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2 Principal’s Report<br />
3 BOT Chairperson’s Report<br />
4 Staff Photo<br />
5 Class Act<br />
6 Student Council<br />
7 BOT Student Representative<br />
8-9 International Language Centre<br />
10-11 Hostel<br />
12 40 Hour Famine<br />
13 Outward Bound<br />
14-15 Quad Tournaments<br />
16 The Duke of Edinburgh Award<br />
17 Mathletics<br />
18 Library News<br />
19 Sustainability Week<br />
20-29 Whanau and House Activities<br />
30 Rutherford<br />
31 Level 2 Outdoor Pursuits Tramp<br />
32-34 Special Achievements<br />
35 Hospitality<br />
36 Spirit of Adventure<br />
37 Creative Writing<br />
38-41 Netball<br />
42-43 Year 9 and 10 Camps<br />
44 Year 7/8 Camps<br />
45 House Colours<br />
46-47 Students in the Community<br />
48-49 Outdoor Pursuits<br />
50-51 Formal<br />
52-52 Rockquest/<strong>MAC</strong> Fest/Music<br />
54-55 Leavers’ Dinner<br />
56-57 Year 7 and 8 Camps<br />
58-59 Art Page<br />
61 Stage Challenge<br />
62-75 Sports Pages<br />
76 Super Squad<br />
77 Europe Trip<br />
78 Jazz Band<br />
79 Kapa Haka<br />
80 Prime Minister’s Visit<br />
81 Drama<br />
82-91 Class Photos<br />
92-93 <strong>MAC</strong> Survivors<br />
95-103 Year 13 Profiles<br />
104 Fun Staff Photo<br />
The <strong>Mag</strong>azine Team:<br />
Michelle Keimig<br />
Hannah Beaufoy<br />
Simon King<br />
Andrew Miller<br />
Jane Hamilton<br />
Maree Horlor<br />
Mandy Sherson<br />
Laura Ferguson<br />
Rose Adams
BOT Chairperson’s<br />
Report<br />
Here’s something to think about!<br />
Felix Schelling – 19th century<br />
educationalist and philosopher said : “True<br />
education makes for inequality. The inequality<br />
of individuality, the inequality of success;<br />
the glorious inequality of talent, of genius!<br />
For inequality, not mediocrity; individual<br />
superiority, not standardization, is the measure<br />
of progress in the world….”<br />
As well as the myriad of governance<br />
requirements that the Board of Trustees has<br />
to meet – ensuring legislative compliance,<br />
improving student learning outcomes,<br />
being a good employer, managing staff<br />
performance, being fiscally prudent…(the list<br />
goes on!) – we have an underlying goal of<br />
fostering a unique and identifiable culture for<br />
our school community.<br />
We sum up our goals and aspirations for<br />
you - our students - with the phrase “Enjoy<br />
Success”. Having this as our maxim presents<br />
us with a huge challenge. How do we ensure<br />
that students at Mount Aspiring College<br />
are experiencing success and having the<br />
opportunity to enjoy it?<br />
The key, I believe, lies in promoting inequality!<br />
This doesn’t sound very politically correct,<br />
but if you think of it in the context of Felix<br />
Schelling’s words, it begins to make more<br />
sense. It starts with valuing and nurturing<br />
individuality and the belief that every person<br />
in our college community has some unique<br />
skills or talents. We can’t all be good at<br />
everything. We aren’t all good at the same<br />
things. But we all have at least one thing at<br />
which we excel. The challenge for you is to<br />
figure out what that thing is, and to foster it<br />
- to pursue any and all opportunities that are<br />
available to you for growth and development.<br />
The challenge for the Board and for the staff is<br />
to provide an environment in which individual<br />
talents can be nurtured and celebrated,<br />
however diverse they are, without fear of<br />
failure or judgment or ridicule. Identifying and<br />
developing each of your special individual<br />
talents enriches our learning community and<br />
provides a successful foundation for other<br />
learning.<br />
I would like to take this opportunity to<br />
acknowledge our exceptional staff and the<br />
contribution they have made to your success.<br />
I truly hope that those of you who are leaving<br />
Mount Aspiring College this year take with you<br />
more than “paper” qualifications. I hope that<br />
you also take with you some understanding<br />
of your unique personal ‘inequality’ – a pride<br />
in who you are and what you have achieved<br />
and the will to ‘enjoy success’ in whatever<br />
challenges life presents you.<br />
Kia Kaha.<br />
Sally Battson<br />
Chairperson, Board of Trustees<br />
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Mount Aspiring College Staff 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Sandra Aitchison, Katie Allen, Murray Allen, Vicki Ashton, Mandy Austin, Gena Bagley, Kellie Bailey, Marcus Bate, Matt Benassi, Dawn Bosley, Wayne Bosley, Carol Bradley, Carol<br />
Brooks, Perry Brooks, Rob Bruce, Denise Bruns, Feargal Buckley, Mike Burrowes, Colleen Carr, Helen Carter, Dave Cassaidy, Mary Chaffey, Lynne Christie, Ronalda Clark, Hamish<br />
Crosbie, Andy Curteis, Nikki Davidson, Claire Easterbrook, Annette Ellwood, Jude Faircloth, Lesley Faulks, Anna Frost, Johanna Gordon, Andre Habib, Doreen Hale, Jane Hamilton,<br />
Helen Hammond, John Hammond, Tim Harper, Kay Hart, Joanne Hawkins, Maree Horlor, Maurie Jackways, Melissa Johnson, Pamela Keelan, Jen Kewish, Don King, Simon King,<br />
Maree Lewis, Kris Logan, Charlotte Lucas, Fiona Lysaght, Dot Macfie, Janet Malloch, Jenni McDougall, Kay McFarlane, Thelma McMurray, Ian McNabb, Nikki Meissel, Florence<br />
Micoud, Duncan Miles, Andrew Miller, Ronnie Moffat, Karyn Munro, Simon Nyhof, Nicole O’Hagan, Claudine Pelosi, Tania Perry, Linda Pierce, Caitlin Pujol, Siobhan Quayle, Andrew<br />
Reece, Judy Reid, Cheryl Richardson, Dave Roberts, Gayle Rodgers, Eva Scott, Anna Shaw, Mandy Sherson, Gill Shortcliffe, Jenny Simmers, Jacqueline Slavich, Pete Smalley, Pete<br />
Stevenson, Clare Thomas-Moore, John Turnbull, Kathy Tweedie, Joss Walker, Anthony Waterworth, Jane Watson-Taylor, Heather Watt, Mijke van Weert, Chris Waugh.<br />
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Sam Hale was Mount Aspiring College’s<br />
highest performing Year 12 academic<br />
student in the national exams in 2005 but,<br />
for the Class Act award, he was particularly<br />
acknowledged for his expertise in music.<br />
Sam’s chosen musical instruments are<br />
the piano and saxophone. While he is<br />
most often seen at school playing the<br />
saxophone his greatest strength is as a<br />
pianist. Sam passed his Royal Schools of<br />
Music Grade 8 piano exam (with Merit)<br />
in October this year. In 2007 he will be<br />
attending the University of Otago to begin<br />
studying towards a degree in medicine.<br />
Louise Jull is a member of the NZ<br />
Junior Kayak Team. She gained a<br />
national title in the New Zealand Age<br />
Group Championships before heading<br />
to Europe and then to the World Junior<br />
Champs in Slovenia. Louise was placed<br />
35th in the World Champs with a best<br />
placing of 5th in the competition in the<br />
Czech Republic. Louise is also a regional<br />
representative in Surf Lifesaving, although<br />
she has had to put that role on hold<br />
during this year in Wanaka. Louise heads<br />
to the University of Otago next year to<br />
begin a marketing course.<br />
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phone 443 1260<br />
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Student council this year was a big group<br />
full of big ideas for big projects.<br />
We had a group of about 25 compared<br />
to the normal 13, as there were so many<br />
bright minds and helping hands wanting<br />
to be a part of the council. This made for<br />
many more ideas, volunteers and overall<br />
it either slowed down the progress or<br />
quickened it up (must have been the fastest<br />
time the hall has ever been decorated for<br />
the formal!)<br />
We had several mufti days this year, such<br />
as our farmer fun day with kids searching for<br />
prizes in a haystack! Funds have been raised<br />
for our school climbing boulder, to help Matt<br />
Bancroft to get to England to compete in<br />
Junior Worlds for sailing, as well as collecting<br />
bras for the breast cancer appeal. We also<br />
had an amazing ‘Cirque Du Soleil’ formal and<br />
high altitude leavers’ dinner.<br />
Of course there are many people to<br />
thank for their efforts. Karyn, Joss and the<br />
executive committee for always trying to<br />
get the best out of our principal for the<br />
students. A lot of hard work was put in by<br />
many; I hope it was an experience to use in<br />
the future. You were a committed and fun<br />
group of people to work with.<br />
All the best for the future.<br />
Thanks,<br />
Nicola King,<br />
Chairperson of Student Council<br />
20<strong>06</strong> Student Council<br />
The Student Executive Committee<br />
Nicola King<br />
Chairperson<br />
Mitch Bosley<br />
BOT Student Rep<br />
Whitney Mulqueen<br />
Deputy Chairperson<br />
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Todd Sandford<br />
Secretary<br />
Hannah Steven<br />
Treasurer<br />
Jillian Macfie<br />
Deputy Chairperson
BOT Student<br />
Rep Mitch Bosley’s<br />
Report<br />
Even before I started going to Mount<br />
Aspiring College I was excited about the<br />
opportunities it would create. Mount Aspiring<br />
is a place where there is something for<br />
everybody to get involved and excel in, from<br />
academic work, cultural activities, drama,<br />
music and sports. In my seven years at the<br />
college I have been lucky enough to have<br />
been involved in all of these areas at one<br />
time or another and I know from experience<br />
that the staff is always doing its utmost to<br />
support everyone of us in our endeavours.<br />
Over the past year I have had the honour<br />
of being the Student Representative on the<br />
Board of Trustees. This experience is one that<br />
not many students get to undertake and<br />
initially one that I felt was quite daunting, but<br />
I soon realised that the board members<br />
weren’t all that scary and were great at<br />
listening to anything the student body had to<br />
offer. We are very lucky to have a skilled and<br />
pro-active group of individuals who always<br />
believe that there are ways for the college<br />
to keep moving forward.<br />
Mount Aspiring College is a wonderful place<br />
and I’m sure will leave a mark on all of us<br />
whether we’ve been here for one year or<br />
seven. I have certainly had the time of my<br />
life and I’m sad to be leaving. But as the<br />
saying goes “all good things must come to<br />
an end” and my time is up so now it’s time<br />
to move on. Thanks Mount Aspiring for all of<br />
the opportunities you have given me – I will<br />
never forget you.<br />
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It’s been another busy year in the International Language Centre, starting with<br />
a move to our new premises on the college campus. It has been great for the<br />
international students to be based on the school site and we have had a group<br />
of happy overseas students integrating fully into school life and building strong<br />
friendships with the local students.<br />
There have been 25 integrated students studying with us this year from six different countries - Austria,<br />
Brazil, China, Germany, Japan and Korea. Their programme has been managed by teachers Marie<br />
Lewis and Gill Shortcliffe and international manager Claire Easterbrook has looked after all their other<br />
arrangements, assisted in the office this year by Eva Scott and Fiona Lysaght.<br />
At the time of going to press, the students are preparing for their end of year examinations for IELTS<br />
and NCEA. Good luck to everyone in their endeavours! Students are also looking forward to our<br />
end of year programme, which is a great opportunity to check out the local activities and have a<br />
fun time together. The plan this year is to go tramping, boating, rockclimbing and kayaking as well<br />
as visiting other international students in Cromwell and Queenstown. It should be a great end to the<br />
year before the students go back to their studies in their home countries.<br />
We have had lots more going on this year at the Language Centre:<br />
Three <strong>MAC</strong> students visited Japan over the summer holidays as part of an exchange programme<br />
set up with Sosei Junior High School two years ago and coordinated by Japanese teacher Sandra<br />
Aitchison. In return we hosted three students from Sosei in term one. All six students benefited from<br />
this opportunity to travel to each other’s countries and learn more about the language and culture.<br />
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Our General English programme has also been busy this year, with long and short term students<br />
from Brazil, Chile, Italy, Japan, Korea and Germany. Students ranged in age from ten to sixty years<br />
and as well as English lessons have enjoyed activities ranging from snowboarding, hiking, visits to<br />
local attractions, horse riding, swimming and cooking with tutor Linda Pierce, assisted at times by<br />
tutors Megan Collins and Julie Mulholland. The Korean Ski Team came back again in term three for<br />
evening classes combined with their ski training along with top ranking Italian skier Kristain Ghedina.<br />
We also hosted Reitaku Junior High School who returned for the third year running for a short<br />
programme organized by Ashlea King. The students had a busy schedule of outdoor activities<br />
including kayaking, horse riding, rockclimbing and camping at Glendhu Bay, but still had time to<br />
enjoy being with their Wanaka host family and activities with the local students.<br />
We’d like to take this opportunity to give a BIG thank you to all those families who have provided<br />
our students with a home away from home this year. It makes all the difference knowing that they<br />
are being so well looked after and having a great Kiwi experience. We appreciate your efforts and<br />
support.<br />
Claire Easterbrook<br />
International Manager<br />
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We came,<br />
We saw,<br />
We …paddled the lake and rivers.<br />
We climbed to new heights on rock all round Wanaka.<br />
We skated on ice in Queenstown and on boards in town.<br />
We rafted the white water of the Shotover.<br />
We made our own rafts and attempted the Outlet…<br />
We sank a bit, we swam a lot, we made a bit of noise.<br />
We boated to Mou Waho<br />
We biked to Mount Aspiring hut.<br />
We raced 52 km through the Motatapu.<br />
We skied and boarded all winter.<br />
We tramped up valleys, over hills, through rivers…<br />
We got blisters.<br />
We camped in sun, rain and wind.<br />
We shot targets with arrows and guns…<br />
We shot each other with paint (‘til we were literally black and blue)<br />
We cooked, cleaned, budgeted, mowed and recycled.<br />
We baked, burned and improvised.<br />
We played jokes, guitars, cards, Callum’s monopoly, dress ups and<br />
touch.<br />
We laughed, we fought, loved and cried.<br />
We shared an experience.<br />
We watched the sun rise over Wanaka from Mt Roy…together.<br />
We made it…<br />
We conquered!<br />
Liverpool<br />
G-ham Smout<br />
Doddy “Bushman” Dodwell<br />
Simon “There was blood” McGrath<br />
Isana “Is that organic” Reid-Grey<br />
Micah “Your’e just not good enough for me” Simons<br />
Up-2 ? TG Tom Grooten<br />
Rob Roy<br />
Lizzie “The Victim” Johnstone<br />
Chloe-Ho-Hamlin<br />
You can always count on J.C!<br />
Ella “What’s in a name?” Hoare<br />
Ella “What did I do last night?” Brocolli<br />
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Cascade<br />
K8 “Octo like platypus the seal” Gilmour<br />
Meiks “perfect physique” Sherwin<br />
Emma “Shu-dini” Schuler<br />
Up 4 another Austrian Injection Tanya?<br />
Louise “Hard-out chick” Jull<br />
Grace “Martha Stewart” <strong>Mag</strong>uire<br />
Avalanche<br />
Liv “Car-Ho” McLennan<br />
Niki “Pro-Ho” Peters<br />
Charlotte “Mt Charlimanjaro” Greive<br />
Freya “F.F.E.” Sorrenson<br />
Lucy “goosey” Stone<br />
Laura “pow-pow” Margetts<br />
Arawhata<br />
Sam “Wife beater” McDiarmid<br />
Jack, “Mandate” Taylor<br />
Dan “Use your karate skills on something other than walls” Roberts<br />
B-Rad “Show us your guns” Evison<br />
Tom “Happy” Kearney<br />
Todd Secretary Sandford<br />
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20<strong>06</strong> 40 Hour Famine<br />
Leadership Camp<br />
In late January this<br />
year four students from<br />
Mount Aspiring College<br />
attended the 20<strong>06</strong> 40<br />
Hour Famine Leadership<br />
Camp in Lyttelton, just<br />
out of Christchurch.<br />
Hannah Beaufoy, Whitney<br />
Mulqueen, Rose Adams<br />
and Laura Ferguson met<br />
at the camp ready for<br />
a fun, inspirational and<br />
information filled weekend.<br />
At first everyone was very<br />
shy and only stuck by<br />
the people they already<br />
knew, but after a quick<br />
introductory talk we played<br />
a few games to help us<br />
all ‘break the ice’ and<br />
get to know each other<br />
a bit better. During the<br />
rest of the weekend we<br />
took part in many more<br />
activities and listened to<br />
many inspirational and eye opening<br />
speeches from a few famous New<br />
Zealanders, all of which blew us away<br />
and left us speechless. Each of these<br />
gave us a chance to see things from<br />
the perspective of people suffering<br />
in poverty all around the world. The<br />
emotional impact we felt gave us<br />
