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Karamu has had still more writing success with the news that two students involved in the Writer-in-Residence scheme were among the seven students short-listed for the BNZ Literary Awards. Beth Rust, Year 13, and Madeleine Ross, Year 10, were both short-listed for the secondary section of the award, which is New Zealand’s premier writing competiton.
Beth’s story, Catch Smoke, is about the people a girl meets while walking around the streets of a town one afternoon. Madeleine’s story, Now, skilfully depicts an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Follow this link to the Hawkes Bay Today article about the girls.
http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/reward-for-top-student-scribes/1078677/



This year, the boys’ soccer team and Mrs Peffer went to the national tournament, held in Palmerston North. The week-long tournament saw the team play 8 games in 5 days. The tournament team was made up of a mixture of players from the First XI and a number of developing players from the Second XI and the Junior team. The team experienced a number of injuries during the tournament but carried on to win two of their games.
The Karamu High School Girls’ Rugby Team are the new Hawkes Bay Champions. The team has finished the season undefeated. Their wins have been convincing, as the points for (371) to points against (69) shows.
The accelerate Year 10 class is doing a full Level One NCEA programme in Mathematics and Science plus two standards in English and one in Social Studies.
Maesey Smiler, Year 9, and Jessy Wilson-Rowe, Year 10, have been selected as Under 15 Basketball representatives. Maesey recently returned from a regional tournament in Porirua, where their team was 4th.
Aimee Fisher, Year 12, has recently returned from the Junior Canoe Sprint World Championships held in Brandenburg, Germany. Aimee went to Europe as part of the New Zealand Junior team.
Following on from her prose writing successes of last year, Alexandra Morris has recently received two poetry awards. She has been named one of ten finalists in the National Schools Poetry Competition, for her poem ‘Grace’. As part of her prize, Alex will be attending a one-day poetry masterclass at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, in August.