WHAT’S ON EDUCATION WELLINGTON aims to provide news and information about education, international students and general events in the Wellington region of New Zealand.

If you would like your institution to be included for August events, do not hesitate to contact Alice Poujois (alice.poujois@growwellington.co.nz), with your organisation name, event description, the date and time, the admission and bookings details.

This month we offer a bit of reading, some workshops and cultural events to animate your schools holidays!!! We wish you a great time in Wellington!

And we start the month with The Rockquest Finals!
Smokefree Rockquest Wellington Regional Finals 2010
FRI 2 July
Starts at 7pm until 10pm
Wellington Town Hall Cost: $15 presold tickets or $20 at the door

Chilton St James School
Inter-School Music Exchange and Combined Concert, with Grace Lutheran College, Queensland
The following Chilton Music groups will perform at this Concert:
Bella Voce Choir, I See Red Choir, Chilton Senior Orchestra, Senior Drum Corps, Seraphim Choir and the Year 12 Dance Group.
The Music Department is looking forward to hosting a visiting troupe of 80 students from Grace Lutheran College and watching their performances. These will include a Drama Group, Wind Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Dance Group and Vocal ensembles.
THU 1 July from 7pm
Chilton St James School,124 Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt (Jubilee Centre)
Admission by gold coin donation
For more info please call : +64 4 566 4089 or e-mail info@chilton.school.nz

Some great workshops at Scots College & Samuel Marsden School
Animation and Design Workshop:
Have you ever wondered how computer games and 3D movies like Shrek are made? Learn the latest in 3D Animation and Games Design on a Bubble Dome School Holiday workshop this July at Scots College (6-8 July) and Samuel Marsden Collegiate (13-15 July).
Other courses in Science, Inventions & Technology and Afterschool Animation at selected venues.
For students aged 6 to 16 years.
For more info please call: 0800 GET BUBBLE (438-282) or e-mail info@bubbledome.co.nz

Sacred Heart College is putting on their Major Production
"Kill Jill"
Ever wondered what Jack and Jill actually did up that hill?
Ever considered how the giant felt about Jack climbing the beanstalk and stealing his golden goose?
This year's Major Production is an adaptation of Mark Wheeler's award winning play 'Kill Jill'. A short action play, packed with great characters and loads of laughs, 'Kill Jill' comes to Sacred Heart College in Term 3.
WED 28 - FRI 30
Sacred Heart College Hall, 65 Laings Road, Lower Hutt
Cost: $5
For more info please call : 04 566 1089

You can also use your holidays to plan which school you will go next!
Here are two opening days to keep in mind:

Newlands College
Open Evening: Tour of the college for prospective new students for 2011
THU 22
6pm - 8pm
Newlands College, 6882 Bracken Road

Horowhenua College
Open Day Tour for 8 year students
FRI 23
63 Weraroa Road, Levin
(06) 368 6159

Education Wellington was very delighted to read the stories below and wishes to share them with you.

At Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Six Year 11 and six Year 12 Chinese language students, accompanied by their teacher Ms Chunrong Song and Ms Margaret Adeane (Academic Director) have recently returned from a wonderful 16 day trip to China. Through Wellington’s sister-city relationship with Xiamen and the Wellington-Xiamen Association we were fortunate enough to receive an invitation to visit Xiamen on an educational exchange programme.
We chose to spend six days as tourists in Beijing before travelling onwards to Xiamen. In Beijing students experienced the rich culture and heritage of In Beijing students experienced the rich culture and heritage of China as they walked the Great Wall, visited the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Olympic Stadium and Tiananmen Square. The hustle and bustle of Beijing was experienced when bargaining in the markets and travelling by subway in peak hour - a very physical reminder of the differences in population density between Beijing and our own capital city.
The China trip was an outstanding success and cemented a relationship between ourselves and our sister city. We hope that it is the first of many such exchanges. At Marsden we recognize the increasing importance of our relationships with Asia and believe it is important to foster and strengthen communication across our cultures. Xie xie to the Wellington-Xiamen Association for giving us this opportunity.


Wellignton High
We invite you to read some of the stories wrote by the International students of Wellington High, one the 5 Award Winning High Schools in New Zealand. http://www.wellingtonhigh.com/student-stories/china

ETC Learning Centre
We also warmly invite you to discover some tertiary students speaking about their experience in New Zealand with ETC learning Centre. http://www.etc.ac.nz/studentstories.html

MFH Institute
International Students, you can already read the new programme starting on 19th July and enrol at Making Futures Happen International Institute http://www.mfh.ac.nz/course-english-language.html


And to finish, here are few cultural events happening around tertiary schools and universities.

Toi Whakaari (Drama School)
GO SOLOS 2010
Go Solo is a collection of new solo shows created and performed by Toi Whakaari final year acting students directed by Toi acting graduate Sophie Roberts. There are 5 different groups of actors and every group promises a rich variety of individual viewpoints and bold theatre making.
Mon 26 July - Sat 7 August (no show Sunday)
Daily @ 6.30pm & 8.30pm
Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington $10/$5 per group $40 for all 5 groups
PHONE: +64 4 381 9251

WPAC (Whitireai Performing Arts Company)
Workshop in Musical Theatre
Do you love to Sing, Dance and Act? Interested in our full time Diploma in Musical Theatre? Then this is the workshop for you!
This year Julie O'Brien (Senior Tutor and Course Coordinator for Musical Theatre) is back with an intensive and vibrant workshop in Musical Theatre.
Joining her is internationally renowned Musical Director, Mark Dorrell.
MON 5 - FRI 9 July. 9AM - 3PM Monday to Friday
Wellington Performing Arts Centre
36 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington
$300, Ages +16
For more info (04) 2386225 or e-mail julie.obrien@whitireia.ac.nz

Massey University
Fine Arts Workshop
High school students interested in studying Fine Arts at Massey's College of Creative Arts in Wellington are invited to attend a workshop. The workshop will introduce potential tertiary students to the facilities and staff, and to the kind of art making practice encouraged by the School of Fine Arts. There will also be discussion about what Massey likes to see in an application portfolio, so that attendees have the best chance of success with their application. Students are invited to bring along their workbooks.
31st July from 9am to 4 pm
School of Fine Arts, Block 2, Entrance C, Wallace Street, Mt Cook, Wellington
To book please contact: h.hunt@massey.ac.nz

Victoria University
For a list of all Education events happening at Victiria University jump on : http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/viclife/events/SearchResults.aspx?EventGroupID=2 or see the Students events on: http://www.vuwsa.org.nz/events/event-calendar/

We hope you enjoy the activities, stories and news listed, and look forward to hearing from you.

Edited and published by Alice Poujois