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Issue 2415 August 2014

From the PrincipalDear Parents

KBB Music Festival 2014

The KBB Music Festival is a celebration of youth music that has taken place since 1983. It has grown significantly since its inception, and in attending the concert at Westlake Boys on Sunday 10 August we can all be assured that music development for our young people is in great hands.

Our Chamber Orchestra played Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird with soloist Kelly Kim delivering a superb vocal performance. They also presented a beautiful version of Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) arranged by Ryan Youens. Shelagh Thomson, Performing Arts Director, was delighted with their third placing – congratulations to the Chamber Orchestra as the competition was very intense.

Congratulations also to our Concert Band and their leader Elsa Holliday. The band consists of a very young group of students who won silver and improved significantly on their last year’s performance.

Women2Watch Assembly In a packed Sports Centre, three of our most outstanding young alumni were recognised by the School for their outstanding achievements beyond school. The Women2Watch Awards recognise outstanding young women who completed their education at Diocesan School for Girls to Year 13. A Women2Watch Committee planned the awards ceremony. The committee is led by Ms Jane Latimer who is the host for the event - Jane is also an outstanding woman herself and was a Diocesan Head Prefect.

From the Principal

• KBB Music Festival 2014• Women2Watch Assembly• St Peter’s Cambridge sports exchange

Information for Parents

• Inspiring Leadership Evening• Twice exceptional gifted students• Carpark uniform sale• The Diocesan Shop• Photographs of Diocesan events

Chaplaincy

• Term 3 Giving Focus

Junior School

• The Messenger newsletter• Junior School Father Daughter Breakfast

Junior High and Senior Schools

• Juntoku School visit• Maths Week• Top chef gets a taste of Heston at Dio

Sport

• From the Director of Sport• Cycling• Futsul Tournament• 1st XI Football fundraising• Hockey selection• Lacrosse• Sailing• Auckland Winter Swim Championships• Winter Water Polo Festival

Music and Performing Arts

• KBB Competition• Kids Sing• Tea and Tiny Cakes fundraiser• Big Sing National Finale

Career Development Centre

Community Groups

• Dio Arts – Fizz & Quiz ‘Movies and Musicals’

Parenting Courses

Other

• Team McMillan BMW sponsorship• First Conversation at La Cigale

Key School Dates

IN THIS ISSUE

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Women2Watch, from left to right, Rachel Patching, Kelly Bleakley

and Rosalie Fisher

Heather McRae

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She is a successful barrister specialising in employment law. Jane introduced our three special guests: Rachel Patching is a highly esteemed film producer who has a passion for telling people’s stories. She particularly chooses stories that will make a difference to the lives of others.

Rosalie Fisher is a doctor specialising in oncology at Auckland Hospital. Her work in making a difference to the lives of cancer patients is rated as world class.

Kelly Bleakley is the youngest head of the New Zealand Scout movement ever appointed. Beside her full time position at Fonterra leading the Milk in Schools Programme, Kelly is fully immersed in leading and developing the Scout movement to engage and build great young people.

Rachel, Rosalie and Kelly are outstanding young women who reflect the values and contribution to the world that they acquired as part of their Diocesan education. We especially thank the Women2Watch team and Ms Jane Latimer for their fantastic contribution to organising the assembly.

St Peter’s Cambridge sports exchange

On a fairly brisk Wednesday morning, a powhiri in the Sports Centre welcomed the teams from St Peter’s in Cambridge for our annual sports exchange. It was a great day for Diocesan teams who cleaned up the overall competition with a clean sweep in the netball. We were delighted to win the shield for 2014 which was presented to the School by Beatrice Meadowcroft, the 2014 Sport Prefect. Thank you to the Sport Department, coaches, umpires, parents and girls for the spirited competition and another great exchange for our sport teams.

Heather McRae Principal

Information for ParentsInspiring Leadership Evening

Join us for drinks and nibbles at the new Mini Garage on Broadway, Newmarket on Thursday 18 September to raise funds towards sending a Year 12 student on an Outward Bound experience.

Hear from our key note speakers Martin O’Halloran, Chairman of DDB Australia/New Zealand and Peter McClure, Managing Director of Fonterra about their experience as leaders.

The evening will also feature a presentation by Maria Burns, a prior Outward Bound participant and current student. This is an exciting event for all the Diocesan community. Tickets are $25 (including booking fee) and are available through iTicket. Visit www.iticket.co.nz to purchase your ticket.

