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• • Boxing Day - Op Fish Rehab

    • 30 Dec 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 26/12/2019 - 14:50 - 16:10 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  3 Total Volunteer Hours:  5 7m runabout outboard overheated and required a tow home to Mana Marina. They put out a PanPan call on Ch16, which we heard while out on the other job. We went out and towed them home on completion of the first job. Vessel Details Length:  7.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Jason Hall Mark Presling Peter Tse CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 71 months ago by feedreader
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• • Yacht broken down- Tow

    • 28 Dec 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Sat, 28/12/2019 - 20:00 - 23:00 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  3 Total Volunteer Hours:  15 Yacht experienced engine trouble and  was unable to motor.  Sea choppy 1.5 M with strengthening 15 to 20 Knot NW.  Very difficult raft up tow to berth C7. Good crew work in trying conditions Yacht Hi Tension a Sandy Jones 32 foot sloop Vessel Details Length:  11.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Jason Hall Katestewart Neil Cornwell Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
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    -41.084927, 174.805698
  
  

• • Dead battery after fishing for the day

    • 1 Mar 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Fri, 01/03/2019 - 13:30 - 15:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  3 Total Volunteer Hours:  8 4.8m runabout out fishing most of the day with 3 POB. After moving a couple of times the last time appears to have drained the battery while lifting the anchor and they couldn't get the enging started. We provided a jump pack that they used to start the engine and get themselves home. Vessel Details Length:  4.80m Resources Attendees:  Portersnz Katestewart Mark Presling Neil Cornwell
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.047653, 174.838314
  
  

• • Yacht aground in Porirua Harbour

    • 2 Aug 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Fri, 02/08/2019 - 08:30 - 11:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  1 Total Volunteer Hours:  15 Yacht Jackjumper broken mooring and drifted onto sandbank.  Hard aground.  Used main anchor to kedge bow around, rafted up and returned to mooring.  Refastened. As short of crew took two harbour rangers out ot assist as owners rep. Wind increased from 30 knot NW to 45 knot NW.  Tide turned at 1030hours Vessel Details Length:  13.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Katestewart Neil Cornwell taracooney Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 76 months ago by feedreader
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    -41.107178, 174.864407
  
  

• • Vessel on rocks Kaitawa Bay

    • 17 Feb 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Sun, 17/02/2019 - 19:45 - 21:45 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  6 Total Volunteer Hours:  10 Bayliner 20 foot on rocks at Western end of Kaitawa Bay (41 05.34S  174 50.97E.  6 POB, arrived on scene 20:33.  All POB safe on land and confirmed noone in water or on vessel.   Unable to find safe landing asshore  all OK Informed Harbour Master of vessel on rocks and unable to retrieve and returned to base.   Vessel Details Length:  7.00m Resources Attendees:  Devine dfranks Weedoogie Polarbear Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.091648, 174.854164
  
  

• • P037038299

    • 7 Apr 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 21/03/2019 - 16:00 - 17:45 Operation Type:  SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted:  0 Total Volunteer Hours:  8 Police were called from a boatie (around 1430), not able to start engine, location not known but could see a road and cars, somewhere in the Mana approaches CGM activated at 1600 and responded to establish an area of probility  to search. IMT Trevor B had made contact with some other vessels in the area but no potential sightings Resources Attendees:  Chris Darch Jimmythekiwi Katestewart Neil Cornwell Trevor Farmer CRV's Used:  CRV Trust Porirua Rescue read more
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.079493, 174.794712
  
  

• • Up the channel without a paddle

    • 28 Sep 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Sat, 28/09/2019 - 09:45 - 11:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  1 Total Volunteer Hours:  3 A man on a moored yacht in the channel lost his oars when his dinghy flipped. He was unable to get himself and his 2 dogs back to shore and asked if we could come and pick him up. We took MR2 out and gave him, his dogs and the dinghy a lift back to Mana Cruising Club. Vessel Details Length:  8.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Mark Presling CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
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    -41.103938, 174.863293
  
