On Friday 17 May the Year 9 students from Hornby high had a wonderful opportunity to help Ngai Tahu Farming at their Kokomuka lodge in Te Whenua Hou (Eyrewell). This was part of the Graeme Dingle Foundation Stars Peer mentoring programme.

Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e lelei. Bula. Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta. Haere mai ki Te Kura Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. Warm greetings to the Hornby High School community.

Mid Year Reporting and Learning Conferences

Talofa lava, Kia ora, Salaam Alaikum, Mālō e lelei, Bula, Nǐ hǎo, Namaste, Kumusta, Xin chào. The term is flying by and it is really important for students to track their progress and for whānau to know how their young adult is doing academically at school.

Tēnā koutou katoa. We are nearing the end of term two 2019, and what a jam packed term it has been!

Kia Ora. It is hard to believe that we are half-way through our school year! Things continue to chug along well in our Year 9 cohort with students working hard to achieve pleasing results across their subjects.

For our fortnightly Friday sport events, we held a game of T-Ball last week. This brought many students together to enjoy the sport during the cold weather.

Young Totara, and Pride of Workmanship, awards presented at Hornby Rotary awards dinner

This year Mrs Handley and Miss Simpson took the Year 13 Geography students to Kaikoura. This trip is based around their Level 3 Research assessment looking at sediment size on the beach.

All Year 10 students attended camp at Boyle River.

The Year 9 and Year 11 ESOL classes both visited Willowbank Wildlife Reserve during Term 2. The Year 9 class had been reading the book ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and visited the reserve on May 23rd to study some of the farmyard animals that featured in the book. The Year 11 class visited on June 4th and focussed on the Kea, a native New Zealand parrot, in preparation for their NCEA reading assessment.

48Hours is New Zealand's largest guerrilla filmmaking competition, filmmakers have just one weekend to make a short film. Filmmakers don't know what genre (thriller/romance etc.) they will be making until it is revealed just before 7 pm Friday. Everyone must also include set elements. This year the elements are the sound of laughter, a double take, an overhead camera shot and wind. The film must be made and delivered by 7pm Sunday.

It has been a very busy month in Careers. We have had students go to Experience Ara Courses in: Flight Engineering, Engineer for a Day, Outdoor Education & Sustainability, The Art of Hospitality – Restaurant and Cookery, Hairdressing, Beauty Therapy, Medical Imaging, Art & Design for a Day, and Introduction to Nursing.

This year we are entering four Hornby High School Sports Teams into the South Island Secondary Tournaments. Our Whelan Senior Girls Basketball team and our Thomson Senior Boys Basketball Team are both playing in Greymouth, in September. Our Senior A Netball Team are playing in Nelson in September and our Junior Netball team are playing in Christchurch in July. We also have students heading away to Nationals for Athletics held in Wellington.

It may surprise some people to know that Badminton is the second most popular sport played around the world, with an estimated 220 million players. On the 9th of June we sent a team of four girls to represent and compete against other schools around Canterbury.

The Philippines Independence Day is celebrated on June 12th each year and to mark this occasion, our Filipino students hosted a variety of cultural activities during Week 7. These included language lessons, traditional games, folk dancing and music.

Come and support our senior NCEA Performing Arts students

Graduation for the Graeme Dingle Foundation Project K 2018/19 cohort went off with a bang!

Welcome to our new Board

Thank you to CERT for funding of $5,380 towards sports uniforms.

School Office Hours are Monday – Friday, 8am – 3.30pm

Saturday 12 October 2019

We are aware that a number of students are arriving at school each day without a Chromebook.

The Community Dental Service will be providing dental care for children enrolled with our service during the upcoming school holidays.

This edition has a big focus on celebrating culture. Being aware of the forces that shape us can deepen our sense of belonging, confidence and connectedness. Knowing about our own culture can also make us more appreciative of other people’s unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

We’ve done this to make it easier to get hold of us in the event of non-urgent situations or ‘Things which have Already Happened’, which don’t require Police assistance immediately.

The App can be used to access the parent portal, check the daily notices, check attendance and is the quickest and easiest way to notify us of an absence.

We are holding a Basketball Skills Development Clinic for people that are eligible to play Under 13 and Under 15 Basketball (approximately 10-15 years old). The cost of the clinic is $60.00 for the two day camp.

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