Week 2B Day 9 - Thursday 29th July 2010
rua tekau ma whitu
Teacher Only Day Friday 30 July.
FOUND IN LAB 1: Merino jersey. Please see Lab Technician if it belongs to you.
LEO’s Meeting – Thursday lunchtime Lab 5 All new members welcome.
Squash players attending nationals next week are required to train this Thursday 8.30am for team one. Thursday after school for team 2. No training Friday afterschool.DA
Southern Jam Jazz Festival
Held at MBC 04 to 08 August.
MBC Hall + Performance music suite and two of the upstairs music studios.
MBC Talent Quest 2010
MBC Auditorium Tuesday 10 August.
Entry forms and information from the downstairs music tutors office.
Entries close Monday 09 August.
The Perf music suite is unavailable for practices during the period 04 to 08 August (during Southern Jam) so you will need to organise practices for next week.
Taylor Burn, year 10, has been selected to Represent New Zealand in Sailing at the Optimist World Championships in Langkawi, Malaysia in December 2010. Apart from a small donation from the New Zealand Yachting Trust the $8000 plus per sailor is self-funded. The team put in an application to the Toyota Believe Campaign and are one of the three projects selected from hundreds of applicants to via for $3000 towards their teams fundraising.
All they need is for people to vote for them! It is FREE and only takes a MINUTE
Go to http://www.believe.co.nz/node/127 and get voting before it closes at 5.00pm on the 10th September 2010. A big thank you from Taylor and the team for taking the time to make your vote count for them! WK
THE OUTLOOK FOR SOMEDAY The 4th The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge is at www.theoutlookforsomeday.netThe basic challenge is: make a sustainability-related film, any genre, filmed with any camera and any length up to 5 minutes. Anyone up to age 24 can enter, either individually or in a team. The closing date for entries is 17 September. The 20 Winning Films will be celebrated at The Outlook for Someday Awards red-carpet ceremony towards the end of the year. That is when the Special Awards get announced. The Winning Films will be broadcast by TVNZ 6 on both Freeview (channel 6) and SKY Television (channel 16). And there will be a vote for Audience Favourite. WA
- Reminder – 3 pieces Creative Writing.
- Seniors Closing date Friday 22 October.
- Juniors Closing date Friday 26 November.
- Entries to Mrs Ambler, Ms Lomax or your English teacher.
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“ 2010 History and Classics Tour Group”—Meeting of all students in Room 51 at 1.20pm Wednesday. Bring your Emirates Skywards membership details with you. Also keep working on tour newspaper sponsorship due August 4. MA
Scholarship: Maintenance Engineering Society of N.Z. Value: up to $5,000 towards tuition fees. Closing date: 27 August. Go to the Careers office for more information. KP
HOUSE LEADERS MEETING every Thursday at Formtime in the Little Theatre. RT
MBC PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITIONS 2010
Topic for the Senior Prepared Speech Competition - Y 11,12 & 13:
The Next 10 Years
Topic for the Junior Prepared Speech Competition - Y 9 & 10
What I really want to learn
Dates: Term 3 Week 4 Senior Prepared Speech
Term 3 Week 6 Senior Impromptu Speech
Term 4 Week 2 Junior Prepared Speech
Term 4 Week 4 Junior Impromptu Speech
Speech Competition handouts may be collected from your English teacher or from the English workroom. The handouts have the topics, the times, the range of prizes and the marking sheet that is used by the judges. Give it a go!! Enter for either the prepared or the impromptu or BOTH! KP
