Masa, Journey, Nicole, Emily L, Rachel, Joshua, Emily A, Kezia, Rebekah, Miffy, Dowon

• Masa Masanori earns New Zealand representative honours: Y13 pupil Masa Masanori dominated at the recent South Island Kendo Championships in Nelson, taking home 1st place in the Open Men’s section and 1st Place in the team’s fight. Masa also won the Open Men’s section in 2016, making him the first person in the South Island Championships history to win the section back to back. He will travel to Wellington during the holidays to compete against the countries best martial artists. in the National Championships.
  

In recognition of his outstanding performances at Kendo events throughout New Zealand over the past couple of years, Masa has been selected as a member of the New Zealand Kendo Team for the 17th World Kendo Championship being held in South Korea in 2018. Congratulations Masa!

• Journey Komene (Y12) began playing Rugby in August with the Forward Foundation. her talent was obvious to an observing Canterbury coach and she  is now in the Canterbury Girls' Rugby team. 
  
• Year 10s Nicole Moore and Emily Liken gained Distinction in Grade Four singing, Trinity Guildhall.
  

On September 13th, seven pupils received their Duke of Edinburgh International Award Certificate and pin badge from the mayor Lianne Dalziel in the function room at Christchurch City Council. 

• Year 10: Rachel Allan, Joshua Allan
  
• Year 11: Emily Allan, Kezia Redman, Rebekah Whitehead, Miffy Stuart
  
• Year 12: Dowon Kim
  

Rachel shares a little about her achievement: 

Middleton Grange has 14 pupils engaged with the Duke of Edinburgh International Award (DofEIA), a non-competitive award open to young people aged 14-24. The award has three levels, being bronze, silver and gold. Within each award there are four sections: adventurous journey, skill, service and physical recreation. At the silver level you must do 30 hours over six months in each of these. 

For my Silver Award I did an expedition to Vanuatu, completed 30 hours of service working with the elderly; walked daily and rode horses for my physical recreation; and baked for a skill.

i look forward to starting my gold award in 2018.