  
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    Farewelling the museum

    • 21 Jun 2022
    • Cricket Wellington
    • When the New Zealand Cricket Museum closed its doors in early 2019 for earthquake strengthening, the Museum and its collection faced an uncertain future. Fast forward two years and the Museum has been brought back to life, transformed from the original Museum that stood since 1987 into a modern, visually compelling space filled with stories and memoirs from some of New Zealand cricket’s most memorable moments. Behind the transformation is the museum’s curator, Owen Mann, who will move on from his role this month after two years of tireless effort to bring the tales of our great game back home.
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    Cricket Museum, Sussex Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Jetski Broken down off Plimmerton Beach

    • 25 Sep 2018
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Tue, 11/09/2018 - 11:30 - 13:30 Operation Type:  SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  10 Police callout (incident # P034833430), Jetski Broken down off Plimmerton Beach, 2 POB.  On arrival on scene, 2 POB were in the water and had been so for 2.5 hours holding the jetski off the reef.  The POB's were brought onto the CRV and the jetski was taken under tow. Space blankets were provided and they were evaluated.  One patient was shivering and the other was sluring his words and hesitated before answering questions.  An ambulance was called to meet the CRV at Mana Cruising Club and the jetski was taken under tow.   Vessel Details Length:  3.00m Resources Attendees:  Chris Darch Jake Neil Cornwell Peter Feely Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.09034, 174.860601
  
  

• • Secure Sarina Pole Mooring

    • 7 Feb 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 07/02/2019 - 18:30 - 21:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  1 Total Volunteer Hours:  12 Training night converted to securing vessel with broken mooring line.  Yacht Sarina had broken stern mooring line and was swinging in tide.  Resecured with Coastguard rope. Continued training by area familiarisation going under bridges and heading up Pauatahanui Inlet. On return took tow of dingy into marina "E"pier.  Person took vessel to swing mooring and was rowing back in failing light against incoming tide. Vessel Details Length:  10.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Shane Tindall Polarbear Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.108723, 174.860001
  
  

• • Fishing vessel broken down near Boom Rock

    • 13 Apr 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Sat, 13/04/2019 - 11:30 - 15:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  20 6m alluminium commercial fishing boat with 2 people on board broken down and at anchor near the shore just north of Boom Rock. The conditions at the time were rough with a 25-35kt southerly, but the vessel was tucked in near the coast. Vessel was taken under tow by Mana Rescue 1 and returned back to Mana Cruising Club launching ramp.  Vessel Details Length:  6.00m Resources Attendees:  Carl Nixon dfranks Mark Presling Neil Cornwell Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 80 months ago
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    -41.156975, 174.765467
  
  

• • Runabout swamped on the beach

    • 4 Aug 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Sun, 04/08/2019 - 12:45 - 15:00 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  9 A 15' runabout was swamped on the beach at Green Bay after pulling up on the beach. A wave, larger than normal, took them by surprise and swamped the boat. They were able to bail it out but by the time they had done that the waves were pushing the boat further up the beach and they were unable to get away. Vessel Details Length:  5.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Jake Mark Presling Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1 read more
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    -41.11236, 174.807265
  
  
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    Decision 6 - Funding the Central Library rebuild | Kōrero mai | Wellington City Council

    • 6 Apr 2021
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington’s much-loved Central Library was closed in March 2019 following an engineering assessment saying that the way the floor was designed presented a high level of potential failure in a significant earthquake. It has a similar floor design to one used in the now demolished Statistics House, where a floor collapsed in the Kaikoura earthquakes. In 2020, we ran a six-week consultation in which we asked for public feedback on five options for restoring a Central Library service in Te Ngākau Civic Square. The options all considered the resilience of the building, future proofing the library service, the connection to Te Ngākau, and the overall costs.
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    Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 100 UP FOR ASHA STROM

