Matamata College International Student Forum

12/05/2020

Well, after a few very quiet months on this page - we are back! 😻

Our remaining International Students, Miyu, Nodoka, Sakura and Shunsei have been working really hard over the Lockdown, completing some great work in ESOL amongst other classes. I have received great feedback from many of their teachers regarding their work ethic, effort and perseverance. It has been a very strange and tricky time completing work online and much of it independently, but these four students have done extremely well. 👏🏼

As New Zealand moves into Level 2, on Thursday and Friday this week there will be Teacher Only Days at school where we will learn more about how school will work when we are back on site, and what changes have been made to our health and safety procedures to ensure everyone’s safety. On Monday the 18th of May, school will reopen. We are very excited about seeing you all again! 👍🏼

We really hope everyone is safe and well wherever in the world they may be. We look forward to this all being over so we can go back to normal, and invite more of our lovely International Students back to our shores. Until then, keep safe and keep in touch 🌏❤️

09/03/2020

Our international students LOVE our cooking classes at Matamata College! Here, Nodoka, Mickey, Sakura, Hinata, Mayu, Shunsei and Miyu are in Mrs McFarlane’s year 11 Food and Nutrition class making Ambrosia - one of my favourites! 🥰

08/03/2020

On Friday the International Crew experienced a ‘classic kiwi beach day out’, at Mount Maunganui. We walked around the Mount, enjoyed a Copenhagen Cone, walked into town and picked up ‘Fush and Chups’ which we of course ate on the beach, with Watties Tomato Sauce! We finished off the afternoon with a few beach games and relays, and a swim in the gorgeous Pilot Bay, before coming back to school and sharing a chocolate cake for Miwa’s birthday! A wonderful day had by all. ⛰🍦🐠🍟🏏🏄‍♂️🏝🎂

06/02/2020

Mr Sagara from Japan visited our school to meet his students and their homestay families. He was also invited to lovely BBQ dinner kindly arranged by one of our lovely homestay families😊🥩🍗🍖🥗

03/02/2020

Today we welcomed Yumeno, Ayano and Nami to Matamata College. They arrived here on Saturday all the way from Japan. We look forward to sharing the New Zealand culture with these lovely students, and helping them to better their English speaking skills alongside.

29/01/2020

A VERY big congratulations to Shiori, pictured right, for gaining University Entrance! Shiori is our first international student to carry on into tertiary education here in New Zealand. We are absolutely thrilled for Shiori and so proud of all the hard work she put in over the three years she was at Matamata College (2017-2019). We wish her all the very best for her studies at Waikato University 👩🏻‍🎓

29/01/2020

A busy morning out and about showing our new students around Matamata Township 😊

28/01/2020

A great first day for our international students - a big day of orientation! Here our newbies are pictured outside our school wharenui.

28/01/2020

27/01/2020

Today is the first day back for the 2020 year and we are so happy to have had all our lovely new furniture set up in time to welcome our new students!

P.S See if you can spot Dylan’s (Mrs Mac’s daughter) little legs!!

05/12/2019

This is what W2 looks like at the end of 2019 - messy, sad and very, very empty! Stay tuned to see how we are updating this space with beautiful new furniture - which will be all set up and ready just in time for our International Students arriving on 28th January, 2020! We are looking forward to meeting you all in just 7 weeks time and look forward to showing you our new and improved International Student classroom!

04/12/2019

Here is the very helpful & useful information for new students starting at our school in Term 1 2020! We all look forward to meeting you on 28th January 2020!