2008

October 2008

The outstanding achievements of DNI students continue with ICAS English results

 Year 8

High Distinction : Matthew Scadden

Distinction: Torea Scott-Fyfe, Emily Beattie

Credit: Hannah Dillingham, Emma Berry

Participation: Anna-Louise Robinson, Abby Wolfe

 Year 7

Distinction: Taylah Sanerivi

Credit: Alexander Woolrych

Participation: Azooz Alsabeeha, Emily Mathias

September 2008

Dunedin North Intermediate Black Chess Team followed up winning the Otago regional competition with 5th equal in New Zealand and outright South Island championship winner. An amazing accomplishment from this group of very talented young men. Congratulations to Elliot Munro, Blake McAlevey-Scurr, Charlie Ruffman and Josh Peterman.

Georgia Buist-Young selected for the New Zealand -14 Basketball side.

Georgia Buist-Young, Room 8 has been selected for the Koru Development tour Under 14 Girls Basketball Team. Georgia will be travelling with the team to Albury, Australia in January 2009 for the Australian States Basketball Tournament.

Dunedin North Intermediate year 8 Boys astound at the NZAIMS GAMES:

The DNI A Miniball team challenged itself entering the New Zealand Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools AIMS GAMES in Tauranga. The team had a magnificent result finishing third, losing only to the winner, Hastings Intermdiate. This is the highest result ever achieved by a south island school in this tournament and probably the best result by a Dunedin based basketball side in recent time.

Dunedin North Intermediate Miniball teams dominate the year 7 and 8 competitions.

Miniball and Basketball season ended this week with the amazing result of DNI winning three of the four grades. The Year 8 girls completed their season with a further win over Tahuna, leaving the DNI 1 team the outright competition winners. The DNI C team completed a successful season with a clear win over Tahuna to win the year 7 boys grade. DNI A completed their season by winning both the year 8 boys grade by defeating John McGlashan and defeating the Otago Boys team to win the year 9, grade division 2.

August 2008

Otago Speech Competition Winners.

Congratulations to Matthew Scadden Room 1, who won the Dunedin Speech competition. DNI was also the winner of the schools award for the 2008 school year.

Aurora Otago Science and Technology Fair 2008

 The standard of all schools was extremely high and DNI produced an excellent standard of work as is evident from the prize list. Many thanks to all the teachers for all their hard work, it is very much appreciated. Congratulations to all children who made it through to Aurora Otago Science and Technology Fair. Those who received prizes are listed below, all children whose entries were forwarded to the science fair will receive DNI academic colours.

 Balazc Abraham Keith Dawber Memorial Award

Hannah Dillingham Department of Zoology University of Otago

Jack Kirkham Aurora Award

Jeremy Shanks, Taylor Dunn Australasian Corrosion Association

Kudra Ellis Society of Animal Production Award / ANZCCART Award

Liam Bigelow Keith Dawber Memorial Award

Lucia Stettner, Maggie Henry Forest and Bird ( Dunedin Branch)

Matthew Scadden NZ Institute of Physics Award

Niall Campbell Australasian Corrosion Award / Discovery World Award

Peter Barnett NZ Institute of Physics Award

Rachel McIndoe –Baker Zoology Department University of Otago

Torea Scott-Fyfe Aurora Award / Department of Conservation Award

Elliot Munro, Sean Stenhouse NZ Statistical Association Award

Connor Seddon NZ Institute of Physics

Yang Li HortResearch Award / NZ Institute of Science and Technology Award

George Vella-King Keith Dawber Memorial Award

Ian Butler-Pollock Department of Conservation / Forest and Bird Award

Erin Scott Psychology Department University of Otago Award

Azooz Alsabecha Aurora Award

Highly Commended

Shannon Thorsnes, Issac Thomas, Alex Lesa, Scott Adler, Charlie Hilton, Yamma Dempster-Passang, Talia Oldham, Chritian Heinze-Rowney, Ali Aman

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Kenzie Whyte took part inthe World Championship of performing arts held in Los Angeles, July 21st. Kenzie was awarded a Bronze medal in variety and Silver in contemporary. This is an amazing achievement in a world wide competition, by a modest young woman from room 1.

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• ICAS Science Test

Congratulations to the following students for their great effort in the ICAS science Examination.