greater motivation to go home and<br />
try as hard as we could to encourage<br />
our schools to get involved and raise<br />
as much money as possible by all<br />
doing the famine. This camp also<br />
provided us with a lot of skills like time<br />
management, working as a team and<br />
leadership skills.<br />
Overall, a great weekend with the<br />
World Vision crew and other students<br />
from around the South Island.<br />
Rose Adams and Laura Ferguson<br />
The theme for 20<strong>06</strong> was ‘Spread<br />
the Word’ and the actual Famine<br />
was held on the weekend of the<br />
17-19 March. The college was ably<br />
assisted by an enthusiastic committee<br />
comprising Rosie Adams, Harriet<br />
Beattie, Hannah Beaufoy, Sophie<br />
Brown, Phoebe Crawford, Laura<br />
Ferguson and Whitney Mulqueen.<br />
The College raised over $7000 which<br />
was another fantastic effort involving<br />
the commitment from students, staff<br />
and the local community. The money<br />
raised was sent to India, Cambodia,<br />
Rwanda and many other countries to<br />
release children from bonded labour<br />
and give them an education so they<br />
can learn and have choices for their<br />
future.<br />
Thank you to Mr Turnbull for<br />
all the encouragement you<br />
gave to the 20<strong>06</strong><br />
40 Hour Famine<br />
Committee this year.<br />
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BRONZE – Pearl Flat<br />
“We had a meeting a couple of days<br />
before we left to discuss what food and<br />
clothing we should bring and to sort out<br />
who would carry what equipment. On<br />
the day we walked in the weather was<br />
sunny with patches of high cloud. We<br />
walked up the valley to the Aspiring Hut<br />
where we stopped for our lunch break.<br />
We then walked further up the valley<br />
which became more challenging as we<br />
passed through the beech forest. We<br />
emerged at Shovel Flat but carried on<br />
walking to Pearl Flat where we set up<br />
camp at the fork of two glacial rivers.<br />
Once we got our tents up and had<br />
cooked our meals we sat around the old<br />
campfire swapping stories and jokes. It<br />
was a lovely warm evening so we didn’t<br />
got to bed until quite late and those<br />
who were silly enough to leave their food<br />
outside during the night lost most of it to<br />
the possums!”<br />
Jack Beattie<br />
“I’m really glad that I have had this<br />
experience – I have got to know the<br />
people tramping with me, I have seen<br />
those wonderful views and explored<br />
a magnificent area. This is the just<br />
the first of many tramps – I can’t wait!<br />
I persevered throughout the trip and<br />
found it best to go at my own pace<br />
to conserve energy. I really enjoyed<br />
this expedition, particularly being out<br />
enjoying nature.”<br />
Nicole Batchelar<br />
SILVER - Kepler Tramp<br />
“We set off on our first silver tramp on<br />
the Kepler track, with a weather report<br />
of snow storms! Unfortunately for Tim<br />
Andrews he’d only brought one set of<br />
thermals.<br />
So, after a fine day’s tramping, and<br />
45 minutes walking in the dark, we’d<br />
bunked down and had a good sleep.<br />
We moved out the next morning,<br />
into the steadily falling snow. During<br />
the day we tramped for four hours<br />
through a snow storm, between<br />
Avalanche huts on a mountain ridge!<br />
It was a hard tramp for some of<br />
us – a great character building<br />
experience’ according to the<br />
teachers! Even though this tramp<br />
was a bit more adventurous that<br />
anticipated, we had a great time,<br />
full of laughter – including a kilogram<br />
of mince, a burned mouth (not so<br />
fun!), the world’s first camping stove<br />
accompanying us, balloons, giant<br />
blisters and charades! Thanks very<br />
much to the teachers and parents<br />
that accompanied us.<br />
We all had a great time!”<br />
Alison Reid and Helen Prescott<br />
GOLD - Rees and Dart Valley<br />
(Final tramp, one step further to Gold)<br />
“By the second day we were missioning<br />
up a vertical hill which was covered in a<br />
foot of snow. Sometimes I wonder how<br />
we did it! Then on the third day we woke<br />
up to it snowing heavily outside. It was a<br />
tough decision to decide whether to risk<br />
the walk or stay in the hut. We layered on<br />
the woollens and took on the snow and<br />
we came out on top the best tramp of<br />
my life.”<br />
Jillian Macfie<br />
The Young New Zealanders Challenge of the Duke of Edinburgh Award is a programme designed to challenge young people to use their leisure<br />
time constructively and to become balanced individuals.<br />
Students may enter the award at 14 years at the Bronze level and work their way through the Silver and Gold levels. They may choose their own<br />
challenges within the categories of physical recreation, skill, expedition and service.<br />
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These awards are highly valued in the community as they show that a student has commitment, perseverance, a sense of adventure, the ability to<br />
organize themselves and, best of all, that they are balanced individuals. The awards count highly as qualifications in jobs, scholarship, university,<br />
polytechnic and halls of residence applications and are well worth having. This year over 80 students have participated at one of the three levels<br />
and we are thrilled to have eight students who have completed their Gold award – a first for Mount Aspiring College!
Central Otago Mathletics Competition<br />
This year two teams from each of Years 7-10 went to Cromwell College to compete in the Central<br />
Otago Mathletics Competition. Mathletics requires a combination of superb mathematics<br />
understanding, excellent computation and problem solving skills and the ability to work in a team.<br />
Some examples are given below - see if you can solve them! Our teams were pitted against the<br />
best from Dunstan High School and Cromwell College. We are proud of all our competing teams<br />
and would like to acknowledge the following great results:<br />
1st<br />
3rd<br />
1st<br />
3rd<br />
2nd<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
Year 7<br />
Richard Macpherson<br />
Gabriel Schwarz<br />
Cody Tucker<br />
Ben Sherson<br />
(pictured right)<br />
Dylan Stock<br />
Nick Jackson<br />
Eachann Bruce<br />
Maddie Lysaght<br />
Year 8<br />
Rohan Brash<br />
Alex Winsloe<br />
Lisa-Katie Rethwisch<br />
James Rowe<br />
(pictured right)<br />
Saasha Bruce<br />
Michael Jolly<br />
Cory Bryan<br />
Dominic Schwarz<br />
Year 9<br />
Tom Sherson<br />
Michael Hammerich<br />
Anna Hogg<br />
Amy Kennerley<br />
Year 10<br />
Sarah Cashen<br />
Lauren Wootton<br />
Melissa Buckingham<br />
Catherine Hart<br />
Shilo Gibson<br />
Katarina Schwarz<br />
Susannah Schwarz<br />
Hannah Lumsden<br />
Taken from 20<strong>06</strong> questions....<br />
1) 4 + 3 x 7 =<br />
2) 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... ... + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 =<br />
3) Which 3 consecutive square numbers add to 110?<br />
4) Put mathematical symbols between these digits to make the<br />
equation correct - you can use x, +, -, or () 7 6 4 9 = 81<br />
5) A jar contains 454 g of sugar. If 5 jars with sugar weigh 2.95 kg what<br />
is the mass of an empty jar?<br />
6) Two numbers which are 7 apart have a sum of 37 and a product of<br />
330. What are the two numbers?<br />
7) Wurzles have 2 heads and 3 legs, Frumples have 1 head and 4 legs.<br />
In total there are 35 legs and 15 heads. How many Wurzles and how<br />
many Frumples?<br />
8) Unscramble this geometric word: enclase<br />
Year 7 Champions<br />
Year 8 Champions<br />
Answers: 1) 25 2) 210 3) 25, 36 49 4) {7 + 6 - 4} x 9 = 81<br />
5) 136g or 0.136 kg 6) 15 and 22 7) 5 of each 8) scalene<br />
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Library corner<br />
Towards <strong>MAC</strong> LIC, Mount Aspiring College Library Information Centre<br />
20<strong>06</strong>: New Librarian (footnote 1), new orientation! This year, the library (fortnote 2) has evolved into an<br />
effective user-friendly reading and learning centre. You will use this place more often, more successfully and<br />
with more pleasure so that you become a life-long learner.<br />
Search Computers: Two computers have been added on the left at the entrance of the library. They are your<br />
first stop when you enter the place. You can search the OPAC (Library Catalogue) with author’s name or title,<br />
word or keyword and then find the book in the shelves. On these computers, you can also search Encarta<br />
Encyclopaedia, where you will find useful information for your research.<br />
<strong>Mag</strong>azines: New display in the centre of the library, presenting recent magazines. New organisation (to be<br />
completed) of magazine collections kept in folders in the Reading Corner. New Subscriptions include: New<br />
Scientist, New Zealand PC World, New Internationalist and Kiwi Conservation Club. <strong>Mag</strong>azines must be read<br />
within the library. They are NOT FOR LOAN, except 4 bar-coded magazines which can be borrowed like books<br />
(footnote 3).<br />
Reading Corner: Research has shown that a home-like reading corner enhances the reading experience<br />
both at school and at home! Worth trying the experience… Hence the $10 armchair and carpet from<br />
Wastebusters and it does create a nice atmosphere! Here, story reading times are held twice a week, when<br />
a reader reads a story to students. We will continue to offer you the possibility of simply sitting and listening…<br />
and dive into fantastic, weird, moving or funny… Check out <strong>MAC</strong> LIC notice board, on the library window!<br />
References: They have been set up and organised along the Dewey classification in the centre of the Library.<br />
They are your second stop when commencing research. Finding definitions in dictionaries, keywords in a<br />
thesaurus, articles in encyclopaedias…<br />
Knowledge Section: Renamed from Non-fiction (negative notion, although common). It is organised along<br />
the Dewey classification, which is widely used in English speaking countries. It is the most important system for<br />
finding your way around as most libraries you visit will be organised this way. So I have adapted it and colourcoded<br />
it, to help you along. Shelf labels will also be colour coded (to be completed).<br />
The Rainbow: Violet/blue/green/yellow/orange/red is happy and full of symbols so it was chosen as the<br />
colour code of the Dewey classification. It is the theme of the decoration of the library, which, together with<br />
more than 200 paper chains created by the students with much fun (well done guys!), creates a cheerful &<br />
favourable learning environment. Internal managerial practices have been developed to ensure the best<br />
staff liaison and information acquisition, but the least number of book losses (you are now closely tracked for<br />
those overdue books!).<br />
As you can see, there are several things still “to be completed”, and so 2007 will see new developments,<br />
such as leaflets to find your way in the information landscape, games to re-enforce these and another <strong>MAC</strong><br />
LIC week, with a session for parents… Always check out <strong>MAC</strong> LIC Corner in the newsletter!<br />
Florence Micoud, Your Librarian Information Manager<br />
Footnote 1) It’s been an accomplishment and a privilege for me to be employed as Librarian in Mount<br />
Aspiring College in January 20<strong>06</strong>. Being qualified and experienced, I have been rapidly operational and I<br />
enjoy it all, although my English is sometimes quite laughable!<br />
Footnote 2) Place at the heart of the college which holds a very good and abundant collection of both<br />
Fiction and Knowledge books and <strong>Mag</strong>azines.<br />
Footnote 3) New Scientist, New Internationalist,<br />
National Geographic, New Zealand Geographic. Those<br />
magazines are indexed (they are added to the Catalogue<br />
with key-words) because they contain interesting features that can be useful for your researches.<br />
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Sustainability is important to many people in<br />
Wanaka. For three lovely days in May students,<br />
parents and members of the community were<br />
involved in a wide range of activities around the<br />
theme of sustainability. These included making bio<br />
fuel using solar energy, visiting energy efficient homes<br />
around Wanaka, creating an orchestra from recycled<br />
materials and then performing, hunting, fishing,<br />
composting and worm farming.<br />
Sustainability week was enjoyed by most, loved<br />
by some and grumbled about by others – all<br />
captured for posterity by two small teams of students<br />
on film and in print. Whilst we can’t include the<br />
camera crew’s DVD in this magazine, here are some<br />
of the news stories written by our roving reporters.<br />
Alternative Fuel<br />
Of course most of you know<br />
this week is theme week.<br />
The people in room 11 got<br />
off to a good start with their<br />
fuel project. First they made<br />
bioreactors out of containers,<br />
cardboard and tubes which<br />
they used to show how manure<br />
can be changed into methane<br />
or fertilizer. Other things that<br />
can be turned into fuel include<br />
the sun, water, alcohol and<br />
electricity. After that they went to<br />
the computer room and studied<br />
different types of fuel. Elmo<br />
Cotter said “This project was<br />
easy and fun,” and he chose<br />
this option because it sounded<br />
cool and he wanted to make<br />
fuel.<br />
Hugh Haworth, 8GO<br />
Learning to Weave<br />
Flax was everywhere on<br />
Thursday morning in<br />
the East Common Room.<br />
Students chose to make<br />
headbands, flowers, fish<br />
and baskets out of flax.<br />
Most students chose this<br />
option as they thought<br />
it would be fun. “I chose<br />
it mainly for the knitting<br />
part of it” said Abbi Ayre,<br />
a year 8 student. The day<br />
before the group went<br />
on a journey to Rippon<br />
vineyard where they were<br />
shown the grapes, talked<br />
about compost and how<br />
the vineyard is organic.<br />
After that they knitted.<br />
Cindy McLeod, 8WT<br />
Climate Change<br />
Global warming,<br />
icebergs melting,<br />
the world flooding,<br />
these are just some<br />
few factors of climate<br />
change. Not just<br />
that but climate<br />
change in general<br />
is what Cody, Brock,<br />
Tom and seventeen<br />
others are studying for<br />
theme week. Mainly<br />
they have gathered<br />
their resources from<br />
the internet, books,<br />
magazines and things<br />
that they already<br />
knew.<br />
Mathew Green, 8GO<br />
Winning Book Award Announced<br />
During Mount Aspiring College’s<br />
‘Sustainability’ theme week a group<br />
of students worked on producing a book<br />
which, some believed, should be awarded<br />
the New Zealand Book Award. The book<br />
contained information about global<br />
warming and ways to conserve energy<br />
and fuel. The aim of the group who worked<br />
on the book was to make students more<br />
aware of what people are doing to the<br />
environment and things that we can do to<br />
lessen this impact.<br />
Some of the group’s ideas for making the<br />
world a better place included turning lights<br />
off, planting trees, harnessing wind power<br />
and walking or biking instead of using cars.<br />
The colourful and informative finished<br />
book was displayed in the college library<br />
above a very comprehensive collection of<br />
information on the theme of ‘Sustainability’.<br />
Samara Buchanan, 8CB<br />
F r i e n d s<br />
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Fine ladies Fashion and Accessories<br />
Dunmore Street PO Box 86 Wanaka<br />
Tel: 03 443 8571 Fax: 03 443 8671<br />
friendsboutique@xtra.co.nz<br />
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Barker<br />
BAS<br />
Teacher: Ms Vicki Ashton<br />
Hannah Sutherland, Matt Ferguson, Alana<br />
Bresanello, Richard Smith, Trevor Cray,<br />
Sally-Anne Brodie, Jordan Griffin, Andrew<br />
Hamilton, Katarina Schwarz, Dougal Logan-<br />
Lousley, Ashlee O’Hagan, Sierra Roberts,<br />
Rhys Cunningham, Brock McKenzie-Greig,<br />
Rachelle May, Elmo Cotter, Freya Sorrenson,<br />
Wilbur Coote, Eachann Bruce, Timothy<br />
Haldezos, Rachael Woodhead, Charlotte<br />
Spencer-Bower, Ben Smith, Jonas Wittstock.<br />
BLO<br />
Teacher: Ms Kris Logan<br />
Nicola King, Matthew McKinlay, Hannah<br />
Steven, Sarah Battson, Tim Ferguson, Philippa<br />
Kennerley, Samantha Haldezos, Hayley Scurr,<br />
Guy Wilson, Kadin Ahipene-Donaldson,<br />
Robert Saunders, Suzannah Schwarz, Sarah<br />
Tweedie, Hugo Topping, James Watts, John<br />
Hart, Niall Hoult, Morgan White, Breanna<br />
Hayes, Lee Martin, Gabriel Schwarz, Ben<br />
Sherson, Ryan Shuttleworth, Samuel Cox.<br />
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BMF<br />
Teacher: Mrs Dot Macfie<br />
Natasha May, Brett Wilson, Sam Lee, Gemma<br />
Hutton, Catherine Hart, Yuu Aruga, Tamsen<br />
Ahipene-Donaldson, Daniel Askin, Saasha<br />
Bruce, Hayden Dickey, Cadi O’Connor, Alaska<br />
White, Jordaine Wilson, Alexandra Winsloe,<br />
Luke Macdonald, Romain Poilvert, Simon<br />
McGrath, Samuel Reddington, Jack Coote,<br />
Tegan McKenzie, Finlay Woods, Lara Quest.
