-tinue to bring them in as they are very useful. However, we are still short of the twisting on and off sauce bottle tops, so more of those would be gratefully received. Thanks again for your continued sup-port.

Winter Sport Playing

Subs Sports fees for winter are

due to be finalised today, 28th March 2014.

Payment for sports activi-ties must be made in advance either by cash, cheque or included with automatic pay-ments arranged with our Busi-ness Manager, Ron van Drunen.

Sport payments cannot be charged to your student ac-count unless you are boarding or an international student. In fairness to all students and families, Garin has a “no pay-no play” policy.

Senior netball players have been charged a deposit of $50 only at this stage.

Final payment will be noti-fied once decisions are made about teams playing inside or outside.

University Visits This term many of the Universi-

ties are visiting Garin to give sen-ior students a brief introduction to Uni life in general and what their University offers in particular.

So far there have been visits from Lincoln and Otago. Canter-bury and Victoria are due before the end of this term. All dates and times are on the Garin public calendar and in the notices.

Next term, on May 27, the Ca-reers Road Show will be at Waimea College. Students will be able to attend during the school day and talk to representatives of other Universities well as a wide range of other tertiary training providers.

Auckland will not be providing Garin with an introductory visit this year but will host an evening for all Nelson schools next term. The date is to be advised.

Waimea College Visit

On Wednesday three of the student leaders ( Chris Hills, Matthew Dawson and Emily O'Connell) went to Waimea College to meet other head students from around the Nelson/Tasman region. We thor-oughly enjoyed spending time with other leaders and learning Waimea‟s way of life. To start off the day at Waimea we participat-ed in a powhiri which was awesome as we were privileged to mingle with the other lead-ers in a for-mal and cul-turally pow-erful way. We then had the oppor-tunity to talk informally to one another and the powhiri was a brilliant ice breaker. From there we were invited to sit in on an assembly and see how students at this college run this event which gave us fresh, new and engaging ideas for our future assemblies. We were subsequent-ly involved in other activities, tours and opportunities to talk to a huge range of head students and bounce ideas off each other. It is fair to say that all of us present have come away from this with new ideas to help benefit the school and we also look forward to the opportunity when we can invite Nelson‟s head students here to showcase Garin‟s talent. Chris Hills

Congratulations to all the students who went to Regional Athletics. Every-one performed well and we were proud of their performance and the way they represented Garin College.

Beach Cricket The Garin College 'Beach Sixers' played in the inau-

gural beach Cricket Tournament at Tahuna last Sun-day 23rd March. The team took out the best dressed team award. It was a fun filled day and our boys did very well

against the older students and teams that played. Their 'spirit' of team was a highlight as was their

humour, playfulness and overall good cricket. They did Garin proud. They hope others will join them in 2015.

Mrs Walker‟s Year 12 Biology students went on

a field research where the focus was mud, snails and mud crabs. The goal was to account the amount of both species in a given area.

The data collected in the survey will serve as a base and reference source for the production of classes assessments.

MARKET DAY 2014

COMING

SOON…….. Year ten students will be selling a range of goods

and services on April 14th. Parents and friends are

more than welcome between 11.15 and 12.45.