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Tāwhirimātea worked really hard for the Haka competition. so glad I wasn’t a judge because it was crazy difficult to CO-CURRICULAR
Jaxson’s leadership and the whole houses enthusiasm place each performance. Thankfully that role went to Kerei
made practice enjoyable. Of course it wasn’t for everyone, Paki-Winitana, ngā mihi manaakitanga ki a ia, he tangata
but even those who weren’t as involved still gave it a go. hūmarie nāna (Thank you for your kindness, humility and
Our performance on the day showed how much work went beautiful wairua).
into it, we left everything on the floor and were proud of
ourselves. Next year will be even better, we have formed a The teachers performed a waiata and a poi which was a lot
solid platform for us to keep building on. of fun, and fyi, we did good!

- Caleb Jarvis/Kaihaka (Year 11) Ka mutu, he mīharo tērā wheako. Nau mai haere mai ki te
tau rua mano ma rua tekau. (It was an amazing experience.
Winning the haka and waiata competition was no easy feat Bring on 2020!).
for Tāne Mahuta this year. With plenty of hard mahi (work)
going on behind the scenes, both the haka and waiata Kaua e mate wheke, he mate ururoa
leaders stepped up in a major way to put all of our effort
into this year’s competition. The competition brought Tāne Don’t fight like an octopus, fight like a shark
Mahuta together in a very special way and it was so good
to see everyone giving it their all. (A whakataukī/proverb to encourage strength in times of
struggle)
- Nelson McKenzie/Kaitakitāne (Haka Leader)
- Melisa Chase/Kaiako Reo Māori (Te Reo Māori Teacher)
In five weeks the girls learned waiata words and actions,
and the boys enhanced the school haka to best represent
their house. House Deans rallied and inspired students
to learn and respect this amazing culture of which I love,
and house leaders put everything on the line to deliver a
winning performance. Yes, there were students who refused
to participate, however when ‘Game Time’ arrived, each
house delivered! The girls looked and sounded beautiful,
and the boys were Glendowie’s ferocious warriors! I’m

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52 Music Department

Big Band

CO-CURRICULAR some of the best secondary school musicians in Auckland.
The Big Band was also fortunate enough to participate in
Caption required several other school events including: Summer Fest, the
Gala Concert, Whakaatu Toi and the Annual Arts Awards.
It seems like every year brings a change for Glendowie
College Big Band. Being a predominantly senior ensemble, All the musicians have given up their time to participate
featuring some of the most able musicians in the school, in morning practices. Additionally, they have given up
it’s always a bit of a mission rebuilding at the start of each their afternoons to practice and perform. All Big Band
year. Fortunately, this year, with a new infusion of talent students should be proud of what they achieved over
we formed our ‘new’ Big Band. Under the guidance of Mr. the course of this year. The GDC Big Band is a massive
Callum Passells, the saxophone itinerant teacher, the Big part of music culture within the school and provides a
Band managed to construct a repertoire of 9 songs. This potential motivating factor for young musicians entering
repertoire featured jazz standards such as ‘Sidewinder’, year nine. Big Band offers a chance for young musicians
‘Just a Closer Walk’, ‘Angel Eyes’, ‘How High The Moon’, to travel outside of their comfort zone, to be exposed to
‘Take the A-Train’, ‘Caravan’, ‘Chelsea Bridge’, as well as different cultures of music and to build lasting friendships
new complex arrangements such as ‘Boogie Lou’, ‘Critical with peers over multiple year levels. I wanted to personally
Mass’ and ‘Bari Bari Good’. take the time to thank all my peers for their commitment to
the band and give a warm thank you to Mr. Passells whose
Over the course of the year the Big Band was fortunate guidance and oversight allowed us to achieve what we did
enough to participate in multiple performance this year. I have no doubt that all the students leaving now,
opportunities, the pinnacle of which was the KBB Music or in future years, can carry music and these experiences
Festival at which the Big Band received a Silver Performance with them forever and I wish them all the best.
Award. This is the best result the GDC Big Band has had
in the past few years. In conjunction with the KBB Music Joshua Sain
Festival, three of our musicians were accepted into the
KBB Honours Orchestra and Big Band, a select group of

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This year, the student musicians of GDC concert band advice we obtained from the workshop, and walked out
welcomed our fantastic new conductor, Mr Lile, to the with a sensational Silver award at the KBB Festival.
concert band. With piles of new music sheets distributed
across the practice room in February, and pencils at We’ve had our good and bad times but overall the
the ready for taking down any notes, we made our first improvement of the quality of music the band produced
attempts at the iconic “Pirates of the Carribean” piece and as a whole over the course of this year was thanks to all
“Bohemian Rhapsody”, showcasing the very beginning these hardworking students, workshop guest conductors,
sparks of our soon-to-become musical magic in the hall adjudicators, and our wonderful conductor Mr Lile.
when it rained during our not-so-summery “Summerfest”.
From the delightful shared experiences throughout the
Term 2 opened up a new event at GDC, the Whakaatu Toi year to the enthusiastic endeavours towards Silver, it was
Arts Faculty Showcase night, where we showcased our another successful and fulfilling year of the GDC Concert
unique repertoire, including “Sunrise and Safari”, “Jazz it Band.
up”, and again “Pirates of the Carribean.” As we neared the
action-packed mid-year period of performances in term 3 By Mayna Tse
with the New Zealand Concert Bands’ Association Festival
(NZCBA), Gala Concert and KBB Festival all over the course String Orchestra
of a densely packed few weeks, we increased the hours of
work we put in, with extra rehearsals at lunchtimes, after The year 2019 has been very good to the String
school, before school, and during weekends and holidays. Orchestra.

Despite our slight disappointment at our performance We had a great time at the gala concert this year at
at NZCBA, the workshop we had the privilege to attend the school. Every year this is the String Orchestra’s
with a guest conductor immediately after our performance best opportunity to play for our most passionate
on the same day helped us to tackle the issues we had in supporters and this year we put on a magnificent
our music, from emphasizing the right parts of a phrase, programme as a prelude to the KBB Music Festival.
crescendo and decrescendo-ing as a band rather than
as 25 different individuals each with different instrument This year we participated in the KBB music festival for
timbres, to conveying the mood of the piece to the the second time. It was our first time in the competitive
audience. section where we performed well and were given a
bronze award. There were strong performances by
From the Gala Concert to Assembly performances, Ethan Qi and Michael Tran as concerto soloists and
weekend rehearsals continued, creating more bonding the orchestra performing “It Takes One To Tango”
time for our band members uniting juniors and seniors. (with Damon Herlihy-O’Brien as cello soloist) was one
Time spent working hard to get through the whole of the few contenders for the Chairperson’s Command
piece without stopping converted into focusing on our Performance.
technique, timing and tuning.
Things are looking good for us heading into next year
Shiny instruments in hand, we walked onto the stage of because we have a strong backbone of musicians that
the Holy Trinity Cathedral to a significant improvement in will continue to keep the string orchestra alive well
our performance since the NZCBA, applying the valuable into the future.

By Sebastian Simpson and Mr. Lile

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54 Co-Curricular Dance

CO-CURRICULAR Senior Co-Curricular Dance Junior Co-Curricular Dance
Troupe
Troupe
Junior co-curricular dance is a group for year 9 and 10
Spots for the senior co-curricular Dance troupe were students. The students met twice a week throughout
auditioned for in term one by the year 13 students. 2019. We really enjoyed performed in Whakaatu Toi
They met bright and early every Tuesday morning at and the Dance Showcase. This year, two dance works
7:30am to choreograph, practise and polish dances to were performed: Fall on Me and Game of Survival. 17
be performed at various Dance festivals and showcases students took to the stage and developed their dance
throughout the year. The choreography of the two skills – I’m very proud of them and I look forward to
pieces ‘Rain’ and ‘Cry’ were both joint efforts between working with them again next year.
Mr Humphries and the senior students. ‘Rain’ took
inspiration from the idea of a storm brewing with the Nina Harding (leader)
dancers embodying racing clouds, thunder and lightning,
and as the name suggests, buckets of heavy rain. ‘Cry’
looked at different relationships between people and
how our actions can impact on others, often without us
realising the consequences. The highlights of the year
included performing at the YouDance festival alongside
many other Auckland schools, and at Glendowie’s own
Dance Showcase evening. Every time the girls took to the
stage, they threw everything into their performances and
impressed the teachers and audiences from around the
Auckland region.

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Theatresports is one of the many thriving artistry based CO-CURRICULAR
clubs of Glendowie college consisting of competitive
improvisation. This year went off with a bang and we had Caption required
many newcomers introduced to the club all willing to
participate and have fine. We also established three new team. We believe we’ve left the team in good hands and
leaders and coaches after our dear boy Hamish left the we hope that the future shows more fun and creativity
team last year. Michael, Louis and I have been pushing for along the way.
an inclusive and fun environment and I believe we did a Thank you GDC and have a great 2020!!
pretty swell job.

