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Columba College Newsletter - Friday 25 September 2020

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Our super successful singers

Dunedin City Vocal Competition

by Mrs S Casbolt

Over the weekend a number of Columba Students competed in the Dunedin City Vocal Competition here in Dunedin.

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Back row: Kede Wei, Ruoshui Zhang, Zhixian Wang jiayun Zou.Front row: Shuyuan Zhao, Kalyaporn Maicharoen,Absent: Napat Sirisawaluk

Speech students do themselves proud in the September Speech NZ exams

by Ms S Entwistle

Congratulations to our 24 Columba students who sat their Speech NZ exams in September and achieved such excellent results!

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Lila Rhodes and her very proud parents

Sir Peter Blake Award 2020

by Mrs A Walker

Together with Blake Trust, Westpac recognizes promising young leaders across New Zealand from years 5-8.

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Please Note

Not returning to Columba College?

by Administration

If your child is not returning to Columba College - please read on.

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Year 9 Chinese Tai Chi

Chinese Language Week

by Ms I Ding

To celebrate the Chinese Language week 2020, there were multiple activities arranged at Columba College.

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Jaime Reid

Year 11 Physical Education Duathlon

by Mrs C Sinclair

The Year 11 Physical Education class recently completed a class duathlon down at the Otago Harbour - with amazing results!

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Year 4 Dioramas

The One and Only Ivan

by Mrs R Allison

During Term 3, the Year 4 class have read the novel The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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Enviroclub and GATE Science members explore our new monitoring site at Ross Creek

Monitoring at Ross Creek

by Ms J Lach

The Enviroclub and GATE Science groups have started setting up monitoring equipment at our new conservation site given to us to look after by the Dunedin City Council.

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A super impressive team, Year 5/6 Navy Netball 

A Week of Netball Festivities!

by Mrs G Beardmore

Netball South ran an Otago Primary Schools Netball Festival this week and three Columba netball teams entered the fun day of competition. Aimed at growing the game in a positive and fun way, the Netball Festival was a great success for our Columba teams.

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Second Hand Uniform

Second Hand Uniform Shop

by Parents' Association

Our shop will open during the term break.

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National Success

by Mrs S Casbolt

Congratulations to Skyla Murray for gaining a seat to play Violin in this year's NZSO National Youth Orchestra.

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Year 3 students, Jesse, Harriet, Hugh, Henry and Meabh with their quilts.

Quilt Art by Year 3

by Mrs M Hogg

Year 3 created their own colourful painted quilts and turned them into table mats.

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Hooray to a Fun Day!

A Fun Finale to Finish the Season!

by Mrs G Beardmore

A very special netball exchange with Kaikorai Primary School on Tuesday afternoon in the Columba College Gymnasium was a wonderful initiative to end the season on a high for the Year 1/2 and Year 3/4 netball teams!

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Year 9 Economics students browsing 

Earning an income in Year 9 Economics

by Mrs S Bishop

After a term of earning an income when you come to Economics, it was time to spend the Economics dollars.

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Zara Glover

Irish Dancing Honours

by Administration

Congratulations to Zara Glover (Year 9) on her fantastic achievement.

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Sports Awards 2020

by Miss D Turnbull

SAVE THE DATE - Sports Awards evening is quickly creeping up on us and will be held in the Marsh Sports Centre on Thursday, 22 October - week two of Term four.

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Columba bags historic win!

by Miss D Turnbull

Its been a long time coming, many can't quite remember the last time we won prefect netball this convincingly. A strong start to the Prefect netball seen Columba take a 6-0 lead against JMC early on and never look back!

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Botany in the Science Department

by Ms C Hillier

Thanks to all who have been donating seedling pots for our Year 10 Science students.

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Columba Senior A Netball

Senior Netball Players Sign off in Style

by Mrs G Beardmore

What started as a very uncertain netball season, ended with a great result for our Columba Senior A Netball team on Sunday 20th September at the Edgar Centre. A fitting farewell to a number of Year 13 students who have represented Columba with honour over many years. Well done Senior A!

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 			 				 					 						The girls enjoying a shared afternoon tea during the last session, where everyone was encouraged to bring a delectable snack from a culture of their choice and present on their findings. 

Cultural Conversation Club

by Miss Joanna Liu (Citizenship Prefect) and Miss Isobel Fraser (Publicity Prefect)

During Term 3, Isobel and I started the Cultural Club with the help of the International Department and Dr Macleod. Our aim was to foster an inclusive space for conversations about achieving greater cultural understanding at Columba.

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Students from 9Ev plus Mr Moore and Marae tutors.

Araiteuru Marae

by Ms A Rose

Kia ora. This week some of the Year 9's were fortunate enough to spend the morning at Araiteuru Marae.

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Kelk Photography

Class, Cultural and Sport Photos (Year 7-13)

by Administration

Photos are now available to view and purchase online.

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Year 7-8 Basketballers

Columba is BALL'IN!

by Miss D Turnbull

Its been a great year for Basketball at Columba College, 2x Primary Teams, 1x Intermediate Team, 11x Social Secondary School Teams, along with our Junior and Senior A Squads this season has been one for the record books.

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Alex Cockerill

Breaking Barriers and Leading from the Front...

by Miss D Turnbull

On Sunday 20th September, Alexandra Cockerill competed in a trap shooting competition in Waimate. Overall there were 9 girls and around 39 boys competing in what turned out to be a fiercely close competition.

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Honey

Columba College Rowing Fundraiser

by Administration

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