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UNIFORM SHOP HOLIDAY OPENING TIME
The Uniform Shop will be open on Wednesday 30th September, between 12 and 2pm. UNIFORM DELAYS Next term students are required to wear summer uniform. However, because of Covid-19, our uniform suppliers are experiencing delays. We have a limited number of sizes in stock of some of our uniform. We can take orders and let you know when the items arrive. Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your patience. Thank you, Leiza Egan, Uniform Shop Coordinator
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Career Pathways Department
This week, St Peter’s College hosted Trudy Brown from SIT, who spoke to the Year 11 and Year 12’s about Hokonui Tertiary High School. Trudy detailed the programmes available next year and focussed on potential career pathways for students. Also this week, Canterbury Liaison officer, Dan Gread, visited and spoke to four students who are planning on attending Canterbury in 2021. Now is a good time for Year 13’s to check out Money Hub. This is a comprehensive site that details scholarships, CV’s, student loans and allowances and job vacancies. https://www.moneyhub.co.nz/ Many scholarships are coming in; keep an eye on our Facebook page, StPetersCollegeCareerPathways, as most are posted there as well as being emailed to parents. International Big Day Out What a full on day we had on Saturday. The boys training in Naginata headed off to Invercargill in the morning (they have progressed to wearing the protective armour), had a quick photo shoot to celebrate the arrival of Spring, then they were joined by the rest of the International students and a couple of Kiwi friends for Ten Pin Bowling and a Japanese Dinner!! Special thanks to Steve from the Hostel for joining the International department for the day. Shout out to Minjeon, Dada, Chaegyu and Anderson who had the highest scores from each lane and to Anderson for top score of the day.   Young Farmers Skills Day On Saturday we had a Young Farmers Skills Day at Waimumu. We did all sorts of things from shearing to cooking. My favourite activity was the cooking. We made a pancake with only our non-dominant hands and put marshmallows as well as chocolate in it. The pancake was very big, and it was not cooked, so we threw it away. The day was a lot of fun. James Mitchell, 9MM On Saturday, an inter-school skills day was held at the Heads' farm in Waimumu. The skills day was filled with heaps of fun and we learned about different team building challenges. There were nine stations all focusing on different parts of farming like seeds, weeds, farm machinery, crutching sheep, and trust challenges. We got split into groups with different students from different schools and worked with them to complete the challenges. I had a blast meeting new people and learning new skills. - Grace Abernethy 7JB Despite the rainy weather it was a fantastic day. We had about 30 students from St Peter's College, Gore High School and Northern Southland College come to develop their agricultural skills. The organising committee (Laura Heads, Emily Irwin, Adriana Evans, Nicola Mitchell, Olivia Shanks, and Maegan Mitchell) did a fantastic job of planning, setting up, running modules, and ensuring everything ran smoothly; the term's worth of work certainly paid off. Thank you to Ravensdown and New Holland for supporting this event, along with Warren Ross, Garth Shanks, Bridget Henderson, and Rebecca Heads for running modules, and Janine Heads for letting us use her farm. We look forward to putting these skills to the test in the competition next year. Laura Thomas, SPC YFC Teacher in charge  St Peter’s College International Department St Peter’s College International Department are looking for families who would like to host students during the eight weeks of the 2020-21 Summer holidays. Time lengths can vary for a week or longer. There is a weekly homestay payment made to the hosting family as well as an additional activity payment for the Summer Holiday period. This is a time to share a special part of your Summer with some of our ten International Students. For more information contact Nikki Cunningham (03) 208 9060 or nikkicunningham@stpetersgore.school.nz Hi, my name is Ophelia. I am 13 years old and I come from Hong Kong. My favorite subject is Maths, but sadly I am not good at it. I have been in New Zealand for one year. I am in New Zealand for study. My parents picked Gore because it is safe, and the people are kind. 2020 has been a challenging year for me. The hardest thing for me has been Covid 19 because I can’t go home and probably can't go until next year. It's hard being so far away from my family. Another challenge for me was lock down. I spent the whole time at the hostel. It was hard not seeing my kiwi friends. 