MARIST COLLEGECatholic School for Girls, Years 7 to 13 Term 2 - Number 7

Friday 14th June 2019

www.maristcollege.school.nz31 Alberton Avenue, Mt Albert, Auckland 1025. Ph (09) 846 8311, Fax (09) 815 1441. Email admin@maristcollege.school.nz

From the PrincipalLast week I had the privilege of attending the World Congress of Catholic Education in New York. The Congress brought together just under 1000 people in representation of the 46 Million students from 210,000 schools in 100 countries. The theme of the Congress was ‘Educatio Si’, ‘to be educated’. Over three days I was thrilled to listen to presentations from Catholic educators from all over the world. Important reflections included how can we educate our students to be the change makers in their community and the world; how can we teach our students to protect their environment and the importance of ensuring faith and character along with intellect?

I would like to thank the New Zealand Catholic Education Diocese, with the support of the Marist College Board of Trustees, for the opportunity to participate in the Congress.

We have elected our new Marist College Board of Trustees. Thank you to all the parents who took the time to vote. The Board listed below will take effect on 14th June 2019.

A huge thank you to all our outgoing board members for your time and service to the school. A special thank you to Beverley D’Souza, Pauline Scanlan, Brent Sullivan and Staff Representative Alison Fowkes.

We have had two weeks of huge success in the school. Congratulations to Harriett Ashton-Shepherd, Emma Coll, Yohanna D’Costa and Sylvie Pease who competed in Wellington at the Shakespeare Festival. Sylvie has been selected from there to go to the National School Shakespeare Production week in Wellington. Many thanks to Mrs Emma Coupar-Wanoa for accompanying the girls to the festival and for the time she has spent with the girls getting ready for this competition.

The Marist Stella Choir performing at The Big Sing Regional Festival were truly outstanding, and have won two awards. Thank you Mrs Karadjov for your time coaching the girls to such a high standard. Further details, and a link to their performance follows on page two.

Great news for our Year 13 student, Amie Kaufman who has won the Alex Mao Photography Award as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Her photograph ‘Trying To Grow Up’ is inspiring! Further details and a copy of her winning entry follows on page two.

Congratulations to all of the students that performed last night in the opening night of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. Your presence on stage was dynamic. I definitely recommend to parents that you see the show. Tickets for the remaining shows can be purchased through iTicket.co.nz or call 361 1000.

Te aroha o te Atua,

Mrs Raechelle Taulu, Principal

KEY DATESTerm 2 2019Week 8 (B) Languages Week 17 Mo Year 12/13 Police Ball talk 2:30 - 3:00pm 18 Tu BOT Finance 7:45am Year 11 Attitude presentation P1, 311 Year 11/12 Food Tech, Hees Garden 1:30 - 3:00pm 19 We Environmental Assembly Uni of Auckland info Year 13 12:30pm, Year 10/12 1:30pm Market Day 10S Break 1 20 Th Travellers programme P1&2 Mass Year 12 Year 10 Dance trip, Unitec 12 - 2pm 21 Fr Assembly Year 12 Work Choice Day Year 13 Geography Trip, Omaha 8:30am - 5:30pm Rotation 4 - 1Week 9 (A) Matariki 24 Mo BOT Meeting 6pm M301 25 Tu Evacuation Practice P2 Year 13 Drama Performance 6:30pm 26 We Assembly Waikato University Info Year 10 - 13 1:30pm Year 13 Science Zoo Trip Year 13 Drama - A Fine Balance, Q Theatre 10:15am - 1:15pm 27 Th Tough Girl Challenge Travellers programme P1&2 Fono 6 - 7:30pm, P102 NZQA Advisor Samoa Service Trip Abroad Info 7:30 - 8pm 28 Fr Champagnat House Mass 8:45am Marist Gymnasium All Welcome Year 7 - 8 St Peters Social Rotation 5 - 2

UPCOMING EVENTS:July 1 Mo Frida Kahlo Cake Competition B2 3 - 4 Year 7 Retreat 5 Fr Term 2 Ends 6 Sa School Ball, Year 12 & 13 22 Mo Term 3 BeginsAug 10 Sa Annual PTFA Quiz Night 15 Th Marist Day 30 Fr Visual Arts Showcase

Please Note Teachers will no longer be taking strike action on Monday 17th June 2019. Marist College will have normal instruction for all year levels on this day.