    • 7 Sep 2020
    • Wellington United AFC
    • Wellington United's latest centurion, Asha Strom, is something of an unsung hero. Playing in a defensive midfield role she doesn't get in the spotlight like those that score the goals, she just gets on with her job, a job she does so well and has set a very high standard in she really has to have an exceptional game to get noticed. 2018 Dutch import Suzanne Giesen, commented on her time at the club "it was fantastic playing with Asha, as she did all the hard work which allowed me to push forward and attack more" Playing in the role she does, Asha doesn't get many chances to score goals, and while she has scored just four in her 100 games they have all been memorable shots from about 25-30 meters. Goals that her teammates have dubbed "Asha specials"
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• • Vessel broken down requiring tow

    • 31 Jan 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 31/01/2019 - 19:45 - 21:45 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  10 Aborted training Session and went to aid of vessel broken down 2 NM from Porirua Harbour entrance on way to Mana Island.  Took under tow 14 foot fibreglass vessel "Catch U Up".  Found 50 M off Titahi Bay Point 10M North of entrance to Titahi Bay.  Rough surf, vessel under anchor and 2 POB wearing life jackets.  Towed to Mana Marina and drove the to their trailer under the bridges. Vessel Details Length:  4.50m Resources Attendees:  bvinnell Weedoogie Shane Tindall Polarbear Trevor Burgess CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus
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• • JetSki taking on water

    • 25 Nov 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Mon, 25/11/2019 - 18:30 - 20:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  1 Total Volunteer Hours:  16 We received a call from Trevor Burgess to say that a jetski was taking on water out in the channel and had beached himself. We responded in MR1 to tow him back to Mana Marina but didn't find anyone. He contacted us later to say that he had managed to recover himself by swimming the jetski back to the ramp between the bridges at Plimmerton. Vessel Details Length:  3.00m Resources Attendees:  Devine Katestewart Mark Presling Neil Cornwell Shane Tindall Torrey Trevor Burgess zanebublitz CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 72 months ago by feedreader
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    -41.102926, 174.863323
  
  

• • Support vessel for Tuia 250 - Marlborough Sounds

    • 23 Nov 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 21/11/2019 - 04:30 - 16:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  0 Total Volunteer Hours:  60 Launch 0530 Picton Marina Boat Ramp.  Met Talley Marine Rescue  at All Ports Island and headed for East Bay.  Met Flotilla inside Long Island and escorted to Ship Cove.  Cleared Exclusion Zone in Ship Cove and monitored. Greated all vessels arriving including 6 or 7 from Mana Cruising Club and on known from Havelock. Escorted flotilla to Kumitoto where Endevour and Spirit of New Zealand moored for the night. Vessel Details Length:  120.00m Resources Attendees:  bvinnell Mobiinz Katestewart Trevor Burgess zanebublitz CRV's Used:  CRV Pelorus Toyota Prado
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 72 months ago by feedreader
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    -41.287265, 174.007768
  
  

• • Central Secondary School Individual Champs

    • 3 Jun 2020
    • For details, click here Wellington Swords Club and Fencing Central invite you to attend the 2020 Fencing Central Individual Secondary School Championship Key Information Date:13 June 2020 – 14 June 2020Venue:Wellington Swords Club, 8 Tanera Crescent, Brooklyn, WellingtonEntries Due:Thursday 11 June 2020 – Late entries are at discretion of the competition organizerEntry Form:Click hereContact:tournaments@fencingcentral.org.nz Equipment Requirements Jacket:Jacket & Plastron 1150N totalPlastron:Jacket & Plastron 1150N totalBreeches:350NMasks:350NWeapons: FIE / S2000Notes:All masks need to conform to current fie rules as at 1 January 2018(without new requirements adopted from and including worldchamps) regarding secondary straps.Hireage :If you are interested in fencing in this event and do not have the appropriate gear, please do not hesitate to get in contact with:huttvalleyfencing@gmail.com Competition Timetable Saturday 13th of June Event Registration Start Time Mixed Individual Epee 1.00pm 1.30pm Mixed Individual Sabre 2.30pm 3.00pm* Sunday 14th June Event Registration Start Time Mixed Individual Foil 9.00am 9.30am
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Newsletter- NZSSAA Track, Field and Road Race Championships

