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GARIN NOTICEBOARD: GARIN NOTICEBOARD: events, advertisements & information

Trophies Please could you return all tro-

phies to the school front office. It would be appreciated if you advised Mrs Erasmuson if the trophy is in any way damaged. Thank you. Sheilagh Ditchfield

‘Library at Garin’ Facebook

page Like the page and comment on to-

day‘s Movies post to go in the draw for a $10 canteen voucher.

Winner to be announced on the page on Monday.

Looking for some exam tips? Check out the Garin Library

webpage (accessible from the Garin Homepage) – there are links to exam

& study tips, a tutorial on essay writ-ing, the link to our ebooks, short sto-ries for Level 2 Dystopian reading and help with Lord of the Flies. This is the link to hyperlink:

http://mail.garincollege.ac.nz/

Subject Selection Provisional

Confirmation All Years9-12 students should have

brought a sheet home for you to sign on the terms of their subject choices for next year. They are to be re-turned on Monday.

Athletics Richmond (5 – 15 years old) 2014 – 2015 Season (Term 4 and Term 1) REGISTRATION & INTRODUC-

TION NIGHT Tuesday 14th October 5.00 pm – 6.45 pm Saxton Field Athletics Track Club Night Every TUESDAY 5.15 pm – 7.00 pm

C ALENDAR 22-25 September NCEA Practice Exams start—formal

uniform must be worn for exams and if studying in the Library

26 September Home Study Day

13 October Term 4 begins

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School Visits This week music students from Garin mu-

sic groups ELAE, Oh Blok, the girls from Celestia and Patrick Hassan visited St Mary's and St Canines in Blenheim and Westport to play music for students from some of our more distant feeder schools. It was great to visit these schools, spending time with the students, playing some music and getting the students up and dancing!

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SCOREBOARD

Take a Moment ...

―It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.‖ Steve Maraboli

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

We always begin with prayer. For instance, yesterday‘s assembly started with a prayer

thanking God for our gifts, asking for success in our exams next week and safe holidays. Last night‘s hui started with a prayer praising God.

Of course God knows these things already – knows what we need and knows that we are grateful for the gifts we were born with. God doesn‘t grow in pride or glory because we praise him!

So why do we bother? God already knows we want world peace and common cause and more

vocations. Our asking is always redundant as far as letting God know what we think – so why do we bother?

I don‘t think anyone has put it more simply and more accurately than Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author Søren Kierkegaard. He wrote the function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I‘m sure God is pleased when we pray – but not because that causes God to change his mind, or to suddenly realise that we have a need he hadn‘t thought of. At Garin we always begin with prayer because prayer does change us.

God always makes sure we get what we need – but God does not need our prayers to remind him. What our prayer does, is remind US. And that pleases him.

Our prayer reminds us that we were created by God, that God loves us, that all will be well. Our prayer reminds us to have faith in God, to have hope, to live in love.

Everything around us tells us a contrary message: that will live in an uncaring world, nobody loves us, nobody cares, and the only way to gain love is to be prettier or wealthier or have more. We hear that it‘s all going to fall to pieces unless we make ourselves secure – and nobody is going to help us, and it‘s a wasted effort anyway because we are all going to die!

My daily prayer for my children is that this day they take one step (however small) towards becoming the person each was created to be. And prayer (no matter how small or trite) is one way to take that tiny step.

Prayer does change the nature of the one who prays. Regular prayer obviously does that better than a single prayer in an emergency.

And there are other things that also change the nature of the person: taking time to appreciate moments of beauty, taking moments of reflec-tion – time to think – and then to sit for a moment in silence. Moments of love, moments of joy – these also change us, making us deeper, more sen-sitive, more aware as people.

We are not perfect – and that is the most wonderful thing about us – we have so much room to learn, room to grow, room to become more the per-son God created us to be.

Prayer cannot change God. Prayer, no matter how little or seemingly unimportant, prayer does

change the pray-er.

Runners-up again! The Garin Gladiators lost their final game in the B grade section of

the Fulton Hogan basketball league. They played the Cobras, mainly from Nelson College for Girls, and lost 30-20. Two of our players, Millie Hage and Sam Bjerga, were recognised at the prize giving for great play in their first year of basketball.

Results Netball Finals Senior A 32, Waimea 10A 31.

Senior Gold 26 , Murchison Sen-iors 20.

Basketball Finals Gladiators 20, Cobras 30. Football Girls—Good Season The Garin Girls football team

had a loss to a polished Nayland First XI last Sunday. Nayland had been to tournament recent-ly, and their improved match fitness and passing saw them beat Garin 3 – 1. Garin was first to score when Caitlin Corish hit a great shot from the edge of the box, but Nayland equalised be-fore half time. In the 2nd half, Nayland let the ball do the work, and Garin did a lot of chasing of the ball and towards the end of the match, the girls were very tired. This completes the sea-son for Garin. They played in the Sunday league, which was a much higher standard than in past years. Motueka dominated the league without losing a match, but the other 5 teams were very evenly matched. Apart from Motueka, Garin‘s biggest loss was a 3 goal margin, and the girls had wins against 3 of the other 5 teams. They also lost to every team at some stage. It was a very even competition with no ‗easy beats‘ in the league which was good for all the teams. The girls finished 5th of 6 in the league but such was the tight-ness of the points table, could have finished 2nd equal had they won their last game. The season was about improvement and enjoyment, and Coach Rob is happy that his aims were ex-ceeded on both levels. The girls can look forward to a great sea-son in 2015, when we hope to go to a tournament provided we can get a squad of 16 players, plus parent help.

