Tēnā koutou.

It is difficult to believe how quickly this year is passing. We are at the end of term three already with many of our senior students preparing for the external NCEA examinations which start November.

It is pleasing to see the opening up of opportunities once again for cultural and sports activities. We all can relate to and understand the benefits of participating in these extra curricula activities.

Of equal benefit is regular attendance at school. Please support our young people as we begin to drive the agenda of Every Day Matters. The relationship between attendance and attainment cannot be understated. Let's together, makes this a priority staring from day one of the upcoming term.

Thank you, mauri ora.

This term our students from Te Whare Taupua attended the Remarkable Games, run by Sport Gisborne and hosted by Campion College. The day included a series of adapted tabloid activities and games such as Boccia, Netball and Football. It was an awesome day for the students to compete in a supportive environment and connect with students from other local high schools.

On the 27th Of September Ritana held its annual Senior Ball. Our venue, Lawson Field Theatre was fantastic! The Rose Room was filled with beautifully decorated tables and fairy lights, so that attendees could relax, socialise and eat some delicious kai - while the Theatre itself had its seats retracted, becoming an excellent, often full dance floor and area for our DJs. The students all looked ātaahua and their conduct on the night was exemplary. Every student voted on the night for their Ball Royalty who were heartily cheered as they collected a crown, sash and other prizes. After three years of COVID-related cancellations, what a pleasure it was to finally be able to have a School Ball in 2022! Photographer Oliver Aldridge captured incredible images of the night, some of which are shown here.

King of the Ball: Brooking Poi

Queen of the Ball: Rhiannon Kapa

Prince: Jeremy Auckram

Princess: Chloe Atkins-Wells

Best dressed Male: Daniel Pokia

Best Dressed Female: Rata Jamieson

This year the First XI Wahine Football team travelled to Rotorua to play in the Maurice Hulme Winter Tournament. The girls played 8 tough games and although we did not come away with a win, the team developed in skill and resilience. We were able to score some amazing goals from our strikers Shae Rangihaeata, Alyssa Davis, and Lane Bartlett. We had a strong defence with Stella Perano, Amandine Mariette and Rhiannon Kapa holding down the fort. In goal, we had Rilee Walker. This young lady made some phenomenal saves and we would encourage Rilee to seriously consider playing for us next year. Anyone would have thought Rilee played for the Football Ferns! Selina Mill, Adellah Berge and Lillie-Mae Valentine ran until they could run no more, and Jaylyn Harrison and Awhina Brown became superstars on the field. Next year will be our year girls!

This year the Year 10 English classes took the initiative to create their own National Poetry Day Competition as they discovered that many school-appropriate competitions were only open to 16-18 year old's. Wanting the opportunity to practice their own poetry writing skills, 10L5 and 10L6 worked alongside Koka Charlie / Ms Holland to come up with the rules and regulations. The competition was open to Year 09-11 students. The entries were judged by established poets and members of the Tairawhiti Writers' Hub, Gillian Moon and Taranga Kent. The winning entrant won a morning tea for themself and a friend, with a teacher of their choice. This year's winner was Year 10 student, James Taylor-Keown with his poem ' Crispy Contradictory Grass'. James was able to share morning tea with his friend and his favourite teacher, Ms Beatrice Papazoglou. James is pictured below on the left.

A huge congratulations to Te Riringa Babbington-Parata who has achieved international success at the World Waka Ama Sprints held in London during August.

Winning a total of 4 gold medals - she is a world champion in all of her events paddling in both the Open Women & Junior 19 grades.

Te Riringa is pictured here 4th from the left, with past students Hinewaipounamu Rangihuna-Winikeri and Piper Glass-Donaldson flanking her.

A huge congratulations to both Jada-Shay Pomana and Ishtar Mackey-Huriwai. They were both were members of the New Zealand Muay Thai Team, at this year’s IFMA Youth World Championships. Jada-Shay won a silver medal. She was also the flag bearer of the NZ team. Ishtar won a Bronze Medal but unfortunately her competition ended early due to injury.

Jada-Shay is pictured here in the center and Ishtar beside her on the right.

