The 1st XI boys played a fantastic game winning 1-0 against Harewood Red which led to us seeing Miss T. perform a cartwheel to the delight of the boys and parents.

Keeping to the game plan, both on attack and defence, was key against the top, well-drilled Harewood team, The 1st XI have set a high standard with three wins from three matches so will need to keep lifting the bar for the upcoming games.

It’s great to sense the buzz around the hockey and netball teams as the season starts. We are excited to welcome three hockey coaches from the University Club who are contributing their expertise, and most grateful for the support of parent and Grammarian team coaches, Mr Geoff Hardacre, Miss Sophie Gray and Mr Chris Oldham.

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

From the Principal’s Desk 2

General Notices 4

Pre-School 10

Junior School 12

Girls’ & Boys’ Prep Schools 14

Friends’ Association 16

H P Grammar Notes

Enterprising Spirits Engaged Thinkers Moral Citizens

Issue 13 — Tuesday 16 May 2017 DIARY:

Wednesday 17 May: Sue Suckling OBE speaks at CBHS - 6pm Thursday 18 May: Otago Maths Problem Challenge Sunday 21 May: Founders’ Day Service - Y1-8 Cathedral 4.30pm Monday 22 May: Independent Schools’ Cross-country Championships Tuesday 23 May: ICAS - Digital Technologies BOSS meeting Principal’s Assembly UPCOMING EVENTS: Wednesday 24 May: St Andrew’s College Scholarship Exams (Y8) Thursday 25 May: 8DM visit Bromley School Monday 29 May: Prep School’s Assessments - all week

Well done to the 1st XI Boys’ Hockey Team

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From the Principal’s Desk

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Dear parent

I hope all of the mothers had a wonderful day on Sunday. Watching J3E pupils, one by one, get their mum from the assembly audience and then proceed to share in front of everyone their love and affection for her was just truly amazing. A real tear jerker! I have not seen this before in a school and I think it is such a lovely thing to do. Grammar greatness in action. Be ready mothers of J3L for this Friday!

I would like to acknowledge and thank Greg Allnutt, father of Sophie and Jessica, for his outstanding work in expertly facilitating our strategy session earlier this term. Greg is a Business Strategist at Advisory.Works and we were very fortunate to be able to utilize his skills in guiding us through an open, challenging and robust process to get us to a point where we have a clear, succinct and high level plan for the next three years. Thank you, Greg. We very much appreciate your time, energy and expertise.

Last Thursday afternoon through to Saturday I attended the Independent Schools of New Zealand annual conference in Auckland. The theme for the conference was ‘Eudaimonia – Educational Wellbeing’ and included four keynote speakers and a number of options for concurrent sessions and workshops. This also provided me with an opportunity to continue to build relationships with other principals/headmasters from both within and out of Christchurch.

Positive education, mindfulness and wellbeing have very much come to the forefront of thinking in schools in recent times – hence the focus of this conference. Dr Sven Hansen told us that 30% of pupils in schools are anxious (likely to be higher in Christchurch), our ability to relax has decreased by 30% and the anti-depressant rate in Christchurch is three times higher than Auckland. This of course may not be news to you, but we as a school community need to consider what this means for us and how we respond in relation to what we value, how our actions and interactions reflect this, and how, why and what we teach.

It is very important to me that, while we maintain our academic excellence and rigour, we equally focus on your children’s hearts as much as their heads. They need to feel good about themselves, feel accepted and encouraged, have positive and fulfilling relationships, be engaged and inspired, and have the ability to recognize anxiety and/or stress and have strategies to be able to minimize, reduce and cope with this.

Mr John Quinn has been employed this year at Christ’s College as the Director of Wellbeing and Positive Education. He will lead an implementation that will see positive education embedded across all programmes both inside and outside the classroom. I know John well and both he and Mr Garth Wynne (Executive Principal) are happy and keen to work with us where appropriate in this area. This is great opportunity, and one we will take up for the benefit of our pupils.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Mr Scott Thelning

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Creating Moral Citizens - Virtue of the Week is: Service

What is Service?

