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Salford Street Play Area Refresh
- Kōrero Mai | Let's Talk | Wellington City Council
- The Salford Street play area is due for a refresh and we want your feedback on the two draft designs! This engagement will give Council’s Play Spaces Specialist an idea of the needs and preferences of the Newlands community.
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Salford Street, Johnsonville East, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Players AGM 2024
- New Players Theatre Company
- The New Players 2024 AGM is to be held on Tuesday 9 April 2024 at 7.30pm at the Newlands Community Centre. For any matters arising, notices of motion, and any general business must be with the New Players secretary by 1 April 2024. Nominations for the election of officers and committee may be made to […] The post New Players AGM 2024 appeared first on New Players Theatre Company.
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Bus Trip – Newlands / Churton Park
- Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
- 24 Sept 2023 Departing from Akau Tangi (formerly ASB) Sports Centre 8.00 am,Pickup 8.10 am at the Railway Station,Pickup 8.20 am at the Ngauranga Gorge Bus stop NOTE: DAYLIGHT SAVING… Read More »Bus Trip – Newlands / Churton Park
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“I am constantly learning about books.”
- Mary Potter Hospice
- A regular and long-serving volunteer, Lucy volunteers with the donated books for the Newlands Hospice shop and Warehouse.
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Newlands Ki O Rahi Team qualifying for Nationals 2024
- Newlands College
- A great day out for Ki ō Rahi team at the CSW Mixed Ki ō Rahi Tournament on Wednesday 1st March. Our team placed 3rd in the tournament qualifying for the Ki ō Rahi Nationals for 2024 in Christchurch. This tournament is also a stepping stone for our team as they prepare for their first […]
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Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Milly Mackey’s Poua Pride
- Newlands College
- Milly Mackey a former Newlands College student has made huge strides in her Rugby career after being selected for the Hurricanes Poua squad. Have a read below at an article posted on the All Blacks website. Congratulations Milly and good luck for your upcoming season! Not only has she represented the Wellington Pride, a team […]
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Hana Mason selected for Global Amateur Tour – Equestrian
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to Hana Mason who has has been selected to travel to Morocco in April this year for the Global Amateur Tour. Hana has been selected with a handful of other NZ equestrian riders and will complete some training and competition and will be supported by Lucy Olphert one of NZ’s show jumping riders. Congratulations […]
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Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Favourite tries of the 2022 season Part 2
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The thrills and spills of the 2022 rugby season in Wellington. A selection of tries scored in 2022 – part 2 below. All footage by Club Rugby, except for try #12 (credit Newlands College) and #15 (credit Mike Lewis Pictures).
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CSW Junior Touch Results
- College Sport Wellington
- COLLEGE SPORT WELLINGTON JUNIOR TOUCH TOURNAMENT – GIRLS RESULTS 17 November, 2022 GIRLS Round 1 Chilton Saint James 8 beat St Catherine’s 3 Sacred Heart 7 beat Wellington East 1 St Oran’s 7 beat Scots 2 Newlands 5 beat Marsden 1 Round 2 St Catherine’s 3 beat Wellington East 1 Chilton […] The post CSW Junior Touch Results appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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Senior B Boys Basketball Undefeated
- Newlands College
- Undefeated all season our Senior B Boys Basketball team won their division in the weekend. A fantastic season and nail biting final V Wellington College 52-49. Congratulations to the team and management!
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Newlands 3 Netball – Collegiate 1C Winners
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to our Newlands 3 Netball team who won the Collegiate 1C grade in the Netball Wellington Centre competition played over the weekend. The girls came away with a close win with a final score of 30-28 against WGC. A fantastic team effort.
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Wellington Rugby Representatives – Noah & Jabez Bryce
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to Noah Bryce who has been selected in the Wellington Samoa U18 Wider Rugby Squad and also Jabez Bryce who has been selected in the Wellington U16 White Development Rugby representative team. Well done and good luck for your Representative seasons!
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Inter-Collegiate Small Bore Rifle Shooting Competition
- Newlands College
- A great outing from our Small Bore Rifle Shooting team over the weekend who competed in the first round of the Inter-Collegiate Match for 2022. Andrew Jeffery, Aaron Jeffery, Trinity Avery, Keya Parekh and Lori Thomson had a final total score of 264.2 points. They will compete again in 2 weeks time for the second […]
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Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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CSW Table Tennis Teams Regionals
- Newlands College
- On Friday 12th August a group of students competed in the CSW table tennis Teams Regionals. Congratulations to Abby Norris, Holly Smith and Anna Lee – runners up in the Girls Singles competition. Congratulations also to Ralph Winter, Aryan Achara, Adam Mawby and Abdurraqeeb Shaikh – runners up in Division 2 Boys.
