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Monthly Archives: September 2020

Holiday Tutorials and Workshops for Year 12 and 13

From Monday, 28 September to Thursday 1 October, we have holiday tutorial and workshop sessions running at school for our year 12 and 13 students. Every student that has registered over the last few weeks and is attending session 1 or 2 will have their morning tea and lunch provided. We have received over 700 registrations to the programme and would like to thank our staff for committing time from their holiday break to come in and support their students. This time will be spent focusing on external derived grade exam preparation and portfolios. If you haven't registered to attend, you…

Board of Trustees – Student Representative Election

On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 we held our annual Board of Trustees Student Representative Election. This process follows the same one as the Triennial Parent and Staff elections however, student representatives are elected annually in September. Student trustees have equal standing, voice, accountabilities and vote as other board members, they can't be the board chair (neither can the principal nor staff trustee). Any student enrolled full-time in Year 9 and above, and under the age of 20, is eligible to stand for election and vote for a student trustee. This year, we had to get creative as candidates were unable…

Year 9 STARS Camp

At the beginning of August, we were extremely lucky to be able to take the year 9 students to experience camp at Camp Adair. Little did we know that a week later we would then enter another lockdown. The camp having been initially postponed due to the first lockdown went ahead with the first six-year 9 classes attending for the first 3 days and then the final five classes coming in for the last 3 days. It was great to have the trails open again for us to tramp into the camp from the Hunua falls. It is a great…

Rutherford College 60th Reunion

We are very excited to announce that tickets for the upcoming Rutherford College Reunion being held on 9 April 2021 are now on sale through iticket! This ticketed event will be a great night out, where you can catch up with old friends and make new friends. It is a catered event and there will be four cash bars available for you to purchase drinks. Tickets are limited to 1500 We can't wait to see you there! www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/apr/rutherford-college-60th-reunion

60th Reunion Merchandise – Now on Sale

As part of our Rutherford College 60th Reunion celebration, we have designed a limited reunion hoodie and cap. There is also a special vintage Rutherford College tee shirt with the 1961 original school logo on it. All clothing is 100% cotton. Please follow the link below to purchase your merchandise and represent Rutherford College. https://www.lottosports.co.nz/default.aspx?page=isellsearch&txtKeyWords=RC+Reunion Orders close on the 22 November and you will receive your merchandise mid-December. Just in time for Christmas!

Finalists in Wallace Secondary Schools Art Award

The Art Department is very proud to announce that we have not one, but two finalists for this prestigious national award. The finalists are Elina Cheslyaeva (Year 13 Painting) and Myles Webster (Year 12 Design). The exhibition of the finalists' work will take place at the Pah Homestead from Tuesday, 29 September to Sunday, 4 October. The winners will be announced at the exhibition opening between 4.30pm and 6pm on Wednesday, 30 September. Elina and Myles are young talents to watch in the future!

13 Outdoor Education Rock Climbing

13 Outdoor Education has been taking part in rock climbing trips to Extreme Edge Panmure as part of their 3.9 assessment to devise strategies for a physical activity outcome. Students have been building up their strength in the weights room to improve their fitness to help them to obtain their rock climbing goal! These trips have seen students scale walls up to twenty meters in height, using only their hands and feet to grasp the tiny holds on the sometimes inverted walls! Students have one more shot to gain their rock climbing goal next Thursday. Let's see if their training…

Rutherford College 60th Reunion

We are very excited to announce that tickets for the upcoming Rutherford College Reunion being held on 9 April 2021 are now on sale through iticket! This ticketed event will be a great night out, where you can catch up with old friends and make new friends. It is a catered event and there will be four cash bars available for you to purchase drinks. Tickets are limited to 1500 We can't wait to see you there! www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/apr/rutherford-college-60th-reunion

Book Week 2020

We have been celebrating “Come read away with us” in the Info Comms this week. Our goal was to take you on a journey through a book. We had quizzes, events and displays for everyone. The most popular was ‘Guess how many lollies in the jar” drawing lots of visitors, including the staff. Our paper plane flying competition turned into a duel between a Year 13 and two Year 9’s. The result was three winners taking home the chocolate. Thanks to everyone for joining in and your enthusiasm during Book week.

Reader’s Cup 2020

The Reader’s Cup is a national reading competition for Year 9’s. Teams of four have to read six books and answer some very tricky questions on the texts. Our team of Charlie, Annaliese, Donovan and Kaitlyn signed up at the end of Term 2 and started reading. Our regional competition was against five other local schools and this year was held through Google Meets. The questions were very detailed and our team competed well, with the leaders changing each round. Next year, they will be able to coach the new Year 9 team and pass on lots of tips and…

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