Students make rep basketball squads

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected for representative basketball teams who will/have recently taken part in regional qualifiers for nationals: Wellington Basketball 2015 Reps U15 Boys – Liam Kingon U19 Girls – Dalen, Natasha and Tearii Pilitati U19 Boys – Corey Leaupepe, Zyrus Grace (withdrew due to injury) Porirua Basketball 2015 Reps […]

Junior Triangular 2015

Last Wednesday, the 12th McDonald’s Junior Triangular took place at Tawa College. The weather was far superior to what would have been faced the previous Thursday where underwater sports would have been more appropriate! In the cross country the girls were leading for most of the race until one of the competitors suffered an asthma […]

Blue Light 3 on 3 basketball and Table Tennis Opportunities

Below is a message from the Newlands Community Centre: It’s Youth Week from 23 – 31 May, and we are pleased to be able to provide something for our local youth in Newlands to help celebrate this! Blue Light  (A registered charity and community policing youth programme) is organising 3-on-3 basketball games and table tennis matches at the Centre on Thursday 28th May, 3 – 5pm. On this […]

Diving Opportunity

Wellington Diving Club is again running its Casual Sunday Diving lessons from 2.30-3.30pm at Kilbirnie pool. Why not come along and give diving a try? There’s no need to register – just turn up! Casual sessions cost $5 (plus pool entry) and are held this term on Sunday 31 May, 14/21/28 June and 5 July.  We also have a range of springboard and platform diving classes to suit all […]

Netball girls make history again and come close in CSW Tournament

The Newlands 1 Netball team continues to make history, this weekend becoming the first Newlands College team to reach the Premier 1 division of the Wellington open grades. In grading the girls won 6 out of 7 games and will now face the capitals heavyweights which will include playing against Ms Kersten’s team which will […]

Ex-student in NZ World Cup Kayaking Regatta victory

Kayla Imrie was part of  the NZ K4 500m team that won the World Cup Kayaking Regatta in Portugal last night holding off teams from Poland and Hungary. According to the article on the SportsHub website, teammate Jaimee Lovett said:  “The goal was to put a race plan together and see how we went,” a jubilant […]

Junior Triangular now on Wednesday 20 May

Following the weather dramas of last Thursday the McDonald’s Junior Triangular has been moved to its postponement date of Wednesday May 20. Any changes to the schedule will be notified to students.