Our first players night of the year was a testament to how
far we have come as a team. We secured our first win in
three years against three other schools. St Cuthberts,
Onehunga High School and the Botany Downs Junior
Team. With several new games and styles being taught to
us we had an absolute blast for our first game of the year.
In the end we held the victory and our hearts warmed like
the feeling of a proud father.

Our second players night in botany downs we came
second by two points to the national champions of the
Botany Downs theatresports club and. It was a hard game
but with lots of fun and participation was involved. Both
Botany Downs and Kelston Boys were fantastic and they
showed a serious skills. Huge thanks to Paneh Espiritu
who joined the team in my absence and helped secure the
victory.

Our third and Final Players Night consisted of Auckland
Grammar and Kelston Boys. We came third out of the three
teams but we grew as a team and learned new skills to
take us into the future. It was also the first time the Junior
team, with the help of Michael, really had a chance to shine
and they should they could hold their own in a competitive
game. In the end, everyone grew from this experience and
we hope to secure the victory next year.

The Glendowie college theatresports team went through
many changes this year with people coming in and out
always having fun. We constantly worked with our teacher
and show runner Ms Thompson to make this happen.
Of course the Theatresports team wouldn’t be anything
without the main man Mr So who’s always been the best
administrator. Without both of you, theatresports wouldn’t
be the same.

It’s our last year in Glendowie for Michael, Louis and I and it
would be the last time we are able to lead the theatresports

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Senior Ball

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60 Choir

CO-CURRICULAR The Glendowie College Choir is an all girls group that
meets on Monday mornings every week. 2019 was anoth-
er great year for the choir, kicked off by our performance Choir
during Summerfest. Next, we competed in the Auckland Back Row: Reyna Paul, KohEun Lee, Yu Yue, Helena Quirk
region’s Big Sing at the Auckland Town Hall, an event we 3rd Row: Shuting ouyang, Qingyun Zhao, Lou Lou Penman, Aleisha
look forward to each year. Our performance included the Folu, Tessa McLaren, Anika Mulye
pieces ‘Skye Boat Song’, ‘Skyfall’ and a composition using 2nd Row: Milla Taylor-Mangan, Sage Carruthers, Zoe Clark, David
words from Shakespeare by the New Zealand Composer Yuan, Hannah Watson, Lauren Blakey, Mrs Celia Fnn (Teacher)
Janet Jennings, ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’. The choir Front Row: Luna Fukuchi, Abhi Puthigae, Oshaani Khetarpal, Mercy
also performed in the school’s Whakaatu Toi Arts Show- Gorero, Sylvie Manning, Emma Herbert, Bomei Lu
case where we sang ‘Forty-Second Street’ and another Absent: Bella Curzon Bavin
Janet Jennings piece for female voices called, ‘Sigh no
more, Ladies’. These opportunities in addition to assem- great for beginners seeking a co-curricular for fun and also
blies, Leavers Concert and Prize Giving helped us improve seasoned singers. This has been a year of tremendous
our performance skills. growth and I’m sure the choir will continue to improve in
the future.
Thank you to our amazing choral director, Mrs Finn, for
her endless support and guidance. Also thank you to the MERCY GORERO
dedicated choir members who have made early morning
practices worth-it. I’ve been fortunate to be surround-
ed by talented students who share the same passion for
singing and have developed a close bond with the choir
members. The learning environment is light and positive,

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2019 CO-CURRICULAR

On Tuesday 12 March 2019, we hosted the year 9 and
10 social evening with the theme of ‘Carnival’! It was a
successful night filled with lots of fun, plenty of food and of
course, some killer dance moves. It was a great opportunity
to bring the two year groups together, and where they
were able to express themselves outside the classroom
and socialise with their peers in a stress-free environment.

BRIANNA GREEN,
YEAR 13

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62 Summerfest A huge thank you to the staff and students who contributed
to the event. It certainly was a collaborative event which
CO-CURRICULAR In the week of 4 March 2019, the Arts Faculty enjoyed went brilliantly, celebrating the Arts
hosting the annual celebration of the arts – Summerfest through the theme of festivity, colour and fun.
2019. The week opened with the reveal of the completed
house panels, which were painted in 2018 and which MS CLARE JENNINGS,
are now proudly displayed in the Quad. Throughout FACULTY LEADER ARTS
the week, students enjoyed participating in a range of
lunchtime activities, including sculpture making, theatre
sports demonstrations, rock painting, and many musical
performances. The Dance students took over the Quad
on Tuesday with a flash mob from High School Musical,
and Art students spent the week painting the house
canvases, which are now on display in Student Services.
A large number of students took part in the daily Arts
Quiz which was shared through the daily notices. Our staff
also enjoyed the Inter-Faculty Arts Challenge with the
Languages Faculty taking our first place, followed closely
by the Science Faculty. The weather joined in the fun for
most of the week, but rain sent us inside for our final Friday
activities. The Concert Band did not let this dim their spirit
and performed their summery tunes in colourful costumes
for a large crowd in the hall.

2019 House winners were:
Canvas Painting Tāne Mahuta
Photobooth Competition Tangaroa and Tāne Mahuta (first
place equal)

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Swimming Sports

Champs

The annual Inter House Swimming Sports event was held
at the Sacred Heart College pool on Monday, 11 February
2019. Despite the humid conditions, lots of fun was had
and there were some great performances. Congratulations
to Tāwhirimātea who finished first in a very closely run
competition.

Well done to our individual champions!
Junior Girls – Lou Lou Penman
Junior Boys – Finlay Walker
Int Girls – Jenna Watt-Wyness
Int Boys – Josh Hughes
Senior Girls – Alanna Chen
Senior Boys – Sean Gibbs

House Results:
4th – Tane Mahuta
3rd – Tangaroa
2nd – Ruaumoko
1st - Tawhirimatea

Thanks to all those who helped make this a successful
event.

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CO-CURRICULAR of Art

On Monday the 24th June the school had the opening
of the exhibition. We estimated almost 500 pieces of
work from students in year nine through to year thirteen.
There was photography, painting, drawings, and mixed
media works on display. The opening went very well with
students, parents, teachers and friends all coming along to
see the work. Live music was provided by the students and
food and drinks served by the Arts council. We had invited
Melissa Wallace from Turua Gallery who judged the works
for us. There was also people’s choice voting on the night.

Congratulations to our winners:
Photography: Double Exposure by Yuxin Xie
Painting: Peice 2 by Yean Chhit and Serenity by Charlotte
Lambert
Drawing: Birds by Chloe Diprose
Junior Art: Steven Adams by Zakk Haddon
Senior Art: Ready to Sew by Paun-Charn Maung
People’s Choice: Twinning by Zoe Moltschaniwskyj

Thanks to the students that helped on the night. Thanks
also to the teachers who worked hard to get all the work
ready, and for an awesome event: Mr Patrick Carrigan, Mrs
Sarrah Shapley, Ms Teri Shin.

MS ADELE WHITTAKER
HOD VISUAL ARTS

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On Wednesday 26 June, the Whakaatu Toi Gala Showcase CO-CURRICULAR
featured performances from 139 students in Drama,
Music and Dance. The programme included work from
the performance arts at all year levels, including NCEA
assessment pieces and co-curricular groups (the Choir,
Concert Band, Big Band, Theatresports demonstrations,
Scholarship Drama, and the Junior and Senior Dance
Troupes). Memorable moments of the programme included
the band ‘Ragaire’ (3rd place in Rockquest 2019), the one
act play ‘Out of Your Mind’, directed by Miss Clare Thomson
and Michael Hope, and Louis Carrier delighted the crowd
in his role as the Masters of Ceremonies. Highlights of the
visual arts exhibition were on display in the back of the hall,
and the winners of the exhibition awards were announced.
The audience (of over 250!) enjoyed watching the students
present their learning and enthusiasm for the arts both
on stage and on canvas. Particular thanks to Miss Clare
Thomson, Mr Oliver Humphries and Mr Andrew Lile for
their work towards the event and on the night.