• Credit: Anna-Louise Robinson Rm 1, Hannah Dillingham R1
• Distinction: Matthew Scadden Rm 1, Ellliot Munro R7,
• High Distinction: Kyle Cuthbertson R1, Blake McAlevey-Scurr R8

A High Distinction places these two DNI students in the top 1% of students sitting the exam in New Zealand.

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• ICAS Spelling Test
• Congratulations to the following students for their great effort in the ICAS Spelling Examination.

Credit: Emily Beattie Rm 7

Distinction: Matthew Scadden Rm 1,

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July 2008

• Congratulations to the DNI Black chess team of Elliot Munro, Blake McAlevey-Scurr, Charlie Ruffman and Josh Peterman on wining the Intermediate schools chess tournament. In winning the competition the team has won entry to the National Chess Tournament in September at Hastings. This is the fourth year of the Otago intermediate chess tournament and the fourth year that DNI has won it. Also playing in the finals was the DNI red team of Matthew Scadden, Kyle Cuthbertson, Peter Barnett and Sean Carnegie who lost a tight encounter with a very strong George St Normal team.

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June 2008

• Jereon Smulders was Highly Commended in the U14 age group in the Otago Wildliife photographic competition held recently

• Jack Kirkwood and Sam Lowe have both been selected the 12 th Grade Otago Soccer Team.

• Extra! Magazine Spelling Quiz

Last Wednesday the Dunedin section of the Otago Daily Times Extra Spelling Quiz was held at Tahuna Normal Intermediate. We had four teams of three entered in this competition which involved a variety of activities including spelling words, dictionary skills, proof reading, abbreviations and word derivation. All four teams did very well but we are very happy to report that one of our teams carried off first place, a significant achievement in a competition of 68 teams. The team of Matthew Scadden , Sean Stenhouse and Blake Mcalevey-Scurr scored a total of 97 points out of a possible 100 and the organiser informed me that this was the highest score recorded at any of the events so far. The boys received a medal and a plaque which we will be very proud to display in our foyer. Congratulations to these three boys and also to the other nine competitors , Emily Beattie, Ashleigh Wheeler, Hannah Dillingham, Khodesh Temiti, Abraham Addis, Jack Ferguson, Olivia Fusco, Nik Evington and Roynuku Nukanuka who represented our school so well.

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• Congratulations to the following students who out of nearly 150 students have made the DNI Top Chef final. Mrs Ruxton had a very difficult job picking the final four chefs as there was such a high standard. Finalists are: Ursula Standing-Bellugue, Laura Bennet, Peter Barnett and Eli Moore-McDowall. You Can Visit The Student Work Page For More Information

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April 2008

• Kenzie Whyte from Room 1 was in Auckland taking part in the finals of the New Zealand Performing Arts in Howick. Kenzie sang in this competition and won a Gold medal in the Country and Western category, Silver in the Variety category and a Bronze medal in the Broadway Musical category. This means that Kenzie will be flying to Los Angeles in July to take part in WCOPA the World Championship Of Performing Arts Competition.

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March 2008

• Keeping Dunedin Beautiful!

  Ellen and Courtney on behalf of the Project Help elective group 2007 attended the mayoral reception and prize giving for the Keep Dunedin Beautiful committee. Our group were presented with a Merit award for our efforts cleaning up Opoho Park as part of Project Help.

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• 2008 Kids LitQuiz

DNI Team 1; Zoë Priest-Forsyth Rm 1, Peter Barnett Rm 8, Alexander Woolrych Rm 3, Rhiannan Warren Rm 3

DNI Team 2; Sean Carnegie Rm 3, Connor Seddon Rm 3, Jack Fergusson Rm 11, Emma Berry Rm 1

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Febuary 2008

• Student's selected for the Otago Miniball team as follows.
  Under 15 A Team; Liam Rawston Rm 14, Darcy Knox Rm 8

Under 15 B Team; Takiwai Russell-Camp Rm 14, Talyah Porteous Rm 14

Under 13 A Team; Abbey Wolfe Rm 14, Georgia Buist-Young Rm 8, Scott Adler Rm 3, Jordan Hibbard Rm 11, Hamish Fitchett Rm 13

Under 13 B Team; Ali Aman Rm 8

• The following students have been selected for various Metro Cricket sides.

Year 7 Blue; Alex Frood

Year 7 Gold; Sam Lowe

Year 8 Blue; Ned Spencer

Year 8 Gold; Taylor Dunn, Ben Baker

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