House<br />
BRI<br />
Teacher: Ms Cherryl Richardson<br />
Lucy Hunter, Chanel Aitcheson, Monique<br />
Aitcheson, Lance Allison, Caitlin Flockton,<br />
Bridget King, James Stewart, Sarah Cashen,<br />
Alana Coombe, Nicholas Brooker, Amy<br />
Kennerley, Tom Sherson, Cole McKenzie,<br />
Jared Cunningham, Rebecca Waugh,<br />
Helen Prescott, Rose Hunter, Mathew Green,<br />
Elle Scurr, Tanya Bennett, Thomas Dodwell,<br />
Codey O’Hagan, Emily Wilson.<br />
BEL<br />
Teacher: Mrs Annette Ellwood<br />
Callum Scurr, Daniel Wallace, Holly<br />
Hunter, Sam Brooker, Samuel Saunders,<br />
Natalia Schwarz, Laura Buckingham,<br />
Nicolas Haldezos, Amelia Hoult,<br />
Bridget Cashen, Thomas Cray, Megan<br />
Coombe, Dylan Cooper-Slee, Laura<br />
Prescott, Sophie Fraser, Kaiya Nicholls,<br />
Monique King, Tim Cotter, Charlotte<br />
Grieve, Jack Taylor, Kate Gilmour, Emily<br />
Bradford, Georgia Macdonald, Forrest<br />
Roberts, Brodey Duncan.<br />
BTU<br />
Teacher: Mr John Turnbull<br />
Callum Grant, Tayah Johnston, Sarah Smith,<br />
Tim Hellebrekers, Phoebe Crawford, Brodie<br />
Ollerenshaw, Courtney Tate, Ashley Butcher,<br />
Jasmyn White, Ollie Barton, Bene Schwarz,<br />
Miles Topping, Dominic Schwarz, Jordan<br />
Byrne, Benjamin Sutherland, Emma Hayes,<br />
Tamara Pennicott, Olivia McLennan, Niki<br />
Peters, Kaitlin Saunders, Sam Buckingham,<br />
Gus Sharp, Abigael Ayre.<br />
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Iron
House<br />
ICS<br />
Teacher: Mr Dave Cassaidy<br />
Kimbra Hughes, William Austen, Sam Austin,<br />
Christopher Keimig, Megan Robertson, Alana<br />
Martin, Mickey Rawlings, Jaxon Strange,<br />
Elias Bowler, Michael Hammerich, Lucca<br />
Sidey, Andrea Wellman, Madeline Davison,<br />
Renee McLeod, Chantelle Hutcheon, Callan<br />
O’Connor, Hamish Umbers, Todd Sandford,<br />
Emma Schuler, Alyce Harwood, Eugene<br />
Wolfin, Anna Donnelly, Peyton Sweeney.<br />
IHW<br />
Teacher: Mrs Joanne Hawkins<br />
Jody Direen, Jaimee McGrath, Cameron<br />
Thomson, Nicholas Mayhew, Harriet Beattie,<br />
Samantha Fleming, Andrew Hammerich,<br />
Charlotte Gardiner, Richard McLeod, Michael<br />
Hudson, Ryan Limmer, Nicholas Cates, Kylie<br />
Lindsay, Codie Vincent, Jessica Knight, Tom<br />
Shields, Brianna Still, Olly Allan, Eleanor Adams,<br />
Tommy Fairbrother, Fraser Dowling, Seth Ward,<br />
Ivan Xavier, Louis Braddock.<br />
IMA<br />
Teacher: Mrs Janet Malloch<br />
Scott Moffat, Toni Hinton, Lincoln Haworth, Rosa<br />
Patterson, Tiffany Taylor, Timothy Andrews, Kim<br />
Trevathan, Rose Adams, Hana Pelosi-Fear,<br />
George Beattie, Thomas Donnelly, Cameron<br />
Mayhew, Logan Wicks, Tara Hurley, Stephanie<br />
Bruns, Matthew Martin, Riley Wilson, Molly<br />
Holloway, Laura Cates, Max Cole, Daniel Roberts,<br />
Jarrod Wellman, Josh Renton, Louis Dowling.<br />
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Pisa<br />
PBD<br />
Teacher: Mrs Dawn Bosley<br />
Staci Lind, Ben Stevenson, David Wither, Andrew<br />
Lewis, Mark Hogg, Fabian Shaw, Hamish<br />
McDougall, Kirsten Roxburgh, Aaron Blackledge,<br />
Kansas Davis, Joanne Osborne, Jake Child,<br />
James Bryan, Cholena Perry, Gregory Redai,<br />
Henry Schikker, Lara Bullock, Ella Brockelsby,<br />
Matthew Beagle, Ben Harper, Max Collett,<br />
Lauren King, Riah Mills, Alexandra Mends.<br />
PBY<br />
Teacher: Mr Wayne Bosley<br />
Amy Doolan, Natsuki Sakurai, Maddy<br />
Harker, Isabella Harris, Melissa Buckingham,<br />
Shilo Gibson, Nicholas Love, Cody Clarke,<br />
Anna Hogg, Tom Ainge-Roy, Sam Gilchrist,<br />
Nick Brown, Mikaela Mason, Monique<br />
Thomas, Danny Lawson, Daniel Napier,<br />
Luke de Pina, Hannah Armstrong, Nicholas<br />
Jackson, Gelzen Jefferies.<br />
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PME<br />
Teacher: Ms Nikki Meissel<br />
David Hogg, Laura Ferguson, Gemma<br />
Templeton, Olivia Stevenson, Ben Umbers,<br />
Matthew Templeton, Matthew Jackson, Jack<br />
Mercer, Tom Mulqueen, Greyson Murphy,<br />
Ayla Meikle, Cameron Fluit, Tomas Hewson,<br />
Tino Kunzmann, Sarah Gourlay, Callan Brash,<br />
Karl Steel, Jessica Brown, Kimberley Sydney,<br />
Jazmin-Lee Thompson, Jessica Mahoni-Rae.
House<br />
PAL<br />
Teacher: Mr Murray Allen<br />
William Harris, Bridget Huddleston,<br />
Grace Ross, Whitney Mulqueen, Elle<br />
Hulsbosch, Ben Brown, Alysha Edwards,<br />
James Aspinall, Annalise Matthews,<br />
Christa Jungen, Sammy Clayton,<br />
David Vaughan, Jimmy Davidson,<br />
Brenna Johnston, Annemieke Sherwin,<br />
Thomas Deacon, Timothy MacDonald,<br />
Ben Zander, Jack Gilchrist, Richard<br />
Macpherson, Eleanor Merton, Gray<br />
Smith, Ruby Urquhart, Laura Coloco.<br />
PBK<br />
Teacher: Mr Perry Brooks<br />
Hannah Beaufoy, Todd Clarke, Angela<br />
Keenan, Fraser McDougall, Alison Reid,<br />
Campbell Mason, Bronte McCabe, Alice<br />
Urquhart, Gina Barnett, Ben Hulsbosch,<br />
Shinea Wilson, Tess Bullock, Regan Munro,<br />
Zack Davidson, Richard Child, Billie-Jean<br />
McHardy, William Snow, Max Sydney,<br />
Jennifer Currie, Bradley Evison, Sam<br />
MacDiarmid, Matthew Ruitenberg, Millie<br />
Heard, Goetz Hilber.<br />
PKN<br />
Teacher: Mr Simon King<br />
Cory Bryan, Zoe Powley, Benjamin Roulston,<br />
Regan Thompson, Sarah Veasey, Rachael<br />
Buckingham, Jade Davies-McConchie,<br />
Sophie Scott, Cameron Howden, Reece<br />
Gosling, Chloe Hamlin, Micah Simons, Jack<br />
Bendle, Sam Barnett, Tennessee Davis, Saskia<br />
Hulsbosch, Jordyn Te Rahui-Hobbs, Cory<br />
Thomas, Ally Waser, Woodrow Ross, Lisa-Katie<br />
Rethwisch, Daniel Mahoni-Rae.<br />
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RAN<br />
Teacher: Ms Katie Allen<br />
Harry Luxton, Joel Hawkey, Kasey McMahon,<br />
Connor Faircloth Harding, Yasmin Smith,<br />
Nathan Brenssell, Jack Beattie, Nick Jolly,<br />
Thomas Brash, Elisha Bangma, Emma<br />
Jackson, Hannah James, Alex Jones, Andrew<br />
Stewart, Tina MacDonald, Olly Wilson, Sally<br />
Rutherford, Madeline Lysaght, James Good,<br />
Grace <strong>Mag</strong>uire, Mathew Bancroft, Erica Walker,<br />
Zhanae Hanson, Patrick Flores, Finlay Meldrum.<br />
RCA<br />
Teacher: Mrs Colleen Carr<br />
Sebastian Scott, Leanne McMaster, Callum<br />
Conroy, Holly Hale, Hannah Lumsden,<br />
Leah Pihama, Christoffer Hallberg, Emma<br />
Brown, Brendan Booth, Anita Brenssell,<br />
Sophie Gregg, Maddie Brett, Digby Luxton,<br />
Charlotte Penniket, Joram Makuru, Elliot<br />
Strijland, Ella Hoare, Mackenzie James,<br />
Jessica Jay, Connie Lloyd, Christopher<br />
Bullick, Alexander King, Johannes<br />
Kolvenbach, Eric Mascherek, Joshua Veint.<br />
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RHO<br />
Teacher: Ms Maree Horlor<br />
Thomas Moynihan, Sevy Taylor, Rohan<br />
Brash, Katie Conroy, Caywood Hesson, Jean<br />
Padget, Ben Reeves, James Rowe, Josh<br />
Wilson, Jade Makuru, Jaimie Tucker, Hannah<br />
Scott, Whitney Coers, Keely Chamberlain,<br />
Lydia Lysaght, Kate Turnbull, Louise Jull,<br />
Rashauna Varley, Hae Hyeok Kwon, Cory<br />
Johnson, Nicole Buchanan, Jason Sutherland,<br />
Danny Cunningham, Elliott Meldrum.
RWG<br />
Teacher: Mr Chris Waugh<br />
Andrew McMaster, Scott, Cooper, Sophie<br />
Beattie, Ryan Gwilliam, Kelly Stuart, Krystal<br />
Lucas, Jake Ruddenklau, Gina Hore, Stefi-<br />
Rose Luxton, Yuichiro Okubo, Roland Taylor,<br />
Zoe Kefala, Campbell Lumsden, Philippa<br />
Williamson, Larissa Hanson, Natasha<br />
Blackwood, Georgia Hopper, Mark Tucker,<br />
Lachlan Turnbull, Elizabeth Johnstone, Lucy<br />
Stone, Jodie Walker, Danny Gilmore, Ethan<br />
Meyer-Budge, Jeffrey Ward.<br />
RGO<br />
Teacher: Ms Johanna Gordon<br />
Chelsea Rhyne, Christopher Booth, Octavia<br />
Beazley, Grace Ruddenklau, Lane Halba,<br />
Julie McGregor, Kylee Soanes, Jillian Macfie,<br />
Krystal-Lee Gilmore, Aaron Harwood,<br />
Cameron Hunt, Lauren Wootton, Michael<br />
Jolly, Ryan Cooper, Thomas Kearney, Jessica<br />
Lockwood, Max McGregor, Maxwell Simich,<br />
Lily Nimmo, Zoe Veint, Kirsty Sutherland.<br />
RHM<br />
Teacher: Mr John Hammond<br />
Samuel, Hale, Sophie Penniket, Pamela<br />
Ward, Rachel Hunt, Reina Pihama, Abby<br />
de Groot, Sam Hopper, Beach Thurlow-<br />
Meyer, Reuben Ward, Caleb Beazley,<br />
<strong>Mag</strong>gie Ruddenklau, Shennae Feisst,<br />
Samantha Williamson, Sarah Taylor, Errol<br />
Hopgood, Tom Grooten, Graham Smout,<br />
Cody Tucker, Anna Watson-Taylor, Amanda<br />
Cooper, Julius Brash, Joshua Perry, Ryan<br />
Johnson, Caleb Shortcliffe-de-Waal,<br />
Konstantin Baumer.<br />
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House Day<br />
Tug of War<br />
Athletics Day<br />
Cross Country<br />
Swimming Champs<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> Snow Champs<br />
Interhouse Netball/Basketball<br />
Zagar<br />
Whanau Quiztime<br />
Inter-House Chess<br />
Inter-House Debating<br />
Inter-House Choral Competition<br />
Inter-House Violleyball/Socer<br />
Junior Triathlon<br />
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30<br />
RUTHERFORD 20<strong>06</strong><br />
This has been a busy year with a variety of activities<br />
being undertaken.<br />
Creative Design Awards<br />
Seventeen students participated in this course<br />
under the expert tutelage of Marie Lauderdale.<br />
The finished products were entered in the NZ<br />
Awards and Shilo Gibson (year 10) was a finalist in<br />
the cultural section and Ella Brockelsby (year 13) in<br />
the sportswear section.<br />
Tournament of Minds<br />
Teams from year 7 to 10 entered in this<br />
competition against Wakatipu High School. All<br />
teams did well in both their long and short team<br />
problem-solving. The year 8 team led by Emma<br />
Simpson won the best team overall in the year 7<br />
and 8 section.<br />
Future Problem Solving<br />
Three groups from year 7, 9 and 10 took part in this<br />
programme. The topics studied were Freedom of<br />
Speech, Climate Change, and Nutrition.<br />
Year 8 Debating<br />
The year 8 group learnt how to debate. They<br />
moved through a series of lessons on structuring<br />
a debate, rebuttal, and using anecdotes, then<br />
all participated in a practice debate before<br />
competing in the interhouse competition.<br />
Year 7 & 8 Maths Problem Challenge<br />
This challenge was organised by Otago University,<br />
with year 7 & 8 students completing five papers.<br />
James Rowe, Cory Bryan, Rohan Brash, Saasha<br />
Bruce, Dominic Schwarz and Alex Winsloe all<br />
gained excellence status.<br />
Fair Go Awards<br />
The year 9 and 10 groups worked on this<br />
challenge. They were required to create a 30<br />
second advertisement for a new innovative<br />
use of number eight wire. Tess Bullock and Ben<br />
Hulsbosch’s advertisement was chosen to enter the<br />
national competition.<br />
Extra Spelling Competition<br />
We trained and entered several teams in both the<br />
year 7 & 8 and the year 9 & 10 sections. Whilst the<br />
year 7 & 8 students competed valiantly, the year<br />
9 & 10 teams filled all three top spots, with Andrew<br />
Stewart and Anna Hogg gaining First place.<br />
Chess<br />
Our chess group is slowly rebuilding after losing<br />
impetus for a year or two. An interschool<br />
challenge against a strong Dunstan High School<br />
team provided the incentive to our players to<br />
improve for next year!<br />
Interschool Debating<br />
20<strong>06</strong> was a very successful year for<br />
interschool debating. The debates were<br />
organised by Jeanette Emmerson on<br />
behalf of the Cromwell Rotary Club. Teams<br />
from Wakatipu High School, Cromwell<br />
College, Roxburgh Area School and Mount<br />
Aspiring College were involved.<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> was represented by twenty students<br />
organised into four teams. Our teams<br />
won all their debates – except when<br />
debating against each other!<br />
Our B team (Anna Hogg, Emma Schuler<br />
and Katarina Schwarz) were invited to<br />
take part in the final for the Bob Howard<br />
Memorial Trophy, debating the negative<br />
of “We should ban smacking” against<br />
Roxburgh A team. <strong>MAC</strong> won the debate<br />
and Katarina Schwarz (Year 10) was<br />
judged best speaker.<br />
Participants:<br />
Year 13: Tayah Johnston, Whitney<br />
Mulqueen, Emma Schuler, Sarah Taylor.<br />
Year 12: Claire Davis, Bridget<br />
Huddleston, Philippa Kennerley, Roland<br />
Taylor.<br />
Year 11: Charlotte Gardiner, Lincoln<br />
Haworth, Rosa Patterson, Hayley Scurr.<br />
Year 10: Nicole Batchelar, Shilo Gibson,<br />
Hannah Lumsden, Katarina Schwarz.<br />
Year 9: Anna Hogg, Amy Kennerley,<br />
Dougal Logan-Lousley, Emma Simpson.<br />
Thanks to teachers Colleen Carr, Joss<br />
Walker, Kris Logan and Chris Waugh, who<br />
supported the teams.<br />
Interhouse Debating<br />
This was run in three rounds in terms 2 to<br />
4. The divisions were years 7 & 8, years<br />
9 & 10 and years 11, 12 and 13. The<br />
debates were impromptu with teams<br />
having an hour to prepare their case.<br />
This year we entered two teams in the<br />
Otago/Southland MUNA weekend held<br />
at the Edgar Centre in Dunedin.<br />
Team One: Mark Hogg, Matt Pearson,<br />
Tom Ainge-Roy and Tim Andrews<br />
represented Fiji.<br />
Team Two: Lincoln Haworth, Kelly<br />
Stuart, Shilo Gibson, Katarina Schwarz<br />
and Melissa Buckingham represented<br />
New Zealand.<br />
The assembly was very formally<br />
organised, copying what happens in<br />
the real United Nations and delegates<br />
presented information and debated<br />
on behalf of their particular country.<br />
The topics for debate included climate<br />
change, diseases in developing<br />
nations, protection of migrant workers<br />
and renewable energy. Each country<br />
worked hard to get the best deal for<br />
themselves. In addition there were<br />
two snap debates on the granting of<br />
subsidies on the grounds of disability,<br />
race or gender, and the raising of the<br />
legal drinking age.<br />
Year 8, 9 and 10 students also had a<br />
chance to participate in the MUNA<br />
experience in school at the end of<br />
2005, when each year level held a<br />
separate MUNA day and debated<br />
a range of current issues. Not only<br />
were the students most creative in<br />
their costumes but they also gave<br />
interestingly creative responses to<br />
some tricky issues which were raised!