    • 30 Jul 2019
    • College Sport Wellington
    • Please find the following information and newsletter relating to the NZ Secondary School Track, Field and Road Race Championships, being held in Newtown Stadium in 6-8 December 2019 Newsletter One Guideline Programme The following changes (in red) have been made to the programme: In order to avoid a clash of High and Triple Jumps for the Junior Boys the Junior/PA Boys and Junior/PA Girls High Jumps have been swapped. The boys will now compete on Sunday at 9.00am and the girls on Saturday at 3.30pm. This also improves the spread of jumps for the girls. As a result of interest in having mixed girls and boys 4×400m relays the NZSSAA Executive has decided to trial this as a pilot event for both grades for 2019/20. Conditions of entry: Teams are to made up of 2 boys and 2 girls Any individual school team or a combined team from two single gender schools within the same region (as defined for the Cross Country Relay Championships) may enter Only 1 team per grade from each school or combined schools may enter An athlete may only compete in one 4×400m relay Schools entering teams in the 4×400m relays are asked to please consider carefully the number of events their athletes are involved in and the possibility that they may be overloaded by doing relays in addition to their individual events The post Newsletter- NZSSAA Track, Field and Road Race Championships appeared first on College Sport Wellington.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Government Funds Licence Scheme for Youth

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Partners Porirua
    • Government Funds Licence Scheme for Youth April 10, 2019 Partners Porirua was proud to host the official launch of the Youth Driver Licence Scheme announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter. The scheme, funded by the NZTA Community Road Safety Fund and the Ministry of Social Development, beginning 1 June 2019, will enable young people on benefits or in care to access free driving lessons and tests.   “A driver licence is more than just a licence to drive. It’s a vital tool and opens doors to education and jobs.,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. This is exciting news for Partners Porirua as a Youth Service provider, running its own Drive 4 Life programme since 2007.  Partners Porirua also facilitate a Community Driver Mentor Programme enabling disadvantaged youth to practise their driving skills with fully licensed adult driving mentors. “The announcement means Partners Porirua can assist more of our most vulnerable young people to get their driver licence, and increase their employment prospects and independence,” said Executive Director Michelle Robinson. Partners Porirua Workforce Development Manager, Jacqui Edwards with Jacinda Ardern and Partners Porirua Executive Director, Michelle Robinson.  Read more about this announcement. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111922049/prime-minister-announces-free-driving-lessons-and-tests-for-young-people-on-benefits-or-in-care Hineora Mike, a former Youth Service client and teen Mum, tells Maori television what getting her full drivers licence has meant for her. https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/govt-fund-free-licence-scheme-youth-on-benefits
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    Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Kayak reported adrift at Pukerua Bay

    • 14 Jun 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Fri, 14/06/2019 - 08:10 - 11:00 Operation Type:  SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted:  0 Total Volunteer Hours:  2 Mana Rescue 1 with 3 x crew responded to a report from police of a red kayak drifting in Pukerua Bay, no sighting of any persons on board. Contact made with Police SAR doing area observations and a parallel track and directed trackline search assisted in locating a "fishng kayak" look-a-like log. The job shows the importance of  reports from the public and that usingt 111 to report when concerned for someone's safety is always a good thing to do. Vessel Details Length:  4.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1 read more
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• • Boxing Day - Runabout Tow

    • 30 Dec 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Thu, 26/12/2019 - 15:15 - 16:15 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  4 Whilst travelling out to do another tow job we spotted a vessel adrift with apparent engine problems. We came alongside to check they were ok and they couldn't get their engine going. They thought they would be able to, so we carried on with the other job. On the way back we passed them and they asked for assistance which they agreed to. We returned after dropping off the other vessel and towed them home to Mana Marina. Vessel Details Length:  5.00m Resources Attendees:  Weedoogie Jason Hall Mark Presling Peter Tse CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 71 months ago by feedreader
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    Great And Noble - Season ‘18 Full programme - In the words of...

