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
Ka Ora, Ka Ako - Healthy School Lunches Programme
This year we have been fortunate to be part of the Healthy School Lunches Programme. All students are provided a free lunch during their Ako class. The lunches are nutritious and tasty. Dietary needs are met, including standard meals, vegetarian, no red meat, gluten-free, allergy to milk, allergy to egg, and others.
Thank you to the Ministry of Education and our lunch provider, the Compass Group, who provide yummy lunches such as bacon frittata with onion marmalade; spinach, tomato and feta frittata with onion marmalade; cheese and tomato pizza.
Inspiring Leaders
A group of LCŌ students were recognised as Inspiring Leaders along with two of our seniors who received academic awards in the inaugural Learning Community HUB Ōtautahi Academic Awards and Leadership Acknowledgements. The event was held at Christchurch Girls' High School on the evening of March 31st. The Director of Education for Canterbury, Coralanne Childs, and the Imam of the Al Noor Mosque, Gamal Fouda, were in attendance to support this event.
Pictured left: Kaye Maravilla, Rose Lim, Dipal Narayan,
Syntori Fa'ataape, Ivo Baguingey, Ranalia Savelio,
Paul Reyes and Divashaal Prasad.
Bros for Change
Developed by former New Zealand Maori and New Zealand Rugby League player Jaye Pukepuke, the purpose of Bros for Change is to give young people a second chance to create real change through real talk with real people.
Bros for Change is here to create self-esteem, self-awareness, self-respect, self-management and role models.
Recently, the following LCŌ students that have been part of Bros for Change have graduated. Congratulations to Dylan Bruce, Aaviya Mathews, Tarquin Tata, Kody Wilson, and Lilryzah Shepherd. The ceremony was held on Wednesday the 2nd of June and was attended by some staff and whānau.
It was a time to celebrate their journey and support them in their graduation, see what they have been doing and what they achieved when they were not in class.
As a catalyst for positive change, ensuring everyone reaches their full potential, regardless of their background, Bros for Change uses a strong sense of culture and identity to form the basis of it's programme. By using the protocols of Te Ao Maori, the programme helps to break down barriers and build strong relationships through encouraging respect for both the participants and the facilitators.
By incrementally increasing goals from day-to-day objectives through to long term goals, we ensure that goal setting is realistic and achievable so that we do not set our young people up to fail. This encourages the individual to learn self worth and confidence as they progress to more demanding goals.
Within this framework, Bros for Change run Mau rākau, physical training sessions, cooking sessions, camps and wānanga along with whānau inclusive activities.
Delicious Treat for
Samoan Language Week
Leuma Gali and some of our Samoan learners prepared an amazing feast to celebrate the end of Samoan Language Week.
Some students were at school as early as 6.30 am to help prepare the umu for the LCŌ staff. Traditionally, an umu is an above-ground oven of hot volcanic stones. The stones are heated in a fire before the food is placed on top, wrapped in banana leaves or coconut fronds. Cardboard was used to cover the top and seal the 'oven'. Slathered in freshly made coconut cream, umu-cooked food is infused with beautiful, completely natural smokey flavours. An umu is lifted after about two hours and served immediately, while the food is hot and delicious.
Leuma, with the help of Samoan learners, prepared and watched over the umu all day so it was ready at lunchtime for the staff to enjoy.
Fa'afetai tele lava for all of those who came and supported the event, used Samoan language, learnt something new, or stopped by to have a look and celebrated the beautiful language and culture of Samoa.
Check out our video of the preparation and serving of the umu for staff.
Emerging Leadership Conference
Hundreds of Christchurch’s emerging leaders have gathered at Christ's College for a one-day leadership conference for Year 12 students. Noeline Laufiso shares her experience of the day.
Hi, I would like to share my experience and the many things I learned from the Emerging Leadership Conference. Firstly, I was quite excited to hear from our guest speakers at the conference. It was so good and encouraging for me to hear how I can develop my leadership skills. Logan Williams was our first speaker. I really liked how he told us about his story, his career, and his dreams. He was talking about his innovations and inventions within science with his four different jobs (farming, furniture building, neuroscience and manufacturing).