MS CLARE JENNINGS,
ARTS FACULTY LEADER

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66 World Challenge 2019

CO-CURRICULAR Nineteen students from Glendowie College are going
on a World Challenge Trip to Nepal in December 2019
for one month. The Challengers have been fundraising, you to everyone who has supported and helped with the
preparing and training for the trip for the last 18 months. group’s fundraising activities.
The Challengers have the responsibility for leading the
team, managing the budget, liaising with local guides and FIONA SMITH
successfully achieving their objectives with the guidance WORLD CHALLENGE SCHOOL LEADER
of the School Trip Leader (Ms Fiona Smith) and the World
Challenge Leader Mike Grimmer. The trip involves
orientation days in Kathmandu where the students will
adapt to the culture, climate, terrain, food and smells!
Next it is the physical challenge of completing an 11-day
trek though one of Nepal’s finest high mountain valleys
between the Langtang range and Everest range where
the students will camp or stay in teahouses. The group
will trek through forests and glaciers before reaching Tso
Rolpa and it’s here that the notorious Yeti is supposed to
have made his home. In the next phase the group have the
opportunity to get their adrenaline pumping in white water
rafting the rapids of the Trisuli River where the group can
enjoy the scenic valleys, terraced rice fields and impressive
gorges. The group will then head to the city of Pokhara
known as the centre of adventure to celebrate Christmas.
Here the group will get to enjoy its beautiful lakes, stunning
panoramic views of the Himalayan peaks and go souvenir
shopping. The last phase is the community project work at
a rural school near Kathmandu – a chance to interact with
the local community, gain an insight into the Nepalese
culture, enjoy cultural exchange, complete some
community work, while helping to put into perspective
the groups’ privileged lives. The group then return to
Kathmandu where they will bring in the New Year before
then starting the return journey back to New Zealand. The
students are very enthusiastic about the trip and have
some fun final fundraising activities planned for the end of
the year before they head off on their expedition. Thank

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Ruaumoko’s year 9 camp kicked off with an early 6:45am
start with everyone gathering in front of the Riddell Road
gate, and quickly getting on the bus. Then the concert
began with fifty kids jamming the whole way to Tui Ridge
Adventure Camp, Rotorua! Nestled in 170 acres of land,
the facilities at Tui Ridge are beautiful and well organised.
After a quick briefing from the Tui Ridge staff, we made
our way to the three spacious dorms. We even had air
conditioning! The camp was packed full of amazing
activities, such as the flying fox, high ropes, abseiling down
a 15-metre rock wall and the giant swing which hauled you
up 15 metres high and dropped you, letting you swing. All
these activities challenged the students and allowed them
to discover new things about themselves and each other,
whilst having fun at the same time. The camp provided
a great opportunity for year 9’s to bond with each other
in their house as well as being able to meet and get to
know their 2019 leaders. At night, we had prefect and peer
support run activities, including a dress-up and a mathex-
style quiz, where students learnt more about Rūaumoko
house and our culture. All of this would not have been
possible if it were not for our fabulous deans, Mr Keshav
and Ms Harduar, and all the other teachers and year 13
leaders who came along to make this camp the best it
could be.

EILISH WOOD (13SOH),
DEPUTY HEAD PREFECT

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Marsden

Camp

My experience at Marsden bay camp was great. I had so
many great moments to share. There were so many fun
activities that we all took part in such as bumper balls, flying
fox, airsoft, kayaking, archery and of course the Burma
trail. My favourites had to be the bumper ball, airsoft, and
kayaking. It was cool how everyone came together and
bonded when there were no activities to take part in for
the rest of the day. I personally liked playing volleyball and
watching my mates playing Ping-Pong. The food wasn’t
good or bad, since it is a camp. My cabin had a really
cool vibe, but the only downside was that it smelled pretty
bad at times, but I adapted to it. I loved my experience at
camp mostly because I got to spend time with my friends,
and I will never forget my memorable experience I had at
camp.

BY CAESAR NOTEN

Year nine camp was a blast for me, my mates and everyone
else that came along. For Tane Mahuta Camp we went
to Marsden Bay Christian Camp which took around 2 1/2
hours driving north to get there. At Marsden bay we were
close to a beach which we enjoyed. It was a fun filled trip
with lots of activities, delicious food and lots of games.
Some of the activities included Archery, Hunting rifle
shooting, ziplining. My favourite one was when you were
inside these Zorb balls and you had to play soccer, most
of the time we were just running at each other trying to
bump each other over. My favourite part of camp though
was the Burma trail at night. Out of everyone there I think
I was the most scared, just cause of the fact that you were
blindfolded with year 13s not knowing when they would
pop out, making weird sounds to scare us. One of the Year
13s at camp was Julian, he lifted me up near the end and
ran with me all the way to the finish making the scariest
noises. There would be much more to tell but it would
take a while to explain how much fun we had.

BY MICK PEARSON

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Camp was a once in a lifetime experience. Everyone had
an extraordinary time there meeting new people and
doing great activities. As well as that, we learnt so many
new skills along the way. Skills including team working,
confidence building, risk taking, showing empathy and
learning to be resilient. Tangaroa camp was run by the
most amazing teachers and such supportive year 13’s. The
teachers gave us great help and support when we needed
it and the year 13’s provided us with the best games and
activities. The year 13’s I had in my dorm were so kind
and treated us like friends and this made me and all the
other girls in the dorm feel happy and comfortable around
them. We shared secrets and stories about school and
camp, it was a very enjoyable time. There were also some
great people that met us at Mangawhai Morris Point. The
cook, Rob Mcarthur made us delicious meals and desserts;
my personal favourite were the yummy muffins and the
amazing chocolate mousse. The managing director of the
camp was Thomas Hayden who kindly gave us the amazing
facility and dorms to stay in. Camp gave me and so many
others an opportunity to meet many new people that we
wouldn’t have even talked to if it wasn’t for camp. I made
so many new friends and became closer with the ones I
already had. I explored new things and tried different
activities. I shared all of this with the most amazing people.
Being risk takers together and encouraging each other
the whole way through. When we suffered loss against
other teams, we would bounce right back up and we all
showed resilience and at the same time, showing good
sportsmanship and being happy for other teams. When
we experienced triumph, we were proud! However, we
showed modesty towards other teams in respect for their
feelings. 2019 Tangaroa camp will be a time I and all the
others will never forget.

AKASHA SHROFF
- 9 KAR, 9 INDIGO

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Tāwhirimātea

Camp

Whakamaru

“Being a family means you are a part of something very
wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest
of your life.”

–Lisa Weed.

Over four hours from Auckland, a group of Year 9’s tested
their limits and their comfort zones as they bonded through
group exercises. Through these exercises, the Year 9’s and
some Year 13’s of Tawhirimatea became a house, a family,
learnt about one another and supported each other. Even
though we were intensely tested with our fears of heights,
falling and the dark, our friendship came through and we
overcame those fears while making new friends. Camp
Whakamaru provided so many amazing opportunities
for us to push boundaries. These included a Burma trail,
kayaking, zip lining, archery and a confidence course. Our
house friendship was formed, along with our individual
friendships.

Let’s just say that we went home really tired on Wednesday.
Still, we had such an amazing three days and those
memories and friendships will last forever.

JORJA KANE
9CHS

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72 Model United

STUDENTS Nations

The weekend just passed, a select few students from Year
12 and 13 represented Glendowie College at the East
Auckland Rotary Club’s Model United Nations Assembly
for district 9910. The event works in such a way that the
students are placed in groups of three and allocated
a country to represent during the model UN General
Assembly. Glendowie Students were lucky enough to
be assigned Cuba, Monaco, and Zimbabwe. The idea of
the weekend was to possess the persona, morals, ethics,
and values of the respective nations, and to do so in a
diplomatic and orderly fashion.

Held at Auckland Girls Grammar School, the students
arrived and took their seats in the auditorium set out in an
identical fashion to that of the General Assembly in New
York. The day was spent debating a selection of remits
(including children’s rights, hate speech, disarmament,
climate change and regulations on internet platforms)
set forth by Rotary designed to evoke conversation about
issues incontestably relevant to today’s society and chosen
with the purpose of encouraging meaningful conversation
among politically minded students from schools as far
north as Kerikeri. One of the students summed up the
event when she said, “It was a full on two days that were
spent listening, speaking, laughing, clapping and arguing.
It was amazing to spend those days in the atmosphere
full of people who speak up, demand change and are the
future leaders of tomorrow. We made friends and learned
a lot.”

Walking away from the event, the Cuban team, closely aided
by Zimbabwe and Monaco, from Glendowie College had
been pivotal in initiating an ultimately successful vote to
remove the United States from the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) and later entirely dissolve the UNSC on
the grounds that the five powers were found to be abusing
their positions of power and not acting in favour of global
democracy and instead prioritising the advancement of
individual political agendas. Alongside this, the delegates
of Glendowie College backed amendments to remits
which supported the progression of international children
and women’s rights, as well as initiating a peacekeeping
treaty to ensure global disarmament became a high priority
among member states and establishing a new state called
“Soviet Union 2: The Electric Boogaloo”

At the end of the two days the Cuban team was awarded
Most Engaging Speakers and Zimbabwe was likewise
announced as the runners-up in the award of Best Overall
Team.

On behalf of all the students involved, “We, the delegates
of Cuba, Monico, and Zimbabwe are grateful for being
invited to take part in this event and most importantly for
Mrs. Harding’s help, guidance, and supervision in making
this event a reality!.”

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Creative Writing Club was again a great success this year, with new events and members being added to the club. STUDENTS
Although we had difficulty in the first term trying to balance meetings, due to members in the club (including myself)
having different commitments at different lunchtimes, we were able to get back into it by term 2. During our Tuesday
lunchtime sessions, we would do writing prompts and discussions on aspects of story and poem writing in terms 1 and
2, and focused on finishing our pieces for our annual magazine in term 3. In term 4, we will be finalizing and publishing
our magazine, titled “Using Your Right Brain”, which will include writing pieces and illustrations by students.

On the last Thursday of term 2, we had our first Creative Writing Club school event: we had the privilege of having the
amazing Ayobami Adesanya come to GDC and speak to us about creative writing, especially poetry. The group she
spoke to comprised of Creative Writing Club members and others who signed up. She shared with us great pieces of
wisdom around self-expression around creative writing, such as using images and the world around us to inspire us, how
we can approach poetry, and how each of us are different. We thank Ayo again for taking her time out to speak to us.