Service is giving to others and wanting to

make a difference in their lives. It is looking

for ways to be helpful instead of waiting to

be asked. The needs of others are as

important to you as your own. When you

work with a spirit of service, you give any job

you best effort. You make a real contribution.

People who want to be of service can change

the world.

Congratulations! You are practising Service when you…

Want to make a difference in the world

Look for opportunities to be of service to

others

Think of thoughtful things to do to help

your family and friends

Work with enthusiasm

Don’t wait to be asked when something

needs doing

Do your part to care for the earth: recycle,

reduce and re-use

General Notices

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General Notices

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Parking in the Kiss ‘n Ride I received the following email this morning: “May you please clarify, have the rules changed for the kiss and drive area by the Girls ’ School? I had to double park yesterday at 8.35 due to parents leaving cars unattended, making it unsafe for my child to get onto the turf safely. This morning at 8.15 the same parents left their cars unattended. Selwyn House has a retired gentleman on duty in the car park for 30 minutes in the mornings to ensure parents do not leave their cars unattended in the kiss and ride lane, he opens the back door for the parent so that the parent does not get out of the car and he sees the child safely to the pathway and the parent immediately exits the school. May I suggest that you put all our school fees up to employ someone to police the kiss and ride area. It would make this much easier for me in the mornings.” Given that this is primarily a child safety issue, I am at a loss to understand why some parents insist on leaving their cars unattended, thus causing traffic congestion and diverting driver’s attention away from being able to simply pull through the area and disembark the pupil. The fact that this issue does not arise when I am monitoring the traffic is both troubling and somewhat ironic, given that we expect the pupils to be doing the right thing when the teachers are not watching. Previous requests in Grammar Notes regarding this parking issue, have gone unheeded, but there are a number of options available to resolve this problem. Possibly peer pressure, by encouraging parents to speak to those leaving their cars unattended, may resolve the issue? Possibly placing photos of unattended cars in next week's Grammar Notes may assist? Of course, engaging paid staff to be traffic wardens and passing this cost on through school fees would also work. Before a decision is made, I wish to invite parental feedback on this matter. If you have any suggestions as to how this issue may be resolved, please contact me directly. Geoff Cain Bursar

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General Notices Founders’ Day Service on Sunday

Our 136th Founders’ Day Service is on Sunday (21 May) at the Cathedral at 4.30pm. This

service is compulsory for all pupils in Years 1-8 to attend.

Non-chorister pupils will sit in classes with their classes and home room teachers.

The service will finish by 5.30pm. Please be on time. Pupils must be collected from the Cathedral foyer. No pupil will be permitted to walk unaccompanied from the Cathedral to a waiting car. Parking is available in the streets around the Cathedral.

Please note that food may not be eaten in the Cathedral during the service.

The pupils’ reporting times are:

3.45pm: Cathedral & Chapel Choristers

4.00pm: Sacristans & Junior School Choir

4.15pm: Remainder of School

Year 8 Absences for External Exams

As the scholarship exam and audition season approaches, parents of Y8 pupils please be aware of the following:

If your child leaves school during the day, please sign them out at the school office and back in again if they are returning.

If your child is absent (at another school) at the start of the day, please contact their class teacher to report this absence as per the normal absence process (if you have not already advised them.) Sign your child in to the office upon return, if returning.

If your child is going to be absent for an exam or audition during Week V – Grammar’s own assessment week – please advise your child’s class teacher so that all staff can be made aware of any clashes with school exams.

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Co-Curricular Notices

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Sport at Queen’s Birthday Weekend

Y3-5 Netball teams – Spirit, Waves, Rookies – DO have matches on Friday 2 June at 4.00pm, as usual.

Netball A DO have matches on Saturday 3 June as usual, time to be confirmed..

There are NO Hockey matches for any teams at Queens’ Birthday Weekend.