    • 2 Dec 2017
    • Orchestra Wellington
    • Great And Noble - Season ‘18 Full programme - In the words of Music Director Marc Taddei Orchestra Wellington are proud to bring to you GREAT AND NOBLE Season ‘18 where we focus on an extraordinary composer whose music is inextricably linked with the music of his homeland, Antonín Dvořák Join Music director Marc Taddei as he runs through the full 2018 season programme and soloists.  5: GOLDEN CITY Saturday 9 June, 7.30 pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D, ‘Prague’  Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2Amalia Hall, violin  Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 5 in F major — 6: THE PROPHECY Saturday 7 July, 7.30 pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Leoš Janáček Taras Bulba   Benjamin Britten Piano Concerto in D Major Jian Liu, Piano  Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 6 in D major — 7: LONDON SYMPHONY Saturday 11 August, 7.30 pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Gao Ping Wild Cherry Tree (Orchestra Wellington commission) Xiao Ma, Countertenor, and Roger Wilson, Bass  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No 14 in E-flat Major  Michael Houstoun, piano  Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D minor — REQUIEM Saturday 8 September, 7.30 pm  Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Giuseppe Verdi Requiem Antoinette Halloran, Soprano Deborah Humble Mezzo Soprano Diego Torre, Tenor James Clayton, Bass Orpheus Choir of Wellington — 8: THE RIVER Saturday 27 October, 7.30 pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Bedřich Smetana The Moldau  Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Major Christopher Park, Piano  Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major — 9: NEW WORLD Saturday 1 December, 7.30 pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture from Don Giovanni (arr. Busoni)  Michael Norris Violin Concerto (OW commission) Amalia Hall, violin  Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World” — To read more, see the full brochure and book head to our site HERE THANK TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO JOINING YOU IN 2018!
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• • Weekly Wrap-up (Week 4 – Term 1)

    • 23 Feb 2018
    • Wellington High School
    •  Important Dates Monday 5 March – Friday 9 March: Noho marae for 9 Riley and 9 Royal whānau Monday 5 March – Friday 9 March: ERO visiting WHS Wednesday 7 March: Western Zone Athletics Thursday 15 March: College Sport Wellington Athletics Day Thursday 29 March: Learning Conversations Friday 30 March – Tuesday 3 April (includes Tuesday): Easter break Term Dates 2018   Message from our Student BoT Reps Kia ora ! Our names are Maya and Arie and we have been voted in to represent the student voice here at Wellington High school. Our job is to bring the voices of our student body to higher management to make real and proper change for the better in our school community. Personally, we hope to focus primarily on environmental and social change that we believe can be made within our school. Our social media/contact page is @mayaandarie2k18 – follow us and/or message us for more details ! Aroha Nui Maya Neupane and Arie Faber
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    Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Removal of bird scarer on moored vessel

    • 19 Jun 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Wed, 19/06/2019 - 20:00 - 22:00 Operation Type:  Other People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  10 Received a call from the Wellington Harbour Master asking if we could assist them to remove/disable a bird scarer on a moored boat in Onepoto Harbour. The electronic scarer was making a lot of noise on a still night and the local residents asked noise control to get it turned off.  We took the Harbour Master and a Noise Control officer out to the vessel to disable it, with the owner's permission. No birds were harmed in the operation, but several were found roosting on the vessel while the device was active :) Vessel Details Length:  8.00m Resources Attendees:  Devine dfranks Katestewart Mark Presling zanebublitz CRV's Used:  Mana Rescue 1
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    -41.115686, 174.846842
  
