"The Ideal Preparation" in action this week!

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

From The Headmaster’s

Desk 3

Virtue of the Week 7

General Notices 7

Pre-School 9

Junior School 10

Boys’ Prep School 12

Girls’ Prep School 13

Friend’s Association 14

H P Grammar Notes

Enterprising Spirits Engaged Thinkers Moral Citizens

Issue __, 2013—Tuesday 6 August

DIARY:

Wednesday 7th August

Chess Interschool Girls Teams, Selwyn House

8:45am Prep Schools Celebration of learning

2:45pm Leaders’ Assemblies

Thursday 8th August

Independent Zone Winter Tournament, Netball A, B & C teams

9:00am Press Chess Cup, Canterbury Zone, Y7-8 teams, Medbury

Saturday 10th August

Winter Sport

Monday 12th August

ICAS Mathematics Competition

7:30pm Friends’ Association Executive Meeting

Two More Scholarship Winners!

Science Exhibition – last day tomorrow!

Wednesday is the final day to visit the Y7

Science exhibition, open until 4.45pm.

Alexander Rowe—Headmaster’s Scholarship to

Christ’s College.

Alexander Meekings—entry to Spe-cialist Music Programme at Burnside

High.

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Oh What A Night!!!!

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Grammar Gatsby

A huge congratulations to the Friend’s Association for the wonderful Grammar Gatsby event on Saturday night. The event was a wonderful celebration of both the generosity of the school community and the opportunity to have it in our refurbished hall. I won’t steal the Friends’ thunder by announcing how much was raised, but suffice to say the school is humbled by the generosity of those that attended! Thank you to Donna Sharp and her team for all their hard work.

School Leadership and Management

The Cathedral Grammar School is a special place, and the Parent Survey carried out earlier this year identified a number of aspects that make it special and that are important to our school community, including (in no particular order):

Academic Excellence and the High Standard of Teaching,

Values Programme,

Anglican Ethos,

Sports, Music and Co-Curricula Programmes,

Student Welfare and Development,

Single Sex Education in a Co-Education Environment (Year 4-8),

Our Blueprint for the Future,

Small size meaning individualised attention for our students.

In terms of the management of the school, we have always defined our school leaders by the age and gender of the students they deal with (e.g. Head of Girls’ School, Head of Boys’ School etc). This has meant that on occasions we have become too ‘siloed’ as a school which has impacted on the co-ordination and consistency across the different departments of the school. We work hard to ensure equitable access to learning support, extension (gifted and talented) programmes, sporting and cultural opportunities and innovative new programmes.

In Term 2 of this year, I started a review of the leadership structure in the school, with the main focus being “In terms of school leadership, how do we make the most important things the most important things?”

As a result of this review, I am announcing that from the beginning of Term 4, a new leadership structure will be introduced to the school.

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From the Headmaster’s Desk,

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This new structure sees the following changes:

1. The establishment of three Deputy Head positions with a focus on the things that were listed earlier as important and special to us as a school:

Deputy Head, Achievement and Innovation – with a focus on maintaining high academic standards and student achievement across the whole school as well as our new Blueprint for the future.

Deputy Head, Student Welfare and Development – with a focus on continu-ing to ensure that all students are treated as individuals, that programmes are in place to meet all of their needs, and that the unique identities of the different parts of the school (i.e. Junior / Boys’ / Girls’ Schools are main-tained and enhanced, with more consistency.

Deputy Head, Co-Curricula – with a focus on the schools values pro-gramme, ensuring that our Anglican identity is enhanced, and the manage-ment and on-going development of our Music and Sports programme to the very highest level.

2. To enable this to happen, the following positions are disestablished:

Head of Girls’ School

Head of Boys’ School

Head of Innovation and Development

3. The introduction of the following positions of extra responsibility in the school:

Dean of Boys’ School

Dean of Girls School

Registrar / EA

Team Leader, Learning Support

Team Leader, Extension Programmes

Team Leader, e-Learning

The structure around the Pre-School is unaffected by these changes.

All of these changes are cost neutral to the school.

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From the Headmaster’s Desk (cont.)

