November 2022 Newsletter

In this issue

Dates to be aware of:

Friday 11 November - CSC Orientation Day

17 & 18 November - SIT Taster Days

As a requirement from the Government we have 2 additional Teachers Only Days scheduled for the remainder of the year. These are Friday 25th November and Monday 28th November

5-8 December - Year 10 Camp

Friday 9th December - End of Term and Junior Prizegiving

Alister Gray

Senior DTG Project

Ben van Jaarsveld has designed and created this 3D animated Sci-fi themed music video for his Year 13 Personal DTG project. His inspiration has been YouTube artist and tutor - Ducky 3D.

Jenna Halder

Science Micro Investigators

10HL science class are involved in a pilot trial for the Micro Investigators initiative.

Kate Crowe and Meg Howard

Year 9 Clutha Gold Trail Mountain Bike Trip

Last weekend a hardy bunch of intrepid Year 9s, along with Mr Meechang, Mr Knapp, Mrs Cowie and “Nana” Noela headed up to Central Otago for two days of mountain biking along the Clutha Gold Trail.

Dylan Pope, Tessa Cubitt, Olivia Montgomery, Kenny Hart, Mia Glover, Jamie Lyal, Jakob Anderson & Jack Crean

Get2Go Challenge

On the 16th of September, 8 junior students competed in the Get2Go challenge in Queenstown.

Janine Daniel

Southern Outdoor Experience 2023 Youth Leadership Course

The Lions Youth Leadership Course at Borland Lodge is fast approaching. This annual leadership course for 16-19 year olds has been run at Borland for many years by the Lions organisation in conjunction with Adventure Southland.

Hannah Price

Southland Secondary Schools ODE

On Sunday 18th of September, Central Southland College took a team to the Griffin Equestrian Center at Oreti Beach for the Southland Secondary Schools One Day Event.

Rachael Norman

Marathon In A Month this November

We are very excited to be offering Marathon in a Month for the first time in Otago and Southland this year.

Brendon Wallace

Senior Prizegiving 2022

Student success was celebrated in style last week!

Mark Tree

House Haka Competition

CSC held its first ever House Haka Competition on Monday the 31st of October. Students performed for their houses and were judged on a variety of different criteria, including effort, volume, pace and execution.

Alicia Harrison

Dunk-A-Teacher Day

The sun was shining on Friday 28th October.....thankfully!

Claire Jenkins

Onscreen Film Competition

This year we had two entries in the OnScreen Film Competition. Although we did not get through to the next round, our students worked very hard to write, film, direct and produce their short films.

Claire Jenkins

Duke of Edinburgh - Otago Rail Trail

At the start of this term, 9 students completed the Otago Rail Trail as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Leadership Award.

Sue Ballantyne, Lynley Woodd & Cherie Tayor

Careers Corner

Check out the latest news from the Careers Team!

Andrea Beggs

Girls Rugby 7's

The Girls Rugby 7's team attended the South Island Secondary Schools 7's Tournament in Geraldine.

Fiona Engel

Accounting Saturday School

Year 11 Saturday 19 November - 9.30am - 1.00pm

Summer Mckerchar

Forest Hill Trail Run 2023 - Team Challenge

We are pumped to hold our second Forest Hill Trail Run event on Sunday 19th February 2023!!

Grant Dick

A Word From The Principal

Our annual senior Prizegiving was held last Thursday evening, this was a fantastic celebration of the outstanding achievements of so many of our students.

Miriam Borrie

Southland Secondary Schools Cookery Competition 2022

Held at SIT on 24th September - CSC enjoyed exceptional results!

Andrea Beggs

Trapshooting Nationals

7 students attended the Trapshooting Nationals in Christchurch over the school holidays.

Lynley Woodd

Primary ITO Trade Academy

On 29 September the Year 11 class attended the Fonterra Careers Day where we were driven around the Edendale factory in a bus stopping at various points. We got to see inside the coolstores to see the robots in action. We then travelled to Woodlands to Dinnington’s Robot Farm which was fascinating!

Andrea Beggs

Southland Secondary Schools Sports Awards

Congratulations to the 6 students who were selected as finalists or Top Performers at the Sports Awards held early in November.

Lucas Gill and Ryan O’Callaghan

Year 10 National Readers Cup Competition 2022

On the 3rd of November, two teams of six Year 10 students competed in the National Readers Cup Competition, called the Battle of the Bibliophiles, against 49 teams from 34 schools.

Andrea Beggs

Beach Volleyball Stars!

Winners of the Southland Secondary Schools Beach Volleyball Competition.

Mrs Wilkinson

Our School Production - Annie

This year's production of Annie was our first on stage season since before the pandemic.

Jenna Halder

Calling for Planting Volunteers

Calling for planting volunteers this Saturday 12th November from 9am!

Alyssa Johnstone

Old Boy Sam Hodges gives back to CSC Volleyball

On 5-6 November, Old Boy Sam Hodges returned to CSC to coach our Junior A and Senior A Volleyball Teams.

Kirsten Kean

2022 Junior Speech Competition

Our wonderful junior orators competed in the CSC Speech Competitions in Week 9 of last term.

Alyssa Johnstone

Beach Players Come Out Swinging

On Saturday 29 October, three pairs of senior volleyball players traveled to Brighton Beach near Dunedin to compete in a one-day Otago Beach Competition.

Chris Jones

SMAC Maths Competition

On Wednesday the 28th of September the SMAC maths competition was held at Southland Girls’ High after being cancelled for the past 2 years.

Sue Ballantyne

International Students Head Home

Our 9 Brazilian exchange students headed home on Monday 24th October after spending Term 3 with us. They were part of a larger New Zealand-wide exchange of 100 students in total. The article below is a translation of a web post published by the Brazilian Government Department of Sports and Education when 2 of our students were interviewed about their stay.

Kirsten Kean

NumberWorks 'n Words Event

The Ministry of Education recently announced the intention to provide additional funding to support young people whose learning has been disrupted by Covid by offering an opportunity to access tuition.

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