  

• • Support Vessel Tuia 250 Marlborough Sounds

    • 23 Nov 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Fri, 22/11/2019 - 06:30 - 12:30 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  0 Total Volunteer Hours:  30 Launched at Picton Marina Boat Ramp and went to Bluebridge Coastguard berth.  Left and followed to Kumitoto Bay.  Came alongside Spirit of Wellington, confirmed latest briefing and awaited Endevour to raise anchor. Took up position mid point port side of Endevour and the following Waka in line with Bluebride Rescue on the bow of the Endevour port side roughly 150 to 200 Metres off the Endevour.  Both Sprit of Wellington and Talleys Marine Rescue were on the Starboard side.  This created the exclusion zone which we maintained all the way to Picton. Vessel Details Length:  120.00m Resources Attendees:  bvinnell Mobiinz Katestewart Trevor Burgess zanebublitz read more
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    -41.217969, 174.063778
  
  

• • Yacht aground on breakwater sandbank

    • 4 Jun 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Tue, 04/06/2019 - 07:00 - 09:00 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  12 A yacht had come from Nelson overnight, hit a storm in Cook Strait and decided to run into Porirua Harbour at night. Tired crew and insufficient local knowledge meant that they did not follow the lights and ran aground several times on the way before sticking on the sandbank outside the Marina on a rising tide with the wind blowing them onto the breakwater. MR1 with 4 crew attended, putting 1 crew on the yacht to assist, towed them to deep water. From there she then motored safely into the breastworks outside Mana Cruising Club. Vessel Details Length:  10.00m Resources Attendees:  Chris Darch Jake Neil Cornwell Polarbear Trevor Burgess Trevor Farmer CRV's Used:  CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
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    -41.099811, 174.865158
  
  
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    Mentoring announced for three Urban Dream Brokerage projects

    • 5 Mar 2018
    • Urban Dream Brokerage
    • <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > 'We Spoke', Candace Smith, Performance Arcade, Wellington, March 2018 Letting Space's Urban Dream Brokerage service is thrilled to announce three artists and projects in Wellington that have been given mentors in a new peer-to-peer mentorship programme for artists working in new spaces in the city.  Candace Smith will be mentored by artist Vivien Atkinson, who works across a variety of media and is known for her work with The See Here and Occupation Artists (website here). Candace's series of public works has commenced with installation 'We Spoke' at Performance Arcade, in which the public generated energy with a bicycle,  operating fans within a transparent space,  sealed from the wind, which gently moved mobiles made from umbrella parts (themselves deconstructed by the wind). A performer joined the work in response to the cyclists at night. Candace is interested in creating installations of reassembled objects which explore ideas around the fragmentation and reconnection associated with migration. Rosie White and the project Playdate will be mentored by Jo Randerson, artist and co-producer of Barbarian Productions (website here). White has recently completed a Masters of Fine Arts at Massey's College of Creative Arts and will work with collaborators' on a project that is a work of craftivism or art activism, concerned with a social issue: slavery, with specific concern to the significant numbers of people in the world today trafficked for sex. New Zealand says Rosie is not exempt and the project will seek to highlight the issue. Visual artist Mark Antony Smith and his project The Lost Future Exchange will be mentored by theatremaker Leo Gene Peters of company A Slightly Isolated Dog. This is a project Mark Antony is starting in 2018 to gather stories, dreams and remembrances of place in the central area of Wellington. It is an evolution of Ghosting About a project he did for his Masters study at Massey which included work 'Imperial Ghosts' concerning Dixon Street's Imperial Building for Lux Festival. Mark Antony Smith's previous shows also include Black Dog: Failure at Toi Poneke Gallery 2015. We hope to announce a fourth mentored project shortly. Initial information on the kaupapa behind this mentoring scheme can be found here.  
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• • Weekly Wrap Up (Term 3, Week 6)