Saturday Match Etiquette

Please observe the following:

Neither the Netball or Hockey Associations, nor the school, will tolerate ill manners towards umpires, coaches, players, administrators or other supporters at any time. In this, our staff are coaches.

Please do not crowd around your child’s team at half-time. Coaches need their players’ full attention for the very short duration of half-time.

Where space permit, Hockey supporters are asked to remain behind the safety fences at hockey turfs and off the turfs themselves. Only players, umpires, coaches and the venue supervisor are permitted on the turfs or in the dugouts. Please respect all notices from the outset and any other requests to move behind fences even if there is no notice.

Food (including oranges) is not permitted on CHA turfs, and by extension those school and community turfs used. With only two-minute half-times, there is no time to eat and listen anyway. Please ensure your child has a good meal before playing sufficient to get them through a 40-minute game without a mid-match snack.

Every player needs a named water bottle.

Dogs are not permitted on sports’ turfs or courts.

Winter Sports’ Coaches

This season we are very grateful to the following Grammarians, parents and staff for their Netball and Hockey coaching commitment and expertise. We are also delighted to welcome three coaches from the University Hockey Club.

Netball

Mr Des Matai Netball A – U12 (Y7&8)

Ms Brigit McCormack CGS Spirt (Y5)

Ms Amanda Botting CGS Waves (Y4)

Miss May Bryant CGS Rookies (Y3&4)

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Co-Curricular Notices Girls’ Hockey

Mrs Tracey Jones 1

st XI (Y7&8)

Miss Ella Croll Dowgray Kiwi Sticks Maroon (Y5&6)

Miss Philippa Matthews (UHC) / Mrs Julie Lee Kiwi Sticks White (Y5&6)

Miss Ella Felton Mini Sticks (Y3&4)

Boys’ Hockey

Miss Penny Tattershaw 1

st XI (Y7&8)

Mrs Jo Eason 2nd

XI (Y7&8)

Miss Tessa O’Hocking (UHC) Kwik Sticks Maroon (Y7&8)

Mrs Sandy Hubers Kiwi Sticks Maroon (Y5&6)

Mr Ford Wagner (UHC) / Mr Owen Foster Kiwi Sticks White (Y5&6)

Miss Sophie Gray / Mr Chris Oldham (Grammarians) Kiwi Sticks Black (Y5&6)

Mr Geoff Hardacre (parent) Mini Sticks (Y3&4)

Junior Hockey Skills Club (Tuesdays)

Mrs Chandri Petre (parent)

Mrs Sally Anstiss (parent)

Umpires

We are extremely grateful to coach Andrew Levenger and the players of the Christ’s College Colts (U15) Hockey team who are fulfilling the school’s umpiring obligation at the Grammar turf every Saturday and without which we would not be permitted to enter the CHA competitions.

We also greatly appreciate the commitment from Grammarian Gwyneth Walker who is umpiring netball this season.

Code Club

We would like to invite expressions of interest in an after-school Code Club for Y4-8 pupils. We have been able to organize a tutor who will focus on teaching our pupils how to write code using Python. There will be a charge of $10.00 per session. Please fill in the following survey to show your interest.:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVHJPBW

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Success for the Junior School At the 2017 NZ Master Builders Commercial Project Awards, held in Auckland last Friday, seventy-nine building entries nationwide were selected and celebrated by the entrants and their teams, sponsors and industry representatives. The Junior School won a Gold Award in the Education Category, and then won the Overall Award for buildings valued $2 - $5 million.. The award citation is below:

The building has won various other architectural, professional engineers’ and timber building industry awards and this completed the recognition – in short, these awards from professional industry organizations are substantive proof to the school that the Junior School is a well-designed and extremely safe structure, using the latest timer construction technology and built to the highest standards of workmanship. Our builders, Contract Construction, and architect, Andrew Barrie, were extremely chuffed, and rightly so.

We can be justifiably very proud of our new building. Best of all, it’s a great place to work and the children love it!

