Term 1: Week 6

Its been a busy couple of weeks in the Senior School with heaps of learning and lots of people out and about representing Muritai! Here's an update on what we have been up to.

Multi Curc!

We completed our first cycle of our Art/Science/Drama/Sport rotation in week 5.

Science 

Ms Coton's group have been getting stuck into lots of hands on science experiments including investigating the difference between acids and bases. Ms Coton has created a new science blog which will be added to as the year progresses. Its well worth a visit: Senior School Science

Visual Art

Mrs Allen's group studied the famous Van Gogh painting Joseph-Etienne Roulin and created their own master pieces. Don't they look great!

Art Extension

Continuing the art theme,  Mrs Allen has also completed a 6 week run of art extension throughout the 3 classes. The students selected have created some outstanding pieces based on work from local artist Suzanne Kerr. Every student needed to portray a message or meaning through their art. The results are fantastic!



Government House

Last week Mr Devenport took 12 of our student leaders to Government House. It was great learning about the job of the Governor General and important role he has in New Zealand. More importantly, it was interesting to learn how well-respected our current and previous Governor Generals are in our society.  It was great fun having a tour around the house the hearing about all the famous people that had visited.

HRSA Athletics 

This week was a big week for sport. On Tuesday Mr. Ranchod took a squad of 34 students to the HRSA athletics meet at Hutt Rec.

We had some great results as follows:-

Year 7 Girls

100m
Macey Caughley 1st
Helena Cvitanovich 4th

200m
Macey Caughley 1st
Sofya Dickson 3rd

400m
Ella Giles 1st

800m
Macey Caughley 1st

Long Jump
Helena Cvitanovich 4th

High Jump
Angelina Hardy 2nd

Vortex
Paige Schroder 3rd

Relay
First

Year 7 Boys

100m
Alexander Cox-Turk 5th

Relay
Fourth

Year 8 Girls

200m
Mia Treadwell-Burke 5th

400m
Mia Treadwell-Burke 5th

800m
Milly Griffiths 5th

High Jump
Emeline Gray 3rd

Shot Put
Brianna Kirkham 4th

Relay
Third

Well done to all our athletes.

School Swimming Sports

On Thursday we had our annual school swimming sports at Huia Pool.There was an excellent atmosphere thanks to our House Captains for keeping the spirits high. Congratulations to our swimming champs on the day:

Year 7 Boy: Callan Hughes
Year 7 Girl: Helena Cvitanovich
Year 8 Boy: Liam Mahoney
Year 8 Girl: Milly Griffiths

... and a BIG congratulations to Room 24 for winning the highly coveted Senior School class relay!



Finally, the teachers were all very impressed with some of the homework completed last week. One task was to create a uniform fit for war. We were most impressed with Noah who came dressed in his war uniform on Friday! Good on you Noah!