2020 has also had some good things. I made a lot of new friends. I started playing hockey and I really enjoyed it. I also did my first hunting trip at my friend Chanelle's house. It was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to my Kiwi summer holiday because it will be my first summer holiday in New Zealand, I am looking forward to swimming at the beach and having some vanilla ice cream. Hopefully in 2021 everything will be alright, and I can go home. Hi my name is Batt Othavorn and I’m from Thailand. I am studying at St Peter’s College in Year 10. My parents picked New Zealand as they thought it would be a great place to improve my English. I have also improved my confidence which has helped me be part of this community. I love Gore because it's very peaceful and there are lots of activities to do. 2020 has been challenging because of Covid and we had to go in to lock down. I was expecting to go home in July to see my family, but I couldn’t; now I cannot go home, so this makes it hard. I'm looking forward to spending time with a host family and friends during the summer. I love to play sports such as basketball. I'm looking forward to barbeques and I'd also like to have a go at waterskiing. I hope in 2021 I will continue to enjoy myself and do well at school.  My Outward Bound Experience On July 28th, I started my three week journey at Outward Bound NZ. Going into this experience I knew very little about what obstacles I was about to face. Arriving in Anakiwa, Oscar and I met twelve strangers who we would live with in our watch for the next 21 days. These twelve strangers have turned into life long friends, basically family, and without them Outward Bound would have not been nearly the same. Outward Bound pushed all of us physically, mentally and emotionally. One of my biggest challenges was white water kayaking. For two days we kayaked down chutes and rapids and at times got flipped over and had to rely on our watch to flip us back over or complete a self wet exit. For a first time kayaker this was quite terrifying as thoughts flooded through your head of all that could go wrong but we learnt to push through, change our negative mindset and keep determined and with the support of my watch managed to keep going and make it to the end. Tramping really tested everyone's patience and stamina as keeping a steady pace up the mountains that everyone could keep up with was difficult. With some wanting to race ahead, setting their mind on only getting to the destination and then getting frustrated when having to wait for those behind. After our first over night tramp we quickly realised that it was not a sustainable option especially for our next, longer and harder, tramp especially with increased tension as everyone would be mentally and physically tired. On our second tramp (after realising this) we tried our best to remember this throughout, sometimes forgetting, but there was a huge improvement. This difficultly brought us closer together as a watch and even after having major tension on these days when we sat around the fire at the end of the day we forgot all of it, only remembering the accomplishments we had had that day. Team work was a major part of Outward Bound; if we were not working together it was twice as hard - this was even more true in sailing. On a sailing boat you must work as a team, if one person tried to do every job on the boat no ground would be made. You must work together, in sync and communicate, which by the end of Outward Bound was second nature for us. Out of all the activities we did my favourite was the half marathon. Although it may not have been as much fun as rock climbing, it was such a huge accomplishment that took determination, endurance and hard work. It was a great way to finish my Outward Bound experience. Outward Bound was such a great opportunity and I would recommend it to everyone reading this. You take away so much from Outward Bound and grow so much physically and even more mentally. Sam Keeler, Year 13  Level 3 Biology Practical Trip
On 7th September we travelled to the Otago Peninsula for the annual Level 3 Biology practical trip. The pupils spent 3 days immersed in their crab behaviour studies and they are now writing up their findings. We were blessed with fantastic weather for the visit and this made the stay on Quarantine Island even more special. Thanks to Jo Carter for accompanying the group, Gail Shanks for the provisions and the staff at the Marine Centre and Quarantine Island. Louise Grogan, Biology Teacher. UNIFORM SHOP HOLIDAY OPENING TIME
The Uniform Shop will be open on Wednesday 30th September between 12 and 2pm. UNIFORM DELAYS Next term students are required to wear summer uniform. However, because of Covid-19, our uniform suppliers are experiencing delays. We have a limited number of sizes in stock of some of our uniform. We can take orders and let you know when the items arrive. Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your patience. Thank you, Leiza Egan Uniform Shop Coordinator PTFA Meeting 15th September 2020
There will be a PTFA meeting next Tuesday, 15 September @ 7pm in the school staff room. All those interested are welcome to attend. Apologies to Lisa Boult - 027 414 3328 or boultoneill@icloud.com Life Education Bus, Learning with Harold 8LS engaged with Pip from the Life Education bus, talking about values and what it means to be a teenager. Great to have Pip working with our students again this year.
8KS had the pleasure of attending the Life Education bus for four sessions. The sessions were from the series, "From The Shadows" and had students learning about how our brain works during puberty, how drugs and alcohol can affect the brain and the importance of making good decisions. 
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