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7 A 2020 NEWSLETTER Issue 03/20
Kia ora, Kia orana, Talofa Lava, Fakalofa lahi atu, Malo e lelei, Namaste, As-salāmu ‘alaykum, Ni Hao, Bula Vinaka, Greetings Parents and Caregivers
Welcome to Term 3. What a busy first three weeks it has been!
First of all I would like to thank you all for participat-ing in the Three Way Learning Conversations that we held at the end of Term 2. Our teachers have reported that they found the opportunity to interact with you in a more meaningful way to be of real value and we hope that your experience was similar.
We have a lot of exciting events coming up this term.
Our Open Day and Information Evening this year is being held on 26 August— much later than usual due to Covid 19— please will you tell anyone you know who may be interested in sending their daughters to AGGS about our Open Day and we will look forward to welcoming them to our school. We have put an Open Day video on our web-site which you may enjoy having a look at http://www.aggs.school.nz/ and a flyer is on the back page of this Newsletter.
Ngaire Ashmore, Principal
This term we are looking forward to:
10—14 August— Careers Week
10 August - Yr 12 Bus Stds Market Day
11—14 August—12 PED on the Ropes Course
12 August—Lacrosse Championship
12 August— Excel Lunchtime Concert
12 August—Yr 13 Geography Trip
17 to 21 August—AGGStraordinary Week
18 August—Yr 12 Academic Pathway Interviews
18 August—BoT Finance Cttee Meeting
19 August—Yr 12 Geography Muriwai Trip
19 August—MATHEX
25 August—Board of Trustees Meeting 5.30 p.m.
26 August—OPEN DAY and Information Evening
26 August— Yrs 11 & 12 Puhoro Wananga
26 August—Dance Showcase in the DWC 6 p.m.
27 August—Yr 11 Academic Pathway Interviews
28 August—Yr 13 AHS trip to MIT School of Nursing
28 August— Daffodil Day
4 September—Founding Day Assembly
9 September—Collegiality concert day
11 September—English Day
13 September—Old Girls Association Afternoon Tea
17 September—Election for BOT Student Rep
22 September—Board of Trustees Mtng 5.30 p.m.
24 September—Progress reports sent home
25 September—Last day of Term 3
26 September—The AGGS School Ball
CAREERS WEEK 10 to 14 August
Monday: Trades & Manufacturing
Woodwork demonstration and Building block games—Study Hall at Lunchtime
Talks with Occupational Therapist and Social Worker—tutor time Jubilee library.
Tuesday: Creative Industries
Creative Walkway—Study Hall Hairdressing by Servilles Academy—lunch Talks with Occupational Therapist and Nursing Tutor—
tutor time Jubilee Library. Wednesday Primary Industries
Flower arranging by MIT Floristy—lunch Study Hall Talks with a Doctor and Pacific Health Promoter Tutor
time Thursday Social and Community Services
Playing with feelings game—Recess in Study Hall Talks with Social Workers—tutor time and lunch A239 Talks with a Podiatrist and Dentist—Tutor time Friday Service Industries
Courtroom debating - Lunch in Study Hall Talks with Techtorium - Lunch Talks with Community Nurse and Ultrasound Techni-
cian—tutor time—Jubilee Library
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You can keep up to date with school events on our school website http://www.aggs.school.nz/ and in a more informal way on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AucklandGirlsGrammarSchool/ also our Sports page https://www.facebook.com/AggsSport/ and the AGGS Careers page https://www.facebook.com/AucklandGirlsCareers/ You may also be interested in these Instagram pages - the AGGS Student Council https://www.instagram.com/aggs_council20/ ; the AGGS Careers Committee https://www.instagram.com/aggs_careers/
STEM WEEK To kick off Term 3, STEM week took place in Week 2. On Monday students were invited to create their own unique lava lamps, personalised slime and show their magnificent artistic talents creating milk-candy art. Every student made a special version of slime and an art work capturing elements of her sweet and creative personality!
Tuesday brought new challenges with our students enhancing their mathematical skills, and becoming excellent target shooters to win a grand prize ‘
Wednesday allowed students to test the waters of the technology field, by learning how to program and control robots! Thursday was Physics frenzy day—students had to use their problem solving skills to make an egg survive and build the tallest and most structurally stable marshmallow tower. Facing a slight dilemma with broken eggs, we tested using spaghetti sticks instead.