The main point I liked about his talk was when he said, “If you want to be successful at something, you have to be successful first then money comes second." Why? Because in the meantime lack of money teaches us how to be resourceful in the future, because our parents are not going to be here with us always and this is why he said the money comes second. We can achieve our goals by working hard.
What I have learned from our Emerging Leadership Conference is that the future is really important to me and it encourages me and my life in the future. Thank you so much for giving me this special opportunity. I was so excited about taking part in the day.
Noeline Laufiso
Duke of Edinburgh
International Award
Recently our students Boadicea Lynch, Caitlin Tempelton, Chelsea Smith, Shymara Shaynese and Piper Stewart received awards from Mayor Lianne Dalziel.
The Duke of Edinburgh international award is a non-competitive programme of leisure activities designed to offer a person an individual challenge. Anyone between the ages of 14 and 24 can take up the program, regardless of gender, background or ability. All awards must be completed by the participant’s 25th birthday.
The award introduces young people to exciting, positive, challenging and enjoyable activities to do in their free time.
There are four sections across the Bronze and Silver levels, the Gold level includes the four sections with an additional Residential Project.
The levels are:
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Bronze – open to all aged 14 and over and lasting at least 6 months
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Silver – open to all aged 15 and over and lasting at least 12 months
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Gold – open to all aged 16 and over and lasting at least 18 months
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Service– giving help in the local community
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Skills– covering almost any non-physical hobby, skill or interest
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Adventurous Journey– completing a journey on foot, horseback or by boat or cycle
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Physical Recreation– sport, dance and fitness
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Residential Project– for the gold level only – spending 5 or more days on a purposeful project with new companions
The Joshua Foundation is an independent operating authority for the Duke of Edinburgh international award. Joshua Foundation has been facilitating expeditions on behalf of the Hillary Award in excess of 12 years.
Te Pou Toetoe (Linwood Pool):
Focus Group
A group of Linwood College students were asked to be part of a Te Pou Toetoe focus group.
Approximately 15 students were selected to be part of a Te Pou Toetoe focus group and share their thoughts around the new pool with members from Sport Canterbury, the Christchurch City Council and Global Research. Mr Guglietta, Miss Katene and Jade Cull were there to support, on behalf of our staff as well.
They met in the library on Friday 20th June, and spent period one sharing their thoughts and completing some tasks, giving feedback for the experts in the room. The adults supporting this mahi have interviewed over 300 students to get their feedback. Angela Pryor from the Christchurch City Council told the group about the new facilities they’re building, what the pools are going to look like and also their outdoor facilities. The new pool is going to be such an awesome addition to our community, especially the deep water manu pool and outdoor Ki o Rahi field. It was also exciting to hear about some new programmes they will be starting like ‘Wahine Wednesday’ which will be a time for females only using the pools.
We look forward to the opening of Te Pou Toetoe and are glad that some of our students were given the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions.
Hōpara
Linwood College is very lucky to have a University bound enrichment program called Hōpara, in conjunction with the University of Canterbury.
Hōpara means, to explore or traverse the (metaphorical) landscape and find options. A small group of Year 11, 12 and 13 students meet regularly with specially trained UC mentors who support and guide our students towards a possible future at university. Hōpara also includes sessions led by university professors, careers advisors, Māori and Pasifika advisors and support our students with well-being, study skills, scholarships and being self-directed learners beyond high school.
This is the second year that this programme has run and other schools are looking at this programme due to its success.
Lockdown Learning
Teachers found some creative ways to engage with their students during the recent lockdown.
Here we can see Melanie Bloomfield's Year 12 Chemistry class learning that dissolving salt in water releases heat. This science experiment was conducted in a Google Meet. The science class was conducted at a frantic pace along with a few shenanigans and plenty of opened pantry doors.
Samantha Boyce-Da Cruz's Year 11 Drama class also met in a Google Meet to rehearse for the major production of Second Afterlife, which was due to take place early term four.
