School Closure

Dear parents / caregivers

The school will be closed for all students tomorrow Wednesday 15^th May, due to continuing water problems.

School will resume on Thursday 16^th May for all students with timetable day 1.

The school cross country will be held on Friday 17^th May, weather permitting.

If there are any problems please ring the school tomorrow afternoon to listen to the school message or look at the school website / Blog.

Philip Keenan

Principal

Stratford High School

Latest news

Daffodil Day Volunteers
Once again, students volunteered their services to assist the Stratford Cancer Society with the luncheon and selling of flowers for 2011 Daffodil Day. Thanks to Alison Matthews, Andrew Hunger, Amy Luckhurst, Elizabeth Corbett, Shannon Morrow-Washer, Melissa Coull-Herewini, Jessica Nicholas, Christine Podjursky and Michaela Dormer for providing this valuable community service on behalf of our school.


Lara Williams:
Taranaki Female Hockey Player
of the Year 2011


 Taranaki Female Hockey Player of the Year

On 27 August Taranaki Hockey held their annual club awards evening. The criteria for the player of the year awards were that you needed to represent Taranaki in some way, show great skill, talent and be a team player. It is a difficult award to receive as there are 8 clubs with a total of 112 players vying for the honour. It was with great excitement and shock that Lara Williams received this award for 2011.

As part of her commitment to hockey, Lara played for SHS Girls 1st XI, captained the Taranaki Under 15 team and was tournament player of the week as well as Most Valuable Player for the second year.

Congratulations

To Laureen Cox who was 3rd in the TSSSA Senior Girls Road Cycle champs and also won one of the spot prizes on the day.

To Sarah Cooper, Melissa Coull-Herewini, Rebecca Poole, Daniel Stieller, Kate Thomas who were presented with Peak 2011 bars as acknowledgement of their involvement in the production of the school magazine this year.

To Josh Hunger and Quinlin Bosson-Thompson who were selected for the Taranaki Under 14 rugby team. They play against a visiting Australian school next Thursday in Tikorangi. Scott Caskey and Jarvis Gotty are in the Under 16 team and Adrian Pitman was selected for the Taranaki Under 18 team.

Stratford High School Cross Country 2011

The 2011 Crosscountry was run in perfect overhead conditions. Again, the ‘Fun Run’ section proved the most popular but it was unfortunate that once again a few ‘walkers’ had to be disqualified for lack of effort. It was very pleasing to see the effort made by the competitive runners though and some very good finishes were seen. It was once again one of the largest field of ‘runners’ & walkers we have had.

While Matt Simpson and Sam Bunn were comfortable winners of their grades, the eye-catching run of the day came from Sarah Kowalewski who not only won the Junior Girls event but was also clearly the first girl to finish.

Congratulations to all entrants; particularly to individual and house winners. It was great to see one form with 23 out of 24 members participating.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS:
Junior Boys: 1. Quinlin Bosson-Thompson (Tr) 2. Kody Simpson (Tr) 3. Robbie Howatson (Mc)
Junior Girls: 1. Sarah Kowalewski (Ty) 2. Emily Short (Mc) 3. Jessica Taunt (Mc)
Intermediate Boys: 1. Sam Bunn (Ty) 2. Ryan Cooper (Ty) 3. Matthew Kowalewski (Ty)
Intermediate Girls: 1. Lara Williams (Ty) 2. Shayna Heal (Ty) 3. Noeleen Venter (Tr)
Senior Boys: 1. Matt Simpson (Tr) 2. Jack Espin (Am) 3. Craig Mischefski (Am)
Senior Girls: 1. Alana Mako (Tr) 2. Taylor Bailey Ty) 3. Clare O’Neil (Ty)

HOUSE TEAM RESULTS:
Junior Boys: 1. McAllister 2. Trimble 3. Amess 4. Tyrer
Junior Girls: 1. McAllister 2. Amess 3. Trimble 4. Tyrer
Intermediate Boys: 1. Tyrer 2. Amess 3. Trimble 4. McAllister
Intermediate Girls: 1. Tyrer 2. Trimble 3. Amess 4. McAllister
Senior Boys: 1. Amess 2. Tyrer 3. Trimble 4. McAllister
Senior Girls: 1. Tyrer 2. McAllister 3 Amess 4. Trimble

OVERALL HOUSE RESULTS:
Boys: 1. Amess 2. Tyrer 3. Trimble 4. McAllister
Girls: 1. Tyrer 2. McAllister 3. Amess 4. Trimble
Overall: 1. Tyrer 2. Amess 3. McAllister 4. Trimble

HOUSE PARTICIPATION RESULTS:
Boys: 1. Trimble 2. Amess 3. McAllister 4. Tyrer
Girls: 1. McAllister 2= Amess and Tyrer 4. Trimble
Overall: 1. McAllister 2. Amess 3. Trimble 4. Tyrer

FORM PARTICIPATION RESULTS:
Boys: 1= Ag and Bn 3= Bf and Tc
Girls: 1. Bn 2= Be, Gb, Me and Wd
Overall: 1. Bn 2= Ag, Be and Me

MOST SUCCESSFUL FORM RESULTS:
1. Br 2. Ag 3= Lr and Gv

Crosscountry Team Trophies
Robbie Howatson: Junior Boys Team (Herbert-Smith Trust Cup 1st McAllister Runner to finish)
Sam Bunn: Intermediate Boys Team (Mrs R E Carryer Cup 1st Tyrer Runner to finish)
Jack Espin: Senior Boys Team (R Masters Cup 1st Amess Runner to finish)
Emily Short: Junior Girls Team (H C Thompson Cup 1st McAllister Runner to finish)
Lara Williams: Intermediate Girls Team (Pugh Cup 1st Tyrer Runner to finish)
Taylor Bailey: Senior Girls Team (SHS Senior Girls Cross Country Team Trophy 1st Tyrer Runner to finish)