On Friday the ultimate STEM escape took place; students were put to the test by combining both their scientific knowledge and mathematical skills to see which group would be first to escape a classroom.
Want to make your own lava lamp?
What you will need: Small clear jars; A supply of cold water; Food colour-ings; Vegetable oil; Alka-seltzer tablets (or you can use salt as a substitute). Fill a jar approx 1/4 full with cold water followed by 3/4s full with vegetable oil (or any type of oil you have). Add 3-5 drops of a food colouring of your choice. Drop an alka-seltzer tablet (or salt) into the jar. Screw the cap on tight-ly to avoid any spills and leaks. You will start to see a chemical reaction that creates the lava lamp effect. Note: When you are done playing with the lava lamp, do not pour it down the drain, instead, pour the contents of the lava lamp into a compost pile or dig a hole in your yard, away from any plants you care about, and pour the contents in the hole. If neither of those are an option, simply screw the cap on tightly and throw the lava lamp jar in your regular trash.
YEAR 10, 11 AND 12 OPTION CHOICES FOR 2021 Course booklets detailing the courses that we will be offering in 2021 will be given to all Year 10, 11 and 12
students in the next few weeks. The booklet will assist your daughter to decide which courses she would like to
take in 2021. The students are using the course booklets in their tutor classes and we encourage you to have
conversa ons with your daughter about her goals for the future and her course selec on for 2021.
If your daughter is in Year 11 or 12 you also have the opportunity to book an Academic Pathway interview for
you and your daughter to meet with a senior teacher to further discuss her course selec on on either August
18th (Year 12) or August 27th (Year 11) between 3.30pm and 7.30pm. You can book an appointment me
through the Parent Portal, by calling the school office, or by ge ng your daughter to book a me at the office.
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UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ENGINEERING COMPETITION
On Saturday 1st August, we competed in the University of Auckland Engineering competition. Starting at 10am, our team of 3 Year 12 students, Pragati Prasad, Maninder Kaur and McKenzie Adams tackled the gruelling question - “How many satellites can be launched into orbit before astronomers on earth can observe the night sky without interruption?”
After 8 hours of tackling the question using countless ideas and equations to develop a report around it, we finally finished at 6pm!
Thank you to Ms Rhode for supervising and giving us the support we needed.
THE K ROAD TUKUTUKU PANEL PROJECT
In collaboration with the Auckland Council, Auckland Transport and Manu Whenua, Nga Tumunako o Kahurangi students and other interested mainstream students are participating in the making of two large tukutuku panels which will be installed at the K’ road overpass as part of a contemporary art installation, utilizing traditional Maori practices and contemporary resources.
The project will take approximately 10 weeks to complete and our girls will be working on it with two expert weavers, Tessa Harris and Monica-Ann Brooks. The girls wil also have the opportunity to learn about the Mana Whenua of the area.
This is an exciting and important process which is creat-ing new and hopefully ongoing relationships between the school and local body communities
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AGGS SPORT
Basketball Our Premier Basketball team is playing in the Senior A competition this year. The team has played four games - won 2 and lost 2 and are currently in 5th place. Nine of the current team are in Year 9 or Year 10 which is great for the future of the sport. Our Yr 9 & Yr10 Basketball team has had a quiet start to their season; they have 3 wins and 2 losses to date. We hope for more success in weeks to come. Hockey After winning the 9 a-side competition last year, our Hockey girls have started the season playing in C Grade with a win against Mt Albert Grammar School and a loss to Diocesan. Co-captains of the Hockey team are Saloni Parekh and Kendall Bramley. Congratulations to goal scorers in our winning game, Safa Nazari, Yr 10, Michelle Matthew, Year 10 and Armani Kingi-Burkhardt Yr 9 who scored 2 goals. Lacrosse Our Lacrosse team is yet to register a win after two rounds but both games were closely contested against Glendowie and St Marys Navy teams. Captain, Caitlin Malone, has taken on the coaching duties and is during a great job with our players at training. Lacrosse is the only sport we host at school on Thursdays after school at 4.00pm. We are keen to welcome new players to the team. Badminton We had over 80 students trial for our Badminton teams. 30 players were selected in 6 teams to play on Mondays (B Grade) and Thursdays (C & D Grades) Captain – Lumina Mendonca and assistants Ranae Bishop and Esther Blackmore have been coaching and helping the “learners” to understand the basics of the game. Currently, five of our six teams are in “first place” in their sections, and our Monday night team is in second place. Thank you to Ms Sabbage, Ms Krishnan and Ms Flannery for supporting our Badminton girls.
