New student from Japan at Francis Douglas Memorial College in 2016 Rei Urakami with Principal Mr Martin Chamberlain.

International Chinese and Hong Kong students at Francis Douglas Memorial College had an enjoyable day sightseeing with members of their families.

Scholarship offered to soccer player

Francis Douglas Memorial College 1st XI Soccer Team

 

The objective of our First XI team is to continually reach the Top 32 Secondary Schools at the Secondary Schools National Tournament.

We have achieved this over the last 8 years with our best ever performance finishing 11th in 2013.

We punch well above our weight given the size of our school compared to other larger schools at the Tournament and have produced some National Level players that have gone on to play and train with the National Under 17's  squad.

 

We have two English born coaches who have Youth Level and Senior Coaching Qualifications and who have coached at a Regional Level.

We are looking for 1-2 International students to join our school and play for 2016 season. We are specifically looking for an established Striker with a strong technique and ability to score goals.

Please forward to us a copy of your soccer CV and any videos of your goal scoring prowess. For more information see:

Margie Smith 

International Students Director

                    msm@fdmc.school.nz 

International students at Francis Douglas Memorial College enjoy a day out with students from other schools in Taranaki area. We went to Trampoline Park and had a fantastic time!

Francis Douglas Memorial College enjoys International Dinner with other Taranaki Schools

Francis Douglas Memorial College celebrates cultural diversity with International Week

International Week 18-22 May 2015

Week 5 in term two was International week. This gave the school a chance to celebrate and appreciate cultural diversity within our school community. Louis Poole introduced the week to the school and Ross MacNiohol was the invited speaker at assembly on Monday. Scottish pipers piped the students out of assembly then attended music class with Tobias Wright. Zimboyz Band played to juniors then seniors in the course of the morning so Monday proved to be a great start to cultural week.

During the week students were entertained with cultural music by school musicians and Chinese and Japanese visitors from our local community came and spent time with Year 7 students. Displayed around the school were posters by Year 10 students based on the theme Cultural Diversity plus a large map of the world indicating where our school community members originate and Samoan, Tongan and Fijian cultural items were on display. Our students from the Philippines performed an item in the library one lunchtime and there was also the chance for students to practice greeting each other in other languages.

The hostel dining room also got into the theme with a variety of food from differentdifferent days having Chinese, Italian, Mexican, USA and Thai meals. Another highlight was staff who were born overseas being invited to lunch and wore their national colours or brought their flag.

Friday was the climax to a great week. Excell played at assembly and Aaron Gao gave a speech on is experience of being an International student in New Zealand. Students wore mufti with a cultural theme and the boys could buy Japanese, Indian, Chinese and pizzas food at lunchtime with the proceeds from both going to Starlit Charity.

The intention of International week was strengthening cultural and ethnic diversity by celebrating difference. I believe we achieved that and that the school can feel enriched by the experience.

Margie Smith

International Students Director

International students at Francis Douglas Memorial College 2015

Akinobu Kobayashi, Hanson Qi
and Koichi Sei

Mr Chamberlain, Akinobu Kobayashi
and Mrs Smith

Aaron Gao

Mrs Land and Ekachai Sirimaha

Akinobu Kobayashi
at Breakfast at Schools

Koichi Sei, Mrs Smith, Hanson Qi and
Aki Kobayashi at swimming sports

Dinner at Gengys