Fiordland Rulz!<br />
The Routeburn and Caples Tramps continued to provide the highlight of the<br />
Level 2 Outdoor Pursuits Programme as they always do. Staff, students and<br />
instructors spending quality time together in a stunning setting where the outside<br />
world doesn’t intrude is magic.<br />
The challenges of completing a 5 – 7 hour day of alpine terrain, cooking hearty<br />
and tasty meals, trying to sleep in a hut full of people who seem to lose their<br />
inhibitions in a crowd as well as making funny noises at night, learning about<br />
the New Zealand bush (thank you Simon King), how not to cross a bog (thank<br />
you Joss), what not to pack (Jack T and Doddy), the magic of hypnosis (thanks<br />
Siobhan) and never to completely trust a hosteller (eh, Rocky) are just some of<br />
the memorable moments.<br />
On this year’s Routeburn tramp our group went from Queenstown to Milford.<br />
It was good, a lot of walking. There was a good view of the lake on the top:<br />
reasonable sized, sparkling and calm. There was beautiful weather and a bit<br />
of ice on the way over the pass. The last day was drizzling but it didn’t make us<br />
miss out on much. The weather progressively got more and more miserable;<br />
well, it drizzled anyway. A short day of walking but a long drive afterwards back<br />
from The Divide. The bunks were quite interesting because they were big wide<br />
mattresses, so four people were crammed like sardines in a tin on one huge<br />
bed. When we met up with another crew we heard stories about rocks in<br />
Thomas Brash’s bag and he hadn’t noticed until he was told. The food wasn’t<br />
that great because there was a lot of burning going on.<br />
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Mathew Bancroft competed in the World Open 29er Sailing<br />
Championships in the United Kingdom and also in the British<br />
Nationals. Mat was a member of a two person team and they were<br />
placed 66th out of 105 which meant that they were placed 1st in the<br />
Bronze Division in a field of 40 boats and in the Open British Nationals<br />
they were 28th in a fleet of 84 boats placing them 3rd in the Silver Fleet.<br />
Louise Jull is a member of the NZ Junior Kayak Team. She gained<br />
a national title in the New Zealand Age Group Championships<br />
before heading to Europe and then to the World Junior Champs in<br />
Slovenia. Louise was placed 35th in the World Champs with a best<br />
placing of 5th in the competition in the Czech Republic.<br />
Sarah Battson successfully completed her grading for Black Belt<br />
in Samurai Karate. It is very rare for a person of her age to have<br />
achieved this feat. Later in the year Sarah returned to Australia - her<br />
experience is described below:<br />
“On Thursday 14 September I was in Melbourne for my Senior Black Belt grading (1st Dan).<br />
The grading started at 7.00 pm and lasted for almost four hours. I would have to say that it<br />
was the hardest thing I have ever done and most likely will ever do - it tested me mentally<br />
and physically. The one time during my grading that I thought I could not carry on was in the<br />
Kumite (fighting). It was full contact and anything goes, so it was just like ‘lets beat each other<br />
to a pulp’. I had 7 or 8 fights and then we went on to three two-on-one fights. That was when<br />
I really got physically beaten and eventually I actually collapsed. After my grading my body<br />
was so sore and bruised but my mind was still pumping. Overall the trip was awesome and a<br />
great experience but I don’t think I want to be doing it again for a while!”<br />
Tara Hurley competed at the 20<strong>06</strong> Disabled Snowsports’ Festival and<br />
National Championships at Cardrona and came first in her event<br />
gaining her the title ‘20<strong>06</strong> Cardrona National Social Female Skier’.<br />
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Mark Hogg, Sam Williamson, Anna Hogg, Sarah Lees<br />
(middle front, second left to right) and Katie Conroy<br />
(back, second left) travelled to Australia as part of the<br />
New Zealand Junior Nordic Ski Team to compete in the<br />
Australian Championships. Details of their achievements<br />
are given on page 74.<br />
Joram Makaru, Mackenzie James, Connor Harding,<br />
(left to right) Lucca Sidey and Benji Sutherland (not<br />
pictured) have been selected as part of the New Zealand<br />
Snowboarding Youth Team.<br />
Fraser and Hamish McDougall have skied well all winter<br />
and have been selected as part of the New Zealand<br />
Junior Freeski Team.<br />
Mount Aspiring College’s Super Squad - Henry Schikker,<br />
Rohan Brash, Lara Bullock and Elmo Cotter (left to<br />
right) have battled their way through to the New Zealand<br />
finals and are competing in Auckland at the point of going<br />
to print.<br />
Go the Super Squad!<br />
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Amy Kennerley won the Otago / Southland Plunket Regional<br />
Spelling Competition in Term 1 and went on to compete in<br />
the National Finals in Wellington where she was placed 11th.<br />
Amy also participated in the Australian Spelling Test for Year 9’s<br />
spelling words such as ‘guarantee, exaggerate, seismograph,<br />
conscientious, embarrassing’. Amy excelled by getting a score of<br />
70 out of 70 words correctly spelt!<br />
Tim Ferguson has been selected for the New Zealand Under 17<br />
Rugby Squad 2007. 49 players have been selected to attend<br />
a camp in April 2007. The aim of the camp is to provide the<br />
top Under 17 year old players in NZ with an intensive coaching<br />
experience which will help them understand what is required<br />
over the following years as they strive for higher honours. Tim’s<br />
outstanding performance for Otago U16’s at the South Island<br />
tournament won his selection. He will now be in line for NZ<br />
Schools’ and U18 selection in the future.<br />
number of <strong>MAC</strong> students received “Distinction Awards” after<br />
A competing in the Australian Mathematics Awards recently.<br />
In Year 9 there were 7000 entrants and the outstanding<br />
performers were James Aspinall (upper right), who was in the top<br />
96 %, and Tom Sherson upper left), top 94%, closely followed<br />
by Michael Hammerich (upper middle), top 88%. Todd Clarke<br />
(bottom left) was in the top 90% in Year 11 and Mark Hogg<br />
(bottom right) was in the top 83% in Year 12.<br />
Alana Martin, Olivia Stevenson and Anneke Martin have all<br />
competed in National Swimming Championships, Division 2,<br />
this year.<br />
Alana was placed first in the 50m Fly, 100m Fly and 50m<br />
Freestyle, second in the 100m annd 200m Freestyle and thrid in<br />
the 200m Individual Medley.<br />
Anneke was placed sixth in the 50m Backstroke, eighth in the<br />
100m Backstroke and eleventh in the 200m Backstroke.<br />
Olivia was placed sixth in the 400m Individual Medley and was<br />
a finalist in the 100m Fly.<br />
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Café Culture has hit the World/New Zealand/<br />
Wanaka and of course, Mount Aspiring College.<br />
We are doing our very best to prepare our students<br />
to be part of this incredible phenomenon.<br />
Two senior classes prepared a business plan and<br />
then proceeded to run a café at the college. Bat<br />
Cave Café ran in the second term and Zissou Café<br />
in the third term. Both cafes were very successful<br />
and the resulting profits will be spent on kitchen<br />
equipment.<br />
The two groups have also qualified as baristas<br />
(coffee makers) and they will be unleashed on the<br />
local cafes over the summer season. Already local<br />
businesses are benefiting from the skills that these<br />
students have acquired. These classes have also<br />
hosted a Special Occasion for assessment A French<br />
Style Breakfast was enjoyed by invited guests and<br />
the staff were also able to enjoy a morning tea of<br />
the highest standard.<br />
The Stylish Food class has completed two national<br />
certificates at Level 2 Food and Beverage and<br />
Cookery. The students have completed tasks with<br />
confidence and flair.<br />
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Our voyage on the Spirit of<br />
New Zealand was truly life<br />
changing.<br />
We were challenged both<br />
physically and mentally thoughout<br />
the week. The challenges included<br />
mast climbing, raft racing, mind<br />
boggling quizzes and lots of<br />
outdoor games. We learned to<br />
work as a team, going through<br />
a daily routine which consists of<br />
a 6.00 am wake up followed by<br />
a swim in the sea then various<br />
chores and finally challenges to<br />
win points for our team.<br />
Despite all our hardships we<br />
pulled through and came out<br />
with the spirit trophy! Wohoo!<br />
Ryan Limmer, Guy Wilson,<br />
Ben Umbers, Kadin Ahipene-<br />
Donaldson, Isy Harris, Alice<br />
Urquhart, Madeleine Davis,<br />
Maddy Harker, Stefi-Rose Luxton,<br />
Mark Tucker
The Worst Journey in the World<br />
Beeps, buzzing … Noise! Noise! Noise!<br />
Confusion …. Fine? No, my alarm appears to be having yet another scheduled epileptic fit on my cluttered bedside table.<br />
OFF! And I am already back asleep.<br />
7.30 rocks around after one minute and now I am highly irritated and ready to hurt something!<br />
I force one foot out of bed. Count, 3, 2, 1 … other foot out. I seem to have developed this theory … if I break it down<br />
into slow, short stages, it won’t be so painful.<br />
This theory is, unfortunately, proven wrong every single morning.<br />
Right, light on …. light off, light definitely off! Eyes flicker in disgust at the punishment I just inflicted on them.<br />
Clothes …. God damn clothes! I wish I was Eve. Track pants? Closest thing to PJ’s … perfect!<br />
Door to kitchen … risky, but has to be done. I open in fear. Coolness captures my feet and threatens with a hostile<br />
kiss of death.<br />
Jug on and mad dash back to the bedroom. Feet in front of heater … ah, bliss. Toes give wiggle of appreciation as<br />
heater thaws the arctic that had just violently attacked them.<br />
Bubbling … click. Green light for coffee. Coffee in mug and another mad dash back to the bedroom.<br />
Time spent in kitchen best kept to a minimum for fear of blood freezing in this isolated igloo.<br />
Right, time to catch a glimpse of that monster that jumps into my mirror every morning. “Shrek, is that you?” Oh, no ….<br />
wait, “Morning Gemma …. Geez, rough night?”<br />
Questions roll silently through my fatigued brain. “Why can’t we all be bald?” “Who invented make up?” …. and, “For<br />
God’s sake, who invented Time?”<br />
Clock blinks 7.50 at me, I blink “DIE” back.<br />
I wish I could take the ten minutes my beauty routine robs from me and replace it back into that lovely place I like to<br />
refer to as bed!<br />
Tongue glides over teeth … tongue wishes it could escape! Gag … a quick sprint to the bathroom across the hall in<br />
Iceland should do the trick! An attack from an amazing invention called the toothbrush … and cured! Ah … minty<br />
freshness. Flash a quick TV smile at the mirror and onto next mission.<br />
Time? Again in very short supply this morning.<br />
Feet … dispose of bare feet and trade in for some shoes. Look at the selection … Ug boots. Anything to trick myself into<br />
thinking it’s a lazy Sunday!<br />
Lights off … check, heater off … damn!<br />
Door opening to Antarctica … unavoidable.<br />
“Bye, family.” Pause … wait … no reply, no surprise. Family is non-existent.<br />
I close the door to my little ice-box that is to be left untouched until I return from my very predictable day.<br />
Glance at white thing parked outside my gate. Growl and mutter something about a frozen windscreen.<br />
Try and open the door … fight, pull, tug, kick … how convenient! Hot water, grab jug and pour roughly over the seal.<br />
Chuck a careless splash over windscreen … and finally ready to go!<br />
Jump in … give anything to jump straight back out. Body shaking with discomfort as I plead with the heater to cooperate.<br />
The Lancer hates mornings as well, but sadly I have little sympathy for anything but myself before 9.00am.<br />
The marathon is well underway, the hardest part is over, now if I could just stop the clock for 15 minutes … no, God is not<br />
participating this morning. Can’t stop time, can’t stop rushing, can’t stop YAWNING!<br />
Chelsea’s still doing the finishing touches on her morning routine as I trudge on through her house. First sign of life on this<br />
planet I’ve seen all morning … shame, she is as shitty as me at this ridiculous hour.<br />
Back in the car we both abide by the Lancer Bible … a series of unwritten rules that have been conveniently adapted<br />
into the “a.m. procedure”. Rules are as follows: heater must run on high, music must be kept on low, any talking on<br />
radio must be banished and communication does not have to be polite and may be avoided if necessary.<br />
These aid in a safe and bearable journey to get to our final destination of this very ugly morning.<br />
Outside the school gates I reluctantly guide the four wheels of my carrier into an empty, uninviting park. I sit staring<br />
blankly out of the window.<br />
Music starts to appeal to the senses, and is gradually allowed to be turned up.<br />
Throat starts a slightly unpleasant humming, lips start to dance and foot develops some sort of beat … some people<br />
would reluctantly refer to this as singing.<br />
A smile smears itself across our faces, sprinkling our drowsy eyes with pinches of glee as we lampoon over our silliness.<br />
Time once again creeps on up and rudely doesn’t wait as it forces us out of the car and assertively shows us to the entrance.<br />
A door which is the gate to the rest of my day.<br />
The end.<br />
Gemma Hutton, Year 13<br />
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Year 7/8 Netball Girls<br />
The 20<strong>06</strong> season was a very busy one for Netball. We had seven Year 7 and 8 teams playing<br />
on a Friday afternoon and another 11 teams playing in the Thursday and Friday competition.<br />
Intermediate Black, coached by Anne Cooper and Diana Schikker, won the Year 7 and 8<br />
competition. College Blue, coached by Miranda Schwarz, won the ‘C’ Grade. Our College<br />
‘B’ team, coached by Kate McKenzie-Smith, played in the finals for the ‘B’ grade but was<br />
unfortunately beaten on the night. The ‘A’ team travelled to South Island Secondary Schools<br />
tournament in Christchurch and competed strongly in the ‘B’ grade. They finished in 13th place<br />
despite only losing two games – but they were crucial ones. Many thanks to coach Jackie<br />
McKenzie who resigned from coaching at the end of this season. Jackie’s commitment to<br />
training our ‘A’ teams over the past few years has been huge and the college is extremely<br />
grateful for everything she has done.<br />
The Mount Aspiring Netball Club would like to thank all coaches, managers, supporters and<br />
umpires who helped out during the 20<strong>06</strong> season. Next season should be even better.<br />
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Back: Jess Lockwood, Laura Ferguson, Nicola King, Freya Sorrenson,<br />
Alana Coombe, Charlotte Gardiner<br />
Front: Harriet Beattie, Grace Ross, Hayley Scurr, Anneke Martin<br />
Absent: Jackie McKenzie (coach)<br />
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Senior Netball B Team<br />
Back: Alison Reid, Reina Pihama, Jaimie<br />
Tucker.<br />
Front: Hana Pelosi-Fear, Whitney Mulqueen,<br />
Jillian Macfie, Lucy Hunter, Toni Hinton.<br />
College ‘D’ Team<br />
Biddi King (coach), Holly Hale, Alana Bresanello,<br />
Rose Hunter, Natalie Allan, Abby de Groot, Rose<br />
Adams, Phoebe Crawford, Angela Keenan.<br />
College Red Team<br />
Back: Nichole Buchanan, Tina McDonald, Amelia<br />
Hoult, Whitney Mulqueen (coach)<br />
Front: Emma Jackson, Laura Prescott, Emma<br />
Simpson.<br />
College ‘E’ Team<br />
Mrs Carr (coach), Megan Coombe, Renee McLeod,<br />
Kelly Stuart, Melissa Buckingham, Jodie Walker, Lisa<br />
Mitchell, Charlotte Spencer-Bower, Natalia Schwarz,<br />
Tiffany Taylor.<br />
College Ice Team<br />
Karen Ruddenklau (coach), Kansas Davis, Ayla Meikle,<br />
Anita Brensell, Alex Bowler, Anna Donnelly, <strong>Mag</strong>gie<br />
Ruddenklau, Andrea Wellman, Maddy Harker.<br />
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College Blue Team<br />
Lauren Wootton, Isabella Harris, Mandy Trevathan,<br />
Stefi-Rose Luxton, Susannah Schwarz, Gina Barnett.<br />
Year 9/10 Netball ‘A’ Team<br />
Back: Julie McGregor, Madeline Davison, Olivia<br />
Stevenson, Katarina Schwarz.<br />
Front: Leah Pihama, Sierra Roberts, Jessica Knight.<br />
Absent: Annalise Matthews, Daria Taylor.<br />
Year 8 Netball ‘A’ Team<br />
Back: Cholena Perry, Brenna Johnston, Jean<br />
Padget, Mikey Austin, Sally Rutherford,Laura Cates,<br />
Whitney Coers<br />
Jessica Shea, Mikaela Mason, Alex Winsloe.<br />
Level 1 Art<br />
Reina Pihama<br />
Lisa Direen<br />
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The 2005 camp was a challenging, but great experience. We<br />
had one, maybe two activities each day which included an<br />
overnight tramp to the Roaring Meg Hut. All the activities were<br />
based around Wanaka which made it easy to get around.<br />
For half a day we travelled on the lake to Mou Waho on the<br />