Twice exceptional gifted students – a presentation by Dr Kate Niederer

Thursday 25 September at 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) Western Springs Community Hall, 956 Great North Road, Western Springs

Twice exceptional children are those who are both gifted and have a specific learning need. While they can be highly able, they may struggle within the education system as the work they produce often fails to represent what they are truly capable of. This can lead to feelings of anger, despair and a lowered self-concept. These children are at serious risk of underachievement, which can worsen as they progress through the schooling system. In this talk Kate will discuss what it means to be twice exceptional, the characteristics of twice exceptional children, and how teachers and parents can work together to support them.

Tickets are on sale at $10 per person or $15 for a family.Bookings: admin@giftedchildren.org.nz

Carpark uniform sale

A second hand uniform sale will be held in the carpark on 23 September from 1 – 3:30pm.Click here for more details.

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The Diocesan Shop

The Diocesan Shop is open from Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm.

Summer uniform is now available in the shop. We also have a new product – a fleece jacket which can be used for both PE and sport – sizes for all ages.

Photographs of Diocesan events House Music and Dance

The photos of the recent House Music and Dance competition are able to be viewed (using the password ‘dio’) on the Topic Images website: Click Here

If you would like to purchase any of these images, please contact Joanna Wright in the Art Department – jwright@diocesan.school.nz or phone extension 7612.

Other Dio events

Photographs of selected events at Diocesan are available through the year to view and/or purchase via photographer Nicola Topping’s website. Images stay available online for three months.

Chaplaincy

Term 3 Giving Focus The Term 3 Giving Focus is the annual commitment to St John’s School, Wailoku in Fiji. These funds will be added to next year’s total to fund the project undertaken by the 2015 Senior School Service Trip. This will be the third biennial Senior Service trip to St John’s which is an expression of our commitment to the Pacific partners of our three Tikanga Province, The Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

Junior SchoolClick here for the link to this week’s The Messenger.

Junior High and Senior Schools

Juntoku School visit For the first two weeks this term we have hosted our Japanese sister school from Tokyo, Juntoku Girls’ High School. Twelve students became ‘Dio girls’ and were hosted by Dio families. During the day, a special programme was organised with activities that ranged from cooking hamburgers for lunch, to trying their hand at Maori stick games and experiencing Kiwiana in the form of pineapple lumps and jaffas! They were a delightful group who gave everything a go. Their English skills improved and the bond between the two schools, which is in its 26th year, was further strengthened. Many of the Dio girls who were hosting the Juntoku students are now planning to visit them in Japan on the school trip next year.

Maths Week 18 - 22 August

Next week Dio will celebrate Maths Week with a variety of activities. Each day there will be a Problem of the Day for Years 5/6, Years 7/8 and Years 9/10 - girls are encouraged to try their problem solving skills! On Monday and Tuesday Years 6, 7 and 8 will attend a World of Maths Workshop. This is a variety of hands-on Maths problems that they will solve as a group. On Wednesday and Thursday there is an Open Day for Years 7 and 8 Maths classes. Your daughter’s teacher will have contacted you about the arrangements for this.

On Friday we have our annual Dio Mathex Competition. This is run as a House Competition, with each House entering three teams of four girls at each Year level – 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. It is always a lot of fun and certainly challenges their problem solving skills as well as their running ability!

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Top chef has a taste of Heston at Dio

Chef Paul Jobin joined a senior food technology class on Monday afternoon, tasting and giving feedback and advice to the girls who were working on their ‘Be Heston’ project. He spoke briefly about his career before spending time discussing the dishes with individual students – pictured here with Year 12 student Victoria Belcher.

Sport

From the Director of Sport

Welcome back Brittany Robertson and Katie Glynn - our Commonwealth Games representatives. Congratulations to Brittany on her 10th place in the Artistic Gymnastics competition and to Katie for her Bronze medal efforts with the Black Sticks.

Last week we said farewell to Ana Patel who has moved on to NZ Cricket to work on a programme for schools leading up to the Cricket World Cup. Ana has been a wonderful ambassador for Sport DIO over the years and she will be missed. It has been wonderful having her back in the office after her maternity leave and although we are sad to see her go we wish her well for the future and know that our loss is NZ Cricket’s gain.

