Congratulations to Kane Leaupepe former Head Boy of the College who made his debut for Manu-Samoa in their loss to the USA in Spain over the weekend. According to the coach “he was outstanding on debut” Click here for the news of his call up and here for the thoughts of the coach on the […]
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Celebration of Sport 2018
On Thursday 18 October, the biggest Celebration of Sport took place. 430 people crammed into the school hall to see and hear about our students and team successes. The guest speaker was former Rugby Player Ged Robinson who spoke to the audience about the ‘Growth Mindset’ and how it can help all of us achieve […]
College Sport Wellington Awards
Sunday night was the main College Sport Wellington awards. There were 3 nominees from Newlands: Alex Thompson – Table Tennis Milly Mackey – All Rounder of the Year – Female Ms McLay – Volunteer of the Year Only 3 or 4 students from all the schools were finalists so it was a great achievement for […]
Junior Girls win Division 1 Basketball Title
Our Junior Girls A team won 61-52 against Wellington East 2 in last nights Division 1 final. This is only the 2nd time in the competitions history that our juniors have taken the title (the last time was 2011). In the last game Wellington East beat Newlands 54-39 and it proved to be a tight […]
Love Tennis Open Day
Newlands Paparangi Tennis Club invites you to a Love Tennis Open Day at 26 Black Rock Rd, Sunday 9 September 1 – 4pm. All ages and abilities welcome to come along, give tennis a go, and have a sausage from the BBQ. For further info contact Mary on 021 166 2342 or see our website […]
Imrie wins Double Silver
Congratulations to ex-student Kayla Imrie who won 2 Silvers at the Canoe Racing World Champs in Portugal over the weekend. Kayla narrowly missed out on Gold in the K2 200m and then as part of the K4 500 they were pipped by a photo finish. Click here for the Stuff article on the event. Kayla […]
Senior Girls Basketball lose a cliffhanger
On Friday it was 2nd v 3rd in the clash between Newlands and Heretaunga. The game was close throughout but it was one player the Heretaunga #5 who sunk plenty of 3 pointers to enable Heretaunga to take the game 55-54.
Netball Success
A fantastic day of finals netball. Four of our five teams – Newlands 3, 7, 10 and 11 won their games and Newlands 12 lost in an exciting overtime game. The results were as follows: Collegiate 1C Winner: Newlands 3 (unbeaten in 2018) Jun Coll 1A Winner: Newlands 7 Jun Coll 1B Winner: Newlands 10 (unbeaten in […]
5 Netball teams march into the finals
The College Netball season comes to a climax this coming weekend. After the playoff rounds there are now 5 teams playing to win their respective grades – Newlands 3, 7, 10, 11, 12. Congratulations to all those teams that have made finals and well done to the other teams. Details of the games on Saturday […]
Junior Girls Basketball Semi Finals
On Tuesday both our Junior 2 (Y9) and Junior 1 (Y10) Girls Basketball teams took on Wellington Girls in the semi finals of the Division 1 and Division 3 competition. The Junior 2 girls lost 51 – 37 but from speaking to the opposition there was no comparison from the games they played earlier in […]