Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 9 Class Photos
Year 9 Class Photos
English Language Learners
Social Sciences
Right: JLMC 170.84 Roman Portrait Head, James Logie Memorial Collection, Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, University of Canterbury.
This year has been full on, planning and fundraising for Vietnam 2020. Vietnam 2020 is a Geography and History trip open to this year's Year 11 and 12 students. Currently, 16 students have signed up to the trip that will be run by Defining Moments. The students will spend one week at the end of term 1 2020 and one week of the school holidays travelling from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City studying geographic features, the history and hopefully having a wonderful time full of new experiences.
The Social Sciences department has had a great year; three new staff have come on board and brought energy and professionalism to the team; students have been on many education outside the classroom trips; students have been doing well in assessments and competitions, and most significantly, planning and fundraising for the 2020 Vietnam Trip has been happening in full earnest.
Education Outside of the Classroom
Along side differentiated learning, education outside the classroom has been a big push for the Social Sciences department. It continues to be one of our goals to improve student learning by getting students out of the classroom, so that they can have authentic learning experiences.
Below are some articles about a few of the experiences our students have had to enhance their learning.
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Vietnam
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Level 3 Trip to Queenstown
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Year 11 and 12 Arthur’s Pass Trip
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Level 2 Tourism Trip
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BP Challenge
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Young Enterprise
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Trip to the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities
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Elizabeth Ekford
Geography and Tourism
Year 11 and 12 Arthur’s Pass Trip
Year 11 and Year 12 Geography students had a great field trip to Arthur’s Pass and down the course of the Waimakariri River on the 22nd of March. Mr Richard Jolly and Miss Kate Munro took the school vans and 14 ākonga out for the day where they conducted research about river
processes (velocity and stone size) in different places around the Waimakariri River. A beautiful day and great attitudes of those attending! Students then used their data to write a report.
Level 3 Trip to Queenstown
The following are written accounts from students during their Queenstown experience in May.
Comments by Lakin Spicer-Lee
“On the 7th May, 2019 our tourism class went on a 4 day, 3 night trip down to Queenstown. The first day was a driving day. We had a long trip down, leaving at 8:00 am and arriving at about 4:00 pm. After we got there we just chilled and planned for dinner.
The second day we got to Queenstown Resort College. We had two speakers who exposed us to useful information about Queenstown as a tourist destination. Then we got to see some people bungy jump at the Kawarau Bridge Bungy, which is something I would never do but it was fun to watch.
The final full day was the day I will remember the most. We left the accommodation for the gondola, which also included the luge. This was a very good start to a morning. After that, we went to Arrowtown which is very beautiful in the season of autumn.
We had speakers who taught us about the development and growth of Queenstown. One of my biggest highlights was the Fear Factory, I would 100% recommend it. I got the experience of leading my team through the maze and I may have gotten lost but we got out okay.
The last day was again a driving day, where we got to reflect on our memories that we had created while heading home.
Comments by Asha Prasad
“I really enjoyed going on this amazing trip with my tourism class. It was such a great experience to explore and to see different things. We went down to Queenstown for three days.
On May 7th we left school at about 8 am in the morning. We all went full of excitement, listening to music, having fun playing games with one another. It took us about 8 hours because we stopped at places to take pictures. At one stage I felt really sick like I was about to throw up but then I forced myself to sleep so that helped me out. We all got there about at 4 pm, all very exhausted and happy but we had to store our bags and go shopping for our groceries.
The second day we went on a mini-adventure to a college to find information about so many different and new things to help us in the future, after that some of us had free time to go and explore Queenstown. As our journey continued throughout the days we did amazing activities like going to the Fear Factory, going to the Gondola and luge, going to Bungee Jump, visiting the museum, and enjoying free time in the city.
It was such a wonderful trip, everyone enjoyed it so much.”
Level 2 Tourism
We have had another successful and fun year in Tourism. We had our annual trip to Hanmer which saw our ākonga authentically experience what it was like to be a domestic tourist in our beautiful country. Domestic tourism is an important and heaving part of tourism for NZ, which see New Zealanders spend around $20.2b a year, in comparison to international tourists that spend $11.8b. Amuri Jet and Rafting were amazing to us again this year and provided us with indepth knowledge of their business model and structure, values and how tourism impacts their business, not to forget a nail biting jet boating experience!
Many of our Level 2/3 Tourism ākonga will go on to explore different avenues with in this vast and exciting sector.
Classical Studies
Trip to the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities
In week 4 of term 2, the Year 13 Classical Studies class was given the unique opportunity to experience original ancient Roman artifacts at close proximity during a visit to the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities in the Arts Centre. The collection is part of the UC College of Arts.
Alice, the Curatorial Assistant, had brought a selection of Roman sculptures and coins from the collection specifically for us and our current focus on Roman portraiture as part of this term’s Roman art and architecture unit. The students were introduced to George, the collection's iconic 2000-year-old Roman bust, got a close up look of the Roman emperor Hadrian, and even a chance for some hands on analysis of the sculptures as well as coins of the time of Augustus and later Roman Emperors.
It was great to see how engaged this hard working group of students was during the visit. They made the most out this opportunity to meet some ancient Romans face to face and to study pieces of artwork at first value. A big thank you to our host Alice and the Teece Museum for welcoming us.
Business Studies
BP Challenge
During week 4 of term 4 we were lucky enough to have Erica and Jesse, two presenters from the Young Enterprise Trust, come down to Linwood College and run the BP Challenge.
Year 10 students put themselves into groups of 4 to 8 people. They were then led through the process of creating a business idea, making a business plan and presenting their ideas to judges from the business community.
Level 3 Young Enterprise Scheme
Students from the Level 3 Business class became involved in the Young Enterprise Scheme. This is a programme developed for students to create and have the experience of running their own business. As part of this programme, students have to present their business ideas to a panel of judges from the wider business community. The presentations took place at ARA Institute of Technology.
This year we had two groups. One group made up of Tara Blackmore, Eileen Prasad, Meghan Kerr and Arnie Ferreras was very successful winning two Young Enterprise awards and featuring in several local newspapers. The group developed their brand Popcoin and sold delicious popcorn at local markets.
Meghan Kerr and Tara Blackmoore selling at ARA and at New Brighton market
Read the article in full on page 8 of this link
Vietnam 2020
History
Elizabeth Eckford Talk
Year 11 students and some Year 10 students were lucky enough to head to Christchurch Boys’ High School to listen to Elizabeth Ekford talk about her experience in the American Black Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s. It was fascinating to hear an old lady, still visibly shaken by the experiences of more than 60 years ago, talk about being one of the first coloured students to enter Little Rock High School.