Reuben from Room 19 brought his Dad to the Junior School Assembly. His Dad, Tim Dempsey, represented New Zealand in the Paralympics. He was sailing in the skud 18 paralympic class. He talked to the Juniors about his time over in London. It was really interesting hearing about everything that he did and saw. Reuben [...]
Room 5 presented a wonderful assembly on Monday based around recent school events and using the “Report Writing” format. Here is a portion of that assembly as presented by Ellen and Abby. The report was presented as if to camera and summarized events at the Senior School Athletics day held at Rutherford College last week. [...]
The Junior Syndicate had lots of fun last week when they held their own Olympic Games. Each class represented a different country, Jamaica, New Zealand, Japan, China, France and Great Britain were all competing to be top of the medal table! There were 6 events, ball jumping, javelin, hurdles, discus, shot put and long [...]
At the beginning of May, the Middle School had their swimming sports. It was a fantastic afternoon where everyone joined in and showed off their swimming skills. Children swam the length and width of the pool and the afternoon finished off with the house relay swim! Everyone did so well and the noise from all [...]
Krypton Factor Champions What has over 700 legs, 400 parents and makes a huge ‘roar? The answer; Henderson Lions Krypton Factor. The Krypton Factor is a competition under taken by 44 Auckland schools in which teams of eight take part in tasks involving physical, mental and co-operative challenges. This year Peninsula Primary School hosted the [...]
Congratulations to Peninsula Primary’s swim team, who competed at the annual Te Atatu Cluster Competition and came 2nd overall. The children did exceptionally well in their heats and also made the finals. These were very close which made for a compelling competition. Their results are to be confirmed. Results for the individual medley are: Eliana [...]
On Tuesday 22nd May, as Mr Tahana’s student teacher, I accompanied the A and B soccer teams to their soccer tournament in Kervil Park. Each team played five 20 minute games. As an assistant coach of the B Team, I’m proud to say that they placed 1st in the B Finals; and their senior team, [...]
PPS held our annual cross country on 25th October. It was such a great event and everyone involved did a fantastic job of running in their races. Everyone was split into their year level groups, with a total of 6 races: · Year 6 girls · Year 6 boys · Year 5 girls · Year [...]
It was a bright, sunny summer day, ideal for cricket, when our school’s cricket team excelled at the Zonal Cricket Day, held at the Neil Avenue sports fields. In our first game, against Flanshaw, the team was still adjusting to the big occasion of playing on a cricket pitch with a hard plastic ball. We [...]
On Wednesday 7th June, the Te Atatu Schools Basketball Tournament took place at Waitakere Trust Stadium in Henderson. Mr Tahana and I, along with some parents and the Basketball A and B teams all went along. Each team played five 20 minute games. They displayed great teamwork and sportsmanship and were well led by their [...]
