Amy's Passion Project

Jumping For the Sky

My Goal & Purpose

My goal was to be able to canter a course of jumps. I chose this goal to help my process with confidence with jumping and because jumping is something I’ve been focusing on for a while and trying to improve with my position and technique while cantering into, over and out of jumps.

My Process

1. Get confident trotting jumps
2. Get confident cantering over poles
3. Canter after a jump
4. Canter a few strides before the jumps and canter over it
5. Canter a course of jumps

Skills I’ve Learnt or Improved

I’ve learnt a lot of skills such as patience and perseverance, but some things I’ve learnt can’t be put under everyday skills. For instance, I’ve learnt how to stay on better and that is a huge skill. I’ve also learnt about how to be able to help my pony tell when to take off and to keep her from running out.

Itinerant Music Concerts

On Tuesday the 18th and Thursday the 20th Selwyn House hosted Itinerant concerts for all of the students that learn instruments or singing here at Selwyn House from our fantastic Itinerant teachers.

At Selwyn House, there are a huge range of lessons that students can take part in:

• Piano
• Violin, Viola, Cello
• Singing
• Percussion
• Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Recorder
• Guitar
• Trumpet, Trombone

This year at the concerts, lots of people watched as many girls performed, either singing, or on the piano, violin, cello, clarinet, or guitar. Every girl performed amazingly with a huge range of ages represented across the both concerts. Each semester, the Year 8 girls that participate in the concert get a chance to be the presenters for the night. All of the presenters were very confident and everyone enjoyed the concert.

Thank you to the Itinerant teachers who all put in an amazing amount of effort to prepare and teach all the students their pieces. We hope you enjoy these photos from the evenings.

Chorale

Senior Chamber Choir

World Read Aloud Day!

On Wednesday 4th of March, the Cybrary leaders (Kathleen, Amy and Meg) hosted a school-wide celebration for World Read Aloud day. To celebrate, they asked that the girls come to school dressed as their favourite book character, and brought a book to share with their buddy.

At 8:30, the Cybrary leaders held a special assembly in the Cybrary because we are in New Zealand, and our school starts at 8:30am, (unlike most other schools) we were probably the first school in the world to celebrate World Read Aloud Day! During the assembly, we managed to get the entire school to read a book aloud to their buddies! We read “Hattie and the Fox” by Mem Fox.

There were lots of creative,colourful and interesting costumes. All the girls participated in this day. And some teachers did too! 

Kizoa slideshow: WRAD - Slideshow

Introducing Amy!