Below are some of the ebooks Year 7 students have created in Science this year.
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
English Language Learners
Despite a disruptive year for all of us in the Linwood College at Ōtākaro school community, the English Language Learning Department can look back on a year with many highlights and successes. Although adapting to e-learning and virtual classrooms halfway through the academic year certainly posed its challenges for both students and staff, we are proud of our students who remained focused on developing their English language skills and achieving all the NCEA credits they were entered for. A positive outcome of e-learning is having students now actively engaged in and supported by an online learning platform membership that the ELL Department purchased and implemented after lockdown, with much success.
2020 also saw the ELL Department establishing junior and senior acceleration classes with the goal to support students with higher English language learning needs, with the emphasis on identifying and
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addressing specific gaps in their English language learning journey and meeting their specific needs. Keeping class numbers to fewer than ten and with a Learning Support Assistant working alongside the teacher, the students’ language skills have developed significantly.
‘We Are The World’, a celebration of our cultural diversity and the opportunities it offers to our students to shape the future, was an absolute highlight. The flag parade, traditional dances, kai, fairies and clowns made it a day to remember (see School Activities page).
Welcome to Two New International Students
Enno von Werder (from Germany) and Yuma Kobayashi (from Japan) were welcomed to Linwood College at the beginning of the new school year.
Enno is in Year 12 and is a keen sportsman who coaches inline skating and soccer after school in his hometown of Volksdorf, Hamburg. He loves windsurfing and is interested in technology and engineering.
Yuma is in Year 13 and is from a city called Nagano. He is committed to improving his English language skills and attends English Language Learning, Art and PE classes. Yuma is an accomplished ice speed skater and hopes to represent his country in the Olympics one day.
‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Isaac Theatre Royal
Watching a Prince's sweet kiss break an evil spell and awaken a princess from a 100-year slumber is a good way to end the school year, in anybody’s book! Attending a performance of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, sponsored by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, was an absolute treat for a large group of LCŌ students, for whom many it was their first experience of ballet as a dance genre. The enchanting stage décor and props and the beautiful costumes were just some of the highlights that the students were buzzing about when they returned to school after the performance.
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