Warmest congratulations to the seven Senior students who were award honours in the Arts today at the Combined Honours Assembly.

Arts Honours
Danielle Coles, Amelia Lin and Mia Cleugh were awarded Honours in Music.
Ruby Gilligan, Maya Laws, Alice McLeod and YouYu Zhang were all awarded Honours in Performing Arts.
Girls, we are all incredibly proud of your achievements.

Y13 Collaboration
Congratulations to the 25 strong cast of our Year 13 Drama, Dance and Music students who performed in the Performing Arts Collaboration in the Charles Luney Auditorium on Wednesday evening. This was a celebration of student devised performances, choreography and musical composition exploring events from NZ history including The Ballantynes Fire, The Wahine Disaster, The Erebus Disaster and the Christchurch Earthquakes. The audience response was humbling, while many were moved to tears as our students paid tribute to the lives lost in these tragic events. At the end of the evening, there was a true feeling of whanaungatanga that was shared between the actors and the audience which reminded us of the power that The Arts have to bring us together.

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” Oscar Wilde.

Photos from the performance can now be viewed and purchased at https://petramingneau.smugmug.com/2021-Y13-SMC/n-kDTRpz/

Sheilah Winn Essay Success!
Congratulations to Claudia Hundleby (Yr11) and Emily Harris (Yr11) who were both selected as finalists for the prestigious Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Essay Competition (SGCNZ/Ida Gaskin Shakespeare Essay Competition with English at Otago). Students had to craft an essay on Shakespeare and entries were read and judged by professors at Otago University.

ShowQuest
Our beautiful year 8s absolutely nailed their performance at the ShowQuest competition. It was put together in two weeks which is an incredible feat for the amazing performers and they thoroughly deserved their awards.

2nd overall

Best use of Drama

Best use of LED screen

Tikanga Award (voted by unanimous decision from organisers and crew)

The Showquest organisers commented on how polite, professional, well behaved and graceful our girls were from the moment they walked in and that they were an absolute pleasure to work with.

Our very own Court Jester - Georgia Lassen
It is a great honour to have been selected as a Court Youth Jester for 2021. In this role, I get to take part in weekly classes and workshops and work with the Court Jesters as mentors. Currently, we are working towards an improv show that will open later this year.

Debating Nationals
Best wishes to Phoebe Jennings who is off to Debating Nationals in Wellington this weekend to compete as part of the Canterbury team along with Callum Hackstorn from Christ’s College and Sophie Land from Rangi Ruru. Sara Gillman will also be attending the Nationals as a travelling reserve.

Sheliah Winn
Best wishes to the girls as they head to the Sheilah Winn National Finals at Queen’s Birthday weekend in Wellington. We have two groups competing in both the 15 minute and 5-minute scenes.

Rockquest
Chloe Taylor and Gabby Kitley represented SMC at Rockquest last weekend - they performed an original piece and they showed a great deal of musicianship, confidence to produce a polished performance that was greatly enjoyed by the crowd - congratulations girls this was an amazing achievement.

Special thanks to Steve Fowler for mentoring the girls