Congratulations to those who competed at the North Island Secondary School Athletics Championships in Whanganui over the weekend 6-8 April. Notable results from the weekend were: Noah Macdermid who won silver in the Senior Boys 3000m, Amelia McKay who came 7th in the Junior Girls Long Jump, and Kyann Williams who placed 8th in the Junior Girls Discus.
Congratulations to Mrs Gurney (Student Attendance Administrator) who was recently awarded a Life Membership from Netball Manawatu for her outstanding service to netball in the wider community.
Congratulations to all four Houses for producing some fantastic banners for the House Banner Competition. The winners of the competition are as follows:
1st: Hillary
2nd: Sheppard
3rd: Rutherford
4th: Ngata
Co-Leaders Mosiah Igatia and Grace Berge attended the Anzac Day Civic Service and laid a wreath on behalf of the Awatapu College Board of Trustees, staff and students. Mosiah also had the honour, as a youth representative for the city, of speaking at the Dawn Service. Mosiah spoke about his family connection to the war and how 150 men had left their island paradise of Niue for the horrors of the WWI battlefields. Many people at the service praised his speech and said what an asset he is to the school.
On Wednesday 11 April, our Year 12 students attended the Rotary Young Driver Awareness (RYDA) course held at the Central Energy Trust Arena. The purpose of the course is to provide road safety information that challenges students to change the way in which they think about road safety, both as drivers and as passengers. This is the second year Awatapu has offered this course and it would not have been possible without generous sponsorship from Horizons, COGS and The Warehouse. Check out the Manawatu Standard article here.