Rotorua Lakes High School
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Rotorua Lakes High School, commonly known as Lakes High, or simply Lakes is a state school educating boys and girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It is situated in Owhata, in the eastern suburbs of Rotorua
, New Zealand
, and draws many of its students from the eastern Rotorua urban area, and the semi-rural lakes communities to the south and east of Rotorua City; hence the name Rotorua Lakes.
The school is the smallest secondary school in Rotorua City, with a roll of 568 students in June 2010. However, the school remains competitive, both locally and nationally, in sporting, cultural and academic competitions, seeing particular success in recent years in Mountain Biking
, and Basketball
.
, teal
and gold. The school logo is a stylised waha ika (traditional Maori weapon), which contains a map of all of the lakes in the Rotorua District. The school motto is in Maori
, "Mauria Te Pono" which translates in English
as "Keep Steadfastly to the Truth".
Each year the Houses compete for Championships in Athletic Sports, Swimming Sports, Interhouse Sports Day, as well as other competitions such as Volleyball
, Library Quiz, Year 9 Day Out and Year 13 Camp. The overall House Championship, awarded at the end of each year, is fiercely contested.
Levels 1, 2 and 3 at Year 11, 12 and 13 respectively, in a range of subjects. NZQA Scholarship is offered to able Year 13 students in some subjects. Junior students participate in a varied programme, which follows the New Zealand Curriculum. The school has an annual academic exchange with Forest View High School
, in Tokoroa
, in the subjects of Debating, Mathematics
, General Knowledge, Economics
, Science
and Visual Arts. In 2010, the school gained three NZQA Scholarships, including one Outstanding Scholarship, in the subjects of History (Outstanding), Classical Studies and English.
Senior Science Quiz, Australian Chemistry Quiz, and the Bay of Plenty Regional Science and Technology Fair.
, Basketball, Hockey
, Football, Netball
and Volleyball. The school also sends students to competitions in individual sports. Most notable is Mountain Biking, though RLHS is also regularly represented in Athletics, Swimming
, Cycling
and Multisport competitions. The school has also seen recent successes in Waka Ama and Rowing
. The Boys 1st XI hockey, and Girls 1st XI hockey teams participate in annual Hockey New Zealand Secondary School tournaments.
In addition to the formal school prefects, leadership positions are available for senior students in the school's Student Forum, Ball Committee, Year 13 Common Room Committee, and as captains of the school's many sports teams.
for the first time. Up to and including 2010, Year 13 students were exempt from wearing the school uniform. There are two uniforms, one Junior Uniform (for Year 9-11 students) and one Senior Uniform (Year 12-13). Primarily, all uniform items are various shades of blue and feature the school logo, though Senior Uniform shirts and blouses are white
. School Prefects and House Captains may wear the school blazer
to school.
Rotorua
Rotorua is a city on the southern shores of the lake of the same name, in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city is the seat of the Rotorua District, a territorial authority encompassing the city and several other nearby towns...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, and draws many of its students from the eastern Rotorua urban area, and the semi-rural lakes communities to the south and east of Rotorua City; hence the name Rotorua Lakes.
The school is the smallest secondary school in Rotorua City, with a roll of 568 students in June 2010. However, the school remains competitive, both locally and nationally, in sporting, cultural and academic competitions, seeing particular success in recent years in Mountain Biking
Mountain biking
Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.Mountain biking can...
, and Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
.
School Symbols, Logos and Colours
The school colours of Rotorua Lakes High School are navy blueNavy blue
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue which almost appears as black. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world....
, teal
Teal
Teal may mean:* Teal , a medium greenish-blue color* Various ducks:** Baikal Teal, Anas formosa** Black Teal, Aythya novaeseelandiae** Blue-winged Teal, Anas discors** Brown Teal, Anas aucklandica** Campbell Teal Anas nesiotis...
and gold. The school logo is a stylised waha ika (traditional Maori weapon), which contains a map of all of the lakes in the Rotorua District. The school motto is in Maori
Maori language
Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...
, "Mauria Te Pono" which translates in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as "Keep Steadfastly to the Truth".
Houses
Rotorua Lakes High School has four houses, each named after one of the many lakes in the Rotorua area. Each house has its own House Colour, as follows:- TaraweraLake TaraweraLake Tarawera is the largest of a series of lakes which surround the volcano Mount Tarawera in the North Island of New Zealand. Like the mountain, it lies within the Okataina caldera. It is located 18 kilometres to the east of Rotorua, and five kilometres to the west of the mountain...
(RedRedRed is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...
) - OkarekaLake OkarekaLake Okareka is one of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera, in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Rotokakahi , Lake Tikitapu , and Lake Okataina. All lie within the Okataina caldera, along its western edge.The lake has a...
(Gold) - TikitapuLake TikitapuLake Tikitapu or Blue Lake, is the smallest of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Rotokakahi , Lake Okareka, and Lake Okataina....
