A huge thank you to Louie for his various roles around the school.
Louie is the 2020 House Wizard, a role in which he comperes House events throughout the year eg: sports day, school Haka and Waiata competitions. During lockdown Louie produced a selection of
posters such as returning from COVID and a new uniform poster.
Piper-Mae entered a writing competition for Young NZ Writers, it was called write-off-line scary tales., It was a competition for secondary students proposed by English teacher, Mrs Davis-Nicol. Piper-Mae wrote a short story ‘Amen’, an idea based on her own sleep paralysis experience. The story was about a 12-year old girl who had too many questions for god.
All finalists have their stories collected into an anthology of NZ secondary school writing. Piper-Mae was notified by Young NZ Writers to advise she was one of the finalists and that the winner would be contacted separately to tell them.
“Even if I’m not the winner, I’m happy about the feedback from them” a delighted Piper-Mae said.
Congratulations to our Head Students for 2020
Chris Davis, Head Boy and Tagan Stringer, Head Girl
Congratulations to Ariana Ormsby and Kiriwai Spooner, who were part of the
winning group Kura Tai Waka in the Te Tauihu Regional Kapa Haka competition.
Their group will go on to compete in Te Matatini National Kapa Haka
competition in 2021.
Congratulations on winning the ‘Titans of Tunes’ competition.
Titans of tunes was an event run by Playhouse Cafe and Theatre as a regional songwriting/performance competition. Competitors had to perform 3 original songs at an evening event judged by 3 local musicians. Although up against stiff competition Jess was the “clear winner”.
Part of her prize is a free recording session in a professional studio.
The 2018-19 race season was Ethan’s first proper race season which had many high placing races locally and Nationally, he had two races that he represented MHS. These were South Island Schools’ XC race in Methven, where Ethan was placed second by a mere 0.4 of a second. The other was the Tasman Secondary schools race at Codgers where Ethan came first and took out the best overall for the MHS year 9s.
Congratulations to Joshua Boryer and Lucy Summerfield who won the Star Prize at our recent Talent Quest final.
They performed an outstanding cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Big love with Josh vocals and guitar, Lucy vocals. This was the first time they have performed together.
May Takahashi, Head Girl and Kyle Harrison, Head Boy
Camryn completed a successful summer of athletic competitions which saw her win the South Island Secondary School senior girls 400m title in a personal best time of 56.30sec. This time ranked Camryn No.1 in NZ for under 20 women in the 400m sprint event for the year.
Camryn is coached by MHS teacher Tony Aikenhead.
Toby has completed a 21 day Mind, Body &Soul Leadership course at Outward Bound, sponsored by the Motueka Rotary Club. Toby’s instructor commented “Toby’s intelligence and insightfulness contributed greatly to our moments of reflection as a group. His self-awareness and honesty ensured that he took advantage of every opportunity to grow and face his challenges head on. His constant gratitude had a deep influence on the perspective of the group as a whole. Toby is a remarkable young man, whose unique gift will make him an invaluable member of any community.”
Congratulations Heather for been selected as one of the ten winners of the 2019 Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand Student With A Passion for Astronomy (SWAPA) competition. Of the 88 entries from around New Zealand Heather’s was chosen because of her commitment to and enthusiasm for astronomy.
Heather has also been selected for the Elaine P. Snowden Astronomy School 2019.
The students selected for this school are one of 20 from across New Zealand
Congratulations to our Emerging Talent Scholarship winners for 2019:
Alyssa Burt and Ai Takahashi (Motueka South School) and Max Brown (Upper Moutere school). Students can enter the scholarship by completing an application form, receive an endorsement from their primary school teacher and write a comprehensive essay.
Winners receive a school uniform, (Whitwellls Menswear), stationary package (Office Products) and the school donation fee and all course related fees, are waived for two years.
Congratulations to Lucy who has won Hook, Line and Singalong, a nationwide songwriting competition. The Grand Prize includes: A recording session at Roundhead Studios in Auckland (flights included) with a professional music mentor chosen just for Lucy.
A $500 gift to spend at MusicWorks plus $500 for the winning school and Lucy’s song will be learned in schools all over New Zealand and sung in our massive Sing-a-long on the last day of NZ Music Month, May 31.
Moeka was one of two students selected to join the 2019 youth education advisory board of 10 2018 applicants plus 2019 applicants from around New Zealand.
This involves working directly with Hon Mr Chris Hipkins, Minister of Education
Congratulations to our Head Students for 2019
May Takahashi, Head Girl and Kyle Harrison, Head Boy
Congratulations Layla on achieving Level 2 with Excellence part way through the year.
Congratulations to Jacob Bryan, who was named Sportsperson of the Year 2018 at our recent Sports Prize Giving.
Jacob won the following prizes: MHS Snr Boys Athletic Champion Cup, Excellence Blazer Award for U19 Nelson Bays Te Totara Boys representative Volleyball team winning the U20 Honours grade in Queensland Australia and the Yr13 Best All-Round Sportsperson Trophy.
Congratulations George.
George was elected as the Student Representative on the Board of Trustees,
by his peers in the recently held school elections.
This position is for 1 year and includes a leadership course on the Spirit of Adventure
Michael won the Star Prize, which is the top overall performer
on the night for his digital animated film. Michael spent hundreds
of hours working on his entry.
Saskia Gray won the Pei Te Hurinui Jones Senior Māori section in our regional Manu Kōrero competition. There are two parts to the competition, a prepared speech up to 12 minutes in length and an un-prepared speech of up to 3 minutes in length. Her topic for the competition was: Māku anō tōku ao e waihanga – I myself will create my world. Saskia spoke for nearly 10 minutes on this topic. Saskia won both the unprepared section and the prepared section and was awarded over all winner in the Senior Māori section. Saskia was also awarded the trophy for best female speaker.