One of Te Tairawhiti's leading golf players, Anaru Reedy, has been working with a small group of Ritana students in learning how to play golf. The weekly lessons have taught the students the basic foundations of the sport to a point that they can now confidently drive, chip and putt on the golf course. The lessons are always a mixture of concentration, perseverance and fun, with the students all requesting to continue their lessons next term.

An electric mixture of sweet and savoury food for their terms assessment. This is where they choose what they are going to create, plan the menu, produce the recipe, order the food and then voila this is what you get.

Lots of different processes and skills are needed to be able to do this. The end result is always gratifying. Ka pai team of juniors.

The Senior Fashion class took up the challenge to incorporate Maori printed fabric to create a patchwork quilt and cushions. This was impressive considering that neither of these students had actually sewn before.

A baby inspired cot blanket and nappy tote bag turned out to be a classy act. The design of the two were of the student's choice and she should be proud of this effort.

Ka pai girls.

This year the Elements Creative Writing Group were fortunate enough to take part in the Auckland Writers' Festival where they were immersed into a community of like-minded students. The Elements group attended six writers events and four writing workshops that were aimed at helping students develop their writing skills in fiction, poetry and script. After such a full festival, the students got to enjoy some of the sights around Auckland before heading home, and for a few of our students, it was their first time in the 'big smoke'. All of the students had an amazing time and have since used the experience in their own creative writing, with a keen interest in seeing more Spoken Word or Slam poetry in the near future. Thank you to all who helped us to fundraise for our trip.

Kia Ora, my name is Tegan Thompson and I am the new Receptionist/Administrator at Te Kahu Whitiki Kura – Health Centre.

Our open hours are:

Monday: 8.30am to 3pm

Tuesday: 8.30am to 3pm

Wednesday: 8.30am to 2.25pm

Thursday: 8.30am to 3pm

Friday 8.50am to 2pm.

We have two counsellors here at the Centre – Bob who is full-time and Kandyce who is part-time.

Our counsellors would love to meet you and have a chat, so please come see me and I can make an appointment for you to see either Bob or Kandyce. Please note, that whatever you say in here, stays in here. (Unless someone is hurting you, you want to hurt someone else or yourself, or you give permission to share with another trusting adult)

Not only do we have our counsellors, our sickbay, our whanau support room etc, but we also offer other outside support services such as:

Monday: Physiotherapy

Tuesday: Family Planning

Wednesday: Public Health Nurse for Year 9 health checks.

(Bookings for these services are also done through me)

If your child needs to be signed out during the day for any reason, they are to do this at the Health Centre. Caregiver consent must be given and students are to be collected at the Health Centre.

If any details regarding your child change, please notify the school. In the event of an emergency, it is important that we have correct details on file.

Enjoy your holidays and see you all back here for Term 4!

“A physician once said “The best medicine for humans is love”

Someone asked “What if it doesn’t work?”

He smiled and said “Increase the dose”

Tegan - (06) 868-5193 Extn: 368

Mihimihi

Tena koutou katoa

He wa pai te mahi tahi me nga tamariki.

Rongmomaiwhiti Angitu akonga have had an exciting term learning about the environment around them and the importance of following the three R’s. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. With certain food scraps, they also made a worm farm, learning how worms help our soil.

In terms of the recycling process, nga akonga looked at how the most common waste materials could be converted into something new.

Beach walks rewarded nga akonga with fabulous driftwood shapes, shells and seaweed - perfect natural resources for their clay, shell and wood mobiles.

Using remnants of fabric and gifted beeswax, nga akonga helped make beeswax wraps.

Nga akonga have been busy little bees themselves and have helped think about items that are simple and practical. They have learned some amazing lessons using Maths, English, Social Science, Science, Technology and Art by going through the processes from concept to sale.

We consider their efforts a huge success no matter the end result. They have learnt that they can make a profit AND have fun doing it!

