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Achiever of the Month: Sam Cadwallader

(Bring Your Own Device) at all levels, which means students can bring their devices and use them at school via the school internet system. BYOD has improved research, storage and presentation of work, online feedback from teachers on students’ work (formative feedback), collaboration on tasks, critical thinking and engagement of students.

But there are pitfalls in use of the new technologies as well. Recently our school counselors have had to deal with some issues regarding misuse of the internet, all of which have originated outside of school but have impacted on students’ achievement and emotional well-being at school. As parents/guardians with children at home under our care we have a responsibility to ensure devices in our home are being used safely; we also have the right to access them in order to check on their usage. I would encourage you all to check the “Netsafe” website: http://www.netsafe.org.nz and to initiate open communication with your children about the risks involved with online activity. Please also encourage your children to not access sites where hurtful comments can be made about others anonymously – simply by accessing these sites it passively encourages and supports such behavior.Congratulations to Alex Neumann and Tonya Botherway on being selected for the North Harbour U18 Hockey Representative team.Congratulations to the Under-Water Hockey Regionals the Senior Boys team, captained by Max Hargreaves, won the silver medal in the

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David Macleod

Presented by Dee Collette, Team Leader of Mega Mitre 10 Warkworth

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ISSUE 04: July 2015

MAHURANGI COLLEGE

Dear Parents and GuardiansTena Koutou KatoaThe school production this year was “ForeverAfter’, based on the Disney version of the Cinderella story. The three matinee and four evening performances were greatly enjoyed by all who came with full or close to full houses for most shows. Congratulations to the show’s Director, Mrs Wendy Sutherland, and to all students, staff, parents and past students involved in the production.

The inter-house Haka competition was held last month with Purple House coming out on top. The judges felt the standard was probably the highest yet.At Mahurangi College we have voluntary BYOD

Senior Open division. They were drawn with Mt Albert Grammar at full time in the final so went to a sudden death playoff in which Mt Albert were first to score. Forrest Axford from was selected as the MVP. The Junior Girls team, captained by MacKenzie Buick, won the bronze medal and MacKenzie was the MVP. Both these teams have qualified and will attend the Nationals at the end of the year. The Senior Girls team, captained by Sarah Wilson, finished 6th and the Junior Boys, captained by Samuel Twhigg, finished 5th in their division.Congratulations to Lucy Rowe on winning the Junior Girls North Harbour and West Auckland Regional Cross Country Championships, Louis Young on coming 2nd in Senior Boys and Sam Cadwallader on coming 2nd in Intermediate Boys.

David Macleod, Principal

Achiever of the Month: Sam Cadwallader

(Bring Your Own Device) at all levels, which means students can bring their devices and use them at school via the school internet system. BYOD has improved research, storage and presentation of work, online feedback from teachers on students’ work (formative feedback), collaboration on tasks, critical thinking and engagement of students.

But there are pitfalls in use of the new technologies as well. Recently our school counselors have had to deal with some issues regarding misuse of the internet, all of which have originated outside of school but have impacted on students’ achievement and emotional well-being at school. As parents/guardians with children at home under our care we have a responsibility to ensure devices in our home are being used safely; we also have the right to access them in order to check on their usage. I would encourage you all to check the “Netsafe” website: http://www.netsafe.org.nz and to initiate open communication with your children about the risks involved with online activity. Please also encourage your children to not access sites where hurtful comments can be made about others anonymously – simply by accessing these sites it passively encourages and supports such behavior.Congratulations to Alex Neumann and Tonya Botherway on being selected for the North Harbour U18 Hockey Representative team.Congratulations to the Under-Water Hockey Regionals the Senior Boys team, captained by Max Hargreaves, won the silver medal in the

| Mahurangimatters

NEWSLETTER

Proudly Supporting Mahurangi College WARKWORTH Corner Woodcocks Road & Mansel Drive, Phone 425 8119

• GainedDistinctionfor2014MiddleSchoolGraduation• 1stPlace-IntermediateBoysCrossCountry

• 1stPlace-IntermediateBoysSwimmingChamps• RecordBreaker-IntermediateBoys100mBreaststroke

• 2ndPlace-IntermediateBoysNorthHarbourCrossCountry• 2ndPlace-IntermediateBoysAthleticsDay

• 2ndPlace-IntermediateBoys800m&3000mNorthHarbourAthletics

from the Principal

David Macleod

Presented by Dee Collette, Team Leader of Mega Mitre 10 Warkworth

important dates

ISSUE 04: July 2015

MAHURANGI COLLEGE

Dear Parents and GuardiansTena Koutou KatoaThe school production this year was “ForeverAfter’, based on the Disney version of the Cinderella story. The three matinee and four evening performances were greatly enjoyed by all who came with full or close to full houses for most shows. Congratulations to the show’s Director, Mrs Wendy Sutherland, and to all students, staff, parents and past students involved in the production.