Next year, the club will be led by the current Year 12 students. We hope that the club will continue to grow and develop
in their leadership.

Below are some photos from our Term 2 event with Ayobami, and excerpts from pieces written by Creative Writing
Club students.

“She sits on the deck and peers out towards the horizon, the sky draping over her like an endless crochet quilt.” -Mayna
Tse
“Innocence had drifted from a man’s heart to a world beyond, and a religion of hate coupled with the sins of power and
greed dominated a civilisation.”-Anudi Thilakarathne
“Dearest diary, it’s me, President Lyndon Johnson.” -Dash Hunter
“A lie spewed like oil/Coating our tongues and slurring our speech.” -Sophie Newton
“Glancing below we saw a large school of fish all covered with vibrant orange scales swimming around, freely exploring
the vast streambed.” -Santhuri Naicker
“On certain days, the river of time stops.” -KohEun Lee
“‘We sang...Sorrowful, merciful and beautiful tunes to the moon night sky.” -Arbel Tenembaum
“We live, love and die/For those moments that make it” -Zoe Clark

KohEun (Catherine) Lee,
Leader of CWC

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74 The Makerspace Club

STUDENTS The Makerspace Club is the future of learning. The
Makerspace Club develops critical thinking, coding and
problem solving skills at Glendowie College through
STEAM projects. These projects provide challenges and
opportunities for students to problem solve, collaborate
and think outside the box. Students can choose to work
on group projects, which will allow them to interact and
socialise with new people. Some current year projects that
were completed by the Makerspace Club members are an
RC car, line follower robot, a full racetrack for line following
robots and a robot that walks! As well as this we have many
more fun and challenging projects planned for the future!

Benjamin Hunt & Sujaanan Jeyaseelan

Spoken Word
Poetry Team

This year, the Spoken Word Poetry Team, comprised of Running Club
Ava Franklin, Holly Timmins, Toby Osborne and KohEun
Lee, competed in an Auckland-wide competition For decades the running club has been one of the most
known as WORD: the Frontline. After weeks of careful prestigious and influential groups in the school. The
preparation, they performed their original material at the numen infused guiding hands of the leaders have trained
Allen Brewster Leisure Centre in Papatoetoe, in front of a and morphed godlings into the pinnacle of stamina and
sizeable gathering of students, parents, and local poets. speed. The attendees rival the X-43 in terms of power and
extent. A special thanks to our head of gender relations,
Ava and Holly performed as a duo, collectively addressing treasurer and (ex)vice treasurer for allowing our team to
issues of colonisation, race and power in Aotearoa with triumph. What we have done in the past year has been
conviction and gravitas. Toby mused about stereotypes nothing short of spectacular and we shall continue to run
in an entertaining poem about vehicles and the sort of through and succeed in life.
people we expect to drive them, and KohEun delivered a
powerful, meditative piece on the nature of dreams.

Although the team did not place in the finals, they
represented themselves and Glendowie College with
utter pride. The standard of competition was extremely
high, as most of the other poets were seasoned
participants of the competition. The judges emphatically
praised our team’s effort and creativity and urged them to
continue honing their poetic skills.

Any students with an interest in this art form, regardless
of experience level, are encouraged to come along to the
Spoken Word Poetry meetings. Our goal is to put forward
two competitive teams in 2020.

As Carol Ann Duffy once said, “You can find poetry in
your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on
the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.”

By Mr Reynolds

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TECHS 75

The TECHS are a community service group that is run by STUDENTS
a group of students that have a wide variety of technical
expertise in either computer hardware or software. Their Techs
role in the school community is to provide assistance to
both students and staff with IT related problem solving Back Row: Kieran Mahon, Callum Boag, Lewis Azzopardi,
and advice regarding using the various ICT facilities at the Kieran Joe
school. Some members of the team are also responsible for Front Row: Benjamin Miller, Anthony White, Avneet Sharma, Patrick
the audio visual presentations during school assemblies. Collier, Vicki Mercer (Teacher)

Each year one of the team’s main responsibilities is A subcommittee of the team are in the process of starting
providing an ICT induction assembly for the new Year 9 a ‘coding club’ for students who are interested in learning
students. This assembly covers a wide variety of topics, how to develop virtual reality programs using Unity for the
including some cyber safety advice, instructions for getting coding and Blender for creating the graphics. They hope
the logins set up for the school’s cloud based facilities and to get this running on a weekly basis in 2020.
instructions for accessing the Wi Fi at the school.
This year the team is sadly losing several of the senior
In term two, the team worked with one of the school’s team members. Anyone who is interested in joining this
guidance counsellors (Ms. Andrea Curtis) to provide some community service team should see Ms. V. Mercer, ICT
presentations to the Year 9 students regarding the topic Manager.
of “Connections.” The team shared some advice about
online interpersonal connections and relationships.

Each Tuesday during lunchtime, the TECHS were readily
available to provide technical assistance to any students or
teachers that required assistance with their use of personal
devices at school.

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Amnesty International is an organisation dedicated 2018. This violates international law as children should not STUDENTS
to protecting human rights around the world. Here at have to be punished for their mistakes with death.
Glendowie College, we have over 40 members that have
been involved in our action to end pre-trial detention in We gathered over 200 paper signatures from teachers
Madagascar, as well as ending the child death penalty in and students alike. These petitions were addressed to
Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling on him to halt plans
to execute any of the 90 child offenders on death row and
In Term 1, we focused on ending the cruel conditions in commute their death sentences to terms of imprisonment
Madagascar’s prisons. People who have not been found as well as to work towards abolishing the death penalty for
guilty of any crime are awaiting trial in Madagascar. These all crimes.
people are dying in terrible conditions, with lack of food
and medical care, having caused 52 deaths in 2017. These To raise awareness about this topic, we hosted interesting
prisons are only supposed to house 50 people, but have activities such as making origami candles modelled after
been found as housing over 200. Even children as young the Amnesty logo, Kahoots, a post-it note mural of ‘One-
as six years old have been imprisoned in these camps. By Liners’ where participants wrote why the death penalty
promoting and signing an online petition that gathered should be abolised in one line, and a debate.
nearly 3000 signatures so far, we raised awareness on this
horrific subject. Although our time with Amnesty has come to an end,
there will always be a need for more youth to campaign
In August, we participated in the Freedom Challenge 2019, for human rights. So join Amnesty next year and be part
a New Zealand wide event for schools and communities to of the change!
take action for human rights. This year’s topic was focused
on ending the child death penalty in Iran. Iran is the top Amnesty co-leaders - Olivia Bing, Irene Xue and May Gan
executioner of children in the world, with at least 97 people
under the age of 18 being executed between 1990 and

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80 Library - Played poker, chess, Guess Who, Exploding Kittens,
Connect Four or a range of other games
STUDENTS If you came into the library this year, you may have…
- Helped finish a complicated jigsaw puzzle
- Had a blind date with a book
- Borrowed one book, two books or maybe fifty books
- Received Easter Eggs for borrowing books
- Asked Ms Gayton to help you with printing
- Ordered an imaginary burger for Te Wiki o Te Reo
Maori - Attended a library week event

- Helped the library team raise money to buy over 50 - Won or lost or annual Harry Potter Kahoot!
pairs of Pyjamas for Kidz First at Middlemore Hospital
- Discovered a new author
- Come to the library wearing your onesie
- Been one of the 90 students who grabbed summer
- Got excited about the new library computer system reading from the library with our personalised
#relaxandread programme
- Participated and maybe even helped your House win
the inaugural Hose Reading Competition - Used a book in your inquiry work

- Been taught something about CRAAP or note taking - Discovered a new website like DigitalNZ
or database research or APA referencing or a mixture
of all by Ms Gayton - Raced around the library creating chaos during the
Alice in Wonderland Scavenger Hunt
- Started following the library’s Instagram page @gdclib
- Annoyed or amused the librarian
- Borrowed a book from a fabulous Pride display
- And you might have done lots of other stuff too!
- Been one of the 33 teams you tried to conquer our
Escape Room

- Studies and read in the quiet reading room at break
times

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In term 1 a group of year 9 students competed in the GDC STUDENTS
readers competition. From this event, a school team was
selected with five year 9 readers Meghan Cartwright, Luke Caption required
Gordon, Isla Kendrick, Zoe Paterson and Aimee Thomas.
We went to Alfriston College to take part in the South East equal. After several more rounds we’re slipped into 3rd
Auckland Regional Readers Cup competition. As a team place, and then bounced back into 2nd, a lot of tension
we had to answer a series of questions on six books we had and nervous glances at the opposition, the announcement
read (some of them we liked, some of them we didn’t!); the was made. Not only had we met our goal of not coming
tricky part of the competition is that only 4 out of 5 team last but we achieved second place (losing by two points to
members could be at the table answering questions, we Riccarton High School). We celebrated with hot chocolate
had no idea of the order books would be quizzed in, and and cookies.
we only got to sub a player in after round two and four.
However the result was a rewarding one - first place and The five of us hope that the 2020 readers cup team will
the chance to compete in the National Readers Cup. enjoy the competition, the reading and of course the
food as much as we did. Special thanks to Ms Gayton for
The National Readers Cup was held at the start of term 4 at training and supporting us.
Dilworth College, schools came from all over New Zealand
to compete from Whangarei, Otago, Christchurch, even Luke Gordon
the Wairarapa. Throughout term 3 and up until the day
of the competition, we had been working extensively, at
lunchtimes and form to memorise the details of 6 books
(Good-Bye Stranger, A Song Only I Can Hear, The Half-Life
of Ryan Davis, The Traitor and the Thief, and The Boy at
the Top of the Mountain). Also, being held at Dilworth (a
boarding school) we were invited to join them for lunch.
We were treated to steaming pea and ham soup as well as
an array of vegetables, salads and dips.

