The creative handiwork of Year 10 student Bea Terreblanche has earned a Long Bay College Art class group a jam-packed weekend away to experience Waitangi and the Bay of Islands.
Bea was one of four winners of the Our Nation’s Children Art Competition, which tasked Year 9 and 10 students to create a piece of art around what the Treaty of Waitangi meant to them. The other three winners were students from Palmerston North Girls High School, Otahuhu College and Campion College. The four winning pieces of art were selected from a total of 75 submitted by schools from around the country with each piece accompanied by an explanation from the artist.
The prize is a trip, worth up to $10,000, including three nights’ accommodation for one class from each of the four winning schools, meals, an educational experience at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and the Waitangi Museum, and an itinerary planned and booked by the Bay of Islands Education Network. The four winning art works will be exhibited at the new Museum of Waitangi between now and December.
Bea's watercolour painting is entitled Blinded by Ignorance. It is of a Maori chief signing the Treaty of Waitangi, with his ancestors in the background telling him not to. Bea is looking forward to seeing her painting hanging up in the Museum. She says it is only then that she will believe she has won because at the moment it still doesn't quite feel real.
Netball Success for Students
Long Bay College sent twenty-one students recently to Brisbane, Australia to compete in the High Energy Youth Netball Tournament. The U18 team remained undefeated throughout the busy week and won both the Three Day High Energy Youth Tournament and the U18 Carina League Cup tournament.
The U16 team also achieved well, coming 6th in the One Day Tournament and placing 2nd in the cup division for the HEY Three Day Tournament. Sophie Butler (U18) and Megan Noick (U16) were both named players of the Long Bay College teams by tournament officials. Six of the U18 players were also selected in the Tournament, Dream Team; Brittany Allison-Carnie, Sophie Butler, Rosie Dawson, Maddison Moore, Anna Thompson and Anisha Venter.
The girls had a fantastic experience and loved supporting the Northcross Intermediate School team who were playing in the U14 division. After such a successful trip away, Long Bay College is looking at taking students away biannually.
Long Bay College Music Academy
The Long Bay College Music Academy offers private, one-to-one lessons in piano, guitar, drums, flute, violin, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, recorder and the ukulele. Students of any musical capability, aged from 4-18 are welcome.
In addition to the private lessons, students will have the opportunity to get involved in groups, events and competitions (both in-house and external). Students will be encouraged to sit the ABRSM and Trinity graded international examinations, but these are not compulsory.
Prices vary form $22-$36 per half-hour lesson, $37-$66 per hour lesson. All lessons occur after school hours including some in weekends. To enrol or express an interest, please visit www.scherzo.co.nz/lbma.
Channel Magazine: Issue 69 September 2016
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