Lana's Passion Project

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.

Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre

On the 31st of July all of the Selwyn House girls got to see a special Maori dance from the Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre. We saw a range of dances from different cultures. It was a very well prepared dance and everyone enjoyed it. The Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre is based in Hastings. They perform regularly in the USA, Canada, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Watch the video down below and try and guess which dance belongs to which country.

Here are the options :

• New Zealand
• Hawaii
• Cook Islands
• Samoa
• Tahiti

Comment below with what you think!

Hope you enjoy!

Peter Pan Dress Up Day!

3D Printing Workshop

Success at Spelling Quiz!

Outstanding Success 

@ Canterbury Extra! Spelling Quiz!

This week, Selwyn House was ably represented by 12 of our top Year 7 and 8 spellers at this annual spelling quiz. The girls were involved in 10 rounds of questions that tested everything from their knowledge of words and their country of origin, through dictionary skills, root words and endings, proofreading and mystery word rounds, to more traditional spelling testing of words taken from commonly misspelled lists.

It is our very great pleasure to announce that the Selwyn House team of Kathleen King, Harriet Compton-Moen and Lucy Jessep have been crowned champions in the Year 7 and 8 competition with a grand total of 97 out of 100 - beating out 81 other teams. Congratulations girls - this was a hard fought win and we are very proud of you.

Thank you to all the girls who were selected to represent Selwyn House - you performed remarkably, with all teams placed well inside the top half of the teams. 

Air New Zealand Safety Video

City to Surf

Here is a video from the City to Surf that we made using the school Go Pro. Enjoy!

Leadership

Introducing Lana!