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Our new structure, therefore will look like this:

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From the Headmaster’s Desk (cont.)

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I am pleased to announce that the following appointments have been made (to commence at the start of Term 4, 2013):

Deputy Head, Student Welfare and Development – Dr Averil Worner

Deputy Head, Co-Curricula – Miss Penny Tattershaw

Deputy Head, Achievement and Innovation – Ms Nicola Church

Registrar / EA – Mrs Linda Marsh

In addition, the following staff remain in their current positions;

Head of Pre-School – Mrs Adrienne Winnicott

Head of Junior School – Mrs Carole Wright

Chaplain – Rev Bob Tremewan

IT Manager – Mr Matt Naera

HoD Music – Mrs Jo Dodgshun

HoD Prep School Sport – Mr Des Matai

Bursar – Mr Geoff Cain

Other positions will be filled from within the school over the remainder of this term.

Prior to the implementation of the new structure in Term 4, more detail will be provided to ensure all members of the school community will be clear about the points of contact regarding your child.

We believe that these changes will bring great benefit to the school as a whole and to your child. Please contact me know if you have any further queries.

School Buildings

With the fabulous refurbishment of the Specialist Block completed, our attention now turns to the next stage of our redevelopment. I know that Junior School parents especially are keen to know when work will start on a new Junior School – something that is a priority for us all!

The Board is spending considerable time ensuring that the construction of new buildings sets the school up for the next 100 years, and we hope to be in a position to announce the process and time frames following the next board meeting on 21 August.

Paul Kennedy

Headmaster

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From the Headmaster’s Desk (cont.)

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Creating Moral Citizens - Virtue of the Week is Gentleness

General Notices

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What is Gentleness?

Gentleness is acting and speaking in a kind,

considerate way. It is using self-control, in

order not to hurt or offend anyone. You can

be gentle with people and animals in the way

you touch them and the way you speak to

them, You handle things carefully so they

will not break or be hurt. When you think

gentle thoughts, it makes the world a safer,

gentler place.

Congratulations!

You are practising Gentleness when you…

Make it safe for people and animals to be around you

Touch carefully

Speak with a soft voice

Express your feelings peacefully

Take time out when you don’t feel gentle

Think gentle thoughts that make you smile inside

OUR CATHEDRAL!

It was a joyous and uplifting moment at Sunday morning’s service when Acting Dean Lynda Patterson uttered the words: ‘Welcome to the Transitional Cathedral – and I’ve been waiting a long time to say that!’

The building is an extraordinary space and a wonderful statement of hope for the city and our own school community. We are looking forward to returning ‘home’ with several services and events at the Cathedral planned for the remainder of the year.

Meanwhile, Cathedral services return to normal from this Sunday, 11 August:

8.00am Holy Communion

10.00am Choral Eucharist

5.00pm Evensong.

Book Fair

Scholastic - Week 4 in the Library

Buy books for yourself

Buy books for presents

Donate books to the library

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General Notices (cont.)

JOYFULLY UN-MUNTED! 6 -15 August

Tonight sees the first of the Joyfully Un-munted festival of concerts in the Cathedral, fittingly a sell-out by the Christchurch City Choir. Over the next twelve days, there is something for everyone:

Wed. 7 Aug, 12.30pm: Organ Recital by Jeremy Woodside, Grammarian and Organ

Scholar at Wells Cathedral

Wed. 7 Aug, 6.00pm: Sweet Adelines Barbershop

Th. 8 Aug, 6.00pm: Shakespeare & Friends, the Court Theatre Players

Sat. 10 Aug, 6.00pm Dame Malvina Major and the Cathedral Choir – sold out!

Sun. 11 Aug, 12.30pm Te Kotahitanga Kapa Haka Group

Mon. 12 Aug, 6.00pm Transitional Jazz with Jennine Bailey and Tom Rainey

Tu. 13 Aug, 6.00pm Organ Recital by Martin Setchell

Wed. 14 Aug, 6.00pm Cathedral Choir, featuring our very own Cathedral choristers!