With Ana’s departure we welcome Angie Winstanley-Smith to the Sport Office. Angie is a former age group British champion swimmer and participated in the London Olympics with the Great Britain water polo team. In April she won Most Valuable Player and the Gold medal with England at the official Commonwealth Water Polo Championships. She played professionally for 10 years across Europe, winning five French Championships. In addition to her outstanding career as an athlete she is also an accomplished coach having coached both swimming and water polo for over 10 years and winning several national titles with her regional teams. Angie has already joined our team and is planning to work on water polo development and a range of other sports.

On Wednesday this week we had our annual St Peter’s exchange. We began with a rousing powhiri that set the scene for a great day of competition. Sports played were water polo, netball, football, basketball and hockey. We won ten games and lost three to win overall points and take the shield for the third year in a row. Awesome work girls! It was a spectacular day with some wonderful skill demonstrated from our teams. I was proud to be associated with Team DIO.

Kia Kaha for the business end of the winter season.

Peg Lockyer, Director of Sport

Angie Winstanley-SmithAna PatelBrittany Robertson andKatie Glynn

Victoria Belcher and Chef Paul Jobin

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Cycling The weekend saw the Diocesan cycling team compete in the fourth of seven Auckland Secondary School Team Time Trials. After some bad luck hit a number of teams over the first three races, all teams were focussed on improving their positions in the standings leading into the business end of the season.

Senior A rode what can only be called a near perfect ride, setting the fastest time ever by a Diocesan cycling team around the 16km course, subsequently riding to a gutsy second place overall. Junior A also produced a season-best time, passing a number of other teams on their way to third place in the Junior Girls’ category.

What was most pleasing to see was all the girls enjoying the success they have worked so hard for and at the same time taking on board what they had learnt in the recent Sports Psychology session (put on as part of Dio’s High Performance Programme). To see all of them during their post-race de brief filling in their self-reflection sheets was a real positive and a huge step towards achieving the group’s goal of being the best they can be at the Nationals in September.

Dio takes out inaugural Auckland Futsul Tournament Futsul, or indoor football, is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. This past weekend, Auckland hosted the NZF Futsul Roadshow, a three-day festival that included exhibition matches from the Futsul Whites team and the inaugural College U-15 Girls’ Tournament. In addition, three Dio girls (Michaela Buckley, Kitty Greensill and Georgia Leach) were invited to attend a training session with the Futsal Whites coach.

All College teams played with surprising skill and energy, and the girls fought hard for wins over Baradene and Selwyn, but then suffered a 5-1 loss to MAGS in the final round. However, they had done enough to qualify for the final, and changed their game plan to achieve a tight but exhilarating 2-1 victory over MAGS in the final.

Special mention must be made of Michaela Buckley, who was Golden Boot for the tournament, and scored two stunning goals in our come-from-behind win in the final, but this was only possible based upon a true team effort. Kitty Greensill, (who had greatest number of assists), Georgia Leach (who unselfishly played in her least favourite position of goalkeeper for most of the games), Aimee Fairbairn, Amy Hill and Winter Brown all contributed hugely to the team result.

1st XI Football fundraising In preparation for the Premier Girls’ Football Tournament in Taupo this year, the team are getting into fundraising over the next couple of weeks. They will be selling raffle tickets and the prizes include: Holiday Inn Accommodation (Airport) Package, L.J.L. Paris Consultation Package, Pure Fiji Pamper Pack, Skellerup red gumboots – ‘His & Hers’ pairs, $100 Gina’s Italian Kitchen voucher and a hamper from the team. Tickets are $5 each or three for $10. The team will be out and about selling tickets or you can purchase them from the Sports Office.

Thank you to the following businesses for their support: Holiday Inn Airport, L.J.L. Paris Hair Designers, About Face, Skellerup and Gina’s Italian Kitchen.

Hockey selection Congratulations to Maddison Dowe who has just been named in the NZ Hockey Tiger Turf U-18 squad. Players in this squad have been identified as part of Hockey New Zealand’s development potential.

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Futsul team

Diocesan Cycling team

Maddison Dowe

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Lacrosse

The 2014 Auckland Secondary Schools’ Lacrosse Championships were held on Friday 8 August.Two inspired teams headed to Avondale racecourse to represent Diocesan at the event.Both teams played in tough divisions and achieved some great results.