Pink Shirt Day
In week 3 of term 2 (17th-21st of May), our wonderful ākonga participated in Linwood College’s Pink Shirt Week. This was a week all about kindness, and spreading awareness of the impact both bullying, and compassion, can have on a person. The theme of the week was ‘Be a Good Egg!’, and students were encouraged to embrace the spirit of kindness through an array of activities! These activities included:
The Kindness Olympics - where students were encouraged to participate in an Olympic-sized effort of kindness, through completing activities such as complimenting their peers, encouraging someone to follow their dreams, and greeting other people in a different language.
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The Pink Sari Dances - where our wonderful sari dancers performed a series of dances that promoted and encouraged their audience to be kind in spirit!
The Pink Shirt Day Fashion Show - where the best, funkiest and pinkest dressed in the school got to parade their kind hearts out in front of a cheering, pink crowd!
The week was a roaring success, and it was incredibly heart-warming to see all our ākonga dressing up to promote kindness and stand up against bullying. A big, pink recognition is needed for our wonderful Pink Shirt Week Committee, who were outstanding in running and promoting all the events throughout the week. Attached are some photos from the week so you can see just how wonderful and kind everyone was.
School Wide Reward System
Last year we introduced a reward system at school. Students gain hiranga points (excellence points) for upholding our school values in class and around the grounds. These are easily achievable and recognise and reward our students for consistently doing the right thing.
Here are a few details about our reward system:
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Points can be gained in and out of class. This could be for good participation in class, great test results, consistently wearing the correct uniform, working hard and asking good questions, putting litter in the bin, showing kindness and so on.
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Points are handed into the student’s Kaiārahi during Ako time each day and cashed in for vouchers to be used at our school canteen.
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Teachers send home postcards in recognition of great things that students have done.
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If students go above and beyond what is expected, they may be awarded a values certificate and additional points.
We have awarded a huge number of canteen vouchers to students who consistently do the right thing.
Top and left: reward pizza lunch held in term 3
Right: Kaltan Kazakos-Gardner, Year 12, earnt 446 hiranga points, which was cashed in for 22 $2 canteen vouchers! Nice job Kaltan.
Year 13 Dress Up Week
The Year 13's were getting ready to leave school and it was an emotional time for many. To lighten the mood they decided to have a dress up week, well three days. On the first day they came to school dressed as the person they wanted to become when they were little, or a celebrity. On the second day they could wear another school's uniform. On the last of the three days it was dress as a teacher day.
Tzu Chi Scholarship Winners
The Tzu Chi Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental, charitable organisation founded in Taiwan in 1966 by a young female Buddhist Monk. It began with 30 women agreeing to contribute 2 cents per day to a bamboo collection container in their homes. Today there are more than 10 million contributing members in the Foundation.
A branch of the Foundation was established in New Zealand in the year 2000 and amongst other work, it offers scholarships to deserving high school students. Scholarship winners must demonstrate good attendance, good grades, and evidence of achievements in sport, cultural or community participation. This year Linwood College is proud to announce that 26 of our Year 10 students were awarded a full scholarship. Congratulations to the following students:
Liam Arps, Lexy Burbery, Matiu Carruth, Census Faigame, Rydan Gurden, Renee Hall,
Jade Harrison, Evie Hearn, Trinity Hulse-Sixtus, Dante Kohi, Dormay Laufiso, Conner Manu, Aaviya Matthews, Ethan Miller, Jess Mulligan, Kyran O’Sullivan, Nesha Pascoe, Herold Pillay, Mandela Pluck, Rawiri Ruri, Jacob Stojanovich, Marama Taumaunu-Broughton,
Bradley Tavendale, Jury Tipa-Turhura, Luke Toone, Hannah Watson.
BP Challenge
At the end of the year, Year 10 students are invited to participate in the BP Challenge. It is held in our school library for three days. Students work in teams to come up with a new product and create a marketing plan. On the last day they 'pitch' it to the judges. Students gain skills in business planning, marketing, budgeting and of course presentation skills. It is very competitive and lots of fun.
Festival of Nations
The Festival of Nations started in 2017 and has been on our calendar every year since then. The event celebrates the different countries and nationalities represented in our school. Throughout the years the event has had different formats, but the flag parade and the cultural dances have always been the highlight of the program. This year, we
had 26 different nationalities represented at Linwood College and this was an opportunity to recognize each of them. This event is organized by the ELL department every year and it is becoming a part of our school culture.