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Merry Christmas to all our RELA family and friends. We wish you all the very best for the festive season and hope that 2012 brings you lots of happiness. |
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We love it when our ex-students come back to visit us and this week we were delighted to be visited by Kotaro Nishishita and HanWen Cui. After leaving RELA both went on to a local high school and the to Waikato University. HaoWen majored in Finance and has now set up his own company in Auckland. Kotaro continues to study music and is doing very well indeed. Next year he is off to Germany to study Performance Arts. |
Abdulrahman, Ahmed and Greg let the Mount know how they feel about RELA. Thanks guys ...you're pretty special to us too. |
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Zoe was awarded our ESOM for November. We have been so pleased with her efforts to speak in English at all times around the school and the quiet leadership role she has taken on. |
These are our 15 wonderful English language teachers from Kelemayi in Northwestern China. They were with us for 3 months working on improving their own English and also learning new methods to take back to their classrooms in China. |
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Loic is our very well deserving English Speaker of the month for October. . |
We've recently had two Overseas Teachers groups in the school. They have been students on our Methodology for Overseas Teachers' Course. This group is from Jin Chang in China. |
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Lana and some of our students recently went on a fishing trip to Tauranga. The weather was not great and not a lot of fish were caught but they all had a blast. However, Ahmed did at least catch one fish. |
Ahmed, Loic, Abdulrahman, Bandar and Gregoire on the fishing charter. Cold but happy! |
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Farewell our gorgeous Baba girls. We had to say goodbye to Miki and Aiko (pictured) and there were A LOT of tears. They have made such a huge impact on the school and we will miss them both so much. However, as both girls have jobs in Rotorua we know we'll see them often. |
Our 4 very clever IELTS candidates all of whom exceeded their own expectations. All that hard work paid off. Well done Sarath, Miki, Abdulrahman and Cerry! |
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Check out Abdulrahman's new do! |
And another new do for Abdulrahman! |
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Our September English Speaker of the Month - Aied Assiri. Your commitment to speaking English only is certainly helping in your class work. Yay, Aied! |
Our 15 teachers from Karamayi in China and our Chinese students helped us to celebrate Chinese national day in style. |
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Jan and Jackie. |
Cerry wanted to farewell her friends by playing the guzheng. For most of us it was the first time we had ever heard this instrument and we were amazed by Cerry's skill. Cerry, you're a star! |
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Steve and Taiga |
RELA goes Blue! |
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Abdulrahman is the August ESOM. Well done Abdul!. |
RELA decided to support National Blue day recently. All money raised goes towards prostate awareness. Loana, Roger, Ahmed and Mohammed got into the spirit. |
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Loic and Debbie get into the Eid Mubarak celebrations. |
Celebrating Eid Mubarak. |
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The RELA heroes prepare for the Heartstopper challenge - Minami, Delphine, Yukari, Lana and Dave. |
Ahmed, Khalid, Abdulrahman and Aied celebrate the end of Ramadan with Roger from Switzerland. Well done to all our Saudi boys. It was not an easy month for you but you did it! We are very proud of you. |
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Fundraising is very important to us at RELA. Recently 4 of our students and Lana took on the challenge of spending 5 minutes in icy cold water to raise money for Children with Heart Problems. The group was great and managed to raise over $200 |
Dave, Lana and Minami celebrate the trophy they were awarded for their Heartstopper efforts.. |
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The RELA snow dog. |
Miki, Aiko, Sally, Mohammed, Calvin and Taiga enjoy their snow dog! |
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Some of the UAE boys after their football game against Rotorua Lakes High School. |
Our 30 UAE boys after their farewell ceremony. The boys were at RELA for the month of July learning English, enjoying many of the activities Rotorua has to offer and developing their leadership skills. |
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Khalid and Taichi celebrate their English Speaker of the month awards for June and July. |
Our ADEC boys from the UAE enjoying New Zealand ice cream. |
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Hanae helping to teach some of the students calligraphy at Kawaha Point Primary School for their "Japan Day" |
David and Yifan helping to advertise our Fundraising Garage Sale. Despite the weather, we managed to raise over $1200. |
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Yukari, Hanae, Miyoko and Hagemi and some of their new friends after helping Kawaha Point Primary School with their Japan Day. |
Just a selection of some of the yummy cupcakes made by the RELA staff, students and homestays for our Sendai fundraising effort |
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David, Yukari and Delphine in town selling the cupcakes. We managed to raise over $1700! |
Our table tennis champs for March 2011 - Kim 2nd, Bank 1st (for the third year in a row!) and Hamad 3rd. |
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Veronika and Dana from Czech Republic who were studying on our Family English Programme. |
Bandar is English Speaker of the month in December. This is a huge achievement as when he arrived at the school a few months ago he was only able to say about 10 words in English. Well done, Bandar! We are very proud of you. |
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Ivy, Song Ju and Mago having a visit at Sandy's house |
Pun Pun is our English Only Speaker of the Month for the month of August! |
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We had a lovely group of students from United Arab Emirates |
Chris was presented with a lovely gift from Dr Fatamah who was the leader of the UAE group. |
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Abdullah and Khalid enjoying some kayaking on Lake Rotorua |
Kiwi and Sam are enjoying learning English today... I like the way they are learning to read English even when their book is upside down |
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Panpan and Sultan |
Our Saudi students are teaching some of our younger French students some new football moves at breaktime.... |
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Yuko has organised a coffee club for RELA students to enjoy at Nando's every Friday afternoon |
Ali in the student room |
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Maki and Hisham enjoying morning tea on Friday! |
Mael and Damien |
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Gerry showing us his basketball skills at break time. |
Our Activities Students at the Climbing Wall |
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A representative from each class bids Julie N (our DOS) farewell
during last Friday's leaving ceremony |
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We had a
"Purple Day"
at RELA and raised money for
Epilepsy Awareness on March 26th
Thank you to everyone who supported the cause, buying cupcakes, piklets, special hot coffees and ice-creams, dressing in purple...
and also those who donated money to the face painting of Chris.
A great time was had by all! |
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Erika, Miyoko and Elsa enjoying purple day at RELA |
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Jan, looking stunning with her long purple hair and feathers... |
Yoyo and Bank - enjoying purple day! |
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Congratulations on your graduation today Maki!! |
Sakiko is celebrating her 10th Anniversary at
Rotorua English Language Academy.
Congratulations to you Sakiko,
We love having you with us! |
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A very sad farewell to Akino, who is one of our English Only Ambassadors. |
Akino and Martina at the Friday Leaving Ceremony |