Bishop’s Representatives

Tracy Beuth

Philip Marshall

Oonagh Turner

Hoani Smith

Staff Representative

Hazel Brook

Parent Representatives

Stephen Dallow

Alipa Solomona

James Burr

Anjana Paul

Mihingarangi Forbes

iTicket.co.nz

Congratulations to Sylvie Pease (Performing Arts Leader), who is one of 42 students from across NZ selected to take part in the SGCNZ National School Shakespeare Production during the October Holidays. This prestigious week-long intensive course in Wellington involves studying aspects of Shakespeare’s works and three of his plays under the direction of leading directors. What an exciting opportunity! We are very proud of you Sylvie.

Congratulations to Amie Kaufman, Year 13. Amie won the Alex Mao Photography Award as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. The judges commended her photograph ‘Trying To Grow Up’ for its technical and artistic excellence!

Shadowtech ReviewOn Friday 7th June, Year 11 Digital Technology attended Shadowtech, an event which guides young women to understand the use of technology in all industries. It is co-ordinated by TechWomen, a group of passionate New Zealand tech, digital and ICT focused individuals from leading organisations that work together, with the support of NZTech, to help address one of the major challenges for the successful growth of technology in New Zealand – a shortage of women in tech roles.

We saw companies such as Microsoft, FaceMe, Xero, SMX, Harmoney, Auckland Defence Force, Orion Health and experienced an educational day. We were informed about the variety of jobs in the digital technology industry. We learnt about skills and techniques which would be helpful for any job. They provided us with lunch and there were many inspiring presentations that gave us a different perspective of women in the tech industry. Overall it was a very enjoyable day.

Caritas ChallengeOn June 7th, a group of girls participated in the Caritas Challenge. The challenge is an annual event held by other schools across the country. It promotes solidarity with those living in poverty and injustice, this year’s focus was on South Sudan. The girls took part in two aspects of the challenge - Move it and Stop it. Move it involved an amazing race scenario that integrated current social issues in South Sudan. Stop it involved a dinner comprised of plain rice. The Caritas Challenge was a way of raising awareness to the situation in South Sudan. This enabled the girls to show love in action through participating!

Auckland Schools' DebatingThis week marked an end to the 2019 debating season. Marist had five teams competing across three grades. Debating has been a wonderful opportunity for our students to develop their ability to think critically about our society. I’d like to thank our team managers Mr McIlwrick and Ms Masters for supporting our teams. Well done to all our debaters for their enthusiastic participation this season!

Two awards for Marist Stella Choir2019 has been a big year for the Marist Stella choir so far. After taking a break in 2018, the choir practised up to two hours every week after school, in preparation for the Big Sing Regionals on Friday 11th June.

This year there were 73 choirs participating in this highly prestigious competition and our hard work certainly paid off. We performed three songs in the required categories – New Zealand/Pasifika, Classical and Other Styles Category: Weep No More by David Childs, Sanctus and Benedictus from the Little Jazz Mass, and the Bulgarian folk song Dilmano Dilbero, which we also performed at the Gala concert.

We were delighted to win the Best Performance in the Other Styles category – a result of which we are very proud. For the first time ever, we were accompanied by a student, Veronica O’Donnell who won the Best Piano accompanist by a secondary school student. Well done, Veronica! Thank you especially to Mrs Karadjov for the many hours of rehearsing, organising and preparing that you put in. We don’t know what we would do without you!

Isabelle BurrThe Marist Stella performance can be viewed on our facebook page, or with the link below. https://www.facebook.com/maristcollegeauckland/posts/690521024694038

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S P O R T S U P D A T ESports ResultsWATER POLOMarist Intermediate v Mt Roskill Black - Year 7 & 8 had their closest game of the season. They came from behind to beat Mt Roskill Black 10:9. The girls had to fight all the way and scored with two seconds left on the clock to win by one goal. Goal scorers were Ashley Edwards (6), Lucy Doran (3) and Melita Simpson (1). The girls played an awesome game as a team, supporting each other the whole way in a real nail biter of a match.