Summer Tennis Anyone interested in summer

tennis at Hope, Waimea or Wakefield can contact Ngaire Calder on 0272 799 938 for details or email her at ngairecalder@gmail.com Regis-ter online www.caldertennis.co.nz

Netball Player Develop-ment Programme

Nelson Netball are implement-ing a new programme in Term 4 for 11-15 year old students wish-ing to improve their skills. It will be held at Saxton on Thursday evenings. For more information visit www.nelsonnetball.co.nz Registrations close October 10.

Callum and Jack will be known to many as our Garin College web-masters and designers of our notices system. They are also studying Level One Computer Science by distance learning with the University of Canter-bury. Last Friday Jack and Callum sat a significant Univer-sity exam online. Results? Cal-lum gained 4th place ranking out of all the students doing the course, Jack gained an A pass. A wonderful effort, huge con-gratulations to both of them. Predictably both are off to Canterbury Uni next year em-barking on Computer Science degrees.

Loud Shirt fundraiser

brightens up Garin uniform

look ! –sort of! Very bad taste loud shirt combos

with our school uniform confirmed staff perceptions that our simply elegant traditional look is proba-bly what we want to stay with. Loud Shirt Day fund raised to ―help give young deaf children a voice‖ and though we hold lots of mufti days, we squeezed this one in, because of the obvious need to assist young New Zealanders to make the very best start to life as they can.

We have had a number of hear-ing impaired students attending Garin and admire the way they face and overcome challenges in areas many of us with full hearing take for granted.

Our annual Sports Awards night, organised by our two sports cap-tains and their team of student leaders, was held on Tuesday night. The gym was full of players, coaches and managers of all our summer and winter sports teams as well as over 60 parents. Coach-es of each team judged most com-mitted, most improved and most valuable player and these were presented by teachers in charge and head coaches of each sport. Guest speaker Greg Frame, suc-cessful multi-sport athlete and coach, spoke of setting goals, de-veloping a plan for achieving them and reviewing along the way in order to reach success in sport. Garin students who give their time and expertise so generously to coach teams were also recognised.

ADVENTURE RACING Most committed: Rosette Hailes-Paku Most improved: Olivia Wilbourne Most valuable: Amy Coulton BASKETBALL Cardinals Most committed: Jared Lautenslager Most improved: Joe Snodgrass Most valuable: Frank Quin Saints Most committed: Caleb Binns Most improved: Michael Bolton Most valuable: Ben MacManus Miracles Most committed: Caitlin Mahon Most improved: Madi Baker-Flynn Most valuable: Brie Lobb Mission Most committed: Jess Dudonski Most improved: Sarah Fisk Most valuable: Summer Tuisamoa CRICKET Senior X1 Most committed: Kieran Marshall Most improved: Frank Quin Most valuable: Sam Traynor Junior X1 Most committed: Tayne Clements Most improved: Ben Price Most valuable: Max Nalder FOOTBALL Under 19 Most committed: Sam Traynor Most improved: Nathan Tonk Most valuable: George Hamley Under 17 Most committed: Harry Woodyear-Smith Most improved: Jordan Reif Most valuable: Aden Groom-Baigent 14th Grade Most committed: Chris Woodyear-Smith

Most improved: Jamie Ward Most valuable: Logan Faulkner Senior Girls Most committed: Peije Hollander-Fahie Most improved: Teresa Rosanowski Most valuable: Holly Bruning HOCKEY First X1 Most committed: Sam Harrison Most valuable: Isaac Brennan/Matt Dawson Second X1 Most committed: Campbell Rollo Most improved: Marcus Hungerford Most valuable: Jonathan Skilton NETBALL Senior A Most committed: Sarah Robinson Most improved: Rosette Hailes-Paku Most valuable: Makaila Powick/Poppy Restieaux Senior B Most committed: Courtney Butchart Most improved: Rose Watson Most valuable: Olivia Wilbourne Senior Black Most committed: Kay Thomson Most improved: Brie Lobb Most valuable: Caitlin Coates Senior Gold Most committed: Eliza McCambridge-Dax Most improved: Teresa Rosanowski Most valuable: Rachel Hillis Senior Maroon Most committed: Cassidy Taylor Most improved: Millie Hage/Clare Robinson Most valuable: Emily O‘Connell Junior A Most committed: Claudia Leonard Most improved: Kate McCashin Most valuable: Georgia Clarkson Junior B Most improved: Scarlett Burke Most valuable: Samantha Smith Year 10 Most committed: McKenzie Baker-Flynn Most improved: Morgen Nimmo Most valuable: Brianna Eastmond Junior Gold Most committed: Monica Brooks Most improved: Kate Lightowlers Most valuable: Rachel Watkins Year 9 Most committed: Marina Bukovcavoka Most improved: Isabella Rees/ Phoebe Schwass Most valuable: Katie Green RUGBY Marist Under 15 Most committed: Anthony Romano Most improved: Kobe Harpur Most valuable: Matt Stevenson

