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Columba College Newsletter - Friday 27 August 2021

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Kate and Mrs Duthie after the Awards ceremony

"What goes up must go down"

by Mrs E Harris

Y12 student Kate Henton speaks about staying motivated and focused enough to earn her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award in just 3 & 1/2 years

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Covid update

Update: moving to Level 3

by Administration

Please check your email for a full communication from Mrs Duthie about what Level 3 will look like for Columba College.

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Guess who?

by Mrs E Harris

How many staff can you correctly identify from their pre-school photos?

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We are all in our own little bubble

What the Junior School have been doing during lockdown

by Junior School Staff

Lockdown poems from some of our talented Junior School writers

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Video: Lockdown catch up with the cast of HSM   SD 480p

An interview with Grace, Charlotte and Millie from High School Musical

by Mrs E Harris

Mrs Harris hosts an online interview with Grace, Charlotte and Millie as they talk about the 2021 Columba College production, High School Musical. The girls discuss the show's deferment, their love of musical theatre, life lessons and even sing a few lines!

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Stay Active!

by Miss P Hopcroft

Inspiration and ideas to keep active during lockdown.

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2021 Arts Blue Applications - due Monday 6 September

by Mrs E Harris

The College invites students in Years 9-13 to apply for an Arts Blue.

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Latest Sport Update

by Miss P Hopcroft

Please see latest sports update with the Government's announcement we are staying in Alert Level 4 lockdown until at least 11.59pm Friday 27th August.

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Quick Questions

Quick 5 Questions

by Mrs E Harris

We put a quick round of questions to our prefects to see what our student leaders are doing while staying safe at home.

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The French Insta Challenge!

by Miss C Gardiner

Instachallenge! For one period this week, students learning French had a choice of working on a submission for the class challenge.

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Video: Resurrection

Animation in game design

by Mr J Scott

Listen to Rita and Emma talk about animation in their game design for Scholarship Digital Technology.

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Video: Stop Motion - Sarina and Ashiya

Year 3 Stop Motion (at school and during lockdown!)

by Mrs J Pollard

The year 3 students worked in pairs to create their own play dough stop motion blockbuster over the last few weeks.

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Video: The Super Cool Story of Jesus

The Super Cool Story of Jesus

by Dr J Macleod

Dr Macleod reads a story for our Junior School pupils.

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2021 Columba College Golf Day Postponed

by Mrs G Beardmore

Recent community transmission of Covid-19 in New Zealand has forced a number of events on the school calendar to be postponed or cancelled, and Golf Day 2021 has now fallen victim to the impact of the pandemic.

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Video: Ping pong ball by Emily Fryer

Year 8 Weekly Challenge

by Mrs A Bishop

This week, 8Bh took on the trick shot challenge.

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Birthday Shout-outs

by Administration

We want to wish all our students who have had a birthday during lockdown a very Happy birthday! We hope you enjoyed your day.

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Millie George - Year 13 poet

Lockdown poetry

by Mrs E Harris

Prefect Millie George has been using lockdown time to exercise her creativity.

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Dr Shaun Forgie from Dung Beetle Innovations joins Year 12 Agribusiness Google Meet

Dung Beetles are the solution!

by Mr S Doran

Year 12 Agribusiness was fortunate to have Dr Shaun Forgie from Dung Beetle Innovations join their Google Meet talk about Dung Beetles.

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Weekly Wellbeing: Ka pai to all of us

by Ms J Lach

Supporting our community's wellbeing by staying home.

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8Bh proudly show off their pancakes

Pancakes in PE

by Mrs A Bishop

This week both 8Ck and 8Bh classes made pancakes in PE - which doubled as a Health/Food tech lesson.

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Arielle and Marmalade

Pets reading - who would have thought?

by Mrs C Cheyne

Year 7 English classes had a weekend challenge - to take a photo of their pet reading.

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A visit with Miss Catherine Smith

by Mrs V Seaton

We were delighted to welcome Catherine Smith along to our gala dinner and I have subsequently had the pleasure of meeting with Catherine to hear some stories of her time at Columba from 1938 – 1944.

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Trophies

Trophy Request

by Administration

It is time to return all cups and trophies.

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