HOCKEYMarist 1st XI v Howick 1XI - In our first game in the Open A/B grade, we started off really well with lots of energy. The half time the score was 0:2 to Howick, but Howick showed their experience at this level and outplayed our girls. The final score was 0:8 but our girls didn’t give up and continued to play as a team. Thank you to Emily Rednall for playing for us this week - it was great to see that you weren’t intimidated by the older more experienced players. Player of the day was awarded to Milla for her strong work in defence.

Marist U15 v MAGS Gold - Marist U15s beat MAGS Gold 8:0. Our goalie Rose had her first touch of the ball all season. Players of the day were Anoushka and Freya for their part in that solid defence and keeping their score nil. Last week's result was a 5:0 win over Baradene. This game had fantastic attacking play, including a great goal in which the ball was passed between all the strikers in the circle before scoring! All the strikers (Emily, Bella,Tash, Xanthe) received players of the day for that game. Next week: top of the table clash with Mt Roskill Grammar.

Marist Gold v Waitakere Wolverines - The girls scrambled hard on defence and the goalie made some excellent saves through this game. End result 1:1. PoD to the hard working goalie Brielle. Great to see the girls improving so much in such a short time.

Marist Blue v Western Waves - A tough game was fought all the way to the end. Well done to Elisabeth who scored the teams only goal in the last few seconds of the game and was our player of the day.

NETBALLSenior Social v Baradene: Snr Social Jewels - The wind whooshed and attempted to sweep us off our feet. It battered the ball, ripped the bibs off our opponents and stung our eyes, reducing visibility. Marist Spirit subverted the weather. After four gruelling quarters of play, the senior social netball team rose victorious over the adverse conditions and the opposing Baradene team to secure a 24:8 win. For such a windy morning our whole team performed very well, especially our shooters! PoD Nicola Verschuur. A first win for this Marist team! Thank you to all the parents that braved the wintery conditions to support our girls.

9B v One Tree Hill Y9 Pearls - A good performance, winning the first game of the season 31:3. Despite the windy and wet conditions, our shooters made opportunity with every possession they had and our defenders did really well to keep them out of the shooting circle.

Year 7 Blue v Glendowie Primary: Y7 Flaming Flamingos - These girls are improving week on week, passing short and straight proved to be a winning tactic and they came away with the win 18:15.

Year 7 Red v St Thomas's: Y7 Gold Stars - A really good game this week, they played hard and worked great as a team. The score was 11:8 to St Thomas'. However, the effort they put into the game was amazing. They played in different positions today and the coaches are so proud of how well they all played.

Year 7 Navy v St Cuthbert's: Y7/4 - A fantastic win over St Cuthbert’s 19:1. Wow! All their hard work is really paying off, with fantastic passing, great defence and superb shooting skills on display. Great teamwork!

Year 8 Gold v St Mary's: Y8 B - The girls came out looking sharp from the first whistle, which set us up for a fantastic lead and win over St Mary’s 40:18. Their netball skills are really coming along.

Year 8 Red v ACG Strathallan: Y7/8 Stars - Wow, what a game. We played hard right to the end. A close game where only lost by two despite having only six players on court for most of the game. Well done girls for always doing your best to the end.

FOOTBALLMarist Junior v Mt Albert - Fabulous team effort on both defence and attack. During the last minutes of the game Marist scored, winning the match 1:0.

Marist Premier v Mt Albert - A very intense atmosphere, fuelled by the amazing support from the sidelines. This led to a very tight game ending in a 2:2 draw. Our girls showed passion and drive to perform our absolute best, not only for ourselves and the team but also for Marist. This will help gear us up for next week’s game against Rangitoto.

Marist Intermediate Gold v St Mary’s College Red - A challenging game with a very even contest. Our team had some good shots on goal, saved by their goalies having an awesome game. Overall a fair draw at 0:0. Player of the day went to Cadey for her strong saves with multiple shots on goal. Well done team.

Marist Intermediate Blue v Diocesan Blue - Well done team with a 3:1 victory. Great goals to Brooke, Kara and an awesome flick goal by Sylvie from a Kara corner. Due to her non-stop defensive efforts the player of the day was Izzy Broderick.

