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Ad Summa Greetings to the Marsden family

Inside this issueGala 2

Year 8 – William Pike Challenge 4

Year 9 – Leadership Day 4

Year 8 Camp by Madison Taylor 5

Scholars’ Assembly 6

Mindfulness and Christian Prayer 6

Sports News 7

Marsden Primary 8

Uniform Shop 9

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Issue 12 April 2015

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International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth. Great improvements for women have occurred since then. We do have female astronauts and prime ministers, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work and have a family, women have real choices.

However the unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally compared to their male counterparts, women still are not

present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women’s education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men.

It is important to hear the stories of women who make a difference – some who are well known and others who have worked quietly in the background to achieve amazing feats. We need to tell these stories and to remember that we still have a long way to go to empower our girls for their future.

A story of a young Marsden Old Girl who is making a difference is one related to International Women’s Day. Hannah Bascand, a final year medical student at the University of Notre Dame in Australia, was selected to travel to New York to attend and present at the United Nations Commission on the Status of women. Hannah has a particular interest in women’s health and the fields of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and so prepared and presented a research poster looking at the equality of care and treatment across the world for women with gynaecological cancers.

Hannah’s is just one story of the difference Marsden girls can and do make in the world. I look forward to sharing more with you throughout the year.

Jenny Williams Principal

There is still a way to go if, as Ban Ki-moon says, the world is to realise 100% of its goals. International Women’s Day is relevant in today’s world, in continuing to highlight issues for women and girls.

I had the pleasure of attending three International Women’s Day events during March. The annual Zonta Breakfast at Parliament celebrated the achievement of women, with guest speaker Marilyn Waring, CNZM. It was wonderful that school girls and women from throughout Wellington were able to hear about women’s struggles in politics. Another event I attended was run to support the Daya Trust. The Daya trust works to empower women and girls in New Zealand and India through education. It was a privilege to hear of the work of noted community worker and successful businesswoman, Ranjna Patel. Women from South Africa, Niue and the Cook Islands spoke as guests of the Australian High Commission, telling their stories of being women in their countries.

“To be truly transformative, the post-2015 development agenda must prioritize gender equality and women’s empowerment. The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realize their full potential”. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Hannah Bascand

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Sweet stall

Cake stall helpers

School community unites to stage a fantastic Gala

Marsden Cafe student helpers

Deli

Raffle

Entertainment

Marsden Cafe Craft stall

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It was always going to be difficult to top the success of the 2013 Marsden Gala, but the school community rallied around and the 2015 Gala was an unqualified success! After months of planning and countless volunteer hours spent in preparation the weather cooperated, the stalls opened for business and the crowds turned up to enjoy a fantastic event.

What made the day so successful was the enthusiastic way the school community got behind the Gala - students, staff, parents, families, old girls and the community gave willingly of their time, talents and resources. We are also extremely grateful to the businesses that supported us, starting with our principal sponsor, Jennifer Catley of Just Paterson. Without their generosity, we would not have managed to achieve as much as we did, we are really thankful.

We are delighted to report that the provisional total in excess of $63,500 our best ever result! The Gala was a financial success as well as a great community event - a perfect start to the fundraising for our new building.

Thank you again for your support and hard work.

Nicola McFaull and Nicky Reed Gala Co-Convenors

Sponsors and donors

ANZASBBerry’s JewellersBuilding Intelligence GroupCrawford Crafts EmporioES Design Interiors Florence BoutiqueFuji XeroxGipps St ButcheryGipps St Deli Hutt City Panel & Paint LtdKaffee EisLabelsLoui SeokMaison ThereseMarsden BooksMeat DirectMinijeeps, Aircastles and Merry Go RoundsMiramar Fruit SuppliesNew World, KaroriRevive CoffeeSchoc ChocolatesSweet Bakery and CafeTamara Jane CupcakesThorndon Green GardensTinakori BistroTwigland Garden CentreWellington Regional Emergency Management Office

A HUGE thank you to all our sponsors and donors!

