Monthly Archives: July 2014

Learning time.

The Level 1 NCEA class are making excellent progress on their short story study: ‘Ka Kite Bro,’ by Willie Davis. (‘See you later, brother.’) The important theme of this story is that different cultures have different ways of doing things, … Continue reading

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Parent-teacher nights

Parent teacher nights are a great way for caregivers to meet their child’s teachers and discuss their progress. Last Thursday and tonight, parents, caregivers, home stays and agents are very welcome to come to Lincoln and have 5 minute interviews … Continue reading

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Ice cream!

Hokey pokey ice cream is famous in New Zealand, so everyone HAD to try it when we walked into Lincoln Village for orientation. Everyone agreed it’s  delicious!.

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Welcome to term 3!!

The weather is bad but the smiles are warm! Welcome back to term 3. Orientation day yesterday went well. Here are some photos of the new students getting to know the ‘old’ students.

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Welcome back for Term 3.

Holidays always go very fast, don’t they? I hope everyone has had time to relax. Some students have returned to China and Thailand for the holidays to see their families and some of our Japanese students have attended language school. … Continue reading

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Lincoln High ball 2014

Last night over 400 excited students attended the ball. Everyone looked amazing! The boys all looked formal and handsome in suits and ties. The girls wore beautiful dresses, all the colours of the rainbow. (Although all the International girls decided … Continue reading

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Table tennis end of term fun!

Anyone can play table tennis at lunchtimes in the small gym. As an end of term treat, the ESOL classes went and played in class time. Don’t forget the table tennis English vocab!

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Two days until the holidays!

It’s hard to believe that term 2 is almost over! It’s been quite a short term – 9 weeks – and the time has gone very fast. We’ve achieved a lot in class. The senior Level 2 class have worked … Continue reading

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Static Image creativity

The year 11 class have recently completed static images. Students had to choose an issue that is important to them, create an image to promote their issue and analyse the visual and verbal techniques they used in their image. They … Continue reading

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Static image creativity

Here is a close up of the static images produced by the year 11 class. The issue are all important: drug and alcohol use, abortion, environmental pollution, endangered animals and racism. It’s great to see young people thinking deeply about … Continue reading

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