Winner of 3rd & Final January Book Draw Announced 13th Jan 2009

Congratulations to the Winner of the 3rd Book in our Holidaytime 2009  book draw is Stephen Walters of Kaiapoi High School
Who has won the gripping modern crime story "The Bloomsday Dead" author Adrian McKinty - A pacy assured & thoroughly engaging debut by McKinty - Sunday Independent.

Congratulations to the 2nd Draw Winner Robyn Wills a classroom teacher at Mission Heights Primary School who has won
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
A touching & amusing tale cleverly written from a dog's perspective.

1st Draw Winner was Heather Clark  Principal of Kakatahi School.
Heather won the hilarious but very informative - Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner by Kerre Woodham with Gareth Brown

Congratulations to Tim Hempleman of Parua Bay School
who receives a Huge Prize Box of 6 newly released Children's Books
3 Boxes of Finn's Fudge & for the Teachers 2 bottles of Montana Wine

TSTNZ & NZ Schools' Male Role Model 2008 wins a Father’s Day Giftbox full of goodies

Congratulations to the Staff at Hamilton Boys High who sent us the winning nomination for
Mr John Prentice

Choosing a Winning Nomination
As you know all the entries we had were great and all those nominated deserve an award, whether it was the caretaker who stopped a burglary or the principal who invites students to come and show him their work and always has time for students and staff.

The winning nomination email is displayed below
 

I would like to nominate Mr John Prentice, our gardener.
John came to our school several years ago, after working as a Science teacher and HOD through his career. He took over the task of crafting our very ordinary gardens into something very special.
Our school was built in 1955 and John has created for us a garden design based on his detailed research about the era, and has spent several years creating and tending all of our large grounds in this style.
With a roll of over 1600 boys, one would expect a few challenges with maintaining the perfection of our flower and rose beds, as well as some very young and vulnerable mass plantings. In fact, the students see the passion John has for his school and his vision, and they appreciate and value what he has done.
The improved appearance of our school through this has ensured a very real pride in the boys for their world, and has meant that they appreciate the importance of caring for their space.
However, it is not just for this contribution that I nominate John. Whenever we have boys who have been stood down, they are expected to complete community service for the school. For more serious offences, this can be for up to a week in the holiday break. John takes these boys under his wing, and provides them with the opportunity to learn some real skills, feel a genuine pride in making a difference and righting the wrong. He is a superb mentor to them, talking through their issues and providing some wonderful advice and care.
I know that our whole community would affirm this nomination. John is a very special man and we are fortunate to have him in our world.
Thank you for this opportunity to nominate John Prentice, gardener at Hamilton Boys’ High School

Susan Hassall
Headmaster
Hamilton Boys High School

Congratulations to Lynda Aitchison
an Administrator at the University of Canterbury
who is The Winner of the Romantic Dinner for two
At Christchurch’s Famous
Palazzo del Marinaio
The seafood connossieur’s restaurant

The response was tremendous and all entries will shortly receive a discount voucher that can be used at Palazzo in their inbox.

In addition to a complete range of fresh seafood dishes our
a la carte menu includes NZ lamb, beef, venison and
pasta dishes plus sumptuous desserts made the Italian way!

Winter Warmer Hamper Draw 2008
Winner Announced!!!

The Hamper contains the following Goodies

• 2 boxes of Finn’s Fudge
• A bottle of Mulled Wine that
  makes 3 litres.
• A bottle of St Clair Wine
• A bottle of Montana Wine
• 2 Christmas Tree gift-boxes of
  Marzipan Sweets
• A Cadburys Giftbox of
  Peppermint Cremes.
• An Ernest Adams fruit cake
• A bag of Mixed Nuts
• A box of Fortune Cookies
• A packet of No Bull Heartland
  Ground Coffee.

Congratulations to

Ashley Conland Dean
of the Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School

who has won a dinner for two courtesy of
The Maharaja Indian Restaurant Papanui Christchurch and courtesy of
St Clair Estate Winery a bottle of St Clair Gerwurztraminer 2007, an excellent white wine for complimenting asian style dishes.

As a thankyou for taking part all entrants will receive a generous discount voucher from the Maharaja Restaurant.

And the Winning Nominee is
Josephine Maplesden of Hamilton Girl’s High School
In recognition of her the Girls and Staff will present her with 'The Mother’s Day Basket'

Josephine was chosen because of this email that we received from Sarah Hewitt:

I would like to nominate Josephine Maplesden from Hamilton Girls’ High School for this competition.

She is a fantastic mother to 2 teenage and adult children, as well as a mother for many students at HGHS and surrogate mother for the staff under her in the Social Studies department. Jo has many roles and responsibilities within our school. She is an HOD, lead learning coach, house committee member along with several other things, she also manages NZQA work, president of the national media association and general motherly duties like managing her daughters under water hockey team. Since some of us in her department have been under her from the start of our careers we really do call her our 2nd mother. At times she has feed us, counselled us, dealt with tricky situations for us, supported us, celebrated our successes with us and is always there for us. I can ring her and she would drop anything for us, just like she does for her children. She thoroughly deserves this award.

Thanks
Sarah Hewitt
HGHS

Many thanks to all those school staff members who sent in the scores of nominations that we received.

It was a difficult task picking just one winner out of all these wonderful women and they all deserve a prize but we only had one to give-away; therefore we suggest that you each take time to award them yourselves with a simple card, bunch of flowers and/or box of chocolates.
Look out for our Term 2 Winter Warmer Box of Goodies
Have a good Term 2 in all you do

Ann Polaschek
Publisher of Tomorrow’s Schools Today.