Dio 2 celebrated a very impressive 6-3 win over Avondale and Dio 1 claimed a very impressive and well deserved 3-1 win over Mt Albert. When it was all said and done Dio 2 finished 11th and Dio 1 finished 3rd. Two great results for Diocesan lacrosse!

This result puts Dio 1 into the nationals in two weeks’ time where the girls will be ready for even tougher competition.

Congratulations and thank you to team coaches and managers for your wonderful efforts.

Sailing

Dio Sailing welcomes new recruits to take up sailing in the upcoming season. If you are interested please note the details below:Glendowie Boat Club – Learn to Sail Course (and opening day) starts on Sunday 21 September at 2pm. Phone Shaun Connolly on 575 8570 to enrol or for more information.

Auckland Winter Swim Championships

The Auckland Winter Swim Championships were held from 1 to 3 August at West Wave Aquatic Centre. Fifteen Dio girls competed, with seven girls taking home medals as follows:

Gina Galloway – 7 medals

Gold – 50m BackSilver – 100IM, 100m Back, 100m Free, 50m FreeBronze – 50m Fly, 200m Back

Annabelle Paterson – 5 medals

Gold – 100m Free, 200m BackSilver – 400m FreeBronze – 100m Back, 200m FreeJess Shorter-Robinson – 7 medalsGold – 200m Free, 400m FreeSilver – 100IM, 100m Back, 100m FreeBronze – 200m Breast, 200IM

Bianca Traplin – 4 medals

Gold – 100m Breast, 200m BreastSilver – 200IMBronze – 100IM

Carla Traplin – 1 medal

Silver – 400m Free

Alice Waldow – 3 medals

Gold – 50m FlyBronze – 50m Breast, 100m Fly

Montana Wilson – 1 medal

Gold – 50m Breast

The Dio girls who competed at the Auckland Winters were:Gina Galloway, Annabelle Paterson, Jess Shorter-Robinson, Bianca Traplin, Carla Traplin, Alice Waldow, Montana Wilson, Zoe Dawson, Jasmine Reynolds, Isobel Avis, Claudia Avis, Imogen Rodgers, Emily Doughty, Sarah Robinson and Polina Kudrow.

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Winter Water Polo Festival

Last weekend saw the first big event of the year for Year 7&8 water polo, the 2014 Winter Water Polo Festival held across all Auckland pools. Teams from all over the North Island were present including all three Diocesan teams. The teams performed very commendably all through the tournament and the girls should be proud of their efforts.

Diocesan Red was extremely committed and managed to show great spirit in a tough division.Diocesan Blue showed great improvement and fine skill finishing 5th in the girls’ division. Diocesan White was determined and showed great ability, claiming 2nd place in the girls’ division.

Congratulations to Dio White, runners-up in the girls’ division:Ella Barrett, Anna Casey, Polly Davies, Matilda Foley, Madeleine Gault, Claudia Monkhouse, Samantha Robinson, Eleanor Spillane, Zita Sumich, Alice Waldow and winner of an Outstanding Player Award, Jessica Shorter-Robinson.

Best of luck to all teams for the rest of the season.

Music and Performing Arts

KBB Competition 2014

This year has seen a steady and continued growth in the instrumental programme here at Dio. The annual KBB Festival, for our large ensembles, is the most fiercely contested festival for all secondary schools in the region. This event runs over five days and is a huge undertaking for both students and staff. This is the biggest large ensemble competition in the country and the Awards Ceremony at Westlake Boys was packed at the weekend.The event was held at Westlake Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools due to the building work in progress at Holy Trinity Cathedral. Everyone missed the fantastic acoustics and familiarity of this venue – next year we will once again be back in the newly refurbished Cathedral.

This year we had nearly 100 girls participating in three categories: Symphony, Chamber Orchestra and Concert Band. They all provided some serious competition for the bigger schools and came away with Silver Awards.

Our Symphony Orchestra, although small in comparison to Westlake, Macleans and Rangitoto, was rhythmic, focussed and full of energy. We had the audience break into spontaneous applause after our toe-tapping, fast and furious rendition of Far and Away.

Concert Band, under the directorship of the very enthusiastic and hardworking Elsa Holliday, really excelled themselves. Mrs Holliday and the girls did a magnificent job with an ever-expanding group of younger and very keen players. Their challenging but fun repertoire won them a coveted Silver Award. This was an amazing achievement after last year’s disappointment and everyone was very proud of the girls.