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Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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CSW Junior Netball Results
- College Sport Wellington
- COLLEGE SPORT WELLINGTON JUNIOR NETBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS 11th AUGUST, 2022 ROUND 1 Hutt Valley High 22 beat Heretaunga 14 Upper Hutt 12 beat Wellington East 10 St Mary’s 29 beat Scots 6 Kapiti 15 beat St Catherine’s 9 Paraparaumu 16 beat Chilton 6 Tawa 15 drew Naenae 15 Aotea 17 beat Newlands 12 Wellington […] The post CSW Junior Netball Results appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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CSW Junior Netball Tournament
- Newlands College
- A great day out at the CSW Junior Netball tournament today for our Junior Girls! Gave their best efforts right until the final whistle. A massive thank you to Claudia Hatfield our awesome umpire for the day and Ms Leath, Ms Mills and Mrs Yeldon for all their awesome Coaching and support of our girls.
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CSW Badminton Open Singles Championships
- Newlands College
- Today the CSW Badminton Open Singles Championships took place. Congratulations to Kenodh Udagearachchi who made the Plate Final and unfortunately lost to St Pats in an entertaining final. Great effort team!
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CSW Junior Badminton Championships
- Newlands College
- On Wednesday 3rd August the Junior Badminton Championships took place and we took 11 players. Most players won their first game but were unfortunately knocked out in Round 2. Notable performances were: Aryan Archarya – Lost in the Quarter Finals to one of the Top 4 seeds. Varun Goel – Lost in the Final of […]
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Sasha Howard – AWD Ten Pin Bowling
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to Sasha Howard who placed 2nd in the AWD Ten Pin Bowling tournament in the Boys grade with 142 points. Well done Sasha! A special mention also to Mr Kevin Campbell for this support of our AWD athletes.
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CSW Table Tennis Individual Champs
- Newlands College
- The CSW Table Tennis Individual Champs took place on Friday 6th August and we had some great results. Holly Robins won the Junior Girls grade. Holly Smith won the Senior Girls grade and Abby Norris was the runner up. Congratulations and well done to all of our Table Tennis players!
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Jemma Ellingham – U18 Wellington Netball Representative
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to Jemma Ellingham who was selected for the Wellington U18 Gold Netball Representative team. Jemma played in her last rep tournament during the Term 2 holidays in Hawkes Bay. Well done Jemma! A special mention also to Mary Leatham who was selected as a Wellington U16 Gold Representative training partner. Well done Mary!
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Aria Coleman qualifies for Oceania Championships in Artistic Roller Skating
- Newlands College
- Aria Coleman competed in the NZ Artistic Roller Skating Championships held in Blenheim over the holidays from the 18-23 July. Congratulations to Aria who as a result has qualified for the Oceania Championships which are being held from 30 September to 2 October with the Junior International Quartet ‘Dreamskate.’ Well done Aria!
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Claudia Hatfield aims for NZ Netball Umpiring Qualification
- Newlands College
- Claudia Hatfield a Year 13 student has become an up and coming umpire in the Netball Wellington region. In 2021, Claudia gained her Zone Netball Umpiring Badge. This was her next step into gaining her NZ Qualification which she will take an exam for in September. Over the Term 2 holidays Claudia was appointed to […]
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NZSS Orienteering Championships
- Newlands College
- During the Term 2 holidays a group of our students competed in the NZSS Orienteering Championships from 21st – 23rd July in Pukekohe. Jayden Kah placed 2nd in the Long Distance Senior Boys Standard Grade and Ellaraine Hiraka-Sullivan placed 3rd in the Long Distance Senior Girls Standard Grade. Jayden Kah, Ellaraine Hiraka-Sullivan & Alex Mabey […]
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NZSS Orienteering Championships
- Newlands College
- During the Term 2 holidays a group of our students competed in the NZSS Orienteering Championships from 21st – 23rd July in Manurewa, Waiuku. Jayden Kah placed 2nd in the Long Distance Senior Boys Standard Grade and Ellaraine Hiraka-Sullivan placed 3rd in the Long Distance Senior Girls Standard Grade. Jayden Kah, Ellaraine Hiraka-Sullivan & Alex […]
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U16 North Island Netball Tournament – Cara McCully
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to Cara McCully one of our Newlands 1 Netball players who had a successful Netball Representative season. Cara was a member of the U16 Wellington Black Netball Team who were Runners up in the U16 North Island Netball Tournament that was played in the first week of the Term 2 holidays. Over the season […]
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Table Tennis Hutt Valley Interschool Champions
- Newlands College
- Congratulations to our Girls Table Tennis team (Liway Kisteria, Holly Robins, Jasmin Harkison, Anna Lee, Holly Smith ) who won the Hutt Valley Interschool competition on Wednesday 22nd June.
