Eye on Ruapehu College

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 688, 27 May 1997, Page 11

Eye on Ruapehu College

By Steven Sue Level 12 English (media option) • A team of 10 runners travelled to Wanganui on Wednesday 2 1 May for the regional secondary schools cross country championships. The team was without many of the students who won their age group at the school cross county but still achieved respectable results. Steven Bishop and Dwayne Marsh were each placed fourteenth in the junior and intermediate boys races respectively. • Volunteer student librarians were announced at school assembly on Monday 19 May and were awarded with librarian badges by principal Mr Lane. These students devote their own time to help with library tasks which makes the school library run efficiently. The students are Natalie Hodder, Erin Abrahams, Natasha. Nicholls, Nikki-Lee Vine, Hazel Mullin, Kara Houliston, Christina Coombes, Abby Bennellick, Nathan Horne, Jeremy Mott, Kamalia

Williams, Nicola Peretini and Lisa Hennessy. • Over 35 dancers, 15 backstage crew and supporters will travel to New Plymouth for the Smoke Free Stage Challenge Competition this Friday, 30 May. The bus leaves at 6:00am and will be joined by Belinda and the crew from What Now! Watch out for our students on television in the near future. • A video camera was connected to the college' s Internet and tele-link computer. This enables users to see images of the person whom they are talking to and vice versa. A trial of the system was done by contacting a person in America. This is the latest technology for distance learning and is currently being used for Form 7 Physics tele-link-ing and later will also be used for Form 3 Japanese. • Ei Leen Voon and Donna Cranston played in the Hutt Valley under-18 badminton champs on Sunday 18 May. Ei Leen and Donna won the girls' doubles., Donna also won the mixed doubles and Ei Leen was runner-up in the girls'

singles and in the mixed doubles. • On Thursday 22 May Form 7 pupils challenged the staff at roller hockey which is ice hockey played on in-line skates. There was more action off the ball with some people adopting the aggressive ice hockey approach and crashing into others. Eventually bruised

and battered, the staff won 11-9. • College sports results from the past week include the following: Netball: College 1 vs Nightlife (29-28); College 2 vs Checkers (30-17); College 3 vs Waiouru (35-7); College 4 vs MG's ( 1 3-40). Basketball: Form 3 Girls vs Turakina (16-26); Form 4

Boys vs Kokohuia (win by default); Form 4 Girls vs Rangitikei (19-13); Under 16 Boys vs St Augustines (30-72). Volleyball: Ruapehu A vs Wanganui City (0-2); Ruapehu B vs Sacred Heart (2- 1 ); Squash: Boys Team vs Ohakune 2 (2-3). The Ruapehu College 1 st XV won the plate final at the Wanganui Secondary Schools Rugby Sevens Competition by beating Collegiate B in the final.