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New Zealand students participate in a wide variety of non-atheletic competitions. New Zealand schools offer a very extensive range of cultural, sporting, and social activities in which students can participate. Excellent facilities exist to support these activities. Participation in these extra-curricular clubs and activities is expected at many schools. Some schools use the term co-curricular activities as the activity program have been worked into the overall academic program. At many schools, sports are the most popular activities, but schools offer a wide variety of other activities. The fine arts are an especially important component of the activities offered. Students take part in musical events, annual dramatic productions, team and individual sports, as well as outdoor activities which are a special feature of school life at many schools. One of the most hard fought each year is the annual maths competition. The science competitions and fairs that attract a great deal of interest.
All Year 7 students and a group from Year 8, sit the University of New South Wales English Competition this week.
In two weeks time it is the Math’s competition as well.
A group of students are brushing upon Math’s problem solving skills for the Christchurch Town Hall Cantamaths" competition later this term.
Miss Young and Ms Kemp's math’s classes attack problems from the Otago University Problem Solving Challenge each term.
Greymouth Junior Highschool
Well done to all participants at the BP Technology Challenge yesterday and the Science Fair last evening. It was amazing to see what a great collection of active science brains we have in the school and what they came up with in displays, working exhibits and reports on scientific experiments. Thank you to all of the families who came to view the Science Fair and which made the students efforts worthwhile.
Mrs Baker, Greymouth Junior Highschool
The annual mathematics extravaganza at the Town Hall in August this year saw several Cashmere students gaining honours. The form tree competition had a thrilling finish when our team tied for first place with Shirley Boys' High. Unfortunately, we lost the tie-breaker by a few seconds. Congratulations for a fine effort to
Russell Fitchett, 3GJ, Jenny Lee, 3RB, Thong Nguyen, 3BP, and Sam Dowsett, 3RB.
Other Cashmere students to gain medals were Thong Nguyen, 3BP, for his design, and Doris Ling, 41 poster. Highly commended were Kate Richardson, Sharon Pomeroy, Alan Hunter, and 4WM for their project.
Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
The Australian Science Competition is organised each year by the Educational Testing Centre of the University of New South Wales, which aims to provide students with a stimulating challenge by providing them with real-life problems to solve using a range of scientific processes and skills This year a total of 283,000 students in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Fiji and Vanuatu participated in this competition.
Cashmere High School entered seventy-nine students in the Australian Schools'
Science Competition this year, twenty-seven of whom gained certificates,
including two High Distinctions (top 1% in the country), nine Distinctions (next
10%) and sixteen Credits (next 20%).
Students awarded the High Distiction Certificate were
Year 8 - Russell Fitchett.
Year 12 - Helen Lever.
The competition was coordinated in the school by Mr G Tinkler.
The tests themselves are a valuable resource for students and teachers. The school receives impc information about each student's individual performance as well as data comparing its students with other students across their county.
Competition results are only released to the school. Any enquiries should be directed to the school.
Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
Matthew Weir and Adam Cruickshank are the school’s latest national
champions. They have been placed first in the secondary school division
of the annual Sunday Star Times school newspaper competition. They
missed out on the overall prize of an Apple iMac which was won by a
primary school. The two fourth formers have won the school a Corel DRAW 9 Graphics Suite valued at $1,199. It is thought the programme will be used by the Art or Graphics Departments. Matthew and Adam completed the front page using the desktop publishing programme Publisher 97. As to how long it took Matthew says a week to organise interviews with people like the mayor then a few hours each night for a week to put it together. In total, nine A4 pages were printed, then cropped and glued together to make a full broadsheet sized page. Matthew and Adam chose a skating theme for their page as they are both interested in the sport. In the course of their research they found out some things they didn’t know about, such as a skate syndicate encouraging teenagers to sign a petition to get a skate park on the railway land. The boys looked carefully at the layout of the Evening Standard and used some of their stylistic features in their entry.
Ross Stevenson, Off The Record, Palmerson North Boys' High School, September 27, 1999
The month of March presents to every individual in the s a chance to inform, challenge or entertain in a formalized and attentive setting. For a student who mbraces the challengeand puts some effort into his speech, the rewards can be substantial and long lasting. After every student in the school performned his speech in class, the best few were selected for the semi-finals. A wide ranging and high standard of speeches were presented. All semi finalists should be commended. Unfortunately only the top speakers had the privlidge of competing in the grand final. The evening of May 1st saw the schools top speaking talent contest the respective speech competition titles. A full and tense drama room greeted the 15 or so speakers who enlightened the audience on subjects ranging from a light-hearted look at "Why I hate vegetables" to the more serious topic of "Why time never heals". All speakers must be congratulated for making it to this level, but in the end the judges made the final decesion. The winners were: Frorms 1&2 - Janathan Milne, Forms 3&4 - Callum McNeil, Forms 5-7 - Regan Kendrick.
Rehan Kendrick, France Douglas Memorial College, 1996