Rongomaiwhiti Angitu would like to thank our sponsors: Findlay's Bakery, The Paint Zone, Mr. Henwood and his Year 11 students - George Bodle, Jasper Florence and Kade Harrison for their amazing work on our shop front, Miss Sabrina Street for her generous donation of beeswax and Ms Deb, our fab cooking teacher. x

The Year 13 Academic PE class was happy to be able to travel back to Mt Ruapehu this year with no COVID restrictions. Students spent 2 days on Whakapapa - Happy Valley learning how to Snow Board. They were all very quick learners carving up the slopes and doing some tricks. A highlight was definitely Breeze Parsons' jump and Mr Hooper's improvement.

During our day tramp to Taranaki Falls we were lucky enough to enjoy walking along the river through native trees and then on our arrival at the waterfall it started snowing! What a cool experience. We checked out the Huka falls which were pumping with all the rainfall we had.

We were able to zipline, a 2.5 hour journey where we soared over three waterfalls, including 7m Tutea Falls. We completed many different ziplines, including being upside down and some tandem ones too. We were also lucky enough to be able to plant some native Manuka and Ti Kouka trees to help with reforestation.

Indoor Bowls –We say this each year, "This is our year," meaning, we’re going to do better than before.

The North Island Secondary Schools Indoor Bowls Championship held at Mount Maunganui, it was pretty awesome. Our progression throughout the tournament reflected how well we trained and the adjustments made which were seamless. Congratulations to Kayla Trowell who made it through to the finals of the singles beating her brother, Nathan, in the semifinals with her last bowl after being down by 2 points. However, In the finals, Kayla placed 2nd. Jakeb Te Kani Brown did pretty well too, recording a 2nd in the Plate Finals Singles and a 2nd in the Plate Final Pairs with Te Maioha Olsen.

Overall, a great tournament, a great team to take away and we were well cared for by Koka Ngaire.

Ngata 7's – The weather wasn’t on our side on the days set for our Y9 and 10 Netball and Rugby 7's at Ngata College. So a week or so after the cancelled date, Tessa Rangihuna and Ropoama Hape of Nga Uri a Maui contacted me for a 7's game. On the day arranged, we had the bare 7 rugby boys who played their hearts out. Well you wouldn’t believe it, Lytton improving as the game went on. They were boosted when young Mahuta Reedy-Tuhura came on in the 3rd quarter replacing tries scorer Kruze Hoepo-Casey. They ought to be pleased with themselves going down something like 36-29. Upon reflection I heard someone say, “Sir, we should have played the 4th

quarter”.

Our netballers didn’t fare that well, as NUAM used the game for a practise before their

sojourn to the Upper North Island Secondary Schools Netball Tournament. Beating us 22-10. Many thanks to NUAM for their hospitality and sharing of kai afterward. A new date of Wednesday 26th October has been set for the Ngata 7's to go on with.

Rugby Girls – The offer from Miah Nikora (Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union) to train our girls was too good to pass up. However, our girls didn’t all take this opportunity prior to their rugby term beginning. It showed in the games. We could have done much better. Credit to them though, they turned up. Wednesday games began with a 10-minute Ripper Rugby between GGHS, NUAM, Hawaiki Hou and Lytton. Followed by 3 x 10-minute tackle games between Hawaiki Hou, GGHS and us.

Football Boys – I never got to accompany the Boys Football over at Nelson Park, but it seems that those who eventually took part enjoyed themselves. I think it was more about ‘playing’ football and giving it a go with your mates, having fun and enjoying the moments.

Muay Thai - Jada-Shay Pomana. “A member of the New Zealand Muay Thai Team, at this year’s IFMA Youth World Championships, held in Malaysia from 9th –21st August 2022. Jada-Shay won her semifinal against Turkey and lost her final against Russia bringing home a silver medal for NZ. She was also the flag bearer of the NZ team. Prior to the worlds champs she did an intensive 3-week training program at Soma Fight Club in Bali, where she was lucky enough to spar against UFC fighter Stephanie Egger on two occasions”. Ka mau te wehi.