After lunch we revised our notes some more, and it wasn’t
long before the competition began. The questions were
not exactly what we expected. So by the end of the first
round, we were surprised to find ourselves in 2nd place

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82 Peer Support

STUDENTS Earlier this year Ryan and I had the privilege of helping
to manage Peer Support. Throughout term 1 there were
approximately 80 year 12 and 13 students who committed Then, in late February, a select group of us went and joined
to helping the year 9’s fit into their new environment at the Year 9’s on their camp. After hours of activities, games
college. and fun we ran small activities and lessons so that we
could grow together more as a ‘schoolhouse’ and in our
On the first day, after the Powhiri, we ran many different form classes. It was awesome to see the year 9s becoming
activities and games such as Fruit Salad and Bang, better friends and growing in confidence over the three-
introduced students to various teachers, showed them day camp. For us as well, supporting them there was an
around what seems a very complicated school landscape, absolute blast.
as well as showing them where support can be found
for various situations that will probably occur in their Camp and Peer Support overall was a really enjoyable and
high school experience. We played way too many name fun experience to be a part of, growing our own leadership
games and started the year off right. For the first term skills and introducing the year 9’s to the Glendowie College
there were weekly sessions during extended form time, in family.
which we covered a wide range of topics such as bullying,
dealing with anxiety, peer pressure, communication and By Britney Jamieson
cooperation. During each of the lessons there were fun
activities that centered around what we were trying to
teach them so that it was never a bore.

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In 2019, our International Programme continued to flourish STUDENTS
with well over 100 international students enrolled at
Glendowie College. Studying in their second language
these students continue to achieve very good results, some
at the highest level. Many also participate in a range of co-
curricular activities including team sports and a variety of
music activities, including an outstanding song and dance
act during International Languages week.

Our International students come from a variety of countries
and cultures and add to the already diverse mix of students
at the college. This year we have had students from: China,
Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Sri Lanka, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Peru, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain and New Caledonia.

The College is as always grateful to the local families and
homestay providers who include and take care of our
International students during their time with us.

Lesley Walker
Director of International Students

International Talent
Competition

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84 Young Enterprise Scheme

STUDENTS This year we had two business teams participating in • Janadalisation and CloudMass both made it to the top
theYES programme; CloudMass founded by Matthew 8 teams in the East Auckland Region
Bilby, Adam Jonkers & Sean Gibbs and Jandalisation
founded by Lydia Edgeworth and Mayna Tse. Both are • On the 22nd of October CloudMass was announced
sustainable enterprises with a quadruple bottom line. the company of the year for the East Auckland Region
CloudMass are developing a miniature, real-time, tracking and the members will be flying with Mrs Harduar to
device for the care of dementia patients. They donate 5% Wellington on the 4th of December to compete in the
of their profits to Dementia New Zealand to support more Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme National
research into potential cures for dementia. Jandalisation Competition
are creating custom jandals with the aim to donate a pair
of socks to City Mission for every pair of jandals sold. • Sean Gibbs was announced EY Individual of the Year

Highlights of the YES students: • CloudMass was presented with the “One to Watch”
award
• In June, Matthew (12TBS) traveled to Wellington for
the annual Entrepreneurs in Action weekend Acknowledgements:

• Mrs Harduar and Mrs Christopher (Glendowie College;

• In July, Sean (12PTW) traveled to Argentina with Teacher guidance and support)
seven other New Zealand students and experience • Andrew Joyce (St Andrews Retirement Village; Product
international business in Latin America. At the end of a
busy week Sean was awarded the Best Speaker Validator)
• Mr. Simon O’Connor (National Party; Advisor/
• CloudMass is selected for the Global Kaikitantanga
Project, a 14-month project with four other teams in Consultant)
hopes of going to the World Expo in 2020. In September • Mr. Andrew Thompson (TVD; Mentor)
2020 all five teams will pitch, and the winning team • Mr. James Sleigh (SEQEL Partners, Mentor)
will go to Dubai and present their business at the • Madi Barnett and Yasmin Grey (YES East Auckland
New Zealand pavilion. One of the opportunities for
this project was for Adam to travel to Thailand for a Regional Coordinator and Roaming Teacher)
week and immerse himself in Thai business and gain • Peta Fraser (Global Kaitiakitanga Project Mentor,
knowledge of sustainability
NZTE)
• Terry, Colin and the team at YES HQ (YES Administration)
• Kelly Hanlon and the team at NZTE (Global

Kaitiakitanga Project Administrator, NZTE)
• Tim and the team at KiloNZ (Support for client

meetings location and meal-wise)
• James Hunt (Ex-Student of Glendowie College;

Mentor)
• The Auckland Business Chamber

2020 is shaping up to be an extremely exciting year for
Glendowie College and our Business Department. Watch
this space!

Sean Gibbs (12PTW)

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Group DND is part of the gaming club which is held on STUDENTS
Wednesdays and Thursdays, with Mr Hayden So as the
Diversity Group is a safe space for all students to come and supervisor and game enthusiast. DND is a game of
participate in group discussions, games, and charity events fiction, where you make up characters with unique stats,
that support Rainbow Youth and the LGBT community. It is class and race, that go on an adventure with the other
not only for LGBT students but for allies and other students member’s characters. The adventure is called a campaign,
just looking for support. This year we sold rainbow ribbons, and as of the publishing of this article, we have multiple
ran a ‘guess the skittles in the jar’ and took part in the day campaigns running with several DM’s (dungeon masters,
of silence. We raised funds for Rainbow Youth and many basically narrators). One campaign we have is run by Dash
students took part in their fortnightly meetings to meet Hunter, which is an adventure of intrigue, ghosts, god-
other diverse students from around auckland. Our group killing poison and secret societies. Where the player have
met up each week and we had the amazing support of to foil a millenia old wizard from ascending to godhood.
Andrea Curtis, one of the school counsellors. We look Another campaign we have is Miss Thomson’s campaign,
foward to what diversity group brings next year. which included a small group of warriors going up against
a mighty Kraken! Will Massam has been running the
Nina Harding and Maia De Klerk. Curse of Strahd campaign where the players must go on
a journey to collect relics and people to overthrow the
Interact reigning lord, the vampire Strahd. This is and great and
immersive campaign and takes a whole range of creative
2019 for Interact has been a very successful year. With over skills as well as time by the students and teachers involved.
50 students involved, we fundraised for both Starship and Long may this continue!!
the Cancer Foundation. We also had Alexia Hilbertidou, a
young social entrepreneur in to speak to all the Glendowie Caption required
College students, as well as run two workshops for a
select 70 students. Interact was also lucky enough to be
able to send 6 students to the Rotary Youth Program of
Enrichment (RYPEN) Camp, where our students learnt
valuable leadership and communication skills for the future.
Overall, this year has been a busy, but very successful year
for Interact.

Of course, this could not have happened without the
time and effort of all of our Interactors. A special thanks
to this year’s leaders, Sophie Newton (vice president), Avi
Richardson, Gena Shimoda, and Bella Semmens.

Nina Harding, President

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Cultural Prefects 87

Nikita Horselenberg, Nathan Philipiah, Tom Hayward, fantastic. STUDENTS
Francesca Treuren, Tayla Clark & Henry Hartford. Another significant event we helped organise was the
GDC Haka competition. Usually, every house puts into
Kia Ora my fellow readers I’m here to talk about the making their haka the best, but this year was exceptional.
significant events that we cultural prefects were a part of Each house endeavoured to make it better than previous
this year. New Zealand is a nation of culture with a diverse years. It was phenomenal to witness as Tangaroa, Tāne
set of people and creeds that make up this beautiful Mahuta, Tāwhirimātea and Rūaumoko pushed to be the
country, and our school is just a smaller representation best. The hall echoed with the voices of warriors and the
of that. Culture is everywhere in our school with students beat of our actions reverberated through the wooden
showing their passions for art, literature, tradition and floors. In the end, it was Tane Mahuta who had their well-
much more. As such culture prefects do their best to deserved victory.
represent it. When it comes to our connection to the
Maori traditions that make up our school to festivals like Being a cultural prefect is something that will stay with
Diwali and Matariki. Chessie, Henry, Nikita, Tayla, Tom and us forever as we move forward in life. We’d like to thank
I have been blessed with this honour, and we certainly had everyone who helped guide us through our journey,
fun with the role. especially Ms Vincent, you were terrific.
So, thank you Glendowie college, and we hope you have
Events like culture week were huge with activities like as much fun as we did next year. Cheers
origami competitions where we had participants make
as many paper boxes as possible. This led to the next
competition where you had to pick as many m&ms as
possible and place them into the boxes you made using
chopsticks. In this type of game, everyone is a winner.
We had culture quizzes and showed a variety of artwork
inspired by the styles of different nations. It was wonderful.