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Orienteering Success
- Newlands College
- Our Orienteering team competed in 4 College Sport Wellington events over the season. Our students competed in their final event on Sunday 3rd July at Whitireia Park in Titahi Bay and the final results were collated. Congratulations to Lainey Thompson who will receive a medal for winning the Junior Girls Championship. A special mention to […]
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June Update from DCM - Together we can end homelessness
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About Us Contact Clifton’s Story “I love being part of a major change in people’s lives.” Ko Clifton tōku ingoa. I was born in Wellington but lived in Ōpōtiki for the first 13 years of my life. I was raised by my Koro and Nanny in a whole house full of cousins and aunties and uncles. We grew up on the family farm. They had 14 children, so we were never without whānau around us. My favourite thing to do growing up was to ride my horse with my brother and cousins, down to the river for a swim or up the bush for a hunt, just exploring. My mother spent most of her time in Australia and down in Wellington. Then, out of nowhere, when I was 12 years old she turned up, and my brother and I went to live with her in Wellington. I have worked in a number of different jobs over the years. I started off in the family taxi office in Miramar as soon as I left Rongotai College. I have worked in the sugar cane fields of Fiji; I have had work with other whānau up in Ōpōtiki in kiwifruit orchards. Back in the early 2000s I worked for a time as a forklift operator. I was working for Fletcher Construction when the first lockdown began. When all the work stopped, I lost my job and my income. I was trapped in Wellington with no whānau support and nowhere to stay. I had to move into emergency accommodation. Clifton volunteered his time to support the DCM Foodbank Appeal in May. When was the first time I heard about DCM? It was during that first lockdown, and I was at AC International. There were three of us in the one room; myself and my two adult daughters. I saw a pamphlet about DCM, and gave them a call. Steph answered. I think originally I was asking for food, for a food parcel. It was a proper lockdown, and DCM was only open at very specific times. Steph told me to come down on the Wednesday morning, and I did. I told Steph that there were three of us in the same room. She said “we can’t have that” and got straight on to it. Paula arranged for us to move to two rooms at Halswell. My room number was Room 24, I remember that clearly. I was in one room, and the two girls were in the other. Once I was settled in at Halswell, Kat and Peni from DCM came over to speak to me – about getting housed! They spoke to me about finding the right place. I told them about the issues I had had, with places in certain suburbs where family and others from my past would come by. It was not so good. We agreed that I needed an apartment where others couldn’t just come in to my whare, and that it needed to be in the city. And it sure was meant to be! They offered me, Clifton, a place on Clifton Terrace! And I moved in – on 31 August 2020. Clifton with George on Super Saturday vaccine day. DCM supports people like me in so many ways. Not just with housing and food parcels, but I have also seen the audiologist, the dentist and the Te Aro Health nurses. I have been vaccinated at DCM – I had my first two shots there, and went off myself to get my booster. When I was in emergency housing, I would regularly come to Te Hāpai to get out and about and away from emergency housing for a while. I was always made welcome; the DCM kaimahi were genuinely interested in getting to know me, and hearing what my own hopes and dreams were. It was one of the DCM team, Dom, who supported and encouraged me to stop smoking. And then, a month after I moved in to my place, Kat asked me if I would like to work at DCM. I knew Fabian, and I had wondered how he came to get a job at DCM. The next step was for me to be part of one of the Peer Support courses which DCM offers to people who are interested in a kaiāwhina* role. No sooner was that done, than Kat came back to see me. She helped me with my CV and a cover letter. Then I had an interview at DCM – with Natalia and Paula. They asked me what sort of work I was interested in. I said I would love to work with the Outreach team, and they immediately agreed. They listened to me, to what I was keen to do. It was the ultimate miracle. Clifton is always looking out for ways to support others. He has stepped up to help all of DCM’s teams at one time or another. He enjoys working with Evan to deliver the Te Awatea programme (left) and participating in DCM training and team-building days (with Moses, Bella and Michelle at right). Since then, I have got to be involved right across the many areas of DCM’s