Tickets are just $10 each, or $70 for a season ticket for all ten: www.ticketek.co.nz.

Celebration of Learning, Tomorrow

If you have a few moments tomorrow morning before 10am, please join us tomorrow for a Celebration of Learning. Tour the Specialist Block, enjoy the Science and Amazing Place & Play-ground exhibits, and visit your child’s classrooms to see work in progress.

WAMM!

What’s the buzz? Watch this space! Y7&8s perform, Friday 30 August, 7.00pm in the Cathedral.

Cycle Safe

Congratulations to the Y6 boys and girls who have made a fine start to Cycle Safe. This proficiency programme continues for the rest of the week as the pupils graduate from courses around school to the surrounding streets.

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Our Inquiry on Healthy Living has begun well. We are asking the children to bring in a photo of themselves as a baby that can be stapled to our display board. As part of this Inquiry we have Josh Grimaldi coming to do a presentation tomorrow morning at 11am in the hall in the specialist block. Children who don’t usually come on Wednesday's are welcome to attend this show. Our thanks to Virinia Lurhrs for arranging this for us.

Congratulations to the Friends Association for their very successful evening on Saturday. Thank you to the parents who supported this even. Our Pre-School children will benefit from this with the re-development of part of our playground.

A very big thank you to Lily and Kate Newton’s dad Tom, who, with Jake’s help , has made us some fantastic road signs for our playground. The children are very excited about them.

We welcome Emily Street, our student from the Rangi Ruru College of Early Childhood Education, who is on placement with us for four weeks. We hope that she will enjoy her time with us.

We have a parent morning tea on Tuesday next week at 10am and hope that many of you will be able to attend.

A reminder of our Open Day on Wednesday next week. Please encourage anyone you know who may be interested to come.

Moral Citizens: Ana Crainic and Sammy O’Connell were great models of friendliness and received “Huggie Bear” last week.

Adrienne Winnicott

Acting Time, Lily being Red Riding Hood and Elise being the Wolf.

Rowan Manson practicing one last time before heading to the Pipe Band World Champs in

Scotland

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Junior School

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Dear Parents,

Clubs have now commenced for the term. I have reminded the children that they have signed a contract to commit to commendable behaviour during their club or sporting activities. At the end of school, some manners seem to get a little stretched but they are not allowed to ruin the enjoya-ble of others. We appreciate your support in this matter.

Please remember that you are welcome to join us for our Junior Assembly on Fridays at 2.15. This week, J1S, J2P and J3E will be performing.

Encouraging Enterprising Spirits: We continue to enjoy the presentations given by pupils on their dinosaur topics. This is an opportunity for the children to use their speaking skills to share their knowledge with their peers. Last week, Andrew Welsh gave us a great start full of information that he had researched. Then Jack Slaughter gave a beautifully organized speech without resorting to notes. He kept to the topic and answered questions confidently about triceratops. This morning, Charles Beale and Duncan Fletcher, two of our 'in-house' experts, will present their ideas.

Encouraging Moral Citizens: Our Virtue this week is "Gentleness". With good modelling from both home and school, we want our children to show empathy for others in their actions, not just physically but with the words they use too. Often little ones have no idea of the impact that they can have on others and need prompting to consider if that is how they would like to be treated. Please do not be distressed when your dear soul demonstrates poor judgement. It is a learning process that we have to encourage!

Encouraging Engaged Thinkers: We were delighted on Monday to congratulate Edmund Davis on his success in a Chess competition. Chess is a wonderful game for developing strategic thinking.

Carole Wright

Junior School on their Museum visit about Dinosaurs

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Junior School Awards;

‘‘Quiet as a Mouse”

Jessica Erasmus

Sefton Wingfield

Lachlan Beirne

Joshua Durant

Duncan Fletcher

Felix Wingfield

Certificates:

Nicholas Wylie

Polly Lee

Enzo Herbert

Lucy Vance

Anna Smith

Miya Hartstonge

Eloise Parkes

Andrew Welsh

Other Certificates:

Joshua Durant

Angus Whitteker

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Junior School (cont.)