(BlueBlueBlue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
) - RotokakahiLake RotokakahiLake Rotokakahi or Green Lake, is one of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Tikitapu , Lake Okareka, and Lake Okataina...
(GreenGreenGreen is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...
)
Each year the Houses compete for Championships in Athletic Sports, Swimming Sports, Interhouse Sports Day, as well as other competitions such as Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Library Quiz, Year 9 Day Out and Year 13 Camp. The overall House Championship, awarded at the end of each year, is fiercely contested.
Curriculum
The school offers NCEANational Certificate of Educational Achievement
The National Certificate of Educational Achievement is, since 2004, the official secondary school qualification in New Zealand.It has three levels, corresponding to the levels within the National Qualifications Framework, and these are generally studied in each of the three final years of...
Levels 1, 2 and 3 at Year 11, 12 and 13 respectively, in a range of subjects. NZQA Scholarship is offered to able Year 13 students in some subjects. Junior students participate in a varied programme, which follows the New Zealand Curriculum. The school has an annual academic exchange with Forest View High School
Forest View High School
Forest View High School was a public secondary school in southern Arlington Heights, Illinois, operational from 1963 until its closure because of declining enrollment in 1986. The school mascot was Fergie the Falcon, and the school colors were silver, black, and gold.-Athletics:Forest View's team...
, in Tokoroa
Tokoroa
Tokoroa is the third-largest town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand and largest settlement in the South Waikato district. Located 30 km southwest of Rotorua, close to the foot of the Mamaku Ranges, it is mid-way between Taupo and Hamilton on State Highway One...
, in the subjects of Debating, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, General Knowledge, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and Visual Arts. In 2010, the school gained three NZQA Scholarships, including one Outstanding Scholarship, in the subjects of History (Outstanding), Classical Studies and English.
Competitions
International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) exams are available for junior students in the subjects of English, Mathematics, Writing and Science. The Australian-based Assessment of Language Competence exam in Reading and Listening is offered to students of French and Japanese. Students from the school also participate in the National Bank Junior Mathematics Competition, University of OtagoUniversity of Otago
The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
Senior Science Quiz, Australian Chemistry Quiz, and the Bay of Plenty Regional Science and Technology Fair.
Sport
The school fields a multitude of sporting teams in local, regional and national competitions. Popular team sports include RugbyRugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, Basketball, Hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, Football, Netball
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
and Volleyball. The school also sends students to competitions in individual sports. Most notable is Mountain Biking, though RLHS is also regularly represented in Athletics, Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
and Multisport competitions. The school has also seen recent successes in Waka Ama and Rowing
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
. The Boys 1st XI hockey, and Girls 1st XI hockey teams participate in annual Hockey New Zealand Secondary School tournaments.
Cultural
Rotorua Lakes High School is a participant in a number of cultural events. These include Kapa Haka, Stage Challenge, Shakespeare in Schools and Manu Korero. The school also organises regular overseas trips for senior students who study particular subjects. These run every three years, in alternating years. They are:- EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, usually including FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(History, French, Classical Studies and Tourism) - JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
(Japanese) - New CaledoniaNew CaledoniaNew Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
(French) - SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
2010 (this is a trip for junior (year 9 and 10) students as part of their end of year electives, and is not aligned to any particular subject(s)).
Prefects
Each year, the staff and Year 12 students elect the school prefects for the following year. Positions available to students are:- Head BoyHead boyHead Boy and Head Girl are terms commonly used in the British education system, and in private schools throughout the Commonwealth.-United Kingdom:...
/Head Girl - Deputy Head Boy/Deputy Head Girl
- School Prefects (up to 16)
- House Captains (Male and Female from each House)
- Deputy House Captains (Male and Female from each House)
- House Prefects (up to 4 from each House)
In addition to the formal school prefects, leadership positions are available for senior students in the school's Student Forum, Ball Committee, Year 13 Common Room Committee, and as captains of the school's many sports teams.
Uniform
As of 2011, all students at the school will be in uniformSchool uniform
A school uniform is an outfit—a set of standardized clothes—worn primarily for an educational institution. They are common in primary and secondary schools in various countries . When used, they form the basis of a school's dress code.Traditionally school uniforms have been largely subdued and...
for the first time. Up to and including 2010, Year 13 students were exempt from wearing the school uniform. There are two uniforms, one Junior Uniform (for Year 9-11 students) and one Senior Uniform (Year 12-13). Primarily, all uniform items are various shades of blue and feature the school logo, though Senior Uniform shirts and blouses are white
White
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be...
. School Prefects and House Captains may wear the school blazer
Blazer
A blazer is a type of jacket. The term blazer occasionally is synonymous with boating jacket and sports jacket, two different garments. A blazer resembles a suit coat cut more casually — sometimes with flap-less patch pockets and metal buttons. A blazer's cloth is usually durable , because it is an...
to school.
External links
- www.rotorualakes.school.nz Official Website