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Park Press September 2015

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Media Studies Film Night

Media Studies Film Night

by Arnika Hazelwood

A large audience enjoyed the Year 12 Film Trailers and Year 13 Short Films on Friday 18 September.

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Gallipoli Field Trip

Gallipoli History Trip

by Arnika Hazelwood

A  group of senior History students, teachers and parents enjoyed their 3 week tour of Turkey, Greece and Italy. They are pictured here in Istanbul.

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Talent Quest

Talent Quest

by Arnika Hazelwood

We enjoyed a wide variety of talent in our 2-day Talent Quest held in the last week of Term 3.

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Co-ed cross country

Otago Co-ed Cross Country Competition

by Kristan Mouat

Well done to our cross country runners who ran well in the Otago Co-ed competition in September. Henri Gaudin was second and Hamish McKinley was sixth.

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NASA visitor and lessons

NASA visitor and lessons

by Murray Thompson

We had Anna Murphy (NASA Aerospace Engineer) come to work with a group of enthusiastic Year 10 science students for five afternoons in Term 3.

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International Food Festival

International Food Festival

by Kristan Mouat

We celebrated the many different cultures at Logan Park on Monday 21 September with our annual International Food Festival. Several hundred students and staff enjoyed the wide variety of food from students' countries.

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Ice hockey 2015

by Karen Daly

Many schools don’t have enough ice hockey players to field a full team, so we cooperate with each other and make combined school teams. 

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Senior Classics Quiz

Classics Quizzes

by Maeve Lonie

On Tuesday the 8th and Tuesday the 15th September respectively the Senior and Junior LPHS Classics quiz teams had the opportunity to prove their worth against competing teams from Columba College, Kavanagh, Kaikorai Valley, Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools among others, in the 2015 Classics Quizzes organised by the Otago University Classics Department and the Classical Association of Otago. 

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Dance Assembly

Assembly Performers

by Arnika Hazelwood

The Excel School of Performing Arts presented songs, dance and dramatic roleplays in Assembly during September.

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Year 13 Hospitality

Hospitality

by Heather Brown

Year 13 Hospitality have been busy trialling, making and selling sandwiches for sale at the Canteen, as part of a Level 3 Hospitality unit. 

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Photography

ODT Secondary Scene writers and artists

by Various

Several students had their writing selected for publication in the Otago Daily Times, Secondary Scene in August.

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Class Act 

ODT Class Acts

by Arnika Hazelwood

Congratulations to Meran Campbell-Hood and Jacobi Kohu-Morris who were Logan Park's Class Act recipients for 2015. 

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UBS Reading Challenge

UBS Reading Challenge

by Jenny Millar

Our annual University Bookshop sponsored Reading Challenge saw 77 out of 100 Year 9 students successfully complete their reading challenge.  Violet Gallop was our Champion Reader overall.

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Alina making Moon Cakes

Year 12 Hospitality

by Heather Brown

 Year 12 Hospitality students, making Moon Cakes for the Chinese moon festival. Students featured here are Mint Pham and Aglima Pokipoki.

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Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival

Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival 

by John Dodd

The 46th annual Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival was held at the Dunedin Town Hall on the evening of Monday 7th September. 

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 John Letts award winners 2015

Blues Celebrations

by Arnika Hazelwood

Congratulations to all of our successful Blues Award recipients. We held a special assembly on 18 September to celebrate their impressive achievements and service across Sporting, Cultural, Community and Academic areas.

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Get 2 Go Challenge

Get 2 Go Challenge Otago/Southland Region

by Francine Vella

The Get 2 Go Challenge adventure race for Yr 9/10 students is run by Hillary Outdoors each year.

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Girls Hockey - Jenny McDonald Cup 

Girls Hockey - Jenny McDonald Cup

by Francine Vella

The girls hockey team travelled to Cromwell in Winter tournament week at the start of September. 

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History Quiz successes

History Quiz successes

by Paul Fielding

Logan Park history students continue to dominate the latest rounds of annual school history quizzes in Dunedin. 

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Get 2 Go Challenge

September Sports Round up

by Francine Vella and Kristan Mouat

We competed in the Otago Southland regional Get to Go Challenge on 16 September and found the training in sea kayaking on the water with the Otago Polytechnic Sports Institute was useful preparation.

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Lara Liesbeth

Teacher wins National Award

by Kristan Mouat

Congratulations to Lara Liesbeth who has won a New Zealand Spelling Bee Teacher Award, in recognition of her innovative and effective teaching programmes which aim to instill a love of language in her pupils.

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Cupcakes to raise money for refugees

Fundraising for Rise Foundation & Syrian refugees

by Arnika Hazelwood

Students were concerned about a number of global issues and decided to fundraise through selling cupcakes as well as holding a mufti-day.

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National Champ in Bowls again

National Champ in Bowls again

by Arnika Hazelwood

Congratulations to Jonty Horwell who is the 2015 New Zealand Secondary Schools Indoor Bowls Singles Champion. He competed at the the Secondary Schools tournament during Term 3.

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International Trip to Tekapo

Lake Tekapo Trip

by Arnika Hazelwood

At the end of August our International students appreciated several days exploring Lake Tekapo and some stunning South Island locations.

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