Smallbore Shooting News

Congratulations to Kerrin Stuart who has been selected in the North Island Junior Smallbore Rifle Team to compete at the North vs South Interschool Shoot in Nelson over the weekend 18-19 August.

Judo Champ

Congratulations to Briar Beals who represented Awatapu College at the New Zealand Judo Secondary School Championships in Tauranga during the school holidays.  Briar was awarded an uncontested gold medal for her weight category and placed 3^rd in the next highest weight category. Well done, Briar!

Inline Speedskating World Championships

Welcome back to Sam Portch who has returned home after 5 weeks of training and competitions in Europe for Inline Speedskating. This was Sam’s first time competing in the Inline Speedskating World Championships. Sam achieved his goal of qualifying for the finals for the 10km Points Race, placing 30^th out of 52 overall. He narrowly missed the final for the 10km Track Race but showed amazing agility jumping twice over fallen skaters to continue his race.Prior to the Worlds, Sam experienced 4 weeks of training and competitions in the Netherlands. He placed 4^th out of 30 in the Omsport Marathon, 21^st out of 50 in the 35-minute Freewheel Championships and 24^th of out 30 in the Heerenveen Competition. For his achievements, Sam has been awarded a Gold Achievement Award in Sport.

Sam was recently interviewed by the Manawatu Standard about his trip. Click here to read the full article. (Photo credit: Murray Wilson, Stuff)

Hands On Food

A group of Year 11 students recently took part in the Hands on Food workshop run by Wholegrain Organics. These workshops give students the opportunity to learn how to cook sustainable, plant based meals — this week the group made seasonal pumpkin hummus on grain bread.

Senior Classes Cancelled 15/8/18

Dear parents and caregivers of senior students,

As you may be aware, primary schools will be taking strike action on Wednesday 15 August. While Awatapu College will not close on this day, this strike will hinder our ability to run normal programmes due to reduced staffing. As such, no senior classes (Years 11-13) will be operating on Wednesday 15 August. For this reason we ask that parents/caregivers of Years 11-13 students keep their child home on this day. Please note, normal classes will operate for junior students (Years 9 and 10) and 400 Block students.

If your senior child (Years 11-13) requires supervision please contact the College office to make a request for your son/daughter to be supervised on this day.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Gary Yeatman
Principal

Badminton News

Congratulations to Christina Stuart and William Feasey who won the mixed doubles plate at the Central Regions U19 Badminton Open. Christina also recently competed in the Yonex NZ Junior Badminton Team Championship where her team won the U17 Division Two title.