The inter-house Haka competition was held last month with Purple House coming out on top. The judges felt the standard was probably the highest yet.At Mahurangi College we have voluntary BYOD

Senior Open division. They were drawn with Mt Albert Grammar at full time in the final so went to a sudden death playoff in which Mt Albert were first to score. Forrest Axford from was selected as the MVP. The Junior Girls team, captained by MacKenzie Buick, won the bronze medal and MacKenzie was the MVP. Both these teams have qualified and will attend the Nationals at the end of the year. The Senior Girls team, captained by Sarah Wilson, finished 6th and the Junior Boys, captained by Samuel Twhigg, finished 5th in their division.Congratulations to Lucy Rowe on winning the Junior Girls North Harbour and West Auckland Regional Cross Country Championships, Louis Young on coming 2nd in Senior Boys and Sam Cadwallader on coming 2nd in Intermediate Boys.

David Macleod, Principal

45localmatters.co.nz July 1, 2015 Mahurangi Matters

NEWSLETTERPerforming Arts Academy

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Anna Leese...SopranoNew Zealand Soprano Anna Leese recently moved back to New Zealand after more than 12 years living in London, Italy and touring the world. Although she is based in New Zealand, and now teaching music at Mahurangi College, she

still has a busy schedule travelling to London, Australia, and around New Zealand to perform opera and concerts.Anna completed a Bachelor of Music degree with

.ogatO fo ytisrevinU eht ta sruonoH ssalC tsriFShe has been recipient of an impressive number of Australasian awards and prizes. In 2006 she graduated from London’s RCM Benjamin Britten International Opera School and she became an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company,

for whom Anna sang Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Tamiri (II Re Pastore) and Fiordiligi.Anna made her Covent Garden debut as Tamiri, returning for Musetta (La bohème), Micaela (Carmen), First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), and her North American debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Musetta. Anna made her debut at the BBC Proms in an all-Mozart programme in 2006 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, and has appeared in a number of opera gala concerts with Jose Carreras. Further concert engagements have included Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Madrid with Carlo Rizzi, Elijah with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony with the Malaysian Philharmonic, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and Messiah with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the roles of Anna (Nabucco) and Freia (Das Rheingold) in concerts with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Eckehard Stier, as well as recitals with the Prince Consort at the Wigmore Hall.2014 engagements included Musetta at the Royal Albert Hall, a Wigmore Hall recital, Brahms’ Requiem with St Thomas’s Choral Society, London and Donna Elvira for NBR New Zealand Opera’s Don Giovanni, after which Roger Wilson, for Dominion Post Wellington, 13 October 2014, stated in his review, “Best of all was Anna Leese’s

superbly sung Donna Elvira, her intonation faultless, her portrayal of this turbulent character utterly convincing”.Anna has recorded Elgar’s The Apostles in Canterbury Cathedral with the Canterbury Choral Society, a debut recital disc for EMI with Graham Johnson, a Haydn disc on the Michael Storrs Music label, and ‘Italian Love Songs’ under the Champs Hill label.Previously based in Tuscany, where she studied with Vincenzo Manno in Milano and Elisabetta Sepe in Firenze, Anna and her husband have recently relocated to New Zealand to live, where her performances this year will include the Dunedin Sound Concert and Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, both with Southern Sinfonia, The Last Night of the Proms in Palmerston North,Elijah (Mendelssohn) in Napier, Summer Matinee with Auckland Philharmonia, a tour with ‘Takiri’ for Chamber Music New Zealand, and Messiah with the Queensland, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras.For Anna, the move home was an easy decision: although she has enjoyed high success in opera at an international level, she always felt the pull to move back home, and felt her marriage to Stefano signalled a time to concentrate on family life, and less on packing suitcases and living in hotel rooms.

The Performing Arts Academy (PAA) at Mahurangi College has now been running for five years. The group is competitively auditioned at the end of the previous year and for this year 13 students were selected from 28 applicants, each of them involved at a very high level in drama, dance, music, kapa haka, Pasifika or sound and lighting. Most of these students (those pictured) were involved in our senior show this year of “Forever After”, either on-stage, in the band or in the technical side of production (sound and light).This year the PAA is being led by Anna Leese (profiled below). They meet as a group each Tuesday lunchtime where they either take part in a workshop or plan and rehearse for their next performance. The weekly meetings are a vital source of inspiration, collaboration, critique, fun and encouragement for our top performing artists in the school, where they can spark off each other and extend their capabilities.All members of the PAA look forward to their regular trips to live performances. Once or twice a month, outside of exam periods, the group travel into Auckland to take advantage of heavily discounted rates to see the ballet, the orchestra, the opera, live theatre and musicals. These experiences increase their motivation to perform,

and expose them to the quality and standard to which they need to aspire in order to pursue a career in the performing arts.The purpose of the PAA is to build the capacity of selected students who have the talent and desire to consider a career in the performing arts. To this end, it assists these students in their vision, goal setting, philosophy, self-management and skill development in

.stra gnimrofrep ehtIt also strengthens and encourages live performance within and across disciplines, within Mahurangi College and the wider community. This includes at least three lunchtime performances in the Quad at Mahurangi College. They are currently preparing for their second lunchtime performance, which is a group

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collaboration. As you can imagine, coming up with the idea and reaching agreement on how to develop this in a group of thirteen highly talented performing artists, can itself be quite a challenge!