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Academic Committee
Back Row:
Ted Rainger, Kate McKendrey, Fallon Hendrie, Ella Morgan
Front Row:
Meg Kain, Mitchell Beserra, Imke Kitchin, Oscar Treadwell, Gabrielle Bell
Absent:
G Sparling-Fenton (Deputy Principal)
Academic Committee
The year of 2018 has seen a fresh take on the Academic
Committee, with a new team and new ideas to accompany
them. This year we strived to help promote the
acknowledgment of academic success as well as to foster
a supportive and thriving atmosphere for everyone. We
started the year off strong with an academic assembly to
acknowledge all those students who achieved highly in the
previous year’s results. This included a large amount of
students who had both NCEA level and individual subject
endorsements.
Finally, on the second last day of school we ran another
academic assembly, but this time to acknowledge students
achievements throughout the year. With a whopping 89
students receiving awards for achieving seven or more
excellences in internal assessments the assembly was very
successful. It has been a huge achievement and pleasure to
help organise these events, but without the help of the other
year 13s on the committee and Miss Sparling Fenton, then
none of this would have been possible.
Mitchell Beserra and Imke Kitchin
During the next two terms our focus shifted towards
organising a peer-to-peer tutoring program for all students
participating in NCEA exams at the end of the year. A wide
number of year 13s, including almost all members of the
Academic committee volunteered many hours out of their
busy schedules to help the younger student. This offered the
ability for students to not only expand their knowledge but
to also develop confidence and communication skills for the
future.
Along with running the tutoring program we also decided
to introduce a new event to the roster of school activities,
one aimed towards mental aptitude rather than physical. The
Inter-Form quiz was held during term three and consisted
of 39 form classes coming together to battle for the prize of
smartest form. Teams of six students from each form class
endured four knockout stages to put their wits to the test. In
the end, the quiz was a big hit with the students and brought
something different to break up the school year.
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