    • 29 Aug 2019
    • Wellington High School
    • Important Dates 30 August: Mid-term break — School closed 2 September: Future Focus Event & Careers Expo (see below) 5 September: WHS Brand designs forum (see below) 9 September: Sexual Abuse Prevention Network presentation (see below) 9 September: Preliminary course choices due for 2020 (Y10—12) 20 September: Learning Conversations day — students attend for their interview only 23 September: Board of Trustees meeting 27 September: Final Senior course choices due for 2020 (Y10—Y12); End of Term 3 Important Information Senior Course Choices for 2020 The Senior Course Choice Booklet for 2020 is now available on our website: http://www.whs.school.nz/course-choice-booklet/.  Students in Years 10—12 are invited to explore the options available. We will share the selection planner and process with students shortly. The timeline for making course decisions for 2020 is below. There are opportunities to discuss course choices at Future Focus Evening next week and also at your Learning Conversation: Monday 2 September 2019 Future Focus Evening, 3.45pm—5.45pm Monday 9 September 2019 Preliminary course decisions made Friday 20 September 2019 Learning Conversations Day Friday 27 September 2019 Final course decisions made for 2020 Future Focus event and Careers Expo  You and your student are invited to Wellington High School’s Future Focus event on Monday 2 September 3.45pm to 5.45pm in the Main Block and Foyer. The evening will help your student make smart course choices for 2020 and beyond. Please note that there will be no rōpū that day, and school will finish at the earlier time of 3pm to allow for setting up.   Visit the Careers Expo — Riley Centre 11am — 4.30pm  This year’s Expo features over 20 exhibitors (see the list of exhibitors here), including trades, universities and tertiary providers. All Year 10—13 students will  be attending the Expo during the day, and we encourage students to show their families any stalls of interest before Future Focus Evening starts between 3.00 – 3.45pm.  Visit the Learning Areas — M Block Levels 3 and 4 The event will include information about each Learning Area and a number of additional information sessions, all offered on a 15 minute rotation basis.  Most Learning Area presentations have the following format: Each 15-minute rotation will begin with a short presentation by the Head of  Faculty about the Learning Area and the course selections available. This will be followed by some time for questions and answers. At the end of the 15 minutes, you and your student move to the next presentation.  Faculty presentations are in Main Block and your student should be able to guide you. Student guides will also be available to provide assistance.  Level 3 M305 – Mathematics M306 – Arts M307 – Physical Education and Health M308 – English M309 – Languages Level 4 M406 – Social Sciences M407 – Science M408 – Technology M410 – Learning Support  available – no session M409 – How NCEA works  Come and view the draft Wellington High brand designs Over the past two terms, a large group of students, staff and whānau has participated in workshops to share and develop ideas about the directino of a refreshed brand identity for the school. You are warmly invited to pop into the school foyer on Thursday 5 September (anytime between 11.30—4pm) to view the draft identity designs that are in development with the designers at Chrometoaster (https://www.chrometoaster.com/).  On Thursday, Chrometoaster will have a stand in the foyer to share our draft direction so far, and take feedback from our school community. Note that the design of a central element to represent Te Kura Tuarua o Taraika ki Pukeahu is in separate development with the school. The design team can talk about this. Achievements Say ‘Yes ‘to YES! Last Saturday three WHS Young Enterprise Groups ran stalls at the YES @ The Wellington Underground Market. Congratulations to Remixxed Bags (Sienna Williamson and Sierra Williamson), Toucher Soap (Poppy Vine and Leanne Fandialan) and Poneke Ahi (Jacob Baddeley and Eliseo Biondini). Follow them on Instagram remixxedbags, PonekeAhi and ToucherSoap.   Poetry success Congratulations to Seb MacCaulay (Year 12), for being shortlisted as a finalist in the National Secondary Schools Poetry Competition. He received prizes from the New Zealand Book Council and Sport, as well as $100 and the opportunity to attend a masterclass at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University last weekend. Seb’s poem is included below: Old man I’m sitting and I watch the old man from the street rest and unfurl from his linen a pack of Dunhills. He twists off the cellophane and eyes his catch with that vintage gleam of noon-stripped old lowlifes, naked, howling at their cigarette moons. Cars and their drivers blur on by, each turning their heads as if to say yes man, light that cigarette for all you’re worth.  