Dual Image. We also had a stimulating day when we rock<br />
climbed and abseiled at Riverside, expertly assisted by Mr<br />
Hammond and some lovely instructors.<br />
Kayaking was a cold, but exhilarating day where some of us<br />
were able to kayak down the Hawea or Clutha river and, once<br />
again, we had some great instructors to help us.<br />
The tramp we participated in was long and tough. It was the<br />
perfect time to get to know some more people, or get to know<br />
some others better. We also had to sleep in tents and make our<br />
own food that night – not to everyone’s enjoyment, I might add!<br />
Year nine camp was very enjoyable and nicely relaxed.<br />
Friendships grew, and the teachers got to know us a little better.<br />
Thank you so much to all the people who helped us out, and<br />
put up with us all showing off. I hope all the future year nines<br />
have as much fun as we did at the end of last year!<br />
Catherine Hart
We all arrived at school early Monday morning and prepared<br />
ourselves for the long six hour bus journey ahead. We arrived in<br />
Christchurch late afternoon and were all assigned keys for our<br />
rooms at Lincoln. That night, after our delicious food, we headed<br />
to the Pioneer Leisure Centre for a swim. The next day we woke up<br />
to an unexpected early morning run. After our room inspection,<br />
we piled onto the bus and headed to the High Court, which was<br />
a really interesting but intimidating experience. After that visit,<br />
we headed to the Les Mills Gym, which I think drained all the<br />
students’ energy after a hard aerobic workout. That night we all<br />
chilled out and enjoyed a movie at the Hoyts cinema.<br />
The next day, we visited the Rolleston Prison, which was the<br />
student’s highlight of the camp. We talked to many inmates which<br />
was very informative. After a long day in town, we dressed to our<br />
best as we rolled up to the very posh theatre to watch Oliver Twist.<br />
When we got back there was little sleep for all as we were all up<br />
late that night. On our last day we paid a very fun visit to QEII and<br />
had many hydro slide races and enjoyed jumping off the high<br />
board until Talon knocked himself out which cut our night short.<br />
We also played a very COOL visit to the Antarctic Centre.<br />
After a fun and unforgettable experience at Christchurch camp<br />
we were once again on our journey home. We would like to thank<br />
all the teachers for an AWESOME time. Cheers,<br />
Sam Hopper<br />
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We were lucky with the weather but there were smelly smells coming from something in<br />
the car.<br />
Thank you for taking me out to Owaka Heads to pull the net in.<br />
I really enjoyed the parents’ skit at the end of the concert and how they all scared us<br />
on the night walk<br />
Thank you for driving a car full of young, loud and very energetic people all<br />
over camp.<br />
The dinners throughout the week were awesome.<br />
One of the best times was at Purakanui Falls when Olly shrieked as soon as he<br />
touched the water.<br />
My highlight on camp was watching the male sea lions fight over the woman sea lion.<br />
Playing in the sea with my friends was the first thing I thought I’d remember forever but<br />
as the week went on I didn’t know what to choose.<br />
I liked fishing and floundering the most. Miss Allen’s fire performance was so cool! The<br />
dinners throughout the week were awesome.<br />
The confidence course was lots of fun except at the end when I let go of the Tarzan<br />
thing early and fell in the middle.<br />
The prize for my favourite activity would have to be a tie between the day at Tautuku<br />
beach, Surat Bay (sea lions) and all the free time. However my absolute highlight would<br />
have to be the camp concert.<br />
Getting up at 5.00 am was a struggle but we still managed to murder a couple of<br />
flounders.<br />
Delicious home food and baking.<br />
Breathtaking!<br />
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On Monday we went mining<br />
On Tuesday we were whining<br />
On Wednesday we had a bash<br />
On Thursday David had a crash<br />
On Friday we headed to our homes<br />
And for the rest of the weekend we had sore bones.<br />
Mikey Austin, 8GO<br />
8CB - Camp Jet-Boating<br />
Waves crashed furiously against the side of the small but speedy boat. Some<br />
of the girls screamed as the wind ruffled our hair. Slowly we stepped onto<br />
the fast, yellow and dazzling boats. The engines started. The screaming<br />
died down. Our driver yelled the rules through the wind and rain to us as we<br />
held on for dear life. Speeding through the cliffs and dodging rocks we felt<br />
our tummies lurch and our hearts beat like drums. Large grey shapes and<br />
shadows flashed by as the rain pounded on our faces ferociously, the wind<br />
howling in our ears like wolves to the clear and shining moon. A new shape<br />
came through the mist and flooded our boat fiercely. We felt like somebody<br />
had poured a bucket of ice over our heads. Our clothes were soaking and<br />
clinging to our freezing bodies. Eleven heads turned around to see another<br />
boat speeding off gleefully. We looked at each other’s dripping and shivering<br />
shapes. As we dared another scary spin we thought to ourselves about what<br />
we would do to get them back……<br />
Lisa Katie Rethwisch & Billie-Jean McHardy
On Saturday 9 September the newly-reformed Mount<br />
Aspiring College Multisport Team completed their first major<br />
event. The Mountain to Mountain race took the six intrepid<br />
multisporters from the top of Treble Cone to the Snow Farm via<br />
six challenging legs. Alison Reid completed the Giant Slalom to<br />
pass the bib on to Tim Hellebrekers who hurtled down the Treble<br />
Cone Access road at terrifying speeds (a police radar clocked<br />
cyclists at speeds up to 71kmph in this leg). After a 9km ride<br />
up the Matutukituki valley, Tim handed over to Mark Hogg who<br />
kayaked down the Matukituki river to meet Harriet Beattie at the<br />
West Wanaka bridge for the 9km trail run leg. Harriet’s transition<br />
with Roland Taylor involved a hilarious entanglement of the race<br />
bib and an iPod - it was pure impromptu theatre that made<br />
great entertainment for the crowd. Roland then made a heroic<br />
road cycle in head winds from Glendhu Bay to the bottom of<br />
the Snow Farm road which was followed by an outstanding<br />
ascent of the 14km (1000 vertical metres) Snow Farm road by<br />
Miles Topping.<br />
The racers competed with determination and good<br />
sportsmanship and were lauded by the race organisers and<br />
other competitors for their excellent attitude and great effort.<br />
The team has as its major goal the 2007 Mount Cook to<br />
Coast adventure race, and this smaller event underlined the<br />
importance of decent preparation and co-ordination, as well as<br />
how much fun these events can be.<br />
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Hey,<br />
the race was awesome. Really hard though, from my perspective. I was so proud that the guys<br />
before me did so well even with relatively no training. They all rock. The best thing was being a part<br />
of the team. I think I paced myself pretty well because I was able to keep up the same tempo. I<br />
was totally wasted near the end though. Cycling was great, but I think I would have also liked to try<br />
some of the other legs of the race.<br />
Miles Topping<br />
I guess I have to admit it was kinda fun...even though I almost died! It was a little bit rushed for me<br />
and I was a little unprepared for the whole thing, but I think given those circumstances I actually did<br />
OK. I talked to Chris about this briefly, but I was thinking about taking up Cycling as “my thing” so I<br />
guess with that in mind...I’d like to be the cyclist for upcoming races if possible! In the way of gear...<br />
I think we should use the school budget to buy me a super battery ipod. But seriously, the gear was<br />
fine. I don’t think I came near running out of water even though I drank most of it before the race.<br />
Next time I’d like to do the whole course. Well I’m tired and might go back to bed before school.<br />
Roland Taylor
Back: Nicola King, Hannah Steven<br />
Middle: Ryan Limmer, Trevor Cray, Nick Love, Mr John Hammond (teacher), Hannah Scott<br />
Front: Catherine Hart, Sarah Cashen, Octavia Beazley, Anneke Martin, Hannah James, Kansas Davis,<br />
Max Sydney<br />
Absent: Yasmin Smith, Tom Sherson, Caleb Beazley, Jake Child, Abbi Ayre, Molly Holloway, Laura Coloco,<br />
Brodie Ollerenshaw, Guy Wilson, Andrew Hamilton<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> ROCK-CLIMBING COMPETITION 20<strong>06</strong><br />
The air was chilly (to put it mildly), the rock was cold, (also put mildly), and all sensation was lost in<br />
fingers and toes … but nothing could dampen the enthusiasm of the students who turned up at<br />
Roadside to compete. Each competitor had to climb a series of routes in 3-minute slots with only 2<br />
minutes between climbs - no time to revive numb fingers or rest ‘pumped’ arms!<br />
All the Hostel students competed as part of their weekend OP activities and it was a pleasure to see<br />
such a cheerful bunch of students ‘giving it a go’, helping out with belaying, assisting with the BBQ<br />
(popular warm spot to stand!) and offering helpful advice to other climbers.<br />
Special commendation to Nick Love and Trevor Cray who were particularly helpful on the day, to<br />
Graham Smout for starting the proceedings with such style, to Helen Hammond for her brilliant time<br />
keeping, and to John Hammond for organizing the whole event.<br />
Congratulations to the winners:<br />
Best Senior Girl: Yasmin Smith<br />
Best Junior Girl: Abbi Ayre<br />
Best Senior Boy: Isana Reid-Gray<br />
Best Junior Boy: Tom Sherson<br />
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11 Year Old Boys<br />
1st Josh Renton<br />
2nd Ethan Meyer Budge<br />
3rd Monty Vass<br />
12 Year Old Boys<br />
1st Henry Schikker<br />
2nd = Greg Redai<br />
2nd= Hamish Umbers<br />
13 Year Old Boys<br />
1st Rob Saunders<br />
2nd Matt Martin<br />
3rd Tom Sherson<br />
14-15 Year Old Boys<br />
1st Sam Saunders<br />
2nd Mark Tucker<br />
3rd Ben Umbers<br />
Senior (O16) Boys<br />
1st Richard Smith<br />
2nd Tim Andrews<br />
3rd James Creighton<br />
11 Year Old Girls<br />
1st = Kaitlin Saunders<br />
1st = Sarah Lees<br />
3rd= Maddie Brett<br />
Lauren Kerr<br />
12 Year Old Girls<br />
1st Emma Jackson<br />
2nd Mikayla Austen<br />
3rd Jess Shea<br />
13 Year Old Girls<br />
1st Andrea Wellman<br />
2nd Hannah James<br />
3rd Emma Jackson<br />
14-15 Year Old Girls<br />
1st Anneke Martin<br />
2nd Olivia Stevenson<br />
3rd Sam Williamson<br />
Senior (O16) Girls<br />
1st Anna Coughlan<br />
2nd= 4 students<br />
Back: Andrea Wellman, Sam Saunders, Stuart Smith,<br />
Anneke Martin<br />
Front: Henry Schikker, Kaitlyn Saunders, Rob<br />
Saunders, Sarah Lees, Josh Renton<br />
Absent: Emma Jackson
New Athletics Records 20<strong>06</strong><br />
Girls Year 8 Softball<br />
Cholena Perry (39.07m)<br />
Girls Year 8 1500<br />
Charlotte Penniket (6.28.00s)<br />
Girls U16 Triple Jump<br />
Charlotte Gardner (9.72m)<br />
Boys U14 100m<br />
Cole McKenzie (12.13s)<br />
Boys U16 Long Jump<br />
Danny Lawson (5.56m)<br />
Year 7 Boys<br />
1st Matthew Ruitenburg<br />
2nd = Jeff Ward<br />
2nd = Cory Thomas<br />
Year 8 Boys<br />
1st = Henry Schikker<br />
1st = Errol Hopgood<br />
2nd Callan O’Connor<br />
Under 14 Boys<br />
1st Nick Brooker<br />
2nd = Thomas Cray<br />
2nd = Cole McKenzie<br />
Under 16 Boys<br />
1st Danny Lawson<br />
2nd = Shane Crawford<br />
2nd = Tim Ferguson<br />
1st<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
Senior (O16) Boys<br />
Tim Hellebrekers<br />
Brad Evison<br />
Micah Simons<br />
1st<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
1st<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
Year 7 Girls<br />
Kaitlin Saunders<br />
Rashauna Varley<br />
Tegan McKenzie<br />
Year 8 Girls<br />
Cholena Perry<br />
Mikaela Mason<br />
Natasha Blackwood<br />
Under 14 Girls<br />
1st Sierra Roberts<br />
2nd Daria Taylor<br />
3rd = Suzannah Schwarz<br />
Mandy Trevathan<br />
1st<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
Under 16 Girls<br />
Sam Williamson<br />
Alana Coombe<br />
Anneke Martin<br />
1st<br />
2nd<br />
3rd<br />
Senior (O16) Girls<br />
Christianne Prior<br />
Freya Sorrenson<br />
Rachel Hunt<br />
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Although windy, the sun shone on the cross country course and the event was enjoyed by many.<br />
Year 7/ 8 Girls<br />
1st Sarah Lees<br />
2nd Jean Padget<br />
3rd Anna Watson-Taylor<br />
Year 7/8 Boys<br />
1st Elmo Cotter<br />
2nd Greg Redai<br />
3rd Hamish Umbers<br />
Year 9/10 Girls<br />
1st Anna Hogg<br />
2nd Katarina Schwarz<br />
3rd Sophie Gregg<br />
Year 9/10 Boys<br />
1st Sam Lee<br />
2nd Hugo Topping<br />
3rd Tom Mulqueen<br />
Year 11 Girls<br />
1st Samantha Williamson<br />
2nd Anneke Martin<br />
3rd Hayley Scurr<br />
Year 11 Boys<br />
1st= Paul Hodgson<br />
1st= Richard McLeod<br />
3rd Fraser McDougall<br />
Year 12/13 Girls<br />
1st Freya Sorrenson<br />
2nd Harriet Beattie<br />
3rd Whitney Mulqueen<br />
Year 12/13 Boys<br />
1st Miles Topping<br />
2nd Dan Roberts<br />
3rd Mark Hogg<br />
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Back: Sarah Lees, Anna Watson-Taylor, Laura Cates. Sally Rutherford, Sammy Clayton<br />
Front: Jean Padget, Errol Hopgood, Greg Redai, Katie Conroy, Ben Reeves, Henry Schikker,<br />
Sarah Veasey<br />
Order your Christmas Ham<br />
now!<br />
Traditionally smoked and<br />
cured meats<br />
Delicious BBQ foods<br />
prepared daily<br />
Experience our gourmet<br />
sausage range<br />
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MALE BOARDERS<br />
1st: Will Harris<br />
2nd: Connor Faircloth-Harding<br />
3rd: Tim Hellebrekers<br />
FEMALE BOARDERS<br />
1st: Biddi King<br />
2nd: Leah Pihama<br />
2nd: Sarah Smith<br />
MALE SKIERS<br />
1st: Fraser McDougall<br />
2nd: Caleb Beazley<br />
2nd: Sam Austin<br />
FEMALE SKIERS<br />
1st: Natalie Allan<br />
2nd: Courtney Tate<br />
2nd: Mikey Austin<br />
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Under 18 Rugby Team<br />
Back: Miles Topping, Tim Hellebrekers, Will Austen, Andrew McMaster.<br />
Middle: Callum Grant, Brad Evison, Tim Ferguson, Sam Gilchrist, Cameron Thomson.<br />
Front: Mitch Bosley, Callum Scurr, Jake Ross, Brett Wilson, Todd Clarke, Brock Johnston,<br />
Daniel Wallace.<br />
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Under 15 Rugby Team<br />
Back: Mark Tucker, Guy Wilson, Sebastian Scott, Thomas Cray, Nic Haldezos, Mickey Rawlings.<br />
Middle: Marcus Bate (coach), Cole McKenzie, Andrew Hamilton, Nick Jolly, Kadin Ahipene-<br />
Donaldson, George Beattie, Hugo Topping.<br />
Front: Sam Brooker, Ryan Gwilliam, Reece Walker, Richard McLeod, Paul Hodgson, Rhys<br />
Cunningham, Sam Saunders.<br />
This year we had a good turnout and all the boys were enthusiastic from the word go, even<br />
though we had a rough start and lost our first 2 games. We won half our games and feel that<br />
we had a good season.<br />
Our best games were a great home win against McGlashan and a massive 45-3 win over Dunstan<br />
who had beaten us earlier in the season. We gave Otago Boys’ a good run as well pushing them<br />
till the final whistle and narrowly losing by 3 points. In our last game of the season, we battered<br />
Cromwell 51-25 and Paul Hodgson scored 5 tries. Paul was the overall top try and points scorer for<br />
the season, which isn’t a bad start for a pommie soccer player.<br />
After a lot of trial games and journeys to Dunedin, Nic Halzedos and Cole McKenzie were selected<br />
to represent Otago U14’s and went through their rep. season unbeaten.<br />
At Prizegiving, we all looked great in our shirts and ties.<br />
• Cole ‘turbo’ McKenzie won ‘Clubman of the Year’ for developing team spirit, getting ties for<br />
everyone and having a positive attitude all season.<br />
• Nic ‘smash em’ Haldezos won ‘Player of the Year’ for training and playing with high levels of skill<br />
and effort, and for those ‘big hits’.<br />
• Guy ‘the gorilla’ Wilson won ‘Most Improved Player’. He got fitter and tougher and learned<br />
some tricks of the front row union.<br />
Thanks to Marcus Bate and Lyndon McKenzie - we couldn’t have done it without you.<br />
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Senior ‘B’ Hockey Team<br />
Golf<br />
Callum Grant, Mitch Bosley.<br />
Back: Ali O’Connor (manager), Tim Walsh (coach), Ollie Barton,<br />
Niall Pearson, Bridget Huddleston, Elisha Bangma, Kimberley<br />
O’Connor, Matt Jackson, Anna Hogg, Krystal Lucas, Trevor Cray.<br />
Middle: Reuben Ward, Mark Hogg, Kim Trevathan,<br />
Sam Williamson.<br />
Front: Tom Sherson.<br />
Girls’ Rugby Team<br />
Bowls Team<br />
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Back: Whitney Mulqueen, Kim Trevathan, Sarah Battson, Alana<br />
Coombe, Bridget Huddleston, Grace <strong>Mag</strong>uire, Emily Bradford.<br />
Front: Jillian Macfie, Tegan McKenzie, Brenna Johnston, Monique<br />
King, Ella Hoare, Sarah Smith.<br />
Back: Brett Wilson.<br />
Front: Daniel Roberts,<br />
James Good.<br />
Absent: Tom Dozell.