Each group must prepare a 30 minute programme - and be responsible for their own stage management within this time.Our girls, under the amazingly competent leadership of Year 13 student leaders, were truly professional and extremely organised. We were very lucky to have the assistance of the wonderful Mariko Windecker and Ashley Doo from last year’s programme. And a very big ‘thank you’ also to German assistant, Fabian Prolinghuer.

Congratulations to all the girls who have worked so hard on difficult repertoire over the last term. The standard of the top performing groups was staggeringly impressive – from Jazz Bands and Concert Bands to Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. The Dio Chamber Orchestra was chosen to perform in the Gala Concert as one of the top four Chamber Orchestras in the region – along with Westlake, St Cuthbert’s and Macleans.

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Concert Band

Dio White Water Polo Team

Chamber Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra

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For a small school we have seriously punched above our weight and those in the music world have noticed and commented. All great publicity for our Dio community!

Thank you to all who have supported the 100 girls who have been seriously involved in the KBB Festivalover the last week.

Kids Sing 2014

Last week saw our two competing choirs, Chapel Choir from the Junior School and Virtuoso Voce from the Junior High School perform magnificently in the Gala Concerts at the Town Hall.

Chapel Choir, under the skilled and meticulous directorship of their wonderful Year 5 teacher, Mehernaz Padiwalla, performed an exciting and very polished programme. Complete with very engaging actions, they premiered their newly commissioned song by David Gordon, the very catchy Why animals stick their heads through fences. This Year 5 and 6 choir was outstanding and they deservedly brought home the three top awards: Gold, The Best Overall Choir and Best Performance of a New Zealand work.

Shona McIntrye-Bull’s Virtuoso Voce, our Year 7and 8 choir, produced a stunning and very mature sound, with the test piece Moon and the premiere performance of Y12 student Grace Brebner’s Shadows of the Wind. This performance was the highlight of the entire session and Virtuoso Voce were once again awarded Gold this year.

Well done to all our choristers and their very dedicated directors.

Thanks to all academic and support staff, parents and grandparents who have attended performances at KBB and Kids Sing over the last week. It is impossible to run an effective and successful extra-curricular music programme without your support.

Andre Worsnop is doing a fantastic job with our Facebook page and the youtube channel - he posts up links ‘hot off the press’ and this is great publicity for the School. Click here to see more.

Here are some of our award-winning KBB performances – we will get the Chamber Music NZ winners up when Radio NZ release the audio.

Dio Chamber Orchestra - Click here to view

Dio Concert Band - Click here to view

Dio Symphony Orchestra - Click here to view

This last week has been very busy for everyone involved in all these competitions. And next week we have Big Sing in Auckland - so it’s not over yet!

Tea and Tiny Cakes – Fundraiser for St Cecilia Singers On Sunday 17 August, our St Cecilia Singers will be doing a concert in the Junior School Hall at 4.30pm to perform their programme to an audience. Click here for more information.

Big Sing Finale 2014 Next week our elite choir St Cecilia Singers and the newly formed Dio/Dilworth choir Divinitus are competing in the Big Sing Finale over three days.

Both choirs will be performing at the Raye Freedman Centre on Wednesday 20 August at 5.00pm along with Epsom Girls, St Cuthbert’s and Dilworth. This is a final run-through for all of these wonderful choirs before they compete in the heats on Thursday.

Anyone can watch the performances live from the Town Hall in Auckland on their computer, tablet or internet capable phone. The coverage will work on a range of devices and will be streamed in HD.We wish all of our girls the very best in this year’s Finale.

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Career Development Centre

Year 13 students - University Course Planning for entry 2015 – Library Seminar Room More information will follow about the arrangements for each university via student email.

22 Aug Victoria - Period 4 and Lunch26 Aug AUT, Lunchtime and Period 58 Sept Waikato, Lunchtime24 Sept Massey, Period 4 and Lunchtime25 Sept Otago, 10am, Interval and Period 3

Scholarship references and closing dates Scholarship reference request and scholarship closing dates are coming up.Come to the Careers Centre to give us your name.

NZ University Open Days, Experience Days and Information Evenings

Massey Open Days

Albany 16 August, Wellington 29 August Register interest here

Otago University Information Evening for students and parents

Monday 25 August, 6 - 8pm at the North Lounge, QBE Stadium (formerly North Harbour Stadium), Gate A, Stadium Drive (off Appian Way), Albany.