mahi. I am part of the Outreach team, but I have also been out with Arieta, Adriana and George from DCM’s Aro Mai Housing First team and with Nadeeka to support our Sustaining Tenancies mahi. I have worked in Te Hāpai, and on DCM’s Te Awatea programme. I have been part of the team delivering our Community Connections programme. I was even at the very first session when we launched the programme at Newlands. I love the patience and resilience of DCM. We roll with it. When taumai are ready, we go forward with them. If they are not ready today, we will try again tomorrow. There are endless chances. We won’t give up on you. And now, I have been able to add more mahi in to my week. I have also joined the Take 10 team, working with youth. On a Saturday night, we are out from 9pm–4am in the city, connecting to young people, checking that they are safe, even paying for them to get an Uber home when this is what needs to happen. We offer water, sweets, etc., to get the young people to connect with us so that we can check in with them. All the DCM taumai seem to go by! They greet me, wonder what I am doing there. The way DCM has stepped up during this pandemic has been ever so encouraging and inspiring. They have come up with ways of supporting those who need it most, regardless of the traffic light system or regular lockdowns. That’s what separates DCM from other community services – the constancy of our level of passion for the work we do. It has been exceptionally impressive – the aroha and manaakitanga I have experienced and have seen others experience over my time at DCM – first as taumai, and now as a kaimahi. Clifton with his team leader, Natalia, outside DCM in Lukes Lane. Natalia Clifton is the type of person who will do anything for anyone. He is generous with his time, cares about his colleagues and keeps his eyes and ears open for ways that he can help people. Clifton also loves learning. It’s one of his great strengths – he listens, watches, and then tries something himself. He also asks for feedback from colleagues which shows great strength of character and humility. He is always open to doing things differently or better. Clifton has covered so much work for DCM including supporting us on outreach visits, running manaakitanga in Te Hāpai, coaching new kaiāwhina, moving furniture for taumai who have become housed, supporting community connections mahi, and sharing his own story in Te Awatea to help the taumai open up and share their story. He’s probably the only DCM staff member who has worked across all services and all teams. How would I describe Clifton? He is collaborative, humble, kind, patient and always supportive. Of both his colleagues – those he works alongside here at DCM – and of taumai. Clifton is always ready to lend a helping hand – whether it is cleaning up the hall after one of DCM’s Community Connections afternoons (left) or staying behind with Fiona after DCM’s last AGM to do the dishes and tidy up (right). <!-- --> Hapi In January, we introduced you to Hapi and shared his story. Hapi is a creative and sociable man who is thriving in his new home, a house provided by private landlord Dev. Hapi loves his art, and this month, some of his pieces have featured in a very successful exhibition organised by MIX, a mental health service which offers programmes in art and wellbeing. Hapi’s work has been popular, with more than half of the items he has prepared for the exhibition selling on opening night alone. Here’s what Hapi has to say about what art means to him: “Bro, it frees my mind. It frees me. I’m free! I'm free and I don’t have no other thoughts about anything else, but just go for my own things. Do my own style of work. I feel awesome when I make anything that I know that I can do, or whatever vision comes in my mind. I just lay it out how it is. What really makes me feel good is other people love it.” You can hear Hapi speak about his art for yourself, in this brief film clip: <!-- --> Support DCM *DCM uses the term kaiāwhina, meaning a helper or advocate for those staff who bring lived experience to their mahi at DCM. We call the people we work with taumai, meaning to settle. This reflects the journey we set out on together – to become settled, stable and well. Nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive. <!-- --> Copyright © 2022 DCM. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: DCMPO Box 6133Marion SqWellington, Wellington 6011 New ZealandAdd us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.
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Cara McCully – U16 Netball Wellington Representative Team
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- Congratulations to Cara McCully a Year 11 student in our Newlands 1 team who has been selected in the Wellington U16 Representative Netball Black team. Good luck for the rest of your representative season Cara!
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