Principal sponsor

And special thanks to all our parents, friends, Marsden old girls, staff and

students who have contributed so much to this Gala!

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Year 8 with William Pike

Year 9 Leadership DayYear 9 students enjoyed a wonderful day at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club in February. Ocean Sports encouraged and supported the girls as they sailed and kayaked out in Wellington’s inner harbour and Maaike of Personal Branz ran an excellent workshop on strategies for building confidence and leadership. We are very appreciative of the generous support from the Infinity Foundation for this fabulous day.

Year 8 William Pike ChallengeThe William Pike Challenge is a year long programme our Y8’s are doing (Marsden is the first school in Wellington to do the Challenge). The girls will participate in eight outdoor activities, 20 hours of community service over the year and they need to try a new sport or start a new hobby.

William Pike came to school to launch the programme on the 24 February 2015 where he talked to the Y8’s about the challenges he has overcome. He survived a volcanic eruption, Mt Ruapehu, which led to leg amputation and now wants to challenge young New Zealanders to embrace the outdoors. His motto is “Every day’s a good day”.

The Y8’s completed their first outdoor challenge when they learnt to sail with “Volvo have a go” programme in week 2. The girls went in groups of ten and spent the day learning to rig an optimist, sailing and how to get back in the boat if it capsized. It was a great week with all the girls rising to the challenge of sailing. Thank you to the parents who came and helped each day.

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Kayaking

Year 8 Camp by Madison Taylor

Don’t we all wish we could be at camp every day? I know that’s how Year 8 feels. Our 5 days at Bridge Valley were filled with fun, adventure and facing your fears.

On Monday 9 March, a sleepy bunch of Year 8’s arrived at the Interislander departure gate at 7.00am. For me, the trip over on the Interislander was a new experience (if you don’t count a trip when I was 5). When we arrived at Bridge Valley around 9 hours later, we were all exhausted. Little did we know that the next day was going to be even more action packed than the first.

The next day, after breakfast, we were sent off to our first activities. For Group 4, this was Archery. Apart from a few arrows landing in trees, the activity was successful. After this great start, the rest of the day seemed to fly by. We had Quad Biking, Shoot-ing, Abseiling and a visit to Claudia, the camp pig. Before we knew it, it was time for Wednesday’s day trip out into Nelson.

It started off with a short visit to Höglund Glass, a glass blowing factory. Next we were off to the WOW museum, with a look at the impressive car collection. Next we stopped for lunch at Rabbit Island where we had a sand sculpture competition. Group 4 made a Merman and we won! We finished up the day with a swim at the Wave Pool, which was really fun. When we got back to camp we had a slumber party and watched a movie.

For me, Thursday was the best day. There were so many fun activities such as Kayak-ing, Rock Climbing, Caving, High Ropes and the confidence course. A highlight was the High Ropes, even though it was hard. A low light was while caving getting a huge scratch from an unknown object in the dark. The best part of the day was the last two activities. We did the Iron Girl competition and Group 4 won! We were so happy. They also opened up the waterside for the first time and it was really fun.

At the end of the evening each cabin per-formed a skit they had been working on. All of the plays were so good so we were surprised when we won!

Camp was amazing and I wish we could have stayed longer although it was nice to sleep in my own bed, without moths.

Rock climbing High ropes course Teamwork

The Merman

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Madeline Ash at Scholars’ Assembly

Scholars’ Assembly

Scholars’ AssemblyCongratulations to our brilliant scholars honoured in a special assembly on Monday 16 March. Parents of those students who were awarded Scholars’ colours joined Principal Jenny Williams for Morning tea in the Cultural Centre beforehand. Thank you for braving the wet weather and special thanks to guest speaker Old Girl, Madeline Ash. We loved the green hair! Madeline gave a fascinating speech on entry into a US University.

Mindfulness and Christian prayerYou may be aware that in some of our PPP classes, our students are learning the technique of Mindfulness by practitioner Cheryl Strawbridge. Mindfulness is the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focusing of our attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment.