Topics covered: Studying Arts, Law, Business, Sciences and Health Sciences, accommodation in the Residential Colleges, entrance requirements, costs and scholarships.For further information: Email auckland.liaison@otago.ac.nz or phone 09 373 9704.

Victoria University of Wellington

29 August - http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/events-visits/study-at-victoria-day

University of Auckland Courses & Careers Day (University Open Day)

Saturday 30 August - City Campus.Information booklets available from the Careers Centre. Click here for more information

Introducing the National University of Singapore

Date: 30 August 2014, SaturdayTime: 9.30am to 12.00noonVenue: Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls’ Grammar SchoolPlease RSVP to the invitation letter so that you can be included in the tea reception at the end of the seminar.Click here

Swiss Hotel Management School

1 September, starting at 7pm at the Langham Hotel - information to follow.

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Reference request University Closing Date

25 August Victoria Achievers and Faculties 15 September

12 September Waikato Sir Edmund Hillary and others 1 October

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University of Auckland Portfolio Workshops

As part of their application for admission to the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme at Elam, students need to provide a portfolio of work. These workshops are designed to help students prepare a portfolio and present it professionally. Dates: Saturday 6 September, Saturday 13 September

Register here

Community Groups

Dio Arts

Fizz and Quiz

The Fizz & Quiz night on 30 August is coming up fast! We have some fabulous live and silent auction items up for grabs, so make sure you come along and bid on the night! The live auction items include three amazing holidays - a week at the Sands Villas in Rarotonga including airfares from Air New Zealand, a South Island package with accomodation at Matakauri Lodge and Wanaka Haven Lodge, and two weeks in Vivre la Vie villa in South West of France. Fabulous experiences include a Tongariro crossing package with the Park Travellers’ Lodge, a luxury golfing weekend in Taupo, and bed and breakfast with the Hip Group in Waihi Beach.. For students, there are three internships – a two week internship at DDB Group Sydney with accommodation in a Sydney penthouse apartment, a week’s experience with James Dunlop Textiles in Auckland and a two week internship at Kiwi Energy in New York, including accommodation and flights. For foodies, there is a Middle Eastern feast for 10 cooked in your home by Helen Jackson of Foodlovers, and a 1 Group La Spaziale commercial Italian espresso machine and coffee package from Ignite Roasterie. Finally, two stunning artworks are up for auction – a bronze sculpture of a Dio girl by Richard Wells and a framed acrylic on Perspex work by Sam Mitchell from Melanie Roger Gallery. There are many more wonderful silent auction items too. See you there!

Rose Stanhope

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15% discount for Fizz & Quiz costume hire

Desiree Costume Hire Ask for Caroline Herdson or James Laing when booking 196 Station Road , Penrose 095256546 desireecostumes@clear.net.nz www.desiree.co.nz

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FIZZ & QUIZTHE MOVIES AND MUSICALS

Dress up and theme your table from any movie or musical and get set for a fantastic night!

SATURDAY 30 AUgust 2014 7pm

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Parenting Courses

The Parenting Place Courses

www.theparentingplace.com

The Parenting Place, 300 Great South Road, Auckland / Ph 524 0025 / info@theparentingplace.com

Please follow the link for information about all upcoming courses at The Parenting Place.

Hot tips on parenting your teenagers – a presentation by John Cowan

An entertaining dose of parenting insight on how to live with teenagers and understand their culture.

Monday 18 August from 7 to 9pm at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School Hall, 247 Bucklands Beach Road. Doors open at 6.30pm.

For more information contact Jenny Harper Ph 021 240 0837 or email jharper@firstoption.co.nz

This is a free community event presented by The Parenting Place. Light refreshments will be provided and childcare will be available during the presentation. Raffle on the night.

Triple P Parenting The Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme is one of the world’s most effective parenting programmes because it’s one of the few that’s been scientifically shown to work.

Triple P gives you simple tips and routines that can make big differences to your family. You’ll be amazed how even a few small changes in what you say and do can work wonders.

Phone: + 64 9 579 1794Email: info.nz@triplep.net.nz

The Incredible Years Programme Incredible Years is a 14-18 session programme for parents of children aged three to eight that helps parents turn behaviour around and create an enjoyable and harmonious family life.