Lucy Vance

Hockey Player of the Day

Eloise Parkes with her 1st Place trophy

Alfi Buttle with a Dinosaur foot at the Museum

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Boys’ Prep School

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It has been a momentous week in the history of the Boys’ School. On Sunday, our choristers – the very foundation of our school’s being – moved home. It’s a brand new, vast and airy home, filled with heavenly light and love.

From the Boys’ School, we offer our heartfelt congratulations and prayers to our Warden, Bishop Victoria Matthews, Acting Dean Lynda Patterson, Administrator Chris Oldham, and the Cathedral chapter and staff whose determination and drive, patience, impatience and perseverance have made the Transitional Cathedral a reality. It is an extraordinary moment in the shared heritage of our church, our school and our city, a moment akin to the construction of our first, much loved and not forgotten Cathedral in the Square 130 years ago.

We look forward to our renewing our relationships with old friends, and to coming together in worship and celebration as Cathedral and school in this new place, God’s new place – home again.

Congratulations to our seventeen choristers who sang that first service in the new Transitional Ca-thedral: Isiah Atherton, Alex Rowe, Jono Stewart (8GB); Humphrey Bullen, William Pegg (8EB); Benedict Sullivan (7SB); Nathanael Wain (7MB); Albert Bell, Andrew Garbett, Kane Jones, Dea-con McClusky, William Simcock (6B); Joshua Erasmus, Damian Fraser, Oscar Parkes, Rupert Pett and William Rowe-Lucas (5B).

Penny Tattershaw

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Girls’ Prep School We look forward to welcoming many of you and your whanau to the Prep School Learning Cele-bration tomorrow. It will be largely business as usual, with the opportunity for your daughter to share her learning with you, and offer a guided tour of the new Specialist Block. You are welcome into all rooms – please just come in!

Independent School Netball

On Sunday 4th August Maddy Finch, Lucy Costelloe and Emily Stewart (8G) represented the Inde-pendent School Zone (and The Cathedral Grammar School!) in a tournament in Ashburton. The team won overall and secured a trophy. Please see Grammarnet for separate article.

Canterbury hockey representatives

We congratulate Emma Faulkner (6G) who has been named as the goalkeeper in the Canterbury Primary Girls Training team, and Ella Sharp (6G) who has been named as a non-travelling reserve in the same team. Congratulations to you both!

Future Problem Solving

This pilot programme is well underway, with years 5 and 6 teams working on the 2013 topic of “The Robotic Age”. The girls report high levels of enjoyment as they develop their critical thinking skills, and build toward developing competitive teams for 2014. The value of this programme, and potential across the Prep Schools is becoming apparent.

Independent Schools Winter Tournament

We wish our Year 4-8 netball players, and year 5 and 6 hockey players, the very best for these competitions this Thursday. We thank in advance those parents who are helping with transport and/or supervising at these events. We ask that all girls bring a packed lunch on that day – we will not have access to the tuckshop.

Canterbury Chess Tournament

We wish Rebecca Harris (8G), Sarah Liddell (7G), Charlotte Roberts (7G) and Winifred Davis (5G), all the very best for this competition tomorrow and thank those families who are providing transport and supervising at this event.

Other successes

I always like to hear from families whose girls have competed well, or achieved in a discipline out-side the school so that we may celebrate their success. An email to confirm this will help me be accurate and timely!

Averil Worner

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In Grammar News next week we will:

list the link for viewing all the pictures from the Grammar Gatsby evening and instructions on how to purchase.

show you some of the recent purchases made by The Friends Association for our school.

announce the date of the Cathedral Grammar whole school disco planned for the end of this term.

Please don’t forget the Friends’ Association next committee meeting is Monday 12th August, 7.30pm in the staff room. You are all welcome.

Best wishes

Donna Sharp, President

THANK YOU… To the whole school family who helped make The Grammar Gatsby a night to remember.

I am thrilled to announce that we raised $36,592.31

A perfect combination of generous donors, a hard-working team and all

who bought tickets made the evening a fabulous success.

We are now looking forward to making progress with the new pre-school

playground and we’ll keep you posted

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