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The following is an excerpt from my address at the Sports Dinner on Friday, 26 October. Sport, like life, resembles the game of snakes and ladders. There are wins (ladder moments) and losses (snake moments). There are triumphs and disasters, but either way the game goes on and you just have to carry on rolling the dice. Sport can help create a growth mindset and through pursuing personal excellence, we can do anything if we want it enough.  Success is all about handling what is in front of us.  As sports people we learn so much from the diverse situations…

NCEA Exams run from Wednesday, 7 November to Friday, 30 November. All NCEA (levels 1–3) and New Zealand Scholarship examination sessions are three hours. All exam sessions start at either 9.30 am or 2.00 pm. The information below is from the NZQA website and includes a link to the 2018 Exam Timetable. Exam timetable The NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examination sessions are three hours. The exam sessions start at either 9.30 am or 2.00 pm. To find out the date and time of an exam, see the Exam timetable. Exam materials Students are responsible for taking the correct equipment to the…

Junior exams are on Friday, 16 November and Monday, 19 November 2018. Friday, 16 November Session One - 8:40am to 11:am Year 10 | English Year 9 | Mathematics Session Two 11:40am to 2pm Year 10 | Science Year 9 | Social Studies Monday, 19 November Session One - 8:40am to 11:am Year 10 | Social Studies Year 9 | English Session Two 11:40am to 2pm Year 10 | Mathematics Year 9 | Science School will finish at 2pm on both days.

The selection of the 24 prefects for 2019 has been finalised. Congratulations to the following students. We look forward to you helping to lead the school and student body in 2019. Tayla-Lee Bainbridge - Deputy Head Girl Fiona Blaser - Head Girl Emma Brown Josh Burte Caz Chiba Matt Darrah  - Head Boy Aleesha Faatea Abby Ferrall Fern Fuimaono Eden Holdaway-Young Rachel Jeung-Mcintrye Andrew Mom Dean Phommahaxay - Deputy Head Boy Juana Pita Nikisha Sharma Devyn Smith India Smith Josh Smith Ruby Stroud Mollie Tagaloa - Deputy Head Girl Luka Vlasic Kelsi Ward Brooklyn Wheeler Stefan Zdravkovic - Deputy Head Boy

Each year Rutherford holds an election to vote a student onto the Board of Trustees and the School Representative. Nominations have been received and voting starts on Tuesday, 11 September and closes at 4pm on Friday, 14 September 2018. Any student enrolled full time in Year 9 and above, under the age of 20, is eligible to stand for election and vote in the school election for a student representative.  Student representatives have equal standing, voice, accountabilities and vote as other board members, but they can't be the board chair (neither can the principal nor staff trustee).  They're not just…

Welcome back. We have a very busy few weeks ahead: A significant number of you will have attended Parent Teacher Interviews yesterday. We had 1205 bookings made by approximately 400 parents. At the same point in 2017 we had 830 bookings. Successful students have the support of whanau and attendance at these hui is one way you can be actively involved in your son's or daughter's journey through secondary school. Open Evening for our 2019 Year 9 cohort takes place on Thursday, 2 August between 6pm and 8pm. Tours of the school occur between 6.00 -7.30pm followed by the Principals…

We have several physical works happening for the rest of the year: We are currently updating some school signage and have made some great strides this year with the most recent addition in the Sports Hall over the school holidays. The seated area in front of the Social Sciences Block looking toward the rugby field is to get covered during the Term 4  holiday break.  We have been successful at securing $100k of the $195k cost required for the covering the batter - the seated area in front of the social sciences block facing the rugby field. The target is…