LACROSSEMarist v Mt Albert Gold - MAGS were a fast, strong opponent, but Marist played well and kept up. Overall a good game. Marist won 13:4 and the player of the day went to Emily Turner. Great game girls.

Sports Draw - Please see school website.

http://www.maristcollege.school.nz/WebSpace/4118/

www.maristcollege.school.nz31 Alberton Avenue, Mt Albert, Auckland 1025. Ph (09) 846 8311, Fax (09) 815 1441. Email admin@maristcollege.school.nz

Reminder: Payment for the School Ball is

due by 18th June online via cart.

Saturday 10th August 2019

Starts 7pm.$25 PER PERSON OR $250 PER TABLE

Hosted by Aaron Ward, star of Nothing Trivial.

For info, donations or offers of assistance

contact erinjudd70@gmail.com

The biggest interactive drum show for kids in Australasia!

Rhythm Interactive is proud to present their new theater production; Jungle Jambo “Together as one.” An inspiring show filled with fun and laughter and lots of jungle jamming.

Rhythm Interactive has performed interactive drum shows for New Zealand schools since 2008. Jungle Jambo is our latest and biggest production to date. Everyone gets a drum to join in and is fully part of the storyline. Jungle Jambo is an interactive musical experience where digital characters come to live on stage, join Jambo’s tribe and help him save the jungle.

What to do these school winter holidays? Jungle Jambo, The Herald Theatre Aotea Centre Auckland July 16 to July 20, 2:30 pm. Our special school offer promo code; JAMBO, use this code and receive a 15% discount. Brilliant family entertainment for kids aged 5 to 12.

Tickets: https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/jungle-jambo

FONO TIMEFONO TIMEThursday, 27 th June 2019

From 6 - 7:30pm, held in Room P102(we have relocated to the front of the school

- classroom opposite the gymnasium)

Topics Covered:•NCEA - what is it and how does it work, how to track your daughter’s

progress, see how they are doing.

•Juniors - understanding curriculum grades and answer any questions you may have.

Special Interest: We farewell a long-standing father-figure, mentor, former Pasifika Parent, Board and PTFA member of our school - Kia Danny Liuliu-Afoa. He has been a mentor to many of our students for the last 10 years. He will be sorely missed by our past and current students. Let us show our gratitude and come together to celebrate his time with us.

Bring: your daughter(s) and a plate to share (drop your plate off at the gym kitchen)

Facilitator: Makerita Tagomoa-Papali’i (Pasifika Liaison Teacher)

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31 Alberton AveMt AlbertAuckland

Ph: 09 846 8311Fax: 09 815 1441

Email: school-secretary@maristcollege.school.nz

Marist CollegeCatholic School for GirlsAuckland

Friday, 14th June 2019

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

On Friday 28th June 2019, St Peter’s College will be holding a Social from 6:30pm - 9:00pm for Year 7 & 8 students in their College Hall.

Tickets cost $10.00 which must be paid to St Peter’s College on the night. Students must show their school ID card at the College Hall door. Refreshments can be purchased on the night.

Please ensure that your daughter is dropped off at and collected from St Peter’s College.

There will be no Marist College teachers supervising this event. It is a St Peter’s activity. We cannot accept any responsibility for loss/theft etc.

Security will be tight, and at no time will students be allowed to leave the hall once they have entered unless they are under parent supervision.

Tickets are limited, and we will have a first in first served policy. If your daughter missed out last time, she will be given priority this time. Please do not call the office.

Conditions of Entry are as follows:1) No smoking or alcohol.2) No leaving once in until the end, or under parent supervision.3) All care taken with articles of clothing/bags.4) High standards of social etiquette to be kept at all times

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation in this venture.

Yours sincerelyRaechelle TauluPrincipal

Please return this slip to the school office to receive a ticket, payment must be paid to St Peter’s on the night.

I give permission for my daughter ……………………………………….. (Full Name) to attend the Social at St Peter’s College on Friday 28th June 2019. I will ensure that my daughter will be dropped off at and collected from St Peter’s College and that the conditions of entry will be followed.

Parent/Caregiver Name ……………………………………....Signed: ……………………

Emergency Contact Number: ……………………………………………….

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