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Greetings everyone
Thank you supporting us to ensure we had an excellent start to the 2010 school year. Students have settled well into school life. Classroom programmes are well underway and school wide activities are springing up daily.
It has been a pleasure to welcome many new students and we trust they have had a positive experience so far in this their new school.
The majority of students are wearing the uniform superbly and complying with all other aspects of the personal standard of presentation. We are working on some minor matters now. We have every reason to expect all students will maintain the standard for the entire year.
By now all students will know the bell times, the expectations for participation in classes and assemblies and to be where they should be at all times. The right place, right time, right thing and right attitude message is a key expectation for all students irrespective of age here at Elim Christian College.
HELP....OUR E-MAILS ARE BOUNCING BACK!!
ARE YOU RECEIVING OUR WONDERFUL HIGHLY INFORMATIVE NEWSLETTERS BY E-MAIL? YOU SHOULD BE!
If not, have you have changed e-mail addresses and not updated us, have never given us an e-mail address at all, or just maybe your inbox is too full? Please e-mail us or phone in with your correct e-mail address!
Don't forget .....we are selling a wonderful little book called
'Never be the Same'
This is a precious gem that records the grief and hope journey of 5 of the siblings who lost a loved one in the Mangatepopo stream in April 15, 2008. It is profound in its simplicity and it will really speak to you. It is selling for $20 from the college office.
We congratulate Aaron Keesing on being awarded for the 3rd year an ICAS medal in 'Computer Skills'. Aaron was presented with his medal in a ceremony on Tuesday 15 December in the Aotea Centre, Auckland. Aaron we are extremely proud of you - well done!! We also congratulate all other winners and especially those from East Auckland.
First LEGO League Tournament
A team of students from Elim competed at the inaugural First LEGO League Tournament held at Strathallan School in Karaka on Saturday 12 December. It all started about eight weeks ago when we received our Mindstorms Micro-processor and kit, a competition mat and a box filled with LEGO parts. Over the next few weeks the students and coach got to grips with the building and programming of our robot called Jerie (after Jer. 29: 11 – our school motto). Students were super committed and even spent long hours at school over the weekends.
On the day of the tournament we all arrived filled with anticipation and excitement. We realised our programmes were not behaving as we expected and had to do a lot of refining during the day. We took part in some technical judging, a teamwork evaluation and a presentation of our research findings. All of these components counted to the final placing.
After three rounds with our robot we finally placed 13th out of 23 teams and got a trophy for a second place in the research division.
Overall a great but exhausting day was had by all. A big thank you to every student involved all parents for your support and to the organisers for an awesome opportunity. We are already talking on how to do it better in 2010.
 
Special thanks to Mr Loubser for his inspiring leadership of the students and for the incredible number of hours he has put in.
Kind regards
Murray Burton
PRINCIPAL
Elim Christian College Mangatepopo Memorial Fund:
The aims of this fund will be to:
offer financial support to the affected families,
construct a rock-climbing wall in the college Gymnasium as a vibrant, active memorial.
establish other such memorials and remembrances as appropriate
establish a leadership scholarship for Elim Christian College students
to further advance leadership, character development, outdoor & sporting pursuits
The Account name is Elim Christian College Mangatepopo Memorial Fund
The bank account number is: Bank of New Zealand: 02 - 0214 - 0016606- 006
For further details, please contact Murray Burton on murraybu@elim.school.nz
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