Senior Girls’ Basketball Team – Goodsports<br />
Back: Kate Gilmour, Jessica Lockwood, Sarah<br />
Smith, Alana Coombe, Hannah Scott.<br />
Front: Laura Ferguson, Michelle Keimig,<br />
Chelsea Rhyne, Emily Bradford,<br />
Nicola King.<br />
Senior Girls’ Basketball Team – Locations<br />
Back: Angela Keenan, Charlotte Gardiner,<br />
Hayley Scurr, Grace Ross.<br />
Front: Alana Bresanello, Anneke Martin,<br />
Bridget King, Olivia Stevenson.<br />
Senior Boys’ Basketball Team<br />
Back: Daniel Roberts, Sebastian Scott,<br />
Isana Reid-Gray, Tommy Fairbrother.<br />
Front: Brett Wilson, Mitchell Bosley, Christoffer<br />
Hallberg, Callum Grant.<br />
Year 8 Basketball Team<br />
Back: Hannah Scott, Mikaela Mason,<br />
Cholena Perry, Laura Cates.<br />
Front: Saasha Bruce, Jean Padget, Mikey<br />
Austin, Jordaine Wilson.<br />
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Back: Sarah Lees, Tom Sherson, Madalyne Chamberlain<br />
Middle: Katie Conroy, Molly Holloway, Dougal Logan, Brianna Still<br />
Front: Philippa Williamson, Mark Hogg, Samantha Williamson, Anna Hogg, Emma Hayes<br />
Absent: Aaron Harwood, Gelzen Jefferies, Hannah Scott<br />
The highlight of the year was Mark Hogg (Year 12), Samantha Williamson (Year 11), Anna Hogg<br />
(Year 9), Sarah Lees (Year 8) and Katie Conroy (Year 7) competing in Australia. The five students spent<br />
two weeks as part of New Zealand’s only Junior Nordic Ski Team competing in two events with some<br />
fantastic results. In their respective categories at the Australian Championships Katie and Anna were<br />
placed 1st, and Sam and Mark were placed 2nd. Sarah was placed 3rd in the Freestyle Race. The<br />
following day, Sarah was placed 1st, Anna was placed 2nd, Katie was placed 3rd and Sam and Mark<br />
were placed 4th in their respective categories in the Australian Championship Classic Race. The students<br />
then competed in the Australian Joey Hoppet (7 k) and out of over 800 competitors, Mark Hogg was the<br />
top placed man and Anna and Sam were 2nd and 3rd placed women!<br />
In earlier New Zealand races Anna and Sam were first<br />
and second in the Under 20 Female race, and Anna’s<br />
time was faster than the Open Women winner! Mark<br />
won the Open Men section. In addition to training at<br />
the Snowfarm every weekend and Thursday afternoon<br />
over the winter, the Nordic Ski Academy students have<br />
been in training for this event since the start of the<br />
year. Training has included circuits on the field, bike<br />
rides, pool and lake training, runs up Mount Roy and<br />
various weekend tramping trips. Given the above<br />
results it certainly appears that all the dedication and<br />
commitment of the students has been rewarded!<br />
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The 2005/20<strong>06</strong> summer was an excellent one for cricket at the college. Mount Aspiring College formally entered into a<br />
relationship with the Albion Cricket Club which has been hugely beneficial in terms of funding and coaching support.<br />
As a college we would like to acknowledge Mike O’Connor who has such passion for the game and supporting our<br />
students. Mike has helped lift the profile of cricket and the future looks very bright indeed.<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> students were fielded (excuse the pun) in the Albion CC Senior Reserve and Senior teams as well as:<br />
Year 7&8<br />
Coached by Mike O’Connor, the team had a great season but the highlight was reaching the semi-final of the<br />
Milo Cup. This was the first time a <strong>MAC</strong> team had entered this competition and the team should be proud of their<br />
achievements. Tim Cotter, Callan O’Connor and Caywood Hesson had outstanding seasons with both bat and ball.<br />
Year 9&10<br />
Coached by Tom Topping and assisted by Bill Brooker these cricketers played in a CO afternoon competition and<br />
performed very well. Hugo Topping was a competent captain and performed consistently throughout the season.<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> 1st X1<br />
The team successfully defended their CO Champions trophy, ending the season undefeated. They played superbly as<br />
a team but the bowling of Ella Brockelsby and the batting of Miles Topping and Mitch Bosley was outstanding. Mitch has<br />
captained the team for 3 seasons and ended his <strong>MAC</strong> career with 203 not out becoming the first <strong>MAC</strong> student to score<br />
a double hundred.<br />
<strong>MAC</strong> Girls 1st X1<br />
The team played one game this season against Dunstan HS whom they defeated convincingly. The highlight was<br />
Kimberley O’Connor who scored a century, which was also a first for a <strong>MAC</strong> female student.<br />
Individual Highlights<br />
Caywood Hesson/Callan O’Connor - CO ‘A’ team<br />
Tim Cotter – CO ‘B’ team<br />
Kimberley O’Connor: Maiden century for the 1st X1 Girls’ team, CO U14 Girls’ team, CO Women<br />
Miles Topping: Albion CC Senior Reserve Batsman of the Year, 2 centuries for the <strong>MAC</strong> 1st X1<br />
Mitch Bosley: Albion CC Player of the Year, 2 centuries and 203 NO in the CO 1ST X1 final, CO U19 and CO Men<br />
Our thanks to the many supporters we have and we look forward to next season.<br />
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Our Super Squad of four intrepid adventurers, our<br />
battlers, ballerinas and brainboxes, have beaten off<br />
the competition to become the South Island Champions.<br />
Channel 2’s daily magazine program ‘Studio 2’ is<br />
searching the entire country for the ultimate ‘Super<br />
Squad’. For the last three months the Studio 2 Crew have<br />
been the length and breadth of the South Island, pitting<br />
the finest four contestants of that area that makes up a<br />
Super Squad, against one another.<br />
Mount Aspiring College’s Squad consisted of a ‘Brainbox’<br />
(Rohan Brash), an ‘Entertainer’ (Lara Bullock), a ‘Daredevil’<br />
(Elmo Cotter) and a ‘Sport Billy’ (Henry Schikker).<br />
In the early rounds each contestant competed<br />
individually in their events but as the competition<br />
developed, so did the team spirit until the whole squad<br />
was involved in every challenge. They have wowed the<br />
crowds with incredible dances incorporating basketball<br />
and rugby; Shocked, with daring deeds with rats, spiders<br />
and dubious cocktails; Amazed, with golf, cricket and<br />
goldfish catching prowess. And let’s not forget the head<br />
scratching caused by the Battle of the Brains.<br />
In the first round we whitewashed Westport. In the<br />
quarter final, we mauled Motueka and in the semi final<br />
we hammered Hokitika. This means that Wanaka will<br />
represent the South Island against the best the North<br />
Island can come up with.<br />
The Squad have already collected their ‘G Shock’<br />
watches, their ‘ipod Shuffles’ and won an ‘Apple<br />
eMac’ for the school, but that’s not all. The squad<br />
will be flown to Auckland to compete for one whole<br />
week for the Grand Prize of an all expenses paid<br />
holiday to Australia, and the prestigious title of<br />
‘Super Squad of New Zealand’!<br />
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1) Special<br />
Ability:<br />
2) Favourite<br />
Moments:<br />
3) Hardest<br />
Challenge:<br />
4) What are<br />
you most<br />
looking<br />
forward to<br />
in the<br />
Grand Final:<br />
5) Worst<br />
Moment:<br />
6) Coolest Prize<br />
(Why?):<br />
7) Best thing<br />
about going<br />
to Australia:<br />
Rohan Brash, 8CB<br />
1) Brain Box – top of<br />
the class with all things<br />
brainy!<br />
2) Beating the other<br />
teams in the Brain Box<br />
Challenge.<br />
3) Drinking the<br />
disgusting ‘milkshake’<br />
without being sick.<br />
4) Being able to<br />
compete face to face<br />
(and perhaps going up<br />
the Skytower!)<br />
5) Drinking the<br />
milkshake made of<br />
chillies, sardines, baked<br />
beans and raw eggs.<br />
6) I love listening to<br />
music on my ‘ipod<br />
shuffle’.<br />
7) I think the hotel will<br />
be amazing and there<br />
will be so many great<br />
places to visit.<br />
Lara Bullock, 8GO<br />
1) The Star: Confident,<br />
not at all shy, good<br />
public speaker and<br />
great dancer.<br />
2) I loved the first dance<br />
because I was alone in<br />
the spotlight, and seeing<br />
Henry cream pie Mr<br />
Jackways!<br />
3) Trying to teach three<br />
boys with no experience<br />
how to dance.<br />
4) Dancing in a real<br />
studio with lots of<br />
cameras and a huge<br />
audience.<br />
5) Thinking real spiders<br />
were crawling over my<br />
face when really it was<br />
just plastic ones – scary!<br />
6) Ipod Shuffle is<br />
fantastic.<br />
7) Being back in my<br />
home country – GO<br />
AUSTRALIA!<br />
Elmo Cotter, 8GO<br />
1) Daredevil: Not<br />
afraid to do stuff that is<br />
disgusting, embarrassing<br />
or messy.<br />
2) Realising that we<br />
were the South Island<br />
Champions!<br />
3) Not throwing up when<br />
drinking the ‘milkshake’.<br />
4) Going to Auckland<br />
will be awesome – and<br />
meeting the other team<br />
will be very exciting.<br />
5) Drinking the<br />
‘milkshake’ of sardines,<br />
raw eggs, chillies and<br />
baked beans. Disgusting!<br />
6) I’ve always wanted<br />
to listen to my music<br />
wherever I am, the ‘ipod’<br />
is my favourite prize – so<br />
far!<br />
7) The activities lined up<br />
will be great – but I can’t<br />
wait to stay in a massive<br />
hotel.<br />
Henry Schikker, 8WT<br />
1) Sport Billy: General all<br />
around sports’ person type.<br />
2) Finally winning after<br />
competing in all the rounds<br />
and challenges.<br />
3) Having to prepare and<br />
learn the dancing for the<br />
Performance Challenges.<br />
4) Travelling up to<br />
Auckland and competing<br />
in some new and different<br />
big challenges.<br />
5) Losing the first Gauntlet<br />
Challenge, just by a few<br />
seconds.<br />
6) The ‘ipod shuffle’<br />
because I didn’t have one<br />
and I really wanted one.<br />
7) Maybe going surfing<br />
and swimming in the sea<br />
and all the other cool<br />
activities over there.