But the highlight of that week was the GDC cultural talent
show where we had a variety of performances (it happened
the week after because I was organising it and I got sick;
but whatever). From a mixture of Korean, Chinese and
Japanese pop along with some good old-fashioned
English rock. The amount of effort everyone put in could
be seen, and it was a spectacle to behold. The crowd
cheered, the lights shined, and every performance was

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88 Events Prefects

STUDENTS Brianna Green, Fynn Hickey, Cole Bullot, & Julian van der
Plank
as though one was entering a tropical resort. The carefully
Being events prefect at Glendowie College was an selected colour scheme of white, gold, blue and green,
experience worth the while. The role has required us to showed in the table arrangements and the luscious, green
use our creativity, organisation and planning skills, show plants surrounding the venue. It was an amazing ceremony
our commitment and of course, enthusiasm. The four of that all year 12’ and 13’s enjoyed dressing up for, and
us across the houses worked incredibly hard to make every thanks to the hard work of the event’s prefects, it became
event reach the standards this year. a night to remember.

The Carnival-themed year 9 and 10 social took place in Being Events prefects of 2019 has been an amazing
term one. This was a great opportunity, not only for the experience for every one of us, but we couldn’t have
fresh year 9s to mingle in a fun environment but also for the achieved all the things we did without some help. I’d like
events and year 9 prefects to work together. Our carnival to extend a huge thank you to Miss Rothbart, for helping
theme was brought to life with colourful decorations and us make our ideas become a reality this year.
photo booths, thanks to the huge help from everyone
involved. The night was wrapped up with box loads of By Brianna Green
pizza and one of our very own students as our personal DJ
of the night. Thank you Julian! Overall the social was a big
hit, as everyone had a great time busting out their dances
moves and socialising all together.

The Senior Ball was another hugely successful event

that the events prefects were in charge of. After a lot of
consideration, this year we decided to create the theme,
‘Tropical Nights’. We aimed for a ball were everything
from the plants to the tablecloths were nothing short
of perfection. Overall the Fijian resort atmosphere
was achieved with our grand entry. A white marquee
accompanied by an elegant wooden bridge made it seem

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Arbel Tenembaum, Lydia Edgeworth, Niamh Montgomery participants from the community. We also had someone STUDENTS
& Julia Tan from Sustainable Coastlines come to speak to our school
Being a service prefect at Glendowie College is all about in assembly as well as hosting a mufti day with a silly
contributing our efforts to both the school and wider accessory theme. From these events, we not only raised
community. We were all largely involved in organising awareness with the issue of plastic and littering but also
fundraisers for each of our houses, in order to raise took action and helped keep our community tidy.
awareness and funds for them.
Tāwhirimātea (Niamh Montgomery)
Tāne Mahuta (Arbel Tenembaum)
This year Tāwhirimātea stayed with our charity from
This year Tāne Mahuta fundraised for St John Ambulance last year - the Mental Health Foundation. They are a
New Zealand, who provide many services including charity that works towards creating a society free from
ambulance service all across NZ. Many students, including discrimination, where all people enjoy positive mental
myself, are involved in the youth program meaning we had health and wellbeing. In order to promote the values of
a lot of enthusiasm heading into term 3. With the help of the foundation we got students from the college to write
my service committee, we planned out an epic fundraiser positive postcards to their friends, telling them what they
that included a bake sale, mufti day, selling ambulance appreciate about each other. This was a huge success
keyrings and a CPR competition. Not just students but also with 750 postcards being handed out to students across
teachers got involved, even Mr Dykes had a go! In the end, the school. We also created an appreciation board where
we raised nearly $2000 and taught the skill of CPR to many people wrote kind, anonymous notes to display for anyone
students and teachers alike. I am very proud of the people who’s having a bad day and needs a nice message. We
from my house who stepped up and contributed to our also ran a mufti day to raise money for the Mental Health
fundraiser and hope that this fundraiser helped shed more Foundation. It was really awesome to see the people in the
light into the need for emergency medicine in NZ. house who stood up to help out for this event, it definitely
wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
Tangaroa (Lydia Edgeworth)
Ruaumoko (Julia Tan)

For our charity this year, we decided to support HeartKids
NZ, an organisation that assists children born with and
living with heart defects. We managed to raise $2700 in
total through a school-wide mufti day and our Everyday
Heroes page. Some of this money was used to buy and
cook meals for the children and families in need - in fact,
we managed to cook 170 meals for these families! In
addition, we purchased many baby rattles, toys, colouring
pencils and colouring books for the HeartKids children in
Starship hospital, which raised spirits all around! Overall,
it was a great effort from the entire house, and especially
Mrs Harduar, who was the liaison between Glendowie and
HeartKids!

Tangaroa’s house charities for 2019 were Sustainable
Coastlines and Keep New Zealand Beautiful which are
both dedicated to spreading awareness and taking
action in keeping our community tidy. Tangaroa hosted
a beach clean up at Tahuna Torea Reserve with over 50

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90 Sports Prefects

STUDENTS Liam Wilson, Jessica McIntosh, Olivia Hay, Tayla Clark &
Henry Hartford
over the hills to compete for the win in their age level. We
2019 had been an awesome year in sports. We have also had many supporters around the course cheering our
seen a variety of competitive and social teams take to runners on to give them that extra boost to keep going. In
the pitch,field or court to represent Glendowie college. the end we saw Ruaumoko house take the win.
This school offers a variety of sports with a high success
rate which is reflected in the inclusiveness, support and Term 3 was a big term for sport. At the start we organised
variety of sports,tournaments and social sporting events a junior and senior house netball competition which saw
offered. Together as a group of five sports prefects we all four houses competing every lunchtime for two weeks
have organised and supported many sporting events at but in the end Tangora went away with the win in both
this school to encourage participation wherever possible. tournaments. We then had over seven teams travel all
over the north island to take part in the winter tournament
Term one started off with a bang. We had a huge turnout weeks in their respective sports. We had many great results
including the football girls first eleven coming away with a
at our annual swimming sports competition seeing gold medal for the first time in Glendowie College history.
Tawhirimatea take the win. We then had athletics day where We also saw the underwater hockey team place second in
we saw splashes of blue, red,purple and green take to the their national tournament . As the year comes to an end,
track and field. Whether the students were competitive we look forward to the continued success in our summer
or not there was something for everyone. With a great sports in term 4.
day coming to an end we saw Tangora swimming for the
finish line,Tawhirimatea striking the competition, Tane As your sports prefects we have enjoyed being involved
mahuta grew stronger, but ultimately we saw Ruaumoko in all sporting activities within the college, the great
heating up and taking the win. These events were hugely results achieved and the growth in all the pupils whether
successful because of the participation of every student at achieving personal bests, or participating for the first time.
Glendowie College.
By Tayla Clark
Term two marked the end of a successful summer sports
season and the start of the winter sports. We had a range of
sports competing every day of the week as well as a vibrant
sporting culture at every game to support the teams. We
also had our cross country race this term where we saw
the four houses go head to head for the 2019 cross county
title. We saw many pupils running through mud,bush and

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Jodie Dickins, Cole Davis, Ollie White and Michaela Ivanier 13’s. Our aim was to make one of our very limited days STUDENTS
left of school as memorable as possible. With events like
The Year 13 Prefects have been working hard this year! We bouncy castles and zorb soccer we hoped that all the Year
had a busy start to the year working alongside the events 13s would have an unforgettable day. While we have had
prefects organising the ball. Everyone looked amazing as a busy year, our jobs are still not finished. We still have
they walked into a tropical night at Eden Park. We had an to decide on a gift for the school from all of us in Year
awesome time choosing the food, decorations and music 13. Glendowie College has done so much for us over the
that all helped to make the ball a night to remember. As past 5 years that we want to thank them for all their help.
this was our first major event it taught us how much work While our year group has been very memorable leaving a
goes on behind the scenes of organising events like this. It gift for the school will ensure we are never forgotten. Our
involved hours of admin and hard work but was awesome success this year is thanks to all the teachers and various
to see it come together in the end and be a night that other students and committees who helped us along the
will never be forgotten. Our next major job was organising way. A special thanks to Mrs Rothbart as she helped with
the leavers jumpers. It was a privilege to design a jumper all these events putting in her own time and effort as well
that the year 13’s will always have to remember their time as putting up with all of us!
at GDC. We designed a few different options deciding
on one we thought everyone would like. While doing this
we also had the job of organising the Year 13 fun day. We
had to decide activities and organise food for all the Year

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92 Athletics Day 2019

SPORTS Athletics day 2019 was a showcase of GDC’s outstanding
sportsmanship and team spirit. What I enjoy most about
the day is that everyone participates and has a fantastic
time, regardless of their physical abilities. Those who
shine on the track get cheered on by eager spectators.
Those who excel in field events get to go for gold and
try to beat school records. But most importantly, even the
students who don’t think of themselves as athletes get a
chance to give everything a go with the support of the
school community. Another thing I noticed was the pride
in the new houses, and the friendly competitiveness all the
houses had towards giving it their all and winning team
points. Everyone enjoyed dressing up in their house colours
and parading across the field with their mates. In the end
Ruaumoko snatched the win, but regardless all houses
exhibited courageous team spirit and house patriotism that
made me proud to be a part of Glendowie.

