Middle Years - Term 2 Week 5 2021 - Kia Ora Golflands Campus Middle Years Whānau 'E Ofoofogia 'Oe Lo'u Matai'.
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Middle Years – Term 2 Week 5 2021
Kia Ora Golflands Campus Middle Years Whānau � ‘E Ofoofogia ‘Oe Lo’u Matai’.
The students enjoyed a much-anticipated Pacific
Island shared lunch celebration. The most
requested food was sapasui and coconut buns!
A very special thank you to the parents who
bought, cooked, or dropped off any dishes for the
shared lunch!
We appreciate the part you all play in this.
Figure 1 Standing tall for Samoan language week; Mr. Loubser, Ezra
Paese, Joycinda Pakipaki, Elena-Rhys Uta'i, Miss Gibson, Nathania
Mamea, Moana Tanuvasa, Mrs. Heim
Talofa lava and happy Samoan language week! This A special thanks to Mrs Walker who contributed a
morning a stunning handful of our students significant portion of Samoan food. Thank you,
represented their cultural wear at our assembly Mr Taufao for the hot desserts.
Ezra Paese in his ie lavalava, and Joycinda Pakipaki,
Elena-Rhys Uta’i, Nathania Mamea, and Moana
Tanuvasa in their beautiful puletasi dresses. They
shared with all of our Y7-10s about what their
family’s value in Samoan culture: relationship with
God, respect and manners, milestone celebrations
like 21st with a key gifted to them, and of course
THE FOOD! Thank you to Miss Gibson our Year 8
Whānua leader who is also leading and influencing
our Pacifica group as part of her role in the Kāhui
Ako.
How impacting has the weather been! Wow,
from striking sunrises to alarming deluges,
our God sure has designed complex, vexing
and powerfully beautiful weather systems.
One of my favorite saying is this: “a gloomy
day has no power over a sunny disposition”.
Thank you to the parents who pray for our
teachers and students and who regularly
send through words of wisdom and
encouragement. We value and appreciate
our faith-based partnership with you. Figure 2 Psalm 150 declares that “we praise God according to His
excellent greatness.”
The World Vision student leaders from
Primary and Middle Years attended a
challenging leadership training conference
where they were inspired to commit to
encouraging their peers to support the 40-
Hour Famine. Thank you, Rishona Lal, Isabella
Neumann, Kei McNeill, Kayla Goh and Caitlyn
Chong for your commitment and advocacy
for the plight of others.
The winning house for term 1 was Ezekiel.
They were treated to a much appreciate cup
of hot chocolate on a chilly morning. Every
term all students get allocated house points
for demonstrating good character, working
hard, and getting deeply involved in their
learning. The house points are tallied, and the
winning house across all four year-level
groups is announced at the end of every term.
Each term a different award is given so next
term’s treat for the winning house might be
totally different.
Figure 3 Figure 1 MY Student leaders treated the Term 1 winning house to
a hot choc on one of the coldest days of the year so far.
Figure 5 Even though we have copious
space for games, at times our students
kick balls that end up over the fence. Do Figure 6 Students are asked not to
have these conversations at home. retrieve stray sports balls unless they
Figure 4 Our Guest speaker Ty Stevenson encouraged our
“What can you do to ensure soccer balls have express permission from a teacher.
Y7 and Y8 students during a Whānau assembly to press
into hearing from God during their personal devotions. don’t end up over the fence?”
Nothing gives teachers more pleasure
than acknowledging students who act
outside of what they have to do and
choose to do want they want to do for
the good of others.
The late Dale Carnegie, an award-winning
writer said, ‘Inaction breeds doubt and
fear. Action breeds confidence and
courage.”
When the Junior Years teachers, Mrs Lee and
Miss Coffer needed technical support for the
Elim’s Got Talent Evening, Tobyn and Sion
immediately decided to volunteer their
Figure 7 Sion and Tobyn services. They saw a need and they
decided to act with confidence and
courage. Our school vision emphasizes students’ pursuit for personal Figure 8 Learning is fun! Keegan Wolsky
excellence and the Junior Years team want to acknowledge both wore an original Primary Resource for a
period. His Army uniform was a tactile
these young men who consciously decided to be their best that day. learning experience. A few of the boys
didn’t really like the hard rough material.
Kia ora, Tobyn and Sion.
Ms Neetha Mudhan, Assistant Campus Lead: Golflands
Millicent Rowe, one of our talented dancers is competing in Christchurch at the New Zealand
Dance awards. We are so proud of you Millie.
Chloe Laga has recently performed in the sold-out season of Papakura Theatre Company’s
production of Abba’s Mamma Mia. Chloe is a talented performer with strengths in dance.
Congratulations to Harmon Cornish in Year 8 who was nominated and then selected to
represent the youth in cutting the Rauti/ribbon at the Auckland Museum for the Cook Island
Mauke/Exhibition this Queen’s birthday weekend. This is a very special honor for Harmon and
his family.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the Student Led Conferences either the 9th or the
14th of June.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IS A HALF
DAY.
An exciting first for the Middle Years is a fun fundraiser on the 24th of June, please use the link
to purchase tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/girls-night-film-and-fashion-fundraiser
Mandy Heim
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