Being able to recognise and reflect on our emotions is an important skill for our girls to learn during a time of busyness, stress and anxiety - which we all experience from time to time. It can help us achieve greater self-awareness, peace and inner calm.

Christians throughout the centuries have used centering prayer as a way of achieving this same self-awareness, inner calm, peace and connection with God. Christian centering prayer has been the core of most monastic traditions, such as the work of St Benedict, friar Meister Eckhart, Thomas Merton and Richard Rohr.

While Mindfulness is particularly designed to be a secular journey focused on the improvement of self, this differs from the Christian contemplative tradition. Christian prayer and meditation is grounded in the reality that we are not alone, God is involved in our journey and our struggles can be shared with Him. Christian centering prayer focuses beyond the personal benefit of self-awareness and wholeness, and towards our personal contribution to a greater common good. This focus is grounded within the wider community through acts of service and care for others. In other words, centering prayer with a Christian focus on God and Jesus amplifies our focus on care for others, as an expression of our self-improvement.

I look forward to building on the techniques our girls will learn through their Mindfulness classes and also helping them to focus on the needs of others. If you would like to know more about centering prayer, have a look at Richard Rohr’s website Center for Action and Contemplation www.cac.org

Sarah King Chaplain

PROUDLY SUPPLYING HAND ROASTEDCOFFEE TO MARSDEN SCHOOL

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Christy Robinson at CSW Tennis Open

Christy Robinson 2nd at College Sport Tennis Open

On February 25th 2015 Marsden represented by Christy Robinson at the College Sport Wellington Tennis Open at the Renouf Tennis Centre in Brooklyn.

After 3 outstanding games, which she won with great ease, Christy met Tamara Anderson from Onslow College in the final. Christy ended up going down 2-4 3-5, but they had a very close match with some amazing rallies.

Year 7/8 UWH win GOLD in their first tournament!

The Year 7 & 8 Underwater Hockey team had an extremely impressive start to their season winning the gold medal at the first Mini-Tournament of the year.

Despite only having four players and having to use ring-ins from Wellesley for the first four games (due to netball trials), they managed to win! The four original girls played all eight games with no subbing and little rotating – quite a feat for Underwater Hockey. It was a wonderful afternoon and the girls are all very happy and ready for their next tournament in three weeks!

The team was made up of 7 Year 6-8 girls: Ilona MacKinnon, Victoria Rose Manu, Samantha Lloyd-Evans, Sophie Kennedy, Moya Bird McKenna, Emma Drayton, Emma Egley and their coach Holly Seath.

Year 7/8 UWH Team at first mini-tournament

Sports News

Emma Fulbrook sets new girls Javelin record

After the Girl Zones Athletic Sports held at Newtown Park, Emma Fulbrook now holds the Wellington Senior Girls Javelin record! She threw an OUTSTANDING 44.34m, beating the old 28m record by a whopping 16 metres. This impressive throw will very likely send Emma to the Regional Athletic sports that will be held on the 18th March at Newtown Park.

Other Samuel Marsden athletes impressed at Girl Zones as well, with Rachel Witkowski leaving as the Senior 1200m Walking Champion, and finishing 3rd in Senior High Jump. Kirstin Baker sprinted strongly and finished 4th in the senior 100m final.

Lucy Preston won the Intermediate girls 400m final, and Imogen Skelton came 3rd in both the Intermediate 800m and 1500m finals.

In the 3000m intermediate girls final we had two girls in the top 3 with Ruby Leverington and Alexandra McKendry coming 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Marsden also came a very impressive 3rd place in the Senior Girls 4x100m relay!

Congratulations to all the girls who competed in the Girls Zones Athletics on March 2nd, it was a very successful day!

Kirstie Baker wins Gold with WLG U19 Touch team

Marsden’s Touch Rugby captain Kirstie Baker was part of the U19 mixed Wellington team that participated in Senior Touch Rugby Nationals in Auckland, March 2015.

They won their grade and came home with gold medals! Congratulations to Kirstie on this success and for all of her hard work with our school’s Touch team.

