Japanese rugby players pay visit to classroom and rugby field

Last week we were fortunate to receive a visit from 2 Japanese rugby players as part of the schools ongoing relationship with Katsu Takeuchi who is the owner of NZ Rugby links. The two players, Mr. Takehiro Namekaea and  Mr. Kazuma Hatakeyama spent an enjoyable Japanese lesson helping the students with their language skills and using their caliography […]

Sandra Edge runs coaching course for student coaches

Silver Fern legend Sandra Edge visited Newlands yesterday to facilitate a KiwiSport ‘Getting Started in Coaching’ workshop organised by Regional Sports Trust, Sport Wellington. This was provided for all the students involved in coaching our netball, basketball and rugby teams. The course is designed to provide an opportunity for coaches to develop their general coaching skills […]

Fraser McLaren lead article on College Sport Page in Dominion Post

Fraser McLaren is the lead article in this weeks College Sport page in the Dominion Post. The article is about Fraser’s rise to make the NZ Junior Black Sox squad for the World Championships in Canada. Fraser leaves for the event on Saturday and we wish him good luck and look forward to hearing how […]

Anthony Pettett makes Hurricanes U18 Training Camp

Anthony Pettett (Y13) has been named in the Hurricanes Rugby region U18 camp coming up in Fielding. This was what was written on the Wellington Rugby Union site about the camp: A total of 60 players have been selected from 242 nominations, to participate in the camp from July 7 to 11 at Fielding High […]

1st XV and U15 teams continue unbeaten runs

The 1st XV Rugby team remain unbeaten in the Premier 3 Paul Cameron Cup after beating St Pats 2 15-8 at the weekend. The U15 team are also unbeaten in the Division 3 grade beating Wellington College 3 –  33-22 at the weekend.

Hockey teams promotion/relegation success

Last week the boys and girls hockey teams were involved in relegation and promotion games respectively.  The girls beat Wellington East 2-0 to move back up into the Reserve 1 grade they were relegated from last season whilst the boys team remain in Premier 3 having drawn against Upper Hutt 1-1.  Congratulations to both teams.