Recycling

Onslow has an active recycling programme - all classrooms have a recycling bin that is emptied each week according to the year level, as follows:

Year 9 - Monday
Staff and admin areas - Tuesday
Year 10 - Wednesday
Year 11 - Thursday
Year 12 & 13 - Friday

Allowable material: PAPER

YES white and coloured paper, magazines, newspapers, notepads, telephone white pages (cover off), envelopes, corrugated cardboard (flattened). Staples, paper clips and hard cover books are OK.

NO plastic covers or binders, lunch wrappings or paper contaminated with food, carbon paper, paper coated with plastic

Allowable material: BOTTLES

YES Glass bottles & jars, Steel and Aluminum cans, Plastic milk, soft drink and juice bottles. (Drink bottles do not have to be rinsed, but should be empty of liquid)

NO Food containers, plastic utensils, broken china or plates, or tetra-pak milk or juice cartons, window or lab glassware

Classroom bin emptied by students

Students take bin to the Recycling Transfer Station – Red door (with “Recycling Transfer Station” on it) next to Tennis Courts

If emptying bins during form time the room will be open and monitored by Oscar who is stattioned there each day

If emptying bins outside of form time students are to collect a key from the office before emptying bins and return the key once they have finished

Students place paper in the large green bin, plastic & glass in the large red bin and flattened cardboard beside the green bin. There is an extra small green bin for any overflow of material.

Main “Wheelie” Bins emptied by AllBrite Industries

AllBrites will pick up the bins as required

AllBrites will report back to the school on the type and volume of material thrown into the existing large red metal bin to see if there are other material that we can recycle

A record will be kept and published of quantities of materials recycled and savings on present rubbish disposal

News

EARLY CLOSING - 24 March 2010

The school has been advised by PPTA that, in accordance with the terms of clause s.26 of the Employment Relations Act 2000, a Paid Union Meeting will be held at 1:30pm on March 24. This means that school will close at 12:20pm. Buses will run at this earlier time. Please advise us (info@onslow.school.nz) if you wish for your child to be supervised at school for the afternoon.

Congratulations to...

Eleanor Pepperell - selected to represent the Wellington Juniors Track Cycling Team in the National Junior Competition to be held in Invercargill in early March.

Andy Weston - selected for the Under 15 Wellington Cricket Representative team who participated in the National Tournament during the holidays.

Ryan Dannhauser - selected for the Under 19 Wellington Cricket Representative team who participated in the National Tournament during the holidays.

Niki Zivkovic - selected for the Under 16 Wellington Cricket Representative team who will be touring India in April/May this year.

Tufi Sele & Joe Wright (ex-students) - Tufi was selected to trial for the NZ Elite and U23 rowing squads. Joe was selected to trial for the NZ U19 (Juniors). Tufi and Joe were part of the Central Region High Performance U21 Coxed Quad crew that won gold in the U21 event at the National Rowing Champs.

Rowan Barrie (ex-student) - awarded an Engineering Scholarship to study in Germany as part of the 'EU-NZ Mobility Project'. Rowan will study electronic & computer systems engineering at Rostock University, north of Germany from October to March next year.

Will Rivett, Brodie Smith, Cameron Forest, Johnathan Doogan, Terina Ngata, Sarah Ellis, Brittany McLeod - vounteered for the Heart Foundation in February by serving as Marshalls for Round the Bays. This involved a very early start on a Sunday morning. The students got an insight into the organisation behind a large event while assisting the Heart Foundation to raise funds. The Heart Foundation is a charity and relies on raised funds to operate.

EARLY CLOSING. The school has been advised by PPTA that, in accordance with the terms of clause s.26 of the Employment Relations Act 2000, a Paid Union Meeting will be held at 1:30 on March 24. This means that school will close at 12:20 p.m. Buses will run at this earlier time. Please advise us (info@onslow.school.nz) if you wish for your child to be supervised at school for the afternoon.

Farewell to Doc Martin

It is with regret that the Board of Trustees has received the resignation of Dr Stuart Martin, our Principal since 2001. Stuart began 12-months of sabbatical and leave last year and was due to return to the school late in May. For the last nine...

Congratulations...

...to Sonja Hempel, Year 13 2009, on being Top Scholar in New Zealand for Geography.While Sonja Hempel gained a scholarship in English, it was her Geography result which really stood out. Her mark which gained her an Outstanding Scholarship was the h...

Host Families Needed!

Our International Department is looking for host families that may be interested in hosting German or Brazilian students. We would like to increase our host family data base as there will be a new intake of students in July. There is also ...

PTA AGM - 15 March 2010

The AGM of the Onslow College PTA will be held on Monday 15 March 2010 at 7.30pm in the College Library. Notice is hereby given of the intention to amend the Constitution of the Association, specifically that the quorum number required for the Onslow...