Holly Harding
Athletics Day was held on Friday, 1 March 2019, the weather
was perfect for the day. Participation rates at all levels
was high, with excellent involvement and performances
from both junior and senior students. House colours
were proudly displayed right from the start in the House
March In and this created the foundation for a positive and
competitive atmosphere throughout the day. The House
relays at the end of the day were a highlight for everyone.

MR DAVID STORRIE, FACULTY LEADER
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

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93

SPORTS

Central Eastern Zone
Athletics Championship

On Tuesday 5 March 2019, a group of athletes represented younger athlete. Both Sophie Court (Year 9), Junior Girls
Glendowie College at the Central Eastern Zone Athletics High Jump and Holly Harding (Year 11), Intermediate Girls
Championships. In a very competitive zone, our athletes 3000m, were very competitive finishing in fourth place in
achieved some outstanding results. Highlights were their events.
Charles Devlin (Year 13) winning both the Senior Boys High
Jump and the Triple Jump. Alice Webster-McNamee (Year MR JEREMY ADAMS, SPORTS COORDINATOR
12) winning both the Senior Girls Discus and Shot Put and
placing 3rd in the Javelin. Aimee Court (Year 12) finished
2nd in Senior Girls High Jump, Hope Makiri-Hennings
(Year 11) was 2nd in Intermediate Girls Javelin and Lila
Baroumandi (Year 10) was 3rd in Intermediate Girls Long
Jump. Angus Monro (Year 10) also captured 3rd position
in the Intermediate Boys 3000m, an excellent result for a

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94 2019 Cross Country Results

Junior Girls Race - Top six placings Junior Boys Race - Top six placings

SPORTS Place Name Form Class Place Name Form Class
10THR 10NAI
6th place Phoebe Wild 9HUM 6th place Serge Carroll 10THR
10SAN 9WAL
5th place Rebecca McLaren 9GRY 5th place Kieran Smith 9GRY
9 WAL 10SAN
4th place Hannah Barclay 9HUM 4th place Henry Davis 9COM

3rd place Helena Quirk 3rd place Benjamin Hawken

2nd place Lou Lou Penman 2nd place Matthew Calvert

1st place Sarah Butterworth 1st place Henry Gibson
Champion Champion

Intermediate Girls Race - Top six placings Intermediate Boys Race- Top six placings

Place Name Form Class Place Name Form Class

6th place Alyssa Peters 11LWS 6th place Evan French 11PVN

5th place Erin Walshe 10KHN 5th place Luke Barter 11KIM

4th place Chelsea Ferguson 11HEN 4th place Rowan Warren 12KAU

3rd place Emma Goodall 10THR 3rd place Benjamin Hunt 11PVN

2nd place Gia Jeffery 10GEE 2nd place William Atkinson 11SIM

1st place Holly Harding 11JON 1st place Angus Monro 10NAI
Champion Champion

Senior Girls Race- Top six placings Senior Boys Race - Top six placings

Place Name Form Class Place Name Form Class
13NFS 12COO
6th place Zoe Moltschaniwskyj 13NFS 6th place Toby Smit 12BAR
13IFR 13WHI
5th place Jodie Dickens 13SOH 5th place Avinaash Krishnan 13NFS
13WBR 13LIU
4th place Mayna Tse 13LIU 4th place Patrick Collier 13NFS

3rd place Tayla Clark 3rd place Almog Herscho

2nd place Jessie McIntosh 2nd place Yannik Boehm

1st place Olivia Hay 1st place Samuel Calvert
Champion Champion

Form Classes with Highest Participation levels House Points and placings for the 2019 Cross Country

Form Class House 4th Place Tangaroa 566 points

Year 9 9 CGN Tangaroa 3rd Place Tawhirimatea 620 points

Year 10 10 SAN Tangaroa 2nd Place Tane Mahuta 772 points

Year 11 11PVN + Tane Mahuta 1st Place Ruamoko 817 points
11LWS Tangaroa

Year 12 12BAR Ruamoko

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Table Tennis 95

Did you know that Glendowie College had a table tennis SPORTS
team? Three, actually! With our Glendowie 1 (Binghao
Xue, Evan French and Clifford Duan) and Glendowie 2 Table Tennis
(Daniel Clark, Andrea Eng, May Gan, Emily Zou) teams
placing second in their respective B2 and C1 grades, we Back Row: Theo Thompson-Rikys, Binghao Xue, Bar Avni, Ethan
are proud to have grown and strengthened our bond as Bakkerus, Evan French
a team. Front Row: May Gan, Irene Xue, Clifford Duan, Emily Zou, Andrea Eng
Absent: Mr Hayden So (Coach)
Our Glendowie 1 team performed spectacularly, getting
first place in the inter-school regionals in Term 2. This is
a huge accomplishment. Well done to all those involved!

Our Glendowie 3 team consists of Bar Avni, Ethan
Bakkerus, and two new players, Theo Thompson-Rikys and
Irene Xue. Under the supportive eye of our coach, Dinyar
Irani, they have improved immensely.

To prove that we’re not making this up, here is a testimonial
about how great table tennis at Glendowie College is:
“Joining table tennis this year was the best decision
I’ve ever made! It’s such a welcoming and encouraging
environment and I’ve enjoyed every second of the table
tennis season. Farewell, table tennis, we will meet again in
the near future” - Irene Xue

The journey we have undertaken through table tennis has
been long and suffering, with many trials and tribulations.
Being overshadowed by mainstream sports, forced to
move training grounds and considered recreation instead
of a sport are some of the adversities we have faced. Thank
you to Mr So, Mr Keshav and Mr Shi for helping us through
these times and driving us to our competition venue every
Friday. We owe it all to you!

See you all next year,

Table Tennis Co-leaders - Andrea Eng, May Gan and
Emily Zou

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96 Football

SPORTS Girls Football

Girls football at GDC has grown massively since year 9 I will take with me throughout life. Making GDC history
and has gotten better with each year. The development in winning our tournament week would definitely be a
of our players and coaches has been noticed as results highlight of my schooling and I hope to hear about more
are proving players hard work and dedication. Football is successes in the future.
a major sport at GDC as there are many teams traveling
to the fields each Wednesday across the junior and senior Caitlin Adams
school. These teams would not be able to compete and
participate without the help of volunteers to drive the vans,
the coaches, and support from the school, Jeremy, Kylie
and David James. The support from parents is also greatly
appreciated as it boosts the team’s spirits when they come
along to watch the games.

This year I was lucky enough to captain the XI Girls Football
team alongside our amazing coach Kellie. Our experience
in the A1 grade was up and down but overall finishing 4th
in our grade. Tournament week was were we had put all
our effort and training into and had made a goal of making
the top 3 at the Kathy Seaward football tournament in
Whangarei. This is where our team proved that we were
the team to beat. After getting into the final unbeaten
we knew that Christchurch Girls would be a tough game.
In the end we scored in extra time making the score 1-0
and we finished the tournament in the first place. I am so
fortunate that I was able to be captain in my final year with
a great bunch of girls and make memories memories that

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Hockey 97

Girls Hockey 1st X1 SPORTS

The Girls Hockey 1st XI were entered into the B Grade Caption Required
in the 2019 season and started nervously but played
competitively in their round of pool matches with two wins Caption Required
and a draw, setting up a quarter final against Papatoetoe The final game against Kuranui was another tense game
which unfortunately they lost 2-0. Not all was lost as with only one goal deciding the result. With a change to
finishing 5th would earn promotion to the A/B grade which the normal penalty corner routine, captain Niamh Johnson
the girls had their sights firmly on. A narrow win against entered the circle and received a well-placed pass before
Dio 3rds set up the 5th/6th promotion match against slotting home past the keeper. GDC would take the win
Sancta Maria. This was a bizarre match that the GDC led and finish 7th overall.
1-0 at half time before having to play the second half on a
different pitch after a 20 minute break. A goal from Sancta
levelled the match and promotion would be decided by
penalty strokes. Sancta Maria scored two and GDC scored
one, leaving the girls in the B grade where they finished
8th the season before. The new objective for the girls was
to win the B grade after only missing out on promotion by
one goal.