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Grammarians in the News The beginning of the winter sports’ seasons is a great time to meet up with old friends – and not so old! It has been a delight to see so many Grammarians around the hockey turfs, albeit now in a wide array of different school and club team uniforms. Miss Tattershaw was delighted to reintroduce Mrs Lill to Sarah Graham on Saturday. Sarah was in Mrs Lill’s Y6 class in the Girls’ School in 2006. Now in her fourth and final year at university, Sarah has been a key member of the group which has established the Southern United Hockey Club (uniting her club Selwyn with Sydenham). Later in the day, Miss Tattershaw ran into Y9s Hamish Newstead, Robbie Bargrove and Shahid Ali and their respective mothers, Jenny, Jennifer and Kirsty, heading for their match for the Avon Club. Jenny snapped this shot of Hamish and Robbie later in the weekend. It’s always wonderful to see our Grammar players still participating!

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Happy Mothers’ Day to all the wonderful Mums, Nanas and Grandmas. The Pre-School children thoroughly enjoyed making surprise Mothers’ Day canvas to take home at the end of last week. The children individually wrapped their presents (with plenty of cellotape used) and hid them in their lockers – I am not sure if the surprise was kept until Sunday. Thank you to all the Mums who came to our Mothers’ Day morning tea yesterday. The pink treats went down well and we raised $90.00 for Breast Cancer Research.

Open Day was very busy last week with many children and families visiting Pre-School. Our enrolments for the remainder of 2017 and beginning of 2018 are growing and we are looking forward to welcoming more children into our community. If you are contemplating enrolling your child, please don’t delay! Come for a visit or collect paper work from the office. We try to accommodate everyone, but we do give priority to those on the waiting list. Our focus this term is further developing the concepts of maankitanga and kaitiakitanga. These principals are about respecting ourselves, respecting each other, respecting our environment, respecting our resources and respecting the world in which we live. We have also been working on tuakana/teina. This is where either an older more experience learner guides, supports and teaches a less experienced learner or vice versa. This has been a large focus over the last few weeks with the large number of new children starting Pre-School. All the new children have settled in well to our programme and the teachers have observed tuakana/teina everywhere. Ka Pai tamariki. The Tui group has one more week of gymnastics before the Kiwi group starts its three-week rotation. These sessions at Christchurch School of Gymnastics are proving to be very successful and enjoyable.

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Our winter vegetable garden is in full growth with the children watching the lettuces, cauliflower, broccoli and beans start to grow. The children enjoy using magnifying glasses to see if there are any unwanted visitors in the plants. We are counting down to the Wheel-a-thon on Wednesday 7 June. This is a fun teaching and learning opportunity for the children to ‘work’ for the extra resources they would like at Pre-School. Our plan is to count any funds are raised (mathematics), and then a small group will visit the ANZ Bank in Merivale to deposit the funds. By exposing children to these opportunities, we allow them to develop an understanding of earning, saving money and then purchasing from a plan – the first step in budgeting! Many thanks to the families who have sponsored children so far. Gainnis has kindly donated a wonderful outside kitchen which has been ordered. We can’t wait for the delicious chocolate sand muffins or perhaps even some worm soup! This kitchen will continue to support the creative minds our children are developing.

Ms Libby Avery

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Thank you to the J3 children who shared and presented at last Friday’s assembly. Mothers are very special. They put a lot of their lives into loving their children and giving them every possible opportunity they can.

Our Cathedral Grammar Mums are certainly no exception to this. It was wonderful watching each Mum’s face as their child read out such beautiful and personal poems.

J3E singing to their Mums at the Junior School Assembly on Friday

Andrew announcing that it is time for the Class Awards at the Junior School Assembly

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The children have been learning about the different elements of exceptional poetry writing. Writing a poem to someone they love so much gave the children a real purpose for their writing, hence the excellent quality. I can’t wait to hear J3Ls’ poems at this week’s assembly!

Mike Karena (Tall Black and Canterbury Ram) visited Grammar last Friday

Reminders:

Junior Assembly is on this week in the Specialist Hall. J3E are presenting and J3L are sharing their learning.