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Marsden PrimaryHighlights in Preschool this term have included their Art and Drama; seeing Guji Guji at the Capital E Arts Festival and the fantastic work that went alongside that; and the visit of the fabulous Goodtime Music Academy. We have welcomed into Preschool, Chinese Language Assistant Miss Lulu Jiang, who has been teaching the boys and girls songs in Mandarin and talking to them about Sun Wukong also known as the Monkey King. Lulu has really enjoyed getting to know our children and works perfectly with them at their level. She also teaches Mandarin to the girls in the Upper School.

Capital E Arts Festival was attended by many schools in the region and our classes came back with lots to talk about after their trips to see Squaring the Wheel, Carnival of the Animals and Guji Guji.

Thank you to all those families who have supported our annual Fiji Service Trip by buying Subway lunches and contributing to the sausage sizzle/mufti day. St James Anglican School is a little primary school in the town of Levuka on Ovalau Island with students from Year 1-8. We have bought lots of sports equipment, ukuleles, had donations of art materials and netball skirts, and the team of Y12/13 girls have been busy creating and trialling lessons for the classes and making resources. Mrs Barlow and I leave with the team on Easter Sunday and return to Wellington on the Monday of the second week of the holidays. In the six years we have been visiting the school, we have formed strong relationships and really enjoyed seeing the progress of the children. Chinese Language Assistant Lulu plays melodica

Grace, Zoe, Grace and Mia Y5 fascinated by monarch butterflyCassia and Anahera making spaces in Preschool

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We have welcomed (young) Old Girl Poppy Shelton to the Library team recently. Poppy and her two sisters Bryony and Lucy are Marsden girls and know the place well!

When they read and re-enacted the myth of Maui and the Sun, Year 1 had had lots of discussion around teamwork. Overlaying our Curriculum Learning Areas are five Key Competencies: Thinking, Managing Self, Using Language, Symbols and Text, Participating and Contributing, Relating to Others. These skills are fundamental to the success of our lifelong learners.

Recently we enjoyed a wonderful re-enactment of Palm “Thursday”. Tilly the donkey led the procession around the courtyard and into the Chapel with the girls waving their “palms” and singing “Make way, Make way for Christ the King”. Inside the Chapel the gospel story was read, and then we sang as we processed out. Each year group spent time with Tilly and her friends: Woolly the sheep, Curly the goat, rabbit, guinea pigs, a chicken and a rooster. Tilly has a cross which goes down her back and across her shoulders. We learnt about the legend which says many donkeys have this cross on their back since Jesus rode a donkey on Palm Sunday. They are known as Jerusalem donkeys. Thanks to Beverley from Zippity Zoo who brought Tilly to join in with our procession and to Chaplain Sarah King for organising this event.

Celia McCarthy Director of Marsden Primary We are a team Y1 re-enact Maui and the Sun

Palm ‘Thursday’ procession

News from the Uniform ShopWith winter on its way it is time to start getting organised for Winter Sport and School Uniforms.

Netball/Hockey Tops $65

Football/Volley Ball Tops $51

Sports Skirts $48

Rowing Socks $16 – wool blend

Beanies $19 – sports only

Scarves $39

Rugby Jerseys $97 – $103

Rain Jackets $67

Tracksuit Jackets Years 5–13 $95 – $132

Tracksuit Pants Years 5–13 $65 - $94

Polyprop Gloves $10 per pair

Tights – Years 1–6 $15.50 per pair

Pantyhose Years 7–13 $9.50 per pair

Long Sleeve Blouses $44 each

Navy Sport Thermals $30 each

Hoodies $48 – incl one embroidery

Navy Jacket $50 – incl one embroidery

Supporters Jacket $48 each – pale blue

Ties $26 each

For those with wool allergies we now have a small supply of a new 3 layer jersey. The first layer (closest to the skin) is coolmax, the second is spandex with the third being wool. These are $89 each.

We also have Fleece Vests on special. These usually retail for $72 and for March and April they will be $50. These add extra warmth under Tracksuits and Jackets.

Contact us on 04 476-8479 or email sonja.braddock@marsden.school.nz