Tararua College Happenings, Week 9, Term 2, 2009

Profile of the week

This week we profile Year 11 student Sam Cotter-Dephoff. Sam is heavily involved with Music at the college. He performed at the recent Rockquest festival and was part of the Concert and Jazz Band's recent trip. Sam also represented the college as a judge at the recent Kumeroa/Hopelands Primary School speech Competitions, and is a member of the Boys First X1 Football team.



Name: Sam Cotter-Dephoff
Class/House: 11HD/Kowhai
Home Town: Pahiatua
Favourite Subjects: Music and History
Sports and Hobbies: Football and Music
Career possibility: Photo-journalism

Classes were a bit depleted last week with a sports exchange, a music trip, and the usual winter ills claiming a few victims. We also had visitors in the School, from universities around the Country, talking to our Year 13 students about what they had to offer them for next year. Somewhere in all of this was Ball Fever, with last minute preparations being made for the big event held last Saturday night.

Year 11 Students Keeley Hutchins, Caron Purvis, Andrew Galloway and Jason Carr all made it through to round two of the Brain Bee Challenge held on June 16th at Auckland University's Medical School. These students all ranked in the top 5% of students in round one. Andrew and Jason qualified for the individual and team events while Keeley and Caron qualified for the team event. While they didn't get anywhere on the day, they did get to visit the Anatomy Museum with all the diseased and damaged body parts (including a whole arm), and they also got to play with the equipment in the Neuroscience labs at the Medical School.