Good afternoon School. Please be seated and welcome to everyone who is joining us online today.

I’d like to invite Reverend Dunnett to deliver today’s reading

Today’s reading comes from Proverbs Chapter 4: Verses 20-27

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

This is the word of the lord

Rectors Comments:

Thank you, Reverend Dunnett.

Today boys, you’re going to hear from me and your head Prefect Tuawhio and we’re both going to touch on the topic of our school values.

You might recall learning about our school values on your first day of school this year. I’m going to give you a little revision lesson on them now, because it’s so important that you not only learn our school values, but you also understand what they mean.

One way in which we can memorise our school values is with the Acronym CHRIST. An acronym is a word we use to help us remember other words. Some common acronyms are:

SCUBA Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

RADAR Radio detecting and ranging

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease of 2019

The acronym we use for the Lindisfarne values is CHRIST, but we have to change it a little.

C – Courage

H – Humility

R – Respect

I – Integrity

S – Service

T – Thoughtfulness/Tenderness – Kindness

On your first day, you went around a whole lot of values stations, and your teachers explained to you what the values meant:

o Courage - Stand up in times of challenge

Rugby game, seeing someone being unkind to others

o Humility - Gracious in action and word

When you enjoy success, you don’t show off and rub it in. If you’ve just scored 250 in a cricket game and you bowled opposition out for 50, you say well done and shake their hand and say something positive at the end of the game.

o Respect - Honour people and place

So that could be about respecting the school grounds and not dropping litter or picking it up when you see it. OR the the respect you’re showing me now.

o Integrity - Say and do the right thing

That’s about your actions speaking louder than your words. It’s no good telling your Dean that you are going to fix up your uniform or hair, if you turn up again on Monday with it still not sorted.

o Service - Give of yourself without expectation

That could be the women’s refuge collection with Reverend Dunnett. If Mr Dunnett asks for volunteers, or if Mr Howlett asks if you can help put our chairs

o Kindness - Act with care and compassion

There are so many examples of this. New student, or when someone is struggling. Today’s reading said:

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Think about how your words are kind and caring and compassionate and ensure that your words lift up others and never put them down.

So that’s a very quick revision lesson on our values and on what they mean. Please remember, if they are just words on a flag, or in a booklet, or in your head, they are of no use. It’s only when the values are put into action that they become living values and therefore are OF VALUE to us.

I’m now going to hand over to head prefect Tuawhio Porima to address you.

Tuawhio speaks.

Thank you Tuawhio.

I’ll now ask Sports Prefect Lovepreet Padda forward to give us a short sports report on what’s been happening for some of our senior sports teams this term.

Good afternoon I am pleased to be able to read today’s sports news.

CRICKET

On Thursday the First XI beat a good Hastings Boys side with Sam Cassidy scoring 86 and Finn Reid taking 2/20 of 10 overs. First XI then on Saturday beat a strong Cornwall side by 14 runs with Sam Cassidy scoring 55 and Finn Reid taking four wickets.

The Development XI struggled against Napier Boys Seconds with captain Gordy Chatfield the best bowler and Tom Speers the top scorer.

The Senior XI had a touch day against Napier Tech.

The Colts A had two good wins in the last week beating Hastings BHS Colts in a knockout match on Wednesday and a Napier BHS junior team on Saturday.

Against Hastings BHS, Lindisfarne scored 121 for 6 in their 40 overs with contributions by Holder, Wenley and Scott leading the way. A good bowling effort by all the bowlers restricted Hastings to 71 with the wickets evenly shared.

Against Napier Boys on Saturday, we won by 144 runs with Jacob Holder scoring 52 and Andrew Wakefield 37. Charlie East took an impressive 4 for 5 off 6 overs

Colts B had a great win over Havelock North Nigh School, with Archer Ericksen and James Huckle the pick of the bowlers and Patrick Ross the highest scorer with 22 not out in a 6 wicket win.

Junior White had a narrow loss to St Johns with Hunter Carew bowling well and Junior Red had a huge win with Ollie Withnail and Charlie Tizard scoring half centuries. (50 bat present)

Intermediate First XI had a touch game against Hereworth with Xavier Labat the pick of the bowlers and James Brown the best batsman.

FUTSAL

On Friday night our senior futsal team had a good start to the competition but still with some work to do. We beat HBHS 3-1 and NBHS 2-0. Boys really backed themselves and it showed in the wins.

VOLLEYBALL

On Wednesday volleyball had a grading night. Our ‘A team’ played Havelock Senior B and won comfortably 3-1. The boys worked well together and had lots of fun.

Our Red team played really well and won 2 sets to nil. The boys communicated well with each other towards the end of the game.

Thank you and to everyone have a great rest of your day.

Thank you Lovepreet.

Cultural Prefect Quinn Le Livre will now update you on the news in the cultural and arts cornerstone.

Cultural Report:

Good afternoon everyone. My name is Quinn Le Lievre, and I am one of your Cultural Prefects, along with James Kennedy, for 2022.

Here is the first cultural report for this year.

It was a disappointing start to the year with the cancellation of our joint Lindisfarne College and Woodford House production of The Addams Family due to Covid restrictions. However, Dr Kristensen and Mrs Atkin have been working hard at coming up with an alternative. So, watch out for calls of interest and auditions for an exciting play this week.

Itinerant music lessons have begun with all wind instrumental lessons happening outside on the auditorium veranda. This has been a unique experience for students and teachers alike. However, it is great that we can accommodate learning for brass, woodwind, and pipe students when other schools have found this challenging. I would like to thank

all involved for their dedication and commitment to enabling these lessons to go ahead.

Band practices for Jazz Band Pipe Band started last week, and tomorrow will be the first Symphonic Band and Junior Training Band rehearsals. These are also taking place outside. Dr Kristensen is encouraging all students who wish to play in bands to see him, because there are several opportunities for all levels of ability.

Thank you to all the boys that have performed musical items at assemblies and Chapels since the start of term. These have added great value to these events. These boys were: Marcus Gallagher, Chris Proctor, Quinn Le Lievre, Leo Guo, Ryan Palmer, Llewellyn Ward-Leikis, Fergus Morunga.

Congratulations also to the tech boys Sam Young, Lachlan Wooldridge who have done a fantastic job with the live streaming of our formal Assemblies and Chapels.

Quinn introduces the cultural

Today there is one musical item that includes: Carl Marshall (bass); Ben Currie (Guitar); George Taylor (Drums) and Craig Morgan (on bongos).

Congratulations to everyone who has been acknowledged today and I’ll now invite Reverend Dunnett to close our assembly in prayer

Article added: Monday 28 February 2022