Parents come together each week and develop approaches to use at home with problem behaviours. The programme is delivered by Ministry of Education, Special Education staff and by 51 non-government organisations (NGOs) contracted to deliver the programme in partnership with the Ministry. Eleven of the NGOs are Whānau Ora providers. Many are also providing a range of social services to families funded through the ministries of Health or Social Development or other agencies.

For more information go to www.incredibleyears.com

TOUGHLOVE NZ

TOUGHLOVE NZ is a unique national organisation which focuses on parents of teenagers and provides on-going support for as long as required. It operates a national network of support groups which meet once a week. Thousands of parents in New Zealand have benefited from the TOUGHLOVE programme. http://www.toughlove.org.nz

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Raising Children in New Zealand

Raising children by growing great parents

www.raisingchildren.org.nzinfo@raisingchildren.org.nz

The website currently only holds clips for newborns to turning three (the first three years). There are over 50 short clips on anything from eating and sleeping, to health and wellbeing and dealing with challenges, to the six key principles to raise happy healthy kids – something that is relevant to all ages. The introduction is from Prof Sir Peter Gluckman about the importance of the first three years setting a child up for life. Click here for mor info.

Other

BMW Rewards Programme

For every New or Approved Used BMW and/or MINI that Team McMillan Limited sell to the Diocesan Community or to colleagues and friends of the community, they donate $500 for each sale to the Heritage Foundation – no conditions, no strings attached.Fill out the Loyalty Rewards Programme here with your details, your friends or colleagues details, then print it out and mail it back to BMW – they’ll do the rest!

Remembering Riri - First Conversation at La Cigale

Remembering Riri

First Conversation12 noon

Wednesday10 September

La CigaleParnell

Come and join us for a French café-style

lunch with wine

$25 per personPlease RSVP to Diane Miller:Ph 09 630 2237 or email disi@xtra.co.nz

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TERM 1

Term 1 Begins Wednesday 29 January

Waitangi Day Thursday 6 February – School closed

Term 1 Ends Thursday 17 April

TERM 2

Term 2 Begins Monday 5 May

Queen’s Birthday Monday 2 June - School closed

Term 2 Ends Friday 4 July

TERM 3

Term 3 Begins Monday 28 July

Term 3 Ends Friday 26 September

TERM 4

Term 4 Begins Monday 13 October

Labour Day Monday 27 October – School Closed

Term 4 Ends (Years 7-13) Friday 5 December

Term 4 ends (FC – Year 6) Tuesday 9 December

2014 Term Dates 2014 Key School Dates

Future Term Dates

2015

Term 1 28 January - 2 April

Term 2 20 April - 26 June

Term 3 20 July - 25 September

Term 4 12 October - 9 December

2014 TERM 3

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WEEK 4

Mon 18 Day 7 Maths and Visual Arts Week

IB Network Visit 9am–3pm

Visual Arts Exhibition 5.30pm–6.30pm

Year 12 Play 7pm–8.30pm

Tue 19 Day 1 Year 12 Play 7pm–8.30pm

Thu 21 Day 3 The Big Sing Nationals (finishes Saturday 23 August)

Year 7 Leadership Day All Day

Fri 22 Day 4 Year 7 & 8 Central Zone Cross Country

All Day

Innes Houses Exeat Weekend, students leave

5pm

WEEK 5

Mon 25 Day 5 Junior School Father and Daughter Breakfast

7am–8.30am

Confirmation Retreat (finishes Tuesday 26 August)

3.30pm

Tue 26 Day 6 Confirmation Service 6.30pm–7.30pm

Wed 27 Day 7 Library Festival

Sat 30 Fizz and Quiz 6.30pm–11pm

WEEK 6

Mon 1 Day 3 Winter Tournament Week All Week

Tue 2 Day 4 IB Art Exhibition Openning 5pm–6pm

Remuera Zone Cross Country 9am–3pm

SEPTEMBER

WEEK 7

Mon 8 Day 1 Aims Tournament Week All Week

Thu 11 Day 4 Year 13 Diploma Exams (finishes Friday 19 September)

Year 7 & 8 Interzone Cross Country

All Day

Fri 12 Day 5 Year 11–13 Examinations (finishes Friday 19 September)

Jump Rope For Heart 9am–3pm

Sun 14 Junior School House Services for Selwyn, Neligan, Roberton and Mitchelson

9am–10am

Junior School House Services for Cowie, Cochrane, Eliza Edwards and Mary Pulling

10.15am–11.15am