Netball Netball trials were held in February for our Junior and senior teams. Despite the disruption caused by Covid 19 we have almost doubled our teams from 2019, going from seven teams to twelve. This is in no small measure due to the hard work of our Office gurus— Ms Whenuaroa, Ms Hunia and Mrs Stowers. We also welcomed Ms Paula Smith to the coaching staff. Ms Smith is a PE teacher at AGGS and is also Appren-tice coach to the Northern Mystics ANZ Premiership team. We are very fortunate to have her coach our 10A Netball team. Our Premier team has made it back into Premier 1 for the first time since 2016. A massive achievement for our net-ball girls. All teams started competition on Saturday 25 July and competition will run for 10 weeks in Term 3.
Congratulations to our Year 9 team which placed first in the Combined Points Netball Tournament on 5 August and to our Year 10A team which came second . The first time our teams have done so well in many years.
Football Thank you to Mr Dave Rewi and Ms Sam Hunia for taking our Football team for training. The team has had some early success winning its first game against Kings College 2nd XI by 15-0. The 2nd game was to be against St Kents but St Kents had to forfeit the game and the team has won it’s third game against Baradene 6—0. Way to go! Our Football captains for 2020 are Fatima Abd Allah and Savannah Vaega. U15 Rugby This year we have introduced an U15 Rugby team into our rugby programme. Building on the success of our U15s Condors 7 team (which placed 2nd at Condors 2019) we have seen a “massive rise” in Juniors wanting to play rugby this year. We are also very fortunate to have established a partnership with Auckland University Rugby Club this year and our U15 girls rugby team is playing in the Auckland U15 Girls rugby competition under the University Rugby club. Our U15 rugby team has played three games so far and has had “emphatic wins” over College Rifles, Papatoetoe Rugby and Eden Grammar Tech. We are very fortunate to have Mr Lucky Smythe and Mr Dave Rewi as our coaches for the U15s team. Both coaches were an integral part of our U15s Condors team success in 2019.
Rugby 10s Our Rugby 10s team has had a mixed start to the season. Our girls notched up their first win of the season by beating Mangere College and last week they had a narrow loss to Mt Roskill in the last possession of the game. An intense and gut-wrenching loss. The team is in good spirits however and the rugby season is looking good for our girls. We also recruited Hayley Pilato (former student in 2018) as Assistant coach to Mrs Stowers.
Rugby League
Building on making the inaugural final in 2019, there has been “big interest” in students wanting to play Rugby League for the school. Over 50 students trialled for Rugby League and 20 players were selected. The team has had a dream start to the season, by beating two of the strong schools in the competition – Aorere College and Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate and to date, the team has won all four games and sit at the top of their competition. Our girls are training very hard and have set high expectations to make the Grand Final in 2020.
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Our Winning Year 9 Netball Team at the Combined Points Netball Tournament
Drowning Prevention Auckland will be delivering the FREE aquatic based holiday programme for 11-17yrs in the Term 3 holidays. For the past five years our 14-24 year olds have accounted for around 21% of our preventable drownings in Tamaki Makaurau. This pro-gramme focuses on a holistic approach when it comes to teaching water competencies that can protect one from drowning. The week includes a variety of
activities including water competence simulations, Life-jacket safety, Snorkelling, By Stander Rescues, Safe Boating Programme, Beach Safety, Aquatic games, and land-based games. We also provide a free lunch.
