Leaders 2015

The student leaders have been announced for 2015. The year 13 students will be led by Head Boy, Kody Simpson and Head Girl Georgia Gavin.
Sports Capatins are Katie Taylor and Quintin Bailey.
Arts Captains are Emily Bates and Jason Manuel-Isaacs.
Student Council Chairperson is Sarah Kowalewski and Makaiyah Hughes is continuing as the BoT Student Representative.

2015 student leaders with Principal Mr P Keenan.

DairyNZ Scholarship for 2011 Head Girl

Taylor Bailey, 2011 Head Girl and
DiaryNZ Scholarship recipient

DairyNZ, on behalf of the NZ Diary Industry, is proud to announce that 61 scholarships for recipients to study at Lincoln or Massey Universities in 2012 have been awarded to students undertaking degrees in agriculture or related subjects and who have a particular interest in a career in the dairy industry.

Taylor is one of 23 scholarship recipients who will be studying at Massey University. She will have her tuition fees paid by DairyNZ this year. The scholarship will assist Taylor to meet the costs of university study at Massey and continues until course completion as long as grades continue to be acceptable.

Mr Keenan, Principal commented that the success of Taylor in being selected is a great achievement and a wonderful testament to the quality of education at Stratford High School. Taylor is the first student from Stratford High School to be awarded this scholarship since Anna Adlam received it ten years ago.

This significant support to outstanding young scholars is part of the Dairy Industry’s determination to encourage the best people into the industry as the future research scientists, farm advisers, farm managers, farm owners and rural professionals. Scholarship winners are mentored and supported through their university years and can expect to gain employment in a variety of positions, either on farm or in the support areas, of this massive industry.

The closing date for 2013 scholarships is 7 December 2012 and information can be found on the universities or DairyNZ websites or from Mrs Milner, Careers Adviser at school.

2012 Student Leaders announced.

The 2012 Student leaders were announced at assembly on Thursday 9th February. Congratulations to the following students.
Head Boy: Cameron Johnson
Head Girl: Nicole Booker
Sports Captains: Matt Simpson and Alana Mako
Arts Captain: Aimee Hinton
Student Council Chairperson: Melissa Coull-Herewini
BOT Representative: Andrew Hunger

We look forward to seeing them in action this year.
House meetings were held on Friday for students to elect House Captains who will be announced next week in time for the annual athletics and swimming events. Following on from this house will elect their student council representatives.

NCEA Endorsements 2012Mr Keenan (Principal) noted that it was pleasing to see that the 2011 student leaders and top students were among the Level 3 recipients and he challenged the school to improve on these results in 2012.
Students who sit the NCEA examinations are able to get their certificate endorsed with a Merit or Excellence if they receive at least 50 credits that are Merit or Excellence level. Last year, 47 students achieved this endorsement. Students were presented with badges and bars at the full school assembly on Thursday 9th February.


Students who received a Level 1 Merit (Silver) Endorsement are:
Malissa Alexander, Blake Cheer, Ryan Cooper, Cameron Cox, Deanna Crawford, Ila Earney, Cassey Edgcombe, Ryk Ferguson, Jarvis Gotty, Jason Hamlin, Jarrod Harris, Shayna Heal, Daisy Higgs, Emily Howatson, Grace Hunger, Sophie Jeffares, Lewis Marchant, Erin Rowe, Jessica Short, Katie Stanners, Alex Taikato, Amy Taunt, Quintin Trask, Phillip Vecchia, Laura Vernon, Sophie Wilson, Samuel Wyss

Students who received a Level 1 Excellence (Gold) Endorsement are:
Anjela Frost, Alexandra Merson, Kathleen Robertson

Students who received a Level 2 Merit (Silver) Endorsement are:
Renee Cave, Nikayla Johnson, Heather O'Neill, Rebecca Poole. Bars only were presented to: Shaymas Carroll, Hannah Martin, Sarah Rohe


Students who received a Level 2 Excellence (Gold) Endorsement bar are:
Cameron Johnson, Andrew Hunger, Matt Simpson, Matthew Sullivan-Brown

Students who received a Level 3 Merit (Silver) Endorsement bar are:
Taylor Bailey, Katelyn Craig, Jack Espin, Adrian Pitman, Natasha Sinclair-Taikato, Timothy Stanners, Hamish Walker

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.

Parent - Teacher Partnership rules

Parent – Teacher Partnerships

In the last newsletter was the first of six rules for parents to help their children get the most out of school.

Rule 1: Prepare your child for school.
If schools keep performing parental roles, they absolve parents of these responsibilities.
• Teach your child respect, acceptable behaviour, good manners, personal hygiene, punctuality and healthy choices.
• Teach your child about the importance of values and morals.
• Schools teach some aspects of sexuality, drug education and personal safety issues, including water, road and energy safety, but these are, firstly, parental responsibilities.
• Encourage positive attitudes.
• Teachers take for granted that you have taught your child basic skills.
• Please check your child’s homework.
• Allow your child to make mistakes and accept responsibility for their own actions.

School Holiday break
School will finish for term one on Friday 15th April. Students are reminded to keep safe over the holiday break.Reports and invoices


During this break we will be celebrating two events Easter weekend and ANZAC day on the 25th April. House leaders will be assisting the Stratford Mayoress in making wreaths to hang in the Hall of Remembrance on Thursday 21st April. The senior leaders will be marching in the ANZAC day parade as well as attending the dawn service at Kopuatama Cemetery.


All students will have received a report in the past two weeks. Year 9 and 10 students will have had Junior Graduation report 1 while Year 11, 12 and 13 students will have received their interim/progress report. Included with these reports were invoices for all students who owe money for classes, sports teams, and other items. Some of these relate to 2009 and 2010 and the school would like these paid. Please contact the school to set up an automatic payment account.
Sporting success

There has been more sporting success over the past two weeks. The TSSSA 7’s team were the runners-up at the tournament last weekend, while students have competed also in TSSSA orienteering, lawn bowls and Rogaine events. Students went to the Dressage competition this week and we are awaiting results.

Leadership Team

Leadership Team

The 2011 student leaders with Principal, Mr P Keenan

The student leadership team was announced on Friday 11th February. The team consists of Head Boy: Tim Stanners, Head Girl: Taylor Bailey, BoT Student Representative: Astyn Buckland, Arts Captain: Leanah Anderson, Sports captains: Sarah Cooper and Hamish Walker and student Council Chairperson: Emily Paterson.
Following the elections on Thursday 17th February, the house leaders for 2011 were appointed:
Amess House: Katey Craig, Jack Espin, Janelle Olliver and Zack Taitoko
McAllister House: Rebecca Foley, Connor Kelsen, Hayley Old and James Roil

Trimble House: Joseph Barber, Joanne McKay, Adrian Pitman and Ebony Walker

Tyrer House: William Bennett, Monique Dodunski, Samuel Earney and Bailee Harrison

Students will vote for the student council representatives later this week. The members will be announced next week in assembly.

NCEA Medals

NCEA scholar medals have been awarded to over 40 students this year. There were 28 students at Level 1 who received a Merit (silver) bar while Cameron Johnson, Matthew Sullivan-Brown and Elizabeth Corbett were awarded an Excellence (gold) Bar.

At level 2 Melissa Watts received an Excellence bar while 10 students received merit bars. Merit bars (silver) for NCEA Level 3 were awarded to: Anya Albot, Olya Albot, Tracy Kivell and Henry Marchant.

Congratulations to Henry Marchant who received a NCEA subject scholarship for Mathematics with Statistics.