On 21st September this year,<br />
a small but excited group<br />
of students and one brave staff<br />
member left on the trip of a lifetime<br />
to see the world and meet a lot<br />
of people. Spirits were high as we<br />
headed for Sydney and we began<br />
our set challenges:- making as many<br />
new friends as we could, finding a<br />
celebrity and finding someone called<br />
either Doug or Malcolm.<br />
Dubai was our first stopover and<br />
lasting impressions are of the heat,<br />
the architecture and crazy four wheel<br />
drivers in the Arabian desert.<br />
Our itinerary took us on to Rome<br />
where we spent four nights and tried<br />
to look at as many of the historical<br />
and cultural icons as we could fit<br />
in around some shopping. These<br />
included Pompeii, the Vatican and<br />
Sistine Chapel, St Peters’ Basilica and<br />
a climb to the top of the dome, the<br />
Colosseum, Spanish Steps and Trevi<br />
Fountain. All these were great but the<br />
Italian Pizza and Gelato (icecream)<br />
were right up there too. Two of the<br />
students even managed to spend a<br />
few Euro on new hair colours.<br />
We drove through Tuscany to Florence<br />
and then Venice. This would have to<br />
be one of the highlights. The weather<br />
was warm, the city so different, the<br />
glassware and jewellery amazing<br />
and the pigeons incredibly friendly.<br />
We even thought briefly of Othello,<br />
Desdemona and Iago and then we<br />
focused on more pizza and gelato.<br />
Vienna, the capital of Austria was<br />
next, where our trips to the summer<br />
cottage (1400 rooms ) of the<br />
Hapsburg family, (Austria’s former<br />
rulers), showed us how much wealth<br />
they had in life and death. Austria,<br />
especially Salzburg and Innsbruck,<br />
were like living in a cross between a<br />
postcard and The Sound of Music<br />
and yes, our favourite thing was<br />
again the icecream.<br />
Switzerland and the village we stayed<br />
in outside Lake Lucerne were a chance<br />
to walk in the countryside and listen<br />
to the cowbells. Best of all though was<br />
the trip up Mount Pilatus (2200m) by<br />
funicular railway with a gradient steeper<br />
than Baldwin St in Dunedin.<br />
Paris was next and what can we say.<br />
Everything about Paris was amazing.<br />
The Eiffel Tower at night, the Louvre<br />
and the Mona Lisa were highlights<br />
but two things will never be forgotten<br />
- our dinner and cabaret show at<br />
the Moulin Rouge and a random,<br />
right place at the right time kind of<br />
chance to see Victoria Beckham<br />
coming out of the Gucci shop. Yes,<br />
she is small.<br />
And so, through the World War 1<br />
battlefields to Calais, across the<br />
English Channel to Dover and through<br />
southern England to London. London<br />
kind of felt like home. The value of the<br />
pound didn’t. We still went shopping<br />
and can all recommend the British<br />
Airways London Eye and Madame<br />
Tussauds great attractions. Yes, there<br />
will be another trip in a couple of<br />
years, so to all of you students in Years<br />
10 and 11 now, get saving and take<br />
the opportunity when it comes – even<br />
if it is just for the pizza, gelato and<br />
chocolate.<br />
Charlotte Gardiner, Gemma<br />
Templeton, Yuichiro Okubo, Pam<br />
Ward and Joss Walker.<br />
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The Jazz Band have met to play jazz every<br />
Tuesday lunch time. Our favourite numbers<br />
are Soul Bossa Nova (Quincy Jones) which<br />
is the theme to Austin Powers and New York,<br />
New York (by Fred Ebb). A lot of the music is<br />
chosen so that no matter what level you are<br />
you can really get into it. Four saxophonists<br />
(Nikki Meissel, Helen Carter, Annalise Matthews,<br />
Sam Hale,) a drummer (Jody Direen), a<br />
pianist (Hana Pelosi-Fear), a bass guitar player,<br />
(Tom Sherson), a flautist (Sarah Tweedie)<br />
and a guitarist (Shilo Gibson) make up the<br />
group. Over the last year we have left many<br />
audiences stunned and begging for more.<br />
As our fan base grows, so does our<br />
confidence in our performances. We had a<br />
great time together and plan to end with a<br />
bang, playing the famous Miles Davis song<br />
“All Blues” at Prizegiving.<br />
Nikki Meissel<br />
WANAKA<br />
MEDICAL CENTRE<br />
21 Russell Street<br />
Wanaka<br />
phone 443 7811 anytime<br />
Dr David Allen<br />
Dr Linda Garrett<br />
Dr Andrew McLeod<br />
Dr Jo Millis<br />
Dr Julian Pettit<br />
Family Health Care<br />
Accident & Emergency Care<br />
X-Rays & Visiting Specialists<br />
New Patients Welcome<br />
“Best Wishes to all Mount Aspiring College Leavers<br />
from all the staff at Wanaka Medical Centre”<br />
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In previous years we have run<br />
Kapahaka during class time,<br />
but this year it was moved to a<br />
lunchtime slot.<br />
Despite conflicting with other<br />
lunchtime activities, a small but<br />
loyal band of students, (mostly from<br />
the junior years of the school) has<br />
attended throughout the year.<br />
Thank you to Mrs Keelan and Mrs<br />
Hamilton for all your help and<br />
guidance - we have learnt a lot!<br />
Saasha Bruce<br />
Back: Mrs Pam Keelan (teacher), Tina MacDonald, Annalise Matthews, Mrs Jane Hamilton (teacher).<br />
Front: Konstantin Baumer, Saasha Bruce, Shinea Wilson.<br />
Absent: Larissa Hanson.<br />
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On Wednesday 16th August we were honoured to receive a visit from our<br />
Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark and the Hon. David Parker, Minister<br />
of Energy, Land Information and Minister Responsible for Climate Change<br />
Issues. The P.M. visited classes and then spoke to an open forum of senior<br />
students about issues facing them both now and in the future.<br />
2 Dunmore Street, Wanaka<br />
Phone: 03 443 6262<br />
Fax: 03 443 6263<br />
With best wishes and good luck<br />
to all the Year 13 Leavers from<br />
a former Year 13 student<br />
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Back: Ben Harper, Max Collett, Kirsty Sutherland, Lily Nimmo, Kimberley<br />
Sydney, Madeline Lysaght, Codey O’Hagan.<br />
Middle: Gelzen Jefferies, Fraser Dowling, Josh Renton, Ben Sherson,<br />
Matthew Ruitenberg, Timothy Haldezos, Mrs Dawn Bosley (teacher).<br />
Front: Eachann Bruce, Hannah Armstrong, Alexandra Mends, Tennessee<br />
Davis, Jordyn Te Rahui-Hobbs, Millie Heard, Georgia Macdonald,<br />
Danny Gilmore.<br />
Absent: Lee Martin, Cory Thomas, Jeffrey Ward.
Back: Ryan Shuttleworth, Eugene Wolfin, Finlay Woods, Josh Anderson,<br />
Dylan Stock, Eric Albrecht, Jarrod Wellman.<br />
Middle: Max McGregor, Forrest Roberts, Samantha Kingston, Ryan Johnson,<br />
Saskia Hulsbosch, Monty Vass, Mackenzie James, Ethan Meyer-Budge.<br />
Front: Rosie Thomson, Kelsey Morris, Eleanor Merton, Rashauna Varley,<br />
Jessica Brown, Jessica Jay, Rachael Woodhead, Riah Mills.<br />
Absent: Mrs Dot Macfie (teacher), Connie Lloyd.<br />
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Back: Jake Nicol, Tom Walker, Tomas Hewson, Niall Hoult,<br />
Regan Thompson, Andrew Dryden.<br />
Middle: Mrs Lesley Faulks (teacher), Cameron Fluit, Hayden Dickey,<br />
William Snow, Jessica Shea, Georgia Hopper, Daniel Morrison,<br />
Seth Ward.<br />
Front: Tamsen Ahipene-Donaldson, Brianna Still, Madalyne<br />
Chamberlain, Katie Conroy, Maddie Brett, Rachael<br />
Buckingham, Sarah Lees, Emma Hayes.<br />
Absent: Hamish Umbers.<br />
Back: Digby Luxton, Wilbur Coote, Daniel Askin, Caywood<br />
Hesson, Ben Reeves, Tim Cotter.<br />
Middle: Mr Hamish Crosbie (teacher), Keely Chamberlain,<br />
Zoe Powley, Saasha Bruce, Mikaela Mason, Cholena Perry,<br />
Lisa-Katie Rethwisch, Jaime Rodger.<br />
Front: Rohan Brash, Olly Wilson, Billie-Jean McHardy,<br />
Alexandra Winsloe, Charlotte Penniket, Sally Rutherford,<br />
Eleanor Adams, Oliver Giles, Caleb Shortcliffe-de-Waal.<br />
Absent: Abbi Ayre.<br />
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Back: Elmo Cotter, Jimmy Davidson, Mattias Inwood,<br />
Mathew Green, Hugh Haworth, David Vaughan, Ryan Cooper.<br />
Middle: John Hart, Benjamin Roulston, Zoe Veint, Hannah<br />
Scott, Natasha Blackwood, Ashley Campbell, Whitney Coers,<br />
James Bryan.<br />
Front: Jordaine Wilson, Elle Scurr, Jean Padget, Chantelle<br />
Hutcheon, Alaska White, Mikey Austin, Emily Kerr, Ms<br />
Johanna Gordon (teacher).<br />
Absent: Monique Thomas, Lara Bullock.<br />
Back: Matt Thomson, Callan O’Connor, Gregory Redai, Michael Jolly,<br />
Dominic Schwarz, Errol Hopgood.<br />
Middle: Henry Schikker, Kaiya Nicholls, Cadi O’Connor, Sarah Veasey,<br />
Brooke Hawkins, Josh Wilson, James Rowe.<br />
Front: Louis Dowling, Mrs Watson-Taylor (teacher), Morgan White,<br />
Brenna Johnston, Laura Cates, Monique King, Sammy Clayton,<br />
Lachlan Turnbull.<br />
Absent: Cindy McLeod, Nick Brown, Cory Bryan.<br />
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Back: Jack Bendle, Ben Smith, Nicholas Brooker, Robert Saunders, Aaron<br />
Harwood, Regan Munro, Cody Clarke, Daniel Edwards, Samuel Reddington.<br />
Middle: Luke MacDonald, Brendan Booth, Caleb Beazley, Alexandra<br />
Bowler, Molly Holloway, Tina MacDonald, Anna Donnelly, Max Sydney, Jared<br />
Cunningham.<br />
Front: Sierra Roberts, Hannah James, <strong>Mag</strong>gie Ruddenklau, Shinea Wilson,<br />
Kansas Davis, Ayla Meikle, Anita Brenssell, Annalise Matthews, Maia Sai Louie.<br />
Back: Tommy Fairbrother, Tom Shields, Jack Coote, Daniel Napier, Woodrow Ross,<br />
Matthew Martin, Jack Mercer,<br />
Middle: Campbell Lumsden, Greyson Murphy, Timothy Gardner, Laura Prescott,<br />
Jessica Knight, Krystal-Lee Gilmore, Larissa Hanson, James Aspinall, Cameron Hunt,<br />
Front: Tamara Pennicott, Ashlee O’Hagan, Mandy Trevathan, Suzannah Schwarz,<br />
Emma Jackson, Emma Simpson, Elisha Bangma, Zoe Kefala, Gina Barnett.<br />
Absent: Alex Jones.<br />
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Back: Benjamin Gardner, Jake Child, Tom Sherson, Michael Hammerich,<br />
Lucca Sidey, Riley Wilson, Ben Hulsbosch, Aaron Blackledge.<br />
Middle: Matt Benassi (teacher aide), Shennae Feisst, Bene Schwarz,<br />
Andrew Stewart, Dylan Cooper-Slee, Matthew Jackson, Dougal Logan-<br />
Lousley, Tom Mulqueen, Lydya Lysaght.<br />
Front: Josh Perry, Nicole Buchanan, Amy Kennerley, Joanne Osborne,<br />
Megan Coombe, Andrea Wellman, Daria Taylor, Sophie Gregg, Mrs Dawn<br />
Bosley (teacher).<br />
Absent: Tess Bullock, Anna Hogg, Cory Johnson.<br />
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Back: Cole McKenzie, Lauren Wootton, Kirsten Roxburgh,<br />
Amelia Hoult.<br />
Middle: Logan Wicks, Jordan Byrne, Niall Pearson,<br />
Luke Macdonald, Nick Jolly.<br />
Front: Danny Cunningham, Mark Tucker, Alana Martin,<br />
Madeline Davison, Charlie Findlay, Hannah Lumsden,<br />
Breanna Hayes, Jack Beattie.<br />
Absent: Laura Buckingham, Thomas Donnelly, Nicolas Haldezos,<br />
Maddy Harker, Ryan Limmer, Lisa Mitchell, Benjamin Sutherland<br />
Daniel Mahoni-Rae.<br />
Back: Julius Brash, Michael Hudson, Thomas Cray, Zack Davidson,<br />
Hugo Topping, Jaxon Strange.<br />
Middle: Jason Sutherland, Lane Halba, Rosemary Wolfin, Sarah<br />
Cashen, Bronte McCabe, Julie McGregor, Cameron Mayhew, Reuben<br />
Ward.<br />
Front: Catherine Hart, Sally-Anne Brodie, Shilo Gibson, Leah Pihama,<br />
Erica Walker, Fleur MacDonald, Olivia Stevenson, Gina Hore.<br />
Absent: George Beattie.<br />
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Back: Ben Umbers, Mickey Rawlings, Andrew Hamilton, Sam Lee, Kadin<br />
Ahipene-Donaldson, Beach Thurlow-Meyer.<br />
Middle: Kimberley O’Connor, Isabella Harris, Philippa Williamson, Stefi-<br />
Rose Luxton, Alice Urquhart, Aimee McFadzien, Jordan Griffin.<br />
Front: Fraser Hunter, Melissa Buckingham, Katarina Schwarz, Nicole<br />
Andrews, Jasmyn White, Stephanie Hinton, Guy Wilson, Nicholas Cates.<br />
Absent: Brock McKenzie-Greig, Joram Makuru.<br />
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On a sunny day in January<br />
In the 2000th year<br />
23 small students<br />
Did grace themselves here.<br />
Split into classes<br />
Ms Faulks, Mr Pullar.<br />
We were all short<br />
But eventually grew taller.<br />
Roll on Year 8<br />
And Bannockburn camp.<br />
Some boys got in trouble<br />
And got mailed home (with a stamp.)<br />
Year 9 was a hoot<br />
SN, TC, CD<br />
Ms Wade was our dean<br />
Camp was trampy.<br />
Year 10 and Christchurch<br />
Fulfilled all our desires<br />
Except evacuation<br />
Due to fake fires.<br />
Year 11! Exams!<br />
It started getting serious.<br />
The results?.......<br />
Ha! They were hilarious!<br />
We’re getting there, it’s Year 12.<br />
We’re into mufti!<br />
And lunch time exits,<br />
Walking (of course) not using our car keys….<br />
And now we’ve made it<br />
The big one three<br />
We’re the old kids in the school<br />
And looking back, gee!<br />
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We’ve had some great times<br />
We’d like to thank <strong>MAC</strong><br />
But no worries, don’t fret,<br />
We’re sure to be back. (So run! Hide!)