The girls started the B grade with three straight wins before
facing unbeaten Selwyn who they only narrowly beat 3-2 in
the opening game of the season, this time around though
it was a comfortable 3-0 win for GDC. With two more wins
Dio 3rds were the only other unbeaten side in the league
and next in the girl’s sights. Once again a narrow 2-1 victory
sealed the win and the league as GDC comfortably won
their final two games to remain unbeaten in the B grade
scoring 35 goals and conceding two.

The 2019 tournament was for the Rosemary O’Brien Cup
held in Levin. A nervous start in the first game saw GDC
concede three goals in the first ten minutes before going
down 5-0 to the eventual winners of the tournament,
Cambridge High. This was followed up by a win and a draw
however a loss against eventual finalists Matamata sealed
our fate in the 5-8th playoffs. A very hard fought and
physical game against Awatapu ended 0-0 with the GDC
girls playing the best hockey of their season, the result
would be decided by a shootout which Awatapu won 4-2.

Boys Hockey Overall it was another successful year at Glendowie Hockey,
the heart and drive shown by the boys was commendable
Coaching the First XI Boys Hockey team was an absolute and truly inspiring. Our graduating class of players led
pleasure this year. As usual, the team started the year with the team admirably and leave a good momentum for
a focus on team culture and ethics; a practice which has Glendowie Hockey going forward.
served us well over the past few years. We started the
season with our eyes set on the end-goal of tournament Caption Required
and powered through the formative first months of the
regular season with a consistent drive to improve our skills,
teamwork and attitude.

Approaching tournament, we were really shaping up and
looking good; finally, we were approaching the peak of the
season. We started tournament well, winning all our pool
games and going on to win the quarter final against Howick
College in shootouts. Unfortunately, we were bested in the
semi-final, losing to Kamo College, but came back to take
3rd place in the third and fourth play-offs against Hamilton
Boys!

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98 Rowing

SPORTS The 2018/19 Rowing season saw the biggest squad ever
at GDC with 70 rowers joining up for the season. What
has been great was the big increase in Girls rowing over College’s first Gold Medal since 2015/16 season with other
previous years. Our squad captains were Olivia Hay and ‘A’ finalists being the Boys U17 Quad and Girls U18 single.
Cairo Stark who led our squad to an enjoyable and exciting The Girls U18 Double won the ‘B’ final.
season.
Individually, Thomas Broderick was selected for the
Our Spring and Summer Camps held at Karapiro provided Auckland Light Blues Rowing program while Olivia Hay
great opportunities to get in lengthy training sessions trialled for the NZ Junior Rowing Squad - these are a great
that were at times painful yet worthwhile and were lots reflection on the GDC Rowing Program.
of fun with many laughs and memories made along the
way. Highlights were Zak Everitt (an ex Glendowie College During the season we again had great support from our
rower who represented NZ in U23 level in 2018) presenting sponsors – NZ Fire Doors, GJ Gardiners, Gleeson Builders
the squad with our row suits. At Summer Camp we were and Pengelley Engineers. New Balance very generously
visited by some of the New Zealand Men’s and Women’s sponsored the club with a full training and travelling kits
Olympic Rowing crew and enjoyed hearing from them and - we are very lucky to have all the support we had during
absorbing their knowledge and experience. the season.

In early February we competed at The Auckland As always, we’d like to thank all the parents and coaches
Championships, or ‘Head of Harbour’ at Lake Pupuke for their support and leadership during the season. We
which resulted in 5 medallists – with 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 would have not had the experience we did without those
Bronze Medallists. behind the scenes making sure we were all well feed and
hydrated, able to race and train and had boats kept in
At the North Island Championships at Lake Karapiro the racing condition! For those of us leaving GDC Rowing it’s
Girls U18 Quad won Silver while Olivia Hay won Bronze in been a huge part of our high school lives we will miss and
the GU18 single - 9 other crews competed in ‘A’ finals and treasure. But it is great to see the Club in strong shape
11 competed in ‘B’ finals and only continuing to grow into a larger family than it was
before.
Finally, we reached the culmination of the season – the
‘Maadi Cup’ – the NZ Secondary School Championships Jessie McIntosh
held at the end of March at Karapiro. A squad of 34
attended with the Girls U18 Quad winning Glendowie

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Rugby 99

5th Grade Rugby Ben Webb was also invalided out with what medical staff SPORTS
described as a dodgy knee thing.
The 5th Grade season started well, with a seemingly
complete squad assembled before the first game. It From there on the boys continued to give it everything
finished pretty well too with an overall record of 8 wins and and though we lost a couple more top of the table clashes
3 (close) losses, and a group that seemed to have enjoyed we recovered to beat MAGS and Grammar for the second
the experience enormously. time each. Stand-in assistance came from Sulaiman Farhat,
and year 13’s Willem Scott, Sam Calvert (until concussion
In between we had a few challenges with injuries and struck), Simon Mashingaidze, and Jackson Godfrey until he
absences. The coach spent most of the season behind got a better offer playing Underwater Hockey in Europe;
the posts with just the one substitute for company, fair enough. Caleb and Keegan had also come up from 6th
sometimes none. And so when the opposition rolled out grade to assist, both playing well and helping us avoid any
their full complement of 7 sets of fresh legs around half defaults. Jaxson returned for the last 3 games.
time, Glendowie were left to make our single change and
have the rest suck it up for the entire game. On the plus All in all, we gave it a good crack. Kudos to two lads playing
side, not too much fretting over who to put on where, no their first season (Rotem and Max), and Matthew who was
challenges selecting a team, more a case of finding one. new to 5th Grade but became Mr Reliable. Thanks to the
other guys returning from last year; Liam, Isaac, Ben, Kahu,
The run of poor luck started early. Very early. Ed Blair Caleb G-H, Marcus (Capt.), Jack, Cooper, Jaxson, Ethan,
broke both bones in his forearm about 30 seconds into the Jordie. Thanks also to Tim, who had a busy season as
first game. Not sure the hockey team were too impressed team ambulance, Simone for managing the rabble, and
either, though he did make it back for Tournament Week. the parents for all their support. See you next year.
We then lost Alex, our first five, after 2 ½ games (dislocated
shoulder), and our back up playmaker, Jaxson (broken The team and parents voted to determine the awards.
hand) after 4. We were still unbeaten by then, including 2 Most Improved - Caleb Gaul-Harris, Best Forward - Jack
wins against a strong Dilworth side, but numbers took their Jessiman, Best Back - Jordie Herbert, Most Outstanding
toll and we lost to Kings with a reshuffled backline towards Player – Marcus Moody.
the end of Term 2. At that point Mateo and Vincente, two
Chileans who had made a fantastic contribution, went
home despite our best efforts to steal their passports.

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100 6th Grade Rugby Roundup

SPORTS This year we were delighted to start with a squad of 28
young men for the 6th grade team. School moves still left
us with 25 at the end of the season. A fabulous show of powerhouse with the front 5 taking on some far heavier
dedication from the whole squad. packs with a fitness and strength to match any. Robbie
Bass impressed the coaches, fearless and tireless. The
Huge thanks to Gary Thomas and Simon McConnon for ability to learn new positions and perform well showed
their coaching which really produced some great Rugby a great team spirit by the team. Nick Sali Pearson (prop
through the season. Big shout out too to Lianne Thomas and Flanker), Jack Parish (Wing, No 8 and Flanker) Ben
our fabulous Manager and great photographer. Much Hargreaves (Centre and Flanker) Keegan Graham (prop,
appreciation too to Grant Doorey, Tongan Coach for his Flanker and Wing). Nick in particular relished being freed
assistance in defensive drills and to Auckland Rugby for from the front row and played some first-class rugby as an
their session on speed passing. Open Flanker. Another star was Otis McKenzie whose work
rate and speed saved many a try and set up quite a few
We played 12 games, winning 6 of them and scored 261 too.
and conceded 188 points. 111 of those points scored in
the first 4 games. With such a strong start expectation was What makes a great team is how we work together and it
high for the team. We trained hard and the team was led was a joy to see this band of young men gel as the season
ably by Caleb Jarvis supported by Jace Thomas with the progressed. We had some high’s, some great feeds on the
pack led largely by Hugh Neville. side lines and earned a well deserved Semi-Final place at
the end of season. As coaches our aim to safely encourage
Once again, the coaches and parents have been impressed your skill in the game of rugby. We hope you all go on to
continue playing and supporting the game. Thank you all
for a most enjoyable season.

Gwynn Rees - Coach

with the development of our young men. With some
playing for their first season, we had some real stars on
the pitch. Well done to Micah Fitton-Higgins who earned
a regular spot as well as Keegan Graham who made some
fantastic runs too. There were days when our backs were
completely on fire with some outstanding defence and
lightening fast hands and feet. Stars of the backs were
many but we have to mention our Captain Caleb for his
crunching tackles and development of some great game
plan execution. Other players who rattled our opposition
on a regular basis were Cooper McConnon with some
outrageous tries running almost of the length of the
pitch on several occasions and Jacob McKinnon for his
lightening pace off the mark and indefatigable ability to
rip the ball from players twice his size. Jace Thomas too, as
we have come to expect, ran our opposition ragged with
his sniping runs, great tackles and a good development of
his kicking game.

Not to be left out; our forwards developed into quite the

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