Yes, man lights it. Draws each drag out long like a bones player shifting keys. He exhales each time only a whisper of thin smoke-suns that twist, convulse mid-air. I have a moment when I think of my father and I driving along an afternoon’s length of country road; we could’ve been both fifteen naive and I feel as if right here and now I’ll weep watching this old new nomad smoke, pulling our car breakneck along the asphalt, filling the valleys and valleys and valleys, hauling us through them, here to someplace to every place, maybe, most likely, somewhere unideal, where infants are born dead but still live. My father and I, our cities become flame, the skyscrapers strip the blue skies, haul from the seas an urgent thunderstorm now upon us all and still. The old man smokes. Almost at the filter now. Watching our cars roll on by. Looking with those eyes at each and every person as if to say yes man, go on your way, go on your way. IYNT Winners, Minsk, 2019 WHS students Ryan Bright and Lydia Acton were part of the winning NZ team at the 2019 International Young Naturalists’ Tournament. Lydia was the team captain, having also competed in the 2018 tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia. Ryan reported his solution to problem 7, “Burning Glass” in the final against Croatia and Switzerland. He scored the highest score in the final, which was won by NZ with 47.9 points, to Croatia’s 45.9 and Switzerland’s 45.6.          The team’s achievements have been widely recognised, including this tweet from the National Science advisor! Sports Underwater Hockey HUGE congratulations go out to all our Underwater Hockey teams for their fantastic season this year.  Our Junior Open A team won bronze medals in Friday night’s CSW Premier finals, defeating Hutt Valley High School 6-2 in their playoff game. The boys were hoping for better after entering the playoffs in second place, however they suffered a shock 3-0 loss to Scots College in their semi final. The bronze medal is still a massive achievement, and the first medal won by a WHS team for as long as Murray Chisholm can remember. This team and our Senior Girls team will contest the national championships in Wellington at WRAC from September 6th-8th. If you are interested in Underwater Hockey or intrigued by this mysterious sport, please watch the video made by Year 9 student Sky Gobbi here: https://youtu.be/978v3IPhqV8  1st XI Boys Hockey vs Tararua College Last Sunday our 1st XI Boys Hockey team played Tararua College. Tararua are doing a Lower North Island tour, mainly playing schools in the Wellington region. WHS may have lost the game 3 – 0 but it was an evenly matched contest and our team benefited from the opportunity to take on Tararua College.  
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    Anthropology

    • 2 Mar 2022
    • Black Coffee
    • <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Anthropology – The science dealing with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind. Artists Bio V is a multi disciplinary creative, specialising in digital and large scale surrealist imagery.     Published in VICE in 2018, her work largely discusses the construction of identity and how society impacts that.  Often touching on subjects around mental health and the connectedness of human beings.    Her works seeks to act as an anthropological study of humankind through imagery.   "Art has an amazing ability to convey a message across cultures, race, social economic groups... it speaks without words and unites like nothing else can"    V has worked with the New Zealand Police and other organisations such as Woman's Refuge, presenting on education around Mental Health Awareness and Family Harm Reduction.    The last year has seen her speak at Pecha Kucha, whilst also working with multiple councils painting murals and teaching a course at Hastings Girls High School.  She was a featured artist in the Auckland Festival of Photography, painted the festival circuit, and has showcased her work nationally at places such as Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne. 
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    Black coffee, Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)