Back: Trevor Cray, Jaimee McGrath, Lucy<br />
Hunter, Ben Stevenson, David Hogg, Mat<br />
Ferguson, Cameron Thomsom<br />
Middle: Sam Hale, Michelle Keimig, Chelsea<br />
Rhyne, Hannah Steven, Hannah Sutherland,<br />
Andrew McMaster, Callum Scurr, Hannah Beaufoy<br />
Front: Tayah Johnston, Sophie Penniket, Nicola<br />
King, Mitch Bosley, Jody Direen, Callum Grant,<br />
Staci Lind<br />
Absent: Matthew McKinlay and David Wither<br />
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Name: Brett Wilson<br />
Nickname: The Maori<br />
Best Mem: Claiming Excalibur<br />
from the stone and ruling<br />
Camelot<br />
Future Career: Join the ‘A’<br />
Team and defeat evil<br />
Name: Lucy Hunter<br />
Nickname: Lulu, Lu, Lu like loser<br />
Best Mem: 4th Feb, 23rd Aug,<br />
2nd Sep<br />
Future Career: Journalist/<br />
Hawea Bar Maid<br />
Name: Andrew McMaster<br />
Nickname: Drew, Wolfmother<br />
Best Mem: Naked swimming at<br />
Sunrise Bay<br />
Future Career: Physiotherapist<br />
for Swedish women’s beach<br />
vollyball team<br />
Name: Tom Deacon<br />
Nickname: Spoon<br />
Best Mem: Me and Luke’s<br />
woolshed party for our 18th<br />
Future Career: Horticulturalist<br />
Name: Simon McGrath<br />
Nickname: Sly Sims<br />
Best Mem: The introduction of<br />
wheat meal into the hostel food<br />
pyramid<br />
Future Career: Lord of the<br />
N.A.S.D.A.Q<br />
Name: Grace <strong>Mag</strong>uire<br />
Nickname: G-race, Gracie,<br />
Mace<br />
Best Mem: Road trip to<br />
Dunedin, Queen’s Birthday<br />
weekend<br />
Future Career: Domestic<br />
Goddess<br />
Name: Luke De Pina<br />
Nickname: Skatman<br />
Best Mem: Beating Mr.T at an<br />
arm wrestle,<br />
Future Career: Gold Digger<br />
Name: Michelle Keimig<br />
Nickname: Mic, Mico, Bum,<br />
Micdiddy<br />
Best Mem: The beauitful<br />
tandem bike ride through the<br />
mighty terrains of Te Anau with<br />
Tom Doz at Quad 05, TEAM<br />
FLURO!<br />
Future Career: Mother to<br />
Rhubarb and Cabbage<br />
Name: Laura Rawlings<br />
Nickname: Lozza, Loz, Lora<br />
Best Mem: Michelle’s 15th<br />
birthday party at the lodge,<br />
Year 10 camp to Christchurch<br />
Future Career: Primary Teacher,<br />
Policewoman<br />
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Name: Jody Direen<br />
Nickname: Jodz<br />
Best Mem: The day I first<br />
listened to the Dixie Chicks CD,<br />
Stars in your eyes<br />
Future Career: Singer -<br />
Hopefully!!<br />
Name: Jillian Macfie<br />
Nickname: Jill, Jilly, Jillz, Willy<br />
Best Mem: Outward Bound<br />
Future Career: Business woman<br />
in NY, Safari guide in Africa<br />
Name: Tom Dozell<br />
Nickname: Dry Lightning<br />
Best Mem: Pole lifting on my<br />
18th Birthday<br />
Future Career: Winner of life<br />
Name: Hannah Sutherland<br />
Nickname: Han<br />
Best Mem: Snowboarding in<br />
Switzerland<br />
Future Career: Extreme Traveller<br />
Name: Ella Hoare<br />
Nickname: Kinky, Kiki,<br />
Kinkyboots<br />
Best Mem: Everything<br />
Future Career: Zoo keeper<br />
looking after the Llamas<br />
Name: Sam MacDiarmid<br />
Nickname: Samwhich, Spam<br />
Bam, Bruno<br />
Best Mem: Jack Taylor’s garage<br />
fetish<br />
Future Career: Brain Surgeon<br />
Name: Brad Evison<br />
Nickname: B-RAD<br />
Best Mem: Skydiving Naked<br />
Future Career: Beauty Queen,<br />
Lion Tamer<br />
Name: Jaimee McGrath<br />
Nickname: Jme, James, Jim,<br />
Princess Diana<br />
Best Mem: Girls’ road trip to<br />
Haast <strong>06</strong>, Year 10 camp in<br />
Christchurch ‘03<br />
Future Career: Something to<br />
do with Animal Health care<br />
and/or travelling<br />
Name: William Fredrick Carse-<br />
Austen<br />
Nickname: Will, Waz<br />
Best Mem: Winning-Rockquest!!<br />
Future Career: Chilled out<br />
entertainer<br />
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Name: Sevy Taylor<br />
Nickname: The Tornado, Gus<br />
Best Mem: The fantastic Gore<br />
trip<br />
Future Career: Peasant (Level<br />
21 Paladin)<br />
Name: Emma Schuler<br />
Nickname: Schuey, Emhole,<br />
Best Mem: All the long<br />
boarding...<br />
Future Career: Shuffling my<br />
way around Tokyo selling Hello<br />
Kitty products<br />
Name: Nick Love<br />
Nickname: Cleo, Nick the<br />
muss<br />
Best Mem: Anyx on<br />
trampoline, Hoggy in the<br />
quarter pipe<br />
Future Career: Strip club<br />
owner, love doctor (Dr. Love)<br />
Name: Jake Ross<br />
Nickname: The Tidal Wave<br />
Best Mem: Getting the ring<br />
back to the fires of Mount<br />
Doom<br />
Future Career: Dragon Slayer<br />
Name: James Good<br />
Nickname: Goodie, Dum Dum<br />
Best Mem: The day I killed the<br />
leopord shark that ate my best<br />
friend<br />
Future Career: Justin<br />
Timberlake impersonator (I’m<br />
bringing sexy back)<br />
Name: Callum Scurr<br />
Nickname: Scurry, Scurman<br />
Best Mem: The Spa, the store<br />
room, Twizel<br />
Future Career: All black Bench<br />
Warmer/Cheerleader, Builder of<br />
stuff<br />
Name: Micah SImons<br />
Nickname: Meekal<br />
Best Mem: Wayne Anderson<br />
- singer of songs<br />
Future Career: Fish Farmer<br />
Name: David Hogg<br />
Nickname: Hoggy, Ogg,<br />
Ocky<br />
Best Mem: Getting snapped<br />
by my Mum, falling out of a<br />
boat I was driving<br />
Future Career: Ski Waxer,<br />
Underwater crockery matter<br />
dispensation techninian<br />
Name: Charlotte Grieve<br />
Nickname: Charly-horse,<br />
Charlie, Lottie<br />
Best Mem: Avalanche late<br />
night dances<br />
Future Career: Hi-5 backup<br />
dancer<br />
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Name: Callum Grant<br />
Nickname: C.J<br />
Best Mem: Socialising after<br />
school on Friday with teachers<br />
Future Career: Something to<br />
do with golf<br />
Name: Emily Bradford<br />
Nickname: Emz bro, The Maori,<br />
My only Maori friend,<br />
Best Mem: Meeting Jossi, Free<br />
stuff, discovering ‘The White<br />
Album’<br />
Future Career: Pro Gangster,<br />
Shoe Thief, Founder of Jossi<br />
Wells fan club<br />
Name: Tayah Johnston<br />
Nickname: Taysies, Tay Tay,<br />
Best Mem: The instant pudding<br />
incident<br />
Future Career: Housewife to<br />
Sophie or something to do with<br />
horses no doubt<br />
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Name: Spohie Penniket<br />
Nickname: Soph, Sofa, Supa<br />
Soap<br />
Best Mem: The instant pudding<br />
incident<br />
Future Career: Professional<br />
drama queen and Tayah’s<br />
personal manager<br />
Name: Peter Bruns<br />
Nickname: Pistol, Pita<br />
Best Mem: Dat falling out of a<br />
boat<br />
Future Career: Mmmmm...<br />
Name: Staci Lind<br />
Nickname:Stace<br />
Best Mem: Taking out the pool<br />
comp at & Bar<br />
Future Career: Early Childhood<br />
teacher<br />
Name: Kylie Lindsay<br />
Nickname: Bumbe, Kyle, Ky<br />
Best Mem: Falling off the hand<br />
at the dinosaur park<br />
Future Career: Primary school<br />
teacher<br />
Name: Chloe Hamlin<br />
Nickname: Klo-Hoe, Chole<br />
Best Mem: Bush Jumping<br />
Future Career: Tree Hugger<br />
Name: Dan Roberts<br />
Nickname: Dan Dan, Super<br />
Dan, Ginga Ninja<br />
Best Mem: Meeting Joe Dirt,<br />
Fat Freddys with G-Ham and<br />
Nic. Future Career: Lawn Bowls<br />
man!
Name: Samuel James Mitchell<br />
Hale<br />
Nickname: Sammy, Sam<br />
Best Mem: Jamming with the<br />
best of them at Big Mac Out <strong>06</strong><br />
Future Career: Plastic Surgeon<br />
of the next Michael Jackson<br />
Name: Todd Sandford<br />
Nickname: Todd the Bod<br />
Best Mem: Getting curry and<br />
going on adventures and riding<br />
seagulls<br />
Future Career: Long distance<br />
runner, boxer<br />
Name: Louise Jull<br />
Nickname: Lou, Weez, Weazle,<br />
Hard out<br />
Best Mem: Meeting Joe Dirt on<br />
the OP tramp, Watching the<br />
Burton Open<br />
Future Career: Pro Traveller, Pro<br />
kayaker and land surveyor<br />
Name: Matthew Ferguson<br />
Nickname: Ferg, Matto, Maz,<br />
Best Mem: Winning two<br />
canteen vouchers, hearing<br />
Megadeth for the first time<br />
Future Career: In a thrash<br />
metal cover band, Pro snorkler<br />
Name: Sarah Taylor<br />
Nickname: Sez, Skunk, Chum,<br />
Best Mem: TEAM FLURO<br />
Future Career: Star on your<br />
lunchtime tv soap opera<br />
Name: Tanya Bennett<br />
Nickname: Tans, Tanya (Aussie<br />
Accent)<br />
Best Mem: Seeing Simon come<br />
to school in his tighty whiteys<br />
Future Career: Travelling<br />
Name: Jenny Currie<br />
Nickname: Jen Jen, J.C<br />
Best Mem: Being in team ‘Man-<br />
Date’ in paintball and looking at<br />
‘Man-Date’<br />
Future Career: In the Swedish<br />
Women’s Vollyball team<br />
Name: Elizabeth Johnstone<br />
Nickname: Eliza, Lizzie, Saur,<br />
Foxy<br />
Best Mem: Meeting this guy,<br />
thats met this guy, thats met<br />
Barney<br />
Future Career: Being a hand<br />
model, Working for Huttons<br />
sausages<br />
Name: Benjamin Claude<br />
Stevenson<br />
Nickname: Ben, Bean<br />
Best Mem: Marshmallow skiing<br />
up T.C, Twizel<br />
Future Career: Bean counter<br />
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Name: Mathew Bancroft<br />
Nickname: Mat<br />
Best Mem: Bull rush in the<br />
middle of the quad and<br />
Andrew’s mullet<br />
Future Career: Engineer<br />
Name: Tom Kearney<br />
Nickname: Happy, TK<br />
Best Mem: The whole thing<br />
Future Career: Anything but<br />
behind a desk<br />
Name: Niki Peters<br />
Nickname: Nicker Hackey<br />
Best Mem: Riding at Park,<br />
Avalanche missions, being at a<br />
completely different school with<br />
new super fun people<br />
Future Career: TBC - . Watch<br />
this space<br />
Name: Freya Sorrenson<br />
Nickname: Frey Dog, Frey Frey<br />
Best Mem: Avalanche Missions<br />
Future Career: Sports<br />
Psychologist<br />
Name: Natasha May<br />
Nickname: Fandog, Fan like<br />
tastic<br />
Best Mem: 4th Feb, 23rd May,<br />
2 Sept<br />
Future Career: Nurse/<br />
Professional Scratchie Scratcher<br />
Name: Matt McKinlay<br />
Nickname: Kinny, Sid<br />
Best Mem: Scurrs Party<br />
Future Career: Subi Hag<br />
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Name: Oliva McLennan<br />
Nickname: Live, Lively, Lovely<br />
Best Mem: Security patrol at the<br />
after party<br />
Future Career: Travelling<br />
Name: Laura Margetts<br />
Nickname: Law<br />
Best Mem: Jane Hamilton’s<br />
write on essay<br />
Future Career: Amateur flax<br />
skirt plaiter<br />
Name: Hannah Beaufoy<br />
Nickname: Wee Han, Wee Girl,<br />
Little Foot<br />
Best Mem: Moving to Wanaka<br />
in year 7<br />
Future Career: Graphic<br />
Designer, Housewife
Name: Tom Grooten<br />
Nickname: Groots, Ferret,<br />
Best Mem: All my new friends,<br />
Snowboard sessions, Friday<br />
night fight nights in Liverpool<br />
Future Career: Snowboard<br />
Coach<br />
Name: Lucy Stone<br />
Nickname: Luce<br />
Best Mem: Kayaking with<br />
Graham and Dan in lower<br />
Hawea River<br />
Future Career: Gold Digger<br />
Name: Jodie Walker<br />
Nickname: Jodz<br />
Best Mem: Spending the week<br />
in Christchurch and making fun<br />
of herds of Emo’s<br />
Future Career: ummmm...<br />
something that earns me $$$$<br />
Name: Whitney Mulqueen<br />
Nickname: Widdles<br />
Best Mem: Remembering<br />
Rippon <strong>06</strong>, cause it was<br />
amazing!<br />
Future Career: Head Nurse and<br />
Mother<br />
Name: Hannah Steven<br />
Nickname: Floss, Han<br />
Best Mem: School?<br />
Future Career: Career?<br />
Name: Kate Gilmour<br />
Nickname: Octo<br />
Best Mem: Meeting Roland<br />
Taylor<br />
Future Career: Tv Presenter<br />
- Pretty much famous<br />
Name: Annemieke Sherwin<br />
Nickname: Miekes, Mieka,<br />
Best Mem: The whole year’s<br />
been amazing, incredible<br />
new friends and fantabulous<br />
experiences<br />
Future Career: Pro sober driver<br />
Name: Gus Sharp<br />
Nickname: G.U.S, Gussy<br />
Best Mem: Forgot it<br />
Future Career: Thai Beggar<br />
Name: Cameron Thomson<br />
Nickname: Flage, Smooth<br />
Best Mem: Twizel “Fishing” trip,<br />
Future Career: Surveyor<br />
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Name: James Watts<br />
Nickname: Sock<br />
Best Mem: I had so much fun<br />
the entire time I was here, I<br />
can’t pick one memory<br />
Future Career: Rocket Scientist<br />
Name: Jack Taylor<br />
Nickname: JT<br />
Best Mem: Whale watching<br />
down at the lake<br />
Future Career: Unknown<br />
Name: Nicola King<br />
Nickname: Nic, Nico<br />
Best Mem: The Gore trip with<br />
my Home Boys, TEAM FLURO<br />
Future Career: Geisha<br />
Name: Trevor Cray<br />
Nickname: Happy.T, T-Trev<br />
Best Mem: The Formal<br />
Future Career: Lawyer or<br />
Teacher<br />
Name: Chelsea Midgley-Rhyne<br />
Nickname: C-Sekda, Chels<br />
Best Mem: Falling down the<br />
stairs after my heel broke at the<br />
formal<br />
Future Career: Ab-Flex<br />
ambassdor, J-Lo’s body double<br />
Name: Elliot Strijland<br />
Nickname:<br />
Best Mem: Going over the<br />
rollercoaster track in Sock’s car<br />
Future Career:<br />
Name: Graham Smout<br />
Nickname: G-Ham<br />
Best Mem: Watching Wayne<br />
Anderson-singer of songs<br />
Wicked times at the Formal and<br />
afterparty!<br />
Future Career: In the best rock<br />
band the world has ever seen!<br />
Name: Louis Nicholls-Braddock<br />
Nickname:<br />
Best Mem:<br />
Future Career: Wayne’s World<br />
presenter<br />
Name: Isana Reid-Gray<br />
Nickname: Sani baby from a<br />
redwood<br />
Best Mem: Playing in Spawn in<br />
Rockquest and Wanakafest<br />
Future Career: Free Balin’,<br />
Kazzillionare<br />
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Name: Ella Brockesby<br />
Nickname: Brocolli<br />
Best Mem: Hand incidents<br />
Future Career: Something witty<br />
Name: Samantha Fleming<br />
Nickname: Sammy Davis, Sam<br />
Best Mem: Camping with<br />
mates at Hawea<br />
Future Career: Primary School<br />
Teacher<br />
Name: Jess Lockwood<br />
Nickname: Jessbear, Jessypie<br />
Best Mem: 25th March, 17th<br />
June, 24th September<br />
Future Career: Sports med...or<br />
something<br />
Name: Jade Makuru<br />
Nickname:<br />
Best Mem: All the parties and<br />
funtimes!<br />
Future Career: Something to<br />
do with animals<br />
Name: Mitchell Bosley<br />
Nickname: Sandstorm<br />
Best Mem: Winning the Tri-wizard<br />
Tournament!<br />
Future Career: I wanna be an<br />
All Black, I wanna be a Chef,<br />
I wanna fly my Jumbo higher<br />
than anyone else<br />
Name: Gemma Hutton<br />
Nickname: Gem, Gymer<br />
Best Mem: Having a spa<br />
Future Career: Pamela Anderson<br />
and Shakira stunt doubles.<br />
Also a quit smoking help line!<br />
Name: Jade Davies-McConchie<br />
Nickname: Slave<br />
Best Mem: Everything was<br />
good!<br />
Future Career: Environmental<br />
Science<br />
Name: Cameron Howden<br />
Nickname: Cam<br />
Best Mem: The after party<br />
Future Career: Builder<br />
At last but not least the people that were absent:<br />
Asuka Fuji, Tim MacDonald, Natsuki Sakuria, David Wither<br />
Sophie Scott, Laura Coloco, Tino Kunzmann,Tom Dodwell<br />
Name: Chris Hallberg<br />
Nickname: Ash, Gunt<br />
Best Mem: Beating the last gym<br />
leaders level Y2 Charizard with<br />
my level 33 Pikachu<br />
Future Career: I won’t need to<br />
work, I will be rich and famous<br />
because I would have caught<br />
them all first<br />
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