Website: https://www.watersafe.org.nz/community/holiday-programmes/ Registration: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5689560/2020-SPLASH-Break-Away-October-Registration
YEAR 12 SOCIAL STUDIES — FOOD BIN DRIVE AND MUFTI DAY
Some of our Year 12 SOS students are pictured here with just some of the collection of food items that our students and staff have so generously donated. The goods are bound for the Auckland City Mission along with $542.50 raised at a mufti day on 31 July.
August Newsletter 2020 YEAR 11 PED TACKLE THE HIGH ROPES
This challenging course not only builds the girls confidence and skills but also earns them NCEA credits by com-pleting the standard “Demonstrate, and show understanding of, responsible behaviour for safety during outdoor education activities”
THE AGGS SCHOOL BALL
The amazing, incredible and thoroughly enjoyable AGGS SCHOOL BALL will be happening this year, a bit later than usual due to Covid 19 but definitely better late than never!
This year the ball will be on Saturday 26 September, the first day of the school holidays. It will be held at the Eden Park South Lounge, entry through Gate H, 10 Reimers Avenue, Kingland.
Gates will open at 7 p.m. and close at 8 p.m. and the ball will finish at the Cinderella hour of midnight.
The ball is an alcohol and drug free event.
Tickets are $110 each. Students can purchase a maximum of 2 tickets each. The Accounts Office and Mrs Ikitomai in reception are accepting part payments now—minimum of $20. Students must have paid at least $60 per ticket by 21 August. Payment can also be made online to 12-3209-0059410-00. Please put your daughter’s name, tutor class and Ball ticket in the reference section.
Excitement is building and we are looking forward to a great evening.
YEAR 13 BUSINESS STUDIES—YOUNG ENTERPRISE GROUPS
Year 13 Business Studies students participate in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. This programme gives students the opportunity to work in groups to set up and run their own business enterprise throughout the school year. Students become company directors and design, mar-ket and sell a real product or service of their choice. Four companies were set up in February. All groups have completed a business planning portfolio and pitched against more than 70 teams to outside business judges. Well done to Folau and Sticker Up who did particularly well in this Challenge. Production has been completed and selling is now underway. Folau and Sticker Up have been invited to sell at the Poly X market in Mangere on Friday 21 August. Folau has produced a fun interactive educational board game called ‘The Island Explorers’ designed for ages 8 - 14 . To move around the board, partici-pants have to answer a variety of questions - fun facts about the Pasifika islands and a variety of phrases in Tongan, Samoan, Niuean, Cook Island Maori, Fijian and Maori. RRP $15. Stock is selling out quickly! Contact them: [email protected], Instagram @folau_20
Sugar works is selling an exfoliating soap bar made from organic ingredients including lavender essential oil and real lavender flowers. The soap leaves your skin feeling soft and glowing. Lavender oil is known to be a good stress reliever. Only $5. Find them on: Instagram: @sugarworks2020 Email: [email protected]
Clean Bean has created a handcrafted organic coffee soap. On-ly natural ingredients that have been locally sourced are used. No nasties in their recipe! Selling for $7.
Sticker Up are selling sheets of 40 stickers. The unique stickers feature designs, symbols and words from Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Maori and NZ culture. Each sheet is selling for $2. Sticker Up has caught the attention of Tagata Pasifika which will be running a story on their Pasifika language stickers. Find them on Instagram: @Stickerup2020, Facebook: StickerUp, Email: [email protected]
Contact them: Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @cleanbean_soap Facebook: Cleanbean_soap
Keep an eye out for the activities of the four groups, and be sure to follow them on social media to keep up to date with their progress.
GEOGRAPHY CLASSES VENTURE OUT Year 13 Geography will be collecting data for a research project when they visit Jordan Park, Potters Park, Albert Park and Victoria Park during a day long trip on Wednesday 12 August.
Year 12 Geography will be heading further afield to Muriwai on the following Wednesday, 19 August to collect data for research on Coastal processes, including viewing the Gannet Colony from Otakamiro Point.
BARISTA TRAINING
Our Year 12 Food Technology students enjoyed learning very useful Barista skills during this 3 day course at the Crown Institute of Studies and they have also gained 5 NCEA credits. Hot chocolate, flat whites, lattes, cappucci-nos, espressos and all the other ways that people like their coffee are all now part of the girls’ skill set.