Marist Under 14 Most committed: Jack Penman Most improved: Duncan Drysdale Most valuable: Jack Yeoman/Max Nalder VOLLEYBALL Boys Junior Black Most committed: Max Nalder Most improved: James Calt Most valuable: Matt Stevenson Girls Senior Gold Most committed: Teresa Rosanowski Most Improved: Claudia Wakefield-Dunn Most valuable: Madi Baker-Flynn Girls senior Black Most committed: Anneke Voerman Most improved: Piki Boyles Most valuable: Sophie O‘Connell Girls Year 11 Most committed: Clare Robinson Most improved: Rosie Schultz Most valuable: Caitlin Coates Girls Year 10 Black Most committed: Sophie Moffat Most improved: Kinsey Pope Most valuable: Julia Froeling Girls Year 10 Gold Most committed: Brianna Eastmond Most improved: Julia Froeling Most valuable: Abbey Hahn Girls Year 9 Black Most committed: Kate McCashin Most improved: Greta Pestell

Most valuable: Livvy Schepers Girls year 9 Gold Most committed: Maxime Jansens Most improved: Connie Law/Sophie Henry Most valuable: Ashleigh Cawkhill Girls Year 9 Maroon Most committed: Bridgett Jones Most improved: Claudia Leonard Most valuable: Hannah Stevenson TRIATHLON Most committed: Sam Harrison Most improved: Samantha Ashley Most valuable: Amy Coulton

Garin Sports Awards 2014

STUDENT COACH AWARDS

Madi Baker-Flynn Jess Brooks Holly Bruning Lucia Burke Bella Cooper Tori Gemmell

Rosette Hailes-Paku Kate Hand

Rene Heremaia Claudia Hillman Spephanie Hills

Jack Keenan Brie Lobb

Ellie McDonald Grace McInroe Georgie Miller

Livvy Nott Grace Phillips

Olivia Robinson Clarisssa Romano Katie Shanaher

Monique Statham Anneke Voerman

Lauren Wilks

Every year we have a number of talented athletes and teams who are over achieving outside of our school. We would like to recognise some of their successes now, please refrain from clapping until the end.

Josh Moffat - Nelson Marlborough Falcons football, Suburbs Mainland Premier team football Cameron Thomas - Suburbs Mainland Prem-ier team football, Nelson Marlborough Fal-cons football Caitlin Mahon - Nelson Bays Football 17th Grade Girl Representative

Jared Lautenslager - NZ Cross Country Championships 5th South Island Cross Coun-try 3rd Matt Stevenson - Nelson Bays U15 Rugby Joseph McCashin - Nelson Bays U15 Rugby James Calt - Nelson Bays U15 Rugby

Max Nalder - Nel-son Bays U14 Rugby Duncan Drysdale - Nelson Bays U14 Rugby Jack Yeoman - Nelson Bays U14 Rugby Ryan Churchill - Nelson Bays U13 Rugby

Alanah Op den Buysch - South Is-

land Area Artistic Skating Champs - 4 Gold medals Isaac Brennan - U18 Nelson Hockey Rep Matt Dawson - U18 Nelson Hockey Rep Eliot Youmans - U18 Nelson Hockey Rep Tom Froeling - U18 Nelson Hockey Rep Jack Harris - U15 Nelson Hockey Rep Arne Varvoda - U15 Nelson Hockey Rep Julia Froeling - U15 Nelson Hockey Rep Poppy Restieaux - Nelson U17 Reps, Premier Grade netball team, Canterbury Tactix Level 2 Team Makaila Powick - Nelson U17 Reps, Premier Grade netball team, Canterbury Tactix Level 2 Team Sarah Robinson - Nelson U17 Netball Reps Jess Brooks - Nelson U17 Netball Reps De-velopment Team Kate Hand - Nelson U15 Netball Reps Claudia Leonard - Nelson U13 Netball Reps

Thomas Heaton - Australian Age Swimming Champs 4th 1500m 14th 400m James Fleury - Overall Silver 14 year Male - Swim Nelson Marlborough 2014 Samantha Smith - Overall Bronze 14 year Female - Swim Nelson Marlborough 2014 Amy Coulton - Port Nelson Summer Sea Swimming 1st U16/19 Top overall female Sarah Fisk - Nelson Marlbor-ough age swimming champs 3 bronze medals

Kate Hand Nelson U17 Basketball

Outstanding performance in sport outside of Garin