Waka Ama – Te Riringa Babbington –Parata attended the IVF Vaka World Sprints in London recently. She was a member of the Horouta Waka Hoe Club J19 team, which included former Lytton students. Piper Glass-Donaldson and Hinepounamu Rangihuna- Winikerei. Their combined contribution enhanced their clubs’ success at the ‘Worlds’, winning gold medals in each of the W6 500M, W6 100M, W12 500M and W12 500M Open Womens events. The effective and productive formula of Horouta Waka Hoe Clubs accomplishment, leading up to the ‘Worlds’, was built upon hard ‘yakka’, commitment, dedication day in day out, training often up 3 x times per day. Eating, sleeping, resting appropriately. Te Riringa sacrificed her other favorite sport of netball. ‘’The probable risk of injury was too great to bear and more than likely may have ended my chance of attending the ‘Worlds ‘if I got injured”, she said. “In a few weeks we start back waka training”. Kei runga noa atu.

LHS Swimming Champs- We had great numbers in the competitive swimming sports this year. Some houses were well represented and it showed in the points tally at the end of the day. The 25M events were popular. In the Senior Girls 25M Free Hayley Durston shattered the previous record held by Awhina Rickard (14.24) since 2013, in the time of 12.71. Absolutely fantastic. The 50M and 100M races seemed to spread the numbers thinly. Overall a great day. Thanks so much to our timers and recorders for the manner in which you were able to manage your roles to make it stress free.

Coming up next term we have:

19 October – Lawn Bowls

20 October –Athletics – 1500M

21 October – Athletics –High Jump (tbc)

25 October – Athletics – 800M

26 October – Ngata 7's

27 October – Athletics Javelin

28 October – LHS Athletics

29 October – Softball starts

1 November – Condor 7's

2 November – Volleyball starts

Badminton (date to be set)

Congratulations to the place getters in Wednesdays cross country.

Junior Girls

1st Capria Tamatea

2nd Maddie O'Dey

3rd Ohomauri Hailey

Junior Boys

1st Jakeb Te Kani-Brown

2nd Xavier Priestley-Mennie

3rd Ari Robertson

Intermediate Girls

1st Amandine Mariette

2nd Isla Norris

3rd Kayla Trowell

Intermediate Boys

1st Tu Maurirere Tuwairua

2nd Zarneo Baker

3rd Logan Gibson

Senior Girls

1st Rhiannon Kapa

2nd Cherry Ko

3rd Yuna Preddey

Senior Boys

1st Kyle McVey

2nd Breeze Parsons

3rd Jordan Ogilvy Rose

Everyone had a great day and we would like to extend our thanks to ProTraffic & Mangatu Blocks for their awesome support.

Information and enrolment forms are available at the school office or online.

Congratulations to the following people on their appointment to the Lytton High School Board of Trustees. We look forward to having you onboard.

Parent Representatives,

Gabrielle Perano

Racheal Reynolds

Hugh Stuart

Staff Representative,

Charlie Holland

Student Representative,

Chloe White.

We would like to farewell and express our thanks to the departing members of the board.

Josh Wharehinga, Margie Rickard, Sharelle Donaldson, Ana Taumanu & Rhiannon Kapa.

A very warm welcome to the new staff who have joined us this term.

Colleen Bell - Transition Careers Administrator

Howie Kingi - Teacher Aide, Rongomaiwhiti

Raniera Koia - Teacher, Kia Manawanui

Rebekah Lewis - Teacher Aide Rongomaiwhiti

Brooke Taylor - Teacher Aide Rongomaiwhiti

Morgan West - Teacher Aide Rongomaiwhiti

Anita Wharepapa - Teacher Aide Rongomaiwhiti

Congratulations to Charlie Rohe on his appointment to Year 9 Dean for 2023

Congratulations to Pare Withington now teaching in Rongomaiwhiti

Monday 17th October - First day of Term 4

Monday 24th October - Labour Day

Friday 28th October - Athletics Day

Thursday 3rd November - Senior Prizegiving, House of Breakthrough 6.00pm

Monday 7th November - NCEA Exams Start

Tuesday 22nd November - Last day for Year 11 Students

Wednesday 23rd November - New enrollment Year 8 day

November - Accord Day

Tuesday 6th December - Junior Prizegiving

Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th December - Year 9 & 10 Intensives

Monday 12th December - Last day of term.

Freephone 0508 LYTTON (0508 598866)

Absentees - ext 358

Health Centre - ext 368

Student Accounts - ext 304

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