After-school Sport and Clubs for this term are now underway.

Mrs Simone Whalley

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Rangi Ruru Orchestra Day

Our orchestra visited Rangi Ruru last Thursday for a day of orchestral music-making with the Rangi Players. The ensembles were led in a series of instrumental and vocal workshops, and performed together in an evening concert for family and friends. The concert was a huge success. Congratulations to the performers and a special mention for our two soloists, Katy Buttle and Hayley Duggan. You can view some photos of the event at https://goo.gl/24W653 and can watch the performances at https://goo.gl/nbeJ9e

On Thursday 25 May, Bruce and his team from Y8DM will be delivering the clothing packages that they have collected for their project, the Bromley School Clothes Drive. This weekend is your last chance to de-clutter the cupboards of good quality clothes, especially warm jackets, waterproofs and good footwear. The families and supporting agencies at Bromley are especially grateful for the contributions we make. Any contributions can be brought to the locker bay next to Ms McCormack's classroom upstairs in the Girls’ School.

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7G have been thinking and talking about Service lately through their Mitre programme. As part of this they went up to the Ranger's Headquarters at Victoria Park last Wednesday to make plastic cages in preparation for the 7,000 plants that will be added to the Port Hills’ reserves this winter. The girls did a fabulous job of working together, making 192 plastic cages in total. The cages are vital to the survival of the plants as they protect them from being eaten by hares and stock. Congratulations, girls, on showing yourselves to be fine Moral Citizens. The council are now looking for volunteers to plant the trees and shrubs. There are twelve public planting days. If this is something you think you could do with your family, please follow the link below.. https://ccc.govt.nz/parks-and-gardens/getinvolvedinparks/volunteer/port-hills-volunteer-events/port-hills-reserves-volunteer-days/

A reminder that this coming Sunday we have our annual Founders’ Day Service at the Transitional Cathedral. This is a compulsory service for Prep School pupils and a role will be taken. Parents are welcome to join us. The Service will begin at 4:30pm with Choir members to arrive for preparations at 3:45pm.

Finally, good luck to all our runners who will take part in the Independent Schools’ Cross- country Championship next Monday. We look forward to hearing of your efforts.

Ms Kirsty Bond & Mr Owen Foster

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Fluoro Disco We will be holding the school disco on Thursday 22 June. This coincides with a BOSS mufti day. The theme for the mufti day and disco will be Fluoro. The cost of the disco will be $5.00 and this will be charged to your school account. If your child will NOT be attending the disco, please advise Tania at the School office and your account will not be charged. Tania’s email is: accounts@cathedralgrammar.school.nz

Your child will not need to bring money along to the disco. The $5.00 ticket fee covers food and beverages. The following times have been allocated per year level:

Junior School 3.00 - 4.00pm Years 4 and 5 4.15 - 5.45pm Years 6-8 6.00 - 7.30pm

Volunteers needed. If you are available to help on the day including set up, pack up and crowd control, please email Nicky at nickyoram@hotmail.com Your support is greatly appreciated.

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School Album & Records’ Book End of Line Sale -SPECIAL ONE-TIME ONLY OFFER!! Need somewhere to store those school photos and certificates. Why not an official beautifully embossed Cathedral Grammar School set? These items normally retail $55.00 per album and $30 for a records book out they go at:$20.00 each or one of each for $35.00!! School albums and records books can be purchased from the school office.

Term III Fundraiser BARN DANCE – Save the Date: 12 August Yee-ha! Polish up those dancing boots! Our Parents’ Event and Major Fundraiser for the year is a Barn Dance to be held on Saturday 12 August. The beneficiary of the funds raised will be our school library. Further details will be available in due course but please mark your diaries now! Your committee,

Angela Reed, Chantal Taylor, Diana Wylie, Nicky Oram, Libby Avery, Kim Chan, Amanda Davis, Dagmar Kieberger, Sury Kinajil-Reding, Stelios Michaelides, Bridget Parfitt, Natalie Sneddon, Victoria Wynn Thomas